Too cool!
It was to me, and it turns out I’m a swing vote.
You had an asscheek all to yourself? I dreamed of my luxury like that. We had one asscheek that the whole family shared when my dad hadn’t hocked it for liquor.
It depends where you are ordering it, and what it says on the menu. At Ben’s on Spring St, it is called cheeseless pizza. Cafe Viva on Broadway & 97th calls it pizza pura. At Pizza Box on Bleecker, it’s called a marinara pie.
If the menu says cheeseless vegetable pizza or whatever specific name they have for it, then that’s what it’s called in that particular place. And if it’s not on the menu, you can ask for it to be made for you with your choice of toppings. For example: eggplant and zucchini with tomato and roasted garlic or roasted red and sweet peppers with caramelized onions, olives and artichokes.
Your pizza joints need to fall in line with Portland Pie Company. All pizzas are named.
“I’d like a Harbormaster please, with the beer batter crust, and what the hell, give us a Vactionlander too.”
It’s very New York Deli … where one might be able to order a Tommy Tune on rye or a Jerry Orbach, hold the mustard.
Just because you haven’t noticed it on a menu doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Along the lines of ‘regular’ gas and pizza, how about asking for a ‘regular’ cup of coffee? Depending on the part of the US you are in, you’ll get anything from black to white to cream&sugar. 
There’s nothing wrong with giving exact change, so long as you’re prepared to do so in an expeditious manner. I have a second job as a cashier at a big-box retailer. (I won’t say which one, but you’ll a lot of red and khaki in my closet.) Our transactions are timed and rated based on an algorithm that takes into account how many items were entered and the average time a transaction of that size should take. It does not factor in the type of payment used and the average time it takes to count change, write a check or hem and haw trying to remember your PIN. If fewer than 85 percent of my transactions are “green,” I start getting into trouble. If if a lot of cashiers wind up going red, the whole store faces repercussions from corporate.
So if you have your coin purse or handful of change ready to go when the total comes up, that’s great – knock yourself out paying with correct change. If you wait until I announce your total and finish bagging and get everything in your cart to drag out your wallet and start counting pennies, rest assured, I will be screaming inside. Smiling and wishing you a great day on the outside, sure, but screaming inside.
I’ve lived here nearly all my life too. You need to open your eyes a bit more. Not everyone eats cheese.
Man, I don’t think you’ll convince anyone that a cheeseless pizza is “common.” It might be available at a lot of pizza places, but “common” it ain’t.
The question isn’t of its existence, but of its popularity to the point of needing to specify a pizza “with cheese” in order to get cheese. You may well live on the Cape Of The White Calzone, but honestly, everywhere else if a server asks a patron if they want cheese on their pizza they’re going to get a very odd look indeed.
I’ve got family in the pizza biz in western New York … white pizza is, and has been, pretty common there too.
I’ve lived in NYC/NJ for 38 of my 42 years. Pizza by default is not as you describe it, you are describing the options not the norm. If you ask for Pizza you get cheese and sauce, you have to ask for the white pizza to not get sauce and cheeseless pizza is abnormal. I have two pizza menus in front of me as I type this just to verify reality.
The ‘open your eyes a bit’ is foolish on your part.
White Pizza has cheese though.
Well thanks a lot. Now both my asscheeks, previously shiny and white, are squelching in a puddle of warm piss.
Hey I didn’t say I was in the pizza biz, what the hell do I know?
No one, but the cashier doesn’t want a drawer full of pennies and dimes, nor do they want their transaction time slowed down (lots of business record this).
A better option for everyone involved is to save up your coinage in a jar or whatever at home, then either A) go to a bank that has a coin-counting machine and get usable cash or B) go to the bank, get some coin rolls and fill them, then return to the bank and deposit/trade the rolled coins.
I’m not violently anti-change like some people, but for god’s sake do not be that guy who tries to pay for anything more than a dollar or two in coins. I once had a guy try to buy a nine-dollar movie ticket using loose change (and not all quarters); I told him I couldn’t accept that. Not only would it take forever to count out, but it can also really screw up your balance of usable bills and coins in your drawer.
It’s not just old people with the exact change thing. I have a coworker who does this. She waits until she gets all they way to the cashier and then dumps out the 6 pounds of shrapnel in her pocket to pick through and count out the exact change for a latte.
Then she asks for a receipt, so that she can turn in the expense on her expense report.
She does not buy anything for herself. Sixty five cent bag of chips? Exact change, receipt, expense report.
Shit, I mean, I expense my meals and other travel expenses, but by general rule if I would buy it for myself at home (like a cup of coffee or some juice to keep in the hotel room fridge), I pay for it when I travel also.
“Go to a bank”? Isn’t that awfully old-fashioned? I haven’t gone to a bank in decades, except to use the drive-through ATM.
Around these parts, we have coin-counting machines in many supermarkets. Yes, they charge about nine cents to count a dollar’s worth of change, but unless you’re just absolutely desperately poor it would seem to be a matter of consideration and good manners not to keep foisting huge amounts of small change off on others.