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1. it's italian for "discus."

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

2. it is the one food that makes me regret not eating dairy products

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

3. pepperoni is a type of sausage, not a meat unto itself.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

(cutty, are you vegan or lactose-intolerant or what?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

4. Sausage is not a meat unto itself either, as it can be made from any type or combination of types of meat.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

5. grilled chicken pizzas are for women and eurotrash.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

6. Feta cheese goes surprisingly well with tomato sauce. Add some olives and you're straight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

7. When you're making your own dough, a good way to get it to rise faster is to put it in the oven with the heat turned off but with the oven light on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

8. Pesto is just as good as tomato sauce, maybe better.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

9. What is usually thought of as "weird gourmet pizza" (whoa! Roasted Garlic and Artichokes!) in most of the country is just called "pizza" in New Jersey/NYC, and can be found at dives along any highway.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

I love pesto, but sometimes (especially if there are salty toppings like meats and olives) I think it makes the whole affair too salty.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

10. This is the best pizza-by-the-slice joint going.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

No argument here. At least outside of NYC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pfft. In Madison, maybe (rumples nose)

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://neshorsemen.myrmid.com/review/yonoid/yonoidexit.jpg

11. Bad Andy isn't really that bad. The Noid really did want to hurt your pizza/

― andy --, Monday, 5 December 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

What is usually thought of as "weird gourmet pizza" (whoa! Roasted Garlic and Artichokes!) in most of the country is just called "pizza" in New Jersey/NYC

new yorkers don't have time for that weird gourmet shit either. just make a good pizza and you don't need toppings!

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think cocaine is for girls and eurotrash, too. (xxxxpost)

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

(cutty, are you vegan or lactose-intolerant or what?)

not vegan (because i eat fish) and not lactose-intolerant, i just choose not to eat dairy for health reasons.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

11. its what my dad makes for a living.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had a dad in the pizza industry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite topping is the combi-topping obtained by liberal siftings of everything available in those bottles on the counter

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

cool, maria!

13. it's what my friend matt does for a living, too. at his place you order "by the inch," vertical strips cut from very very wide oblong pizzas

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, every one in grade school was my "best friend" in the hopes that my dad would cater their birthday parties. actually, dad sold his store of 35 years back in may and is now a freelance pizza guy, filling in at other stores.

he makes the best pizza ever, and im not saying that because he's my dad.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

ROCKET YOU FOOLS! ROCKET!!!!!!!!

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

new yorkers don't have time for that weird gourmet shit either. just make a good pizza and you don't need toppings!

-- mies van der rohffle (theundergroundhom...), December 5th, 2005.

Nonsense. Unless you don't consider fresh Mozz a "topping"

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

I almost called you a pizza rockist.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ive had a good pizza that simply had rock salt, olive oil and garlic slices. No sauce, no cheese; the pizza base was so well made, it is the meal in itself.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

14. it will make you grow breasts

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

I can confirm that. :-(

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the by-the-inch place near Union Square? I've had pizza there, it's good.

15. "Lots of people in the world can write songs about pizza, but there are not that many people that can write songs that are both fun and also support them and their families in being the best that they can."
-- Red Grammer, children's musician

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

You can see Union Square from the sidewalk in front of it, but it's on 28th and Park. I think there is one other place that does it that way, but of course it is VASTLY inferior, i.e. not my friend's place

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

16. New Brunswick, NJ very briefly had one of the best pizza places I have ever eaten. Given the unfortunate name of "New York Pizza Company," the unfortunate hours of closing at 11pm in a college town, and the unfortunate location of NOWHERE NEAR THE MAIN COLLEGE FOOD/BAR DRAG, it went out of business. But if you want to talk about fantastic topping-less pizza, mmm, my mouth waters at the thought of their sauce.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

17. cheez-its and ketchup: no substitute for the real thing

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

The best pizza I've had here is from a store that, while called 'La Dolce Vita', is owned/ran by a Scottish guy and the walls are covered with "Wha's Like us" Scottish propaganda. It's great.

Once I made a pizza with so much cheese it made my friend lactose intollerant.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

18. you can't get anchioves, like, almost anywhere these days

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

New Brunswick, NJ very briefly had one of the best pizza places I have ever eaten.

Oops, no wonder it's not there anymore.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

19. my favorite pizza place in louisville, impellizeri's, closed down recently. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

i want all the americans here to realize that when dog latin was saying "rocket" up there he was referring to arugula. arugula. on pizza.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

20. my sister used to eat frozen pizza after school with mustard and chopped up carrot sticks on it

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

There's an italian deli/pizza shop by me that makes fantastic Argula and Prosciutto pizza. Again, this is a regular Italian deli and pizzeria, not a gourmet place.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like the way "arugula" sounds like a yiddish term of endearment.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

arugula on pizza -- that's completely fatutz.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

mmmm.... rugulach on pizza...

http://www.edining.ca/pictures/Rugulach.jpg

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

You can see Union Square from the sidewalk in front of it, but it's on 28th and Park.

The one I'm remembering is on 3rd, I think. Still good. But I'll remember 28th and Park for next time I'm in that area and hungry.

