Article: `Pizza Police' Say Chicago Is in Deep-Dish Trouble

Before you touch that cheese-oozing, Chicago-style deep-dish, before you sink your chompers into that 14-inch pie fresh from the delivery guy, remember this: The "pizza police" are watching.

And they want you to know that the pizza you're eating is about as Italian as chop suey.

Who are these pizzeria patrolmen? They're a three-man team from the Naples Pizza Association, and they have come to the United States this week on a mission: worldwide conformity to traditional Neapolitan pizza principles.

And the Chicago-style stuffed pizza we've grown up on is high on the hit list.

"One of the guys told me it was like having an earthquake in his mouth," said New York restaurateur and ...

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