pizza sub-poll: DOES CRUST REFER TO BOTTOM OF PIZZA TOO OR JUST EDGE?

https://previews.123rf.com/images/albacaro/albacaro1811/albacaro181100112/112800221-close-up-of-pizza-with-blood-sausage-and-egg-on-a-blackboard-with-flour-on-a-wooden-table.jpg

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/11/d7/d6/6f/delivered-a-cold-upside.jpg

crust only refers to areas of the base that have had no contact with the sauce or the cheese

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g2tbynYCRX0/UMi3PZv8tUI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/IpA_b7aCxZs/s1600/IMG_4945+--+Mama+Mary

Before yesterday, I had never encountered the term 'base' used in regard to any part of a pizza. This may be attributed to the infrequency with which I hold detailed conversations about the component parts of pizzas, or it may be that the term 'base' is an outlier, employed only by certain sub-cultures of pizza consumers I had not yet interacted with, as a member of the dominant pizza culture.

all of the bread is crust ffs

if you accidentally consume a finger while devouring pizza it also counts as crust

mmm, fingerlicking good

suspect that this is a simple us/uk split, like "sandwich" (which does not include burgers afaic)

be calling them pies next

davey cameron is a pizza

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j5VP44Hr2mQ/TbsLTbEMy6I/AAAAAAAAAJY/IqLcDgh4Xh8/s1600/pizza2.png

OI LOOKIT ME BASE MATES

lmao

hahahaha

and it really is 'toppings', not 'sauce'

ok, next sub-poll

also I Love PIzza borad

omg Euler, lol

Would you call the entire outer surface of a Pizza Roll 'base'?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Aybabtu.png

CRUST
How low can you go
Death row
What a brother know?

Pizza base ppl = subhumans who should be hunted down like The Most Dangerous Game.

Probably the same morons who think a hot dog is not a sandwich.

I love a nice basey italian bread

Once again back it's the inedible
Thyme animal
The unminceable
CHEESE
Public Enemy Number 1
5-0 said freezer
But I got none

crust only refers to areas of the base that have had no contact with the sauce or the cheese

could i tell em that i really never had a slice
cuz it was on the plate from Terminator X's pies

what is it called then? what? xp

Basers, is it your position that the kids in this classic advert were asking the pizza man merely to hold the EDGE of the pizza, rather than all of the dough? If that were the case, Polly-o String Cheese would be cheesebread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG7273yDpdA

QED

and it really is 'toppings', not 'sauce'

― imago, Thursday, May 28, 2020 6:00 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)

Wait, what? The sauce is called sauce, the toppings are called toppings. Sauce != toppings.

And here I thought I'd said all I had to say about this in the other thread...

I love a nice basey italian bread

kudos

wait what, is that even a question? Is someone claiming sauce is a topping?

classic advert

Mmmm I love me a good pizza base with some lovely tomato and pepperoni sauce, om nom nom nom

crust only refers to areas of the base that have had no contact with the sauce or the cheese

qft, considering crust to be all areas that include dough is crazy talk
likewise, calling the underside of the pizza the "base" is like talking about how attractive the "back skin" on a person is. it's creepy and wrong. the "base" is just the underside of the pizza; further differentiation is unnecessary.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what is it called then? what? xp

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:34 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the basers need to provide a more robust crust taxonomy to really differentiate all the gradations of crust from one another. Next they can tell us about the "fromunda-crust", that transitional area between the "base" and crust where the sauce starts to get thin.

oh dammit I messed that up

still cracking me up, tho

"Mom can you buy us a pizza base so we can make pizza?"

what is it called then? what? xp

the "base" is just the underside of the pizza. Call it... "pizza"

Dudes. Do you need a robust taxonomy to know what part of a slice of bread is crust and what part is just bread?

idk here in civilisation 'sauce' really is one of many potential toppings. not every pizza requires sauce; every pizza requires toppings. cheese is a topping. if you have a marinara, the tomato, basil and oil puree is a topping

xp or if you must, "dough"

Right about now
You are about to be possessed
By the sounds of
MC Pizza Base and DJ E-Z Sauce

HIT IT

If the whole base is the crust, then how does stuffed crust work?

mmm, that familiar smell - the thrill of the chase

Also dudes. It's a difference in language. You use synechdoche to call the whole thing a crust. That's fine. I'm getting increasingly weirded out by people who find "base" funny and think "crust" is some kind of undeniable truth out there in the world.

sure, what toppings you want
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-2-stonebaked-pizza-bases/494437-140751-140752

15% is crust, more than that for excellent service

not every pizza requires sauce

This is a lie.

