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[KK.]

Sounds disgusting

[Koray Savas]

So does most food.

[Joey]

So does most food.

completely false.

[Koray Savas]

I mean if you think about tripe in terms of it being a cow's stomach lining, yes it sounds disgusting. If you know what it tastes like and how it can be used in dishes, then no.

Same can said of a burger if you describe it as a chunk of a cow's ass on a bun. My Cambodian friend's parents don't eat American food because of the way it looks. Burgers and pizza are a big no for them.

[Chaac]

Sounds disgusting

Essentially wrong!

[Stefancos]

My Cambodian friend's parents don't eat American food because of the way it looks. Burgers and pizza are a big no for them.

Pizza is not American food Koray!

[Chaac]

True.

"Pizza" must be a concept as old as bread itself. There are mentions of flat bread with stuff on it since antiquity. It's was/is tipically Mediterranean. As for pizza understood as having tomato, that ingredient still lied at the other side of the sea. When tomatoes were accepted around here as food they started to be used in pizzas. So if you ask me pizza isn't a food originated in America, even though a common ingredient today in pizzas is American.

Edit: An Italian friend in the room next to mine agrees.

[Wojo]

Pizza may have been invented in Italy but it never became a bona fide food group there the way it did in America to become a staple of the childhood, college kid, bachelor, bar, and dating ways of life. I'm pretty sure I haven't gone a week in my life without pizza at least once since I was 15.

[Chaac]

Usamericans turned it into fast food.

Pizza ain't fast food.

[Wojo]

I never said pizza was fast food. A frozen pizza takes about 20 minutes to cook in the oven. Any pizzeria takes (what seems like a lot) longer than that to bring a hot pie from the kitchen.

Granted, some pizzerias keep cheese pizza hot in the oven, and then take about five minutes to cook your selected toppings into it for a fast lunch. Or they just have a wide variety of finished pizzas cooked under heat lamps, like a Pizza Hut buffet, Sbarros, Villa Pizza, etc. That's cheating, but any burger joint that gives you a burger in five minutes has had it under a heat lamp for hours, too.

Pizza ain't fast food.

It will be now. Blame the Dutch.



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[Chaac]

Wha...?

[Wojo]

Pizza in three minutes! It'll do for pizza what Keurig did for coffee and tea!

[alicebrallice]

makin pizza and listening to hook as we speak:)

[Incanus]

Having a tomato, basil and mozzarella salad seasoned with herbs and pesto. Simple but delicious.

[Chaac]

Kiwi time.

[Koray Savas]

Pizza may have been invented in Italy but it never became a bona fide food group there the way it did in America to become a staple of the childhood, college kid, bachelor, bar, and dating ways of life.

This.

[Chaac]

Yet it's Italian. It was popular there before the USA. Flat breads are a Mediterranean thing.

I'm sure there must some good native food from USA that isn't imported from somewhere else. Cornbread, turkey dishes. Chocolate. Tiswin. Whatever.

[Koray Savas]

How it's made has been Americanized. There are certain expectations that go with it.

[Chaac]

Americanized in which why?

Maybe you make your pizzas in a particular way and just assume everybody else does it your way.

[Wojo]

Where you from Chaac?

[Chaac]

Ganges Catena.

[Koray Savas]

Americanized in which why?

Maybe you make your pizzas in a particular way and just assume everybody else does it your way.

Americanized in that a typical pizza from Papa John's is not gonna look or taste the same as one you order in a pizzeria in Italy.

[Chaac]

Americanized in which why?

Maybe you make your pizzas in a particular way and just assume everybody else does it your way.

Americanized in that a typical pizza from Papa John's is not gonna look or taste the same as one you order in a pizzeria in Italy.

But that doesn't make pizza American. That makes these pizzas American. It's like saying English is an American language.

Maybe I just have too much of a phylogenetic mind. I've had similar arguments before.

[alicebrallice]

Kiwi time.

either you don't eat or it's fruit/berries! come here and have some homemade pizza. triple cheese! I just woke up in my fat pants from crashing on the sofa after that fat shock. now I need to go for a jog lol.

[Chaac]

Kiwi time.

either you don't eat or it's fruit/berries! come here and have some homemade pizza. triple cheese! I just woke up in my fat pants from crashing on the sofa after that fat shock. now I need to go for a jog lol.

