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[–] halcyoncmdr 103 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Considering tomatoes aren't even from Europe the Italians can think whatever they want about pizza, they're not experts, they're just as wrong as everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (8 children)

And that's why, as a Midwesterner, I proudly put black olives on my tacos. And it's tastes pretty damn great!

[–] tdawg 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a socal boy, you scare me

[–] captainlezbian 5 points 2 months ago

Midwestern Mexican food is a whole nother beast.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pickles are pickles, but personally, I like pickled watermelon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Preparing that yourself or are there places where you can buy pickled watermelon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All over the place. If your local store has a large pickle section, you’ll probably find it.

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[–] MataVatnik 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm learning so many new things today 🫠

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[–] disguy_ovahea 5 points 2 months ago (17 children)

A plain slice in NY, maybe with some red pepper flakes and parmigiana. Fuckin bliss.

[–] halcyoncmdr 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NY style pizza also isn't anything particularly amazing. New Yorkers are just louder about it, like with everything they do.

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[–] HootinNHollerin 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And ~~pasta~~ noodles are from china

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Asian noodles and italian pasta evolved independently. It's a myth that Marco Polo brought the recipe home.

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[–] Sterile_Technique 79 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There's a lot of things to argue about, but pizza just isn't one of them. It's a chunk of bread with leftovers on it. If it tastes good on pizza, it belongs on pizza; and what tastes good on pizza depends on the tongue probing it.

Pineapple... sausage... anchovies... goat cheese... potato chips... a fucking strawberry slurpee - if you like it, you rock it.

The only wrong option is to abstain from making/ordering the pizza you want because that ingredient doesn't 'belong' there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For what is worth, that's not how (most?) Italians think about pizza. It's not a "container" in which you put a bunch of things, but each pizza type is basically a separate dish.

I personally don't care what people put on their pizza, I simply avoid places that make "pizzas" in a non-italian fashion, like the american (supposedly NY style) ones where you get crust, 2 fingers of industrial cheese and a whole plant of oregano.

It's very similar for pasta, which many people think as a bread replacement.

[–] Anamnesis 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is why their pizzas are so boring. One or two toppings. Come on, get creative with it, Guissepe.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Most of Italian recipes are very simple. The focus usually is on quality on the ingredients and if they are good, a pizza with just mozzarella and tomatoes is already delicious. That said, even in Italy there are plenty of types of pizzas, but most of them don't have 20 ingredients, I suppose the point is that you actually want to taste what you eat, which is not the case when you mix many different things. There is a very messy and rich pizza (capricciosa) with a lot of toppings though (more than one obviously, but this is the most common).

Personally I am a margherita person, simple and boring is perfect, as long as it tastes great.

P.s. Giuseppe :)

[–] Sylvartas 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

simple and boring is perfect, as long as it tastes great.

As a Regina enjoyer I agree 100%

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Imagine you couldn't try new things how stale or diet would be today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. There are a lot of foods already out in the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now imagine we can only ever eat what the first humans ate

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I despise this traditional "that doesn't go on that dish" bullshit.

It was that way with the food where I'm from and well and now the new generation is doing whatever they want with those traditional recipes and making them modern and it's amazing. If you don't like pineapple on your pizza don't have it. But shut the fuck up with your "that's not a pizza". You sound like my great grandma

Edit: I'm from El Salvador and people used to freak out if you suggested that pupusas should have more variety than just pork, cheese and beans. They'd yell at you that it wasn't traditional. Now the young generation is making pupusas with chicken, fish, shrimp, sweet potato, zucchini, and so on, and it's amazing!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the worst is when people are like this for a dish that was invented as a way to use the shitty limited ingredients of the area because everyone was poor and that's all they had back then. That's not even tradition. Or slightly less annoying is when people try your traditional dish from the country your family comes from and say its not correct in some way, but they are from one of the 6 neighboring countries with pretty much the same food but the name is spelled slightly different and have regional plants as seasoning instead.

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[–] nepenthes 32 points 2 months ago (6 children)

In Poland, some people put fruit juice in their beer (piwo z sokiem), and it is fucking delicious

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Shandies are great. Radler is very refreshing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Fruity beer is also common in Belgium. It's not mixed with juice but is already flavored in the bottle as you buy it. And yes, it's delicious. Kriek for instance is a pretty famous cherry flavored beer.

Also non-alcaholic beer mixed with juice is a pretty decent drink after sports. The slight bitterness and the bubbles makes it really refreshing on hot days.

[–] Maalus 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's not about a flavoured beer - there's plenty of em. This is about a concentrated form of juice you usually dilute in water. You put it into beer, it turns reddish-pink and a lot of people preffer to drink it that way

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[–] Chickenstalker 24 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Pizzas are just open-faced sandwiches. Anything you can put in a sandwich, you can put on a pizza.

[–] cm0002 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To (controversially) go one step further, all unsweetened carbohydrate bases are interchangeable.

You can put pasta topping on a pizza, you can put pizza topping on rice, you can put toastie fillings on a potato waffle and it always ends up nice.

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[–] IndustryStandard 19 points 2 months ago

Combining sweet and savory food to piss people off an age old tradition.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Has anyone asked the Polish if they’re ok?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not since the 17th century.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Shame. Only shame.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Btw, carbonara with tuna and citrus juice is pretty good.

[–] telllos 10 points 2 months ago

If my grandma had wheels she would have been a bike.

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[–] portuga 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I’m Portuguese and I’ve seen that abomination here. I’m sorry, I thought it was contained. Now, have you guys heard about chocolate pizza for dessert?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
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