Pizza Pizza!

[Axlis]

Almost everyone likes pizza, so how do you take yours! I tend to order one with Canadian Ham, Pineapples and Jalapenos. Maybe I'm just a food freak, but I'd like to hear what ya like :D

[Simon G]

Chicken and bacon! :D :D

[markg]

Almost everyone likes pizza, so how do you take yours! I tend to order one with Canadian Ham, Pineapples and Jalapenos. Maybe I'm just a food freak, but I'd like to hear what ya like :D

I am sorry, but fruit should NEVER be on a pizza, that is just wrong...

Pep., Onion, Green Peppers, maybe sausage, just about anything...

Except fruit and seafood... Both should not be on pizza... ick :)

[BlackNinja]

Just like they make it in NY, the best!!

[flipe8]

Holy carnivores! Hamburger PLEASE!

[vampyrewolf]

last nights pizza was a little warm...

menu has:
hot sauce(they class it as 'hot' when used on wings), spicy ground beef, onion, cheese, jalapenos...
I added the good hot sauce and banana peppers on mine, ended up peeling the jalapenos off. They class the sauce I added as 'suicide' when they use it on the wings, give you an idea of what I was putting down.

managed to get down 3/4 of the pizza on 2 beer.

Usually my pizza is just italian sausage, ground beef, mushrooms, banana peppers and hotsauce... unless I'm getting a vegetarian pizza.

[zenheretic]

Almost everyone likes pizza, so how do you take yours! I tend to order one with Canadian Ham, Pineapples and Jalapenos. Maybe I'm just a food freak, but I'd like to hear what ya like :D

I thought I smelled pizza overhere...ah just the way I like, although I don't care for jalapenos burning me on the way in and the on the way out... :eek:

Ever notice how if you have a group of people who want to order pizza, half of them deride the Canadian Bacon and Pineapple in favor of (insert any meat pizza here), but when all the pies arrive the CBC and Pineapple is the first one to be gone...leaving me to choke down a (insert any meat pizza) slice here in order to be full. :p

[Slvgx]

I have a hard time getting a good pizza these days! I was spoiled, my brother worked briefly at a pizza place as a cook. He'd bring me back food often, but the thing was, he knew he was making it for me, so he tried to make it good. Customer service here is not so hot, most workers get paid minimum wage and they don't work any more than they have to. I enjoy just plain ol' cheese pizza, nothing to distract me! :cool:

[greencobra]

Nothing exotic here, Sicilian or Chicago deep dish style, Mushroom and green peppers.

[Stevie Ray]

Lately we've been ordering the 555 special from Dominos, which is basically 3 medium one topping pizzas for $15 plus tax/tip. Typically, one is pepperoni, one is some other meat (kid's choice) and the other is sausage. Being the cheapskate that I can be ... :o , I sometimes saute some onions / peppers / etc. and add them to the pizza that the wife and I eat.

[mikewww]

I have two favourites, depending on where they are made. The first is salami, mushroom and garlic, and the other is a Four Seasons, which usually has four toppings to represent Summer, Fall etc. These are either randomly placed on the pizza, or put separately in four quadrants. Gosh, all this talk of pizza is making me drool on the keyb......glob glob.

Mike

[The Deacon]

Great pizza is one of my favorite foods. Sadly, since my move from the NY Metro area, I have only been able to partake of it on those rare occasions when I travel back that way.

I freely admit that I am both a pizza snob and a pizza bigot, so, sorry to say, almost everthing that has been mentioned so far would only enter my mouth if the only other choice was starvation. I am convinced that great pizza exists only within about a 50 mile radius of lower Manhattan, and that its quality declines rapidly after that. Finding anything beyond "barely tollerable" here in the Albany area is cause for celebration.

Then, to make matters worse, even in the cradle of its perfection, Pizza today often becomes another victim of "trendyism". :rolleyes: White pizza is trendy, but vile. Cooking pizza over a wood fire, intentionally allowing it to be "flavored" by the smoke, may be trendy, but it borders on criminal. "Stuffed Pizza", "Chicago Deep Dish Pizza", and pizzas built on foundations like English muffins and French bread are abominations. "Ethnic Fusion" pizza, such as "Hawaiian Pie" (topped with ham and pineapple) and "South of the Border Pizza" (topped with jalapenos and chicken) and some others, too bizarre to mention, are even worse and in a truly enlightened society would be considered hanging offenses.

