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

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

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

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

all of the bread is crust ffs

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

mmm, fingerlicking good

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

be calling them pies next

davey cameron is a pizza

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

OI LOOKIT ME BASE MATES

lmao

hahahaha

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

ok, next sub-poll

also I Love PIzza borad

omg Euler, lol

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

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

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

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

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

I love a nice basey italian bread

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

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

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

what is it called then? what? xp

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

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

QED

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

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

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

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

I love a nice basey italian bread

kudos

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

classic advert

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

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

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

what is it called then? what? xp

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

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

oh dammit I messed that up

still cracking me up, tho

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

what is it called then? what? xp

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

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

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

xp or if you must, "dough"

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

HIT IT

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

mmm, that familiar smell - the thrill of the chase

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

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

15% is crust, more than that for excellent service

not every pizza requires sauce

This is a lie.

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

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

stuff the whole thing iirc. cheese all the way through

We are really missing out over here then

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

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

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

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

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

tbf this should be a 36-hour timeout offence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary took it out of her mouth for the picture

the true Holy Sponge

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

"Fool, a carpenter could not afford real delivery"

The "loaves" were actually pizza bases crusts.

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

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

this is correct.

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

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

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

a calzone is a pasty

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

a calzone is a pasty

ouch imo

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

btw Is pizza pie?

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

so butter is Nazis now?

butter is Nazis
yer butt will not cease

-Public Enemy

In awe of how wrong this poll got it

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

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

today I collected evidence

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

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

god those look miserable

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

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

“Gimme those pizza bones.”

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

Does wave refer to chill of pizza or just vapor?

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

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

Flogged

i love all pizzas great and small

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

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

Left it unred

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

“Gimme those pizza bones.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

uh oh

that's not gonna be good

This thread is exactly what the Internet was invented for.