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Finally... => General Discussion => Topic started by: Haspen on April 29, 2016, 12:53:42 pm
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Exactly what it says on the tin!
Almost everyone loves pizza, yet on another hand, everyone prefers different pizza toppings. Which ones do you fancy?
Fancy Rules Menu:
1. All kinds of ham/chicken/whatever meat goes into ham/chicken/whatever category.
2. Peppers are divided to two categories: normal (non-spicy bell/banana peppers), and hot (whatever spicy peppers you fancy)
3. Seafoods are divided into four categories: anchovies, big fish (salmon, tuna etc), crustaceans (shrimps, crabs, for example) and wriggly tentacle stuff like octopi.
4. Unless you pick Feta/Gorgonzola/Mozarella/whatever cheese on the list, let's assume you prefer the 'standard pizza cheese' mix.
5. If you do not see your topping on the list (cuz it's local specialty or something), do tell and I will add it to pizza! The votes can be changed so you can just switch to your toppings after I add them. I did dumb and they cannot be changed - request toppings first so I can add them so you can vote :v!
Please be civil in discussion about pizza toppings! Let's not begin a Pineapple War or the Olives Inquisition or something like that in here :P
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*grumbles vaguely* I didn't pick a particular cheese, due to the fact that my preferred cheese for pizzas is "More." Type doesn't matter, and I actually tend to prefer to add different kinds if they're available. It just needs more. I've never seen a pizza I didn't hand cook that had enough cheese on it. Not even straight up cheese pizzas.
Also, ranch dressing, (leftover) macaroni and cheese, and donuts are all amazing toppings as well, but not on the list. Quite a few general spices missing, really. I've long liked a good sprinkling of lemon pepper (which is seasoned black pepper, not even mentioned in the rules), particularly on melty pizza (i.e. microwaved ones, which come out with a consistency of melted cheese if you don't overcook it), ferex.
E: Also, other types of fowl are not represented. Poor turkeys. Poor (delicious) turkey bacon. Or soy products! Bacon bits are usually not actually made out of meat, ferex.
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Added more stuffs per your suggestion, Frumpl v;
EDIT: Added more extra stuffs per your suggestion, Frumpl :V
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Alas, it is too late for me, but cheers none the less :3
Also yeah, donuts! Plain glazed probably works best, since the fancier they get the easier it is for the taste to get funky. You cut them longways, so you've got two bits that are thinner than a full donut, and then stick them on top of (often leftover) pizza and warm 'em up. Best results when the slices are large enough to take one donut half per, but you can easily pare things down to fit whatever. Is really, really good.
E: oh wait, it reset. Now it's just unfortunate there's only four choices to be made :P
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Donuts on pizza. Such a heresy if I ever seen one.
Also I added moar toppings and reset the poll cuz yeah I overlooked some spices and sauces and such.
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Aha. Though... maybe set boiled egg to just egg? I make a pretty mean breakfast pizza, which is usually just a normal pizza with scrambled eggs and bacon (and more cheese) added. And occasionally hashbrowns, too. Depends on what's available~
E: Actually, I just realized I've never tried topping a pizza with eggy rice. I think I just figured out what I'm eating for dinner...
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E: oh wait, it reset. Now it's just unfortunate there's only four choices to be made :P
This ^
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Severely fricked up poll, imho
Haspen needs to get his shit together, for the sake of the forum and for the sake of pizza.
Only 4 choices? Disgraceful. >:[
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Where's the sweet and sour Sauce/Seasoning option? :P
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Where's the sweet and sour Sauce/Seasoning option? :P
Refresh ;v
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In the absence of this delicious option (http://mmmisformommy.com/2014/01/garlic-fingers-donair-sauce.html) I went for Ham/Pineapple/Olives/Onions.
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It has been un-absenced, but I'm not resetting the poll anymoar, should've waited v;
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The cheese section is quite lacking. Where's my gouda? Goat cheese? Provolone, cheddar, parmesan?
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The cheese section is quite lacking. Where's my gouda? Goat cheese? Provolone, cheddar, parmesan?
Cheeses has been expanded ;v
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ONLY FOUR WHAT IS THIS HERESY THE HEAVENLY PIZZA NEEDS AT LEAST NINE TOPPINGS GOD DEMANDS IT OF YOU
This shitpost brought to you by Dozebom Lolumzalis holding a teacup with his toes while he thinks and rubs his chin.
