When the team I manage at work exceeds all their productivity goals for the month by a set amount, I buy pizza for the lot of them on the first Friday of the next month. This comes to seven pizzas. The top two associates for the month each get to completely design a pizza if they choose to. Of the remainder, one is pepperoni, one is sausage, one is pepperoni & sausage, one is meatless, one is multi-meat, and the other is whatever the hell I want it to be.
I don’t allow voting here. Why? Because I can’t be arsed.
Why, yes, I did just order seven pizzas to be delivered tomorrow.
I hate the guy who really pushes for Hawaiian or taco pizza. Nearly everything else you can get from a standard pizza chain is solid Italian-American ingredients or a close enough substitute. They never want half either. Who are these jerks that launch into, “Hey, what about Hawaiian, everybody?”. 95% of the room is fine with anything between cheese and supreme, but you had to attempt to sabotage that with your damn pineapple.
Yeah, we had a family tradition where we went to the local pizza place every Friday only to have Dad order the thick crust Supreme, which meant that the youngest child (me) would spend half his dinner picking all the crap that he didn’t like. Dad’s response when I complained? “Get a job and buy your own pizza”.
Everybody who could be involved knows that everyone else is okay with “classic” pizza toppings like vegetables, sausage, and pepperoni, and less okay with weirder stuff like barbecue and pineapple. So whoever is paying just orders a selection of regular ol’ pizzas, and everyone is happy.
My wife and I often get Hawaiian pizza, and the two kids usually just get cheese pizza. Otherwise, the wife and I decide on what we want and I don’t push for Hawaiian at work or other places.
There is a local place that serves a sliced meatballs and sausage pizza that is tres awesome. I recommend that.
As someone who grew up in Hawaii, I’d like to say that the abomination known as “Hawaiian Pizza” to the degenerate Haoles isn’t in-fact something Hawaiian. A Hawaiian Pizza would likely have Portuguese Sausage or Spam on it.
I would hope that my friends and family aren’t scared of me! :eek: Seriously, nobody ever asks for anything crazy on the pizza; we’re always dealing with some combination of pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, bell peppers, onions, spinach, jalapenos, mushrooms or something else very ordinary. No one ever orders the chopped liver and anchovies pizza.
I’m a pepperoni-only guy, and there don’t seem to be many people who dislike pepperoni pizza, so that’s an easy sell. Sometimes, though, we do half-and-half; my wife likes pepperoni, sausage, and mushroom, and the little Torqueling likes nothing better than eating all the mushrooms off a pizza.
