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st. louis style pizza 

St. Louis-style pizza is a distinct style of pizza popular in St. Louis, Missouri and its surrounding areas. It is known as one of the most delectable pizza styles ever created.

The most notable characteristic of St. Louis-style pizza is the distinctively St. Louisan provel cheese used instead of (or, rarely, in addition to) the mozzarella common to other styles of pizza.

The pizza has a thin, round crust, as opposed to Chicago-style pizza or New York-style pizza. The crust of a St. Louis pizza is somewhat crisp and cannot be folded easily and is typically cut into three- or four-inch squares instead of the pie-like wedges typical of many pizza styles. Some local restaurants make their pizzas rectangular rather than round. It is often salty and seasoned with more oregano than other pizza types. Despite its thin crust, it can be layered deeply with many different toppings. Sauces tend to have a sweetness to them, some more noticeably than others.

The three largest St. Louis-style Pizza chains are Imo's Pizza, Cecil Whittaker's Pizzeria, and Fortel's Pizza Den.
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St. Louis Style Pizza 

The only people this backwards type of pizza appeals to are the people from the cultural wasteland known as St. Louis. By the way, the words "St. Louis", "elitist", and "urban" never belong in a sentence or discussion together. True, St. Louisans like to think they are elite and urban, but this is due to their major inferiority complexes. Anyone who asks you where you went to school as a way to get a conversation started has issues (and certainly wouldn't know what good pizza is).
St. Louis Style Pizza, no matter, how it is described, is awful (unless your culinary experience is limited to a small, forgettable town in the lower Midwest).

St. Louis Style Pizza 

A nasty concoction consisting of extremely thin, tasteless cardboard-like crust slathered in runny cheap salty pizza sauce and topped with gooey St. Louis-exclusive cheese called Provel that looks and tastes like melted Velveeta. While many St. Louisans inexplicably love this crap, don’t let them con you into thinking it’s real pizza – it isn’t! Imo's is probably the most famous type of this stuff - stay away!
While visiting Sally in St. Louis, she tried to get me to eat St. Louis style pizza. I told her that I'd rather die a slow death.

St. Louis Style Pizza 

A nasty concoction consisting of extremely thin, tasteless cardboard-like crust slathered in runny cheap salty pizza sauce and topped with gooey St. Louis-exclusive cheese called Provel that looks and tastes like melted Velveeta. While many St. Louisans inexplicably love this crap, don’t let them con you into thinking it’s real pizza – it isn’t! Imo's is probably the most famous type of this stuff - stay away!
While visiting Sally in St. Louis, she tried to get me to eat St. Louis style pizza. I told her that I'd rather die a slow death.
St. Louis Style Pizza by R60532 April 20, 2006

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of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026