Favorite; Bacon and Spinach
Weirdest; My husband used to work in China, Singapore and Taiwan. In one of those countries he saw “bean addnicks” on the pizza menu, they are green peas. There was never regular pizza sauce either, it was just ketchup.
Probably the only food story he brought back that I care to repeat.
My standard order: mushrooms, feta, black olives, and eggplant.
Yum!!!
At a local pizza place they have what they call cold cheese pizza (no… not just pizza that has been sitting out for some time).
They take a slice of cheese pizza and get it really hot in the oven then sprinkle… ok… mound… a good amount of thickly shredded mozzarella cheese. It melts as you eat it.
Chicago-style deep dish. Cornmeal in the crust, a layer of sausage, a layer of cheese, then the sauce and finally the toppings (pepperoni and black olives).
Made from scratch in a cast iron skillet by my wife.
It puts all other pizza to shame.
Gyro meat ws popular when I was living in the dorms in college for some reason. Its really very good though. The oven bakes it to a really nice, unique texture.
Oddest pizza was the one the owner at my old job liked: BBQ pizza. Sausage, onion and pepperoni but with BBQ sauce instead of regular. I always had some when we had company-wide meetings but I never thought it was good enough to get the whole pie.
Pesto sauce can be very good, also.
I’ve personally ordered jalapeno and anchovie pizza. I had to repeat it 3 times over the phone and I think they still thought it was a prank. But it wasn’t a prank; it was delicious!
Mushrooms are my favourite topping.
Speaking of pizza, has anyone here tried the ones from Greenwich? I think it’s only in the Philippines though. Their pizzas were amazing! Less greasy and fresh-tasting.
Corn and tuna with a white sauce makes a really, really good pizza though it doesn’t sound like it at first.
I also like the Papa John’s BBQ chicken with pineapple and bacon. I agree about the garlic butter. Yum.
I used to like pepperoni until I found out that it uses mixed meats. I don’t like mixing meats. So now I use onions, bell peppers, and hamburger. I also like a thin buttery crust and extra sauce.
Here in Montgomery, pizza pickin’s are pretty slim. The 3 major monopolies, a local chain (that *has * to use tomato preserves because their sauce is so sweet), Mall pizza, and 1 Italian restaurant that charges $21 for a 10 in pie. Until this month. We now have an honest-to-God pizza joint. Pizza that’s both crunchy and chewy and tasty! Pizza you have to fold to eat! I’m just so happy. <sniff>
I like good crust, a little sauce, lots of cheese and maybe Italian sausage. Mmmmmm.
My favorite is pepperoni and green olive.
The strangest topping I’ve seen was on a bacon cheeseburger pizza: pickles.
I absolutely will not tolerate onions on my pizza. I won’t disgust you by telling you what they taste like to me, but if I bite into a piece of pizza and there’s an onion somewhere on it, I can taste it in the first bite and have to choke it down. It happens quite often; I think pizza places must put their green olives and onions next to one another. I reallly wish they wouldn’t do that.
Broccoli is of course the pinnacle of pizza toppings. It tastes so good with the garlic and cheese already present, and somehow its consistency is absolutely perfect with everything else there.
With the exception of mushrooms, I like just about any of the usual suspects in pizza ingredients. Haven’t tried anything really exotic, like walnuts or BBQ chicken.
I finally got to try a ham and pineapple pizza a couple years ago at my sister’s place, and loved it. Couldn’t do it at home because of the ‘ick’ factor with the wife and rugrat.
When I make it myself, I usually put on ham, onion, green olives, and hot banana peppers. If someone else makes it, it’s open season as long as there’s no fungus on it.
I f you happen to make your own, Hormel makes turkey pepperoni that is single species. I bought it because there is significantly less grease, which makes my stomach happy.
How have artichoke hearts been overlooked? I put them on a pepperoni and mushroom pizza. My pizza place knows it’s me when they take my order. Heavenly!
Weirdest I’ve heard? Let me relate a tale from a friend in Ulan Batar, Mongolia.
It seems that he was entertaining some Japanese people. They of course were having a bit of trouble with the local cuisine – it consisting mostly of boiled to death mutton, boiled to death cabbage, occasionally a boiled potato for a treat, and accompanied by some kind of rancid smelling sheeps milk cheese. None of these are high on the menus in flash Japanese restaurants. My friend of course treated them to much better fare, but still, when the time came to hit the town, they were looking for something a little more appealing. So it was with some delight that they stumbled upon a place that advertised pizza.
Picture if you will a mass of stodgy and limp dough topped with fatty strips of boiled mutton, grey cabbage and swimming in an evil-smelling feta the consistency of yoghurt left out of the fridge for several days.
Pepperoni with green olives and/or saurkraut. If it’s not on Odin’s buffet in Valhalla, then I’m not going.
Also had a very pleasant combination from a local joint called Frankie’s. My roomie of the time and I basically had them slaughter a pig for our pie: pepperoni, salami, canadian bacon, bacon, and sausage. Yum!
Pineapple isn’t one of my faves, but I won’t go so far as to say it has no place on pizza. That honor is reserved for white sauce. Pizza sauce must be red and zesty. Must must must. At least for me.