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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omb_4O5DkQ

Tail in so you know it's a fresh prawn

in tribute to this thread, i made three pizzas tonight. one had red sauce, mozz & variety shrooms. one had pesto, chevre & red pepper. the other had sliced potatoes, olive oil & rosemary. all were served under an inch-thick blanket of rocket & ketchup. except for that last part.

Tail in so you know it's a fresh prawn

have the waiter remove the tails at the table then, fancy place

the devil is in the de-tail

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c249/JKFrazier/snoop.gif

Nice

At the Cubs game tonight I saw a Boy Scout cover a slice of cheese pizza with chopped onions and ketchup. I thought about taking all his merit badges away from him.

rocket is good on pizza although obv it goes on after the oven which maybe in those pics it did not, so comparing it to spinach is apples and oranges.

prawn is terrible on pizza.

ketchup is wtf, but who cares pizza is basically children's food.

i haven't had a really good slice in new york yet imo. why don't they use better cheese on the cheese pizza?

If there was a "rocket, prawn and ketchup" sandwich option at an M&S I might go for it. Britishes did invent the winning combo of cheddar + relish

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