If the whole base is the crust, then how does stuffed crust work?

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:43 (forty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

stuff the whole thing iirc. cheese all the way through

We are really missing out over here then

it's a classic ilx pedantic foodfight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznY6U_OLl4

are pepperoni Lunchables a pizza?

in the phrase 'crusty italian bread', 'crusty' refers to the literal outer surface of the bread rather than the whole thing. pizza is essentially a 2D reduction of this - a cross-section

this is the point in the thread where someone who speaks Italian comes through with the ACTUALLY etymology and is roundly ignored in favor of bloodfeuds over bruschetta

a young pizza got it bad cos i'm round

LJ be out here making giant pizza loaves

to me MC means Marinara and Cheese

in plate tectonics, the 'crust' only refers to the outer layer of planet earth and not the num nummy mantle and core housed within in truly delicious helpings

I'm going to leave this to the real experts - the crusties.

here's a little pizza
short in size
some sauce and fries
is his only disguise

no, the soft doughy interior of italian crusty bread is crust

i guess the flat-earthers would argue that earth is a pizza and the whole thing is crust, which presumably makes you whole-crusters equivalent to them

we did this in the other thread, right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza#Crust

where's the edit history of that wiki page

i guess the flat-earthers would argue that earth is a pizza and the whole thing is crust, which presumably makes you whole-crusters equivalent to them

this is impressive, tho

where's the edit history of that wiki page

where it always is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pizza&action=history

so often have I referred to the outer edge of the pizza as the cornicione

essentially a pizza is a body without organs in which topping is a destratified nomad space and the base is a striated crust

ideas for the next thread in this series: as they use pizza stones to mix in flavors, is Cold Stone Ice Cream actually a Pizza?
Sub-question: what part of Cold Stone is the crust?

so often have I referred to the outer edge of the pizza as the cornicione

― ||||||||, Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:51 (nineteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

'the outside, often known as the cornicione!' - this is str8-up some 'printed on the franco manca menu' shit

The crust is the firm, thickened, browned exterior of bread. It changes consistency due to the Maillard reaction. As evidenced by the photo of an upside-down pizza that I posted upthread, the underside of a pizza is also firm and thickened, hence, "crust".

essentially a pizza is a body without organs in which topping is a destratified nomad space and the base is a striated crust

― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:51 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

A THOUSAND GATEAUX - 'all pizza is reterritorialised cake'

Macrakis (talk | contribs) at 19:32, 27 August 2019 (it is certainly not "prepared" frozen).

lol

If the whole base is the crust, then how does stuffed crust work?

so get up, get get get down
Bottom of the pie is the crust in this town

or, if you're a fan of Hannah Gadsby, the stuffed crust filling goes in the PIZZA POUCH OF DOUGLAS

Crust never seeps

Moved one paragraph from "History" to "Varieties\United States" since American pizza chains are not a major part of the history of pizza

americans call some casseroles pizza. they’re not out guiding light here

I don't see any use of the term "pizza base" in that wiki.

And stuffed-crust pizza goes where it belongs: in the garbage.

I don't see any use of the term "pizza base" in that wiki.

― some vast airy pantaloon is required (PBKR), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:57 (twenty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah only in the first sentence

What is the difference between a topping and a fixin'

What is the difference between topping and bottoming

Pizza (Italian: [ˈpittsa], Neapolitan: [ˈpittsə]) is a savory dish of Italian origin, consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough crust

I don't see any use of the term "pizza base" in that wiki.

― some vast airy pantaloon is required (PBKR), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:57 (twenty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah only in the first sentence

― imago, Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:59 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Again, I don't see the term "pizza base"., but I do see:

The bottom of the pizza, called the "crust",

'base" gtfo nobody says this

https://live.staticflickr.com/620/22657957783_0bcb01613c_b.jpg

https://www.ardkeen.com/images/made/images/products/Pizza_da_Piero_3_Stonebaked_Pizza_Bases_420g_421_450.jpg

no those are crusts

Lol, it literally says, "made in Ireland" on the front. Unless someone broke Italy's heel.

https://media.bizj.us/view/img/11273509/homeplatepizza*750xx563-750-0-0.jpg

"made in Ireland" by an Italian baker!

