Industry + immigrants = Detroit-style pizza 

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My parents' first date was at a Buddy's Pizza, so I may very well not exist if not for them. I adore Detroit pizza to this day.

please dont eat the industry or immigrants, adam

As a born and raised Michigander I am very pleased to see this video about Detroit Style Pizza. I thankfully have a Buddy's franchise close to where I live and they make good quality pizza

This is why I season my industry, not my pizza.

As a native detroiter, I'm so glad our pizza seems to be getting more attention in the past few years. I remember growing up and hearing how amazing the pizza was in Chicago, New York, California, you name it. I tried them all, and was always pretty disappointed because the Detroit style I grew up on was just so damn good, even though it never seemed to make it on any top 10 lists. I've eaten enough Buddy's in my day that I actually had the thought that yours seemed oddly flat just before you mentioned it was under proofed.

My girlfriend and I were on our way back from the suburbs to her Detroit apartment the other week and I remember us wondering aloud if there were any people who ever visited here on vacation. Not to see relatives or on business or anything like that, just here to see the city. We concluded, with a unanimous 2/0 vote, no probably not. I am proud to be proven wrong by you Adam (even though shooting this video might technically make it a work trip) and I really hope you enjoyed your stay.

This is Lauren who you interviewed based in 2020... As a Detroiter I LOVE that you came to my city to try our pizza, it is truly some of the best!! I hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip here as well :)

Italian Michigander here, and while the urge to order buddy's pizza is never truly gone, after this video it's reaching unbearable levels

I’m partial to Detroit style since I’m from the Detroit area, but it’s gotta be the best pizza in the US. Thanks for highlighting Michigan and Detroit cuisine!

We moved to Michigan in late 2020 and tried Buddys on a lark. It is far and away my FAVORITE pizza - the perfect balance of sauce, cheese, and toppings, well seasoned, and the bake is just so impossibly consistent that I'm never disappointed. Anyone who says they don't like Detroit style pizza better try Buddy's before they make themselves look foolish

Adam, that is exactly the kind of content I love about your channel. Food and the unique history behind it!

I work at Ford and it’s an unofficial tradition to take the new hires out to Buddy’s in Dearborn for their first lunch. It was the first place I ever ate here when I interviewed out here. Thanks for the video!

Thanks for highlighting Buddy's. As a long-time Detroit area resident, my family and I have eaten there a number of times over the years. Chef John has a pretty good take on how to make it at home. I basically use his recipe / technique with some slight tweaks when making it at home, and my son says he likes it better than Buddy's. I think it's not quite Buddy's, but close enough. I've had trouble finding brick cheese where I shop, but Monterey Jack works well for me. I have tried different ways of proofing based on things I've read like proofing longer in the fridge building more flavor. I haven't really noticed a difference, but then I am not trying samples back to back. It might be an interesting deep-dive for your channel.

Jet's Pizza is absolutely, far and away, the best chain pizza I've ever had. They deserve to take over the market!

I live a stone's throw away from NYC and I'm just now realizing that I've been eating "Detroit style" pizza my entire life. My great grandmother was a Sicilian immigrant and she used to make me and my brother pizza like this all the time when we were growing up. Now that she's gone, my mother makes it and some day I'll be making it too. Great to see some Sicilian recognition today!

THANK YOU ADAM! This native Detroiter living in NYC misses his Buddy’s (and ONLY Buddy’s) terribly. This episode warmed my heart. #DetroitVSEverybody

I just made a batch of ridiculously tasty tomato sauce from our back yard garden, and I was thinking of pairing it with home-made focaccia this weekend. If I could source some brick cheese (or maybe sub in a moz blend) I think I might have to give this a go this weekend. (A quick search says I could make a moz-muenster or moz-Monterey jack blend. I know, not authentic, but unless I can find brick cheese in SE PA by Sunday, that's what I'll go with. Sunday is friend-and-family weekly dinner at my house.) Anyway, thanks for the inspiration, Adam!

