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

-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.

Has anybody changed sides

we may as well ask ourselves what did "a crust of bread" refer to in all those old-time stories about peasants - just the outer crust devoid of the inner parts, or both parts together?

Woah you call plain pizza bases pizza crusts in the US?

(sorry, 6 years too late with my indignance haha)

so do australians have a special tool for attaching the crust to the base?

we may as well ask ourselves what did "a crust of bread" refer to in all those old-time stories about peasants - just the outer crust devoid of the inner parts, or both parts together?

Isn't the interior of bread called the "crumb"?

it is

when you're preparing a pizza, the dough is used to make your crust

when you're eating a pizza, the crust is the unsauced edge of the pizza

can't believe it's the day before pancake day and we're having this boring old argument about different terms used for disc-shaped cooked flour-and-egg-based foods when we should be having a completely different argument about different terms used for disc-shaped cooked flour-and-egg-based foods

Pizza dough doesn't have egg in it.

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

are you a genuine child
i will fight for white pizza till doomsday

Pizza nationalism

Isn't the interior of bread called the "crumb"?

Which raises the question of who was eating the poor people's bread's crumb when all they were eating was the crust? Or did they carefully separate the two, eating the crumb on some occasions and the crust at other times?

one of my work friends is Indian and occasionally does the running bit where he claims that a food is the same thing as an Indian food

pizza is surely just naan with stuff baked on top of it

Mm would eat

Gonna make durian pizza again this week, I can tell you that it definitely does not have any tomato on it in any form.

I've been doing a Sandra Lee type of thing and adding fresh toppings to frozen pizzas before or after baking, depending on what the ingredient is. Peppadews kind of go hard imo

Or did they carefully separate the two, eating the crumb on some occasions and the crust at other times?

My daughter does this, eating the inside of a length of baguette and then giving me the crust as a present

xp I do that too. Just get a margherita pizza from Trader Joe's and top it with minced garlic and whatever veggies I have in the fridge.

xp I have a hard time imagining a woodcutter and his wife living in the deep forest doing this, but I suppose it could have happened that way.

Speaking of naan, does it have either a crust or a crumb, and if not, can we say it is bread?

bread is naan

naan is a taco

-DC Talk

so do australians have a special tool for attaching the crust to the base?

Yeah we do, the same one we use to attach bread crusts to bread...