Best pizza topping

good going with splitting the pepperoni vote

I'll eat pepperoni with a knife

I always thought it was like the topping where the original pizza maker would give his girlfriend & buddies the good topping and when he wanted to indicate that a customer was garbage he would give them pepperoni.

I see we disagree .

what

If I have to vote for just one it's always going to be pepperoni.

Mushrooms all the way.

2 pepperonis 1 pizza

I ate mushrooms on pizza long before I could tolerate them in any other food setting.

mushrooms are pretty much always my second topping, but we only get one, apparently

i am having bacon pizza for lunch today

I guess I could log in as mod and vote again

pepperoni OBV

Mushrooms second. I love blue cheese on faux-posh pizzas but it doesn't count here.

No only one topping bcz you are poor in this thread and there aren't any awesome specials besides "XL one topping $5.99."

chicken

Anchovies.

dear christ louis

I think pineapple was a godly and creative addition to the world of pizza.

Barbecue sauce instead of tomato sauce on a pizza: c/d?

Mushrooms are usually my first choice, but it's usually so unreliable bcz you never know when it's going to be that canned rubber shit, so pineapple all the way.

usually usually usually

pineapple need to be accompanied by ham though

oh man singular 'olives' entry occludes some seriously vicious green v black argumentation

pineapple + pepperoni

Jalapeños have a lot going for them too.

yeah pineapple is two thumbs up. I wd like to experiment with banana as a pizza topping.

only if the chicken is good quality, juicy and well-roasted, mind. as it is at zero degrees, the mythical pizza place that matt dc and i frequent.

I guess I could log in as mod and vote again

Your country needs you!

Chicken pizza can get fucked.

guys I only had my tea an hour ago and now I'm hungry again :(

you british people have fucked up ideas about pizza

Hey, I bet they don't do Gyro Meat on pizzas in the US, eh?

I respectfully disagree in re: pineapple. Even before I stopped eating meat, I preferred the humble fruit unsullied by any extra saltiness.

I once had a bbq chicken pizza that was pretty good, once. all other experiences since then (over a decade ago) with those ingredients have been total ass.

uh, i'm pretty sure bbq chicken pizza originated in TEH STATES. xxxpost

Hey, I bet they don't do Gyro Meat on pizzas in the US, eh?

and we don't do corn on our pizza like the germans do, either

hey chicken pizza is all right. i'm sort of anti-pepperoni tbh

when done right the bbq chicken pizza can be great. but they don't hit the mark too often

hey i got an idea burrito pizza

that shit also sucks

Chicken pizza is an abomination in mine eyes (and mouth).

PEPPERONI FTW

We smother our pizza crust in buttery-garlic baby red mashed potatoes and top it with broccoli, fresh-diced tomatoes, cheddar cheese and a sprinkle of smoked apple hickory bacon - served with a side of sour cream.
12.59 | 15.09 | 19.89

^^ pwns

well the real answer to this question is 'garlic sauce'. or maybe 'lots of rocket, mozzarella and pesto'. i'm a sucker for bufalita. i appreciate that chicken can be fucked up but when done with good-quality breast meat, good cheese and good garlic sauce it is magisterial.

Tandoori Chicken is another traditional Britishes pizza topping.

We smother our pizza crust in buttery-garlic baby red mashed potatoes and top it with broccoli, fresh-diced tomatoes, cheddar cheese and a sprinkle of smoked apple hickory bacon - served with a side of sour cream

why not just stab yrself in the heart

'lots of rocket, mozzarella and pesto'

what is rocket??????????

hey i got an idea burrito pizza

"idea burrito" vs "mind grapes"

arugula

broccoli has antioxidants

it's offset by the BACON and SOUR CREAM

I once had an awesome taco pizza that was basically:

- refried beans
- spicy hamburger
- "taco" cheese + mozzarella

After it was baked, the center was covered with lettuce, tortilla chips, diced tomatos, sour cream and more "taco" cheese. It was YUM.

rocket is NICE LETTUCE

asparagus another undervalued topping

Guys it's simple to figure out:

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/Pizza/FavoritePizzaToppings_files/toppings1.gif

i had a pizza once in Great Britain called the 'all american' that had like prawns and sweet corn on it

xp yeah taco pizza is a big guilty pleasure of mine

This one takeaway I used to frequent did some sort of pizza with prawns and a barely cooked egg on the top of it, it was like the Russian Roulette of pizzas.

recently i had a folded pizza baked with salmon, mozzarella and a whole load of mascarpone, it was awes

I misread "mascarpone" as "marzipan".

taco pizza i can get behind but not burrito pizza

Another great American tradition only found in the Hull area:

http://www.americanchipspice.com/images/cs_15.jpg

MANGO TANDOORI CHICKEN £8.75
grilled tandoori chicken, mango, onions and red peppers on a spicy curry sauce. Topped with fresh coriander and a sweet mango chutney

there's a new pizza at zero degrees!

I sure could go for 12 containers of American chip spice.

No major U.S. pizza chain puts green olives on a pizza!

I love all the gourmet pizza shit but c'mon this is All-American (ie semi-passable) Pizza!

marzipan pizza would be interesting. does anything that sweet work as a topping? pineapple i guess...

omg! may need to give that a go. which branch is your local? xxpost

Um, is that "chip spice" what we Americans call "salt"? If not, they are lying to you.

Also that mango tandoori nonsense looks like CPK-on-uppers bullshit, wtf.

arugula/rocket is not "nice lettuce"

What the hell is on a burrito pizza?

I love Taco Bell's "Mexican Pizza' tho as you all know it is not a pizza but rather the ten ingredients they have at T Bell thrown together in another permutation.

Would "chip spice" be Lawry's seasoned dalt? Bcz I love that stuff v much.

You telling me they don't have onions at Papa John's?

guys I'm not sure louis knows what pizza actually is

Nah Dan, it's a mix of Salt, Paprika, Tomato Powder, Onion and Garlic. It's grebt on fries but we are well aware that it's not "American". Most other places in the UK don't even know about it.

i'm pretty sure that pizza originated as whatever-on-flatbreat poor people food so purism about goofy toppings is probably counterrevolutionary or something

i think it's rocket anyway. definitely nicer than iceberg lettuce. or radicchio. do i sense a POLL?

none of the branches are local to me. i've been to the one in blackheath and the one in bristol, though. i don't like the pizza but i really liked their oyster stout.

I mean

recently i had a folded pizza baked with salmon, mozzarella and a whole load of mascarpone, it was awes

I'm not sure what thread this belongs on but not here

http://blogs.menupages.com/sanfrancisco/McPizza3.jpg

wow. oyster beer?????

louis's folded marscapone pizza sounds like a fancy ass calzone to me

it was called calzone, yes

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

lol NV, that does sound like seasoned salt! Which okay, I'll cop to that being a US thing but it isn't specifically for fries!

