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Tomato pie is a beloved specialty of Philadelphia. It resembles pizza, though Philadelphians know it to be different. In the early 1900s, bread bakers would take leftover bread and top it with “gravy” (red sauce) and a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese to save the dough from going to waste. The dish is ubiquitous in Philadelphia today, with many bakeries, like Sarcone’s Bakery in South Philly, serving it either hot from the oven or at room temperature. Insider’s Taryn Varricchio headed to Sarcone’s to learn why Philadelphians treasure tomato pie.
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@jaysonburgerson6521 4 года назад

Man, just wait til they discover mozzarella cheese

@cyna866 4 года назад

Jayson Burgerson lmaoooo 😂😂

@Filthyheartz 4 года назад

White people are weird sometimes lol gotta love em

@JopieA 4 года назад

It’s just pizza bread they’re passing off as God’s gift to Philadelphia! I’m sure it’s good, but it certainly doesn’t look like nothing to write home about.

@Filthyheartz 4 года назад

@@JopieA lol please stop saying philly. The majority of us dont know nothing about this tomato pie crap. This is on white part of town.

@jazzyjaz9108 4 года назад

I always take the cheese off of pizza so this is heaven!

@terminallyelleofficial 4 года назад

Starter-tomato pie Main-Cheeseless pizza Dessert-fruit toast 3 different ways to say the same thing😂

@user-ex3ww6sk2t 4 года назад

Waterfruit on bread

@cosmicnovacat 4 года назад

I don't like this.....

@WawanGunawan-oz6gi 4 года назад

Breakfast - bread with tomato jam

4 года назад

I am waiting for an idiot to say 'tomato isnt a fruit'

@skul-ly8240 4 года назад

Hotel - Trivago

@yourewrong16 4 года назад

Honestly to me a I’ll eat it if the sauce is good and the dough is on point. Those two are what makes a pizza good

@treefiddy8811 3 года назад

That's the whole point :) The sauce is like a tomato paste, a bit more acidic but full of spices and light parm cheese on top. The bread is very puffy and not like pizza crust at all. Its fluffy like a cloud

@ramencurry6672 2 года назад

I grew up in Philly. Most people like over 90 percent maybe have never heard of this. It’s extremely rare. I’ve had it once. It’s ok. Get the version from New Haven Connecticut instead. It’s more popular and more widely known.

@treatsandtravels06 4 года назад

In Italy we ate tomato bread daily , This does look good 🍅

@treatsandtravels06 4 года назад

John Davis ate - I don’t live in Italy anymore

@angelabby2379 4 года назад

In indonesia, they pizza crust is a bread xD, its thick and fluffy personally i think its too bready

@f25mart 4 года назад

Places will do almost anything to have some kind of ‘unique’ attraction. People will put sauce on a sandal and be like “It’s the best thing ever and it’s even better than New Yawk’s....and if you’re a local, you’ve been eating it ya whole life...” Narrator (who usually has an British accent): “local shop, Santangelo’s, has been putting their secret sauce on sandals in Omaha for over 700 years...what’s their secret? They wouldn’t say...”

@rmcallister8436 4 года назад

This comment is highly underrated.

@Ghost572 4 года назад

The secret is cat piss mixed in with the sauce

@em1ownerify 4 года назад

R McAllister best comment 🙏

@harrisonjohn4301 4 года назад

Dude I’m dying 😂🤣😂🤣

@XactlyCeSe1 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@mediocrebanters 4 года назад

The "Tomato Pie" is originally made from old unsold garlic bread loaves where they are brushed with olive oil, then topped with left over marinara + old crumbling flakes of parmigiana. Sometimes they are actually topped with other left over stuff from the kitchen. It's the Italian restaurant version of what the Chinese did with _chop suey._

@eddiekane1202 Год назад

Yeah they kind of explained that already in the video

@eliasfakename7158 Год назад

@@eddiekane1202 It's probably for anyone with a short attention span who couldn't watch a 3-4 min video

@SorgiStories 4 года назад

This and scrapple are the only Philadelphia food group we didn't partake in during our Brewers road trip to that city. And by the way, Philly, you and your sports fans were the exact opposite of what people think of when it comes to Philadelphia fans...YOU WERE SUPER FRIENDLY AND AWESOME!

@alantyson5339 4 года назад

Scrapple is more Berks and Lancaster county

@SorgiStories 4 года назад

@@alantyson5339 To us cheeseheads, that would qualify as "close enough." But to people from that area, totally see where you're going with that.

