Actually, in the 30 minute micro-research I did to post that, it noted that Boston and New York have had a long standing pizza rivally (being from the MidWest, I always thought Chicago and New York were the only rivals..). The Boston style is described as having a thin dough in the middle and thick crust around the edges.. that would explain your distain for it!

From: http://www.ultradave.com/pizzahistory.htm

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Italians baegan to bring their pizza recipes to the United States in the 1800s, and pizza began showing up on the menus of restaurants and bakeries in Boston, New York, and Chicago. Perhaps most important in the history of pizza was the evolution of the Boston style pizza. A Boston style pizza has thin crust in the middle, a thick edge of around the outside, a combination of mozzarella and white cheddar cheese, and a tomato based sauce that is hard to match outside of Boston. "MMMM GOOD!" Why was the Boston pizza so important? It was important because I would have been stuck with New York pizza if the Boston pizza did not evolve. (I do my part to maintain the rivalry.)

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and from: http://members.aol.com/GLilli/piz.html

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Pizza supply houses began to emerge providing dough, sauce and toppings to the pizzerias. They fulfilled the need for consistency and reduced labor cost, at the expense of high quality ingredients. Consequently, all pizza began to taste the same because all the pizzerias began to use the same manufacturers.

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