>>21664027 (OP)
so, to be clear, you do eat the crust. you eat 90% of the crust, because the entire bottom of the pizza is "crust", that's just how it is. it's essentially an open-faced bread with ingredients layered on one side instead of allowing that side to also crust into a circle bread.
the reason you don't eat the outer rim of the crust, is that you don't notice how bad the average pizza you eat is (specifically the part of the crust beneath the toppings) because those toppings distract you. once you get to that cardboardy, stale and otherwise unflavored breading at the end, you decide "i don't like this part" when you've been eating it the entire time without realizing.
i live in manhattan and pizza is really good here specifically because there is extremely high competition, and if you want the best version of any food you need to eat it where competition is very high. i lived in tokyo for five years and ramen there is pretty great, and pretty lousy throughout manhattan despite being twice as expensive. same with a lot of foods, the reason for that is there's low competition here when in tokyo there's a ramenya every other block, you need to be better and to work better to succeed. it's also why mexican food fucking sucks in nyc and is incredible in comparison in a place like houston.
long story short, you eat shit pizza and you would have a different opinion i'm guessing if you tried something good and you get past the memery that exists about regionality on this board. the region you eat something plays a lot into the quality of that thing. you can eat pizza so good in new york that you dream about the fucking "crust". i'd go on record saying i'd rather eat fucking "crust" alone from some nyc shops then whatever piece of shit dominos pizza you're ordering in your flyover shithole.