@alantyson5339 4 года назад

They call us the farmers

@jonathanielpringlemaniii Год назад

@@alantyson5339yeah

@JB-td4ei 4 года назад

I moved back to western Canada after 20 years in philly. I miss tomato pie, and authentic cheesesteak sandwiches.

@ChrisBelmont 4 года назад

I might be from MD, but god damn I love tomato pie. My dad sometimes goes to Philly for work, and he brings giant boxes full of it. For those wondering though, it might look like pizza, which it is, but the texture and taste is different. The sauce is sweet unlike normal pizza while still not being overbearingly sweet. The cheese on it is hardly noticeable, but adds to the taste nonetheless. Don’t knock it till you try it, it’s actually amazing

@944gemma 2 года назад

It’s the best

@YOLORACER 4 года назад

I’m Canadian, and this type of pizza can be found in any Italian bakery in the city where I’m from (Montreal).

@polymatheace 2 года назад

You get these literally in every convenience store in Montreal, Canada.

@jefftracy3771 Год назад

In Western PA and eastern Ohio we have Brier Hill pizza which is very similar to tomato pie except it has diced bell peppers sprinkled on top.

@MusicIslife-nn9gn 4 года назад

Bread dough + tomato sauce. “It doesn’t get better than this.” I’m pretty sure there are way better things out there sir. Calm down.

@abbyboyone 4 года назад

yeah

@jennifermondy9990 4 года назад

It actually is pretty great if you go to the right spot.

@mchan2141 4 года назад

Would you like a werter?

@2Skinny 3 года назад

Its not even the best version of foods involving tomato sauce and bread.

@treefiddy8811 3 года назад

Im from upstate new york and dont knock it till you try it. The tomato sauce doesnt taste how you expect nor does the bread.

@Cupcake4me 4 года назад

Sometimes the most simple foods are the best. Looks delish

@Lalairu 4 года назад

I love diping bread into tomato souce when I prepare it at home, so I am sure I would love this lol

@janetseidlitz5976 3 года назад

This is made in Sicily. Street food. Easy to make at home too.

@LearningToLove.. 4 года назад

“It doesn’t get any better than this.” It really does lol

@jonathanielpringlemaniii Год назад

yeah it's ok, providence ri does it better

@JayLeePoe 4 года назад

I have wrapped boxes of this pizza in cold storage for relatives. It's no joke. It's a parlor snack that really gets people gathered around on the weekends, especially good for a game as it gets better as it gets cold

@joyg4387 3 года назад

Yum, we have a similar thing in Rhode Island…we call them pizza strips or party pizza, usually every gathering has a box of them on the table……it is really delicious and we go crazy for it….

@troygreen9321 4 года назад

Man how I miss Philly and it's food

@colleendurkan108 4 года назад

I did not know tomato pie was regional I’ve been eating it my whole life

@skunkie110 4 года назад

colleen durkan lol same! 😂 although I wouldn’t say I’ve been eating it all my life...ate it more as a kid than an adult. I just had no idea it was a Philly thing. I thought tomato pie was everywhere 😆

@chriscampbell3817 4 года назад

it's not.

@b.lasher1475 3 года назад

Anyone dissing the Tomato Pie, clearly has never had it 😂💯

@Bahssit 2 года назад

FACTS half these comments are bozos

@jonathanielpringlemaniii Год назад

"hurrr durr pizza with no cheese duhhh"

@ozymandiaskingofkings8439 4 года назад

Lactose intolerance pizza

@istolethemuffin3144 4 года назад

It really reminds me of a lovechild between a bruschetta and a very tomatoy pizza marinara alla pala, so it must be delicious. I wish I could have a taste, some day. :)

@greenlawnfarm5827 4 года назад

You have to go to Philly and you should get cheesesteaks there.

@istolethemuffin3144 4 года назад

@@greenlawnfarm5827 That's another thing I heard about and I very much wish to taste! Any other suggestion about things that shouldn't be missed?

@greenlawnfarm5827 4 года назад

@@istolethemuffin3144 You have to go to Franklin Fountain. South street. Pats and Ginos. Delesandro's. Jims. The roast pork place. The Mutter Museum. The art museum. The franklin institiute. And the place by the train station. And china town but watch out for coronavirus. And theres other places but i forget some of them.

@istolethemuffin3144 4 года назад

@@greenlawnfarm5827 That's lovely, I wrote it down. Thank you very much and have a wonderful day! :)

@greenlawnfarm5827 4 года назад

@@istolethemuffin3144 Ok. I thout about the name of the place at the train station. Its called Reading Terminal Market and they have good food there. But whatever you do dont go to the liberty bell. Its just a bell and its broken so they dont even ring it and you cant touch it.

