# Regional Pizza Topping Preferences **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463 "2007-01-25T21:27:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/61 "2007-01-27T17:34:26Z")
60 posts and nobody has said that pizza sucks and that we should all have pasta instead? Impressive. (d&r) I am deep in sausage/meat country. It is hard to find anything else here. My two favourites are simply unheard of in these areas: corn and bacon (yum) and anchovies, tomato slices and triple basil (yum) (they use canned mushrooms here, help!) ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/62 "2007-01-27T19:40:38Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] Yup. And bonus is it’s a short walk from me. Though, really, I usually make my own version of pizza and hardly ever buy it at restaurants. I’m going to give Pacific Rim a try one of these days, though, just to see how they stack up. They’ve got one with hummous that sounds interesting. [/QUOTE] I live directly across the street from a Villages. Very handy when I decide I need pizza. I’ve been meaning to try the Pacific Rim hummous one too - I love pizza, and I love hummous, so why not? ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/63 "2007-01-27T20:05:18Z")
When I lived in New Mexico we would usually get pizza with green chile on it. We would have the usual pig parts, olives, tomato sauce, cheese etc on there as well. Green chile is vaguely like Ortega chili mentioned but it is much spicier. There are hot Ortega chilies in cans but I have not seen them outside of New Mexico. Here in California you can get everything else on pizza except good green chile and and egg cracked on top. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/64 "2007-01-27T21:55:02Z")
Egg, corn, pork, mozzarella. Not a combination i’ve found being sold anywhere, so I only have it when I make my own. Otherwise i’m fine with a basic pepperoni. I tried a pizza once that used barbequeue sauce instead of the tomato. It may have just been bad sauce (I normally love barbequeue) but it was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/65 "2007-01-28T02:32:21Z")
In Italy we got not just egg but QUAIL egg. Very chic (but tiny). ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/66 "2007-01-28T05:23:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Mmm, I love Imo’s Pizza, with its gooey Provel cheese! Is that where you worked? It is literally impossible to get St. Louis-style pizza or Provel cheese in Florida unless you order it online, expensively. I would kill for some right now, though. OK I gotta admit I’m from Chicago so maybe a bit spoiled, but I just had Imo’s pizza for the first time and my reaction was “How dare they use Cheese Wiz on my pizza!”. > [@](#): > > Of course, I’m sure it won’t be quite the same, as legally, Provel cannot be called cheese. No, seriously. It doesn’t meet the FDA’s moisture requirements to be called cheese. precisely. That stuff is disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/67 "2007-01-28T07:48:38Z")
All these other “toppings” are abominaitons. Pepperoni is the correct answer (or cheese) for your base pizza. Also accepted are green peppers (if you dig em), onions, mushrooms, and italian sausage (if you dig that). Anything else is subject to my scrutiny. Why mine? Because I’m a fucking pizza conossieur and I may have possibly eaten more pizza than anyone else in this thread. My pedigree cannot be disputed. All of you followers of the False Pizza (I’m looking at you, pineapple) must go and repent. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/68 "2007-01-28T08:41:48Z")
Personally I’m a sausage, pepperoni and extre cheese fan myself…but for some reason my fellow New Mexican’s love green chilli and pineapple pizza quite a bit. I’m not opposed to it myself, I just don’t see what the fuss is…and as I said, I like the old stand by I listed above. There really aren’t too many good pizza places out here unfortunately…the only real think I miss about living on the east coast was getting decent pizza. 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/69 "2007-01-28T17:48:06Z")
[QUOTE=xtisme] Personally I’m a sausage, pepperoni and extre cheese fan myself…but for some reason my fellow New Mexican’s love green chilli and pineapple pizza quite a bit. I’m not opposed to it myself, I just don’t see what the fuss is…and as I said, I like the old stand by I listed above. There really aren’t too many good pizza places out here unfortunately…the only real think I miss about living on the east coast was getting decent pizza. 😛 -XT [/QUOTE] Can you really say you are from New Mexico spelling it chilli? Back to Texas with you. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/70 "2007-01-28T19:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=gazpacho] Can you really say you are from New Mexico spelling it chilli? Back to Texas with you. [/QUOTE] It was actually just a typo…I’m famous for my poor spelling around here. 🙂 I’m actually not from either New Mexico OR Texas. -XT ---
