Favorite pizza toppings

[Proletariat]

Let's hear 'em. My favorite go to is just plain cheese with tons and tons of crushed pepper, but when I'm feeling more exciting it's green olives and anchovies or black olives, sardines and red onion. The trouble is finding any dining company on the planet who will agree.

When I was in southern Italy last year, I had some pie that had a bunch of different vegetables on it, I think artichokes and black olives and maybe proscuitto or something for some meat. It was called some Italian word that began with a C and the guy I was eating with said it meant 'like when a little kid wants everything he sees' but I can't for my life remember what the word was. I do remember just about every bite, it's by far the best 'za I've had.

So what's your fav?

[woad&fangs]

Pepperoni and Italian sausage for me. Chicken and Barbecue sauce is also good.

[FactionHeir]

Not necessarily all of those on the same pizza, but any of these toppings are good:
Parma ham
Rucola
Salami
Meatballs
Mozarella
Pesto
Red Onions
Artichokes
Tuna
Spinach

And my best guess is that you are thinking of Calzone?

[Proletariat]

Aha, found it. I remember at the time thinking the pizza's name was similar to the english word capricious.

Pizza capricciosa (“capricious pizza”): mozzarella, tomato, mushrooms, artichokes, cooked ham, olives, oil (in Rome, prosciutto raw ham is used and half a hard-boiled egg is added);

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza

[Kagemusha]

My favourite pizza toppings include:

Beef
Jalopeno
pineaple
onions
cheese

Doesnt sound very Italian, but its hot,sweet and tasty at the same time.More traditional option for me would be:

Bolognese sauce
fresh or sun dried tomatoes
onions
cheese

[English assassin]

Choose sparingly from artichoke, spinach, garlic, olives, pine nuts. That sort of stuff.

I'm not big on meat on pizzas. A few shreds of ham just isn't enough of an event.

BTW is it just me or do capers sound like they ought to be a kind of fish? And, what is the point of capers anyway?

[PBI]

Goat's cheese and Parma Ham.

Not for everyone, but I like it.

Otherwise, it's hard to beat the good old tomatoes, basil and mozzarella.

[CountArach]

Pretty much anything meat is good. I usually just order teh one with as much meat as possible, though Chicken and Onion is nice as well. One of the local pizza shops I order in from quite often has a pizza which is as follows (From memory...):
Barbecue base
A layer of ham
Bacon
Beef
Pepperoni
Onion

It is so nice. Soooooo much pig...

[Craterus]

Cheese and tomato. Anything else just tends to ruin it.

[Beirut]

Cheese and tomato. Anything else just tends to ruin it.

There's a lot to be said for that. Naples just got some sort of EU or UN sanction to own the rights to "real pizza"; hand-spun dough, tomato sauce, buffalo mozarella, basil, and extra virgin olive oil. Dat's it, ba-da-bing!

You can get some excellent fresh organic deer sausage around here, so my favorite, I think, is apple and maple syrup deer sausage with extra old cheddar and loads of hot peppers and garlic.

The maple syrup in the deer sausage oozes out on the cheddar while it's cooking and the sweetness with the hot peppers is just killer!

[Louis VI the Fat]

Less is more! Thin crust with just tomato, cheese, herbs/garlic/olive oil, and sparingly used toppings. Me, I'm a sucker for salami.

[Reverend Joe]

I almost never order toppings as they can raise the cost significantly. All I usually ask for in the way of toppings is extra sauce; it's pretty much the healthiest addition you can make to a pizza.

However, I did have a particularly good pizza at a restaurants back home that had, if I remember correctly, green and red peppers, chicken, mushrooms, spinach and feta cheese. It seems an odd combination, but it worked well.

[Adrian II]

Tomato, mozzarella, black olives, anchovy in summer (salt), artichoke in winter.

However, the crust and the drink to go with it are the most important aspects of a 'za. For me it is spumante all the way.

[Reverend Joe]

'Za.

[Adrian II]

That's right.

'Za.

Wanna take this outside?

[Beirut]

Wanna take this outside?

A Backroom pizza thread?

That could be interesting.

[Adrian II]

A Backroom pizza thread?

That could be interesting.

That's what I meant. I would take care of this of course, and we would leave Proletariat out of it; we want to spare the Reverend the humiliation of being plastered onto his own pizza in five seconds flat by a woman of her considerable capacities.

All this would obviously have to take place in the Backroom, dear Beirut. Heaven forbid that we would desecrate the Frontroom by spilling the blood and entrails of the Reverend all over the Kingdoms floor, chopping his ungainly head off and putting it on a spike -- all this simply because he refuses to accept culinary slang.

No, Sir, that wouldn't do at all. Out of the question.

[Beirut]

Heaven forbid that we would desecrate the Frontroom by spilling the blood and entrails of the Reverend all over the Kingdoms floor, chopping his ungainly head off and putting it on a spike...

"And the mad mothers, with their howls confused, do break the clouds!"

Pardon.

Indeed. Our Frontroomish savagery is best expressed in pangs of unrequited lust and love in The Babe Thread.


Ok, pizza...

[naut]

Anything other than seafood, olives or artichokes.

[Husar]

I agree that 'za sounds pretty weird, gotta have to beat a german as well now Adrian, good luck...

Well, generally I like salami piz', tuna is nice as well, mozarella is ok and most of the others I don't have too often, although often they taste better than I expect, as usual with italian food.

Still not a fan of too many groceries and mushrooms on a piz'.

I also never ordered one with special toppings, always go for the ones on the menu or, more likely, buy them frozen because they cost only half as much then.

[FactionHeir]

Anything other than seafood, olives or artichokes.

So uh, you like those baked cockroaches as toppings too?

[rajpoot]

Hot peppers, onions and a tomato sauce on the base, that's it. No more no less.

[Adrian II]

"And the mad mothers.. "

"Stand firm, oh guardians of the.. "

.. snap!..

Sssso, who likes chorizo on his pizza? Or is that just too dominant a taste?

I use it as replacement for anchovy sometimes.

[drone]

All depends. Pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms, olives make for a good combo, but the ham/pineapple combo of a Hawaiian is good as well.

[pevergreen]

but the ham/pineapple combo of a Hawaiian is good as well.

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[macsen rufus]

chorizo on his pizza

Don't think I could go for that, I like my chorizo on a long fork, cooked over an open fire in the taberna and washed down with lashings of rioja, and Manolo the flamenco singer wailing away in the shadows

But for pizza, garlic mushroom is about my favourite.

The big no-no for me is sweetcorn - I like sweetcorn, I like pizza, but I hate sweetcorn falling all over the place when I'm trying to eat my pizza

[Scurvy]

double pepperoni...

or spinach + egg

[Fragony]

And, what is the point of capers anyway?

Putting them on a pizza with tuna and onions

[Andres]

Goat's cheese and Parma Ham.

Not for everyone, but I like it.

Otherwise, it's hard to beat the good old tomatoes, basil and mozzarella.

What he said

[Subedei]

Very thin pizza with a crunchy crust, topped with hot salami [the thin very hard kind], buffalo mozarella, freh tomatos...maybe a bit of fresh basil...that is it....generally not too much topping ion my pizza please.

Oh, I am hungry....may I order here?!?!?