you shouldn't need to eat pizza with a spoon
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:26 (ten years ago) link
prefer to dip into my sauce tbh but if that's garlic yog then i'd still smash it
― The Buzzing of Summer Tweets (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link
but it's delicious garlic sauce! wish more places did garlic mayo in London, you used to get that a lot when I lived in Bristol
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
In Britain, I always eat pizza with a knife and fork. It seems only polite.
(In NY, I spent many, many years perfecting the art of eating a slice of pizza without ever, ever touching it with my fingers.)
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
looking forward to opinions on the London pizza from our cousins across the pond
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
it looks like a fucking pond tbh
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
two nations, separated by garlic sauce
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:33 (ten years ago) link
London Pizza posing formidable challenge to Scottish munchy box's position as 'heart disease in a box' champion. Good work, Middlesbrough.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Pizza with chips on is standard in pretty much every takeaway place I've been to.in Italy. I've never seen it in London though.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
Middlesbrough also has the Parmo, which also vies for the 'direct injection of arteriosclerosis' award.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article6695590.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS32292742-6695590.jpg
Cheeseburger & chips pizza from Dogs'n'Dough, Manchester
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45124000/gif/_45124560_death_map_466.gif
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
London pizza is champion forever. first one I had was in Nottingham it was so horrible but the sheer triumph of the "let's put french fries on a pizza, we will call it the London pizza" concept was more important than trivialities like taste
prawns on pizza are of course hilarious but as there is actually a Mexican restaurant in London that calls itself, I shit you not, Wahaca, there are presently bigger fish to fry
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
there are a bunch of those, and they're really popular
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
one of the less successful reboots of the Q-bert series there xp
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Wahaca is pretty decent, on the whole.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
sad lol @ Wahaca.
― how's life, Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
The London Pizza looks delicious and I would eat a pizza
― 龜, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
I could murder a prawn and garlic and white sauce and rocket pizza.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
up north, the pizza murders you
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/read/this-man-has-survived-on-pizza-alone-for-25-years
― 龜, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:50 (13 minutes ago)
otm
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
I have lost any kind of discernment WRT Britishes Mexican food, I mean, I eat at Benito's Hat quite happily.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
Vice's withering, haughty fascination with what they deem to be outsider culture never fails to come off as a sort of self-loathing regret at being a magazine by and for hip urban sophisticates with precisely zero excitement or novelty in their own lives
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
lol at American "Taco Bell" what is that, a bell made out of tacos???
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Taco Bell is like the mission bell at the end of Hotel California to tell you all you dead now.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
pizza diet man is a hero
london pizza is an abortion
italian willingness to abort pizzas shows how they ceded their birthright long ago to the U.S.A.
no tails on pizza, if you want another meal just have another meal, pizza is for pizza eaters like dan
http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/138857/select-2-copy-copy.jpg
― j., Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Poor Steven Merchant, surviving on nothing but pizza for 25 years :(
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
imago what are you talking about.
― goole, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:22 PM (2 hours ago)
Parmo is insane, and every one I've seen looks awful, but I still have a sneaking suspicion I would love it if I tried it.
― emil.y, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
I have nothing to add to the current conversation other than, thanks to the Beyonce album, the thread title immediately made me think "Let me put this/ASSSSSSSSSSSSSS on your pizza"
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Mmmmm, parmo.
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s3/old_tonto/Blitz/Blitzbau%20VIII/Parmo.jpg
― emil.y, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
would eat
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right? hope y'all will come enjoy the banger and mash at my new American chain, it's called Lundin
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
that salad is hugging the wall in sheer terror
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
Love the neat piles of salad tucked discreetly away from the greasegasm in the rest of the box xxp
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Seafood on pizza = death on a plate for me, but seriously, I don't understand Americans if they think this is weird?
because it's not at all common here. If you look at 100 pizza places' menus, maybe 1 or 2 would have some sort of seafood option for a topping (other than anchovies).
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
I need to document the midwestern US "taco pizza" phenomena
The standard you'd get at most place still has red sauce, then typically has cheddar added to the cheese mix and at least some of tomatoes/black olives/shredded iceberg/taco chips (taco-flavored Doritos) on top, served with Heinz Taco Sauce packets.
The better versions replace red sauce with a refried bean sauce, and my favorite local place has the following:normal crust, refried bean sauce, blend of cheddar cheese, black olive and fresh tomato chunks on top, baked. when removed from oven, topped with about a half bag of smashed nacho cheese doritos and served with the taco sauce packets
― have a nice blood (mh), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
also still facepalming at "wahaca"
yes, I knew this. I think they've just used a phonetic spelling of a name which might not be very familiar to a lot of Brits?
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
move to the East Coast and this changes RADICALLY btw; everyone has at least one seafood pizza
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
come to my new british-themed pub, Wooster's, we have a special house sauce
― have a nice blood (mh), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
y'all know that Nahuatl precedes its transliteration into the Latin alphabet, right?
― The Buzzing of Summer Tweets (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
xp Yes, JD, we know - and have known for the c. 10 years it's been around - that Wahaca is really spelled Oaxaca!
I don't really like seafood pizza (unless anchovies are involved) but will eat my own body weight in prawn puri, if available.
OMG just disappeared into a Wikiwormhole of all possible permutations of schnitzel. THANK YOU PARMO.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
to be fair the east coast never really threw off the sniveling adoration for our former colonial overlords like the more red-blooded part of the U.S.A.
― j., Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Wahey!ca
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
you mean this I think mh: http://www.hendersonsrelish.com/home.htm
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
I remember the 1st time I ever encountered the word "Oaxaca"...it was over 20 years ago, a restaurant in O'Hare airport was named that. It gave the place an air of authenticity. I had to ask my mom how to pronounce it. I assume many people didn't know how to pronounce it, esp back then. We learned something!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Porto wins this easily with the Francesinha. They are delicious but good grief I felt like I was going to die afterwards.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
xpost but I'm going to hit send anyway.
I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right?
Yes we know it's called Wahaca. Even if we didn't before we came to ILx, we've been told repeatedly on these threads that it's called Oaxaca. But yes, we knew. Some of us.
I've been through this before here but for some reason I'm going again.
Wahaca's actually quite a smart name for a place which aims to introduce Britishes to something approximating Oaxacan street food - if you look at their menu and associated stuff you learn quite quickly about their relationship with Oaxaca and its style of cooking. But they (apparently) try to source their ingredients from the UK, which means that you do sometimes get their take on a Mexican dish rather than a carbon-copy. they don't pretend to be ultra-authentic. So I reckon the name, with acknowledgement that it's a reference to a place in Mexico, is not really that lol-worthy.
There isn't much of a history of immigration from Mexico to the UK, though happily it's been on the increase in recent years, and there isn't the same knowledge of Mexican food here as there is of other - particularly Asian - cuisines. Again, not really all that lol-worthy, but y'know, LOL if you feel you need to.
― Tim, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link