52 things you never knew abt pizza

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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)

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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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