MQ, "fancy ass-calzone"

taco pizza sounds to me like dabbling in forbidden science. I also disapprove of bacon cheeseburger pizza, tandoori pizza (seriously, wtf, britishes?) and pad thai pizza. For some reason I find barbecue chicken pizza acceptable, though, so it's obvious I'm merely a hypocrite.

LOUIS A CALZONE IS NOT A PIZZA

PAD THAI PIZZA???????????????????????

http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/images/articles/20070315-1000_dolllar_Pizza_3.jpg

^^^ fish eggs and cum pizza

was the calzone a zero degrees creation? it sounds like something they would do.

the oyster stout supposedly had ground shell involved somewhere along the line, not that anyone would notice. it was a nice guinness alternative.

I left onions & jalepenos off the list. :(

At Flying Pie in Boise they had cut-up chunks of cream cheese on the topping & they'd bake to be all firm on the outside & soft yum on the inside. OMG yum. And Basque chorizo, which I really miss. But srsly as much as I love spinach, artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes and many cheese varieties on pizzas, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut and Domino's don't got it.

Hey, I bet they don't do Gyro Meat on pizzas in the US, eh?

-- Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 20:29 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Man I ate so many fucking donner pizzas at uni when I was pissed. Good times, great memories.

calzone was sold to me as 'folded pizza'. it was nice! and tasted of extra-cheesy fish pizza. therefore it is pizza. not a zero degrees creation; i always have roasted garlic chicken there. it was in fact the brainchild of zizzi's.

oyster stout is by far the most outlandish thing on this thread and i'd still like to give it a try.

Gyro+feta pizza sounds DEUS

Never had an ass calzone, leave alone a fancy one -- I'll bet they're folded exactly how I think they're folded. Green peppers, onions, and pepperoni, please

At the place where I used to make pizza for a living we had one that was diced chicken marinated with olive oil, salt, basil, oregano, garlic, and pepper. It was made into a "white" pizza - no sauce, just cheese and broccoli. After a while, the shit basically sold itself, occasionally it was very hard to keep up with demand.

My topping choice, if there can be only one, is pepperoni.

pepperoni + green peppers ftw, but if i had to choose one then just pepperoni.

calzone was sold to me as 'folded pizza'. it was nice! and tasted of extra-cheesy fish pizza. therefore it is pizza.

LEARN TO MAKE SENSE

CALZONE IS NOT A PIZZA

i've had good burrito pizza w/black beans, guac, pico, sour cream, and cheddar. sometimes choirzo.

also gyro + fries pizza.

ppl like lous who like 5+ toppings on their pizza are reatrded. i.e. if i wanted a cheesesteak i would just go get a fucking cheesesteak.

Pizza toppings work synergistically. Considering them in isolation is like wanting a dog and not thinking about the fact that you live in a cramped studio apartment and getting yourself a great dane. A pizza is an ecosystem, folks! It is a holistic experience.

no wait guys guys we don't need to fight anymore

http://www.pizzahut.com/menu/images/fullmenu/4forall.jpg

OR, as Jerusalem Pizza in Highland Park, NJ, turned me on to - falafel pizza!

Falafel actually ON the pizza! As a topping! AND IT WAS GOOD!

hey i got an idea burrito pizza

"idea burrito" vs "mind grapes"

-- G00blar, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 20:33 (9 minutes ago) Link

lolololol

but crazy shit aside, i voted for pepperoni because it is always good from anywhere. you get terrible mushrooms, chicken, olives, etc., but never terrible pepperoni.

this is otm^

Spaghetti with meat sauce is just pizza with the crust cut into long narrow pieces and boiled instead of baked, Dan!

not to mention that the best pepperoni is better than the best of any of the other choices.

the problem with mushrooms is that most of the time they are nasty canned mushrooms

Hey guyz this is why Morrissey has left England:

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9039/yumkm6.jpg

if i wanted a cheesesteak i would just go get a fucking cheesesteak.

there is no available cheesesteak here, so i settle for cheesesteak pizza

(xposts)

1. Someone telling you a calzone is a folded pizza does not make a calzone a pizza; it makes the person who told you that silly.
2. There is no place on this earth where an extra-cheesy fish pizza should ever be described as "nice". "Abhorrent", "a crime against humanity", "likely to induce projectile vomiting" and "proof that Satan exists" are all much more appropriate descriptions.
3. There are jeally beans that taste like strawberries; that does not mean they are strawberries.

Finally, thanks for ruining pizza forever with "extra-cheesy fish pizza" ugh ugh ugh ugh.

Crazy Pizzas I have Made that People Actually Ordered in America:

Bologna/Jalapeno
Feta/Jalapeno/Bacon/Pineapple
Sauerkraut/other normal toppings
Mayo/Bacon/Cheese (cooked) + Lettuce/Tomato (cold) (this one was on the menu)

Crazy Pizzas I have Made Out of Sheer Boredom:

Sauerkraut/Swiss cheese/Corned Beef/1000 Island
Peanut butter/Strawberry jelly
too many more to recall

xpost: anchovies make a pizza into a fish pizza, calm down

those all sound awful.

except maybe sauerkraut one.

ANCHOVIES ARE FUCKING NASTY

(lol at the peanut butter/jelly pizza tho)

J0rdan: sauerkraut/pineapple/green peppers/onions?

dan m. worked at cpk?

"extra-cheesy fish pizza" was deliberately arch. much like the culinary contents of that fulsome dish, only certain hard-bellied individuals can stomach such language.

ohhhh shit sauerkraut!! the pizza place i worked at in hs sold a bratwurst pizza -- brat meat done like italian sausage, mustard, a little cheese, and then yeah heaps of sauerkraut. and it fucking ruuuuleddd

pepperoni because it is always good from anywhere

I learned upon arrival in NYC that this is not true. Not that I'm blaming anyone -- in a city of quick one-dollar slices on every corner, you don't expect high quality -- but most of them toss cheap raw pepperoni on before doing the one-minute slice warmup, and the pepperoni turns out ... non-good. Much prefer that crispy curled-edges pepperoni you get from full pies from full ovens.

hard-bellied, broken-tongued individuals

J0rdan: sauerkraut/pineapple/green peppers/onions?

-- HI DERE, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 2:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

i don't like pineapple, otherwise YES.

Oh god no. xposts

Damnit I so want pizza now

an entire cypriot meze on pizza would be a fucking odyssey, and one i'd like to experience.

louis what wouldn't you eat on a "pizza".

another pizza

louis you're a pizza slut

wtf louis? HAVE YOU NEVER PUT TWO SLICES ON TOP OF EACH OTHER?

There is ALWAYS a cheesesteak available.