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A true man can survive on just 4 toppings.
So 4 choices it is.
(http://i.imgur.com/gk6ve.gif)
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Man, I really thought I was getting some basic bitch toppings. Generic pizza mushrooms (which are crimini mushrooms btw,) hot peppers, dried tomatoes, and feta cheese. TIL that Bay12 has a weird love for olives and ham.
I'm mostly in agreement with Frumple though, in that quantity of cheese is much more important to me than type, and the usual quantity on stuff you buy is "not enough."
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Could anyone who likes olives on pizza please raise their hand? I need to remove you from my Christmas card list.
And add you to my hit list, obviously.
Also, I'm going to need to think long and hard on this poll before I give an answer. I'm thinking spinach and onion for sure, as well as maybe hot chillies and maybe some basil or pineapple... but where the heck is my capsicum? Or do you call it by some strange other name in those weird foreign-ass places in which y'all live? ???
Oh, and let's not forget potato. I prefer mashed potato to potato on pizza, but it works really dang well nonetheless. I would probably choose it over pineapple.
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So the question is, is the love of ham because of pepperoni or because of other sorts of ham?
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For the record, I have tried whipped cream and chocolate chips on a pizza.
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For the record, I have tried whipped cream and chocolate chips on a pizza.
At some point it stops being pizza and starts being a baked dessert.
I put ham because I figure that covers so many good toppings (salami, sausage, pepperoni maybe bacon certainly Canadian bacon etc.) Such a broad option seems like a clear winner to me. Chicken because chicken garlic pizza, and other seafood for lobster pizza. and then beef because at the time there wasn't as many options and I figure I might as well pick a fourth. If I could go back I'd have picked garlic instead. I hope I wasn't suppose to pick four I'd want together on the same pizza though, if so I fucked up.
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For the record, I have tried whipped cream and chocolate chips on a pizza.
Any good? I'd expect the chocolate to mess it up, honestly... chocolate doesn't tend to go well with cheese, in my experience. Don't think I've tried any chocolate and your average pizza sauce. Whipped cream'd probably be fiiiine, though.
Now, mind you, a pizza made without the normal cheese/sauce would probably be a'ight. Dessert pizzas are a thing, and they can be pretty damn good.
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For the record, I have tried whipped cream and chocolate chips on a pizza.
Any good?
No it was terrible. I was 13 and my friends and I were in love with TMNT. So we ordered a TMNT pizza.
We neglected to mention to the delivery place to remove all the cheese and marinara first.
So what we ended up with was a regular cheese pizza with a glazed film of melted, sugary whipped cream, with little hot spots of chocolate embedded in it.
I thought it was atrocious. A friend of my loved it though.
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You could make a delicious chocolatey pizza by putting brie and apples on a chocolate sauce. There are many great things to be found outside the usual pizza spectrum.
In America they're called bell peppers, not capsicum. In this poll they're lumped into "normal" peppers, along with banana peppers and other things I assume.
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Sheeeit, you mean I have to choose between capsicum and jalapeño? That just ain't right, mang. :'(
Edit: Also, where are my pickled walnuts? Those totally aren't a BS topping I've had just a few times before with family and want to include in order to confuse people and wreak havoc, no sir.
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Added 10 more toppings, mostly fruit ;v
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I ended up voting for onion, spinach, capsicum (non-spicy peppers) and potato.
Probably should have held out for capers, or maybe switched potato for pineapple, but those are kinda two quite different pizza experiences, both of which I greatly enjoy. Also I'm tired and probably going to sleep soon, yet I wanted to vote first so that I could sleep.
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You need to add Alfredo as a sauce, because of the Chicken Cordon Bleu Pizza and because Alfredo isn't definitely Ranch. And if you're going to add Alfredo, you probably need to add Pesto and Barbecue Sauce as well. Does Sausage count as ham? I guess it does.
Anyways, I'm a traditionalist. Pepperoni, Mushrooms and Black Olives are the three pillars of my ideal pizza experience. But I like a good white pizza as well.
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You need better reading glasses, nenjin v:
I will add BBQ sauce though.
