# Am I the only one who dislikes more pizza toppings than likes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247 "2019-04-30T05:54:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/61 "2019-04-30T21:12:35Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > A Margherita pizza has at least two merits: > [ol] > [li]It’s a satisfying but simple pizza without all sorts of warring topping flavors. Almost refreshing. I usually order it when I want a pizza, but don’t have any particular cravings beyond that.[/li] > [li]It’s a great order the first time you visit a restaurant. The best way to judge the general quality of the pizzas being proffered. No distracting gimmicks, yet you can make a fair apples-to-apples comparison between establishments.[/li][/ol] Yep. Indeed, it’s my first order at any place that is doing Neapolitan or wood/coal-fired styles. Gives you a good baseline. That said, it pretty much is perfect. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/62 "2019-04-30T21:17:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’m that way with cashews, which for some odd reason are an ingredient in any number of pizzas in these parts. Can’t stand them, and they contaminate everything they touch. Anchovies, OTOH, are delish. But the best topping is none. Gimme a basic cheese New York slice and I’m happy. Cashews, eh? Interesting. What are they paired with? The only nuts I’ve ever had on a pizza was pistachios at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix. Their pizza rosa was Arizona pistachios, red onion, rosemary, parmesan, and olive oil. (No sauce, and no melty cheese–just the shavings of parmesan at the end.) When it’s on, it’s probably my favorite pizza in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/63 "2019-04-30T22:14:13Z")
Out of the universe of all possible pizza toppings, there are vastly more that I dislike than that I like. I would not like a motor oil pizza, nor an arsenic pizza, nor a cedar-chip pizza, nor a brick-dust pizza. But you’re not going to find very many of those toppings I don’t like available at a pizzeria. The only things I have ever actually encountered at a pizzeria that I don’t like on a pizza are corn and any sort of fish. Someone mentioned peas, and I’ve never seen those available, but I would agree that they would be out of place, too. But with the right other ingredients, I could see cashews, or black beans, or a variety of other ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/64 "2019-04-30T23:40:36Z")
I like pizza with the kitchen sink, any combination of any toppings. But too many make the slices too heavy to lift. But lately, I’ve been eliminating olives and peppers. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/65 "2019-04-30T23:43:06Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Cashews, eh? Interesting. What are they paired with? The only nuts I’ve ever had on a pizza was pistachios at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix. Their pizza rosa was Arizona pistachios, red onion, rosemary, parmesan, and olive oil. (No sauce, and no melty cheese–just the shavings of parmesan at the end.) When it’s on, it’s probably my favorite pizza in the world. [Gay 90’s.](https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2010/03/27/gay-90s-was-popular-local-hangout/) We freaking _lived_ at that place. It was the inspiration for the bar in _Cheers_. My crowd would always order an **Ort’s Special** , which was basically a **Gay’s** with Ortega chilis added. That’s what made eventually hate cashews. Must have eaten a thousand of them over the years. The picture in [this article](https://aboutredlands.com/articles/10-redlands-restaurants-we-miss) features members of my graduating class. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/66 "2019-04-30T23:57:57Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > **This thread again?** You may be referring to my \*“What kind of Asshole puts Cheddar Cheese on a Pizza?” \*thread from so long ago, it no longer exists. ☹ Who says The Internet is Forever? Pity. It was about the only thread I’ve made in nearly 20 years to get more than just a few posts. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/67 "2019-05-01T00:38:50Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Then I’ll happily join you in a delicious cheese pizza. Then again, I’m a pizza-slut - never met a pizza topping I didn’t like. Except peas. Peas are Just Wrong. Love the word pizza-slut. I can’t aspire to pizza-sluthood because I can’t eat anything that’s spicy-hot. But I’ll try almost anything else, although I don’t see how broccoli would work unless pre-blanched. I’m the only person I know who likes anchovies on pizza. When I had a house full of kids, I’d order the anchovies on the side, so that the taste wouldn’t spread in the sauce. I kind of got to prefer the uncooked anchovies. While in college, I delivered pizzas for a couple of years. We got free slices during breaks. We would never turn down the break pizza, because we were all broke, but it would get kind of monotonous after a few months. So we tried a lot of oddball toppings just to mix things up. > [@peccavi](#): > > One of my favorite pizza experiences was in Rome. A friend took us out to his favorite pizzeria and as we are ordering, he turns to me and says, “I would like to order what is called [capricciosa](https://www.tasteatlas.com/capricciosa), but it comes with egg, will you eat this?” looked at the laundry list of ingredients for this pizza in the menu and said “sure”. I expected some hardboiled egg on mixed in with the other ingredients. Instead, the chef assembled the pizza, shoved it into the oven, and then about midway through, extracted the pizza and cracked a fresh egg on top of it, then shoved it back in. It came to the table as a pizza with a perfectly cooked sunny-side up egg on top of it, which we broke up and spread across the pie before eating the slices. It was one of the most delicious pizzas I had ever eaten. I want to try that now! ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/68 "2019-05-01T00:52:01Z")
Well, then I am a pizza-prude. Dough. Sauce. Mozzarella. That’s it. That’s all I eat. If you give me a topping I’m picking it off. I will occasionally have a slice of a good white pizza and if I’m making a pizza at home and have some nice looking basil leaves, I’ll slap them down between sauce and cheese. But that’s it. Simple. Elegant. Balanced. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/69 "2019-05-01T01:27:46Z")
