Cheddar on a pizza ain’t for me. But I’m not surprised by all the cheddar on pizza aficionados. After all, most gringos think it’s perfectly normal to put shredded cheddar on tacos, which is even worse.
Hamburger just means ground beef. If you form in it blobs it kind of looks like the blobs of Itialian sausage, so some people think it should be used as a topping.
The only cheeses that don’t belong on pizza in my opinion are blue cheeses and brie type cheeses. Although if you skip the tomatoes and meat, brie, herbs and garlic melted on a pizza crust are damn good, just not pizza.
Well, imho, American and it’s cousins, Velveeta and canned liquid cheese (shudder), are just wrong period. They are NOT cheese. They even say so on the package. They are cheese “food” whatever that means.
But as milquetoast says:
It all depends upon the pizza and the pizza makers. I make a homemade pizza that includes (Good quality) sharp chedder, but if of COURSE has to have “real” pizza cheeses too. And there is a local pizzaria in my home town, run by a pair of stoners, they make the most incredible gourmet pizzas and while some are “too-too” sundried tomato and pesto, there are some that use cheddar in a fanTASTic way.
Let me try to wrangle those commas into place so my sentence resembles coherency.
If you don’t use tomatoes or meat, you can make a damn good food with melted Brie along with herbs and Garlic on a pizza crust, but it isn’t pizza.
Heh heh, Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about those (thanks to some sort of weird old age tummy thing, I have to be really careful of things like pizza, and only indulge lightly and rarely 
), there’s a chain in anchortown that does a version of those. Don’t forget the extra dill pickles (as New York dopers all over curl up and die in sheer disgust for we “pizza barbarians” :D).
Pickles on pizza? I am torn between my love for pickles and my fear of warm pickles.
Good quality sharp cheddar is the key. I use a 4 year aged Schullsburg Cheddar for my tuna, onion, and olive topped pies. Adding another cheese is just a waste.
Fear not the warm pickle.
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Mmmmmmmmmm…frickles… 
Frickles? I’m even more frightened. Someone hold me.
Put the frickle down first.
If someone puts a not completely accepted ingredient on a pizza intended to be eaten by everyone at a specific gathering (work, social etc) without asking or making sure it’s okay, then imho, they are at least a BIT of a jerk.
But just liking something that someone else doesn’t like? Doesn’t make them either a jerk OR “wrong”. Just not to everyone’s taste.
Au contraire! I once had a pizza with carmelized onions, chicken, and gorgonzola and parmesan cheeses. Gorgonzola is green, not blue, but it’s almost the same family.
YUM.
Some people think I’m a picky eater because I have such a small range I choose from that resembles the kiddy menu at Burger King. But you guys rally get so worked up about some unimportant things.
Food is overrated.
Life is nothing but Food, Sex and Money. The order of importance shifts from time to time, but the three never vary.
When you have all you need of two, you can quibble about the third!
Cashews? CASHEWS?!?! You’re fucking nuts.
Ba-dum-bum-kshhh
So are you. Food rules. I let my wife handle most of the wedding plans, but I was very particular about the food, and it was damn good.
Well, now you foodie bastards have done it-now I have to go buy a blob of buffalo mozz from Il Mercato Italiano Snooty that retails for $9.95 to go on tonight’s thin crust with caramelized onions and salami. Hope you’re satisfied 
Sorry to break it to you Priceguy and Mighty_Girl, but I’ve seen ground beef on pizzas in Ohio and Michigan and they use the word hamburger on the menu to describe that. It does come broken into chunks or crumbs like a sausage topping. I’m assuming it’s a Midwestern thing.
They also **always ** put bell pepper on the pizza. You have to request that it be left off and they think you’re kinda weird for omitting it. Like it isn’t really pizza without bell pepper. (I tried swapping it for another topping or extra cheese, but they wouldn’t buy it. The bell pepper wasn’t considered to be a topping.)
Hot dogs rolled into the crust? Hmmmm. I’d prefer sausage. I’ll let you know how it works, M_G.
Apparently, here in Texas, they do this thing called a fried pickle :eek:
I haven’t ever gotten the nerve to try them. But on the cheddar cheeseburger pizza I was describing before, they don’t actually put them on the pizza, you get them in little to go containers and then put them on just before you eat the slice.
It’s really common on pizzas for Anchoragites too, so not just a midwestern thing.
Ewwww, I hate bell peppers, on anything. Strangely I love the orange, yellow and red varieties though.
Gringos…GRINGOS Who you callin Grrrringos…you cheesy greasy…wait a minute, I think maybe you’re right. They make some shit here called a TACO PIZZA :eek:
It’s basically a salad on a pizza crust with some ground meat and LOTS of cheddar cheese grated up on it. (CBE & t-keela both shudder at the thought)
I think I’ll pass on the cheddar cheese pizzas.
All this heated debate and so far nobody has seen fit to say “Blessed are the cheesemakers”?