FUCK! Having grown up the product of two Philly families, I will gladly admit that there is a significant difference between PHILLY cheesesteaks and everywhere else. That difference is the bread. Not the cheese, not the meat, not the way its cooked. The bread.

Ergo, you can have a perfectly GREAT cheesesteak outside of the Philly area on a crusty roll or a length of baguette. It may not be a PHILLY cheesesteak, but fuck it - its a cheesesteak, nonetheless.

That said, I voted pepperoni. The first pepperoni. Pepperoni the Elder.

Things Louis would eat on a pizza (list thread)

Louis, isn't a calzone another pizza on a pizza in your crazy food dictionary?

And Louis...seriously shut the fuck up about what you know about pizza if you haven't had two slices of NYC pizza folded together, whilst drunk, and trying to flag a taxi.

I'm taking a stand against all this pizza tomfoolery. Chicagoans got their own thing going, and that's cool, but man...NYC streetcorner pizza is the definition from which all others diverge.

http://www.joshwirt.com/files/page10_blog_entry95_2.jpg

^^^mac & cheese A+

ok that actually looks good.

dudes i don't really hate on double-pizza, i was merely looking for a neat rhetorical response to jordan s' question. not all my shit sticks :)

the actual answer to that question is "celery".

celery ruins everything

rong

Props to Luce in Mlps/St.Paul/Dullyouth for mashed potato pizza.

Mashed potatoes. On a pizza.

What the fuck is wrong with people.

yeah, that pizza is alright. luce is overrated though. :>

thanksgiving weekend, i had a pizza at ian's that was some kind of sweet potato base, marshmallows, and pecans. i got it just to say i tried it but it was actually really good.

at what point is a pizza no longer a pizza?

when louis orders one

Think about it: Mashed potato is good with cheese. And bacon. And onions. So put a crust into the mix and voila. Seriously, it's badass.

I agree they're a bit overrated, but they're still pretty good.

mcdonald's pizza to thread

is that a thing?

dan m maybe on the money but i don't get how you would even eat that. the texture combination sounds repulaive.

oh wait i remember. :/

xpost

http://www.yardbarker.com/m/2045/xl/McD_s_and_Pizza.jpg

(there was a thread on this on the noise board i think)

Chicken really works on pizza when you use pesto instead of red sauce. Pesto + grilled chicken + red onions + mushrooms + mozz = YEAH YEAH YEAH I'LL HAVE ANOTHER PINT WITH THAT PLEASE.

But the chicken needs to be GRILLED OVER LIVE FLAME, then sliced up and onto the pie.

dan m knows what the fuck is up

i had some ritzy pizza at a restaurant specializing in local ingredients: wheat crust, squash puree, goat cheese, pheasant, currants. a+~!

when jordan S. said above "if I want a cheesesteak I'll order a fucking cheesesteak" he was the most otm person on this thread until Mr. Que answered his last question

Luce has TWO potato pizzas now apparently, there was only the garlic one last time I was there.

http://www.pizzaluce.com/Online%20Menu/pizzas.html

i think the best pizza i've ever had was just a margherita on a brick-oven, wood-fired crust. maybe some cured olives on it. for me that is all that's necessary.

my friends went to CA for their honeymoon and apparently had thistle pizza. wtf.

xpost, seriously, no decent cheesesteak in this town. maybe at some bar, but not easily obtainable after drinking.

i also fucking detest pizza hut, as discussed in that recent thread. i'd never get a pizza from fucking pizza hut if i could help it.

my roommate delivers for pizza hut and he always brings pizzas home and it isn't all that bad as far as major chains go.

I think the presence of fowl and/or starches as a topping crosses the dividing line bewteen 'pizza' and 'entree served on a place made of bread'

fair enough, Jordan. Alls I'm saying is that a cheesesteak can be a good cheesesteak without it being a PHILLY cheesesteak.

The LJ Pizza Toppings Thread is getting worse.

Was it ever "good"?

pizza hut is premade, prefrozen garbage. the ingredients are as fresh as a sewer and the cheese is 80% recycled polycarbonate

fine when free tbh.

meaning i would never pay for pizza hut if i could help it.

let's take this in a more interesting direction. HOW DO YOU ALL PREFER YOUR TOPPINGS?

meats in large chunks? sliced? veggies diced or sliced? under cheese on top of cheese? etc.

I DIED entering the OTM stakes with a strong showing

Agreed. I DIED knows pizza.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/535044995_1489535bbe.jpg

NYC streetcorner pizza is the definition from which all others diverge

This is the kind of thing you might say about pizza if it slept with your wife and you were still bitter

guys that pheasant pizza was one of the greatest thing i've ever eaten

i am of two minds, i like nu-pizza when done well, but so many places toss a bunch of bullshit on there for the gimmick factor, do not want.

now THAT is OTM

mac and cheese seems kind of gimmicky, though.

NYC streetcorner pizza is the definition from which all others diverge

Actually this is the sort of thing you start saying if you move to London.

But probably not if you move to Italy.

the real question is, is it really that much better on top of a fucking pizza crust? and the answer, 100% of the time, is no, because otherwise at some point in the past thousand years or whatever that these staples have been around, somebody would have already figured that out.

i just had this for lunch. it wins
http://offthebroiler.files.wordpress.com/2006/05/IMG_4582.JPG
http://offthebroiler.files.wordpress.com/2006/05/IMG_4602.JPG
bacon pie with Fra Diavolo sauce

toppings - ON TOP of cheese, always
veggies - not diced
meat - chunky, i guess, but i hate those golf ball-sized sausage pieces like you get at rocky rococo's

xpost, it is gimmicky but delicious, esp. w/hot sauce

golf ball sausage=lame-o
sausage embedded in the cheese=yes-o

isn't carne asada's name a type of pizza?

toppings- always on top
veggies- small, thin slices
meat- small chunks, except ronis which i like smaller the better. i don't want to have to bite a roni in half to eat it.

ok now you are just fucking with us xp

what it's like
biting a roni

lj, get one mexican food!

The potato-and-rosemary pizza from Pizza Metro is pretty good, it's just that their crust is so goddamn buttery. (Actually, this is fine until you have leftovers and you feel like you're eating a scone.)

http://www.quakeroats.com/qfb_OurBrands/images/ProductArray/Roni.jpg

http://osdir.com/ml/culture.cooking.famous-recipes/2005-11/msg00249.html

and one last thing on the 'pretentious non-pizza' debate: you need to try out zero degrees before leaping to judgement. i agree that mostly a convoluted recipe will approximate a mess, but this joint is something else. imagine heston blumenthal making pizza, but good.

it is terrible that carne asada makes you think of pizza

jesus christ LJ

tom can you just scrub all the votes from uk ips??

