Pepperoni, pineapple, and a spicy pepper(jalapeƱo usually is whatās available) is my fav take out pizza spot combo.
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+1. One time my friend won a promotional eating contest for a local pizzeria (I got third) and got a free pizza a week for a year. We eventually deduced that the best pizza at the place was two toppings and a balance of savory and vegetable: meatball and onion was especially good there.
/good-pizza
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That does sound like a tasty flatbread :o)
I was really hoping there would be more photos of wack looking half eaten slices in this thread.
Iām pretty easy when it comes to pizza (I have a high tolerance for junk food) and I know Iāve had miserable pizza, but I cannot recall any specific examples.
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Is there a strict list of acceptable ingredients or is it more like a you know it when you see it? Is all fruit banned?
Yeah, I should be clear that Iāve been vegan for twenty years so me talking about good bad pizza is mostly me thinking of the cheap but deliciously greasy pizzas of my youth (most of which led to heartburn or other problems later that day which I have conveniently elided here).
There is plenty of both good bad and bad bad vegan pizza too! In the bad bad category, there is what think of as hippie pizza, which is no cheese and so many vegetables that the entire crust gets sogged out! This was a common thing when I first moved to Portland, OR in the mid 2000ās.
In my pre vegan days one of my favourite pizzas was anchovy and sausage from a place in Jacksonville, Maryland called Romaās (very original). It was very much not good bad pizza, but rather good good pizza!
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Hereās one of a good bad pizza buffet place that produced a bad bad pineapple pizza. The pineapple was somehow both too strong and too chunky for the rest of the pizza. I took a photo before eating about half of it. Did not like at all. I stuck to the pepperoni after this.
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There is somewhere for what Italians consider acceptable. Seafood is surprisingly in (besides the obvious anchovy Iāve seen shrimp and shellfish okayād) but chicken is a big no no. For myself itās a āknow it when you see itā. Carnitas, corn, black beans are an obvious flatbread imo.
Pineapple is bad bc itās a coverup for a pizza with a bad foundation. The tomato sauce should be sweet and flavorful alone to not require an extraneous topping to deliver those flavors. To circle back, pizza requires simplicity. If your foundations arenāt doing their part youāre wasting precious topping real estate.
Perhaps i donāt know what Italian style pizza is but in my mind itās ny style but like 10 inches rather than the usual 18 inch and wood fired on stone rather than gas fired on stone. Are you talking about Sicilian thick crust style?
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Itās this!
You got a puffy dough, some oil, a bit of sauce smeared around, 5 dollops of mozzarella, and a haphazardly placed sprig of basil. They are sold as fancier, better pizza - the only true/real pizza some will say, and everything else is just an American flat bread with cheese on it.
But Iāve never had one that tasted very good? Theyāre all super plain, with each bite completely irregular flavor and texture-wise, the mozzarella is designed to slide right off, the sauce is often bland, itās just not for me.
(I should note that I have had A LOT of these. itās often the only thing I can eat reliably when Iām in certain parts of europe. So Iāve had quite a wide swath of these)
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The best thing about pizza in my mind is the regional spins on the format. Thereās even one here we owe to the Lebanese population, and it rules. Being puritanical about it is ridiculous and in complete vain.
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Indian pizza gotta be one of the best pizza variations ever. I love the different regional US pizzas too, I grew up eating Detroit style when visiting my family in Michigan and NY style visiting my family there. Pizza is supposed to be a beautiful tapestry that unites us all.
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This video has lived in my head for at least 8 years:
Honestly Iām a pizza heathen, Iāll put anything on it.
The worst Iāve made are when the cheese is old and it doesnāt melt right.
The worst bought pizza I had was from a late night kebab restaurant.
- it took forever, like 30+ minutes
- it was undercooked, really floppy
- it was insanely spicy, like too difficult to eat
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Pizza is a genre of food and no genre is a fixed, static category.
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If youāre vegan you just kind of have to accept that basically any pizza you have is going to be Bad Pizzaā¢. Iāve been served pizza with falafels and salsa on it which is the type of deranged pairing only someone who had been hit on the brain with a mallet would make.
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Man this is my favorite pizza I love a Margherita. Trouble is youāre really putting your faith into the pizza joint with one. Their sauce and crust are forced to speak for themselves and no delicious fresh mozzarella or airy basil can save them.
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i think the worst pizza iāve had was my first attempt at making pizza where i had no idea what i was doing. i have a come a long way since then
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As a vegan with some cooking skills I absolutely disagree with this. Iāve had good vegan pizza at pizza places and I myself have made vegan pizza that non- vegan people prefer over regular non vegan good pizza from a good pizza place
if you live in a big enough metro area (at least in north america) i guarantee you can find good vegan pizza
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Thereās no reason vegan pizza canāt be great. Two out of three core ingredients are already vegan. Thereās a pretty good vegan pizza place near me. They do a pie with sweet potato, cashews, onions, and artichoke hearts with a creamy, herby, nutritional yeast based sauce that I periodically crave. The crust is thin and crisp like a good NY slice, though the finished product is very different and fills a different pizza niche.
The worst pizza Iāve had was an old (expired) frozen pizza I got at the food bank. The crust tasted like chemicals and the tomato sauce was way too acidic. Surprisingly, the cheese was alright.
In general, Iād rather just not eat thick crust pizza with too many toppings. I hate how it ends up kinda wet and droopy.
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Lebanese pizza is yummy
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