@claudiamarianidamato9499 4 года назад

This is almost like the pizza focaccia or (called schiacciata in livorno) with tomato sauce on top. Difference is that the tomato sauce is dried out which allows it to soak into the bread , which really enhances the flavor . It’s not necessarily a “pizza” but more of a focaccia bread.

@RaphJoli 2 года назад

Grew up on this stuff in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

@ricosavage4281 4 года назад

I live in south philly and we love this!

@dariusmelasecca2715 2 месяца назад

I love tomato pie. It was my great grandmothers fav. Every time I went to Philly to visit. I had to get tomato pie, Philly cheesesteak (from d’allesandros) originally opened by a relative and water ice.

@acatholiclife Год назад

This probably also became popular because it is vegetarian and Catholics could eat it on Fridays and during Lent. Fridays are mandatory days of abstinence from meat. But for centuries, all of Lent (40 week days and the 6 sundays) were days of abstinence even from dairy. I think this dish was made for Catholic Italians to eat a great dish for their meal even on days of abstinence.

@anamarievivero7774 4 года назад

Not American here doing this style for many years!!! One thing different is we don’t have that kind of large bread! We do using the slice bread and the leftover spaghetti sauce!! lol We called it “ toasted bread with spaghetti sauce “! It’s yummy 😋!! Thanks for sharing! Watching from Japan 🇯🇵!!!

@jennifermondy9990 4 года назад

Sarcone’s tomato pie is bomb... so good for breakfast!

@kartikeyagupta2627 4 года назад

I have had it... It's amazing af

@Red_Eyed 4 года назад

This is what we call a struggle meal in LA. Been doing this since I was a kid with bolillo bread and adding pizza sauce with only a little parm on top. Lol.

@Red_Eyed 4 года назад

@Patrick Rapan Read again. Never said that.

@yumyumboy 4 года назад

It looks really delicious just by watching the video. I want to eat

@Passionforfoodrecipes 4 года назад

You're not fooling me, you ran out of cheese again didn't you Philly ?! Did you put it all on the Cheesesteaks?!

@Mook215philly 4 года назад

I like how you edited your comment and still spelt Philly wrong lol.

@Passionforfoodrecipes 4 года назад

@the ckixon nixon lol I think my latest one probably sounds a bit better! Working on it 😋

@DBELLTREE 4 года назад

Sicilian style "pizza" sfincione focaccia - what we sounded out slanged as "spinguni" in Detroit.

@krisreedful 4 года назад

They should try putting mozzarella cheese on top before it goes in the oven!

@edwardchung7544 4 года назад

Who on earth would want to try that?! 😂

@mimido2526 4 года назад

@@edwardchung7544 have u heard of pizza?

@elijah4973 4 года назад

@@mimido2526 r/wooosh

@amxthystdxncx2218 4 года назад

Mimi Do have you heard of a joke?

@yummyland 4 года назад

It looks like pizza but it doesn't look like pizza! 😋

@kimyongin1987 4 года назад

Schrödinger's Pizza, I assume.

@juliemarden2814 4 года назад

Everyone always forgets that Rhode Island has it as well.

@alhur1918 4 года назад

Julie Marden poor Rhode Island. 😢

@andricrypto2852 4 года назад

Then Rhode Island should make something different ;)

@jenniferbates2811 4 года назад

@@andricrypto2852 we do! We have a lot of cool places to eat! We have this too, but we call it party pizza.

@jenniferbates2811 4 года назад

Hey sweetie, thats what I said, party pizza. Go to Depetrillos.

@cuongbui9708 4 года назад

Rhode Island? Is that near the Caribbean’s?

@jenniferbates2811 4 года назад

I live in Rhode Island and we call this party pizza, we usually get it at Depetrillos. It's very yummy

@skunkie110 4 года назад

So I grew up in the burbs outside Philadelphia....had NO idea this was only a Philly thing. 😆 I thought tomato pie was everywhere. Haven’t had it in a long time but I remember eating it as a kid, and having it at events.

@davidaldinger3666 4 года назад

We had the same thing in Utica. Same frigging “ is it a pizza argument “. Never went to a party that didn’t have it. Weddings,reunions, 4th of July, didn’t matter

@SwIRvski Год назад

This is not tomato pie but it’s a cool Sicilian dish. Real tomato pie uses tomato slices (and is an actual pie) we eat it in the southern US

@tomallen7699 8 месяцев назад

Little slice of heaven...

@pjschaaf414 3 года назад

This shit is so good, I didn’t know it was just a Philly thing

@MelissaDisha 4 месяца назад

I ADORE Tomato pie!!

