December meme: Pizza

[arduinna]

terrio got a December 2 request in with enough time for me to answer it, so:

What is your Platonic Ideal pizza? toppings, crust, deep-dish vs. flat, etc.

Heee, I wasn't actually expecting a pizza question.

I don't eat pizza that often anymore, but when I do, it's flat, thin crust; the crust should be a vehicle for the toppings, not in competition with them. If I have my druthers I tend toward white pizzas, usually chicken and broccoli. My favorite is Bertucci's Silano -- Bertucci's is overpriced and overhyped, but my god I love this pizza. It's chicken and broccoli with mozzarella and a lemon cream sauce. It's the sauce that makes it so awesome. The one (huge) downside is that Bertucci's won't deliver. And I'm lazy when it comes to pizza; I want it to come to me. *g* So this is a rare treat.

When I'm with a group that's just getting a few basic pizzas to share, I go for pepperoni, nice and simple.

Beyond those, I'm okay with various meat pizzas, but no fish, no fungus, and mostly no vegetables (or fruit -- I don't like pineapple, not even with ham). I'll eat plain cheese, too, if it comes to it, but once I discovered I liked pepperoni as a kid, plain cheese got boring. (Unless it's an english-muffin pizza! Those are in a class of their own.)

dammit, now I want english-muffin pizza.

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Comments

[arduinna]

Broccoli was the first non-root-vegetable, non-lettuce veggie I learned to eat, and one of the best ways to eat it is in chicken&broccoli alfredo -- so when I spotted that as a pizza option one day, I had to try it. Turns out I really like it! The lemon-cream instead of alfredo is amazing, though.

And hee, sorry about the poorly worded fungus thing! I'm just one of those people who can't fathom why anyone would ever eat a mushroom. *g*

[terrio]

(I'll refrain from trying to convince you that mushrooms are actually delicious.)

And I share your love of chicken alfredo with broccoli: yum. But somewhere in the back of my mind, even though I totally know better, I have the equation pizza == tomato sauce. So the idea of broccoli on pizza, even though you clearly described the lemon cream sauce, kind of made me go 'bzuh?'. But I'm all better now. :-)