# Japanese pizza **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542 "2009-12-09T01:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/21 "2009-12-09T13:17:00Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Can’t you order the one that had the crust, marinara and cheese to leave off the mayo and other non american traditional stuff? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/22 "2009-12-09T13:35:00Z")
The oddest pizza I ever had (but very, very good!) was a Maryland Seafood pizza at a little brick-oven pizza place/microbrewery in western Maryland (sadly, they went out of business. . .). Thin, crispy, brick-oven crust; covered (in place of marinara, which probably would have overpowered the seafood) with something like a thinned-out crab dip (combo of crab meat, cream cheese and spices), topped with tiny shrimp, an Italian 6-cheese blend, and topped finally with _fresh_ diced tomatoes _after_ it came out of the oven! Mmmmmmm. As a bonus, you could order, for $5.00, their “beer sampler”: 6 4oz glasses of whatever their featured micro-brews were that day! Hubby and I would go there on “Two-fer Tuesday”, when it was buy one pizza, get one free. ---
**Author:** ![Elvis\_Chimney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/50afbb/32.png) [@Elvis\_Chimney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis_Chimney)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/23 "2009-12-09T13:36:12Z")
I had a Haggis pizza for dinner last night. It was very nice indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/24 "2009-12-09T13:36:51Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > A brand of Mayo available in Japan, comes in a squeeze bottle. Oh… odd. Is it actually a license of the original comics/toys, or is it a borrowed name or odd coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/25 "2009-12-09T14:01:41Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > Another weird one in many Australian pizza parlors is The Aussie pizza which has a fried egg on it. Fried egg is actually a very traditional pizza topping. You’re supposed to crack it on the pizza raw and ‘fry’ it in the pizza oven with the pizza. I can’t get it to cook fast enough in my home oven. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/26 "2009-12-09T14:27:29Z")
The oddest pizza I’ve had was in Buenos Aires: a white pizza (cheese but no tomago sauce) topped with hearts-of-palm. It was pretty good. Argentina had a lot of immigration from Italy, and has an amazing range of pizzas. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/27 "2009-12-09T14:36:20Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > Another weird one in many Australian pizza parlors is The Aussie pizza which has a fried egg on it. You can get that too in some places in Germany, usually in combination with spinach and garlic. It’s not bad. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/28 "2009-12-09T15:13:09Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > When I first moved to Japan in the early 80s, “pizza” was a crust, ketchup sauce and a bit of cheese. Fortunately there were a few Shakey’s around with American style pizza. Even better, they had all you can eat lunches. Ah yes, Shakeys! I remember going there to indulge in “pizza”. In our local one there’d be lots of the squid and nori variety left over, and the meaty ones or the tomatoey ones would be snatched out of the server’s hands before they could put them out on the lunch bar! I saw one advertised the other day with kimchee on it. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/29 "2009-12-09T15:47:18Z")
> [@Elvis\_Chimney](#): > > I had a Haggis pizza for dinner last night. It was very nice indeed. Its even better when its Lutefisk Haggis 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/30 "2009-12-09T16:16:36Z")
In 1982 when I first moved to Korea a new pizza place had opened up in Hannam Village. I was there on opening night and the pizza was awful, my kids would not eat it. So I did the neighborly thing and went back to the kitchen and spoke to the manager. I spent the next hour teaching them how to make a pizza. Ate there once a week for two years, always got free pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Elvis\_Chimney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/50afbb/32.png) [@Elvis\_Chimney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis_Chimney)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/31 "2009-12-09T16:19:04Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Its even better when its Lutefisk Haggis 🙂 You just blew my mind. Might be gilding the lily a bit though… 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 9, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/32 "2009-12-09T16:24:04Z")
Dave Barry mentioned the ubiquity of corn in Japanese food, most surprisingly in pizza. I have to admit that I’d find it weird (not to mention the presence of mayonnaise) Here in the US, one store sold “Chinese Food Pizza”, which had different types of Chinese Food simply placed atop your generic red-sauce-and-mozzarella pizza. Pepper Mill says that she and her friends were doing that kind of thing long ago. Speaking of which, at one of our Bad Film Festivals we had a “make your own pizza Bar” for refreshments, and pepper Mill made a dessert pizza of sliced apples and some sort of white sauce atop a traditional crust. Pizza really ought to be a mucxh more free-form food than the Marinara Sauce and Mozzarella Cheese that we have pigeonholed it as. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/33 "2009-12-09T16:44:31Z")
Worst, I’ve had is in Germany, where canned tuna on pizza is very popular. Bleccchhh! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/34 "2009-12-09T17:22:28Z")
I’ve added surimi (artificially-crab-flavored processed whitefish) chunks to various pizzas at home, along with extra sauce or fried tomato slices. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/35 "2009-12-09T17:24:13Z")
A small chain in NH called Foodies had (has?) a Reuben Pizza, with all of the normal Reuben ingredients (corned beef, kraut, thousand island dressing, swiss cheese). It’s actually quite good. I had some abominations called pizza in Nepal, where they basically call anything served on flat bread “pizza”. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/36 "2009-12-09T17:29:53Z")
> [@Elvis\_Chimney](#): > > You just blew my mind. Might be gilding the lily a bit though… 🙂 To be fair, I stole that horrible concept from someone else in the Lutefisk thread. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/37 "2009-12-09T17:51:18Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#): > > Worst, I’ve had is in Germany, where canned tuna on pizza is very popular. Bleccchhh! If it was missing the egg, then definitely bleccchh! With the egg, OTOH, that’s good eats 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/38 "2009-12-09T22:44:52Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#): > > Worst, I’ve had is in Germany, where canned tuna on pizza is very popular. Bleccchhh! Actually, the only time I went to Europe, I mistakenly ordered something similar thinking it was chicken. I got two slices of Tuna Pizza, and actually it was quite Divine. I’ve always wanted to go back and try to get some more of it. It was I believe in Vatican City that I got the pizza- if there’s one thing those Vaticans know how to do… it’s Cafeteria style delicious Tuna Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/39 "2009-12-09T23:14:50Z")
I was hoping this thread was going to be about [okonomiyaki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki), which is sometimes described as “Japanese pizza” despite not really resembling pizza very much. When I lived in Japan I only ate pizza in Italian restaurants, but I would get flyers in my mailbox for local delivery places that offered some (to my mind) pretty weird selections. Like tuna, squid, or cut up pieces of hard-boiled egg. That last one came with mayonnaise too, for those who really love egg products I guess. Oh yeah, and there was one that had a RAW egg cracked in the middle. Compared to that, the popularity of corn as a pizza topping in Japan seemed pretty mundane. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/40 "2009-12-10T00:23:44Z")
Mr. Pizza Factory “Potato Gold” potato wedges, bacon, corn kernels, ground beef, a drizzle of sour cream, a crust stuffed with sweet potato puree. It was “good”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542.md?page=3)