Louis you is a treat

I imagine you walking around farms looking at chickens and saying "aren't you a type of pizza"

And the chickens being like "LOL have you ever googled that guy"

^^ hard

hahaha! nabisco's in the right spirit. stop being so touchy! it's just pizza. also, don't knock what you can't imagine.

Louis has been led astray by the menu of this Zero Degrees place:

CARNE ASADA £8.95
grilled steak, chillies, onions, smoked cheese & pesto sauce, topped with fresh coriander & tomatillo salsa

nabisco you're going to make Louis think that carne asada comes from chickens

nabisco bringin the funny

louis, is it the 65daysofstatic of pizza?

No, that was a delightful and kind of understandable mistake

For record: "carne asada" = bits of grilled beef, marinated and spiced and whatnot, as found in foods of Mexico and Caribbean, for instance like a taco

YES BUT PESTO

wtf that carne asada pizza is basically a casserole.

the pesto does not fit

Yeah the pesto is totally WTF?

This goes a long way towards explaining why Italy actually legislated what a pizza could consist of

also from Zero Degrees:

CARAMELISED PEAR & GORGONZOLA £8.50
caramelsied pears, gorgonzola & taleggio cheese, walnuts with rocket & ranch dressing

Too bad Interpol can't enforce it (otoh probably a good thing because I don't think deep dish was one of their options)

WHAT IS ROCKET?

arugula

That pear/gorgonzola one actually sounds good up to the point of the ranch dressing.

i feel like maybe something is wrong with me and i need to go to a doctor b/c none of original choices interest me and then the pic of the mac & cheese pizza made me go yeaah!

thanks dan m, i knew i'd seen it somewhere! all this talk of zero degrees coupled with his username, and i really couldn't help myself. cheers for telling me what carne asada really is. i don't think many britishes are aware of it.

Ian's is running this one: THURSDAYS Pear-a-dise – Alfredo sauce, mozzarella, penne pasta, pear, gorgonzola, local smoked ham

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/yoursign.jpg

that's understandable mac & cheese pizza looked really good
xxxpost

This is the kind of thing you might say about pizza if it slept with your wife and you were still bitter.

Actually this is the sort of thing you start saying if you move to London.

Alls I was saying was that NYC Streetcorner pizza is the zero-point. From there, things get better (left on the x-axis) worse (right on the x-axis) creative (up on the y axis) or weird (down on the y axis).

Thus, Top Left Quadrant - Top Quality, first rate pizza that COULD have unique ingredients. Key Example - Ham and Pineapple Pie

Top Right Quadrant - Pizzas that try to do too much with potentially creative toppings, and fail. Key Example - BBQ Chicken Pizza

Bottom Left- Top Quality, but just ODD. Key Example - Mashed Potato Pizza.

Bottom Right - Fish Pizza.

seriously how many times on this thread did I answer the rocket=arugula question FFS

is there anything worse than fish pizza??????

extra-cheesy fish pizza

louis would so eat a sushi pizza.

that sounds like the beginning of some brit sketch comedy
xposts

but i have had great clam pizza

like rolling the sushi in pizza instead of seaweed.

WHAT IS ARUGULA????

I'd had a couple of shrimp pizzas that were kind of underwhelming but not horrible.

When done right (with minimum fish-packing-oil residue) anchovy pizza is fucking sublime. Especially if the filets are marinated with some lemon, garlic, and parsley.

(j/k)

WHO IS CARNE ASADA?

okay right, right. but i don't think fish pizza the way louis is saying means anchovy. or maybe it does. he doesn't even know what a chicken looks like.

I had a good seafood pizza in Switzerland w/mussels, shrimp, etc., but I wouldn't want to make a habit of it.

Really good anchovies may be an acquired taste but they aren't bad in moderation on a simple pizza.

the answer is fresh tomato

OK, I'm gonna have to put my foot down if people deny seafood's status as a valid topping.

relatively new
hello jaymc

artichoke is an excellent pizza topping

btw, what is rocket?

http://www.auctionsandclassifieds.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/fisher_price_famersays.jpg

THE PIZZA SAYS..."HOW DO I SHOT ROCKET?!"

I have had shrimp on pizza before but I'd rather shrimp be put to use about a million other ways

i would rather have tuna on pizza than shrimp

ew

I think the problem may be that louis doesn't get to eat things like fish and vegetables in a proper fashion so he thinks putting them on pizza is awesome. which is pretty average at his age, maybe?

oooooooh i like that theory

artichoke is good, but sometimes the pieces are too big and you end up with a pizza that is all artichoke

the answer is pepperoni and pineapple.

Yes. Clams and/or anchovies are not of the type I was speaking.

We're talking white fish. Or salmon.

Eww.

i bet this place does not have good pizza

http://ts8.gazettelive.co.uk/ParkwayPizza.jpg

white clam pizza! this is seriously good
http://www.roadfood.com/photos/1297.jpg

clams and shrimp are not fish

actually not last night we ate baked mackerel and whole asparagus. my idea, too. there is a place in my heart for whole fish and whole vegetables (the Greek side of me, perhaps) and there is a place for whacked-out pizza madness (the Limey Retard side of me).

clam pizza looks amazing.

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTefVFHFdHEEsBeiKjzbkF/SIG=12a4bfh22/EXP=1196977605/**http%3A//www.gourmetsleuth.com/qa/images/arugula_300.jpg

Roquette, rocket, arugula

can we at least agree that the worst pizza on earth is generally found in chinese buffets?

artichoke is good, but sometimes the pieces are too big and you end up with a pizza that is all artichoke

that is ok. submit to the artichoke.

sometimes artichokes make the pizza soggy, though.

pizza is a perfect vehicle for (I think) a pretty small spectrum of things (but things I like lots and lots) - other things I also like (steak, fish, chicken, eggs, potatoes, pasta, most leafy greens) are about 10,000x better when not wasted atop a bunch of cheese and bread and sauce. I mean, that's what I think it boils down to, on top of occasionally seeming disgusting, this kind of gimmickry is just pure waste, like serving a brilliant five-course meal as rock soup

Marinated artichoke hearts, speck (or bacon or lardons or whatever) and gorgonozola (esp dolce latte) is my favorite pizza.

can we at least agree that the worst pizza on earth is generally found in chinese buffets at sbarros in airports?

-- Jordan, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 3:48 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

spinach

xpost to Jordan: My sources point to Japan. Seaweed, corn, mayonnaise, and so forth.

can we at least agree that the worst pizza on earth is generally found in chinese buffets at sbarros in airports? Louis Jagger's Mouth

-- Jordan, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 3:48 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

there is a very good pizza place in my nabe that puts corn on pizza. not in, like, a british way tho.

Hello Mr. Asada.

(I was trying to turn you into river wolf / ghost rider.)

hahaha @ que.

que is such an A+ poster.

