Huh? Those are both standard pizza topping options here in new England. If the zucchini is cooked enough it caramelizes a bit and is really delicious.
I wasn’t sure what type is out there. I know there’s California Spiny Lobster a bit south. At any rate, I don’t know either way what the price of lobster in Oregon in 1957 would be.
What kind of ham are you all getting, some kind of over-processed mechanically-formed abomination? The ham my local pizza place uses is Black Forest-style dry-cured, beech-smoked heaven. When I make it at home, I use jamón serrano.
As to lobster - friend of mine makes a thermidor pizza with local rock lobster tails. It is out of this world good.
Most American ham is a wet-cured type, so more watery, and not as concentrated in flavor. They are also known as “city hams.” “Country hams” are the ones that are dry cured, but those are a bit more difficult to find. You can get some fine ham from around the US (see La Quercia, for instance), but your typical ham & pineapple pizza place is not going to stock something like these.
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Pineapple on pizza is a Canadian thing, and Canada is a security risk to the USA, so no wonder there is vehement opposition to pineapple on pizza in the USA: it’s a matter of patriotism.
Aah, sounds a lot like what the local delis call “sandwich ham” . You have my sympathies.
Pineapple on pizza is an admired Canadian innovation. We Canadians love our subtropical weather and proudly support our massive pineapple industry. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with American toppings such as grits, Cheetos or Big League Chew, it is not our personal preference. What is more Canadian than pizza? Name one country that likes it more!
I’m going to try pineapple and spam this weekend. Although I’m sad – my daughter did the grocery shopping, and only found “pineapple bits”, not a proper canned pineapple with nice big chewy pieces.
Are your local pizza places putting serrano ham on their Hawaiian pizzas?
Dry and wet-cured ham really are two completely separate food items. They may come from the same cut of meat but, much like mashed potatoes and french fries are both made from potatoes, the final product is completely different. “Country ham” is absolutely a superior product and would no doubt be great on a pizza.
I was trying to find an image the other day to link to, but Google Images was giving me grief. Bing helped out, though. It would be probably cut from a ham like this at your standard pizzeria. Nicer pizzerias might use nicer hams. To be honest, on my average pizza I like this wet-cured style. If I’m getting a Neapolitan style, then, yes, I like a prosciutto put on after the pizza is cooked, but if the ham is cooking along with the pizza for a while, then the moister ham works better for me.
I like diced pineapple on pizza, especially with pepperoni too. A friend encouraged me to try it in college and he was right. Of course, as ever, there’s no accounting for taste.
Mine uses Black Forest ham. I have no idea what the cheap chains use.
Is that the kind with chocolate and cherries?
I think someone mentioned Fruit Loops on pizza. Came across this today, and is sounds pretty disgusting:
If you see a pizza as a sandwich (it’s not far removed from bread), all sorts of toppings might work. But as far as I know, I do not care for cereal sandwiches. Cream cheese seems as good on pizza as it is on sushi (that is, bleccch), but is not crazy. I enjoy anchovies and even pineapple but do not require excess attention or too much eccentricity.
Nope. Sandwiches require something to be sandwiched between two slices of bread. Pizza is not a sandwich. Neither are tacos, or hot dogs.
I’m undecided on calzone, though my heart says it’s just a pizza taco.
I think the idea was more conceptual than literal. And, yes, a hot dog is a sandwich (and are/were often or on the “sandwich” column on menus). Taco, I’ll give you: not a sandwich. I don’t see any reasonable way of excluding hot dogs and other sausage sandwiches from the sandwich category without excluding something like a hoagie/sub or any other sandwiches that are based on a roll.
You can use the category much of the rest of the world does - they are “rolls”. A gatsby, for instance, is a roll, not a sandwich. Regardless of what Wikipedia thinks.
I think most people keep hot dog to their own category around here, so we don’t typically use the word sandwich, but no doubt they are such. We don’t really have a separate category for sandwiches made on rolls. What would a submarine sandwich be? A roll?
(Just a funny 1940s hot dog vending machine I found). That must not have been any good:
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