In Praise of Cold Pizza

Cold pizza is great. I prefer plain cheese.

I moved away from New Jersey about 11 years ago. Yes, there is a difference in pizza quality - I had better pizza in NJ than in San Fran, although there is excellent pizza here. But cold, the difference is more marked than when warm. The too-thick crust doesn’t make as good cold pizza as the nice, thin crust I used to get.

And people who warm it up in the morning? pfft…

Joe

Cold pizza is good. Hot is better. The only reason to eat cold pizza is because it’s hard to get 1 serving of pizza delivered. IMHO

Cold pizza? Hell, yeah! That’s what specials were made for-a few slices to eat now, and the rest to be a meal for tomorrow. :smiley:

Pizza reheated by means of a toaster oven or some arcane cast iron process may be acceptable. Pizza reheated by bombarding it with microwaves is an abomination unto the Lord.

Cold pizza is what pizza is for, IMO. Hot pizza is nice, but in most cases I’m only eating it hot because I’m too impatient to let to go cold.

Well, you’ve got your cold-pizza pizzas, and your hot-pizza pizzas. Which one to order depends on when you most want to enjoy it.

If it’s a breakfast of manna you’re after, get yourself a hand-tossed chicken (or pepperoni if chicken’s not available) and pineapple, eat a couple token slices when you get it, and put the rest in the fridge for an all-morning snack-a-thon tomorrow.

If it’s dinnertime and you’re feeling that piping hot, melty-cheese, scalding-sauce, crispy-crust craving, order up a large thin-crust meat lover’s (or equivalent) and go to town. It’s not quite as good cold – chilled Italian sausage, while serviceable, doesn’t really strike my fancy – but, man, it’ll hit the hot-pizza pizza spot like nothing else.

Female checking in. Yes, I like cold pizza. It can’t be plain, though. I like cold pizza with a couple of toppings; pepperoni, sausage, green peppers.

I’ll sometimes reheat it, but never, ever in the microwave. I have a pizza stone that works just fine for returning cold pizza to its fresh-from-the-oven goodness. It keeps the crust from getting all soggy.

Yea, Brother, thou speakest truth!

I like pizza with a spicy tomato sauce; the spicier the sauce, the better it tastes, hot or cold. And the crust should be thin, just a little something to hold the sauce, cheese, and toppings. After decades of living in various places in the midwest and on the west coast, I am back in the northeast, the land of delicious pizza. It really is better here.

Cold pizza is good, but only certain kinds. For instance, I can eat cold cheese pizza, but I can’t eat cold deluxe pizza (the kind with olives, mushrooms, onions, peppers, sausage, etc.) I can eat cold pepperoni pizza but not cold sausage pizza.

And TripleTee is right - heat your leftovers up in a skillet. That way the crust comes out right.

Cold. Pizza. Pwns. All. It is pwnage wrapped in more pwnage dipped in pwnage.

And i’m clearly not the only female who thinks so, as it would appear other females are praising it highly. As well they should be.

May I suggest the following:

1 slice cold pizza

Heat in microwave until cheese melts (45 seconds for me)

Sprinkle two tablespoons white sugar on it.

Enjoy breakfast heaven.

OK, I guess I’m the only one: I HATE COLD PIZZA. I’ve never liked it. Believe me, I’ve had it put in front of me on many hungover mornings, and even then I couldn’t eat it. I like it OK hot, though.

Cold pizza is great anytime. It just usually doesn’t last past breakfast.

Heh, I just posted in another thread about how I think cold pizza sucks, and I was completely unaware of this thread at the time. But yeah. We do order extra pizza to have leftovers, but I always reheat mine (in the microwave, no less!).

And I’m a girl, just to reinforce the OP’s suggestion that cold pizza is “a guy thing.”

Sugar? Sugar!? That’s it, your Doper membership is revoked. Gimme your gun and your badge.

Hot pizza is very good; cold pizza is very good too. The local chain does a buy 1 get 1 half price deal so I can have one hot and one cold the next day.

Christine Lavin has a song about cold pizza for breakfast. Somehow I think it’s titled “Cold Pizza.” Catchy little tune about a true delicacy

Is no one going to comment about the ESPN show of the same name?

I didn’t think that cold pizza was anywhere that popular, until I heard that was the title.

I do the cold pizza, but I have never had it for breakfast. I always held it for lunch or a snack the day after. I always looked forward to it in the morning.

Pepperoni and Pineapple. I don’t think I have ever done that one, but it makes sense immediately. (I’ve done Ham and Pineapple TONS of times).

I want pizza now. For some reason.

I don’t know about Sugar… don’t know if I should be tempted.

Preach on, brother.

When I was a young buck, I would sometimes have cold spaghetti and a couple of beers for breakfast, to impress my cohorts, even though I secretly hated having that for breakfast. I’m guessing it might be the same with this thread and cold pizza.