But seriously....aren't we talking archetypes here? Not "Hey!! What about THIS!?!?!" If that were the case, I would just start throwing out screwball ingredients, too, like say
- Bok Choi
- Haggis
- Ocelot's spleens
- Jaguar earlobes
etc.

I must say, archetypically speaking, that pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, onions and sausage is one of the best foods imaginable.

most leafy greens

I have become increasingly fond of wilted greens even on pizza, but only if they bring some interesting flavor. When a dash of their bitterness cuts a sweet (tomato) or aromatic (truffle oil) flavor, it works for me, but otherwise, I basically agreee with Tombot.

how have we gotten this far without mentioning the heavenly joy that is Quattro Formaggi?

Tombot, I KNOW these things are often better on their own, but whenever I go to a pizza place, I want something that'll satisfy me the most, and often this involves fish, additional cheeses, chicken, etc. I will also never eat egg, potatoes or pasta on pizza.

que is a poster who relies upon easy targets :D

i think the corn thing might be more about euros not getting 'maize' than not getting pizza?

I must say, archetypically speaking, that pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, onions and sausage is one of the best foods imaginable.

-- B.L.A.M., Wednesday, December 5, 2007 3:52 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

O.T.M.

potatoes are not an unserious pizza topping

(Currently imagining LJ at Radio City shouting at the Rockettes: "You come on pizza, too?")

fair enough, dan. chinese buffet pizza in my experience has no weird toppings (usually just cheese), but it's the only pizza i've had that i couldn't take more than one bite of (aside from disgusting off-brand frozen pizza i had in college).

donner meat pizza ftw

Oh yeah I'm not arguing, that sounds horrible. I didn't even realize they tried pulling that shit off. xp

often this involves fish, additional cheeses, chicken, etc. I will also never eat egg, potatoes or pasta on pizza.

why not?

because i don't fancy it! maybe if someone convinces me they have an awesome pizza concoction involving egg, pasta or potatoes, i'll give it a go, but i can imagine what it would taste like, and my taste buds are telling me to back off.

i'd try scrambled eggs on a pizza

Per crazy theory upthread, the baked ziti pizza available in most NYC streetcorner pizzerias is part of the standard from which all else diverges

Egg on pizza, baked in the oven till its essentially sunnyside up and cut so the yolk mixes in with the sauce, is actually delightful. I think one of the things that makes me very suspicious of a lot of American pizzas, apart from the often abysmal quality of their baisc ingredients, is the expectation that a pizza will be your meal, your main dish. To me, if it's not a slice as a little snack on the run, it's either a table's appetizer to be split or a secondo but I'll probably still get a proper main afterwards. Even when I do get pizza for dinner at home, I don't like it to be smothered in stuff - it makes the pizza lack gustatory definition, obscures the taste of the crust (often making it soggy and flaccid, too), and makes it too heavy for my tastes.

I made a grilled pie recipe once that called for cracking an egg onto the center of the pizza once it was all on the grill. Came out pretty good, if slightly messy.

Yeah why not, thinly sliced potato covered in oil, rosemary and salt and garlic is heavenly.

other things I also like (steak, fish, chicken, eggs, potatoes, pasta, most leafy greens) are about 10,000x better when not wasted atop a bunch of cheese and bread and sauce.

As with the above, the idea of some of these ingredients is that you wouldnt smother them in tomato sauce and mozarella. A good, thin, cripsy woodfired pizza base layered with a few key ingredients that marry well together (like the above potato thing, or roast capsicum and semi dried tomatoes with fresh herbs, for eg) is fantastic.

I fear I would not like american pizza much. It seems to be all about the dough and cheese and less about the toppings or good thin pizza bread.

That said I LOVE really cheesy pizzas. the Lucky Coq bar down the road makes this amazing blanc pizza that is mozarella, gorgonzola and marscapone, and it just tastes like rich buttery oily creamy goodness all over a crispy thin base. No tomato, no extras.

They make an awesome chocolate and cream cheese pizza too.

P.S. the problem with places where a certain foodstuff is cheap, fast, and omnipresent is that one of two things happens -- either

(a) the quality gets bad because it's just an on-the-run staple that you don't REALLY care about (I would say this is true of many NYC streetcorner pizza places, just like with NYC Chinese takeout or whatever), and then it becomes kind of a weird thing to hold up as how that food is SUPPOSED to be done

or

(b) every place that serves the thing decides that it needs to differentiate itself with its own cute spin on it, which is (for instance) why it sometimes seems almost challenging to get a traditionally constructed Reuben sandwich or eggs Benedict in Manhattan

There WAY too many pizzas here with too much cheese, too much shitty, mass produced cheese, too.

i think yu're right about american pizza trayce. i like more nuanced pizza too but i do like the cheese :-)

although i DON'T like too thick crusts. well, i like the ACTUAL crust thick, but the like dough pretty thin. mhmm.

What Michael White is describing sounds awesome. I'd like to reiterate that I only really like pizza when the ingredients are of a decent standard, the crust is indeed thin and crispy (this is important) and the tastes are delicate. The reason these outlandish concoctions work is that they don't pile mound upon mound, but tincture upon tincture.

Michael White again OTM. Quality of cheese is a huge factor.

Wait, has no one seriously linked to this yet?

oreo pizza: WTF

I think the biggest problem here is that you are Americans and I am a poncey Lime. :(

Limey, old chap. Limey.

I've already used Limey Retard, regressing to the fruit for a touch of variatio!

You're Cypriot, please stop pretending to have come from this country.

We always seem to debate pizza vigourously like we do tipping and ... something else I've forgotten.

Egg on pizza, baked in the oven till its essentially sunnyside up and cut so the yolk mixes in with the sauce, is actually delightful

yeah, i had this once (again in Switz.) and it was awesome.

the Lucky Coq bar down the road

lol

I don't mind other flatbread traditions than pizza, either, btw, but putting starch on starch is unlikely to ever elicit any positive response from me so I don't do potatoes or pasta on pizza and I've been forced to eat cpk pizzas with bbq chicken and whatnot on them, but I've never had one that worked for my palate.

see i don't need my crust CRISPY. i mean sometimes i like this but i usually like a moderately thin crust that is nice and malleable

You're Cypriot, please stop pretending to have come from this country.

You sound just like my mum!

Hahah yeah Dan it's kind of awkward saying to people "hey wanna meet me at the Coq for lunch?" o_0

*laughs* and one of my friends just did. Talk about weird coinkydinks.

I'm actually surprised CPK doesn't have a pizza called "the whatnot pizza" topped with capers, belly-button lint, okra and puma claws.

xpost lol again, Trayce!

Also that egg pizza sounds OUTRAGEOUSLY VILE because I hate runny-yolk eggs.

i've really come to appreciate pepperoni. sometimes simplest is best.

abbott is OTM about taco bell mexican pizzas, too. one of the few things i liked as a kid that tastes exactly the same way as an adult.

