At work there’s bound to be a pepperoni and a cheese and maybe another meat combo. There might be some vegetable combo too but that wouldn’t interest me so I’m not sure. If I had my druthers I would prefer not to share pizza in the first place. If any “Friends” fans are reading this, think Joey on the date with the girl that took food off his plate. That’s why at home the boyfriend and I each get our own pie so he can put whatever abomination he wants on it and it won’t spread like a toxic waste spill onto my side ,which will be covered in delicious bacon. Also, he eats three times more than I do so if I got the toppings he likes I’d never get more than one piece.
I only rarely order pizzas with a group, but the group I do order pizzas with is a snake pit of “allergies” and preferences.
Generally, we end up with one pizza for the fussy people – vegetarian, with some veggies specifically excluded – and one that’s basically “you know, pizza”.
As long as it has pineapple on it the rest of the toppings don’t matter. If people don’t agree with this then they are invited to leave, never return* and lose my phone number.
*Even if it’s their house.
When you order from the Cheese Board, you don’t have to make decisions like this.
But to answer the question directly, my wife (a doper, incidentally) and I both like the same kind of pizzas–2 or 3 toppings, usually pepperoni + mushroom + (tomato/jalapenos). Never sausage.
Edit: OK, I lied. If it’s a really nice place and they have a fennel sausage, we will order that.
The proper way to handle it is to find out what the youngest one wants. Then ignore him and leave him home alone
At home, we usually order two pies, one simple cheese or pepperoni for the kids, and then something more loaded for my wife and I (we have similar tastes). In a work or social situation, I just defer to whatever everybody else wants. It’s just pizza, I don’t care.
Half and half.
No body will let me put anchovies on our pizzas. So i lose.
Lowest common denominator. If somebody hates mushrooms, it’s out. If somebody hates black olives, it’s out. So we get a few toppings that everyone agrees on. Sometimes somebody is nice enough to say they can pick the unwanted topping off.
It’s the worst when I decide to make things ‘easier on myself’ and order pizza when we are having a party.
We have a friend who does not eat cheese
One who does not eat tomato sauce
One that will not eat vegetables
Two vegetarians
One who insists on pineapple (no one else likes it)
One who will not eat pepperoni
Two who don’t eat mushrooms
And I don’t eat bacon (I was traumatized by it as a youth)
It takes me about half an hour to figure out the right proportions.
Same here. But at least they put my anchovies in a little plastic container on the side. Having even half anchovies is enough to pollute the other half of the pie and render it an abomination that cries out to God for his mercy and intervention. This is a calamity that no one should have to endure (according to my wife).
Outside of anchovies, it’s never tough. Everybody’s pretty easy.
I don’t like pepperoni. At all. Nor do I like green peppers, which my parents liked to get on their pizza. So I basically never got to try any pizza toppings, and have enjoyed my cheese pizzas enough to not consider ever trying any. These days the only time I have pizza is usually at the same small chain (Buddy’s in the Detroit area) , where we get an antipasto salad with meat on the side, then my mother puts the extra meat on her part of the cheese pizza.
About the only time I eat pizza is at work. In my small crew, we have two “garbage pie” on a thick crust guys (but they’ll eat anything in the form of leftovers), one who doesn’t eat pork for religious reasons, two who like “regular” pizza and me, who doesn’t like pepperoni, green peppers or green olives on mine (but I do like anchovies…do I ever get them? NO).
We generally order one large supreme or meat lovers on thick crust, one large chicken/veggie/cheese (depending on mood) on thin crust for me and the non-pork eater and two large pepperoni/ sausage on medium crusts for the “regular” pizza guys and for extra.
I can usually get away with two-three slices, but the no-pork guy has a bigger appetite, so he usually finishes off the pie. Everybody else can eat 1/2 pizza +, so they go to town on the extra one ordered.
We pretty much have a standing order for once a month at Jett’s, delivered.
My strategy too.
If no one objects I do request onions but not a big deal.
WOW.
IIRC, 50% of pizzas ever ordered have pepperoni on them*.
*No cite offhand, but I want to say an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Annecdotally, it would seem to fit my personal experience that half of the pizzas have pepperoni on them.
It’s funny, I do like thinly sliced pepperoni on a cracker now and then, but I don’t like it heated in any form. Anyway, it eliminates a good share of pizzas for me.
Ditto. We actually could agree on the toppings, that’s not where our pizza rift manifests itself. It’s the crust. I’m a thin and crispy kind of guy, she wants a thinker crust. Thus two pizzas. We each get two (me) or three (her) meals out of a pizza order.
Actually, it’s 36%
*Favorite Pizza Toppings in the United States
Pepperoni is by far America’s favorite topping, (36% of all pizza orders). Approximately 251,770,000 pounds of pepperoni are consumed on pizzas annually. Other popular pizza toppings are mushrooms, extra cheese, sausage, green pepper and onions.*