**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:** [January 28, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/71 "2007-01-28T19:10:35Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] All of you followers of the False Pizza (I’m looking at you, pineapple) must go and repent. [/QUOTE] Never! I’ll stand by my pineapple in the face of all oppression by Orthodox Pizzaists. To the barricades! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/72 "2007-01-28T19:11:05Z")
_Chilli_ is actually the preferred spelling in British English. Then again, they Brits aren’t known for their chil(l)i. Now Provel…what’s that? Provolone flavor Velveeta? ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/73 "2007-01-29T00:41:44Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] _Chilli_ is actually the preferred spelling in British English. Then again, they Brits aren’t known for their chil(l)i. Now Provel…what’s that? Provolone flavor Velveeta? [/QUOTE] There is chili or chile. Chile refers to the chile pepper fruit it self. Chili refers to a tasty stew like object made with dried red chile pods meat beans and tomatoes. Although there is a lot of controversy about the beans. I have not seen a pizza with chili on it but in a world where you can get a fried won ton pizza I am sure someone makes it. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/74 "2007-01-29T02:49:49Z")
You are all heathens. Each and every last one of you. You should all burn in the pizza oven of Hades. We all know full well that the ingredients go _inside_\* the pizza and that calling them toppings is tantamount to profanity. - - see location. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/75 "2007-01-29T03:04:40Z")
[QUOTE=gazpacho] Although there is a lot of controversy about the beans. [/QUOTE] No there isn’t. There are no beans in chili. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/76 "2007-01-29T19:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Why mine? Because I’m a fucking pizza conossieur and I may have possibly eaten more pizza than anyone else in this thread. [/QUOTE] There’s a man I’ve heard of who lives in Kingston, name of Mike. All he has to do is pick up the phone, say “It’s Mike,” and hang up. Ten minutes later his pizza arrives. Unless you’re Mike, your credentials are hereby disputed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/77 "2007-01-29T20:37:00Z")
[QUOTE=Shecky] In northeastern Brazil, they favor green olives, heart of palm (sliced very thin), egg, diced onion, corn, and ham. Oh, and they use the worst tasting cheeses. It tasted HORRIBLE. [/QUOTE] Also popular in Brazil: calabresa sausage, catupiry (a creamy, mild white cheese, often liquid in consistency) and beef or chicken stroganoff. It may have been catupiry you had that you didn’t like; I didn’t find the mozzarella in Brazil to be markedly different from that available here in the U.S. [QUOTE=ralph124c] Feta cheese on pizza is DISGUSTING-the same goes for :chicken, corn, eggs (UGGHH!), and gorgonzola. I repeat: pizza should have only: tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, and a sprinkling of oregano! [/QUOTE] Pizza is one of those things that tends to arouse the passions and polarize the masses, I guess. Feta cheese is one of my favorite pizza toppings. (It probably helps to really like feta.) And while I enjoy the occasional pizza in its “pure form” as you describe, I also like a good topping-heavy abomination now and then. A glutton’s palate knows no bounds. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/78 "2007-01-29T21:01:25Z")
I loved the Cheese Steak Pizza in Philly. Not the abomination that came from places like Dominos, but the local stuff that was provolone and steak and onion on a pizza base. Not traditional pie by any means (count me as a Geno’s man for that, and fie on the New Yorkers), but yummy. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/79 "2007-01-29T22:44:57Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Pizza is one of those things that tends to arouse the passions and polarize the masses, I guess. **Feta cheese is one of my favorite pizza toppings.** (It probably helps to really like feta.) And while I enjoy the occasional pizza in its “pure form” as you describe, I also like a good topping-heavy abomination now and then. A glutton’s palate knows no bounds. [/QUOTE] There’s a little Greek cafe here that serves a roasted Feta appetizer. It’s simply a couple of big slabs of feta roasted with kalamata olives and red peppers in a pool of olive oil… meant to be eaten with toasted bread. It smells amazing! I imagine this dish would translate perfectly to the top of a grilled pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463/80 "2007-01-29T23:26:18Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] Oh c’mon, **AudreyK**. You know that anything that has had pineapple in the same room with it is, by default, ‘Hawaiian’. 😛 Wouldn’t the true Hawaiian Pizza have Spam and pineapple on it? Which, oddly, sounds kinda tasty. (Note: I have not had lunch yet). [/QUOTE] And all salads with mandarin oranges and almonds are “Asian”, eh? I have had Spam on pizza, though it wasn’t just Spam on the pie. It was one of those elaborate meat-lovers’ deals that had about 12 different animal-derived toppings on it. Pretty much any salty meat can work on a pizza, but Portuguese sausage is better than Spam. Spam doesn’t have the right color, taste, or texture to make it work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-pizza-topping-preferences/389463.md?page=5)