Yes.
I live in Italy.
This thread is making me feel nauseous.
My friend Monti makes the world’s best pizzas. My personal favorite has a topping that is made of finely chopped mushrooms simmered in wine and garlic with red pepper flakes - he mooshes that all over the crust, then tops it with sliced provolone.
He makes a potato pizza, a barbeque chicken pizza with pineapple, a kalamata olive tapenade pizza, a ham-and-sauerkraut pizza, and several good old-fashioned “authentic” pizzas - including an absolutely fabulous Margherita pizza with fresh basil and diced tomatoes. A few of his pizzas have Cheddar cheese on them, but not as the main cheese.
And all of you gagging over these toppings are invited not to join us as we gleefully gobble every bite.
I definitely prefer Italian-style pizza (which is very thin and not quite as sauce-laden as its American kin) to what’s sold in the US. A crispy crust baked in a brick oven, with simple fresh tomatoe sauce (using a minimal amount of ingredients), topped with Buffalo mozzarella (which is quite different than what Americans are used to calling mozzarella cheese.) Yummm…yummm… Gimme a quattro stagione pizza any day.
That said, I don’t think there should be any rule about what cheese goes on top of pizza. While I’ve never had cheddar on my pizza, I’ve certainly encountered pizzas topped with goat cheese and even blue cheese (as the sole cheeses). These were quite good. I imagine cheddar would make a fine topping as well.
Though the cheese may not be indigenous to Italy, pizza is trule an international dish now, and I welcome the experimentation.
How was the yeast infection?
BTW, cheddar on pizza can be done tastefully with good pizza cheddar, or poorly with crappy cheddar. They key is to use good cheese, the right amount, and the right accompanying ingedients.
A good buffalo chicken pizza with cheddar and dipped in ranch kicks ASS!
Cheddar on pizza is WRONG. I love cheddar cheese, but it needs to know its place, which is NOT on my pizza. You heathens who like it on your pizza can have it, but just don’t make it standard. The only cheese that should be on pizza is mozzarella, with perhaps a little Parmesan and provolone added.
Cheddar in Italian lasagna is also WRONG. Lasagna needs at least ricotta (NOT cottage cheese!) and mozzarella, and possibly provolone, Romano, and Parmesan cheeses as well. These cheeses are also the only acceptable ones for stuffed pastas such as shells, ravioli, and manicotti as well.
I don’t like to eat pepperoni and cheddar cheese together, either. If I eat cheese with pepperoni, it’s gotta be mozzarella or provolone. Same with salami. Ham can be accompanied by cheddar, Swiss, provolone, or mozzarella.
I’m second generation Italian-American on my dad’s side. My mother is a WASP.
Lynn! You’re back!!! 
We missed you!
This thread is making me hungry, except for the parts where people are claiming illness. Cheddar cheese does not really belong on pizza, but I don’t object to it strenuously, though I feel it’s best on bacon cheeseburger pizza. My favorite pizza is pepperoni and mushroom, preferably heavy on the mushrooms, with mozzarella cheese, maybe some parmesan and romano too.
Preach it sister!
Wow! I managed to start a thread that got over 5 replies, made one person sick while simultaniously making another hungry.
I claim victory.
And I don’t really think anyone that likes cheddar on pizza is an Asshole, per se. It was more of an “expression of speech”.
That’s a relief. I thought you’d just bought a new cookbook.
I’m afraid I have to disagree with many of the posters here. Chedder can be nice as an accent in the cheese mix on one’s pizza. However, I’ll confess, alone it does leave something to be desired. (Of course as a 350 lb male, I guess it’s only to be expected. )
Well, actually, lasagne only needs Parmesan. While the ricotta variations on lasagne are much more popular in America, I myself prefer the besciamella (aka. bechamel) alternating with a meat ragu type, which is popular in Bologna. This one only contains Parmesan on the besciamella layers.
I don’t mind cheddar on pizza. I don’t mind any kind of cheese on pizza, except for the cheeses I have yet to try or don’t eat.
Anyone ever tried Greek pizza? That’s yummy!
Wait… hamburger on pizza? This must be some kind of linguistic problem I’m having, right? You’re not actually talking about putting hamburgers on pizza. Right?
That sounds wonderful. What time is lunch?
I collect old cookbooks, and have one ('50s-era) that has a recipe for “Quick & Easy Lasagne” that calls for cottage cheese and ketchup! :eek: Heathens!
How about feta cheese? Yep, a local (Greek) pizzeria does a fabulous pizza with feta, black olives, red onions, and garlic. Even my cats scarf down whatever bits I don’t eat.
Yes, including the olive slices.
One of my favorite combos is broccoli and fresh tomato. YUM.
Cottage cheese and ketchup is just WRONG.
Now there’s a man who knows pizza, ham and sauerkraut? I am intrigued! folks who grouse about pizza that has cheddar or so called unusual ingredients on it need to have their taste buds grow up I tell ya!
I noticed that and pretended that I didn’t.
::twitches wildly::
There used to be a Pizza Restaurant in Downtown Crossing in Boston (I don’t recall the name – it began with “W”) that specialized in Cheddar Cheese Pizza. It said so right on the sign – “British-Style Cheddar Cheese Pizza”. I think it was part of a chain.
1.) Some people evidently like Cheddar Cheese Pizza
2.) Enough of them to support an entire chain of restaurants.
3.) Some will see this as further proof that the British cannot cook.
You evil, vile, horrific destroyer of all that’s good and pure! Green olives and cashews on pizza! :: shudders :: Clearly you are a servant of Satan!
Now I prefer good, normal toppings on pizza, like spinach and broccoli.