21. Soy cheese pizza is actually not bad, if you're locked into a dairy-free diet.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

22. The second Z is silent.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

23. the word "pizza" is old italian slang for "autopsy," because a full pizza pie apparently resembled a sliced-open calzone

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

24. in italy, they serve the pizza with the mozarella directly on top of the crust and the tomato sauce smeared on the bottom of the plate.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

25. in italy it didn't traditionally have a crust (it was just sauce and cheese) until the 1920s!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

they didn't when i was there...
xpost to #24

― tres letraj (tehresa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Nonsense. Unless you don't consider fresh Mozz a "topping"

the best is neapolitan style -- fresh buffalo mozz, san marzano tomatoes, fresh basil, thin crust. it honestly is ALL you need from a pizza.

but a plain nyc-style slice (with just some black pepper, garlic powder, CRP) is pretty godly.

if i have to choose toppings: pepperoni (if it's crispy), onions (if they're crunchy)

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

to the rest of the world: "a plain nyc-style slice" (or just "a slice," as we call it) includes cheese and sauce.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

26) the "new york style pizza" in tucson, arizona is pretty OTM! this place in particular, but upper crust gets it right too.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

27. i've had this argument with Ned before, pineapple does not belong on a fucking pizza.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

28. in massachusetts a lot of pizza places in the suburbs are owned by greeks and the pizza is 18 inches of cheese and grease and all tastes the same.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

29) in new york, pizza made by greeks and indians is often better than pizza made by italiams

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

30. pinos in allston/brighton has the best black olive pies going.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

31. you can not get decent deep-dish pizza in london. sigh.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

22. The second Z is silent.

not technically true! all those italian words with doubled-up consonants are meant to be pronounced differently than those with single consonants.

for example, if the word "tomato" were spelled with two ms, you'd linger on the m sound twice as long. "formaggio" (aka "cheese") hits the brakes on the g sound as well.

it's been a while since i've heard an italian-from-italy saying "pizza," but i'm sure he would linger on that second z -- like "peetz-zzzzzzzzza" (less exaggerated, but you get my point).

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

and "piza" (one z) would sound like how we say it.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

32. In Kazakhstan, the most popular pizza toppings are donkey semen and rape.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

33. Best on-the-go pizza in NYC (now that St Mark's Pizza's closed) is the lasagna slice at Muzzarella Pizza on 14th and A: it's got bolognese sauce, ricotta, and basil leaves.

I was in there on Friday night and overheard (OKAY, eavesdropped) on some girly-girl NYU students who were bitching because they didn't like their plain slices ("It's all Troy's fault, he said it was GOOD"). I pointed out that they'd ordered the wrong thing, and eventually they ended up replacing their plain slices with lasagna ones and everyone in their party ordered the same. Man, that place should PAY me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

In Soviet Union, pizza tops YOU!


(I-I-I don't even know what that means.)

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myatari.net/issues/nov2002/images/snf_c1.jpg


― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

No one ever does.

xpost

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

how did he stay so trim?

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

27. i've had this argument with Ned before, pineapple does not belong on a fucking pizza.

that is bullshit. pineapple is DELICIOUS on a pizza.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

27. i've had this argument with Ned before, pineapple does not belong on a fucking pizza.

that is bullshit. pineapple is DELICIOUS on a pizza.

-- maria tessa sciarrino (mari...), December 7th, 2005 10:15 AM. (later)

Why the fuck stop there? Why not put some chocolate on it as well. Some people do not deserve pizza. Same with barbeque chicken. Urgh.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Pineapple and ham are wonderful on pizza. If you're going to put a pepper on a pie, then pineapple should be fine as well.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

dancing?

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

34. Pineapple + bbq chicken on pizza is delicious.

35. I once had a dessert slice of gnutella & coconut pizza that was amazing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

sickos

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

36. In the reality of a post-9/11 world you can put whatever the hell you want on pizza.

37. Except tempeh.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

give me a greasy thin crust south Chicago style pizza with italian sausage and bell peppers on it any day over the stuff you people are describing.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tempeh.info/recipes/recipes.php?recipe=466

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought chicago pizza was famously thick-crusted?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

OK, pineapple is gross but like, anchovies are not? y'all are crajee.

[not that id know what an anchovy tastes like; im allergic to all shellfish and seafood]

also, i am writing this message while eating pizza with pepperoni and PINEAPPLE.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

I love the pineapple on pizza. Pinapple & bacon. Yum.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Soon, I think, I will be slicing it up!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

The frozen pizzas in paris were suprisingly good! The stuff at real pizza joint sucked.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

38. Ripe bartlett pears, soft goat's cheese, and parmigiano reggiano is really good.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

39. The best pizza in the world is at Difara's and if you disagree, you probably haven't been there.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

38. Ripe bartlett pears, soft goat's cheese, and parmigiano reggiano is really good.

That sounds fucking amazing.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

there's two styles of chicago pizza: the more renown deep dish/stuffed, and thin crust, which usually has a dusting of cornmeal on the bottom. both are great.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

28. in massachusetts a lot of pizza places in the suburbs are owned by greeks and the pizza is 18 inches of cheese and grease and all tastes the same.

i fucking hate the greek pizza around here.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

does jewish/hebrew pizza exist anywhere outside of highland park, nj?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

40. Turkish pizza has spices on it that make your mouth dry and achy for days :( Oh, and the taste comes back to haunt you the entire week after you've had one.

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Fennel is good on pizza. But not a large amount of it.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

i know it exists in monsey, ny and brookline, ma. xxxpost

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

38. Ripe bartlett pears, soft goat's cheese, and parmigiano reggiano is really good.

Yum yum. Sauce? A brush of olive oil?

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Teaneck? (or is that near Highland Park)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

41. Triangles taste better than squares.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

teaneck is not near highland park at all.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

the best is neapolitan style -- fresh buffalo mozz, san marzano tomatoes, fresh basil, thin crust. it honestly is ALL you need from a pizza.

Well, yeah, agreed, but that still doesn't mean I don't want a little variety now and then. The aforementioned place in New Brunswick had a vodka sauce slice that I crave to this day.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

does jewish/hebrew pizza exist anywhere outside of highland park, nj?

-- maria tessa sciarrino (mari...), December 6th, 2005.

