i've just realized i don't like cheese on pizza. does this make me mental?

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i really don't!! i hate melted mozzarella cheese!!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

unless the pizza was just made. if it's been left standing for a few minutes and the melted cheese starts to solidify into this hideous layer on top then ew ew ew

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

or, melted cheese: C/D?

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm kind of with you, I like my pizza to have as little cheese as possible. The whole concept of extra cheese gives me the fear--I like a lot of sauce, less cheese.

haha general melted cheese, spencer to thread to tell the toaster cheese story again.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You are mental, Geeta, and yet we all love you. Melted cheese brilliant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned sentence not writing.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what the fuck is wrong with you?

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, really

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I went for years without cheese on my pizzas (my girlfriend was lactose-intolerant, which in practice meant I was too). The pizza experience is ... completely different, but still good. And the best pizza I've ever had was cheese-free, at a pizza place in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

(You can get cheeses other than mozzarella, though, if it's mozzarella you don't like, and not cheese in general.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If your pizza's melted mozza is going hard and rubbery I'd be questioning WTF sort of quality a pizza place it is. What are they, serving cold pizza?

Wood-fired pizza base with garlic slices, olive oil and rosemary - HEAVEN ON A PLATE. Blue Train cafe in Melbourne - get some, now.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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Freshly melted cheese in any quantity is excellent as long as it is accompanied by the proper amount of sauce and not allowed to coagulate. I like to use at least 4 cheeses on my pizzas, mozzarella, mild cheddar, a pepper jack and then after applying the other toppings I throw shredded romano on top. I also use a lot of sauce and seasonings.

The sure way to tell if you are dealing with someone with the taste buds of a corpse is if they eat cold pizza. This is right up there with eating a cold leftover hamburger patty from yesterday's barbecue.

Any pizza left out under a heat lamp or similar device is only going to get more and more inedible as time goes on. Good pizza places leave uncooked slices out on display and then cook on demand when you order - joints like sbarro and pizza hut on the other hand are only there to make you hate life.

The kind of cheese also makes a difference. Pizza made with quality (eg not domino's) cheese can be reheated in the microwave and the only thing you lose is the texture of the crust, which is not what I really eat pizza for anyway.

Chuck Eddy and Matos to thread to bitch at each other about regional pizza styles plz.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the cheese on pizza, either, so I always take it off. I just have a thing about cooked cheese- no grilled cheese, etc. Unless it's a lasagne, and the ricotta/mozzarella/parmesan:sause ratio keeps the cheese from overwhelming it all...

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Pizza hut/sbarros/dominos/pizza haven et al = NOT PIZZA.

Just as McCains frozen cardboard frisbees covered in dogs puke = NOT PIZZA.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

For the rekkid cheese is fine but it makes me sick sometimes and also most pizza places put on tons of cheese but not nearly enough sauce! WTF the sauce is the most important part.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Realizing you could ask for extra sauce on your pizza was like one of those life-affirming epiphanies for me.

I grew up in a really small town.

In New Hampshire.

We didn't have cable until I was 16.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/space/images/pizzahut.jpg

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

If pizza doesn't have cheese, is it really pizza? Wouldn't it be some sort of doughy confection?

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'all are a bunch o' freaks! Whaddyamean no cheese on the pizza? I mean WTFoog^%#&%#?!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I had such a nightmare about that guy the first time I saw Spaceballs. My parents had taken us to Portland (Maine chapter) for a business trip, and since the hotel was right next to a mall and movie theater, when they went out to dinner they gave us money to go do our thing. We saw Spaceballs, then went to Pizza Hut, where we each got our own Priazzo and breadsticks, which of course we couldn't finish since I was like, what, 13? So my brother was 9.

That night I dreamed that I ordered Pizza the Hut and he was gonna eat me if I couldn't finish him.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, have you eaten at Grimaldi's in Dumbo? It's all about the sauce there. Also, if you get the pizza with olives they will put delicious whole olives on your pizza.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! Grimaldi's is great. I need to get back over there sometime, don't they have a good jukebox there too? Like entirely Sinatra. I haven't been in forever though. :(

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There's other stuff on the jukebox besides Sinatra, but somehow they always manage it so that Sinatra is playing at the exact moment when I walk in. I don't know how they do it.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard anything there but Sinatra--I just assumed it was an entire jukebox of Sinatra and Dean Martin, which kind of would be awesome.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It makes you, not mental, but a mentalist (and that's a good thing)

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

melted cheese is the only kind I like

(mark s' fried cheese experiments to thread)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

pizza is better cold in the morning left on the strove from the previous night.

