Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NEStalgia Except I never had cake with cheese and pepperoni on it too.

@Octane noooooooo

@ThanosReXXX Yep, I see the pizza discussion now.

My unpopular pizza opinion- it’s bad with with pineapples, it’s bad without pineapple. No matter how you slice it, pizza is bad. (pun intended) The only good pizza is plain cheese with no sauce or anything else. I actually love cheesy garlic fingers better, but that doesn’t classify as ‘pizza’.

Sweet, tart fruit, salt-cured meat, and cheese do not go together. That is a gastronomical abomination.

I will admit pineapple can work with ham as a pair of toppings, though it's still not pizza, but a sweet & sour fruit cake.

@BabyYoshi12 Wow....what species are you? Dinosaur? Dragon? Yoshis are yoshis according to Miyamoto, but Yoshis eat anything so it's not that either. Pizza is never bad. There are bad pizzas but real pizzas are never bad.

Though it depends where you live. I know not the pizza scene in Canada, though I assume they are topped with maple syrup instead of tomato and thus probably work with pineapple, plum, and apricot as a topping. In the mid-west US there is no such thing as pizza....perhaps the same is true in central Canada. They have round cakes they call pizzas and they have chain pizza that tastes like it came from a vat of turpentine (spoiler: it did) but they have no real pizza.

Or maybe you just have bad memories of Italian food from all those times a certain plumber threw you down a bottomless pit to grab some spare coins up high.

Edit: Pizza bianca is a thing - no tomatoes. Mozzerella, parmesean, sometimes a meat like pancetta, but laiden in aioli sauce. It qualifies as "real" pizza and sounds more like your preference.....but there's still no such thing as bad (real) pizza (And no, pineapples do not count as real pizza.)

@BabyYoshi12 No, you've got that all wrong. The phrase is "pizza is SO bad, that it's good".

Wait, WHAT? No pizza over there? How is that possible? America, the land of endless possibilities, the factory of dreams... but NO pizza in the Mid-West?

@NEStalgia Pizza is pretty popular here, though not quite as popular as the US. So, it’s not where I live, just my unpopular opinion. I consider pizza shredded cheese melted on a English muffin, but I doubt you would count that as ‘real pizza’. To that I say, even if all pizza is good as long as it’s real, but that doesn’t mean fake pizza can’t be good.

I don’t like maple syrup unless it’s a certain brand either, so it’s just because I’m a picky eater. I always say if there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I am a picky eater.

I love steak and cheese pizza, but the only place remotely near us that has it makes the decision to just use regular pizza sauce for it. Which is a giant mistake, you don't use regular sauce for steak and cheese pizza, that just doesn't go together.

[quote=ThanosReXXX]@BabyYoshi12 No, you've got that all wrong. The phrase is "pizza is SO bad, that it's good". : [quote/]
@ThanosReXXX If there’s no sauce, sure. Over the years, I’ve grown less and less fond of pizza.

EDIT: Not sure why the quote didn’t work.

@BabyYoshi12 Go to edit your comment, and you'll see. You need to "close" the quote for it to work, so it needs to be the word "quote" preceded by a slash, and all that in between two square brackets: [ ]

@ThanosReXXX Nope, I just can’t get it to work.

@BabyYoshi12 As for pizza: I only eat it every now and then, which keeps my taste for it alive. If I'd be eating it every week, or more, then I'd also tire of it pretty soon.

@BabyYoshi12 You need to remove that smiley, or put it underneath the quote, on its own line.
And you need to add a slash sign "/" in front of the second "quote".

@ThanosReXXX The smiley was put there automatically, but I try.

This is pizza perfection:
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/12/75/44/a6/c...

EDIT: No, still not working, but we all know what it’s supposed to say, so let’s just pretend.

@BabyYoshi12 The smiley was put there, because you either made a typing error, or forgot something.
Just quote my comment here to see what it's SUPPOSED to look like.

Oh, and that's NOT a pizza. Just garlic bread.

EDIT:

Okay, my bad. The smiley was mine, so it was already there, obviously. You still butchered the quote, though.

@BabyYoshi12 I said a slash IN FRONT OF, not AFTER the word quote. Almost there, my friend.
And is the purpose not to learn from your mistakes? If you keep misquoting... erm, quotes, then you'll never learn...

Just got a bag of Cheetos. Hmmm, where would it be the most suitable place to consume this snack?

• The Kitchen: Nah, too obvious
• In front of the computer where little crumbs can easily get stuck into the keyboard's keys: Perfect!

Yum pizza.
I believe this is a sensitive topic and against the rules 😉

@BabyYoshi12 What did tomatoes ever do to you?

The dough is the pizza. The pizza is the dough. Everything else is dressing. An english muffin isn't pizza dough... They are both flatbreads with cheese on them....I'll give you that. Pizza e Napolitano, pizza e Margarita, pizza bianco, NY coal pizza... it's all pizza. None are english muffins. Chicago deep dish tomato dairy cake is also not pizza. California pizza I just assume is NY pizza with extra hemp. Sicilian oil fried pizza is pizza, but an acquired taste.

@ThanosReXXX It's bread, tomatoes, cheese, and veggies or meats....hard to tire of a holy trinity of edibles like that. Assuming your locale has the good stuff (with proximity to Italy you'd think so, but you may have cloned the "American pan pizza" which is barely pizza), I'm pretty sure I could live on pizza alone, assuming a variety of toppings were in rotation. But only the good stuff. And the chains have become so bad I can't even eat them if that's all that's on offer. When you have real pizzerias on every corner and two on most, I can't understand how the chains actually still seem to massively thrive.

There's the real deal, there's the fast food clone, and then there's "pizza shaped objects made of 100% post-consumer recycled content." Frozen pizzas, even edible ones, fall under that category. There's some "industrial waste" ingredient in them that tires you of them and starts to sicken you after you have it too often....that just doesn't happen with the real deal. At the end of the day it's just fresh bread with an open top filling.

@NEStalgia So... I'm asking you about why the hell there isn't any pizza in the Mid-West, and instead, you're responding to something that wasn't even directed at you...

Oh, whatever have I ever done wrong to be SO misunderstood...

@ThanosReXXX Ahh, the stupid broken quote system never sends notifications from quotes (but DOES send notifications if the quote contains text that tagged you originally. So if you quoted something I said where I tagged, say, eel, eel would have gotten a notification and I wouldn't have. I hate that broken thing.

As for the mid-west. Oh, they think they have pizza. But they don't. They have that deep dish slosh, and pan pizzas ("American pie") but none of it is real pizza. It's a kind of mid-western facsimile. It is to pizza what you Dutch and Germans recognize American beer to be

Basically a bunch of non-Italians tried to replicate pizza based on concepts many decades ago....and improve it's factory-like production efficiency. Mid-west pan pizza is the result. The crust is all wrong, the cheese is overdone, the spices tend to be wrong....the wrong oil is used, and the garlic powder is no substitute for real or granulated garlic so it becomes "too garlicy" in a bad way. I mean it's pizza by technicality, it's there, and I'm sure some enterprising individuals have opened real pizzerias, here and there. But it's no stand-in for the one and only good thing about this coast.....real pizza, absolutely everywhere. Chicago at least has a unuique creation that's good on its own with the deep dish. But it's still not pizza.

Also, I notice you did not deny that Cali pizza is just NY pizza with extra hemp. Veeery interesting....