Ah, Jerusalem Pizza. Not much to say about that place, really.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to self: Anyway, that doesn't disprove my original point -- in most of the country even a neapolitan slice would be "weird gourmet pizza"

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

42. I often say "pie" when referring to pizza, and it confuses some people.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

43. stop it

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

44.english muffin pizza blows

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

45. When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime!

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

46.fuck no

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

47. pizza on anything that ain't pizza, ain't pizza.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

48. Chopsies brand kosher frozen pizza sucks ass.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

for a long time it was the only non-mom-made pizza i knew about, and it made me hate pizza.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

49a) Ian's Pizza in Madison WI is indeed the shizza. Weird slices that NYC would sniff at but which are great, e.g. chicken cordon bleu pizza (actually all pizzerias in Wisconsin seem to sell this), taco pizza, mac and cheese pizza, steak and fries pizza (have not tried this last but apparently it is a best seller.)

49b) DeLorenzo's Tomato Pie in Trenton is fantastically great but apparently is technically not pizza on account of the tomato is atop the cheese rather than the reverse.

49c) Glatt kosher pizza of all types causes grievous indigestion due to absence of crucial (but treyf) rennet (= calf stomach extract.)

49d) Of course the best pizza overall is the as-yet-unmentioned Cheeseboard in Berkeley CA.

(not pizza) -- never went to Jerusalem Pizza but one of the kosher Chinese places in Highland Park, otherwise horrible, serves pastrami fried rice, which is effing fantastic.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

50 - In Hakuri Murakami's "Dance Dance Dance," the protagonist shares a pizza with a hotel desk clerk on page 48.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

weird slices that NYC would sniff at but which are great, e.g. chicken cordon bleu pizza (actually all pizzerias in Wisconsin seem to sell this), taco pizza, mac and cheese pizza, steak and fries pizza

sniff.

apparently is technically not pizza on account of the tomato is atop the cheese rather than the reverse.

True Chicago-style pizza also has the sauce on top. Whoever informed you of this "technicality" is either a cretin or a damned liar.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bet Abbadabba would also sniff at the fact that I like Two Boots!

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I think Two Boots is deece.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

i am so going to make myself a steak & fries pizza

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

51. In south east asia you can get happy pizza at pretty much any pizza place. They ask you how happy you want it. This pizza makes you stoned.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

Now that I think about it I only had the happy pizza in cambodia. As for the rest of SEA, not so sure.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

i kinda like two boots (sometimes): they have that cool/weird cornmeal flour sprinkled on the crust.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

does jewish/hebrew pizza exist anywhere outside of highland park, nj?

i daresay they have it in israel.

also in kosher pizzerias in borough park, midwood, crown heights, other nyc neighborhoods where orthodox jews live.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

verdict on kosher pizza: not a fan. jews are brilliant at many things, but the seasoning of food isn't one of them.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

OTM.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

2 boots is always 2 crowded during work hours da bastidges.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

best thing about difaras is it's surrounded by crowded kosher pizzerias and you just want to walk by and yell "hey jews, you're 20 feet from the best pizza in the world!"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

i always want to yell at jews.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

nyc people are crazy: best pizza by the slice in the city is at Ray's on 6th ave. in chelsea. Best by the pie is John's in the Village. Thank you for playing.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

nyc people are crazy: best pizza by the slice in the city is at Ray's on 6th ave. in chelsea.

no.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's been a while since i've heard an italian-from-italy saying "pizza," but i'm sure he would linger on that second z -- like "peetz-zzzzzzzzza" (less exaggerated, but you get my point).

you would actually linger on a [t] sound, they don't use a [z] (like in buzzzz) at all - the ipa would be [pitsa]. interestingly, for the plural pizze, you'd emphasize that [t] sound more - [pit:tsa] (the colon representing a slight linger/break/lift).
blame that on my year of italian diction taught by an ex drag queen who seemed to get a little too excited over saying the number quindici...

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

man i wish i had some pizza now.
i will get to try "real" chicago pizza for the first time soon!!!

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: yes. Fuck, I'll BUY you a slice.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

you would actually linger on a [t] sound

man, that's hard to do!

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

ODB was very good at thattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's not a pure italian t sound though (where you're not hissing through the teeth)

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

try keeping your tongue near or touching your top teeth or the ridge/gums near them and think more of a dental [t] than an aspirated one

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

an italian t actually restricts the airflow by never letting the tip of the tongue move away from the roof of the mouth. (xpost!)

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

52. There are two types of people in the world: people who like pineapple on their pizza, and people who are insane.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it's wrong, but i like pineapple and olives together on pizza...

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

53. my grandfather from italy calls it Beetza.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

your grandfather is OTM!

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

forks, you been to Difaras?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Generally, z = dz and zz = ts, although d and t are formed slightly differently in an Italian mouth (they are much closer than in the English mouth).

54. Potatoes on pizza is actually a good thing! Especially with rosemary.

55. The easiest way to cut up pizza is with scissors. Some places in Italy cut up giant, square pizzas and sell by weight, kind of like the inch establishment Tracer describes above.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I can't emphasise 55 enough. Don't use those crappy rolly things!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

49a) Ian's Pizza in Madison WI is indeed the shizza. Weird slices that NYC would sniff at but which are great, e.g. chicken cordon bleu pizza (actually all pizzerias in Wisconsin seem to sell this), taco pizza, mac and cheese pizza, steak and fries pizza (have not tried this last but apparently it is a best seller.)

OTM. I went to Ian's last night (or early this morning, rather) and had a kalamata olive slice (no olive pieces but it has an olive base instead of tomato), and grabbed a tomato/basil/mozzarella (it's got the big pads of mozz, not shredded) slice for lunch today and a penne pasta slice for my girlfriend.

49c) Glatt kosher pizza of all types causes grievous indigestion due to absence of crucial (but treyf) rennet (= calf stomach extract.)