We've been missing it and started looking around for materials and got stuck on brick cheese. It's about 37 dollars for the cheese and almost that much for shipping. Needless to say, we don't miss it that much lol

As a Chicagoan myself, Detroit-style ranks up there with tavern-style and Quad Cities-style in stiff competition for my favorite type of pizza. There's some places around here that do really good Detroit-style that I'm fond of getting on special occasions, and Jet's is expanding pretty rapidly in the city too for when I want something a lil' cheaper but still really tasty. (Also the grand secret of Chicago is that deep dish is a pretty uncommon thing to actually order, tavern-style is way more popular here.)

Hey Adam, I feel that I should let you know that the most popular style of pizza in Chicago is actually tavern style, very thin, square cut. I think you'd enjoy it, though not as much as New York style

Wow, I guess it's my turn to have an Adam Ragusea extreme coincidence moment. I, a Detroit resident, tried your cast iron pizza recipe for the first time LAST NIGHT. Now here you are, not only with another pizza video the next day, but in my god damn home. Amazing.

As a Southeast Michigander, this is one of my all time favorite videos by you! Buddy’s is legendary, super cool to see and hear the story of it. People talk down on Detroit, but it’s one of my favorite cities in the world, filled with unique culture and lively people. Thanks for highlighting that!

Heeeey Buddy! Canadian here who loves Detroit and Detroit style pizza. Only spent time there for work, but the people and food are fantastic. Much love to my American brothers!

Adam sets a high bar on his sponsorship transitions, but this one blows the rest out of the water LMAO

Adam probably has the recipe for Mom's Spaghetti.

This is probably the best video on the subject on RU-vid (or anywhere) very well done! -a Detroiter

Metro Detroit born-and-raised here. Not a Detroiter, but incredibly proud of Detroit pizza, thank you for spotlighting a food that is near and dear to me and many others!

Adam, as a Detroit native whose mom took him to that Buddy’s joint on 6 Mile and Conant, where I would always have an orange pop with my slices, I really appreciate this video. Very thorough and well-done. Square pan pizza … nothing better. Buddy’s salads also utilize that brick cheese, cut in, of course, squares!

detroit is a lovely city and gets much (deserved albeit, but from a different time). i’ve grown up in areas around the city and the people are great, the atmosphere is great, detroit is really coming along again. one of my favorite major cities to visit too! and don’t sleep on michigan either, our state is very close to nature and beautiful, come enjoy our lakes and forests (respectfully)!

very generous of this guy to show you everything that is rare for small restaurants

I love these types of videos where you talk with people who are masters of their craft

As a Michigander who used to live in Dearborn and has eaten at Buddy’s before, both at their original location and in several other locations, I can very much agree with Adam’s recommendation here. GO TO BUDDY’S!!! Seriously! They are the originators of the Detroit style pizza and they are still amongst the best in town. You will absolutely love it.

Thanks for showing my state Adam! Not a lot of people are really willing to do as detailed of a break down as you are and it's nice to have more people talking about a local delicacy i've had in my life for years.

Love that you came to Michigan to show everyone how amazing our pizza is!

I'm only a few miles away from Buddy's and eat their pizza as well as Loui's pizza all the time. It's so special, and I'm particularly happy to see a video from you on this topic. 💜💜💜

I was in Detroit a few weeks ago for a conference and ended up at a Buddy's one night almost by accident. I only found out later about their backstory. Haven't had new york style *from* new york yet, but Detroit style currently tops my list.

I noticed my local Pizza Hut (yes, yes, go ahead and get the booing out of your system) offered a Detroit Style Pizza the other day when my wife had a hankering for their bread sticks. So I ordered one and generally loved it. It's such a different and fresh take on pizza to me. So seeing you explain its origins here with a promise for a more convenient home version that doesn't involve an expensive plane ticket to Buddy's sounds great. I hunger for your next video.