Novelty for its own sake isn't enough. I far prefer people attempt competence before they go for novelty and then I just hope that they discover hithertofore unappreciated combinations than just go all, "I like pollo rojo and I like M & Ms and I like fried okra - hey, I know, I'll put them all on a pizza, with ranch dressing."

i mean pepperoni is really just the most classic

dan perry otm about egg pizza. i'm okay with runny yolk, but + sauce and cheese not so much i think.

Michael White succinctly describes why CPK sucks!

extra cheese is usually a bad idea; most pizza places i've been to put more than enough cheese on.

chicken pizza = major dud, espec. with barbeque sauce. that's like putting macaroni and cheese on pizza, for god's sake!

I'd eat that!

Ive had bolognese sauce on a pizza (sans the spag, obviously). Its nice, a bit like a flat sloppy joe or something I guess.

I never get that anymore 'cause, frankly, if I want soft boiled eggs with toast points, I'll have that, but if you like eggs this way, it's no worse on a pizza than a whole lot of traditional American toppings, and can I say that, for me, the real deal killer is green peppers.

which is worse: chinese buffet pizza or high school cafeteria french bread pizza?

the problem with many american attitutes to pizza is summarised by the fact you'd actually think macaroni on pizza was a good idea. fucking carb overload, a very muffled taste, no clarity or lightness. it must be like eating raw bread three slices thick.

chinese buffet because at least the latter is hot.

BAN LOUIS JAGGER.

macaroni and cheese>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>some carne asafa bullshit.

ASAFA

chicken has to be handled carefully on pizza, but it can work very well.

louis, don't diss what you can't imagine

pizza is no longer a specific food anymore, it is just one template that many diverse & different types of food can be made to fit into

The pizza from our high school cafeteria looked less like "french bread" and more like "cardboard flap". You lucky bitch, Jordan.

Also elmo has made me imagine a chocolate malt milkshake pizza.

i have also had perfectly good pizza with asparagus on it. think ham, onion, white(r) pizza.

haha

it was totally nasty though, it came wrapped in plastic and under the heat lamps the plastic would always stick to the cheese

Pepperoni is so obv except um does it fuck up anyone else's digestive system like it does mine? I mean it is like the most irresistable heartburn ringsting inducer on the planet.

What about what you put in your quesadilla suiza? There's a related question of sorts.

Also tiny pepperoni cubs/chunks vs manhole cover slices?

if pepperoni induces heartburn & firehole in you you really better not try and roll with me

haha cubs

cubes

Asparagus, esp the florettes, is fine on pizza.

Ringsting should be the name of a metal band.

dan, if you can imagine it, it's possible. just not always edible.

also, i know of a pizza place here whose pizza dough includes unreasonable amounts of malt syrup. very tasty, tho.

I always eat the shit out of it though is the thing. It's so mean of God, it's like cutting off a dude's arm and telling him to clap.

dude slices all the way, I hate it when they make the meat on a pizza look like fuckin' beast pellets

xposts to Jordan: I can imagine it. It would be like yr average Pizza Hut-esque meat-feast dullardly except made even more lumpen by the presence of pasta, which is a rivalling type of food-base. There's a reason Italian restaurants separate their pasta and pizza dishes: both are fundamental starter-kits, and to mix them is absurd and laden with starchy carbohydrate-powered wrongness.

mylanta

um yes, definitely slices

Where t f do they do that? Isn't it just easier to cut pepperoni in slices?

None of your school-cafeteria pizza horrors can hold a candle to the "Colorado Sandwich," as served in Colorado School District #60 (and presumably others) in the early 1980s (and hopefully still)

Pray tell, nabisco.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Cicis-Mac&Cheese-Pizza.jpg/800px-Cicis-Mac&Cheese-Pizza.jpg
AMERICA...FUCK YEAH

Yeah it better have ketchup for sauce or some shit to be worse than the cafeteria pizza at my school. xp

Dan I'll have you know "cardboard flap" gave me a very unfortunate visual I dont think you intended :(

Colorado Sandwich should be on urbandictionary somewhere right?

I'm not a fan of single-topping pizzas, so I'm not voting in this poll. A meat + onions + mushrooms is great, but any of those individually is kind of boring.

uh, lj, it's really not like that, esp. when it's on a good, not-too-thick NY-style crust, and has really good cheese. the pasta is more for texture than anything.

There's a place near me that does various combinations of ham, linguisa, onions, sauerkraut, cheese, and mustard based sauces. All these are pretty good. Their regular pizzas kind of suck.

Pizza in the Pacific NW seems to be pretty fucking dire as a general rule. It's like people were told of the concept of pizza and made one without ever having eaten one, so they have no idea that they really don't know what they're doing.

See Jordan I would just get a good 4-cheese pizza instead of that!

hmm well jordan i'm not convinced, but i feel on this thread we're discovering one another's bigotries and coming to some sort of entente. i'll give it a go if i have a chance.

ham, linguisa, onions, sauerkraut, cheese, and mustard based sauces.

Lose the linguiça and it sounds like an Alsatian pizza.

i think i will have lamb pizza tonight...mmm

nb i do not endorse all mac n' cheese pizzas, just the hometown one that i know to be good

Of course, I'd try the mac'n'cheese pizza if offered, but I fear I'd prefer a proper pizza more and undoubtedly would prefer my mac'n'cheese on its own.

I think I'm going to make these (sans American cheese) for my birthday shindig.

who here puts hot sauce on pizza?

(i won't be satisfied until this thread hits 500 minimum)

sometimes, hell yeah
xpost

Sometimes, but usually I'm all about the CRPs.

(crushed red pepper)

seconded

yeah red pepper is the necessary condiment. I used to roll with frank's or the rooster stuff but I managed to straighten myself out.

i used to do black pepper but now i like JUST red pepper.

no salt. (tho i used to -- but pizza's like already salty)

By red pepper y'all mean bell pepper (aka capsicum)? Or chilli?