Are you implying that all non-kosher pizza includes this?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

You can get vegetarian rennet these days.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

There are so many pizza places in NYC that I would never claim to have found the *best* slice in the city. Probably in the time it would take e to say that, three more pizza shops would open.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Have you been to Difara's?

It really is unlike any other pizza in the city.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

nyc people are crazy: best pizza by the slice in the city is at Ray's on 6th ave. in chelsea.

Is this the "as seen in spider man" place? If so, I give it a big fat MEH. Way too little food for the price also! ($2.50?)

Oh wait, there's another Ray's closer to Chelsea... I was thinking of the place by Bleecker.... However, the place I am talking about... my points stand.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

xpost No, sounds like I'll have to make a trip. Is there anything else nearby that's fun/worth doing? Good record or book shops? Galleries?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

NOT RAY'S.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost No, sounds like I'll have to make a trip. Is there anything else nearby that's fun/worth doing? Good record or book shops? Galleries?

No, No, and No. The only thing nearby are good orthodox bakeries. That's it. It's not hard to get to though, a 10 minute drive from downtown brooklyn or a few stops out on the Q train.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

SO FUCK OFF DAN, NOBODY LIVES THERE.
Y'all and your rules...


― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Well, yeah, but I'm coming from Jersey City.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out that NYPizza Company moved to Rutherford. Rutherford! What the fuck is in Rutherford?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I might live off da Q train.

My favorite pizza is this place in queens near where my dad used to live. don't remember the name, tho.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

56. This place has the greasiest pizza I have ever eaten in my entire life.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

huh? Nobody lives near the Q train?

Take the Path train to 14th, walk 1 block to the Q train, take the Q brooklyn bound to Ave. J. It's an express train so it's pretty fast.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

i went to mystic pizza with jon williams once and it SUCKED.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but am I really going to make the trip just for pizza? Even if it's really good, it's such a short meal!

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

"just for pizza"

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

get an all-day "fun pass" metrocard and spend the rest of the day riding the subways around town!

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

People come from accross the universe for this pizza.

http://gonyc.about.com/cs/restaurants/gr/rr_difara.htm
http://www.sliceny.com/archives/2004/01/di_fara.php
http://www.chowhound.com/boards/outer2/messages/586.html
http://www.bigempire.com/buddies/030markpizza.html
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/12420
http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,504.120.html

and make sure you try both the regular slice and the square slice. I usually don't like sicillian pies, but Difara's is so oily and the cheeses are so nice that it's pretty amazing.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Taco Pizza, Pizza Haven, Seattle, mid-1980s

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, you've stoked my manly ego. Now I must go.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

57. What we know as pizza is not very good in Italy. It tastes kinda like Sbarro. But the foods that are related to pizza are amazing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

58. Pizza is a mammal

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

59. Jihadist tributes to the Sbarro suicide bombing:

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/120/2094/640/an-najah-sbarro-02.jpg
http://www.tampabayprimer.org/images/flag3.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

38. Ripe bartlett pears, soft goat's cheese, and parmigiano reggiano is really good.
Yum yum. Sauce? A brush of olive oil?

-- I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (crump...) (webmail), December 6th, 2005 7:48 PM. (Rock Hardy) (link)

Well, what I do is I sautée some shallots and add them to the goat's cheese while they're still warm. Add a little S&P and some light herbs (don't want to overpower it with anything—I suggest just some flat-leaf parsely and basil) and use that as a sort of sauce. Slice the pears and put them on the pizza, put shaved reggiano on the pears and then put it in the oven. I put olive oil on at the very end.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

not enough limeys on this thread.

13. it's what my friend matt does for a living, too. at his place you order "by the inch," vertical strips cut from very very wide oblong pizzas

best idea ever! we've got one as well:

http://www.pizzateca.net/

"up to a metre long"! rockin'.

also, pineapple no more deserves to live on a pizza than orange, or cotton buds, or flies, or wood.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

In the bronx, it's gotta be Full Moon on Arthur & 187th for a slice or Mike's on Bedford Blvd. fro Scicilian.

Don't sleep on Bronx pie!

― luis (son_of_scrimshaw), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

does jewish/hebrew pizza exist anywhere outside of highland park, nj?

there's a kosher pizzeria in PARIS! in le marais!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

can jody & dan selzer & paul eater take me on a food tour of nyc?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Really, Nick? I have never been to Santullo's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's tasty, just, yeah, SWIMMING in grease. Sarah mops it up with a napkin, I just dig in.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's a standard post-playing-a-show stop, especially because Ben won't eat at Hollywood Grill.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

13. it's what my friend matt does for a living, too. at his place you order "by the inch," vertical strips cut from very very wide oblong pizzas.

Does he still do this?! I never went to his place, I have to go.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! They're in their third year now. They make their own chorizo, their own pastas etc. Matt's brother claims they're one of only two places in the entire city serving KEG ROOTBEER.

http://www.pizzabytheinch.com/

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

can jody & dan selzer & paul eater take me on a food tour of nyc?

you have to ask?

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I can't quite visualize the "by the inch" slices. How wide are they? Are they generally crustless?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah how WIDE are they?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, click on the link. You can order any size from 4" to 36". They have a thin crispy crust that has just enough for you to latch your thumb over.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

BUT HOW WIDE IS IT.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

60. In NYC, a slice of pizza and a ride on the subway have been the same price since the 1950s.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's 4" to 36" wide.

xpost: thank you, Clyde Haberman!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

THEN HOW LONG ARE THEY.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Was Matt's brother the one who gave me all that tea, or was it Matt himself who gave me all that tea? I use the weird Urguay urn to hold pens now, not tea.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not so quick sometimes, but is the ilx jody the chug jody that I met at swim jody at moso-rocks thing jody? because there's also the typical girls jody friend of d. wolks met at record fair jody. and a few more.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

OK OK it's true, they're only 3" the other direction. That is their secret.

