The MN Monthly's "Pizza Personality Type Indicator"

[The Dairy Queen]

I wish this story of Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl's were online so I could link to it, but it probably won't be until next month, as it's MN Monthly's practice to only put the previous month's stuff online once the current month's issue is out, but

Have you taken Dara's PPTI test? You must. If you do, I would love to know,

1) What's your type (mine? INCS--"The Curator")

2) Was she right (in terms of describing your personality? (for me? embarrassingly spot on)

3) Was she right in terms of her pizza recommendation for your "type"? (me? I don't know! She recommended Brick's in Hudson, WI. I've always wanted to go there but have never been. Now I am really dying to check it out.

If you don't know your type yet, you must try it. Her story, as usual, is both hilarious and astute. Please report back!

~TDQ

[AnneInMpls]

I just took the test. What fun!

1. My type; ITCS - The Perfectionist. Embarrassingly spot-on!

2. Punch in the original location only.

3. Oh, so true - I was at the Cleveland Ave. Punch just last night, pontificating at length about how the other locations aren't nearly as wonderful as the first.

Interestingly, I got a close-second type of ATCS (The Vigorous American/Black Sheep), reflecting my love of true NYC pizza. I gotta check out the Black Sheep, when I can tear myself away from Punch.

And my third runner-up types were ATPS (The Good Egg/Red's Savoy) and ITPS (The Practical Traveler/Pizza Nea). Again, it's suprisingly accurate: When I'm nostalgic for my childhood, I pine for a Vescio's square-cut pizza with hamburger and onions - and hamburger is specifically mentioned for ATPS.

Dara is brilliant! Her only miss is that she didn't mention pizza with an egg on top, which is another of my pizza passions. (In fact, I love any dish with an egg on it.) But perhaps that's because no-one does this here, alas!

Anne

[MrSlippery]

Pizza Nea has a Pizza Bianco con Uovo.
http://pizzanea.com/menu.html

[thew]

THE VIGOROUS AMERICAN

You know who Langston Hughes and Cab Calloway are, and you sometimes deploy five-dollar words in unlikely situations. You’ve been known to bring books to bars. Even with all your brainpower, though, you have a spot in your heart for a bleacher seat with a cold beer to keep you company.

ok i like that - but one question ticked me off - the travel question

my only choices were to hide my americaness or to stay in a hotel w/ an english speaking concierge - the answer to that is neither

i can't comment on MN pizza places, but as a NYer i prefer NY pizza so it seems right

[Wahooty]

Yeah, I found a lot of the questions a bit too limiting, but what do you expect from a pizza-based personality test? :) And while I wouldn't deliberately hide my Americanness, I live in Canada and have slowly amassed enough things with maple leaves/beavers/Roots logos/etc. on them that I carry around with me that I would probably let people assume I'm Canadian, but correct them if they asked. Which I figured was close enough. :)

[thew]

i spent 2 decades wandering the globe, often inplaces where i was told not to let people know i was american. i found it pretty much to be complete nonsense.

[goodhealthgourmet]

thanks for posting this, it was actually quite funny!

1) ITCS - The Perfectionist (which, is, for the record, one of my nicknames!)
2) Disturbingly accurate.
3) Yes, though in terms of recommended places, i've never even been to Minnesota - i wish she had provided NYC equivalents.

very cool.

[limster]

Very cool! Wished it was for pizzas worldwide.

[alkapal]

dq, this was fun! thanks.

i was an "INCL" -- "the observer"
THE OBSERVER

"You have an eye for the little things. In restaurants you notice the size of the fleur de sel on the salad, the quality of a restaurant’s balsamic vinegar, the freshness of the flowers in the vases. Because of your eye for detail, you frequently go out of your way for a better quality experience. Some call you persnickety—but you think life with low standards isn’t worth living."

pretty spot on! (but in the south, we don't say "persnickety." it's simply "picky" ;-).

~~
could eat any of the pizzas i saw described, except those for THE THOUGHTFUL SENSUALIST, THE GOOD EGG, THE LIFE OF THE PARTY.

~~
and i looked at the other descriptions of traits, but some clearly didn't remotely apply, and others were nowhere near as accurate as the trait category that i was assigned.

