Pizza

[Pickman's model]

It’s a good joke, and the pineapple bantz are fun, but although my favourite pizza is margerita, h8rz should try the combo of pineapple, capers and sliced chilis on a pizza at least once. It works.

wouldn't bother with the capers, they'd just get in the way of the beautiful combination of chili and pineapple

 

[Epona]

wouldn't bother with the capers, they'd just get in the way of the beautiful combination of chili and pineapple

I love capers, I often add some to basic supermarket pizzas.
I reckon the saltiness would offset the pineapple well.

(Just wondering how many people we're upsetting with the direction this conversation has taken in the last few posts )

 

[danny la rouge]

wouldn't bother with the capers, they'd just get in the way of the beautiful combination of chili and pineapple

They just work in that combo. The flavour points the combo hits is perfect: salt, sour, sweet, heat. Even the floral complexity of the capers has a role to play.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I don't like pineapple on a pizza, but I'm always surprised by the amount of opprobium it attracts. There are all sorts of sweet/savoury combinations I don't like -- most of them, actually -- and they get a pass.

 

[Elpenor]

The linked article in the guardian refers to the chef who would rather have strawberries on pizza than pineapple

I think I’d like to try strawberries on a pizza

 

[danny la rouge]

I don't like pineapple on a pizza, but I'm always surprised by the amount of opprobium it attracts. There are all sorts of sweet/savoury combinations I don't like -- most of them, actually -- and they get a pass.

It’s true that I’ve never seen pineapple on a pizza in Italy, but I have seen ham and sliced peach. Not tinned peach, but still peach. It’s not that different.

 

[danny la rouge]

The linked article in the guardian refers to the chef who would rather have strawberries on pizza than pineapple

I think I’d like to try strawberries on a pizza

I’m against that. That sounds rubbish. I’d fight people who are for that.

 

[Elpenor]

I could see ham and sliced peach working very well together

 

[Elpenor]

Apricot and olive is a combination I’d like to try too

 

[danny la rouge]

I generally think cooking strawberries is a very bad idea, jam aside. (Although the best jam is blackcurrant). Strawberries and chocolate also do not go and people who think they do are probably smokers with no operating taste buds.

 

[ouirdeaux]

It’s true that I’ve never seen pineapple on a pizza in Italy, but I have seen ham and sliced peach. Not tinned peach, but still peach. It’s not that different.

I'm not sure what Italy has to do with it. I know they invented pizza, but they don't have a monopoly on what works and what doesn't.

Pizza with chips is common in Italy: Pizza alle patate fritte Even Homer nods.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not much in to sugary things with savoury. The worst offender on pizzas, however, is not pineapple, but BBQ sauce, Domino’s especially. Vom.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm not sure what Italy has to do with it. I know they invented pizza, but they don't have a monopoly on what works and what doesn't.

They don’t. I wasn’t arguing they did. If you follow the construction of my syllogism you’d see that I was in fact arguing that it wasn’t logical to allow peaches but not pineapples.

Pizza with chips is common in Italy: Pizza alle patate fritte Even Homer nods.

Pizza and chips is correct. And people who disagree must be philistines, Tories, or Timmy Mallet fans.

 

[danny la rouge]

The worst offender on pizzas, however, is not pineapple, but BBQ sauce, Domino’s especially. Vom.

Correct.

 

[wtfftw]

Not much in to sugary things with savoury. The worst offender on pizzas, however, is not pineapple, but BBQ sauce, Domino’s especially. Vom.

BBQ sauce on pizza is next level wrongness.

 

[ouirdeaux]

If you follow the construction of my syllogism you’d see that I was in fact arguing that it wasn’t logical to allow peaches but not pineapples.

Then why not strawberries?

Pizza and chips is correct.

You can't expect to be taken seriously after that. I went into a depression of several months after reading about how it was popular in Italy.

 

[danny la rouge]

BBQ sauce on pizza is next level wrongness.

It’s a very good indicator though. If a restaurant/takeaway has a build your own pizza and offers barbecue sauce as an option, then you know to go elsewhere.