Oogh. Good idea.

[Wojo]

Maybe I just have too much of a phylogenetic mind. I've had similar arguments before.

Forget it. For a snot-nosed little see you next tuesday to claim he's from Mars instead of establishing his geographic perspective with respect to "America," perhaps to justify the insignificance of his country of 4M with respect to a nation of 300M, all I can offer is that you shove your phylogenetic up your ganges catena ass.

[Chaac]

That is not why I said that, but funny nonetheless.

[Koray Savas]

Americanized in which why?

Maybe you make your pizzas in a particular way and just assume everybody else does it your way.

Americanized in that a typical pizza from Papa John's is not gonna look or taste the same as one you order in a pizzeria in Italy.

But that doesn't make pizza American. That makes these pizzas American. It's like saying English is an American language.

Maybe I just have too much of a phylogenetic mind. I've had similar arguments before.

I'm not disputing that, it's what I'm saying!

[Chaac]

Then I don't know what are we arguing about!

[Williamsfan301]

Quiche Lorraine

[Joey]

BLT's again.

[Joey]

Americanized in which why?

Maybe you make your pizzas in a particular way and just assume everybody else does it your way.

Americanized in that a typical pizza from Papa John's is not gonna look or taste the same as one you order in a pizzeria in Italy.

Papa John's is not a particularly good pizza. they fk it up by putting the cheese on top of everything, Serious mistake. that allows things to steam under the cheese and makes for soggy pizza. It's not quite as bad with meats but with veggies it's a culinary crime.
Mushrooms and onions just weep liquid when placed under the cheese.

[Koray Savas]

It's my favorite out of all the chain pizza places - Papa John's, Domino's, and Pizza Hut.

Although I haven't had Domino's since they redesigned themselves. Costco has decent pizza, but only when fresh. The best pizzas I've had have been from local places, particularly Vince & Dominic's and La Pizzeria, the latter of which was taken over by a Popeye's

[KK.]

Pizza Hut is just awful. All that grease on the pizza, its absolutely disgusting.

[Stefancos]

NY Pizza is just OK. Domino's is decent and cheap.

[Chaac]

So I¡m going to have breakfast now. I have, eh, milk. Kiwis. Chocolate. Muffins. Meat. Tomatoes. Green pepper. Rice. Let's see what I do with all this.

[Williamsfan301]

Americanized in which why?

Maybe you make your pizzas in a particular way and just assume everybody else does it your way.

Americanized in that a typical pizza from Papa John's is not gonna look or taste the same as one you order in a pizzeria in Italy.

Papa John's is not a particularly good pizza. they fk it up by putting the cheese on top of everything, Serious mistake. that allows things to steam under the cheese and makes for soggy pizza. It's not quite as bad with meats but with veggies it's a culinary crime.
Mushrooms and onions just weep liquid when placed under the cheese.

I live in Chicago. Papa John's, Domino's, Pizza Hut, NY style - It's all SHIT! No Chicagoan worth his moustache is ever going to touch anything that wasn't made by the family owned pizza place on the corner. And, unless it's deep dish, pizza must be cut in squares, not triangles.

[Joey]

Domino's is not true New York Style Pizza, which I prefer over Chicago deep dish.
there is just too much stuff on a chicago style pizza, it's not really pizza in my opinion, It's something else entirely. I can eat it, but nothing beats a real New York style thin crust Pepperoni pizza, except maybe a plain cheese, or a pepperoni and mushroom.

[Wojo]

Thin crust pizza isn't pizza.

It's a cracker with cheese and sauce.

[KK.]

Domino's is not true New York Style Pizza, which I prefer over Chicago deep dish.
there is just too much stuff on a chicago style pizza, it's not really pizza in my opinion, It's something else entirely. I can eat it, but nothing beats a real New York style thin crust Pepperoni pizza, except maybe a plain cheese, or a pepperoni and mushroom.

Too much stuff? You should try some of the pizzas they make in Italy. When I was there last, I was at some random restaurant in Pisa (coincidence folks). And God knows why, but I ordered a seafood pizza or something. And it had everything on it! Squid, crab, shrimp, etc. all put on top of one pizza. Couldn't finish it, but it wasn't bad.