For me, the bread can make or break a pizza, similarly to a burger/sandwiches. If the crust tastes like ass then the pizza is at best mediocre. A pizza with godlike crust can carry the rest of the ingredients past mediocrity. Reason why i don’t like pizza hut or similar chains, even with stuffed crust or what not the crust tastes horrible.
After all the crust makes up much of the pizza unless it’s deep dish and what not and it better not be tasting like paper.
When my dad got stationed to Okinawa when I was a kid, we went to the NCO club for a pizza on one of our first nights there.
The pizza had no sauce.
Sauceless pizza is like non-alcoholic beer. Or finding out the hooker you boned raw has AIDS. Not what you paid for.
Having worked at a famous pizza place in NY and getting to take home all the unsold pizza I’d have to say my favorites are:
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It’s like going to the Philipines, and ordering spaghetti and you get noodles with banana ketchup all over it.
Pepperoni
Mushrooms
Jalapenos
Black Olives
Jalapenos
Extra Cheese
Sweet Red Onion and Pepperoni
Extra cheese
Extra cheese
Pepperoni
(Note: Chicago deep dish is my favorite pizza)
Olives on pizza…
If you ever go to the southside you should try Beggars Pizza. It has the best pizza I have ever had when I lived in Chicago.
Pizza Hut has a fucking frozen dough disk like all these other garbage ass pizza chains like Dominos and Chanellos. Fuck em.
The issue with becoming a huge corporation is that all of the pizzas have to taste the same. Everywhere. There is no more home making everything where it is a consistent recipe but some batches have a slightly different taste from others but they are ALL gdlk. I eat pizzas at Italian restaurants. Fite me!
I have to disagree with the sentiment on extra sauce.
A lot pizza joints love to slather that shit on their pies. You’re literally stepping into a minefield when you take a bite out of pizza that’s swollen with sauce; it could be scolding hot, it could make a dripping mess, or it could be really shitty sauce that’s a couple ingredients away from being tomato paste.
I like it when there’s more toppings than bread and sauce, but you need dat cheese tho. You also need some artichoke hearts for a Kreygasm pizza.
Pineapple is S-Tier!
However, I have yet to come across a place that doesn’t use canned pineapple. There is a noticeable difference between the two…
Chicago Deep Dish up the mountain uses fresh pineapple, so does Mother’s Pizza, and I’m trying to think who would do it down the mountain, but I really can’t think of any right now.
edit: Naroma Pizza on Locke (Locke has some GODLY restaurants, for what it’s worth, including the incredible Chuck’s Burger Bar and some top tier cheese place). They have some odd pizza toppings too, such as kale, tuna, wild mushroom mix, and cacciatore, as well as tons of various cheeses, due to the afforementioned nearby cheese place.
Niggas talking bout deep dish. Shit looks like apple pie with cheese in it.
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this must be a regional thing. I can’t recall a pizza place I’ve been too where sauce ever dripped out of the pizza. and in my experience the cheese retains way more heat than the sauce.
I’ve had some pizza where the sauce drips off, but I wasn’t a bitch about it
Bell peppers
Pepperoni
Green onions