# 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:** 4
**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 12, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/61 "2015-03-12T14:16:08Z")
> [@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. Nor would I expect them to. If I get a chance to eat NY pizza, I go for pepperoni or plain. Nothing else to get in the way of the slice. But in California (a whole 'nother country) pizza mutates and evolves. Hell, one of my favorites is a pizza with BBQ sauce, grilled chicken and onions. That would get your _whole family_ hung east of St. Louis! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/62 "2015-03-12T14:22:05Z")
I’m the easiest pizza guest: I like any toppings. But when ordering for myself a nice Midwesstern thin crust, sausage is a must. Don’t much care for pepperoni myself, but I’ll eat it. Add mushrooms and/or green peppers to that, if you wish. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/63 "2015-03-12T14:51:42Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > 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. If this were Reddit, you’d be getting an upvote now. 🙂 Group pizza ordering is different than ordering for a few people. With a few people you order what everyone wants. With a group of people you don’t order what each person wants, you have to order so that there are options for everyone. It’s an important difference. I would say that most people who like supreme pizzas are not picky eaters and would be willing to eat pizzas with fewer toppings. The opposite isn’t as likely to be true. Picky eaters only go for a single topping or two. I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who would eat a supreme pizza, but would object any one of those toppings on a one-ingredient pizza. You have to order for the least common denominator by keeping the choices simple. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/64 "2015-03-12T15:38:02Z")
When I get a large order from a business it is usually for 10 Pizzas. It will be 5 Pepperoni, 3 cheese, 2 supreme. No business has ever included a Hawaiian. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/65 "2015-03-12T19:46:17Z")
I’m an expert at removing unwanted items from pizza. My parent often ordered Supreme. A couple minutes with a fork and I had the gross stuff like mushrooms, olives, and onion removed from the slices on my plate. Its a useful skill thats served me well. My personal favorite order is beef, Canadian bacon, and pineapple. Or sometimes just beef and sausage if I’m certain the restaurant doesn’t use spicy sausage. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/66 "2015-03-12T19:54:23Z")
I have learned not to order pizza at the fancy places. They goop on this chunky gross tomato sauce. Big nasty chunks of tomato. ☹ Did I mention that I dislike tomato? I can tolerate it in a sauce or ketchup. I don’t want to see or bite into any tomato chunks. Theres no way to salvage a pizza like that. I just won’t eat it. Thats only a problem at the fancy, hoity-toity places. Chains like Pappa Johns and Pizza hut make a traditional sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/67 "2015-03-12T20:09:44Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > I run St Louis’s BEST and most authentic New York Style Pizzeria. If I find out that you use Provel, I’m going to have to ask that you rescind that comment. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/68 "2015-03-12T20:12:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m an expert at removing unwanted items from pizza. My parent often ordered Supreme. A couple minutes with a fork and I had the gross stuff like mushrooms, olives, and onion removed from the slices on my plate. > > Its a useful skill thats served me well. > > My personal favorite order is beef, Canadian bacon, and pineapple. Or sometimes just beef and sausage if I’m certain the restaurant doesn’t use spicy sausage. Yes but some things leave their nasty funk behind. Dexterous you may be, but the body odor like stench of onion cannot be disappeared once it has touched the pizza. Same with olives. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/69 "2015-03-13T01:56:30Z")
I love pepperoni, have eaten pepperoni pizza for decades. Lately I’ve been eating a lot of supremes (loaded pizzas), and single-topping seems so bland now. But at a party, I’d probably pig out on pepperoni anyway. Something about the context. (And I think supremes may make me gassier?) ---
**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 13, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/70 "2015-03-13T02:02:10Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Yes but some things leave their nasty funk behind. Dexterous you may be, but the body odor like stench of onion cannot be disappeared once it has touched the pizza. Same with olives. Oh, come on! What’s the beef with olives?:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/71 "2015-03-13T02:17:45Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Oh, come on! What’s the beef with olives?:rolleyes: they’re vile. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/72 "2015-03-13T02:41:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If I find out that you use Provel, I’m going to have to ask that you rescind that comment. 🙂 100% whole milk mozzarella guaranteed!! ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/73 "2015-03-13T03:40:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Suddenly I wonder if there’s such a thing as a pizza buffet that starts with plain cheese slices and has trays of toppings for you to sprinkle on to your pleasure. > [@Smapti](#): > > If I find out five years from now that somebody used this idea, I am so suing. 