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Mmmm, it's PIZZA, but with a nummy bit of EG!

Tasty or WHOT?

What is your favourite pizza? Do you make them yourself? Or like me, do you think the takeaway pizza cannot be bettered? Shall I order from Pizza King tonight? And what do you think of pizza joints? Are you a Pizza Express or a Pizza Hut person? And olives, eugh. Perhaps I will grow into liking them one day, but today is certainly neither the time nor the place.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to the home of the largest Pizza evah yesterday, that's right the Stroud Green Road branch of La Porchetta. Excellent Anti-pasto there too. I had a sossage and chilli pizza for dinner, and the rest of it for Breakfast. 14", £5.50. Super num.

― Pete, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most people who don;t like olives have only tried the cheap nasty ones. Proper ones are horribly expensive but really nice. Olives aren;t like other foods where the cheap version is nice enough and sometimes just what you want but expensive stuff is better (like bread or wine or whiskey or tomatoes) with olives compromise is the key to disaster.

― Winkelmann, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pizza Express 'American Hot'. I always scrape off the olive and give it to some olive-loving fool friend.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well whilst I was staying in Hebden bridge I had some super nice olives - they were stuffed with GARLICK - but this has not yet inspired me to make a voyage of discovery to the rest of the land of thee olive. They just don't seem to be NICE on pizzas, although the olives in olive oil stuffed with garlick ones seemed to go nice with crusty bread and perhaps a ROBUST red wine.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like cheap olives, but I like expensive olives more.

nicest pizza in world (or in Dublin, same thing) is the spinach pizza in Pizza Stop, though you have to make sure to get extra olives with it.

― DV, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmm nummy nummy pizza. obv with no cheese and certainly no EG for me! but tomatoes, garlic and olive oil = yer classic, anything else does not deserve the name ect. also if i am being a pizza *mentalist* i will put any of all of the following on it: mushrooms, green and red peppers, red onions, OLIVES YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM ect, capers, sweetcorn, vegan cheese (though yuck), artichokes, asparagus, spinach, MORE GARLIC. and possibly chilli.

― katie, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweetcorn on pizza is an evil only matched by those pineapple topping pervertalists.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and more sweetcorn, and aubergine.

― katie, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Favourite pizza is prolly yr basic La Porchetta w/ham, shrooms and olives, but I increasingly finding myself choosing the quattro stagioni of late.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pizza hut?? spit, spit, spittooey. ick. bleh. etc. why do people get so mad at arbitrary ingredients in pizza (RickyT this means you). USE ANYTHING - GO MAD. prawn and apricot pizza, mmm num. chalk and telephone pizza, slurp. etc

Tesco finest pizzas are actually really good.

fiorentina is a fave, so thank you starry for starting this better thread. the thought that my favourite pizza is going bust messed me up for a second.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I'm an arsey git.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

easily a pizza express fan - the soho is just great - throw on the olives the balck pepper - MORE parmeasan MORE rocket - oooooh yeah

i am a HUGE fan of (no shit get this) GOODFELLAS stone baked mozzarella pizza - the sauce is basil infused and i honestly dont think i have ever eaten a better pizza - even in italy - so so so good - i had one last night

pizza triumphs over all other food (even Thai) yay for pizza

― james, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can imagine RickyT's idea of hell - nothing but Eastenders on the telly and Hawaiian pizza delivery. And people mumbling "you know what, I can only get to page 5 of a Brief History of Time ha ha"!

THIS IS MY IDEA OF HEAVEN!!! (Ok well apart from the BHoT thing).

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i've been to hawaii, and there's nothing there but pigs and pineapple trees.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

also in the bar in RickyT's hell they would only serve Kronenbourg, and the only bar snack would be sweetcorn!

― katie, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the gorgonzola and pear one at La Porchetta. Sounds fancy but is so gooood.

I urge EVERYONE IN BRITAIN to try the new(ish) Taste the Difference pizzas at Sainsbury's. They are divine, at least the only veggie one (Mushroom and Red Onion) is. The dough is just *perfect*. All floury and buttery and thin and delicious. Buy buy buy.

― N., Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And salt.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This sounds like a seperate thread!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I usually like Eastenders. I just haven't got on with the recent storylines.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At the moment I only have a craving for crappy local takeaway pizza and you can stick your fancy pants pizzas. Though I did eye the remnants of Pete's La Porchetta one in our fridge with greedy intentions but nobly left it untouched. I have to say I can't understand why anyone (in London)would go to Pizza Express these days unless they had kids with them, there are so many better alternatives. But if I did go I think I'd have a La Reine. Or anything with anchovies on.

― Emma, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok, nothing but Eastenders with tired Little Mo/Trevor plots for ALL ETERNITY! (Carry on about this on the season in hell thread, hur hur).