I know this is a silly thread, but just to note that this transatlantic difference in usage does not seem to be attested or covered anywhere. So well done, I will be updating wiktionary accordingly.

what's base?
Base is where your ship lands after leaving space
Base is the place in freeze tag that you're safe
Base is pizza crust? untrue
if you think it is, s-t-f-u

(i don't actually care, i've ahd a stressful morning and this is bringing the lols)

https://www.kroger.com/product/images/large/front/0003120505100

when you're sliding into first
and you feel something burst
IT'S-A BASE

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza base
That's Britannia

the crust is the crusty bit around the edge. the clue's in the name. do you call the whole slice of bread the crust? no.

and also pizzas and pies are also two different things

then what DOES the moon hit your eye like?

Depends on who's doing the mooning

pizza crust that's where I'm a viking

lol your DN two thumbs up

From wikipedia on pizza:

The bottom of the pizza, called the "crust",
― some vast airy pantaloon is required (PBKR), Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Starting to suspect that no one on here has ever even eaten pizza

in my circles, you call it the carriage of the za

https://www.crustkingdom.com/why-is-pizza-called-pie/

yeah usually I eat the whole thing

xxp

pie crust is all of the pastry in a pie. similarly, pizza crust is all of the pastry in a pizza.

I have noticed we do actually say "thin crust" or "thick crust" when talking about the base, think this is probably learned from pizza hut tho

Who Calls Pizza A Pie?
The use of the word pie with pizza is solely in the USA

before the concept of pizza was r00nt in other parts of Europe

pie crust is not all of the pastry in a pie either, it's the crimped (crusty) bit round the edge. the rest of the pastry is the casing

I have noticed we do actually say "thin crust" or "thick crust" when talking about the base, think this is probably learned from pizza hut tho

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

I've never said this! I say "thin and crispy" or "deep pan" pizza (which I learnt recently is not even close to the abomination that is deep-dish). Also see my remarks on the other thread about standing in for vs being identical to.

Anyway, I know this thread is jokes but it is super super weird to me that people are this pissy about discovering a difference in vernacular.

I didn't realize until this thread that we were even supposed to eat the crust of a pizza. I've always just assiduously slurped off everything on top and licked the surface clean. Who knew!

this stuff is just fascinating to me, don't think anyone is getting genuinely annoyed.

remembered I used to say "deep pan" and "thin and crispy" too, this was learned at The Deep Pan Pizza Company in Worcester

Eh, there have definitely been some posts that are explicitly "you are stupid because you think it is called this". It's like saying that someone who calls a twitchel a ginnel is an idiot who knows nothing and is just factually wrong wrong wrong.

wtf is a twitchel?

that's just wrong

IT'S CALLED A FUCKING TWITCHEL AND I WILL FIGHT YOU NOODLE VAGUE.

a whit

mods ban emil.y pls

IT'S A TEN FOOT TBRR

Ooh, I don't think I've heard that one before. On investigation seems to be Hull-specific, is that right?

yeah, and even in Hull people will argue about whether it's the alley behind your house or these little off-street terraced cul-de-sacs where the houses face each other

you hear it used for both but i'm not Real Hull, i've only been here 33 years

what's a snicket
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-snicket-and-a-ginnel-in-the-UK

a snicket is a ginnel, for sure

Eh, there have definitely been some posts that are explicitly "you are stupid because you think it is called this". It's like saying that someone who calls a twitchel a ginnel is an idiot who knows nothing and is just factually wrong wrong wrong.

"Other" because the word "crust" can mean either of the first two and you have to figure it out from context. If someone said "he took a piece of pizza but didn't eat the crust" you obviously don't mean he licked off the sauce and cheese, you mean he left the fat edge behind. But if you said "this pizza is great, the crust is perfect" you mean both the edge and the bottom. Indeed that is something you could say after one bite when the edge of the pizza has not been tasted.

... because you've looked at the edge and after your ocular patdown have determined it's a primo crust.

You take the neutral position by voting 'Other', but may I remind you that in a civil war, the neutral position is the least tenable, despised equally by both sides as craven.

eephus! gets it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbddqXib814

lool I was thinking of starting this thread

you obviously don't mean he licked off the sauce and cheese

People do this (and then eat the *crust*, particularly when accompanying dipping sauces are involved).

