So, too, does the humble pickle, which has found itself atop pizza toppings more and more regularly in recent years, often paired with a smooth and subtle cheese that lets the vinegary taste be the star of the show.
Both pickles and pineapple are among the most controversial toppings that pizza makers have to offer, but one frozen pizza company is taking it one step further.
You want controversial toppings? Go to Japan. I’ve had corn, seaweed, octopus, squid, fish, and other various things I probably didn’t want to know. This was at a Dominoes in Okinawa City back in the ‘70’s.
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Since I can't get any Paqui grim reaper tortilla chips I'd try one of these pizzas, but only if the crust is made from colliflower, the "tomato paste" is made from pureed Adzuki beans and the cheese scraped from the bilge of an 80 year old Cajun shrimp boat.
ReplyDeleteWhy so fresh, you some kind of a health nut?
DeleteDon't bother, anon. Lots of us have told him he needs help, but ol' Bog just won't listen.
DeletePlease note that the Europeans put all sorts of non-pizza items on their pizzas. For example, the Dutch put corn on theirs.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad comment to our world... all thats going on, and frozen pizzas with wacky toppings take the 'top news' spot.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm bored and sick of constantly hearing about stupid bullshit happening to people I'll never care about in places I'll never be. If the choice is reading about this or yet more about today's random African shithole country disaster or the latest Ukrainian propaganda piece, I'd rather read about this.
DeleteThose evangelical preachers were right. We let the gays have marriage and we get people banging animals and putting pickles and pineapple on pizza! We need some rain. A lot of rain! Maybe a giant comet just to ensure the purge is complete!
ReplyDeleteWhen we lived in Germany circa 1998, I was blown away to find the this topping advertised in the pizza shop menues:
ReplyDeleteTunafish and artichoke hearts.
Multiple pizza shops.
I'm still astonished...
I'd say you opened up a can of worms with that last pizza story except somebody out there will think to try them as a topping.
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The little pizzeria in my hometown had pineapple and ham pizza in the 70’s. It was okay though I preferred pepperoni and mushrooms. When I was stationed in Italy, if you ordered one with everything, it even had an egg in the middle of it. Never heard of the pickle thing, but I’d try it if someone had one. I’ve had the opportunity to try a lot of strange foods over the years and have been pleasantly surprised by most of it. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteNot a big fan of the pineapple, but I will eat it. The pickles? On so called cheeseburger pizza? Fantastic. I await the flames.
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Favorite combination topping: Pineapple, Pepperion, black olives and mushrooms... think I'll add Bread and Butter pickles to the list.... :-)
ReplyDeleteIn the DC area back in the mid 90s I went to a place call Fabulous George, if I remember correctly, and there was a blackboard of topping that you could add to your pizza, pineapple was the least " controversial " on the list....
ReplyDeleteJD
Claiming to have "sold out" of something you gave away for free is an oxymoron statement. Lots of people will grab something for free that they wouldn't pay for.
ReplyDeleteThe same goes with Canadian commie bacon.
ReplyDeleteMy filipina friend and her daughter gotta have pineapple & ham on theirs or else. Thankfully, they haven't thought of balut on pizza.
ReplyDelete- WDS
Fuuuck, can you imagine the smell of cooking balut? Even at room temperature that shit gags me.
DeleteYes, I've tried it. I was #1 with the Pinoy Boys after that.
We had some Filipina nurses come train on our floor when I was a charge nurse and would bring in balut into the nurses lounge for dinner and would gag all of us nurses. Very difficult to gag a nurse! It was banned from the floor and in the cafeteria because of the smell. There were other foods that got banned because of the horrible smell. They had to dispose of the microwave after someone heated their dinner, you couldn't get the smell out.
ReplyDeleteNow you know how I feel. What you think about pineapple on pizza is how Ivfeel about 1911 chambered in euro pellet 9mm.
ReplyDeleteWhile I own, shoot and carry 9mm's a 9mm 1911 is sacrilege.
DeleteThe original design by John Browning, the 1900, was a 38ACP a 9x23. The Para Bellum, prepare for war, came about because the 7.65 proved anemic and was increased to 9mm. Colt offered it in 1908 iirc. I love my .45 guns, don't get me wrong, but the many 9mm aka .356/357 guns will kill too. I had one 1911 in .22tcm.
DeleteIf you think of pizza as an open faced sandwich, the sky's the limit with regards to what you can put on it. One place does an excellent pastrami, pickle, and mustard sandw... pizza. Greek olives, artichoke hearts, thick cut salami, feta cheese with pesto sauce is another winner.
ReplyDeleteBut you have to think of it as an baked, open face sandwich.
Pizza place back in my high school days offered Cashews as an option. Pretty good actually.
ReplyDeleteI like too much meat, onion, peppers. Pineapple is OK, but there are a zillion things I'd rather have, including anchovies.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, where'd they go? Are they extinct or something?
Anchovies are probably the only thing I would never put on anything, lol
DeleteJD
My pizza thinks it's a giant taco, kinda like my ex.....
ReplyDeleteFuck that shit! That does it, I’M CALLING MY NONA!
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I had a friend who absolutely was disgusted by pickles. One day, some mutual friends and I conspired with the waitress at the pizza parlor. We had them add pickles to his cheeseburger pizza. We also had them make one the way he ordered it, but had her hold that one back. You should have seen the look on his face when she sat the pizza with pickles in front of him. We had her give him his real pizza and the rest of us ate the one with pickles. Not something I would normally order, but it wasn't bad. Forget the pineapple.
ReplyDeleteWhy people get so fired up over pizza is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteIt's pizza. Anchovies, ham, pickles, mushrooms, onions, peppers, sausage (my favorite) whatever the hell you want on is okay. I'll eat it all.
You should be shot.
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