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

strikes me personally as a bit mental--boca burgers, decaf coffee--but the lack-of-cheese rationale isn't unprecedented. the mafioso (sicilian, or so i'm told) bakeries on grand between halsted and ashland all sell this stuff that doesn't have any cheese on it; half the customers call it pizza, the other half call it tomato bread, but by either name it's very popular. pompeii on taylor sells the tastiest easy-on-the-cheese stuff around (there's just enough), i've never met anyone who didn't like it. one time i even offered ann some of my french onion soup, and she said 'sure--but all i want is the onions."

however, tacos without cheese, as they're often served in westtown, are just silly. i don't care if it's authentic or whatever.

finally: while the crust may not always be the focus, it's still a crucial factor, no? for example seems like the defining feature of the nyc slice. (why the &%*!#% can't someone bring the *&$%!@ technology here?) hell, if you don't want your deep-dish pizza to suck, it's a factor there too.

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, no outrage when people go on for pages about how they like pig hairs on their soggy pork skin snacks, but NO CHEESE ON PIZZA... JESUS FUCKING A CROSS!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

first reaction was, "yes yer mental ... and a heretic to be burned at the stake!"

then i remembered that i've had cheese-less pizza, and it was actually quite good. so maybe i'm a heretic too?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

they have a grimaldi's in hoboken, too, fwiw. matter of fact, it's about 2 blocks from my apartment. and yes, their pizza ROXOR!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

also, someone on another thread (kenan, i think?) compared eating overly-hot pizza with gobs of mozzarella cheese to pouring freshly-melted fondue down yer gullet. so the more i think of it, the less bizarre i think geeta's tastes are.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going to have a white pizza just to counteract this madness.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that and they're oddly yummy. Also, DB OTM.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like cheese on my pizza either. Also, I don't like the pizza to go in the oven. I call this eccentric concoction an 'open sandwich'.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

geeta:

FaST & SLuiCe, D00D.

c/p the article in the top post

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

geeta is not crazy.

i am a relatavist when it comes to pizza. for the more "upmarket" types, i prefer a very thin layer of newly-melted FRESH mozzerella. when i want "mainstream" pizza, it means that i want to taste layers uopn layers of preservative-laden crap cheese.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Never imagined pizza without tonnes of melted, dripping, tongue-searing mozza until I tried the first pizza on the list here.

Oh, it's good.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Have none of you eaten a marinara? Topping = tomato, capers, anchovies, olives, oregano and NO CHEESE. You will find it on the menu in any pizzeria in Italy and it is lush. Although personally I lean toward the quattro formaggi, especially if it has lots of gorg.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my results tell me that if you fried a large enough lump of edam you cd dispense with the DOUGH i think (what is the italian for dutch?)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

What Madchen said. Again.

Italian for Dutch? Um, Olandese?

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ok that's the name of my invention!! pizza olandese!! (also sometimes called the "doughless")

BASE = large disc of semi-melted edam

TOPPINGS = small chunks of oude gouda and salt drop

YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

SIDE DISH = fried tulip bulb rings on a bed of caramelised nutella

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I am salivating at the thought of Mark S's pizza. I often get the Quattro Formaggi (or however it's spelled) and take it home and doctor it by adding MORE CHEESE!!!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

there is nothing tastier than chunks of melted mozarella (in a pizza or pasta) that have been cooked, and then refrigerated, ad then reheated... can anyone explain why this is?

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the same reason when you by mistake bring the MUMMY back to life he is still stuck on a girl he hasn't seen for 3000 yrs when the rest of us get stuff like that w/i 20 years *max*

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

So cheese has feelings?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a friend that went queezy at the thought of melted cheese, but I think you are all mad! Melted cheese rules & although mozzarella that isn't really stringy is not as nice, it still rocks my world!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Try thinking about melted cheese during a bout of sea-sickness or after 25 chin-ups.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, but then I am not ever going anywhere near a sea-sickness rish again & I doubt intend to do 25 chin-ups!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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