People should just get/make better pizza rather than dip crap pizza into some sauce.

easier to just buy nicer sauce

I like a little extra sauce even with really good crust (once you get to, y'know, the part of the crust on the end without any sauce or toppings touching it). We usually do some kind of spicy yogurt or sour cream sauce for kicks.

merriam webster

crust noun
1a: the hardened exterior or surface part of bread
b: a piece of this or of bread grown dry or hard
2a: the pastry shell of a pie : PIECRUST
b: the bready layer that forms the foundation of a pizza

People do this

i think you mean ANIMALS

We usually do some kind of spicy yogurt or sour cream sauce for kicks

I'm getting trolled, lol.

pizza is junk food, doesn't matter how you eat it.

"Other" because the word "crust" can mean either of the first two and you have to figure it out from context. If someone said "he took a piece of pizza but didn't eat the crust" you obviously don't mean he licked off the sauce and cheese, you mean he left the fat edge behind. But if you said "this pizza is great, the crust is perfect" you mean both the edge and the bottom. Indeed that is something you could say after one bite when the edge of the pizza has not been tasted.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 28 May 2020 20:15 (one hour ago) link

fuckin wittgenstein over here

pie crust pastry case

i think you mean ANIMALS

Hey that's my wife you're talking abut

I'm getting trolled, lol.

I mean on the SIDE, not on the PIZZA.

I got you, I'm just staring in disbelief.

Anyway, I know this thread is jokes but it is super super weird to me that people are this pissy about discovering a difference in vernacular.

― emil.y, Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:50 PM (three hours ago)

considering the things I've been actually pissy about the last three months I'll take this

taylor swift new album
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pizza?
498 replies

^ priorities

i endorse this too :)

I'm really gonna miss you picking fights
And me, falling for it screaming that I'm right
And you would hide away and find your pizza pie
And say the bottom's the crust, and I would sigh

taylor swift new album
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pizza?
498 replies

Massive step up imho.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

CRUST

"Other" because the word "crust" can mean either of the first two and you have to figure it out from context. If someone said "he took a piece of pizza but didn't eat the crust" you obviously don't mean he licked off the sauce and cheese, you mean he left the fat edge behind. But if you said "this pizza is great, the crust is perfect" you mean both the edge and the bottom. Indeed that is something you could say after one bite when the edge of the pizza has not been tasted.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 28 May 2020 20:15 (one hour ago) link

fuckin wittgenstein over here

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, May 28, 2020 4:41 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

we need a re-poll with added option "edge and/or bottom, depending on lingtuistic context (the Wittgenstein theorem)"

he took a piece of pizza but didn't eat the crust" you obviously don't mean he licked off the sauce and cheese, you mean he left the fat edge behind

This is not obvious at all, I know a woman who routinely eats just the toppings & sauce. And my wife has a tendency to eat a piece of pizza in layers, but will always finish the crust.

Shampoo for my real friends (Camaraderie at Arms Length) at 10:40 28 May 20

pizza is junk food, doesn't matter how you eat it.

xp i like you as a poster mostly but feel like since you admitted that you and your wife eat dinner on TV trays that you don't get to chime in further with your abnormal methods of pizza eating and try to pass them off as mainstream or even acceptable

you know what i mean?

tbh I've come round to the US usage of crust

Yeah this was mindblowing

Reminds me of a conversation I recently had about what the ends of a (sliced) loaf are called.

Did I scroll through too quickly and miss the correction “When the moon hits your FACE/Like a big pizza base/That’s Brittania” or did we never make it

x-post the heel

Also the right answer is "Crust = only edge of pizza, bottom = BASE".

Calling the bottom the crust is just weird.

(Yes I'm American but live in the UK but I wouldn't have ever called the bottom the crust. I don't know if I picked "base" up here but NV was right. The crust is the part of the dough that's not covered in sauce and cheese. The rest is just the bottom/base.)

Did I scroll through too quickly and miss the correction “When the moon hits your FACE/Like a big pizza base/That’s Brittania” or did we never make it

― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Wednesday, June 14, 2023 8:29 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanking you for your service.

Surely calling something that definitely isn’t a pie a pie is odder than calling something that is definitely the base of something a base

Pizza places will refer to their pies as, e.g., "thin, regular or thick crust." They are not referring just to the edge.

This was a fun thread, where everybody was horribly wrong.