@jamielancaster01 4 года назад

I’ll stick with the Philly Cheesesteak thank you!

@iangoodisDMX 4 года назад

Gag. Cheez wiz and nasty beef. Hmmm. Don't forget way too many onions

@Drumminjay01 4 года назад

the roast pork with broccoli rabe and sharp provolone is better.

@jamielancaster01 4 года назад

Jason Barsotti I haven’t tried that but it sounds delicious

@Drumminjay01 4 года назад

@@jamielancaster01 I prefer DiNic's in the Italian market, but John's is equally delicious.

@fn_flashy9101 4 года назад

Ian Good I’d rather eat that masterpiece than tomato on sourdough

@charblinn617 4 года назад

In Stoney Creek Ontario Canada we have a Bakery called Roma pizza sells same pizza! Love it!

@micahelliott8929 4 года назад

Wait a second, some people have never had tomato pie? It is amazing! And, no, it is very different than pizza-it's more like a dense bread with a tangy, thick sauce. Boy, I never realized how sheltered i was:)

@surethings6350 3 года назад

Similar to "Pizza strips" from Rhode Island. Love them

@davidjones535 4 года назад

I'm from Youngstown in Ohio and we call it sheet pizza but we add more cheese and other topping's , it's the same dough .

@yogigirl3641 4 года назад

David Jones East palestine Ohio here. And love pizza from that side of Ohio.

@nickmiller9197 4 года назад

Oh boy I love tomato pie. I could live off corropolese tomato pie

@robcochran6213 4 года назад

Basically something you whip up at 2am when all you have in the kitchen is bread, tomato sauce and parmesan cheese

@mammoth123. 3 года назад

We grew up eating this in CT at Lantieri's Bakery on front St in Hartford It would come in a short sided beer box wrapped in butcher's paper 2 bucks a box of 24 pieces. When it went to 2.25 a box my fathers blew a lid and said I won't go any more its way over priced .But the family got on him and he gave in. I'd eat it at room temp Sunday morning's left over from the nite before .

@onenonlysash1590 4 года назад

I eat this in vancouver all the time so good

@Curling_Rack 4 года назад

toast slice bread with spaghetti sauce?

@thebasketballhistorian3291 4 года назад

"It doesn't get any better than this!" Mmm... it does. It's called "pizza". lol

@mordecaifroehlich8256 3 года назад

They’re two different things, both equally great. Don’t understand why people shit on it, it’s a very tasty treat during the summer

@Lalamary2266 4 года назад

This reminds me of a Sicilian pie which is what we have in New Jersey. I think anywhere there’s a high concentration of Italian-Americans, you’re gonna see a lot of similar foods. Its delicious though so I’ll have to try the philly one some time!

@phuckfumassters 4 года назад

Rhode Island has the same food. It's called party pizza or pizza strip in the ocean state

@CorgiCorner 2 года назад

Wow people really be hating on tomato pie in the comments.

@firecracker187 4 месяца назад

Because sadly they have never had it... It's freaking delicious

@TheOldAmishMan 4 года назад

I like this series. Short and sweet

@Itsbuckjames 4 года назад

We do pizza strips in RI. Same idea but thinner made at all the old school Italian bakeries.

@SammiGirl-bx1th 4 года назад

Dont knock it until you try it! We LOVE tomato pie here in Upstate NY too (I'm just outside Utica NY) its DELICIOUS!!!

@alec-s 4 года назад

In Italy it is called SFINCIONE, mainly from Palermo, this Boston's is a slightly modifyed version... But it is. SFINCIONE..

@eleonoraf.29 4 года назад

It's sicilian and it's called Sfincione. Centenary recipe from Sicily.

@brunolondinese5857 4 года назад

I am from London and I spent last Christmas with friends in NC and we drove to Philly to get Christmas food ingredients and I made Sfincione for them. It had lots of onions & anchovies.

@chriscampbell3817 4 года назад

we eat on the east side of Cleveland. it's Sicilian style pizza

@karateman302 4 года назад

Yeah it's Sicilian but in the US it's associated with Philly because that's the main place it's eaten. From the area and not Italian but I had it a lot growing up. I'd say it's distinct from Sfincione though because it's missing the toppings.

@OriginalGrasshopper 4 года назад

Tomato Pie is delish!! It really is popular all throughout Philadelphia and the suburbs. Those who are calling it “pizza without cheese” obviously have never tried it.

@slackeyed7260 4 года назад

Tomato pie is also a thing in Utica/Syracuse NY.

@ethanhcomposer 3 года назад

Oh boy you got that right. I LOVE tomato pie

@bethaniepetitpas5699 4 года назад

This is big in areas of Rhode Island, too.

