Salting pizza: Weird?

Cafe Society
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For as long as I can remember, I have always preferred salt on my pizza (though I admittedly prefer salt on a lot of things*). For several decades, no one ever remarked on this, so I naturally assumed no one even thought twice about it. I certainly didn’t.

In the last few years, however, I’ve run into more and more people who react to me putting salt on pizza as if I were squeezing out a tube of toothpaste on there – typically along the lines of “You put salt on your pizza? Really…?” followed by an incredulous stare. This may be something of a regional thing, as three years ago I moved from Illinois to California. Still, though, I recall some coworkers back in Illinois commenting on it too.

Frankly, I don’t get it. Virtually every sit-down pizza place I’ve ever been to has salt shakers right there at the table, so surely it’s not that strange.

What do you all think – is salting one’s pizza weird or not?

*My blood pressure is perfect, thank you very much. :slight_smile:

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As a data point I’ve never seen anybody else put salt on a pizza.

However, there was the time I put a ton of parmesan cheese on a pizza slice. Then I discovered that wasn’t cheese, it was powered garlic :slight_smile:

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I am a salt fan but typically find the toppings like pepperoni and sausage to provide enough salt. That said, I don’t think it’s weird. Parmesan cheese is pretty salty and that’s a common addition to pizza.

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I’ve never seen it either. I’m in Wisconsin.
Even in a pizza place, I’d assume the salt was for fries or some something else on the menu, not the pizza.

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Kosher salt on pizza rocks.

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It probably already has a lot of salt in the sauce, cheese, and toppings, and even if it doesn’t, I can’t imagine that it would need more. And I’ve never seen anyone do it, so yes, it’s weird.

That said, it’s your pizza, you can do what you like with it.

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I’ve never seen anyone do it and would think it a little odd. Do you salt everything you’re served?

Douglas Adams called such people auto-condimenters, and I have seen people put salt and pepper on nearly everything, just not pizza.

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I have done it on the odd occasion, but when the concept was first introduced to me, I was skeptical at best. I had never heard of it growing up in NJ.

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I had a friend as a child who put salt on pizza (80s.) We thought it was ridiculous because pizza is salty enough.

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Lemme put it this way: it’s not not weird.

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Depends on the pizza. A well made pizza should stand on it’s own. Unfortunately the vast majority of pizza is not well made, Some definitely needs salt.

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As a mostly-lifelong Illinoisian, I say it’s frickin’ weird and I can’t remember ever seeing anyone do it and pizza is generally plenty salty anyway.

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I’m not one to shy away from table salt, but don’t think I’ve ever come across pizza that I felt needed it.

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Terry Pratchett.

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I’d estimate that 25% of people I’ve watched eat pizza salt it. Not particularly weird in my book.

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At least in my part of the world, pizza is salted before it goes to the oven, and is in fact saltier than most fast foods. Otherwise, it’s just a thin crust of bread with a thin slathering of cheese and tomato sauce on top. People who ADD salt just want it even spicier.

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I salt, and also pepper pizza. And a lot of times also hot-sauce pizza.

I remember doing the salt and pepper thing at work 25 years ago and having someone at the table remark “Now I’ve seen everything.”

Why this is uncommon I have no idea. If I was eating spaghetti, or cannelloni, or lasagna (for example) no one would have commented, I imagine.

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I put salt on pizza if the sauce is too sweet. Preferably onion-salt, but if there is none, just salt.

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I’ve both done it and seen it done. It doesn’t seem that strange to me.

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50 years on this earth. 30 with a salt-fiend. I gave her a 30lb salt lick as a joke one xmas. She loved it.:smack:

I have never seen anyone salt a pizza.