I often order an espresso first in cafes. If it is bad, then the food will also not be prepared with care and it’s a good idea not to order food.

 

[danny la rouge]

Then why not strawberries?

They turn to mush when cooked. Strawberries are best raw.

 

[danny la rouge]

You can't expect to be taken seriously after that. I went into a depression of several months after reading about how it was popular in Italy.

I prescribe flooding.

Flooding in Psychology: Implosion Therapy

Flooding (also known as implosion therapy) is a type of exposure therapy that works by exposing the patient directly to their worst fears. (S)he is thrown in

www.simplypsychology.org

 

[Epona]

Not much in to sugary things with savoury. The worst offender on pizzas, however, is not pineapple, but BBQ sauce, Domino’s especially. Vom.

I accidentally picked up a BBQ meat feast pizza in the supermarket the other day, I'm honestly not a massive fan of BBQ sauce in the first place (as a separate thing, I mean I'm OK with marinades and rubs on BBQ'd meat!) and the pizza was rank - I couldn't finish it

 

[ouirdeaux]

I prescribe flooding.

Flooding in Psychology: Implosion Therapy

Flooding (also known as implosion therapy) is a type of exposure therapy that works by exposing the patient directly to their worst fears. (S)he is thrown in

www.simplypsychology.org

I'm not afraid of pizza with chips. I just have tastebuds. Double carbs isn't a guilty pleasure; it's no pleasure at all.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm not afraid of pizza with chips. I just have tastebuds. Double carbs isn't a guilty pleasure; it's no pleasure at all.

You are mistaken on several counts: You are afraid. But it can be cured. Your tastebuds are malfunctioning, but can be trained. And multiple carbs is normal. It would be an unusual and unsatisfying meal in which you are not deriving carbohydrates from several sources.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Putting chips on a pizza is disgusting. You were born in the UK, so you were probably brought up on all kinds of rubbish, and so perhaps deserve more pity than condemnation. But there is no need to continue the cycle of abuse.

There was a restaurant in my youth that offered moussaka, rice and chips. We've come a way since then, but there is still a lot to be done.

 

[Aladdin]

Would happily have pizza chips and macaroni cheese .... together

If I was very hungry.

 

[pbsmooth]

pizza and chips is horrendous. makes me think of people who do the school run or the big shop in slippers and dressing gowns.

 

[Aladdin]

pizza and chips is horrendous. makes me think of people who do the school run or the big shop in slippers and dressing gowns.

Home made pizza and twice fried chips are glorious.

 

[pbsmooth]

Home made pizza and twice fried chips are glorious.

agreed. just don't have them together for goodness sake.

 

[Aladdin]

agreed. just don't have them together for goodness sake.

I like them together.....
But you can eat them separately .. that's a little choice we have

 

[HeAthen]

It’s true that I’ve never seen pineapple on a pizza in Italy, but I have seen ham and sliced peach. Not tinned peach, but still peach. It’s not that different.

There is a restaurant 2mins walk from Santa Maria in Maggiore in Rome that does ham and pineapple pizza. Mind you, they also had a ham and pineapple pasta dish on the menu too.

I didn't go back.

 

[hash tag]

I'm not sure what Italy has to do with it. I know they invented pizza, but they don't have a monopoly on what works and what doesn't.

Pizza with chips is common in Italy: Pizza alle patate fritte Even Homer nods.

They don’t. I wasn’t arguing they did. If you follow the construction of my syllogism you’d see that I was in fact arguing that it wasn’t logical to allow peaches but not pineapples.

Pizza and chips is correct. And people who disagree must be philistines, Tories, or Timmy Mallet fans.

I'm not afraid of pizza with chips. I just have tastebuds. Double carbs isn't a guilty pleasure; it's no pleasure at all.

See my last pizza post. I have been there and tried pizza with chips on only last week.
I will try almost anything once, but never again for pizza and chips. Even though it was on a thin base it was far too much.
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