Would you ever order a margherita pizza?

The pacific northwest has fucking terrible pizza, like they heard a description of it from far away and tried to copy it and you might consider it to be good if you've never been anywhere else.

there's a Chicago-style place in Seattle that operates in the back of a distillery now, but used to be by pre-order only & you had to pick it up in an empty parking lot when nobody was watching

Bacon and egg on pizza is pretty common here, its usually called an Aussie.

http://cdn2.aussietaste.recipes/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-Aussie-Egg-And-Bacon-Pizza-opt.jpg

One of my favorite pizzas ever was an Alsatian-style tarte flambée at a hotel restaurantl I worked with. Uplands cheese, Neuske bacon, wood-fired.

http://slice.seriouseats.com/images/2013/01/20130109-236249-chicago-pizza-balsan-pizza-slice.jpg

re: Pacific NW:
https://www.sizzlepie.com/ <--- Went here last time I was in Oregon, and ate the hell out of "The Ol' Dirty" (Salami, Ricotta, Olive Oil and Pepperoncinis)

seattle has a patxi's, which is a weird west coast + colorado deep dish chain

Brooklyn's Roberta's is doing a pop up here this weekend. One of the four pizzas on offer is margherita.

Like the drink?!

like the thread title.

I'm joking.

I'm not

brb, squeezing a lime on my salt-rimmed pizza

what's funny is before I caught it autocorrect had indeed spelled it like the drink. that would be such a sloppy gross mess it would only get eaten if you were already drunk.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

going to an election party in a brewery next to Sizzle Pie tonight

hmmm

23 ppl will be persecuted now, but will be rehabilitated 400 years from now, when the world is finally good and peaceful. You die, 23 ppl, sad, but congrats, you'll be heralded!

I am in fact ordering a margherita pizza this very night. Thanks for whetting my appetite, thread!

I too plan to have 50% as much fun as I could be having!

If you have all of the fun at once, there's no more fun to be had.

Namaste.

The point is that extra toppings do not equal extra fun. A pure margherita is the basis of fun. It's more like, I don't know, I want to play a game of chess, whereas you want to play a game of chess where the board lights up and the pieces sing every time they're taken. Yeah, that's great sometimes, but it's not something you're going to want to play all of the time.

They forgot the flipping basil. Come on, guys, this isn't rocket pizza.

but it is optional on a margherita

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, November 6, 2017 10:18 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on the one hand, i defer to ed. on the other hand, there is no "optional", there is only right or wrong

xp rocket pizza would have a different green thing on it entirely iirc

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ahahaha

great twitter account

I'm just assuming that this is that account's only tweet

Austin used to have a really good Chicago-style pizza place but it went to hell years ago. I miss it so much.

we really enjoyed breaking up the streak of constant bbq with some Home Slice in Austin. place was kind of a zoo, though.

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