It was both of them, Ally. Maté it was called. Neither of them drink it now at all.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm joking s1ocki, it's, I dunno, like a normal length/width? Like the span of a normal slice of sicilian or something.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I never drank it but the one time they made me do so! It didn't taste bad but it wasn't my thing, "surprisingly"

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

isnt every pizza place "pizza by the inch" ? i dont get the gimmick.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

see, tracer, how i picture it was that the pizza was something like 1" wide and 30" long!

which would be very entertaining to eat, or watch someone eat.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Santullo's is unbelievably greasy. I like it, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Pizza by the inch pics, pls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

So basically, PINCH is just rectangular pizza. I've been ordering pizzas by the inch all my life, from the seven-inch personal pizza to the extra large eighteen-incher, and the only difference that I can tell from this place and my own personal experiences is that my pizzas, for the most part, HAVE BEEN ROUND.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

SQUARE PIZZA IS SO STUPID

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

tracer there seems to be a lot of discontent about the pizza-by-inch concept on this thread. i think you need to sell it harder.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

square pizza tastes worse because people who serve square pizza are cheap fuckers who want to maximize oven usage and cut costs

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also the obvious problem of the INTERNAL PIECES WITH NO CRUST WTF?!?!?!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I AM INVENTING CUBE PIZZA RIGHT NOW
AND NEXT I WILL INVENT HEPTAGONAL PIZZA

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

SQUARE PIZZA is for people who eat their pizza with a KNIFE and FORK. Or CHOPSTICKS. That's the only explanation I can come up with.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

i sometimes get a thrill out of crust-less pizza! it's like the pizza is naked or going commando or something!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dodecahizza.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

The concept seems suspiciously...EUROPEAN.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

also i associate square pizza with birthday parties

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

maximize oven usage and cut costs

http://www.plateoftheday.com/food_blog/pizza/jumboCheeseSlice.gif

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

people who eat their pizza with a KNIFE and FORK.

My mom's sorority would invite potential pledges over for dinner and not invite those who used knife and fork.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think that I will open a bar and serve BEER BY THE OUNCE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

wtf are you people hating on poor Matt and his pizza?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to UNDERSTAND his pizza.

I think Slocki and I are picturing the same thing, like one thin, 36" long, strip of pizza.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to pizza by the inch! Laurel bought me food and it was tasty and posh.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually Uruguayan, like the maté. I don't claim to understand it, but the pizza is very very good. The proximity of Union Square means Matt can walk down there in the morning and scoop up a bunch of in-season ingredients. I really like the summer stuff especailly. They had one outrageously good combo this year of like breadcrumbs, sweet corn and smoked mozarella.

Jon, the maximization of oven usage isn't really a factor, it's a just that it's a different way of doing it and they really liked the idea. They also found the crust stays crispier with an oblong size. Plus they're obviously obsessed with Uruguay for some reason.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hey that's cool Gravel! The next time you're in there look for the bitter-looking guy barking at everyone in the kitchen, that's Matt. His brother is the schmoozer who works the front.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

i can't even been bothered to go back and see if this was pointed out but I've seen this mythical pizza, my manager would bring it in as a treat. It's like, 12" wide by however long. It's not a thin strip.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

12" x 36" pizzas!!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

So if you order the 4" pizza for two dollars, you get 48" of pizza total? That's a lot of pizza inchs.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, 36 square feet of pure pizza!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am so getting a slice of pizza for dinner tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have to go downtown to stop by Evan's place tonight, so that means IAN'S.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad the pizza width confusion has been sorted out. I was envisaging a long thin bendy pizza, like a tape measure.

― estela (estela), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

A regular slice of pizza's going to have about 40"-50" anyway.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Dan that sounds nuts, that's not Matt's place. Pinch's are, like, 6" deep maybe (back/wide/whatever)? If you get a full three feet or whatever it does indeed look very long and tape-measury, like one of those novelty sub sandwiches.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

cube pizza = square pizza calzone surely?!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

what I remember from Pizza by the Inch is pizza that was 8 to 12" deep, maybe less? And it could be 36" long or whatever, I remember they had trouble throwing out the box.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Can you order your pizza by simply holding up your thumb and forefinger spaced at a desired distance?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not so quick sometimes, but is the ilx jody the chug jody that I met at swim jody at moso-rocks thing jody? because there's also the typical girls jody friend of d. wolks met at record fair jody. and a few more.

yes? no? uhh... we've met, but my memory is bad so i'm hard-pressed to say exactly where or when or by what means, although any of the above is possible.

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Loved the Billy Joel article, by the way.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

BAR in New Haven makes fantastic large, thin-crusted ellipsoid pizzas that are cut into rectangular-ish pieces about 1.5"x6".

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

there are amazing wood-grilled pizzas at my favorite fancy restaurant in providence. mindblowing crust and melt-in-yer-mouth prosciutto.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

square pizza tastes worse because people who serve square pizza are cheap fuckers who want to maximize oven usage and cut costs

TO FOCUS ON THE FLAVOR!

i like square pizza. Crazy Dough's in boston/cambridge has incredibly awesome square pizzas.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

what about circular pizzas cut into square pieces? I actually prefer the middle, crustless pieces.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

i also prefer the fillet on a square cut round pizza.

i think buying pizza by the inch is like buying wood by the board foot.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

i am not a fan of buying by the inch.

