See one of the other ways I differ from many of you is you treat going to a match as a social outing. I do not. I have been in this game for over 40 years. I watch matches with a coaches eye. I socialize at a very minimum with a few select people. I am not interested in having drinks (which I don't do) and a meal. Then chatting all match. I am different. Not right but different.
Now you’re just being insulting, by insinuating that people on here go to DC United games just to socialize. Normal people can have a good time with friends and also focus on the game when play is on.
How am I being insulting. There are plenty of people who go just for the social aspects. I have no issue with that. It is just not my way. I want them to enjoy the social nature of what they are doing. And yes some people can do both. I cannot. I have found that most of the social people tend to ask me "what just happened?" It was a constant in La Norte. They would ask me that and tactical questions and I answered them with a smile on my face. Your taking my reference to the social aspect out of context.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this argument, because so many of those who post here seemed to value the tailgating in Lot 8 at RFK more than the match itself. It irritated me to see members of the supporters groups filing into the stadium well after the match had begun yet presenting themselves as the "true" fans. I was a Quiet Sider who got there early enough to watch the warm ups and never missed a minute of play, yet I and the others of us who weren't downing beers prior to the match were somehow second-class fans.
I do remember seeing posts from people who would go to RFK to tailgate with zero actual plans of going into the stadium for the match.
To be clear, that pizza joint (All Purpose?) that may or may not be sharing space with the salt line place under the condos (I think) is the very definition of snooty, or at least it seems that way from the sidewalk. Also that is a damned long 3 blocks We walk by it (it's the one food place between my parking and the stadium, though other places exist according to the map in the other direction), I'd say it's half-way in our 8/10 mile walk. We've thought about stopping to use the bathroom there and see if it's one place or two places, but haven't yet. I think the SEs might have started after-gaming there so maybe we'll see someone we know in the crowd and go say hi and get a better idea of price and what the service looks like. I know from an SE vote on a few choices for an "official pizza" that they use weird snooty ingredients for pizza at the very least even if their dress-code may be casual FWIW (nothing) I also think the stadium offerings are too high-end, but I think there are smaller, relatively cheaper things like that little store-like thing in the SW corner, never been in it but it looks interesting from the walkway - I rarely if ever want to eat inside and I can bring my own food to eat outside so I only pay limited attention. But my wife likes to eat in the stadium sometimes, or she did at RFK, she hates the ridiculous prices at EagleBank so she sticks to bourbon (which they've now stopped letting the workers pour properly and have really cut back on amounts). Beside the nice tailgates to get your socializing out of the way early, RFK was also built to actually walk around and say hi to people - the new place sucks for that with separate entrances for each individual section, you can't walk around at all. I'd say my wife preferred the tailgates to the games, I prefer both equally. Having the social experience first got her into the place to then begin to appreciate the play and game - without it she's less and less interested in what happens inside. For me the new place is far too sterile to be all that enjoyable and it's taken a lot of the luster off the team for me as well. Loudoun United will have nothing at all in walking distance but I'm pretty sure they'll let us tailgate since they'll have a real honest parking lot like civilized people Maybe they'll fix their weird ticketing so I know how much a ticket costs and we'll make it to some games in the coming years, but I'm thinking whichever playoff game we get ousted in this year will be my last DCU live game. And with no TV, they'll be easy to forget.
All Purpose is very snooty. They have these pizzas one with tomato and mozzarella, and another with tomato, mozzarella, and pepperoni.
When the team was really bad, like back in 2013, it was very difficult sometimes to motivate to go into RFK. That's not a problem at Audi Field so far, thankfully.
you're cute. You forgot the Calebrian chili honey and basil that are also on that particular pizza. Or whatever the hell grana is on the other one you mentioned. (google informs me that is a very snooty way of saying grated cheese) Here's the rest of a far-too-long and unnecessary reply, please stop reading and scroll on to the next post now to save your sanity They will add pepperoni to a pizza for $4, adding arugula only costs 2 if for some reason you want lettuce on your pizza This is the snooty Supporters Group pie: L’AQUILA tomato, fennel sausage, stracciatella, basil 19 $1 from each pizza sold will benefit the Earth Conservation Corps (the SE pre-game location) Affordable too, lol. Google tells me that stracciatella is either a soup, an ice cream, or some kind of snooty cheese so I'll assume it's the cheese Here's their pizza menu: THE STANDARD tomato, mozzarella, Sicilian oregano, grana 16 SICILIAN MARINARA tomato, garlic, Sicilian anchovy, capers, oregano, parsley 17 SEDGEWICK whipped ricotta, mozz, tallegio, parm, true honey, chives 19 BUONA tomato, mozz, pepperoni, Calabrian chili honey, basil 19 GREENWICH basil pesto, sheep’s milk ricotta, cherry tomato, pickled peppers, grana 19 HANDSOME DAN marinated clams, garlic, mozz, roasted bacon, lemon, parsley 19 CURVEBALL tomato, mozz, BBQ chicken, smoked gouda, red onion, cherry peppers, cilantro 19 Add-ons: ARUGULA 2 ‘SHROOMS 2 BACON 3 ITALIAN SAUSAGE 3 PEPPERONI 4 PROSCIUTTO 6 So, no, they do not offer a pie with tomato sauce, cheese, and pepperoni - unless you build that yourself or decline the Calabrian chili honey (does anyone want to ague that's a not-snooty ingredient) and basil from the Buona ( I assume they'd call this The Pepperoni if that's what it was). I assume the cheese is free if you build your own, but the sauce and pep will run you $9 - and there is no indication on their menu that they will build one you want or take off things you don't like. That sounds awfully snooty to me - but I haven't been there and I suppose their menu is not a valid way to assess their unsnootiness
I don't think honey and basil is particularly exotic. It's still a pretty straightforward pepperoni pizza, just slightly elevated. I'm really picky (I don't even really like cheese) but I think it's great.
Honey isn't (even though I don't like it) exotic. Even if it may be non-standard as a pizza topping - but Calabrian chili honey? Come on now I buy very local honey for my wife, local honey is supposedly very good for you. Basil has never done anything bad to me, I have no problems with it. I grow two kinds on my deck.
That definition is not quite right, grana doesn't refer to cheese that is grated (though it can be), it's a specific type or category of cheeses. If they mean "Grana Padano", it's a cheese similar to Parmigiano Reggiano but made in a different area of Italy and meeting slightly different rules for production (aging, etc.). It cannot be called Parmigiano Reggiano even if it meets all other criteria if it's made outside of certain areas near Parma. If they mean "grana" then it is the category of hard, aged, grate-able cheeses that includes Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano and if I understand correctly (I was raised in Italy but it's been a long time), is a derivation of the Italian word for grainy (granulosa), and referring to the texture of these types of cheeses, though I've only heard the term referred to cheeses from Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna . I suspect they mean the former, using typical Americanized abbreviations. No different than distinguishing between types of sausage, oysters, crabs, etc., really. I'd say they're being precise rather than snooty, even if the term isn't as well known as Parmegiano Reggiano. And don't get me started on "parmesan". Also, All Purpose makes an New Jersey style pizza. Not a state I associate with snooty.