About the only thing that
About the only thing that seemed to be open at midnight last weekend was Pizza House. And that led Ann Arbor Sucks to contemplate another A2 cuisine mystery - why the chipati? According to The Michigan Daily, a chipati is “a pita-bread contraption,” which is more or less accurate. It’s basically an iceberg-lettuce salad stuffed inside pita bread, accompanied by a bright orange “chipati sauce” that tastes something like a mixture of ranch dressing and Kraft Catalina dressing. It is considered the height of Ann Arbor cuisine.
But while Pizza House, popularly considered the innovator of this dish, calls itself “a slice of Chicago in Ann Arbor,” it seems unlikely that a chipati place has opened up in Chicago billing itself as “an overstuffed bread packet of Ann Arbor in Chicago.” And so we must ask, why has the chipati failed to gain popularity outside A2? Is it simply too subtle, too esoteric, for the outside world to appreciate?
Thanks to The Text Obscured for the great writeup. One thing - the “annarborsux” spelling is more a nod to Diaryland’s twelve-character-username policy than an attempt to mimic Jeff K.