Pizza Toppings

[IrishEyes]

What do you want on your pizza?

I like spicy Italian sausage, tomatoes and mushrooms.

[tk2kewl]

1. prosciutto

[Scuba]

2. Sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, black olives, onion, pineapple and just a hint ...

... of anise.





Do you deliver?

[NV Whino]

9. Sign me up. That sounds great.

[lastlib]

3. It should be a federal crime to put vegetables on pizza.

Ditto anchovies. No fish.

Exemption for jalapenos.

[rurallib]

25. onions is a vegetable and no pizza is a pizza without onions!

[lastlib]

27. sez you.....

..and only you.

[rurallib]

29. used to love a pepperoni and spicy sausage

with a dollop of vanilla ice cream on top when i was a kid. Man that was good!

[progressoid]

33. I don't want the gubment telling me what I can and can't put on my pizza!

Live free or die!

Or maybe eat flatbread.

[Fla Dem]

4. Extra cheese, pepperoni, black olives.

That's the basic, but ok with mushrooms and sausage,

[In_The_Wind]

5. RAW garlic, black olives and extra cheese.

Maybe spicy chicken.

[we can do it]

82. Me too!

[Wounded Bear]

6. There's a wrong thing to put on pizza?

Well, other than anchovies, and you can leave off the hot peppers, too.

Variety is the spice of life.

[Tobin S.]

7. Lately it's been mushrooms, onions, and extra cheese.

Before I stopped eating beef, I would eat pizza with just about any kind of toppings. I liked it all.

[RebelOne]

12. Ditto. Extra cheese and mushrooms.

[NightWatcher]

8. I'll take a Hawaiian, extra pineapple

[meow2u3]

37. Fruit on pizza is sacrilegious!

Some things don't go together, and fruit on pizza is one of them!

[Skittles]

78. omg, when we order a bunch of pizzas for work

that fruit nastiness is inevitably left over

[Capt. Obvious]

39. This

A few months ago my work was ordering pizza for the office. They went around and asked what everyone wanted. I said Hawaiin and maybe a few others did. Everyone else said it didn't matter.

So the office bought 8 Hawaiin pizzas (and two cheese pizzas) since that was the only order given other than whatever. People were pissed. Most of my coworkers complained that they didn't like pineapple on their pizza.

[KamaAina]

41. The so-called "Hawaiian" pizza was invented in Oakland

it is far more popular on the Left Coast than it is in the islands themselves.

The old Dole plantation in central O'ahu has over 100 varieties of pineapple, many of which are tart rather than sweet. I have long believed that a tart variety might actually make a decent pizza topping.

Oh yes, you can finish off your Oakland snack with a scoop of rocky road ice cream, also invented there.

[redwitch]

10. me too!

I also like black olives.

[Thor_MN]

11. Pepperoni and green olive.

Don't knock it until you have tried it.

[rurallib]

26. throw on some onions and I can be over in about 10 minutes.

[MrScorpio]

13. Black olives, mushrooms and Republican Tears of Impotent Rage. nt

[WinkyDink]

16. I'll take an Extra Large! Deliver it in November!

[meow2u3]

36. Republican Tears of Impotent Rage ruins the taste of the pizza

[intheflow]

52. Republican Tears of Impotent Rage are too bitter.

I prefer Democratic Victory tears of Joy.

[ailsagirl]

14. Pepperoni, onion, mushroom, green pepper n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. Those are the default toppings. The question should be what do you want in addition to those?

[WinkyDink]

15. Mushrooms, green peppers, and, though I ate it only when younger, BACON!

[catnhatnh]

17. Bacon and onions...

or almost any combination listed above...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Anything but onions, anchovies or raw garlic.

I hate those things in any kind of food.

[Auggie]

20. Sundried tomatoes and whole fennel seed ...

in addition to the basics

[Chan790]

21. There is no improving on Pizza Margherita.

Tomatoes, basil, and just a little buffalo mozzarella.

(I had to look up how to spell "Margherita" and ironies abound, the first result I got was me answering this same question asked by you in September of 2015.)

[Major Nikon]

24. Everything can be improved by ethanol

[Chan790]

30. Not for me.

My liver and my sobriety would not be happy. That's the problem with being a recovering drug addict...you lose the enjoyment of a lot of other vices.

Now...sex. That's a vice I can enjoy...and attractive company does improve my pizza enjoyment experience.

[Initech]

22. My favorite pizza place makes an awesome 5 cheese pizza.

Add some sausage to that and it is gold.