[LindaWhit]

See, The Observer traits seem to be more in my ballpark as well - at least as it relates to "eye for detail"...although I don't know the pizzerias applying to any of the 4 letter codes.

[alkapal]

yeah, i don't know the pizzerias, either. i just read the descriptions of the pizzas. the ones i didn't "like" sounded quite bizarre to me.

wouldn't it be funny if pizzerias starting posting their "code" outside, or had categories in their menus for each "type."

[Ummm]

1) ANCL - THE THOUGHTFUL SENSUALIST

2) Yes! I like unusual topping options on pizza! I don't even like cooked fruits much but I recently tried one with pear and Gorgonzola, just because!

3) they recommend Crave and Tavern on France. Haven't been to either. Though some of the Crave pizzas they listed sound very interesting- The grape-and-apple, The shaved-rib-eye pizza, The spiced-pineapple-and-prosciutto combination takes the classic Hawaiian pizza, lightens it, and makes it fresher.

I need to get my husband to do the test, he always prefers red sauce pizza with as much toppings as possible (except mushroom).

I used to like thick crust pizza, but the last year or so I'd started to love thin crust instead! i don't know how, but american pizzas just taste different to the ones in australia!

[MplsM ary]

1) Your Type: ATCS - THE VIGOROUS AMERICAN

2) Apparently she was spot on because my weekly lunch with my uncle found us at Broder's. It's been at least six years since I've been there. How odd. Now I'm a little creeped out but I'm also thinking I should probably check out Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza.

3) Just like astrological descriptions I think these are traits most everyone can apply to themselves.

Dara certainly earned the gratitude of many pizzerias this month especially if folks decide to check out places new to them based on this piece.

[The Dairy Queen]

MplsMary, I was thinking the same re: your point #3. And, yes, very nice of her to highlight some of these small pizzerias.

~TDQ

[soupkitten]

i'm also atcs. uh, scorpio rising. :-P

i thought it was a great piece by dara and actually pretty perceptive. i'm 3rding the glad it highlighted so many little local pizzerias.

& now i finally have a term for those red savoy lovers out there-- they are "good eggs" (atps). i probably will try black sheep sooner because of this article, why the hell not?

[Kelli2006]

I received the same score.

[Wahooty]

Me too (and a scorpio as well, sk), and the description is so ridiculously spot-on I am mildly offended at being sized up so accurately so easily. I mean seriously...if you told my Canadian friends I was categorized as a "Vigorous American" they would just nod in resigned agreement. I'm not normally a super-thin crust person, but I'm going to be in Minneapolis in a couple of weeks and now feel obligated to try Black Sheep. I'll have to see if I can talk my cousins into it...

[Miss Needle]

Add me to the list as well. But I've NEVER brought a book to a bar.

[ivanova]

I'm ATCS too, and I have totally brought a book to a bar.
Both the personality and the pizza described are so me.

[latte4me]

Thanks for sharing, but I must respectfully disagree. I was pegged as an ATCL, which means that I enjoy cooking my own.
But isn't that what restaurants and husbands are for???

(P.S. As I typed this, hubby looked across the room and said, "Why are you smirking?")

[latte4me]

As it happens, I'm married to an ITCS. His place is Punch and the choice is so spot on that if he didn't already have a church, this would be it. And I love the bit about the St. Paul location preference, which is so very, very, very true.

[heidipie]

Funny! I'm an ITCL--"The Producer." I've never eaten pizza in Minneapolis, but I can almost hear myself saying "I'll go to Punch but I won't wait on that line in St. Paul..."

[sibeats]

1. ATPL - THE LAWN CHAIR CONNOISSEUR
2. Yes! Very amusing...
3. No! I was pegged for a deep dish chicago pizza, which is the exact opposite of what I like! I'm a sucker for a thin crust charred on the bottom, margherita pizza.
Funny though.

[LindaWhit]

Same here - I was an ATPL, and give me a thin-crust NY-style pizza ANY DAY over a Chicago deep dish!

Cute questions, tho.

[indyr]

The PPTI is now available online! http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media...

[The Dairy Queen]

Terrific! Thank you. I don't know how I missed it.

~TDQ