When eating pizza, I think the considerate thing to do is to order a plain pie and a second pie, perhaps smaller, with a simple topping or combination. You don't want to disguise the delicious pizza base. I am typically not a fan of weird things on pizza, like marinated chicken and pesto and broccoli and carrots and shit. Pizzas can be topped by the following: pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, anchovies, pineapple, olives, and THAT IS IT!!!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

Incorrect. Red onion is a sublime thrill on a pizza with sausage and mushrooms.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 December 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

this pizza by the inch concept kind of freaks me out because it reminds me of that awful awful pizza they had in the elementary/middle school cafeteria.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Friday, 9 December 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

there is nothing weird about broccoli on pizza, thankuverymuch

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 December 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

i agree with the special agent. i'm a pizza rockist.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

what about circular pizzas cut into square pieces? I actually prefer the middle, crustless pieces.

thats the kind of craziness they have in conn. pizza, I got some good stuff in new haven cut like that.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

our elementary school cafeteria pizza had yellow cheese and ground beef on it - they managed to make pizza gross... how do they manage to make everything gross!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like taco pizza, which was one of the few cafeteria items that I liked.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

ugh that cafeteria shit was so gross. mine used to put these plastic film sheets over the top of the ones waiting to be served and it left this plastic wrinkle impression on the top of the cheese....eeeeeeeeeew!!!

― tres letraj (tehresa), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

PIZZA BOATS

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so happy that the s1ockster agrees with me on this.

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a s1ockist

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

I really think it's more a matter of what specifically you're putting on the pizza than whether or not you put non-traditional toppings on pizza. For example, BBQ chicken on pizza is extremely wrong, but that's because putting something already flavored with one sauce on top of something that's flavored with an entirely different sauce is basically an admission that you have no idea what the fuck you're doing.

― *Jazz Douchebag* Berman (Hurting), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

61. Not safe for anywhere:
BIG
SAUSAGE
PIZZA

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

The thought of pizza sauce on my weiner makes me sort of itchy.

― *Jazz Douchebag* Berman (Hurting), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I was more bothered by the thought of having weiner sauce on my pizza.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

hurting. most bbq chicken pizza uses bbq sauce insted of pizza sauce. fucking DUH. i love the bbq tofu pizza at SHARKEYS MEXICAN WOODFIRE GRILL chain.

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Can I just say this? n/a: EQUALS FUCKING WRONG SQUARE IS OK WTF.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I love how n/a kept coming up with arguments against, though, it was heroic.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

PIZZA BOATS

awesome. those were great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

i enjoy a sicilian* slice sometimes. for quality squares, go to the l&b spumoni gardens on 86th street in brooklyn. and get some spumoni when you're there too.

*old-school word for "square"

http://www.spumonigardens.com/graphics/pictures/sicilian.jpg

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

but go on a warm day so you can eat outdoors. there's a sit-down restaurant, but save your money and just go for the slices at the walk-up window.

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

this place in harvard square called Veggie Planet makes veggy and vegan "pizzas" that are really really tasty but would offend some of these ilxors' prudish sensibilities. for example, they have rice on some, squash on others, a thai peanut, etc.

why does it have to look like this?

http://www.plateoftheday.com/food_blog/pizza/jumboCheeseSlice.gif

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

it's not prudish. it's a decision i've given a lifetime of thought to!

― thorstein veblen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Can I just say this? n/a: EQUALS FUCKING WRONG SQUARE IS OK WTF.
-- giboyeux (in....), December 9th, 2005 1:08 AM. (skowly) (later)

ONLY SQUARES EAT SQUARE PIZZA - WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT "SQUARE"? AND DON'T GIVE ME ANY OF THAT "HIP TO BE SQUARE" B.S. EITHER.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

also w/r/t food in general i like simplicity because it means my palate can actually differentiate between a few really good ingredients instead of having to make sense of a blur of crap that doesn't go together.

n/a, sub-buttez at best.

― thorstein veblen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Jody.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just standing up for something I believe in.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jody.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just trying to do what I think is...right.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Can't you see?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think it's even possible, in this day and age, to create a cultural thing that *isn't* beautiful and subversive and layered?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.scarysquirrel.org/current/pizza/pics/pizza7.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/m/mobley_hank_noroomfor_101b.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

jody is totally right about the overabundance of toppings on many of today's "gourmet" bullshit pizzas. here's a paragraph from a review i did of a pizzeria that was so, so ass-backwards (plus horrible herbed crust):

the Williams is made with a base of creamed leeks, instead of red sauce, and is topped with prosciutto, dates poached in red wine and St-Agur cheese; the Lolita has a tomato base, and is topped with lotte fish, mushrooms, fennel, and gruyere; the Maraîchère has a base of onion compote and creamed leeks, and is topped with artichokes, spinach, red peppers, olives, and chèvre; and the Grenoble tops the creamed leeks with nuts, marinated grapes and St-Agur.

this will not stand.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going for a slice for lunch today, from MONA LISA PIZZA - "Where every slice is a work of art." It's OK.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Though they refuse to top pizzas with pineapple - "Don't even ask" say the menus.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I bet they put lemons in your beer though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Care for an orange slice in your Boulevard?"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I should probably find another thread for that.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

once, for some reason, we had a pizza party at work. the people were going nuts all morning in anticipation, the idea of free pizza! at work! running around all crazy "PIZZA! ! PIZZA!" and then this one guy goes "what's the big deal? i'm going out for lunch, i don't care for pizza". everyone stopped dead in their tracks not knowing how to process that.

never before had i heard those words muttered: "i don't care for pizza". and never since.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think they serve beer. They're not even open on the weekends.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

jody is totally right about the overabundance of toppings on many of today's "gourmet" bullshit pizzas.

"california"-style pizza is so '80s/'90s new-rich desperate housewife anyway. in our post- 9/11 world, we can't have all this ongepatshketness! ;-)

― thorstein veblen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

pizza party at work today!

