Would you ever order a margherita pizza?

I am firmly in the Joan Crawford/bizarro camp.

yeah obviously, this is a silly poll

pizza thread = automatic 200-post clusterfuck tho obv

Only if I add a lot of salt to it.

In the pizzeria
Margherita keeps the spirits high...

I wouldn't go for it as a first choice. It's ok, but tomatoes are a second-tier pizza topping for me. Not the holiness that is sausage and onions, but not as low as "you put BROCCOLI on it?"

Not the holiness that is sausage and onions, but not as low as "you put BROCCOLI on it?"

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when you go salsiccia e friarelli, m8, you don't go back

broccoli on pizza is one of life's most sublime pleasures

but tomatoes are a second-tier pizza topping for me

They don't even count as a topping, tomatoes are a basic component.

It just seems so plain. Like pasta with just cheese. I know, cacio e pepe, I probably wouldn't order that either. Might make it at home though. I do love cheese on toast... hey I'm trying here.

I am trying to only eat meat one meal a day now, so yeah, margherita pizza is becoming a more and more popular option at my house.

Move that it be hereon known as "plain" or "vanilla" or "unfinished" pizza tbh

vanilla pizza, now there's a notion

A pizza plain is your only pan

this is my go-to pizza

btw this poll should have been margherita with basil y/n, to which obv y

It's the best one to pour a tin of Heinz beans over tbf

wd never order margherita from a takeaway gtfo

deems is triangulating the perfect ilx pizza troll comment, reckon he'll nail it by teatime

the final epiphany once you start down the road with this question is that you actually don't really like pizza

btw this poll should have been margherita with basil y/n, to which obv y

i thought that basil was a basic ingredient of a margherita. without it, it's not really a margherita?

shall we put that to our american friends

I pretty much always order a margherita at a fancy/snobby/aspirational pizza place - the kind that brags about their 00 flour and san marzano tomatoes and buffalo mozzeralla - to establish a baseline level of quality. I'd never order one from a delivery place.

it is the yardstick by which I judge a pizza place and is my most ordered pizza

Seriously. It's the gold (white red green) standard. And yeah, it needs basil (green).

Well I think this is pretty much settled so for your further entertainment here's the whole list of topping options:

Margherita
Vegetarian
chilli Beef
Ham & Mushroom
Lamb & Mint
Bacon & Brie
Grilled peppers & Haloumi
Pepperoni
Pesto & Pepper
BBQ Pulled Pork
BBQ Chicken
Blue cheese, rocket and Balsamic Glaze
Goats cheese and Red onion
Ham hock and Edam
Port salut and Peppardew peppers

Um, wow. Or yuck. Not sure I would trust anyone doing half of those with something as simple as Margherita.

That is a hellscape of a menu

Port salut and Peppardew peppers

is this a thing? not sure about this combination on or off pizza but would be willing to give it a go

this looks more like a selection of crisp flavours, and a p good one at that

it is the yardstick by which I judge a pizza place and is my most ordered pizza

Thirding this. If you can't make a delicious margherita, you shouldn't be in the biz.

It is the basic test of your cheese, your sauce and your crust. All three need to be on point.

honestly in terms of hellish pizza menus that doesn't really rank

yes. yes. yes.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/b6/30/03/antica-pizzeria-da-michele.jpg

thats all you need.

want to eat pizza from that place right now.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0a/15/ad/cc/l-antica-pizzeria-da.jpg

^I'd add the napoletana

that is an example of good & acceptable pizza minimalism

JCLC nailed it with his post.

in america this is called "cheese pizza" and i don't think i've ever ordered an entire cheese pizza ever in my life

if we're talking SLICES though, it is by far my most ordered slice and i love it, though usually i am adding chili flakes, oregano, parmesan.. so maybe i do not actually love it as much as i am saying i do

No, a cheese pizza wouldn't have tomatoes as a topping.

margherita pizza is not cheese pizza!

yes it is!

never in a million years

i know it's supposed to have actual tomato bits on top but you never actually get them. at least not at the places i go. i.e.

http://goodtoknow.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/111/00000859f/541e_orh412w625/ClassicMargherita.jpg

i.e. that is a cheese pizza with some kind of shrubbery added, presumably for christmas

feel like if you're going thru the trouble of making a pizza, why not throw actual toppings on to increase the nutritional value. veggie pizza for me has, like, veggies on it.

pizza should not have too many toppings on it

that is all

I am trying to only eat meat one meal a day now

i feel like this intriguing post from unperson has not been given the attention it deserves

1 margherita pizza is not "cheese pizza"
2 basil is an essential part of margherita pizza
3 margherita is one of the best pizzas, perhaps the most classic pizza, its simplicity is enhanced by ordering in addition another pizza that is perhaps more complex and intense in its ingredients, but the margherita pizza should always be consumed first
4 the best pizza is not available at a place that doesn't have a good margherita pizza

so it's a cheese pizza with leaves on it

yes

for all of the controversy, pizza is usually good

"Anyone can be a gourmet. For instance, there are millions of gourmets of pizzas."