Roasted (and skinned) red capsicum is food of the gods on pizza.

oh yeah I used to throw on that Hot Shot mixed black + red pepper seasoning back in the day as well

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2917014/2/istockphoto_2917014_red_pepper_flakes.jpg

AW HELL YAH!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

some people go way overboard with the parm

Oh chilli flakes. Too spicy for me :(

(guess I'll never have tombot cooking for me then ;P)

i HATE PARM on italian dishes i don't know why. even tho i like the actual bricks of cheese of parm or romano. i mean i like it if you actually shave it off the brick but that powder stuff you buy yuck

well yeah the powdery shit is filth

ewwww

ew, anyone who gets the powdery shit is written off for life

how hard is it to buy a damn cheese grater

another good cheese that goes with all italian food: asiago

real parm is expensive. but i will never use that cardboard container crap

Agreed on the parm powder, the hell is that crap? It smells like a hobo's vomit.

my girlfriend will sometimes steal it! but that's another thread

IT DOES I HATE THE SMELL SO MUCH!!! that's the worst part.

um yes asiago is amazing =P

best pizzas i have made since i bought a pizza stone:

- pesto, pine nuts, asiago
- potato, rosemary, port-salut, chicken sausage

i love the pizza stone! i wish i would have gotten one ages ago

yeah, the fresh-grated stuff is great at home or at fancy-pants places, but you're not going to find that shit at a slice joint.

keep a piece in your pocket

Max knows where its at, aw yeah.

what the fuck is a pizza stone

max ur pizzas sound so good

its a big round stone that you heat up in your oven to make pizza. they cost like $15 and are sooooooooo worth it; your homemade pizza experience will improve exponentially

the pesto YuM

oooh i need one!!

they aren't always round.
max do you boboli's that shit or are you hardcore dough from scratch wizrd

fuck boboli, scratch dough 4 life

tho when im feeling lazy sometimes i buy some fresh dough from trader joe's; they make a good italian herbs-and-spices thing

i could eat just scratch dough by itself, like not even cooked, you know rubbed with some flour

yeah, scratch dough isn't that hard.

does the pizza stone actually help that much? how?

DUDE did you have to season your stone w/ oil or anything before you used it? I have one, but every time I've tried heating it up it starts smoking really badly, so I give up and use a pan.

whats that dessert it's like just little pieces of dough maybe fried or something

oh that's a good idea. I have a job, so no scratch dough for me, i'll try this trader joe's business and see what sort of chicago magic I can whip up

The place I used to work had slate ovens, and it makes the best, crispiest crust ever.

or I guess I could look up a scratch dough recipe if you guys are sure it's not so tough. seems like a lot of trouble for something likely to end badly

haha, dude, you can make some dough in like 10 min, let it rise while you do other shit and then put it in the fridge for tomorrow

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Or freeze it.

re: why pizza stones--crispier crust, more even heating, mostly; its the closest you can get to a real brick over.

dan i didnt season mine or anything, maybe it came pre-seasoned?? are you heating up the oven and then putting the stone in (wrong) or are you putting the stone in the cold oven and heating them up together (right)?

Yeah the stones make a sort of woodfired crispy crust thing dont they? I should get one.

yeah tom pizza dough is really easy to make, tho if youre just starting out TJs might be easier

Also never wash them/soak them, they will absorb the water and go all spaz.

i haven't made this for awhile, but here is my dough recipe:

1 cup lukewarm water
2 1/2 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
4 cups flour
1 tb olive oil
optional: cheese, red pepper, etc.

i let it rise in the oven with the light on but the heat off, and stretch it out by hand (not roll)

My girlfriend just bought a pizza stone the other day and used it to bake a squash and onion galette.

trayce is otm, especially NO SOAP

the best and most important pizza-making advice i can give you:

-- brush a lot (a lot) of olive oil on the crust before you add the toppings, and then spray a little more on top when youve topped it.

--use a ton of flour on the surface where you're kneading the dough so it will slide off easily onto the stone

I think the smoke effect with pizza stones is when the rock gets impregnated with oil and grease. burning fats mmmmm

1. I have been known to eat the powdered parmesan right out of the plastic jug when drunk.
2. Even with that fact in mind even i know that trumpeting your whitefish tartar sauce calzone and then critiquing good old american pizza is RONG, LJ.

about a million xposts

3. Mashed potato pizza (esp luce) is good. NOTE: i hold "pizza" in the same liguistic purity regard as i hold "sandwich".

EWwwwwwwwwwwwww eating the parm out of the box!!!

I heated the stone along with the oven. I definitely gave up on it too soon, but every time I went to use it I was hungry and didn't feel like screwing around. I am going to change that soon.

I think the smoke effect with pizza stones is when the rock gets impregnated with oil and grease. burning fats mmmmm

yeah, i think it gets better with use

biggest problem is that it clumps up, so if you aren't careful, you end up with a chunk of bricklike "parmesan" that functions mostly as a mouth dessicant.

xpost

xp That was def. the case with the oven slates. The first few pies made after cleaning those things were smoke-fests.

if i had to guess which ilxor ate powder parm right out of the box i would have guessed justen.

Mashed potato pizza omg want.

I knew I'd drag out some of the Minnesotans by mentioning that stuff. I need to go back, it's been too long.

The shiny blackness is the key to the pizza stone. I inherited mine from my mom so I don't what caused it to get this way.

And I often make pissaladiere with it - carmelized onions, anchovies, olives, olive oil, some fennel seeds. No cheese. It's great, but not necessarily pizza. But maybe closer to pizza than some atrocities.

Pissaladière is awesome.

i've never had an anchovie, i'm petrified

I never used to like anchovies at all, and I still don't like them on straight-up cheese and sauce pizzas. But in certain things they're really good.

Get Italian or Spanish ones in olive oil, Surmounter. Also, if you have ever had Asian fish sauce, you've had anchovies sort of.

Ditto worcestershire sauce.

shrimp+anchovies

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or real caesar salad. xxpost

Does this look good or shit?

Uh, the top one, that is.

no fucking idea.

i've been getting into ground beef though, like on pizza. so good! however, IS there a difference between ground beef and meatball pizza? is there a legit MEATBALL pizza, as in, sliced meatballs -- not just little pieces of beef

anchovies -- b/c the presence of even one in even the most remote corner of the pie renders the ENTIRE thing unedible to anchovy haters (which means MORE PIZZA FOR ME).

spicy italian sausage for sure. goes great with onions and mushrooms.

but i don't think fish pizza the way louis is saying means anchovy. or maybe it does.

well, he IS mr. poppage -- so we all know what "fish pizza" really means to him.

MUSHROOMS

but only fresh

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/giant-mushroom.jpg

Sausage + pepperoni + bell peppers +onion = ohmygodIjusthadafoodorgasm

PS- if that were a trippin mushroom, that would be on my pizza as well.

BEll peppers do rule. On pizza as well as anywhere else. I'll eat a bell pepper like an apple!

For a second there I thought you had just googleproofed BE11 pepper.

Just a heavy pinky on the cap button, alas.

ok i'm totally making that pissaladiere - i've been on a mission i deemed impossible as of late, which is yummy cheeseless pizzas, but there may be hope for this lactose intolatariant yet

I am happy to report, nicalizioso, that they're good cold, too.

which is worse: chinese buffet pizza or high school cafeteria french bread pizza?

High school cafeteria french bread pizza, if only because a friend of a friend with whom I often ended up sitting, who would butter it. Like at least two packets of butter a slice. He's Polish, but I have trouble imagining this is a national pizza custom??

republicans

Broccoli is a food of the gods and a good pizza topping but not the best one.

