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Read more: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/food/articles/2016/march/14/how-detroit-s-car-industry-helped-shape-its-pizzas/
TIL the automotive industry is partly responsible for Detroit deep dish pizza. In 1946, a Detroit pizza shop owner used one of the parts trays from an auto assembly plant as a makeshift pizza pan which is why Detroit deep dish pizza is rectangular instead of circular.
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My first thought on reading the title was, “please tell me they merely drew inspiration from the shape of the parts tray and not that they actually used a used parts tray…”. Then I read the article and about halfway down, it says
> The crux of what became known locally as square pizza is the crust **baked in those repurposed pans.**
The phrase I put in bold does not ease my mind, haha. In any event, interesting little tidbit re the origin of the Detroit style pizza. Thanks for sharing!
Which insane person decide to put the sauce on top though
This is a cool fact! I’m Canadian but have been lucky enough to try Detroit deep dish pizza once downtown Detroit with friends before a red wings game. It was an awesome pizza and a very fun time!
I thought it was Chicago deep dish?