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

great hera! what's the pizza party occassion?!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

We had a pizza party today too!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH SHRIMP AND PEPPERONI PIZZA (ex machina), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I had leftover cheap-ass commercial pizza for lunch today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, isn't there always a pizza party at your office?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am in a TECHNOLOGY START UP

― GET EQUIPPED WITH OH NO (ex machina), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

They made a joke about a pizza party but didn't have one in my office :(

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

bastards :(

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

We had a sandwich party.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, only pizza makes a party.

sandwiches = lunch.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Today for me, thanks to this thread, lunch = pizza.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm having a stuffed pizza orgasm right now

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

No no no: we all bought a bunch of different stuff for sandwiches and then MADE THEM FREESTYLE in the conference room. If THAT isn't a party then I don't know what is.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

that's an orgy, bub.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I totally reached across the table and spread tapenade on my coworker's bread while simultaneously eating my own sandwich! oooooooooooooooh

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

...I wish I hadn't posted that.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

you see? sandwich talk is ridiculous. a sandwich thread would never yield the responses of a pizza thread. know why? sanwiches are just lunch.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.franchisetimes.com/images/opportunities/ItsJustLunch.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

that's NOT true and you know it. xpost

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

This sandwich backlash is unjust and uncalled for!

Notate your favorite sandwhich thusly:

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

whatever! there's no party for sandwiches! people don't do a sandwich dance and blow off working because the office is having sandwiches! people don't sing songs about sandwiches!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

pizza IS better than sandwiches, let's be honest here.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I would photograph my dinner last night for this thread.

Arugula, tomatoes, and mozzarella on pesto. Before and After.

http://flickr.com/photos/fldsfslmn/71858590/



http://flickr.com/photos/fldsfslmn/71858591/

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Shit. Where's an FAQ when you need it.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/34/71858590_53994842bd_b.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/20/71858591_98d66b4821_b.jpg

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

sandwiches >>>>>>> pizza

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

qed

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Today's pizza special had TOO MUCH STUFF on it (portobello cream sauce, thyme, mozz, bacon, canadian bacon, pineapple!), so I had the pizza-approximation sandwich - pepperoni, salami, pizza sauce, mozz on toasted crusty loaf.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

This sandwich vs. pizza stuff is madness. And pizza sauce makes sandwich bread soggy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

fuck that. you fold a pizza in half, and it's a sandwhich, so in a sense, Sandwiches are a genus of food which include a species called Pizza.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

so what? that's what sub rolls/baguettes are for.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, objectively speaking, I think pizza may be "better" than sandwiches. But where would I be without sandwiches? They've brought me so much joy over the years.

fuck that. you fold a pizza in half, and it's a sandwhich, so in a sense, Sandwiches are a genus of food which include a species called Pizza.

No, it's a calzone.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

so what? that's what sub rolls/baguettes are for.

True.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying sandwiches are BAD, just that pizza is BETTER. Obviously comparing the BEST pizza to the BEST sandwich, mind you. There are plenty of instances where a sandwich would be far better.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

no, a calzone is sealed.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

this is wrong anyway. it's like comparing books to music, which we ALL know we cant do.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

of course sandwiches have their merits, they're not inherently bad. they simply don't inspire the passion and fervor that pizza does. that's all i was saying people: there is no party behind the sandwich.

hell, even make-your-own taco bars are more fun than sandwiches.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

But where would I be without sandwiches?

Nowhere. Period.

To you, Sandwich, I can only say:
http://www.orgburo.com/cards/card16.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

haha the guys in finance are whining because people ate their hawaiian pizza!

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

White pizza, when made correctly, is amazing. I'm also a big fan of Italian bakery pizza strips you can find here in Rhode Island: crust, tomato sauce, and nothing else (rectangular slices, of course). I guess you can take away either the sauce or the cheese, but you'll still have pizza.

― elmo (allocryptic), Friday, 9 December 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

White pizza, when made correctly, is amazing.

i agree. but it's usually too salty and there's not enough ricotta on it.

― thorstein veblen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

What is a white pizza?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

white pizza = topped w/ ricotta and mozz, and no sauce.

― thorstein veblen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

or alfrado sauce!

― howell huser (chaki), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

White pizza is all about the spices: basil, oregano, tarragon, maybe a little garlic salt.

― elmo (allocryptic), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

White pizzas are best for seafood toppings (shrimp, clams).

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

aaaah Carmine's pizza hurts my stomache! Ouch.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Carmines = dud, dud, dud in every respect.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the square slice I got that was plain. the other slice had some stuff on it that looked good but wasn't. Hurting my stomach was the cheese's fault, not nec. carmine's.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 11 December 2005 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

I had Santullo's for the first time tonight. It wasn't really that good at all. Nick, defend yourself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 December 2005 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

there's this tiny little place in quincy, MA that's actually on an island connected by a road with the mainland called carmines. some of the best pizza EVER ANYWHERE. Carmine is an italian immigrant, and he also makes tons of other food, like amazing arancinis.

― AaronK (AaronK), Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I had Santullo's for the first time tonight. It wasn't really that good at all. Nick, defend yourself.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 11th, 2005 3:36 AM. (jaymc) (later)

Were you drunk? It doesn't count if you weren't drunk.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I only claimed it was "tasty," which isn't exactly hyperbolic praise.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Man I wish I had a pizza right now :(

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

ally! pizza is always possible!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Were you drunk? It doesn't count if you weren't drunk.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 11th, 2005 3:36 AM. (jaymc) (later)

In other words, yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know where to get one right now!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

ally! surely there's delivery pizza closeby!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Santullo's is fine, passable, pizza.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

i would love a slice but i just got in, and going back out again is such a THING.

