British pizza v. American pizza

i voted football

i had a very good pizza in england once

Prawns and rocket, how did you know to pick my dream combo?!

USA is some kind of eagle tears and jizz solute right?

USA is some kind of eagle tears and jizz solute right?

yes, if by eagle tears and jizz you mean "pepperoni"

you already listed pepperoni you MONG

i was saying that pepperoni is made out of eagle jizz

prawns and rocket? not seen that in pasta hut.

Oh man, I've been doing a massive homesick this afternoon and the idea of NYC STYLE PIZZA OF THE GODS just sent me nearly crying, no no, even the worst of Famous Ray's Famous Pizza is still a bazillion times better than Brit Pizza.

ooh man, I've been fighting off the desire to order Dominoes for an hour now, and now this thread.

Britain does really classy pizzas in restaurants, but the sweetcorn menace kind of gives America the win

prawns + rocket + blue cheese + onions + artichoke + liquorice + porridge

PRAWN ROCKET

^^^^ decent band name for lol joke-y college students

By American Pizza I do NOT mean Dominos/Pizza Hut/any of that crap.

point counter-point duets w/boy girl singing about the pros and cons of american and british pies

btw do brits ever refer to pizza as "pie?"

frozen "chicago" deep-dish mini-pizzas they have at iceland are an ideal compromise except they're frozen but they're good but they're frozen

I'm going to suggest ban everyone who posts in this thread from this point on, btw.

PRAWN ROCKET

^^^^ decent band name for lol joke-y college students

― the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:33 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

let's do this; i'm in "grad school"

hey me too

prawns + rocket + blue cheese + onions + artichoke + liquorice + porridge

Put a donk on it.

I'm going to suggest ban everyone who posts in this thread from this point on, btw.

cool, now i feel like a real rebel.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2597025195_76d9ec3940_o.jpg

someone spilled bugs and salad on your pizza!

v. brazilian chicken-heart and peas pizza

American pizza is made by people who came here from Italy (if you're in Jersey or parts of Brooklyn). Is British pizza the same way?

American pizza is made by stoned teenagers, wtf is wrong with you

lol

Where are you from? You can walk into a pizza restaurant and speak Italian to people. I mean, most of the kitchen staff is Mexican, but there's always one or two eye-talians from Naples or Sicily in charge.

L-R: Burt Stanton, an Italian

what the hell is "rocket"?

arugula

our pizza is made by camp pantomime dames and Gulf War veterans

I'm not Italian, but growing up in a bigtime Italian area, it's obviously going to be something you pick up. British pizza is probably the same way, made by actual Italians like American pizza is, since Italy is closer.

British Pizza is people.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/13/alpha.products/pizza.hut.story.jpg

Next: TAKING SIDES: BAGELS VS. BEIGELS

Sour cream and chives pretzels!

There is actually some good (Italian) British pizza. The place in Brixton Market is really good. The only thing I don't like is that the concept of slices is basically unheard of - everybody gets their own little individual pizzas. It's less fun.

Except places like TASTY CORNER - they will happily do you slices.

That taste like COLD WET RUBBER WITH SWEETCORN ON IT.

bagels are rubbish.

Do American pizzas come with those mini garden tables in the middle?

sometimes!

I want pizza so bad right now. It's not fair.

yeah i would kill a man for a slice right now

Ah yes Masonic! That's true. I guess what Britishes don't get is that sometimes those slices can be fit together to form a WHOLE pizza that can then be PURCHASED. Though why you would WANT to in BRITAIN is another STORY.

MANSLICE.

thanks now i want pizza too

britisher pizza is pretty good, but yeah, the corn thing is fucking grodes

but i hate corn in anything

CANSLIME.

you can buy corn in a cup now, it makes me feel sick whenever I see a cup-o-corn stand.

In hell I would be served bagels covered in sweet corn.

That meter is a lie. I worked at a Dominos before; the pizzas are pumped out fully formed from a giant tube built into the ceiling, and they're placed out in the sun to warm for 8 hours.

Red Lobster 'lobster' pizza (actually crawfish with a couple of small chunks of lobster) is surprisingly awesome, given that it's lobster pizza. And from Red Lobster.

...vs North Korean pizza?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/16/north-korea-pizza

lol i posted the same hulu link as dom as part of the same "discussion" last week.

If it took them the best part of a decade to work out how to make a pizza I suppose we don't have to worry about them building a nuclear bomb any time soon.

i just googled "english breakfast pizza"

when I was a kid, our only pizza options were:

straw hat
shakey's
round table
pizza hut

and I swear to god, every single one of these options was about 10000x better than those respective restaurants are now. I know this makes me sound like a cranky old geezer but I was just now missing shakey's pizza from 1977.

