Would you ever order a margherita pizza?

new bad idea: bouillabaisse pizza

to answer brimstead’s question - no, just the world’s most wonderful red sauce.

hmmmm... i believe you

surely the crust is stuffed with cheese

and/or little hot dogs

The notion that a margherita pizza is the same as a cheese pizza is maybe the most offensive pizza position I've ever encountered. The gall. The unmitigated gall.

if I went to Italy and someone handed me that pizza and told me it was the best in the world I would slap it out of their hand

In Italy, pizza slap you.

Just go and try it for yourself

Why is everyone on ilx such a dick about pizzas and tipping.

just don't get delivery - takeout only.

tip with toppings

order an extra topping and scrape it raclette-style into the delivery person's open palms

Your welcome. (shuts door in face, reopens briefly to flash a smug grin, reshuts door)

I didnt mean tipping re pizzas lol I meant both subjects independent of each other. We have honestly done this topic to death.

Never eaten one. I've only read a listing of the ingredients in such a pizza, so I have nothing else to go by.

If you require a lot of acidity on a pizza, this would no doubt seem like "a big round slab of blandness" no matter how well made it was. A margherita pizza would appear to require exceptionally high quality ingredients, handled deftly and knowingly, to be a true classic. I have no doubt somewhere or other it is done this way. Not sure I'd trust most pizzerias to deliver a really classic one.

If the time ever comes when I no longer feel compelled to relitigate the vagaries of pizzadom, I will know that I have passed on to a sadder and less interesting afterlife.

voted yes but only if there's no massive hunks of tomato, fuck that

The whole point of a pizza this simple is very good handmade dough, well-fired quickly, with good deep tomato passata and good mozza.

All else is folly.

Basil is not nor has it ever been folly.

but it is optional on a margherita

No you have to have basil on a margherita to represent the green on the Italian flag, that's the whole point of the margherita (Josh's first post alluded to this).

"Mama Mia's" in Reading used to do a Pizza Spaghetti, literally a (starter portion) spagbol on a pizza. It was great.

Don't look for it, etc..

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j5VP44Hr2mQ/TbsLTbEMy6I/AAAAAAAAAJY/IqLcDgh4Xh8/s1600/pizza2.png

Technically, sauce and crust are optional on a pizza. A pizza can be entirely conceptual. Yes, waiter? I'd like to order...the idea of a pizza. Just the essence, the notion of pizza-osity, if you will. Oh, and waiter? Hold the basil?

you're allowed one pizza decision for each pizza you have eaten in your life

I endorse your pizza proposition.

what are those blue things?!?!

look like dyed cucumber slices

they are the tongues of the lions of the royal arms of england

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Royal_Arms_of_England.svg/1200px-Royal_Arms_of_England.svg.png

I figured it was calamari:
https://img.cinemablend.com/filter:scale/cb/d/c/4/1/7/0/dc4170fd82ed4d872ac26a150fa1f1fcf14cfa9f18ea3aea927585eb77dd4a03.jpg?mw=600

which of these should I order for overpriced on-the-company's-dime work lunch

https://imgur.com/a/CpLpZ

(I know the actual correct answer is "whichever is most expensive")

depends how much you like meats, I think

Whenever I visit a new pie shop I order an empty pie, just crust with a hole, it's the yardstick by which I judge pie shops.
Whenever I visit a new sandwich shop I order two slices of bread with just a bit of butter in between, it's the yardstick by which I judge sandwich shops.
Whenever I visit a cocktail bar I order a glass of water etc

Anyway no I'd never order a margherita pizza because I'd hate people to see me ordering it and think I was the kind of fussy eater who, when faced with a wide range of cheese+tomato+X options, says "ew I don't fancy any of them just give me the cheese+tomato".

deep dish pizza is better than thin crust pizza

xp Ladies and Gentlemen, a English.

tbf for a long time I did parent a child who would only eat margherita, it was infuriating. He's grown out of it now.

but it's not like a pie with no fillings
margherita is three things on pizza dough

having no toppings at all would be like a pie with no fillings
left beef without the left beef

love that The Locking Of The Up-The-Arse Corner Thread is still a live beef in late 2017

quoth plax: "all rules are for ppl with no inherent sense of styletaste"

minimalism wrt to flavours is often amazing but purist dogma is undelicious

How is margherita when dipped in a side of ranch dressing? Because that's the deciding factor for me.

fp

Ordering a margherita is classy in America, it shows restraint.

tbf the american variation, more often than not, has tomato slices or chunks of tomato on top, which can be a really bad idea during the off season when "fresh" tomatoes are hot garbage

or as it's known in the UK, "winter, spring, summer and autumn"

deep dish is a monstrosity and america should apologise and renounce any claims to pizza authority

thank you

the occasional microwave mini deep-dish being an allowable £2 slob-out purchase from the local corner shop obv