As a D girl, I love this video! Thank you for showing our city and Buddy's Pizza some love!!

Props to you for doing this Adam. Buddy’s is a national treasure for sure, and I was lucky enough to grow up less than a mile from one in the suburbs. Oddly, I really wasn’t a fan of it when I was a kid - I think it was maybe a bit too advanced for my youthful palette, which craved another less praised Detroit pizzeria, little ceaser’s. Eventually though, as I got older I began appreciating how amazing and unique buddy’s was. Now that I no longer live there I miss it constantly even though Detroit pizza is a “trend”, no one can do it anywhere close to what buddy’s can do.

Indeed, as a Michigan and Metro Detroit native (now living in Japan…) seeing this video made my night. Detroit pizza is fantastic, and hearing you go over the history with Buddy‘s is a real treat.

Love Detroit style. I always assumed it was an offshoot of focaccia that got more toppings. Awesome episode.

I grew up with buddys around and it was always a special pizza to me. Its awesome to see them getting some recognition for their food

6:59 I grew up eating Trenton-style tomato pies, which do the same cheese/toppings followed by sauce, but otherwise - in terms of shape and crust at least - more closely resemble a New York-style pie. Perhaps Trenton pies were influenced by geographic proximity to Neapolitan-style pizza makers and the evolving New York style? Just spitballin. Cool video Adam!

Glad to see Detroit Pizza here! One of my favorite things to eat since I moved to Michigan!

I was just explaining this to a friend yesterday. I'm sending him this. Thank you so much Adam. You make great videos.✌️

As someone from Chicago, this is my favorite style of deep dish. Fell in love after trying one at a Buddy's while out of town for work.

Growing up in the area and loving this pizza, this tugs on my heart strings that you came here. I’ll always love Detroit style. ❤

its nice to see someone who really cares about giving a good product. sure we find some of the things he does pedantic, but its clear he isn't going to let something go wrong. Nice guy.

I made a road trip from Seattle to Boston and had to stop in Detroit to try it. It’s been my dream to visit, and I couldn’t have been happier I finally tried it from the origin. I always talk about this style of pizza with my friends because I feel it never gets the recognition it deserves. I loved the video and can’t wait to see the next one you make on this style of pizza!

Thanks for the amazing video capturing the original buddy’s Detroit pizza! I grew up on the Eastside eating buddy’s Pizza and there’s nothing like it on this planet! As a retired third generation autoworker and proud of it! Go Detroit and I highly recommend stopping at Buddy’s Pizza and grabbing the original Detroit pizza 🍕 experience

As a cook, especially as one from outside the US, I absolutely love these videos of Adam showing off restaurants, their history and influence and all that. Certainly looks like one hell of a pizza

Hey Adam, big fan, been watching for years now & wanted to chime-in as a life long Chicagoan. Anyone who grew up in Chicago understands that Deep Dish, while the more well known "chicago style" pizza outside of the city limits, is mostly reserved for special occasions/tourists. The true Chicago style that we regularly eat is a very thin & crispy "cracker like" crust(dusted with cornmeal) that is then topped with sauce *lightly*, then toppings(the classic choice being big chunks of *homemade* Italian sausage) then a generous amount of cheese and then cut into little squares(tavern style) after baking. It needs to be cut into squares because the cheese and topping to crust ratio is high enough that the thin ridged crust would break or be unwieldy under the weight. I would love to see you research this & potentially make a video because this style doesn't get as much attention as it should considering most people I talk to have never even heard of it even though it's the default pizza choice for 99% of locals. My city deserves redemption & for "The Deep Dish Myth"(there's a free video title on me 😊) to be debunked.

Very interesting how Pizza evolves. I have some of the same pans in my shop. They were being discarded when the company I worked at was closing their production shop.