[KamaAina]

44. Far too many pizza joints out here mess around with different cheeses

Pizza cheese is supposed to be mozzarella, dammit! (Or in southern Conn.'s Neapolitan dialect, "scamozza", the term 'mozzarella' being reserved for di bufalo.) Even our regional chain Round Table features a three-cheese blend! And for whatever reason, "San Francisco-style" pizza usually has feta!

[yuiyoshida]

23. veggies especially garlic mushrooms

and some times Italian Sausage...

[Chan790]

31. I don't usually like veggie pizza but that looks delicious. n/t

[rurallib]

28. canadian bacon, pineapple, onions and green olives with extry cheezzzz

[Rhiannon12866]

32. Mushrooms, eggplant and extra cheese

[So Far From Heaven]

34. Lots and lots of fire roasted Hatch green chili with

just about anything except anchovies. I can't stand little hairy fish.

[meow2u3]

35. I'm old-fashioned. I like plain old cheese pizza

But I'll take extra cheese and, if I'm feeling a bit adventurous, have sausage or pepperoni.

But no way in hell will I ever put fruit on my pizza, so pineapple is out of the question!

[KamaAina]

42. Ahem... tomatoes are fruits.

[meow2u3]

45. I meant dessert fruits

Dessert fruits, such as pineapple, peaches, and pears don't belong on pizza AFAIC.

Tomatoes may be fruits, but they're fregetables--fruits eaten as vegetables. Plus, a pizza isn't a pizza without tomato sauce.

[Aristus]

38. Pepperoni and black olives.

[jpak]

40. Goat cheese, pesto, spinach and smoked Maine mussels

yum

yup

[KamaAina]

43. The mussels sound like they'd do nicely in a New Haven-style white pie

usually made with clams.

[KamaAina]

46. Broccoli rabe

seems to be an NYC thing. I've never seen it elsewhere.

[OriginalGeek]

47. AS I often steal this quote from a friend:

"I could eat pizza while my head was on fire."

I am a fan of almost anything you can put on a pizza - provided it's accompanied by pizza sauce and (at least) mozzarella cheese. If I wanted BBQ or alfredo sauce I'd just go eat BBQ or alfredo something.

But my go-to pizza is just plain pepperoni as it satisfies the whole family instead of having to listen to whining.

Oddly, about the only think I do not care for is sausage unless it's part of an ensemble.

But I like everything from just cheese to all the meats to all the meats and all the veggies up to and including pineapple but NOT broccoli. What a horrible thing to do to a pizza.


And I won't eat Papa John's for money or to save my life. Fuck that guy.

[Phentex]

48. spinach, roasted chicken, pesto, tomatoes & cheese

on crispy crust

[liberaltrucker]

49. Everything except anchovies

[kentauros]

50. Onions and pineapple.

Best combination ever

[trof]

51. ANCHOVIES!

[GoCubsGo]

60. Yes!

Onions, mushrooms and peppers, too! I also love a good Margherita pizza.

[kwassa]

63. Absolutely.

[Codeine]

53. Black olives, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts,

mushrooms, basil leaves, crushed garlic, and a sprinkling of sea salt and oregano. A drizzling of olive oil when it comes out of the oven.

And vegan cheese. Sorry, pizza purists.

[kentauros]

55. I love daiya's vegan cheese.

It would be great to find a pizza place that used it.

I like your toppings, but tend to avoid them because they make the crust soggy. That goes for any topping with a high amount of water in it, and then it cooks out and into the crust.

[Codeine]

56. There's a few places in our area that use it.

And they cook with the big woodfired pizza ovens that finish the whole thing in about 90 seconds, so luckily no sogginess. At home I tend to keep pizza simpler for exactly that reason.

And damn that Daiya cheese rocks.

[kentauros]

58. I haven't bought it in a while due to not working.

But when I am, I like to buy the "slices" and make grilled cheese sandwiches, usually with homemade bread. Great stuff!

Houston does have some great veggie restaurants, but I don't know if any of the pizza joints use daiya or other vegan cheeses. Might be worth asking around...

[Codeine]

59. There's a Houston place called Healthy Cow Pizza

that uses it, but godDAMN are they pricy!

[kentauros]

61. Seems like I've heard of that place.

I guess it's in a part of town where people make more money.

In fact, now that I see their location map on Google, they're in the heart of the Galleria district, one of the most affluent parts of Houston (The Galleria is where the Neiman Marcus store is located, for an idea.)

[intheflow]

54. Mushrooms, black olives, artichoke hearts, and pepperoni on half.

And the artichoke hearts MUST NOT BE MARINATED!!!!

I cannot stress this last bit enough.

[Codeine]

57. I'm non-partisan on artichoke hearts.

Marinated or not, I love em.

