so i was at dinner with a britisher. she ordered a prawn and rocket pizza. when it came, she put ketchup on it. I have pics

pizza is a delicacy caek.

I just eat prawns with the tail on most I the time, unless it's particularly big you can usually just crunch it up. I stop at sucking the juices out the head like someone I know does....

Have we discussed yet how in greasy British pizza places you often get pizza & chips. Soggy chips.

look the rudimentary idea behind ketchup application is in the vinegar content, it's like balsamic for toddlers

― r|t|c, Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a late lamented ilxor once told me that he didn't like ketchup in plastic bottles because they put more vinegar in it??

how did rocket come to mean arugula in certain places?

how did you lose the ability to google

i actually didn't.

in french it's "la roquette", is my guess

The names are fairly similar rocket / roquette / rucola / arugula

yall are such good googlers! my bad.

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I love how every time this argument comes up the question of what they do IN ITALY is always completely overlooked.

Prawns are disgusting and eating them has no place in a civilised society but they are totally a standard pizza topping in Italy, especially by the sea. Shell-on is doubly vile and just makes no sense though.

Rocket is an amazing and totally standard pizza topping but you need it with proscuitto and parmesan really, added after the pizza has gone in the oven. That combination of flavours can be utterly glorious. Rocket and grated horsemeat = also delicious.

Ketchup is obviously wrong but I agree it's for the vinegar kick rather than anything else.

That pizza in the original post looks revolting and totally not how rocket on pizzas is supposed to look.

wth is horsemeat

if only crutacean shells dissolved

Horse is delicious and the British and Americans are so stupid for not realising.

Well Tesco did

Yeah if I wanted to eat horse I'd grab a Findus lasagne.

literally FP'd you for that

"hey, guess what! jimmy savile!"

I don't think that even Findus would put Jimmy Savile in a lasagne.

"don't eat British Beef, you'll get MAD COW DISEASE lol!"

Matt we've established that your Google skills ain't the best but did you seriously just ask what horsemeat is

i'm sure horsemeat is a-ok but how you can dismiss prawns and rep for grated horse well the mind boggles

i wager if an enterprising restaurateur were to arrange a prawn cocktail on a cooled thin base (poss with a thin smear of tomato puree) and called it summer fruits de mer en plein air pizza or whatever if would sell 10x what a prawn cocktail in any other form would

prawns tangiers on a za would probably work fine i imagine

i'll take that wager r|t|c

Surely the knowing 80s yuppy food revival is so close at hand they'd be able to do that with an only-slightly ponced up prawn cocktail before long, without even having to bring pizza into it.

pretty much anything is good on pizza, when combined with agreeable other things

pretty sure there's been several poncy prawn cocktail revivals since the 70s.

go the whole hog, nouveau prawn cocktail, steak and chips and Black Forest gateau menu

wd eat btw

^this is a dece meal except the starter

it's not the naffness of prawn cocktail that's shit

???

few things better than shrimps & cocktail sauce (provided both are fresh)

They do shrimp on pizza in Rome fwiw. I don't know if anybody orders it. But it's on the menu. So are figs! And zucchini flowers! Actually zucchini flowers on pizza are to die for

PRawns on pizza are fine, I think we are getting distracted from the main point which is ketchup on cheese on tomato paste

I semi-regularly eat Gammon Steak Hawaii.

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few things better than shrimps & cocktail sauce (provided both are fresh)

maybe cocktail sauce is different in the states but here it's basically ghastly pinkish tangy mayonnaise = gross

yeah "cocktail sauce" uk is pretty rank

the essence of even the finest marie rose sauce is to flirt with rankness surely

anything you can accurately simulate by mixing ketchup and mayo is leaning on the sickly side imo

it's not simulation, that's the thing, k&m actually is the recipe

i made cocktail sauce from scratch once (one of the ingredients was ketchup) and it was pretty indistinguishable from store bought stuff

yeah and it's not leaning either, it fully inhabits the fucking sickly side xp

xp with alcohol?

the sauce is finessable imo

nah not with alcohol, and the pot of horseradish i had on hand was a bit old too. might give it a go w/ fresher ingredients next

yeah u fucked up dun

the fuck is this 'za' ting

stop trying to make za stop happening

rtc doesn't regret za