So glad to see a video about Detroit-style pie. As a kid growing up on the east side, we always used to go to Cloverleaf, which is the pizza spot that Gus Guerra opened after selling off Buddy's. They also do a damn fine Detroit pie, along with the best bread you'll ever have--think the same crust as the pizza, but thinner, and topped with butter, parmesan cheese, and sugar--sweet, salty, buttery, and extremely addictive.

Detroit Pizza slaps. No two ways about it. The crispy cheese edging, the garlic butter crusts, the thick brick cheese, the crispy bottoms and airy insides. It's pretty much pizza perfection.

Beautiful story. New to Detroit and started eating Jet’s… nice to know the full story and history here🙌🙌🙌

As a native Michigander transplanted in Chicago, THANK YOU for this video. It is Ammunition for the monthly pizza arguments I find myself in over here!

thanks so much for shedding some positive light on Detroit, Adam!

The first thing you gotta to do to make a great Detroit style pizza is travel the world to interview the most highly educated, well-off immigrants and then- NOOOOO!!! Just take ANY immigrant you have in your neighborhood, kneed it into the industry and BAKE IT!!!

loving these historical videos and glad to see one about my home state and one of my favorite pizza places keep pushing forward adam love the content

Pizza is always good. All shapes and sizes!

Detroit-style is my absolute favorite. I prefer an even airier crust (like a focaccia), a deep dark crispy crust, and a blend of cheeses, usually including munster. Would love to have a convenient source for brick cheese here in Georgia, but no luck so far.

Dude holy shit, Buddy's! This is so bad ass. Been there a few times. Love it. Thanks for shining light on our gem Adam

Dang it, Adam, you went to Buddy's without me! It is the BEST pizza, hands down. And, their salad is to die for. Plus they serve a mean drink, lol.

Just want to say that I wasn't crazy about your content years ago, kept popping up on reddit and I'd think "not another one", but your content really has grown. I think I've seen all your videos this year. Cheers.

Oooooooooo, who called it 10 months ago in your last episode about cake pan pizza? This guy! Glad to see you covered the Detroit angle of that dish properly For those not in Michigan, some national chains have been serving it as an option for decades now. Jet's Pizza has a decent pan pizza, and honestly the little caesar's deep deep dish is a great pizza for like 9$. But definitely grab some from a restaurant if you're in Michigan. Many places serve it and it's always at least good, if not amazing.

Really cool video about some American history. Love to see Chicago Deep Dish next!!! Although definitely not even close to my favorite style, it's still good every once in a while. Try Pequods in Chicago!

Why i season my detroit steel pan , not my pizza

Love how Adam is wearing a Detroit sweater in the video. He really cares about each small detail

The style of pizza I've ALWAYS wanted to try. I'm an Australian, so Detroit-style pizza is (apart from one place) pretty much non-existent in the state I live in. It does make me wish Little Caesars made its way to Australia, much like Wendy's is at the moment. I'm looking forward to seeing your video on making it. I'm hoping it explains whether I need a pan like the ones at Buddy's or just a normal pan.

My hometown. Love to see content like this!

I tried my hand at Detroit style last winter when it was too cold to use the outdoor pizza oven and just could not get enough of it. Those pans are HARD to find, but I did find carbon steel 10X14 pans from the Detroit Style Pizza Co. They weren't cheap, but they made all the difference.

We tried it in Detroit and were so delighted, it is wonderful!!! I am surprised by the technique details: No butter, even less sauce than I would have expect, etc. They have it down to a science!

I know you're gonna hear from a lot of Detroiters about this. I grew up a couple miles from Buddy's, and eventually we had "pan pizza" everywhere. Little Caesar's (I know) ran with it too. "Detroit-style" didn't become a THING until maybe 6 years ago, and well outside Detroit. That shows you the power of marketing or validation from gatekeepers. Anyway, suddenly you've got RU-vidrs teaching how to make 'em and even selling dough and pans. It became my hobby during the early pandemic, at least, until I realized I probably shouldn't be eating 3 homemade pizzas a week! There's nothing like doing your own toppings, but there's also nothing like getting an ORIGINAL Buddy's! Thanks for the vid. Oh, you could also contrast Buddy's with Sicilian-style (Cottage Inn of Ann Arbor) and Roma-style (Papa Romanos chain). These might be more focaccia than on 6 Mile.