And we laughed and laughed.

there's base crust and edge crust, but if you say "crust" without pointing to the bottom of a pizza, everyone will assume you mean the edge crust.

time for a new pie-based argument, see if you can guess why I'm starting a beef with Martha Stewart

https://i.postimg.cc/NFwn1Czd/Pie.jpg

no true shephard would eat his friends

"Jesus will eat me in a pie"

this thread is a collection of posters trying to start FIGHTS

Ending this debate right now:

http://https%3A//m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Q3pW8qOgL.jpg

um https://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/pi/mp/9150/prod_11265417402?src=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51WzIPFhucL.jpg&d=b09229805c1f0b81b86c997fc210462aa0f3de2c

thought you were threatening to cut our corners off

ok i'll go

real pizza is only cut in triangles. pizza cut into squares isn't pizza, it's sauce cake

somebody somewhere has made little pizzas with the jesus wafers

this is the base and crust of christ

This is the base and this is the crust
Drink full and descend

obviously a crust is what a street urchin politely asks you to spare, it has nothing to do with pizza the edges of which are properly called bread calluses

somebody somewhere has made little pizzas with the jesus wafers

Sauce Circles

Euchacrust

Surely calling something that definitely isn’t a pie a pie is odder than calling something that is definitely the base of something a base

― Grandall Flange (wins), Wednesday, June 14, 2023 9:48 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It is absolutely a pie!!!

not sure anything is definitively a pie or not a pie at this point

Edgar Allen Pie

ok fair but where I grew up it was definitely a pizza pie and bought by the slice or pie etc

I’m aware that a lot of Americans call pizza a pie but I am also aware of what a pie is, is the trouble

There are many different kinds of pie. I'll give you your shepherd's/steak and kidney etc if you give us pizza. They can all be pies!

pie and pizza dough contain v different amounts of butter

why are we bringing butter into it?

is a calzone a pie?

chicago deep dish def most pie like and has butter in the dough

A calzone is a burrito

A calzone can be a a pie if it wants to. Sure.

Maybe burritos are also pies.

When the good lord asked why not try your favourite pie on a barm he was not talking about pizza

lol omg do not start with the pies in bread

we will be here for years

oh wait

is it possible to say that pizza pie is the correct term but also pizzas are not pies?

next up: DUMPLINGS!

Someone in Scotland has definitely made a pizza English style pie and had it on a roll, right?

it is possible to say many things but The Secret is not real and you can't just speak wishes into existence

we are all burritos for the worms

pizza is soup in a bread bowl

some people may have thought I revived this poll in order to resurrect the chaos and acrimony from the original thread and cackle at the mess I caused.

I just want to reassure you...that is exactly why I did this.

calzone is a sandwich
so is a burrito
a pizza roll, too, is also a sandwich

an egg roll is also a burrito

aka an egg roll is a sandwich

a sandwich is also a burrito

but hamburgers and hot dogs are not sandwiches

pizza is the tipping of foods

pizza is also communism

urologist eating pizza during your vasectomy because "it's on a bagel"

lmao

Pizza places will refer to their pies as, e.g., "thin, regular or thick crust." They are not referring just to the edge.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 13:51 (three hours ago) link

Putting aside the fact that UK is not entitled to have an opinion on how the bready part of pizza should be called, I'm wondering what the UK calls "thin crust" and "deep dish." Probably something like "scanty biscuit" and "ample base," I reckon.

I’m aware that a lot of Americans call pizza a pie but I am also aware of what a pie is, is the trouble

British people referring to cookies as biscuits, the cheek

jimbeaux and man alive, I answered that question way upthread. No posting unless you read the thread!

You gave the grad school answer.

hamburgers and hot dogs are not sandwiches

fun fact: circa 1925, early prototypes of the modern American hamburger were commonly called "hamburger sandwiches"

yes, but in America, so it doesn't count

They're clearly called beef disc sarnies, what are you Americans on about?

The way I cook pizza, crust refers to the top.

o rly
https://foursquare.com/top-places/london/best-places-thin-crust-pizzas

I suppose the reviewers who say "thin crust" could be American, but they have names like Ollie Cartwright and Andrew Kittredge so I doubt it

Fascinatingly, in certain parts of South America, sandwiches are referred to as "sanguches." There used to be, maybe still is, a well-known place in Lima called "El Sanguchón."