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
While I was watching Chappelle on Oprah, I was witness to a commercial that wants people to eat this:
http://www.pizzahut.com/images/ad_primary/20060129_cheesybites.gif

whoa.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jessica Simpson ruining a great song!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

That crust seems impractical.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

It seems tasty, but impractical

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

god bless america and her hardened arteries

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, I'm not convinced that the stuff in those "cheese-filled crusts" is actually melted cheese, but rather some sort of cheese-flavored plasma.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

2 amy's pizza in d.c.

closest thing to actual italian pizza i've ever had in the u.s. it's amazingly good!!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

rrrrobyn we were just talking about that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

i love how the commercial says the pizza comes with 27 poppable bites so matter-of-factly. like "poppable bites" are something we're supposed to be intimate with already

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

haha, excellent!
yeah, "a pull apart crust"? I just saw the commercial again (eek - song to tune of These boots were made for walking: "one of these days these bites are gonna pop right into you") and it only showed people eating the "bites." So, yeah, total gimmick, total mess. My curiousity, and my current craving for SALT, totally makes me want it though. I feel like it should be xposted to ipso fatso thread.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

haha, yeah, it's something I ask of my fast food: "Well, it looks good, but is it in poppable bites?"

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

"lightly seasoned with the flavor of garlic butter"

is artificial garlic butter flavoring really necessary? garlic butter is NOT that hard to make... even to mass produce for a giant chain!!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

one of these days these bites are gonna pop right into you

so upsetting

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

the implication is sort of that they're going to pop right up your ass

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know why, it just is

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

2 amy's pizza in d.c.

That place looks delicious. Rockist, but delicious.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I had not thought of that... Thanks.
I did think, however, of, er, other things that might pop in and out of mouths. I'm really just going to have to turn the tv off now.
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really sorry i said that.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not!

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

ok i'm not really!

how vulgar is that close-up picture?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's a pizza with pizza as the crust on the pizza. Tastes great dipped in nacho cheese.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

and it only showed people eating the "bites."

See yeah, this is what I mean about being impractical. I'm sure the bites are plenty tasty and poppable, but what do you do when you're done popping the bites? You have yourself an amorphous gooey mass.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's a pizza with pizza as the crust on the pizza.

Whoa, what if inside the bites there were other, smaller bites?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

you mean your body is an amorphous gooey mess when you're done eating, right?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

but true!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

especially with all those poppable bites up your [pennywhistle-sound]

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

this ITALIAN/INDIAN (?!??!) place opened up near my work: http://www.spiceituprestaurant.com/

I shall try one of the pizzas for lunch next week and report back.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

the post-bite pizza is meant to be scooped up/awkwardly corralled with little pizza calipers made of petrified lard, which you then combine with creamy garlic sauce for a post-post-bite pizza snack. i'm pretty sure this is all on the pizza hut website.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

you can buy the Pizza Hut Blend-a-Crustless-Pizza blender system there too. Fun for the whole Family!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

mmmm blendable meat lovers

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, Oops. Naperville's gettin' crazy!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling kinda woozy right now. erg.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

the implication is sort of that they're going to pop right up your ass

i dunno, all that grease and fat makes me thinks stuff's gonna be popping out of, not up.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

the "bites" are just wannabe garlic knots with cheese inside, innit. why is pizza hut afraid of selling real garlic knots to middle america?

― the petronas towers (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

"how can we make italian food LESS ethnic??"

― the petronas towers (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

"by popping it up our customers coocachoos!"

― slocki at antexit's house (antexit), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

You can eat salad on pizza.

― youn, Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

2 amy's makes one with arugula on top!

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...
Nearly all the 11,000 village residents in Airport Pizza's service area consume Alaska Native subsistence foods, such as whale, walrus, seal and caribou, but laws bar Airport Pizza from using native meats -- other than reindeer -- on its pizzas, and there doesn't seem to be much demand.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Americans,

please for the love of god stop calling a pizza a "pie"...it sounds fucking rank!

thanks

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Dear British,

Please stop telling us how to talk. We settled this a long time ago.

Thanks,
The Colonists

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Kenan,

Shut up!

Thanks,
Everyone

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jon in defending the Britons shocka!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Just the same, calling a pizza "pie" > calling any meat pie "pie"

xpost :-D

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://beguiling.com/images/1426.jpg

― Joe Crocker (Joe Crocker), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

What should be I calling meat pie then?

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

MEAT PIE. I'M JUST SAYING THAT PIZZA IS BETTER

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

i c

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

pizza is better, but I wonder if jon has ever had a good meat pie. I had some pretty good pizza in London.

Dear the French,

Please stop referring to tarts as "pie."

yr friend,
gabbneb

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Germans,

Please stop calling donuts "donuts".
You guys are much more creative than that -I'm sure you can think of some crazy 18 character word for them.

Thanks in advance,
Thermo Thinwallenstausenßuten

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia: Not all of these savoury pies are actually pies: for example, a pizza pie is a pie in name only.

I should totally put a disputed flag on there.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think Domino's/Pizza Hut/etc. have enough hfcs in them to test the 'savoury' designation.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

i want pizza all the time.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

surely knowledge and pizza only returns one result and it's a jpeg.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Love of pizza unites all humanity in peace and brotherhood - and the issue of pineapple on pizza splinters them apart again in bitter acrimony.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Pineapple on pizza is what separates true aesthetes from mere dilettantes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

my friends from cleveland are notable for always calling pizza "italian sauce bread." but keep in mind they also say "hamburger sandwich" and "budweiser light."

― friendship7, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

If you spend enough time reading this thread, the word "pizza" starts to look weird, all misspelled or made-up. Pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza. There. Now you know how I feel.

― gooblar (gooblar), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I like "pizza pie"

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

pizza strips!

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think i would get along w/your friends, friendship7

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, not the "is a hamburger a sandwich" debate again

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

my friends from cleveland are notable for always calling pizza "italian sauce bread." but keep in mind they also say "hamburger sandwich" and "budweiser light."

This is the most batshit insane thing anyone's ever posted on ilx. EVER.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

i agree with ally. that just goes to support my "ohio = mars" theory, though.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, budweiser light...

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

i want pizza immediately.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)


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