🙂 Go to Poppie’s in New York and ask for the Kramer Special; then sit back on Poppie’s couch and await your order. ---
**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 13, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/74 "2015-03-13T04:31:33Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > they’re vile. How so? ---
**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 13, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/75 "2015-03-13T04:33:52Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I would say that most people who like supreme pizzas are not picky eaters and would be willing to eat pizzas with fewer toppings. The opposite isn’t as likely to be true. Picky eaters only go for a single topping or two. I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who would eat a supreme pizza, but would object any one of those toppings on a one-ingredient pizza. You have to order for the least common denominator by keeping the choices simple. This is somewhat true… but “willing to” and “happy about” are two different things. We don’t enjoy the single topping pizza nearly as much as the one with more layers of flavor. After hearing “we’re having pizza brought in for the meeting” and getting excited only to be let down that the most “exotic” is a pepperoni… it isn’t quite the same. Don’t get me wrong… I like a pepperoni pizza, but why do we always have to compromise? Maybe it wouldn’t kill you to make us happy too. There have been times when I told my wife we got pizza for a meeting and she will say she was thinking we could order pizza that night but we can change that, and I tell her not to because I was actually really looking forward to a “good” pizza so that sounds great for dinner. As far as “simple” pizzas go, I really like a sausage and mushroom pizza… but many of the picky eaters won’t touch it because there is “fungus” on the pizza. Sausage and onion is also good, as is sausage and green pepper… but you will meet with the same objections. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/76 "2015-03-13T05:15:14Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > How so? They just are. I’m not a really picky eater. I like pickles, I like other salty foods, other sour foods, but I just … can’t with olives. Green are gross, but black olives are the worst. I’m not exaggerating when I say they’ve triggered my gag reflex before. ☹ And I wanna be clear that I give olives more than a fair chance: I try them every 12ish months. There are other foods that I used to hate as a kid that I love now, so I want to keep an open mind, y’know? … Still can’t stand olives. They’re not even a neutral or meh flavor. They actively ruin the flavor of a dish for me (pizza is the worst, because the olive juice gets all seeped into the cheese and cooked in, so the flavor is still strongly there even if you pick them off). I WISH they didn’t. I wish I could try olives and somehow enjoy them like so many people do. But I can’t. ---
**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 13, 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/77 "2015-03-13T10:11:02Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Oh, come on! What’s the beef with olives?:rolleyes: I can take them in small quantities, but they overpower everything if you put as much of them on as you would any single topping. It’s odd that I like the taste of olive oil, but I don’t much care for olives. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/78 "2015-03-13T10:24:01Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Yep, there’s a reason pepperoni pizzas are are the #1 most popular pizza in America. > This is definitely a case where less is more. When you order a ‘junk’ pizza all it takes is for someone to not like 1 ingredient for it not to get eaten by the person. For the next person it might be a different ingredient. > > I’f found that basic cheese pizzas, and a variety of 1 or 2 topping pizzas work best. Dang It! Now I’m hungry from pizza; I might have to hit the new Whole Foods that opened up near me. This - get one specialty pizza for the gluten free person [last time I ordered a gluten free single person pizza and tagged it out for that person specifically and didn’t let anybody shark it.] Then get half cheese pizza and half pepperoni pizza, and tell people thems the breaks. Add in a vat of tossed salad with dressing on the side [get the 3 pack from a wholesale club of italian, ranch and french] and something dessertish - cupcakes work well and decide on beverages and you are done. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/79 "2015-03-13T12:12:52Z")
Loaded pizza is the work of the devil. This is one of those food moments when less is more. The quality of the bread is the thing that makes the pizza and I just want stuff that enhances it, not swamps it. The best pizza I ever had was an irregular dustbin-lid sized beast in a Sorrento side-street. Just a few slices of fresh tomato, a light sprinkling of really good mozzarella, lots of olive oil and garlic and sprinkle of olives, capers and basil. Straight out of the wood-fired furnace and onto our table. Out-fucking-standing. (Imagine what would’ve happened to me if I’d ordered pineapple in that establishment!). The key thing being that the topping was in patches, it didn’t cover the whole thing and the ratio of top to base was perfect. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761/80 "2015-03-13T13:50:16Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > How so? I think they’re disgusting and they make anything they touch disgusting. seriously, I really really find their flavor to be extremely off-putting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-so-you-like-loaded-pizza-huh/714761.md?page=5)