What do you "base" people call the baked dough that encloses a calzone

And pizza (which you do not want to try) is pronounced "pisa." I think the crust/base is referred to as "masa," which helps . . . not at all.

yeah it's thin crust / thick crust, but when you buy them chilled in the supermarket they are definitely pizza bases

I make my base on the inside, old family recipe for a "reverse calzone"

but when you buy them chilled in the supermarket they are definitely pizza bases

Not if it's Boboli, the Original Italian Pizza Crust

jimbeaux and man alive, I answered that question way upthread. No posting unless you read the thread!

tbf this should be a 36-hour timeout offence

Pizza was invented by Jesus to kill the Romans, do you all pay attention in history class

To me, "base" is the sauce, tomato or otherwise.

I once had a pizza in Chicago that had an entire layer of sausage over the crust.

When Jesus was taken down from the cross his sorrowing mother took him in her arms and asked what he wanted for dinner and he said “pie ta” and he was not talking about pizza

Whomst among us has toiled in a commercial pizza kitchen? I have, sometimes we made 300 pizzas per shift.

Imo it's a crust. If you called it a base you'd be laughed out of the kitchen, or really, you'd be told to run down to the walk in and bring up another 50 fresh crusts because there are orders piling up goddamn it

if you look closely at pieta, there's a chomped up crust of digiorno balanced on jesus' knee

Mary took it out of her mouth for the picture

the true Holy Sponge

that's why Indiana Jones said "that is the crust of a carpenter" when he chose the correct Holy Sponge

"Fool, a carpenter could not afford real delivery"

The "loaves" were actually pizza bases crusts.

The preferred nomenclature for the uneaten outer part of the crust are, no lie, "bones".

To me, "base" is the sauce, tomato or otherwise.

this is correct.

The preferred nomenclature for the uneaten outer part of the crust are, no lie, "bones".

it's an exoskeleton, pizza is a crustacean, no different from crab or lobster

which reminds me, a local Detroit-style restaurant had a crab rangoon pizza special for a while and it was weirdly good

a calzone is a pasty

this sounds like the lyrics to Big L's "Ebonics" if it'd been about pizza instead

a calzone is a pasty

ouch imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMg3epr53Ns

btw Is pizza pie?

pasty also has butter in the dough. butter is the axis.

so butter is Nazis now?

butter is Nazis
yer butt will not cease

-Public Enemy

In awe of how wrong this poll got it

In the parlance of the pizza parlors of my recent acquaintance “base” of the pizza is the sauce or other liquid phase substance that goes on top of the crust, such as pizza sauce, white sauce, or olive oil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMg3epr53Ns

today I collected evidence

https://i.postimg.cc/m2XtRJnK/20230617-183621.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/qqZ4VV7L/20230617-183711.jpg

god those look miserable

oh yes, no argument there, miserable brittle cardboardy shit.

Sometimes my kids will get full and not finish the crust (end piece) of their pizza. I refer to these as “pizza bones” and ask for them so I may eat them.

“Gimme those pizza bones.”

I'm going to make the claim that no true pizza has any sauce other than tomato. Foul false pizza.

Does wave refer to chill of pizza or just vapor?

I’m pretty dedicated to red sauce. I can be swayed to pesto, but gtfo with white sauce trash.

if I admit to liking barbecue sauce pizzas will I get flagged?

Flogged

i love all pizzas great and small

Del Popolo's potato, fontina cheese, onion and rosemary pizza is really good

no benefit to closing one's mind to unred sauces imo

Left it unred

Sometimes my kids will get full and not finish the crust (end piece) of their pizza. I refer to these as “pizza bones” and ask for them so I may eat them.

“Gimme those pizza bones.”

― Cow_Art, Sunday, June 18, 2023 6:39 AM (seven hours ago)

The preferred nomenclature for the uneaten outer part of the crust are, no lie, "bones".

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, June 15, 2023 5:21 AM (three days ago)

tbf I prefer it too but I have not looked into the issuing authority

Other odd pizza nomenclature: the name for a photo of the underside of the crust (to show spotted charring of a properly cooked pizza) is the “upskirt”. I take no joy in reporting this.

xxp damn it, I hate it when I think i’ve invented something and someone got there before me.

This happened with Shower Beer and i’m still aggravated about it.

Pretty sure pizza was invented in St. Louis and we should see what their call on the crust is.

uh oh

that's not gonna be good

This thread is exactly what the Internet was invented for.