# Oh, so you like loaded pizza, huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761 "2015-03-11T15:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/41 "2015-03-11T21:53:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > My cardinal rule is: don’t let other people order pizza, regardless of the occasion. The last time I got cornered into doing this, my neighbor went on the cheap and bought one of those god-awful Papa Murphy cardboard atrocities. Worst pizza this side of one of those frozen horrors. > > Also, I’m a big fan of pepperoni and pineapple. I like the sweet-salty combination. Don’t judge me. 😛 Seriously? Papa Murphy’s pizza is better than any frozen option and better than half the delivery options. I would never describe them as cardboard. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/42 "2015-03-11T21:55:07Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Worst pizza this side of one of those frozen horrors. > > Also, I’m a big fan of pepperoni and pineapple. I like the sweet-salty combination. Don’t judge me. 😛 I dunno, there’s something about Totinos that makes me like them. Maybe they aren’t _pizza_, but they \*are \*cheap and tasty. _mene mene tekel upharsin_ ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/43 "2015-03-11T21:56:07Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I also have a little of everything, and i will start with plain cheese then work my way up. > > I’d say _no_ Hawaiian, based on the fact that Hawaiian pizza lovers will happily eat other varieties but no one else will touch Hawaiian. That’s probably true… but 1) my wife attends any event I’m involve in buying pizza for, and she likes Hawaiian and 2) we rarely have any of the Hawaiian left, and I know she’s only eating a slice or two. We’re up near Seattle if that makes any difference. It might be a regional thing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/44 "2015-03-11T21:57:31Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Don’t judge me either, Wolfman or Dr. Deth. Say what you like about pineapple, but for redeeming value you’d be hard put to beat the papain in pineapple. Mahalo. I love pineapple, to me Dole Whip is something the angels get to eat everyday and us mere mortals only a few times. But _cooked_? On a pizza? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/45 "2015-03-11T21:57:44Z")
“If you mess around, no blame me when bad stuffs happen to you!!” ---
**Author:** ![Cephkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cephkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cephkiller)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/46 "2015-03-11T22:18:03Z")
Looks like I’ve touched a nerve. I’m glad I’m not the only one who has noticed this phenomenon. It’s not unanimous, but it’s close enough to feel vindicated. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/47 "2015-03-11T22:26:02Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Yo dog, I heard you liked pizza, so I made you a pizza stuffed pizza crust, so you can eat pizza while you eat pizza. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/48 "2015-03-11T22:47:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I love pineapple, to me Dole Whip is something the angels get to eat everyday and us mere mortals only a few times. But _cooked_? On a pizza? You betcha! pepperoni and pineapple is a divine combination on a pizza. Sprinkle with a little red pepper flake and you have some good eatin’! ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/49 "2015-03-11T23:03:03Z")
My wife’s the meat-eater, I’m the veggie-lover. We usually compromise by getting a half-pepperoni and half-mushroom. I’ve been very careful ordering it, though, since the day that one idiot pizza-maker put the pepperoni and mushrooms on the same side, and left the other side with only cheese. “That’s what you ordered!” he said. Since then I’ve been careful to ask for “half pepperoni and _ **the other half** _ mushroom.” And I don’t go to that pizzeria anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/50 "2015-03-11T23:42:05Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > Seriously? Papa Murphy’s pizza is better than any frozen option and better than half the delivery options. I would never describe them as cardboard. Seriously. Perhaps it’s just this franchise, but I’ve been unfortunate enough to have two of their pizzas over the past five years and both were nearly inedible. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/51 "2015-03-11T23:58:01Z")
I’ve had Papa Murphy’s a few times and it has always been pretty good. This thread is interesting to me… My company seems to order pizza often for lunch meetings and they frequently put the leftovers on a counter not too far from my work area. Almost always there is lots of Cheese, Pepperoni, and some multi-meat. There are usually only a few pieces left of Supreme, Veggie, and yes even Hawaiian. Those last three are the ones that always get snatched up first, with the Cheese and Pepperoni left at the end of the night. Barbecue seems to be the one people really clamor over though and there is rarely any of that left. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/52 "2015-03-12T02:22:02Z")
I stupidly once let a student order the ten pizzas for a club meeting. He ordered nine pepperoni (everyone likes pepperoni) and one cheese pizza. That was a bit too limited in choices. We’ll now do 2 cheese, 1 veggie, 2 supreme, 2 pepperoni and 3 pepperoni/sausage. Except when I know someone is eating kosher, then I’ll get another veggie as well. My favorite combination: sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and black olives with extra cheese. We had a Waldo’s chain here where this was called the “Barnstormer” and was their most popular combination. Needless to say, it wasn’t a thin-crust pizza. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/53 "2015-03-12T02:48:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You betcha! pepperoni and pineapple is a divine combination on a pizza. Sprinkle with a little red pepper flake and you have some good eatin’! We don’t often disagree about food, my friend, but pineapple on pizza is an abomination! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/54 "2015-03-12T03:16:14Z")
In Brooklyn, pineapple on pizza would be a hanging offense. In fact, I haven’t seen a pizzeria here that offers the option. I worked ten years at an establishment famed for its vegetarians, and also noticed that the pepperoni and sausage pies were consumed far in advance of the veggies. Like Arthur Schwartz says about Jews loving Chinese food, “If I can’t see the pork, it doesn’t count.” ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/55 "2015-03-12T03:34:31Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Then the other thing that happens is when a group is say, half vegetarian and half not. So they order pizzas: half of them cheese or vegetable, and half with pepperoni/sausage/etc. > > At which point the meat eaters look at the pizzas and say “Oh, I like mushroom. And I’ll take a plain cheese, too. Plus one pepperoni.” So after one go-round all the cheese and vegetable ones are gone, while the still-hungry vegetarians look at all the extra sausage slices lying there. Yep. This tends to happen too much when the veggie option is just cheese or one veg topping. Loaded veggie doesn’t tend to get eaten up by meat folks, but they will grab a cheese or mushroom slice. (I am a meat eater, aside from Lent, FWIW) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/56 "2015-03-12T05:22:53Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > In Brooklyn, pineapple on pizza would be a hanging offense. In fact, I haven’t seen a pizzeria here that offers the option. > > I worked ten years at an establishment famed for its vegetarians, and also noticed that the pepperoni and sausage pies were consumed far in advance of the veggies. Like Arthur Schwartz says about Jews loving Chinese food, “If I can’t see the pork, it doesn’t count.” I haven’t been within maybe a thousand miles of Brooklyn (Beech Grove, Indiana). So I’ll stick with pineapple - studded pizza, Ike. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/57 "2015-03-12T09:56:44Z")
I like Hawaiian with jalapeños added to give it a kick and balance the sweetness of the pineapple. I’ll eat whatever you get, though, as long as you don’t overdo the olives. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/58 "2015-03-12T12:33:46Z")
This is why you DON’T ASK. Just order. There’s very little I hate more than the half hour argument that inevitably follows the words, “Who’s in for pizza?” Some princess doesn’t get their special mushroom, olive, and ham white pesto pizza, they’re just shit outta luck. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/59 "2015-03-12T12:52:30Z")
I’m not a big fan of just pepperoni, but this thread has been educational about why I need to order it more often when ordering for groups. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/60 "2015-03-12T13:19:17Z")
I used to be a pepperoni purist, but now I’ve learned to enjoy select other ingredients. But I do like to enjoy those ingredients, so don’t like the pizza overloaded with too many toppings. Some lovely combos I enjoy: Smoked salmon and arugula pineapple and salami chicken tikka masala and cilantro [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761.md?page=4)