my favorite pizza is a bbq chicken pizza with shrooms (instead of red onions)on it … Tho red brick pizza was here for a while and man they had a “Thai” pizza that was so gross they didn’t even like making it , the only things I don’t care for on a pizza is onions peppers tomatoes olives and anchovies …and I can tolerate most of those things if I have to on a “Philly cheesesteak pizza” funny thing tho I watched a show on pizza on PBS and found out in Italy, they’ll put anything on a pizza if ya want … broccoli and chicken with alfredo sauce? they won’t even blink …and that was one of the more tame versions … (the black ink squid one looks utterly horrible…) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/70 "2019-05-01T11:21:24Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > But lately, I’ve been eliminating olives and peppers. Undigested to the point you can identify them? Ewwww. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/71 "2019-05-01T12:27:53Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > my favorite pizza is a bbq chicken pizza with shrooms (instead of red onions)on it … > > Tho red brick pizza was here for a while and man they had a “Thai” pizza that was so gross they didn’t even like making it , the only things I don’t care for on a pizza is onions peppers tomatoes olives and anchovies …and I can tolerate most of those things if I have to on a “Philly cheesesteak pizza” > funny thing tho I watched a show on pizza on PBS and found out in Italy, they’ll put anything on a pizza if ya want … broccoli and chicken with alfredo sauce? they won’t even blink …and that was one of the more tame versions … (the black ink squid one looks utterly horrible…) Have you ever had squid ink pasta or other squid ink preparations? It’s not “utterly horrible.” “Funny thing tho”— Italy created the concept of pizza, and it means a piece of crust plain or topped with whatever you want. So this agonizing over what is “acceptable” as a pizza topping is nothing more than an exercise in “what I’m accustomed to or prefer for myself.” It has nothing to do with properly defining pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/72 "2019-05-01T13:41:14Z")
Huh, Mackenzie River Pizza, in Bozeman, MT, also has a Thai pizza, and it’s one of their better ones. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/73 "2019-05-01T13:52:04Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > You may be referring to my \*“What kind of Asshole puts Cheddar Cheese on a Pizza?” \*thread from so long ago, it no longer exists. ☹ Who says The Internet is Forever? > > Pity. It was about the only thread I’ve made in nearly 20 years to get more than just a few posts. As I probably said in that thread, there used to be a place in Boston – _Warburton’s_, I believe, whose specialty was the Cheddar Cheese Pizza. It was pretty good, too. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/74 "2019-05-01T16:09:03Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Egg? On Pizza? Sounds intriguing. > Am I the only adult who likes plain cheese pizza? Good pizza is great without toppings. Topping are needed to cover up the fact that most pizza is sub par. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/75 "2019-05-01T16:30:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Out of the universe of all possible pizza toppings, there are vastly more that I dislike than that I like. I would not like a motor oil pizza, nor an arsenic pizza, nor a cedar-chip pizza, nor a brick-dust pizza. How about a [tire-rims-and-anthrax pizza](https://www.balloon-juice.com/2009/02/05/youll-never-get-this-21-minutes-of-your-life-back/)? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/76 "2019-05-02T20:58:02Z")
Pizza toppings I actively like: - Ham/Canadian bacon - Mushrooms - Extra cheese Toppings I’ll put up with if they’re all that’s available: - Pepperoni - Sausage - Black olives - Chicken Toppings I’ll pick off: - Anything that doesn’t impart a strong negative flavor (example: tomatoes, spinach) Toppings that will make me avoid the pizza: - Jalapenos - Onions - Peppers (any kind) - Garlic Toppings that are an abomination unto God and shouldn’t be anywhere near a pizza: - Pineapple. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/77 "2019-05-02T23:07:20Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > Well, then I am a pizza-prude. Dough. Sauce. Mozzarella. That’s it. That’s all I eat. If you give me a topping I’m picking it off. Then I guess I’m a pizza slut. I’m okay with pretty much any toppings. Heck, I’ve eaten a pizza that had M&M’s as a topping. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/78 "2019-05-02T23:31:35Z")
We had pizza at work today. There were four: Large BBQ. That’s bacon, onion, bbq sauce & regular mozz. I think also pepperoni but can’t be certain. Large sausage, green pepper, onion. ‘Stadium-size’ sausage only. Small cheese. Here in Chicago, we usually cut thin crust pizza into ‘squares’ ranging from 2 to 4 but typically right around 3 inches a side. I took a quick visual survey around 2pm, after the eating rush. Approx half (40-60%) of the first three on the list were gone. One, ONE segment of the cheese only was taken. Not even a whole square since they’re cut from round pies. Me? I had one each of bbq and sausage, green pepper & onion. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/79 "2019-05-03T00:09:25Z")
I’m not fussy, but I hate it when they put onions or green peppers that are cut into large rings. How am I suppose to eat that? You bite a big onion ring and drag all the cheese and sauce off the rest of the slice? Cut up the onions and peppers into bite size pieces, please! Same for salads. No rings! ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247/80 "2019-05-03T00:15:09Z")
I made a Keto crust pizza, tonight. Fathead crust. None of that cauliflower business. Anyway, I like a substantial pizza, and I added to mine, pepperoncini, mushrooms, onions, olives, roasted garlic cloves, red bell pepper, and pepperoni, with a provolone/mozzarella mixi. I made my daughter one, as well. Hers only had sausage, ham, and pepperoni, though. Hers also had the provolone/mozzarella mix. She’s not very much into vegetable toppings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-dislikes-more-pizza-toppings-than-likes/833247.md?page=5)