I had some of the best pizza I've ever had in my life today. White pie, garlic, spinach, crushed tomatos. Normally I'm all for a big NY-style slice of greasy pepperoni and mushroom, but jesus this was good. If you're ever in Philadelphia or NJ go to Tacconelli's Pizza, you will not regret it.

fyuck this bullshit

mark, you posted that on the other thread too!

yup

i approve.

seriously are u fucking kidding me???? british pizza? fuck that

cmon guys

everybody gets their own little individual pizzas

Unfortunately, these are often not that little, as my expanding waistline can attest.

true. it's a commitment, getting a pizza in britain. american style is much looser - get a slice, get two; share two pies between five friends and nobody really knows who got what.

there's a likeable, cheap pizza place across the road from us, and while their pizzas aren't amazing, they hit the spot when one is veh, veh hungry. but last week i got my girlfriend a veggie pizza from there, and puzzled by what toppings to get her i chose a selection that included 'caramelised onions'. anyway, ten miutes later i pick up the pizza, only it has these weird foamy pink lesions all over it, which sort of look like prawns, if prawns were a foam and not, you know, prawns.

i took it back to the shop, and the guy who worked there swore blue that these foamy pink puffs were 'caramelised onions', and to make his point, he pulled out a plastic tub of hummus-looking goo from the fridge which, he said, was his 'caramelised onions'.

we aren't going back there, but can someone maybe suggest how this tub of white goo could possibly be 'caramelised onions'??

am british, btw

New Brit Pizza (causing outrage here obv). You do get rocket on pizzas in Italy, you know. It's really great with Bresaola. And I've had a chicken and avocado pizza in the US, at California Pizza Kitchen, which is way more wtf for me.

(causing outrage here obv)

?

"with a hole in the middle, and a salad in the hole."

could have worked on that copy a little more.

"Leggera means 'light' in Italian."

worst tagline ever?

weird my bro just told me about having the pizza with the hole in it a day or two ago on the phone. Well not really all that weird. Slightly weird maybe.

Fitting, though, for what might be the worst pizza ever.

this is a thread about pizza :p

wgat percentage did CPK get?

Italian is not an option

fail.

Just back from Italy, where there was only one day that did not involve eating pizza. The real great debate is surely Naples pizza v. Rome pizza.

My only memories of Shakey's are that they had the lights dimmed so low you could, you know, well, do anything, and nobody would see you. You flashed a cigarette lighter to illuminate your plate if you wanted to know what was about to land in your mouth.

Now I just avoid "California style" pizza, which is pizza with all sorts of toppings that don't belong anywhere near a pizza.

I'm lucky to have several good indie pizza parlours a block or two away.

Morrisons Launches Yorkshire Pudding Pizza

I am so here for this

This thread's next 200 posts are my new water

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/02/10/morrisons-yorkshirepuddingpizza-1.jpg

"with a hole in the middle, and a salad in the hole."

could have worked on that copy a little more.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, June 7, 2009 5:38 PM (eight years ago)

you gotta do them in different voices

like in a local radio ad

In the same way that various places make regular pizza with sausages embedded in the outer edge of the crust, someone could make a pizza using toad-in-the-hole as a base, so that the sausages are effectively embedded in the base.

lol lj :D

This should be catnip to Whiney. Might relieve StanM of carrying the burden of having started a joke that made all of ilx crysy wysy. Such promise. And Yorkshire Pudding Day, I am so down!

Some will argue you shouldn’t mess with a classic pizza base (we’ve all learned the error of our ways after trying cauliflower base pizza), whereas others may maintain that taking two delicious foods and mashing them up together makes for an even more sensational taste experience.

She's really trying, I respect that, but falls flat on her face when writing 'cauliflower base pizza'.

Rich from Morrison's tho, all their pizza's look the same. Fucking racists. Also you don't cut up half of a pizza in three, and leave the other half fully intact. Shambles.

Yorkshire pudding pizza is the best idea that has been had by humankind and on this rock I shall build my church

the pepperonians want equal treatment

There was a place near me that did a yorkshire pudding wrap, that is a yorkshire pudding tortilla hybrid which wrapped roast beef and gravy and veg. reader, it was delicious.

this yorkshire pudding piza could be rank, but i created a naan/piza dough mutation last year, which I topped with homemade chicken tika masala, which was wonderful, so who knows?

the marketing rationale behind calling it 'Yorkshire pudding pizza' rather than 'filled Yorkshire pudding' aka the thing it actually is was presumably that only one of those would generate Independent clickbait and ilx thread revives

here's the thing, I would eat a yorkshire pudding pizza and will click on all clickbait to obtain further information

Finally a pizza I would eat more of the base of than its toppings...

i keep trying to find them in my local morrisons to no avail
either they're selling like "hot cakes" hehe
or i'm looking in the wrong section

xps pizza on naan is really good

Pato otm!!

blue steak pizza

hold the tomato sauce, extra blood please