[intheflow]

62. Oh yeah, they're fine marinated.

Just NOT ON PIZZA!!!!!

I feel the same way about green olives. They are a PIZZA ABOMINATION!!! But otherwise quite yummy.

[Codeine]

64. Ewww! Green olives on pizza would be sick indeed. nt

[KamaAina]

65. Castroville on California's central coast calls itself "the artichoke heart of the world"!

[intheflow]

66. I must go there immediately!!

[KamaAina]

68. Enjoy!

It's in between Santa Cruz (old-school beach boardwalk with rides) to the north and Monterey (world-class aquarium) to the south.

[Jade Fox]

67. Chicken on pizza is just wrong.

[KamaAina]

69. I've often wondered why it can't be cut into pepperoni-like slices

rather than cubed.

[jpak]

70. In Chile: octopus, calamari, scallops, clams - and anchovies

but just one per pie.

In Punta Arenas Chile, the local pizza palace makes an 8 inch thick-dough pie and the toppings are covered with a massive amount of cheese.

YUm

[KamaAina]

71. So Punta Arenas is Spanish for Chicago?

The seafood one sounds yummy, sans the anchovy ; it, like the smoked Maine mussels, would work as a New Haven-style white pie.

[jpak]

74. You have to order *everything* on a different pie - or they will yell at you - lol

when in France never order this...



which is yummy

[robertgodardfromnj]

72. I usually go for meats, no veggies

My favorites include Pepperoni, chicken, and Italian sausage.

[Cheese Sandwich]

73. pepperoni and mushroom

[laundry_queen]

75. I'm okay with anything except olives, anchovies and the wrong kind of pepperoni

I don't know how to explain the wrong kind of pepperoni. Some are good, some are bad, LOL. Oh, and this one place nearby has 'italian sausage' but it tastes nothing like the sausage I cook with and I find it disgusting.

Our family has pizza nights regularly and we all have varied tastes so I'm usually the odd one out, so I've learned to just eat whatever. I have 4 kids and 2 of them like Hawaiian, 1 likes pepperoni or donair pizza and one likes olives & mushrooms. My mom likes vegetarian with extra olives. My dad likes the spicy perogy from a Boston Pizza (I think that's, ironically, a Canadian chain?), my brother likes anything with banana peppers and my SIL is like me - she'll eat whatever.

My ex used to like anything with lots of meat, when we'd make homemade pizzas, they always had summer sausage, pepperoni, ham, mushrooms and peppers. My former best friend (still friendly, just grew apart) used to like onions and ground beef...This one place our work orders from when they have pizza days (a couple times a year) has a spaghetti pizza...it's quite good, amazingly. I've learned to deal with whatever (except the olives, I just can't do it.)

Today I had a mexican inspired pizza at a restaurant and it was yummy. It had cilantro, corn, avocado and chicken. Came with hot sauce. MMMM!

[bigwillq]

76. Just cheese and sauce

And a thin crust

Sometimes meatballs or pepperoni, but I mainly just like plain cheese.

[JimDandy]

77. Dill pickles slices, pepperoni, sausage, olives and mushrooms

[KamaAina]

81. Dill pickle slices?!

May I ask you a personal question?

[JimDandy]

83. LOL If that had been why, I'd have had more children than in the movie The King of Siam!

Try it... Cooking the pickles leaves just enough of the sourness to make the pizza interesting. It's almost like artichoke hearts, but less expensive. So you get a pizza with four of the tastes: umami, sour, sweet and salty. I suppose, if you"re a drinker, a bitter beer would give you the last taste.

[mackerel]

79. So hard to choose!

Right now I've been going with date a bacon which is bacon & dates.

I love veggie only, clam & garlic, or just mushroom & olive.

[KamaAina]

80. Dates?! That I never heard of!

And yours does not strike me as the sort of area where one would find out-there stuff like that.

[mackerel]

84. Actually we've been written up in

AAA Magazine for a our pizza. Wine country is the perfect place for a foodie.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

85. A couple that I've run across:

White sauce (like Alfredo sauce) with grilled chicken, marinated artichoke hearts, red onion, black olives.

Sauerkraut and Canadian bacon (weird, but it works)

Spicy Italian sausage, roasted bell pepper, sautéed onions, sautéed mushrooms.

Putting tomato slices on most pies AFTER they're cooked is nice.

Slices of raw garlic are too, if you're in to that sort of thing.

[panader0]

86. Anything is good except cheese.

For whatever reason, I've always hated cheese. When I called in an order with no cheese,
the worker would say, "Is this panader0?"