The sole exception to these restrictions were the "Rasta rounds" a friend of mine use to make - English muffin pizzas, topped with jerked pork. Tasted terrible, but after the first one, nobody cared, probably because the sauce was heavily laced with "herb". :D

More seriously, to me a good pizza begins with a thin crust, but not one so thin that it becomes a single crisp wafer beneath the pie when cooked. It has to be thin enough to allow folding a slice down the middle, and must remain flexible to allow doing this without the folded slice breaking into two pieces.

That crust must then be coated liberally with tomato sauce, flavored with Italian spices - oregano, basil, Italian parsley, garlic, and perhaps just a hint of tarragon - as well as salt and black pepper. The consistency must be just right, it should neither dry out nor turn the crust underneath it into a soggy mess.

The tomato sauce must then be covered with a generous layer of coarsly grated mozzarella cheese. This must be "real" whole milk mozzarella, no skim, part-skim, or immiatation cheese allowed. It must be aged properly. Fresh mozzarella is delicious, so are a good Danish Bleu, a fne Gouda, and our own New York State Cheddar, but none of them belong on pizza.

Finally the topping, or toppings must be applied. My personal favorite toppings are either pepperoni by itself, or pepperoni, black olives and anchovies. The latter is only good piping hot and fresh out of the oven. The former remains excellent at room temperature, and even makes a tolerable breakfast cold out of the refrigerator the next morning.

Beyond those mentioned above, I believe only certain toppings should be allowed on "Pizza". Circular disks of dough, even when covered with tomato sauce and mozzarella, shoud be called something other than "Pizza" if they are topped with anything else, or risk charges of "misrepresentation of product".

Including those I mentioned, "legal" toppings would be -

• Pepperoni
• Italian Sausage
• Hard Salami
• Genoa Salami
• Meatballs - the real Italian variety, roughly tennis ball sized sliced into 1/8" thick slices
• Green Peppers
• Italian Frying Peppers aka Cubanelles
• Onions
• Black Olives
• Mushrooms - the white "button" variety - no "designer" fugii allowed
• Anchovies

You may question the absence of the now almost obligatory "Extra Cheese" on the list. It is my contention that any pizzaria that lists "Extra Cheese" as a topping is admitting to skimping on the amount they put on their pies.

[greencobra]

Just stop it now Paul, stop it! :rolleyes: :D

[Stevie Ray]

Uhhhhh Paul. You sort of take your pizza seriously ... don't you. :D So I suppose this means that Red Baron and Tombstone frozen pizzas are totally out then .... :D

[Echo63]

My way of having pizza

1. Drive to dominos
2. Order 2 pizzas, both deep pan with meatballs and lots of cheese
3. walk over to bottle shop
4. purchase 7 pack of tooheys extra dry beer
5. pick up pizza
6. drive home
7. eat pizza and drink beer whilst watching tv

[The Deacon]

Uhhhhh Paul. You sort of take your pizza seriously ... don't you. :D So I suppose this means that Red Baron and Tombstone frozen pizzas are totally out then .... :D

Steve, there is some question as to whether "frozen entrees" of any type should be allowed to be labeled as food. "Food substitute" would even be too misleading. "Apetite supressant" is probably the closest to "truth in packaging". That said, at a bar, in good company, the Red Baron's have been known to serve as "filler" and allow me to consume two beers instead without nodding off rather than just one. :D

[TheKnifeCollector]

Fruit. seafood, and hairy little fishes do NOT belong on pizza. I love pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, and black olives. YUMMY!

[TheKnifeCollector]

Fruit. seafood, and hairy little fishes do NOT belong on pizza. I love pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, and black olives. YUMMY! I also have very much enjoyed a white pizza!! Yummy, yum, yummers!!

[333]

hello all,

I'm a simple man so i like a simple pizza, nothing fancy or complicated for me. :)

For me its usually a trip to little caesar's for a cheap $5 peperoni pizza. I used to get pizzas from a local place but they were shut down so the owner could sell the land they were leaseing for a profit. :mad: IMHO local joints tend to make the best pie since its all home made. :)


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[ASmitty]

Funny that this topic is on the list today cuz I just ate the second half of a pan pepperoni from Pizza Hut for breakfast this morning. Godfather's Pizza is my favorite for a chain pizza place. I grew up on the south side of Des Moines, Iowa, in a neighborhood that was HEAVILY populated with great italian places to eat. The best pizza comes from a restaurant there called Paesano's (I think that's how it's spelled). But my regular pizza intake is Papa John's, my roommate works there so we get free pies all the time.