-- Bob Marley --

Yeah Home Slice is always a madhouse. Last time I went we had to wait like an hour and a half for a table. I'd just cross the street and get some pizza at Enoteca Vespaio.

Pizza ≠ Pie. Stop calling it that you murderers

#iamthe23

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza slice?

I always figured Dean Martin was going for surreal or proto-psychedelia or something. Pizza is not pie any more than a hot dog is a sandwich. Ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP2GMyQdw78

http://casabiancapizza.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/outside1-300x223.jpg

i'll have a margherita but instead of tomato i'll have sauce and instead of fresh mozz i'll have the old stuff. also no wilty basil please

instead of marinara i'd have a creamy tequila sauce and instead of mozz i'll have lime slices, with a salted crust. LOL

xps pizza pie sounds good off the tongue so i'm all for it (even though it's not a pie obviously)

unless it can be served with either brown gravy or custard, it's not pie

funny you should say that

luv2serve a steak and ale pie with custard

wait wait. so it isn't "When the moon hits your eye like a big piece of pie"????

Italian Easter Pie (Pizza Gain, a.k.a. Pizza Rustica)

Also, pizza,

from Italian pizza, originally "cake, tart, pie," of uncertain origin

Largely, though, most Americans at that time had never heard of pizza. "If someone suggests a 'pizza pie' after the theater, don't think it is going to be a wedge of apple," wrote New York Herald Tribune food columnist Clementine Paddleford in 1939. "It is going to be the surprise of your life,... a nice stunt to surprise the visiting relatives, who will be heading East soon for the World's Fair. They come to be surprised, and pizza, pronounced 'peet-za,' will do the job brown."

Lots of great stuff here, I'm learning a lot!

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/263732/where-does-pizza-pie-originate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eGUQWENMc

josh i have gone through the etymology of this already! any rolled out dough is basically the same word: pizza, pasta, pita, pastry etc

don't know if "pie" quite makes the cut here tho

Well, I did learn that it is largely an American thing, and that it (pizza or pizza pie) doesn't really enter the English vernacular until the 20th century, possibly a mishearing of "pizzapaia." As someone pointed out in that link, "The paia is the sound an Italian (maybe even Neapolitan or Sicilian) would reproduce seeing the letters in pie, those who were literate."

Anyway, pizza is not a pie. But I like all the etymological connections anyway.

in another, more accurate sense, there is nothing that is not a pie

Calzone = pizza pie pie

Well, I did learn that it is largely an American thing, and that it (pizza or pizza pie) doesn't really enter the English vernacular until the 20th century, possibly a mishearing of "pizzapaia." As someone pointed out in that link, "The paia is the sound an Italian (maybe even Neapolitan or Sicilian) would reproduce seeing the letters in pie, those who were literate."

Isn't that a circular reference? 'Pie gets used because of pizzapaia which comes about from Sicilians trying to say pie after they saw it written down about pizza'.

How about this for a cobbled together etymology? Almost all Italian American immigration is from the 'Two Sicilies' - effectively Naples and Sicily. When the round, Neapolitan, shape started to take hold and define what pizza was, the rectangular, Sicilian shape tried to claim it was just as good - literally 'pizza paia', or pizza equal. This became 'pie' in English to differentiate between the shapes and over the intervening years got (mistakenly) applied to both kinds. Sounds as plausible as anything else.

I don't know if it's circular so much as redundant, which sounds like just the sort of thing Americans at the turn of the century would do with this exotic Italian import.

pizza is pasta, is the point i was trying to make

controversial, but I like where you're going with this

No need to bring the spaghetti pie into this
https://www.aspicyperspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/baked-spaghetti-pie-recipe-23.jpg

I am now wondering what a pepperoni pie would be like

you mean a peperoni in the shape of a pie, to scale?

Ordered a personal size margherita pizza and a personal size garden pizza (spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, black olives), and split each with my wife, for lunch today.

AND?????

HE SPILLED HIS GUTS ALL OVER THE STAAAAGE

my mom just requested a taco pizza from the Godfather’s pizza chain, but her dad just died so I am not questioning anything

listen to your mother

yes, and condolences to you both

it was a good pizza experience

have you ever masturbated in front of a margherita pizza

a marg pizza is a symbol of restraint unless it’s especially savory or decadent. perhaps in Italy a prime example or, if you live a life of decadence.. these things could happen

I ordered a pulled pork bbq pizza tonight and mentally flipped double birds at this thread as i did it

never knew there were people who thought margerita pizza wasnt a thing