Doug Mataconis · · 8 comments

When it comes to pizza, Antonin Scalia is firmly in the New York camp:

New York thin-crust versus Chicago’s deep-dish: It’s a historic battle between the Big Apple and the Windy City.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia picked his preferred pie Tuesday during a Chicago conference at Chicago-Kent School of Law, “ruling” that deep-dish isn’t pizza at all.

Scalia was in town for a student conference discussing the issue of the government’s role in confiscating private property, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. But his comments didn’t stop there.

“I do indeed like so-called ‘deep dish pizza.’ It’s very tasty,” Scalia said. “But it should not be called pizza. It should be called a tomato pie. Real pizza is Neapolitan. It is thin. It is chewy and crispy, OK?”

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Chicagoans were not happy to hear his opinion on the city’s baseball teams either, the Associated Press points out.

When asked “White Sox or Cubs?” Scalia said he was a Yankees fan, drawing boos from the audience.