I too plan to have 50% as much fun as I could be having!
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
If you have all of the fun at once, there's no more fun to be had.
Namaste.
― Bernard Crunderdunder (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
They forgot the flipping basil. Come on, guys, this isn't rocket pizza.
― Bernard Crunderdunder (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
but it is optional on a margherita― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, November 6, 2017 10:18 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
xp rocket pizza would have a different green thing on it entirely iirc
― mh, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/kefBqvUVKw— italians mad at food (@ItalianComments) November 8, 2017
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
ahahaha
― imago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
great twitter account
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
I'm just assuming that this is that account's only tweet
― imago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Austin used to have a really good Chicago-style pizza place but it went to hell years ago. I miss it so much.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
we really enjoyed breaking up the streak of constant bbq with some Home Slice in Austin. place was kind of a zoo, though.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
for all of the controversy, pizza is usually good
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
"Anyone can be a gourmet. For instance, there are millions of gourmets of pizzas."
-- Bob Marley --
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
Pizza ≠ Pie. Stop calling it that you murderers
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Thursday, 9 November 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
#iamthe23
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza slice?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 9 November 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
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
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Thursday, 9 November 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP2GMyQdw78
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
http://casabiancapizza.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/outside1-300x223.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
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
― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
instead of marinara i'd have a creamy tequila sauce and instead of mozz i'll have lime slices, with a salted crust. LOL
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
xps pizza pie sounds good off the tongue so i'm all for it (even though it's not a pie obviously)
― nxd, Thursday, 9 November 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
unless it can be served with either brown gravy or custard, it's not pie
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
funny you should say that
― imago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:01 (six years ago) link
luv2serve a steak and ale pie with custard
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
wait wait. so it isn't "When the moon hits your eye like a big piece of pie"????
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
Italian Easter Pie (Pizza Gain, a.k.a. Pizza Rustica)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
Also, pizza,
from Italian pizza, originally "cake, tart, pie," of uncertain origin
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eGUQWENMc
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
in another, more accurate sense, there is nothing that is not a pie
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
Calzone = pizza pie pie
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
pizza is pasta, is the point i was trying to make
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
controversial, but I like where you're going with this
― mh, Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
No need to bring the spaghetti pie into thishttps://www.aspicyperspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/baked-spaghetti-pie-recipe-23.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
I am now wondering what a pepperoni pie would be like
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
you mean a peperoni in the shape of a pie, to scale?
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
AND?????
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
HE SPILLED HIS GUTS ALL OVER THE STAAAAGE
― imago, Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
my mom just requested a taco pizza from the Godfather’s pizza chain, but her dad just died so I am not questioning anything
― mh, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
listen to your mother
― j., Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
yes, and condolences to you both
― estela, Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
it was a good pizza experience
― mh, Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link