25 Jul 07
Originally posted by trevor33My mother always made the pizza herself. It was quite different from both Italian and American pizza, but very good. I have made my own pizza a few times, but usually I am too lazy. I have also made pizza together with friends a few times, that's quite fun.
ever tried making your own pizza? it really isn't difficult and you'll find after a few attempts its just as good it not better than the pizza you're used to.
25 Jul 07
Originally posted by NordlysAmericans put weird stuff on pizza.
You can probably get Italian pizza and lots of other kinds of pizza in the US, but there's a certain pizza style that's called "American pizza" in Europe (or at least in Germany), and that's what I am talking about. Unfortunately, that's the kind of pizza you get at most pizza restaurants here in Norway, and most of the frozen pizza is also that type. They put weird stuff on it and serve it with dip. What the heck?
Mmm.
My first month in Austria, I went to a very popular pizza place in the shadow of Stephansdom. I didn't know German then, being new. So I pointed to the top one, figuring that as the top one, it would be the most popular and generic. No one could have anticipated the horror show that awaited me fifteen minutes' hence.
It turns out that I ordered the "Cyclops Pizza". When the waiter brought it to me, it had a fried egg right in the middle of it. It was smiling at me, courtesy of a foot-long hot pepper arranged in a half-moon. The other toppings were corn, peas, celery, and lentils. Later that month, a young man decapitated his mother and put her head in the family's shop window for the morning crowd.
Americans put weird things on pizza?
25 Jul 07
Originally posted by BadByronYou got that right. It's usually a lot better, too. I used to go down to the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto every Saturday and get a bag of dough and a container of sauce for $5 from the pizza place there. The bag of dough would make 2 full cookie-sheet sized pizzas, and there was always plenty of sauce even if I was making it for someone who liked it sloppy. For toppings like fresh mozzarella, pepperoni, mushrooms, basil and chili flakes, kick in another $5 tops. Compare that to $21.76 for two medium pizzas with 3 toppings each at Pizza Pizza (Ontario's No.1, according to Bret "The Hitman" Hart, now appearing as the Genie in the stage production of Aladdin alongside that blonde tramp from Ready or Not).
Yes I enjoy making my own pizza ocassionally.Its just cheaper to buy it than having to get everything and making it.
It's even cheaper now because my girlfriend makes some fantastic dough for me with her bread machine and I make the sauce. Homemade is the way to go.
Having said that, the only thing hot mayonnaise is good for is faking an orgasm. Seriously, you guys spread that stuff on pizza like it was butta'?
25 Jul 07
Originally posted by sasquatch672Well, I agree with you that all the toppings you mentioned apart from the corn are weird stuff to put on pizza (I have never seen any of it on pizza either), although as far as I can tell from your story, the head was not on a pizza, so that doesn't count as a weird topping. But the fact that there's a place in Austria where you can get very weird pizza with stuff not even Americans would put on their pizza doesn't mean that Americans don't put weird stuff on their pizza.
Americans put weird stuff on pizza.
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Americans put weird things on pizza?
25 Jul 07
Originally posted by NordlysWhat, like noodles?
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25 Jul 07
Originally posted by trevor33I was invited to a homemade vegan pizza dinner at the vegan co-op in Berkeley when I was a student there. They put in Baking Soda instead of Baking Powder or the other way around.
ever tried making your own pizza? it really isn't difficult and you'll find after a few attempts its just as good it not better than the pizza you're used to.
The pizza was inedibly salty. Oh well.