Bell peppers are an affront to humanity.

Pistols at dawn, sir!

In fucking deed, red capsicum is awesome. Green I'm no fan of mind.

i like chicken (but NOT BARBECUE!) because it is like you get to eat pizza AND chicken parm at the same time!

sorry if someone said something to that effect this thread is too long and i couldn't read all of it

Guys should I put eggplant on a pizza y/n?

YES!!

Do you guys like "upside-down pizza"? As in, tomato sauce on top of the cheese?

As for the original question, Abbott said upthread that she left off onions and jalapeno, which is actually what I would order on shitty Papa John's pizza so that there would be some flavor action going on. If it were super-fancy, supergood pizza, then I'd probably just go Margherita...if it were a relatively good unpretentious neighborhood pizza joint, then I'd go with olives maybe...if we're talking weird California-type pizza, maybe artichokes and fresh tomatoes. Plus olives. Black or green; I don't care. Eh, on second thought, make 'em black. OMG SO HUNGEE

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oh god, no. Eggplant is great, but not in that context. No sirree...

JGO cheesy fish aubergine mashed potato special.

In defence of LJ's fishy pizza didn't he say it was smoked salmon? Thats worlds apart from some kind of weird chunky fish taco kind of horror innit? Smoked salmon/cream cheese on pizza pretty common here.

it wasn't even smoked salmon, it was fresh salmon with the cream cheese. and it was a calzone anyway ;-)

worst pizza topping i have personally et: baked ziti. why is baked ziti on my pizza?

Smoked salmon/cream cheese on pizza pretty common here.

Ouch. Do you guys also have the option of pumpernickel or rye or poppyseed crusts on your ba-..excuse me, pizzas?

xpost

"Two great tastes that taste great together"?

Just keep your cream cheese away from my Italian food, for god's sake. Thank you.

if not eating on a bagel, smoked salmon and cream cheese are much better in an omelet.

and don't forget the fucking capers!

Smoked salmon/cream cheese on pizza pretty common here

not helping your case here

Olives and mushrooms is cage-match.

ahaha i was just about to write

ANOTHER PIZZA!

and then searched for it and that's what louis said he wouldn't eat on a pizza! i don't even get that! it is two pizzas! eat them!

oh he then says he was being rhetorical

i forget how to read

i mean i forget how to read the internet
right now

rrrobyn, i love you. please to come to ny.

aw :)
i want to come to ny v v much before christmas but don't have the time etc :( i should know more people with private jets and time machines really

i know. i wish time machines could save me from finals time awfuleness and let me just enjoy that we finally have winter and holidays, etc.

if the time machines were also pizza machines they could probably save us all from everything!

mos def

Christ what did I start! Hahaha. Dont forget salmon/cream cheese on a pizza is NOT going to also have tomato and mozza and herbs on it, for the love of hamurabi.

it will also not be a pizza

yeah that'd be a "miami burger" with a cheap-ass excuse for a toasted bagel underneath

I think it's hilarious that Louis can't even post about pizza without the thread being completely derailed.

That said, to all of you listing the various affronts to the idea of pizza that you've witnessed, I've seen pizza with tentacles on it so I win.

http://www.alarmingproducts.com/pics/GoryPizzaFace.jpg

japanese pizza bun

http://pics.fort90.com/journal/japan758.jpg

uggggghhhhhh

http://www.memorygongs.com/pizzaface.jpg

A calzone is to a Hot Pocket as a pizza is to _________ ?

Poop on a baguette

Do you guys like "upside-down pizza"? As in, tomato sauce on top of the cheese?

isn't this 'chicago style', like at Pizza Uno and other places? love it, but so very stodgy. seriously, if i lived in chicago, like i wanted to circa 1999, i would be dead or 25 stone by now.

BAGEL BITE completes the analogy

totino's pizza rolls, obv.

isn't this 'chicago style', like at Pizza Uno and other places? love it, but so very stodgy. seriously, if i lived in chicago, like i wanted to circa 1999, i would be dead or 25 stone by now.

No, actually the upside-down variety that I'm thinking of is more New York-style, but simply with the cheese and sauce reversed, as it were.

But yeah, I've hardly spent any time at all in Chicago, but when I was there the food made a huge impression on me.

The Jemaine pizza is so adorable. So was his camera phone.

Bagel Bite is a great answer! So is Totino's Pizza Rolls, but, then again, they are more like a shrunken version of Hot Pockets, no? I've never had any Pizza Rolls, but for some reason I assume that they are less gross than Hot Pockets.

Favorite pizza toppings of the past:

Pepperoni, Mushroom, Sausage (when I waitressed this was notated as "PMS" pizza)

Taco pizzas - YES, especially if you can also add hot sauce on top of everything else

vegetarian favorite: tomatoes, mushrooms, black olive, green pepper, extra cheese

latest favorites: sausage and jalapeno

Most hated pizza toppings: onions, sauerkraut, shrimp

I never heard of sauerkraut on pizza until I read this thread. Is that a midwest thing?

NO

I don't know what it is or where it comes from, but it is JUST WRONG

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I voted for sausage, but I should clarify: it it has to be sliced Italian sausage, not the rubbery hamburgery kind they probably use at Papa John's.

Yeah, I'm still slightly confused; are we supposed to be voting for our favorite pizza topping period, or are we supposed to be imagining that it's a Papa John's situation, and then voting accordingly?

I think a good matter of course is to vote within the Papa John's spectrum, without limiting your personal taste(s) to how Papa John's specifically offers / prepares said topping. That said, there are many missing options here.

Gotcha. Re-reading it, I think that, yeah, that is in fact the original premise of the poll.

The "Hello my future girlfriend..." guy's favorite pizza toppings are pepperoni, black olives, and mushrooms. Just thought everyone might like to know.

Source

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

I'm shocked that anchovies scored so high, but maybe there were some fish-lobbyists stacking the votes

i voted chovies.

I'm shocked that pineapples scored so high, but maybe there were some late-night tv talk show jokewriters circa Noriega's downfall stacking the votes.

pepperoni + green pepper pizza was so good last night.

I've never even tasted anchovies, so my opinion on the matter is worthless.

i was at someone's house tonight and had some bratwurst pizza (w/onions, mushrooms i think, some other stuff), not too bad.

top 4 are not for me, with anchovies & pineapple being dealbreakers

fav topping is mushrooms + onions

yeah onions should ahve been on here.

going fancypants tonight (this place). can't decide between:

MERGUEZ SAUSAGE , SPINACH & FETA 10.95
Huntington Lamb Merguez / Wilted Spinach
Roasted Pepper Harissa / Feta / Red Onion

GREENS, EGG & HAM 10.25
Braised Rapini / Farm Egg / Zoe’s Natural Prosciutto

Roast Duck