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You need better reading glasses, nenjin v:
No I just need to not be lazy and read the whole list. Or polls need to let you order items better.
I mean, there's no point adding "Pesto" if he has basil on there.
Except Pesto isn't just Basil.
It's too bad this is just toppings and not actual pizza format (pan crust, thin crust, deep dish, flatbeard, etc...) Then we could watch East Coasters maintain their delusional stance that thin crust is a superior form of pizza.
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Well, apart from "every cheese you got, man.." plus some lesser toppings, I tend to go for a generic pepperoni pizza when shop-bought, but at my favourite gen-oo-ine Ifalian pizzeria with a gen-oo-ine Italian guy at the helm, I tend to go for a rather meatier-with-loadsa-onions concoction, after some testing of varieties over the years. (But I can't tell you exactly what, it's been too long since I examined the descriptive subtitle below the italianesque headline name.)
Also, if the bolded text in the vote results indicates the four choices I made, I think it's shifted by one from what I intended. (I wonder if OP's adding of ten new options, just now, causex that, or perhaps it was my own silly fault.)
Oh yeah, I don't like tomatoes on pizza. Tomato sauce for the base, ok, but not slices/pieces of tomato. (In my student years, I even had the occasional cheese'n'tomato pizza without any tomato, due to miscommunication. Good job chese-on-bread is just so yummy. ;)
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What I'm most surprised about the whole poll is amount of people who prefer onions. I thought they wouldn't get more than few votes, but lookit, it's 4th most popular option.
Guess bay12 is full of onion-eaters :P
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Poll also needs Cream Cheese. That's what I get when I'm being stupidly indulgent. Pepperoni, Mushroom, Black Olive and Cream Cheese deep dish was my regular order at the pizza place I worked for. A medium was enough food for 2 days.
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At that point you are getting pretty close to actual pie... which obviously isn't a bad thing.
I would've voted for caramelized onions, but I don't like most pizza onions (though I don't particularly dislike them). They need more cooking than pizzas generally get.
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What I'm most surprised about the whole poll is amount of people who prefer onions. I thought they wouldn't get more than few votes, but lookit, it's 4th most popular option.
Guess bay12 is full of onion-eaters :P
People who don't like onions are... they are... even worse than people who like olives, ugh. I do hope they aren't a majority.
Onion is the god of vegetables. Good in every dish. Its only rival is potato, but even that doesn't have quite the same wide range of uses.
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Onions are good, but bell peppers and mushrooms both trump them in my opinion (and meat is really good too). Personally I'm the type of person who goes "lets put more toppings on it!" all the time with supremes or supremes+other stuff. :P
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Onion is one of the most vile tasting vegetables in existence :P
Even worse, people seem obsessed with shoving them in everything and it takes barely any to screw up the entire foodstuff, as the junk is not only bad tasting but strong. If I could vote only one vegetable out of existence, it would be onion.
... that said, it is fairly obvious a great swath of our species has malformed tastebuds that enjoy the gunk, so... that's okay, I guess. For them. Just don't come at me with it unless you want me to come at you with the pizza cutting knife.
It's too bad this is just toppings and not actual pizza format (pan crust, thin crust, deep dish, flatbeard, etc...) Then we could watch East Coasters maintain their delusional stance that thin crust is a superior form of pizza.
Hold up, now. It's not really east coasters, exactly. More central/north east, as there's still plenty of support for the thicker crusts in the south east. Even moreso than for thin crust, in a number of places.
Though yeah, definitely more toppings. It's not exactly unusual for me to double the overall thickness of a pizza once I start adding stuff to it. If it ain't hard for the toppings to stay on, there ain't enough yet.
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Onion is one of the most vile tasting vegetables in existence :P
Even worse, people seem obsessed with shoving them in everything and it takes barely any to screw up the entire foodstuff, as the junk is not only bad tasting but strong. If I could vote only one vegetable out of existence, it would be onion.
... that said, it is fairly obvious a great swath of our species has malformed tastebuds that enjoy the gunk, so... that's okay, I guess. For them. Just don't come at me with it unless you want me to come at you with the pizza cutting knife.
It's too bad this is just toppings and not actual pizza format (pan crust, thin crust, deep dish, flatbeard, etc...) Then we could watch East Coasters maintain their delusional stance that thin crust is a superior form of pizza.
