LEO/LHB Eats: No Hoosier joke: Pie are square

[Robin Garr]

<table border="0" align="left" width="310"><tr><td><img src="http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/squarepie.jpg" border="1" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td>Like most pizza in Southern Indiana, Pizza King's classic pie is cut in squares, not wedges. LEO Photo by Nicole Pullen.</td></tr></table>LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytes
No Hoosier joke: Pie are square
(Pizza King, Arni's Pizza, Uncle Tubby's)

It happens anywhere that a state line crosses through a metro area: Folks on one side of the border tell rude jokes about the other, and vice-versa.

So there's no use pretending that Kentuckians don't tell Hoosier jokes. We laugh at their rumored penchant for turning left from the right lane and we're still kicking around Coach Bobby Knight after all these years. And we can't resist keeping alive the memory of the embarrassing moment in the Indiana State Legislature in 1897, when a few wacky Hoosiers tried to redefine the mathematical constant pi as a simpler number.

But here's a Hoosier culinary constant that is no joke: Over there, pie are square.

Pizza pie, that is. While pizza in Louisville is customarily cut in pie-shaped wedges, in the style of New York City and Bella Italia, Southern Indiana family pizzerias almost invariably serve their round, thin-crust pies in neat, 3-inch squares.

Full reports in LEO and on LouisvilleHotBytes.

<b>New Albany Pizza King</b>
3825 Charlestown Road
New Albany, Ind.
(812) 945-4405
<a>www.pizzakinginc.com</a>
(There's also a Pizza King in Jeffersonville at 1068 Kehoe Lane, 812-282-8286)

<b>Arni's Pizza</b>
1208 State St
New Albany, Ind.
(812) 945-1149
<a>www.meetyouatarnis.com</a>
(There's another Arni's, just a short drive up the Knobs at 3700 Paoli Pike, 812-923-9805)

<b>Uncle Tubby's Pizza</b>
103 Quartermaster Court
Jeffersonville, Ind.
(812) 288-8850
<a>www.uncletubbyspizza.com</a>

Glad you got to try Pizza King! It can be a love or hate relationship. The train booths are hard to get, I've tried at 11:30 on a schoolday and they seem to already be taken

I don't know anyone who cares much for Tubby's in their current iteration, prefering the original product crafted so many years ago when they were in downtown Jeff on Spring (building caught fire). As I understand it, the name was sold several years ago after they had moved out to Middle Road in Jeff post fire, health problems with the owner as I recall. Same way that those who experienced the 'old' Rocky's pizza down by Jeffboat know the current restaurant is same in name only. Still they pack them in down there, so it's just me I guess.

My fav is still Boombozz, BBQ Chicken please!

Brian

Its always good to see a thread on this forum inspire a column....

I am no fan of pizza cut into trapezoids.

Nevertheless, Pizza King is an Indiana institution. I've gorged myself there more than a few times.

Thank you Robin, on giving the "Sunny Side" pizza tradition it's due...Pizza King Rules!!!

Is anyone familiar with Imos pizza in St. Louis? I have been looking for this thin crust gendre of pizza that is widely found in the St. Lousi area. I have yet to find one in Lousiville. The description of the Hoosier pie sounds like Imos--thin, cut in squares. If so, I'll be heading across the river.

[Robin Garr]

Is anyone familiar with Imos pizza in St. Louis? I have been looking for this thin crust gendre of pizza that is widely found in the St. Lousi area. I have yet to find one in Lousiville. The description of the Hoosier pie sounds like Imos--thin, cut in squares. If so, I'll be heading across the river.

I think it's in the same broad ballpark, James, but no Provel cheese.

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As a Hoosier, I have experienced Pizza King addiction. My girlfriend hates it, but I still get a Pizza King pie when I go home.

Thank goodness no Provel cheese! That stuff is a chemistry experiment gone bad. I hate how it replaces mozzarella in everything in St. Louis!

When I was a teenager Pizza King was great, but as I've gotten older its hard for me to understand how anyone can like pizza sauce thats made from straight paste and probably the cheapest ingredients known to man, as far as Pizza in Southern Indiana, I will stick with Tubbys, never had any problems with their pie and they seem to always have some sort of beer special going on.

I like Tubby's also...But pizza from there doesn't have that unique flavor that Pizza King has!!!!...

Pizza King stands alone...

The best thing that Yubby's USED to have when it was on Spring St. in Downtown Jeffersonville(Across from the Evening News)was the baked spaghetti....

What they serve at the new location is close... but not quite the same!

great piece on the sunny side of pies
thanks
now i've got the craving for a greasy Arni's pizza with Pepperoni and Pineapple

yum