Pizza, again.

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Reading the excellent Wikipedia article on pizza while eating some made me wonder about more pizza variants. They mention the basics also, but I saw references in my poll responses to Old Forge Style, New Haven Style, the california gourmet pizzas, and Boston pizza.

Wikipedia also refers to a Scottish practice of serving fish & chips with a deep fried frozen pizza, but let’s just let that slide on by, okay?

The pizza industry has what looks like a pretty good site of their own.

Any other major pizza variants people know of?

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Major variants? Not sure if they're major, but there are some distinctive local styles I've encountered.

Here in Vancouver:

"99 cent style": In the mid-90s, dozens of 99-cent pizza slice places opened up all over the city. The crust is usually very thick, the sauce is often non-seasoned tomato paste spread very thinly, cheap oily processed cheese (most people here call it "fake cheese") is used. Most of these places now have "gourmet" ingredients like pesto and artichoke available. The food of our city's poor: beggars can be seen outside most of them trying to hustle coin for dinner.

Indian style: There are increasing numbers of pizza places in the Little India area that have pizzas featuring Indian ingredients such as pieces of butter chicken and spicy, curried-tinged sauces.

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In La Paz, BCS, Mexico, the pizzas there were made with the mild white "Chihuahua cheese." Nopales and Baja-grown olives were used on vegetarian pizzas.