Mundane and pointless, to be sure. Pizza didn’t used to be layered with so much pepperoni that you couldn’t see the cheese, did it? When did this happen? It’s gross, and usurps the balance of a delicious pizza. I don’t want to go without it, and I don’t want to pick it off. I’ve tried in vain to address the issue at the outset.
Me: “can you go light on the pepperoni?”
Pizza Guy: “we don’t have light pepperoni.”
Me: “can I have mushrooms, and can you use about half the amount of pepperoni as usual?”
Pizza Guy: “so you want half pepperoni, half mushroom?”
I don’t want to go so far as to ask for exactly one dozen slices of pepperoni on my pizza. I am not Adrian Monk. I do not want to be the high maintenance restaurant patron who earns the scorn of every food prep worker behind the counter.
But it usedta be that you got maybe 2 or 3 pieces of pepperoni per slice of pizza. Now it seems like you get that per bite. If I wanted that, I’d just gnaw on the stick.
Domino’s had, at one time (and maybe still does) something on the order of Pepperoni Lovers Pizza. Or maybe it was Pizza Hut. Whoever. I blame them. I got that once, seeing as I love pepperoni, and the damn thing was dripping in grease. Yick.
See, my Pepperoni Peeve is when they layer it under the cheese. Then it never gets properly cooked and crispy around the edges the way proper pepperoni should.
Now, completely covered in pepperoni is, I agree, a tad excessive and should only be reserved for “Pepperoni Assplosion” type recipes, a specialty item. I wouldn’t have them take it back if I got it that way, though. I’d probably end up alternating: Bite of pizza, solitary pepproni. Bite of pizza, solitary pepperoni.
That way I partially denude the pizza of half its pepperoni, this progressively restoring its balance without wasting the meaty goodness.
i was gonna say they misspelled pepperoni and pineapple pizza is the most disgusting thing that could be on a pizza, next to anchovies and pineapple, and I’d rather die than even look at a slice of it.
I do love pepperoni. I have eaten fried pepperoni sandwiches on buttered white bread. But, as an ice cream sundae can in fact have too much hot fudge, a pizza can have too much pepperoni.
Re: pineapple, Hawaiian style is tasty, but it doesn’t appease the primitive cravepizza impulse in my brain. And canned mushrooms are an outright abomination.
Sausage leaves chunks trapped on the shower drain that you’ve got to pick out manually after you’ve rinsed the despondent kitten.