Canadian bacon and pepperoni.
Italian sausage, pepperoni, mushroom, green peppers.
Anchovies, shrimp, scallops, olives (green and black), and onion.
I also love a quattro formaggi with lots of gooey cheese, sliced tomato, and fresh basil leaves.
Capers and anchovies are a nice combination, too.
I sometimes use Italian ham and chorizo when Canadian bacon and pepperoni aren’t available.
Cheese… and tomato sauce.
I’ll suffer through other toppings if people demand them, but I never get them for myself.
Recently tried anchovies on a pizza, man they’re just too damn fishy. You have a bite without an anchovie and it’s “pizza” then a bit with an anchovy and it’s" FISHFISHFISHFISHFISHpizza".
Pepperoni, onion, jalapenos, green olive sometimes artichoke hearts.
Everything else is fine too, except fish, chicken or mushrooms.
Pepperoni, Italian sausage, prosciutto, crumbled bleu cheese, onion, red and green bell peppers, fresh chopped garlic, black and green olives, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, lots of mozzarella cheese on top to hold it all together, sprinkle a little paprika for color, a little red pepper for spice, cook.
Anchovies on top, after it comes out of the oven.
My mother and I sometimes order an anchovy and jalapeno pizza just for us (no one else will even touch it). Half the time we would go to pick it up, they hadn’t even made it because they thought it was a prank order. I think I will pass on the anchovy and pineapple though. I like anchovies just fine but pineapple on a pizza is nasty.
Pepperoni, sausage and meatball. Maybe extra cheese. Occasionally anchovies, but my wife doesn’t like those, so I rarely get them.
I’ll just get my own, guys. I only like pepperoni.
Ok sometimes mushrooms, olives and bacon but really, I can’t miss with just pepperoni.
There’s no toppings I dislike, but my preference in general is:
And then it depends on the specific pizza and the place. For example, I wouldn’t really have a Neapolitan style pizza with all of the above. For that, I like my toppings a little sparse, usually going with the classic Margherita (tomato, fresh mozarella, basil.) For a white pizza, bacon and clam is one of my favorite combos if you can find it. For deep dish, just plain ol’ sausage.
I’m not particularly a fan of pepperoni myself. I don’t know why, as I like it on sandwiches and the like, but I prefer other meats on pizza.
My default order as well.
Extra cheese.
I can eat and enjoy a wide variety of pizzas. The two deal breakers for me are olives and anchovies. I won’t pick them off, I simply won’t touch the pizza, even if starving.
My favorites are spicy sausage, spinach, and mushrooms.
There’s a coal fired place near me, Blacksheep, that has a pizza with fennel sausage, hot salami, onion, and cracked green olive.
Good stuff.
Pizza is basically a test-bed for flavour combinations, I think.
I agree with the poster upthread who likes pineapple with anchovy. The tart sweetness of the pineapple combined with the dry salty blast of the anchovy seems to do it for me. I’d have mushrooms on there too, because I love them, and they add an undercurrent of earthy meatiness.
Donner meat (gyro in the US?) is not such a great topping though, although widely available in the health capital of the world that is Scotland.
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I am a meat creature: pepperoni, sausage, ham, beef, chicken… I’ve even known a joint in San Antone what made a very good brisket pizza.
Mushrooms and onions tend to be necessary. I like anchovies, too, but not too many.
Hell, truth is, the only thing you will regularly find on a pizza that I don’t much care for is pineapple. On a pizza, that is. I like pineapple just fine, but Hawaiian pizza ain’t my fave.
Pepperoni and pineapple
A rustic style, made with potatoes and rosemary
But usually I order plain cheese, and while I’m waiting I cook up some excellent hot Italian sausage from the local deli to add to it.
Za is best when it has peperony on it.
If it has mushrooms or olives anywhere, it goes in the trash uneaten. Especially mushrooms. Vile fungus.
Favorite combos:
Chicken, spinach, artichokes and basil.
Sausage, mushrooms and black olives.
Once I had a pizza with paper-thin shaved poblano peppers, Italian sausage, and a whole egg baked on top and it was divine. But it was a little artisan place in San Francisco that I bet is gone now.
Meat.
Pepperoni, sausage, beef, bacon in any combo. Preferably all. Add to that onions and black olives and I am happy.
Can’t do mushrooms or anchovies, and not a real fan of green peppers.
Mushrooms and black olives are my favorite combo, too. If I add a meat it would be Italian sausage. If I can only have one topping then it’s just mushrooms.