As a lifelong Detroiter who lived about a mile away from the original Buddy's for nearly twenty years, thank you Adam for this video.

I made my first last night. It was pretty good. Here to learn tips to make it better and easier. 😂

Good stuff, we used to just call it square pizza before this style left the state and became popular everywhere else. Another local favorite around here besides Buddy’s is Buschemi’s, a chain of local liquor stores that also serves this square style of pizza. Then there is Cloverleaf… Could go on but so many great variations of the Detroit style.

So glad you were able to come to Michigan and enjoy Buddy's. It's a treat, even here. #visitdetroit

Had a Detroit style pizza in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea.....and being from Michigan, I was skeptical. It was GREAT!

As a proud michigander, you have no idea how special it was to see all the love for detroit in this :''') thanks for reppin the best pizza style adam, cant wait to see your spin on it

Yes, Adam, please do get back with is about product recommendations for replicating at home. I used to go to Buddy's and am inclined to drive feom CO back for nostalgia's sake. Such great timing posting this! Buddy's is the best.

this audio desperately needs a highpass filter! too many frequencies!!!

As a Detroiter born and raised, it makes me so happy to see you promoting the city that holds my heart. And Detroit style pizza is SO SLEPT ON! Thank you for bringing attention to it 👍🏼

I hope you will have the heart to give Chicago Deep Dish a deeper look sometime! I think what is misunderstood about it is that it's not a "snack" kind of food. You don't get deep dish then walk around. It's heavy and in some ways kind of pure in its flavor, good tomatoes really shine through. A spinach and sausage deep dish is an absolute treat for me, even as an Easterner that still loves NY style for what it is. I hope to get more chances to try a real Detroit style as I've not had many opportunities. The crisp on an authentic one looks great.

I live north of the city and buddy's is my all time favorite place to get a good pizza. Thanks for making this video!

If anyone tries to say that no one in America cares about their food then watch this video. The chef, Wes displays the same attention to detail and drive for perfection that any Cordon Bleu graduate would understand.

I grew up in SE Michigan and love Detroit style. Thanks for shining a positive spotlight on our unfortunately dire city.

If only the city was good as the pizza...

Thank you for spotlighting my home and my favorite food, Adam. You are a treasure.

love historical food content like this. good stuff adam.

I was born and raised in Chicago and NW Indiana, so growing up Giordano's was my favorite. I moved to the Detroit area in 1985 and fell in love with Buddy's. I still love the occasional Giordano's when I visit my brother, but I've been converted. Interestingly Giordano's tried to open a location in downtown Detroit a few years ago and it barely lasted a year.

I watch your videos all the time but this one landed at the same time and place as my curiosity. Thanks your videos are always concise and most importantly entertaining

Thanks for showing my city Adam. The people of Detroit are some of the greatest people you’d ever come across

I live on 6 Mile but on the west side of the city. Had my birthday at the 6 Mile original Buddy's last year. Buddy's has always been my dad's favorite pizza/food. Detroit style pizza is the best there is. I recommend visiting the original Buddy's when you are in town.

Loved this! I grew up eating Jet's square pizzas in Toledo, OH, and it remains my favorite to this day!

Austin has fallen in love with this style of pizza thanks to Via 313. Started as a truck and now has multiple brick and mortar locations. My favorite pizza in the city.

I live about ten miles from that Buddy's. There are several old school red tops that are worthy - Cloverleaf, Louie's, Shields - they trace their family trees back to Buddy's. There are lots fool's gold out there now but if you want to taste authentic Detroit Style it has to be Buddy's.

Haha that helix mattress transition was slick, Adam…😂

I'm so glad you came here to try Detroit style pizza!! Excellent video 😊