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eastenders is the worst it's been in ages. EVERY story line makes me yell at the screen "fuck off and leave me alone". addiction is a terrible terrible thing.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anchovies kill pizza - they are like pizza germs

― james, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

La Porchetta does indeed roxx0r - I've only been to the one on Upper St though but that's good enough for me. NUM! Huge giant pizzas and super cheap!! COR I think ILx food scoffers club should make a PIZZA trip, we did Wagamamas last time... pizza this time! Hmmm I shall PONDER...

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will not hear a bad word against Eastenders. Where is Zoe? Eh? And what about the fantastic DIY kitchen story line? Eh? You people call yourselves fans mutter mutter rant rant etc. etc.

― Emma, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheese and Tomato.

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DIY story = awful recycled neighbours story, surely. who cares about Tom and large-face lip-quivering woman? IS LISA MENTAL? slater/truman show has gone tits-up cos of actress going awol. IT IS A MESS.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Definately Pizza Express - Gardiniara with an egg on't (is adapting the menu permitted on this thread?).

― Tim Bateman, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Ere! What's occurrin'?

― Tim Bateman, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree w/ Alan - Enders has been unwatchable ever since the Slaters arrived. It's all abt the Hollyoaks these days...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kitchen storyline is fabulous in the way its executed - it's dragging on for ages (i.e. real time), and when they make mistakes it's not comedy slapstick, it's despair. Last night I realised I identify totally with Billy Mitchell.

― Graham, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah hollyoaks is the new dynasty - been a fan for years and now people aree finally coming round - truely a work of art

― james, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh Pizzas - Cheese and Tomato, as I am a fussy vegetarian (but discovered the magic of Pepperoni days before becoming one). And NO tomato slices - and juice theory applies. Pizza Express is great, the local Pizza place (in Salford) was very variable. They were theoretically fantastic but quite often didn't cook them properly and you got the horrors of greasy cheese and uncooked sauce.

― Graham, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(actually think Slaters have been grebt -- it's just the anthony/zoe thing that's been rub)

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The 'Is Lisa Mental' plotline is the funniest thing EVER!!!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hollyoaks has always been great, so easy to watch for so many reasons. That Laura is a great actress though isn't she? Do you reckon anyone in the Hollyoaks cast went to acting school? I'd say they were all in the same class.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

***sorry not eastenders****

the best place for pizza in britain would have to be luckies next to the beer shop just round the corner from leeds universiity (opposite the hyde park pub)

sooooo cheap and delic - it had a freephone order line and a phone box outside so u could order - stagger home and meet the bloke on the doorstep ready to consume (mmmm luckies chicken pizza) i'd have them flown out to me alla Elvis if i was mega rich

― james, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

.......AND BUNKED IT.......

― james, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hollyoaks is mere soap foreplay, Eastenders is the full soap experience. And Slater Hataz are JUST WRONG. I would expand but I am on decongestants again and my head is all funny.

― Emma, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Eastenders is bad for two reasons in my opinion, 1. it is on too late and too missable as a result. 2. it is rarely amusing and regularly bleak and depressing. (secret reason 3 hollyoaks has about 7 lovely girls)

Also can we talk about that bastard Keith Duffy being in Coronation Street as of Wednesday, his character is called Ciaran McCarthy, and he's a smooth talking rogue, is this the future of Irish cultural identity, I bet it is! Yes! (I saw Shane Lynch last week at work, he drives a ford fiesta now)

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so its fair to say keith and shane didnt write the hits

emma yes hollyoaks is soap foreplay - it nibbles at your buttocks and gets you in the mood for more (the sunday omnibus is a crashing 4 timer orgasm) - eastenders is just the equivalent of a baren sexlife - makes you yearn for somthing better

― james, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a smooth talking rogue pig rustler I meant.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody hell Ronan do you have to be in bed by 8 or something? Or is there a late nite Eastenders I know nothing of?

People who say Eastenders is depressing = people who are already depressed or people who are NOT PAYING ATTENTION to the numerous little comedy / lighthearted bits.

― Emma, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The "numerous little comedy / lighthearted bits" w/ Dot and Jim are the most depressing thing abt Eastenders.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GAH! Well if you don't like it DON'T BLOODY WATCH IT!! Go out and eat pizza instead! Blimey.

― Emma, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm, pizza. with lots of lovely sweetcorn. nummy.

― katie, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Buddy's pizza (which I think is kind of a local thing), and this fantastic place in Detroit that I forget the name of. Otherwise it is more fun (and num) to make your own, Pizza Hut really makes me physically ill -- I think I mentioned the story about Pizza Hut and flies elsewhere on ILE.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Making one's own can indeed be grand, but I am a lazy bastard, as previously established. Therefore I will suggest the glorious Ray's Pizza right across from UCI, a haven of wonderfulness, where two slices of brilliant thin crust pizza -- the secret is in the amazingly grand sauce, quite delicious and just enough spice and bite -- and a drink can be had for $4.30.

The other week, I got two slices of Hawaiian-style pizza there, inspired by the recent canards and slanders against this fine combination. Needless to say, it tasted brilliant. I MOCK THE DOUBTERS WHO DENY THEMSELVES THE PLEASURE.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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