@chriscampbell3817 4 года назад

we eat it on the east side of Cleveland. it's delicious. cool show thanks

@laurenskitchen4269 4 года назад

It looks really good

@rachelolsen3428 4 года назад

I love all things tomato, so this is a new must try.

@inmyglowupera 4 года назад

I feel like I would like this, I’m that weirdo who will sometimes picks at my pizza until I’m just eating the bread and sauce lol

@goaziago 4 года назад

!!!!❤️

@icecube7685 4 года назад

Every time I eat it I just think *_"Why can't this just be Pizza?"_*

@jonathanielpringlemaniii Год назад

it's not pizza, bruh. don't be stupid

@allipi8571 4 года назад

Upstate NY has this as well

@akinyemiMojisola-nv3ci 5 месяцев назад

Nice Tomatoes pie

@gio_4199 4 года назад

Corropolese is where it’s at 😋😍

@ailblentyn 4 года назад

It's like something I'd get from a focacceria or bakery in Tuscany

@simonhu3350 4 года назад

"It's not pizza" Meanwhile, a guy takes a whole pie out of the store in a pizza box....

@phoenixsinclair2959 4 года назад

Simon Hu 😭 I was thinking the same thing🤣🤣🤣

@JackTse 4 года назад

its literally pizza

@RoccoGucci 4 года назад

Just cuz it's in a pizza box, doesn't make it pizza. If I took a dump in that box you gonna take it home and call it pizza??? It's TOMATO PIE...Bread dough not pizza dough. No mozzarella cheese, served at room temperature.

@user-lv6rn9cf8m 4 года назад

It's definitively a pizza. Absolutely not a pie though. Those two things are mutually exclusive.

@user-lv6rn9cf8m 4 года назад

@@RoccoGucci Bread dough and pizza dough are similar. Lots of breads are made of pizza dough. What this doesn't have is pie dough, and it isn't pie shaped. It's not a pie in any sense of the word at all. Close it and you kinda get a pirog but not really.

@praetorkambu 4 года назад

Looks good 👍

@Iceis_Phoenix Год назад

OMG the best !

@Kjk_808 4 года назад

It’s a Rhode Island thing too

@yesfan157 4 года назад

I'd try it.

@aeroJR 4 года назад

Just remove all the toppings and cheese from a pizza and you got your tomato pie.

@SammiGirl-bx1th 4 года назад

Its different than pizza....its a bread dough ;-)

@robertc6293 4 года назад

@@SammiGirl-bx1th im still confused how this is different than Chicago deep dish without the mozzarella?? I thought pizza is bread dough too??? 🍕

@SammiGirl-bx1th 4 года назад

@@robertc6293 the dough for tomato pie is more bread like its hard to explain - and is def different than deep dish pizza as well (I've visited Chicago many times!) the biggest difference is that you partially bake the crust FIRST - then add your sauce - then bake again to brown the crust - NO mozz cheese is ever added - only grated parm - and there is much more sauce than you would find on a reg pizza - also its best eaten at room temperature!

@Dan-mm5iy 4 года назад

It’s also served cold or hits different not even like that

@jaggsta 4 года назад

aka breadsticks.

@alain99v6 4 года назад

popular in Montreal too

@smug8567 4 года назад

If you like traditional Italian food, this is the place to come.

@kyjortin_gaming 4 года назад

Make spaghetti or pasta with red sauce and put a nice serving between two pieces of toast. Amazing

@HeatherVioletNoble 4 года назад

Nice

@jazzyjaz9108 4 года назад

That looks AMAZING!!!

@PiggyBoy 4 года назад

It's like Chicago pizza!

@rebeccascarpato3757 4 года назад

No its not

@VenerableBede2510 3 месяца назад

Jimmy Rubino is a perfect Goodfellas or Sopranos character name.

@Concerncitizenoftheworld 4 года назад

Louis Sarcone III is pretty yummy as well.

@ronfrezno5353 4 года назад

Pretty much everything on this channel can be easily and made at home.. you don’t need to fly across the country to get bread with tomato sauce.

@traceylafontaine8893 4 года назад

Some bakers in the city of Montreal Quebec Canada, makes these Yummy tomato pies. Bonne Appetit in your area 😊👌

@mammoth123. 3 года назад

I've been eating this for my whole life . I remember we would buy it in a bread bakery .And yes it was room temp when U picked it up. Packed in a beer cardboard box wrapped in a yellowish paper that butchers would wrap meat . At the time it was 2 dollars a box 24 pieces when it went to 2 dollars and 25 cents my dad went nuts about the price increase.