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).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
Well I think this is pretty much settled so for your further entertainment here's the whole list of topping options:
MargheritaVegetarianchilli BeefHam & MushroomLamb & MintBacon & BrieGrilled peppers & HaloumiPepperoniPesto & PepperBBQ Pulled PorkBBQ ChickenBlue cheese, rocket and Balsamic GlazeGoats cheese and Red onionHam hock and EdamPort salut and Peppardew peppers
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Monday, 6 November 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Um, wow. Or yuck. Not sure I would trust anyone doing half of those with something as simple as Margherita.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
That is a hellscape of a menu
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 6 November 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
this looks more like a selection of crisp flavours, and a p good one at that
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Thirding this. If you can't make a delicious margherita, you shouldn't be in the biz.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 November 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
It is the basic test of your cheese, your sauce and your crust. All three need to be on point.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
honestly in terms of hellish pizza menus that doesn't really rank
― Simon H., Monday, 6 November 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
yes. yes. yes. http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/b6/30/03/antica-pizzeria-da-michele.jpg
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
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
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
^I'd add the napoletana
― willem, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
that is an example of good & acceptable pizza minimalism
― imago, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
JCLC nailed it with his post.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
No, a cheese pizza wouldn't have tomatoes as a topping.
― how's life, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
margherita pizza is not cheese pizza!
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
yes it is!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
never in a million years
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
i.e. that is a cheese pizza with some kind of shrubbery added, presumably for christmas
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
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.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
pizza should not have too many toppings on it
that is all
― brimstead, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
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
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
1 margherita pizza is not "cheese pizza"2 basil is an essential part of margherita pizza3 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 first4 the best pizza is not available at a place that doesn't have a good margherita pizza
― marcos, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
so it's a cheese pizza with leaves on it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
yes
― Simon H., Monday, 6 November 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
Granny Dainger OTM. Pizza is a canvas on which to paint
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
eats, pizza, leaves
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
why not throw actual toppings on to increase the nutritional value
yes, because pizza is only a vessel for "nutritional value"
*farts*
― marcos, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
cheeze pizza is shredded cows-milk mozz, not buffalo mozz in delicious blobs!!!!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
you're dumb. what a dumb response.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Eating more plants is helping with my diabetes.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
I think of "cheese" pizza as being more or less covered with cheese, barring the edge. Margherita has globs of fresh mozzarella that leave a lot of the fresh/chunk tomato sauce exposed.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
aha, thx for the clarification! xp
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
here's what I would pick off that menu, for a party
Margherita -- see thread
Pepperoni -- meat requirement
Blue cheese, rocket and Balsamic Glaze -- balsamic's too sweet usually but people love this
Port salut and Peppardew peppers -- this sounds amazing to me so idgaf if I'm the only one who eats it
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
you should always dump every foodstuff in the household onto a pizza to maximize nutritional value
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
I do just about the same thing unperson does, but I do it by only eating one meal a day for 5/7ths of the week
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
pizza is a vessel for the soul
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
Grilled peppers & Haloumi
honestly i love halloumi but if you put it on my pizza i will cut your fucking hands off
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
considering that you can judge the quality of a pizzeria on their pizza margherita, ordering them is essential.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
Thiiiis. Not sure if I'm fourthing, fifthing or whatever but so much this.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
nice try, pizza place, trying to fool me into liking your pizza by putting delicious toppings on it
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
fresh basil and fresh mozzarella are toppings
― marcos, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
This thread really couldn't be any more ILX.
Margherita is great but it's different from cheese pizza.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
if only we could find a way to tilt it towards whether you should tip the people who make and/or deliver yr pizza too
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
I rarely go for a margherita myself because it's just not enough food for a growing boy like me, and it gets cold quickly (I am not a cold pizza guy), but it can be completely fantastic when I'm not that hungry and when basic is exactly what I'm after
as for using a margherita as a yardstick by which to judge a pizzeria's fundamentals, I guess so, but this seems more theoretical than practical, if I want to check out a new band I go with the album that has the song I like, not the album with the most stripped-down arrangement & production
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
Maturity is discovering that the fundamental pizza is margherita and not pepperoni.
― Eazy, Monday, 6 November 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
I would happily eat a margherita but would never order one. Likewise, would never order pasta with just marinara. It's a good start to a good dish but pretty boring as a finished product.
xp 100% agree w/Tom
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:45 (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
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.
― 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
have you ever masturbated in front of a margherita pizza
― assawoman bay (harbl), Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
I ordered a pulled pork bbq pizza tonight and mentally flipped double birds at this thread as i did it
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 12 November 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
never knew there were people who thought margerita pizza wasnt a thing
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Sunday, 12 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link