🥄✨ Deep Dish Pizza: Meal or Casserole? ✨🍽️

Is it a pizza? Is it a lasagna in disguise? Is it a pie who snuck into savory school and never left?? Let’s investigate with 10 lovingly unhinged arguments for both sides of this saucy existential crisis. 🔍🍅

🍕 DEEP DISH IS A PIZZA, DANGIT 🍕

1. It’s called “pizza,” not “Casserolé Chicagoné.”
   If it walks like a pizza and talks like a pizza (by bubbling aggressively), then guess what—it’s a pizza with big dreams and taller crust.

2. Cheese comes first, just like in the Constitution of Yum.
   Sauce on top? That’s just upside-down brilliance. Like a pizza in disguise as a mystery novel.

3. You eat it with your hands!
   Okay, you can eat it with a fork, but so can you eat cake with a spatula—doesn’t mean it’s not cake.

4. The crust is crusting!
   Thick, buttery, flaky crust = pizza’s Big Coat Era. Casseroles can’t crust like that. Fight me (gently, with doughy mittens).

5. It arrives in a pizza box, not a Pyrex dish from 1973.
   Postal identity is legally binding in some cheese-based jurisdictions.

🍲 DEEP DISH IS A CASSEROLE, DON’T @ ME 🍲

1. It’s layered like an emotional onion.
   Crust, cheese, toppings, sauce…that’s not pizza—it’s lasagna’s flirty cousin who moved to Chicago and got a food blog.

2. You need a spatula to serve it.
   If you have to slice and scoop it like grandma’s tuna surprise, you’re no longer in pizza territory. You’re in casserole country.

3. It’s a full meal trapped in one slice.
   Vegetables, meat, cheese, bread—what is this, a balanced diet disguised as indulgence?

4. You have to wait 40+ minutes to eat it.
   That’s not pizza time. That’s “waiting for your casserole to stop bubbling like lava and questioning your life choices” time.

5. It has gravity.
   Real talk: a slice of deep dish can cause minor plate tremors. Pizzas shouldn’t have tectonic power.

🤯 FINAL VERDICT: DEEP DISH IS A MEALSEROLE 🤯

That’s right—it’s both! Or neither! It’s a glorious mutant born of doughy dreams and molten cheese ambition. Whether you fork it or fold it (how???), celebrate it with sauce-stained joy.

Now go forth and eat like a cheese dragon. 🐉🧀 Happy Deep Dish Pizza Day!