apizza
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apizza (countable and uncountable, plural apizzas)
A style of pizza endemic to New Haven, Connecticut, incorporating a thin, oblong crust, charring, oregano, and tomato sauce but only a small amount of grated Parmesan cheese.
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Apizza may be red (with a tomato -based sauce) or white (with a sauce of garlic and olive oil ), and pies ordered "plain" are made without the otherwise customary mozzarella cheese (originally smoked mozzarella, known as "scamorza" in Italian).
A white clam pie is a well-known specialty of the restaurants on Wooster Street in the Little Italy section of New Haven, including Pepe's and Sally's Apizza (which opened in 1938).