Hold up, now. It's not really east coasters, exactly. More central/north east, as there's still plenty of support for the thicker crusts in the south east. Even moreso than for thin crust, in a number of places.
Though yeah, definitely more toppings. It's not exactly unusual for me to double the overall thickness of a pizza once I start adding stuff to it. If it ain't hard for the toppings to stay on, there ain't enough yet.
Sicilian style best style, remove Neapolitan, remove Chicago.
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... Neapolitan pizza? I... I thought that was just icecream. Looks like it, though, looking it up. I've eaten it, too! Huh.
Though personally, I don't really have a favorite style. Pizza est. One does not rank crusts, one consumes them.
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Though personally, I don't really have a favorite style. Pizza est. One does not rank crusts, one consumes them.
He speakes the truth, my excellencies ;v!
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For a while now, the only pizza I order is a thoroughly oddball Spinach-Ricotta-Eggplant-Parmesan(?) one. With a garlic sauce. Surprisingly good.
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BBQ sauce, chicken, pineapple, onion and/or garlic, cheese. When YHWH handed down the tablets to Moses on Mount Sinai, that topping combination was inscribed thereupon. (Moses did some creative editing before bringing 'em down the mountain. Never trust a dude with a messiah complex.)
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Olive is one of the most vile tasting vegetables in existence :P
Even worse, people seem obsessed with shoving them in everything and it takes barely any to screw up the entire foodstuff, as the junk is not only bad tasting but strong. If I could vote only one vegetable out of existence, it would be olive.
I think your autocorrect sabotaged your post or something. Never fear, I have, as they say, FTFY. ;)
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BBQ sauce, chicken, pineapple, onion and/or garlic, cheese. When YHWH handed down the tablets to Moses on Mount Sinai, that topping combination was inscribed thereupon. (Moses did some creative editing before bringing 'em down the mountain. Never trust a dude with a messiah complex.)
By creative editing, you mean dropping that particular stone tablet, right?
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Smirk did not. Little known fact, the tablets have very vigorously scratched out parts that the commandments were clearly inscribed over. The defacements just happen to be the exact size of a pizza recipe, ingredients on one, directions on the other.
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...and fifty years from now on historians will find this thread and dub it 'the beginning of the worldwide Pizza Jesus Movement' :P
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I still haven't revoted because can still only pick 4 things???
My argument in favor of unlimited amounts of choices is much like the argument for unlimited amounts of cheeses on pizza: too much is never enough unless they make you constipated
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Then you can never have too many laxatives...
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Why no sausage on the list? I think it's mostly turkey, but there's probably other meats in them too.
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I... think it was bundled under ham at some point. Sausage isn't really a specific meat, exactly, but rather a method of preparing it. There's all sorts; turkey, deer, beef, pork, all kinds of mixed varieties, etc., etc., etc., though pork or beef is probably the most commonly used. Probably just go with whatever the primary component of your preferred sort of sausage is.
If you're not sure, it's most likely pork, though. As noted, it tends to be one of the most commonly used meats for sausage, and especially is almost always the least expensive of them, which translates into being the one you're most likely to run into in, say, a pizza restaurant or on a frozen pizza.
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I was going to add it days ago, sorry .<.
It's now on the list.
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Right... i was making pizza quite often recently and literally every single one i made consists of:
Gouda
Plain Mushrooms
Salami
Corn
Sometimes i add (fried) onion or olives.
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I've never been able to see the appeal of corn on a pizza. :/
My favourite is probably chicken and pepper on a sweet and sour base. Four seasons is close behind.
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> doesn't understand appeal of corn on pizza
eh, it's ok
> puts chicken on pizza
maybe in sausage form...
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Most forms, really. Shredded of some sort is usually the easiest, with finger-ish length slices coming after. I think the only thing I go out of my way (very rarely) to get at the local hungry howies is their chicken and ranch pizzas, heh.
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Habañero, gouda, cream cheese, and chicken. Amazing pizza, but no cream cheese on the list above.
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Cream cheese now on poll ;v
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According to poll, Ham+Mozarella pizza would easily find love on Bay12 party :P
Mayhaps with some mushrooms and olives thrown in for good measure and/or variety.
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That's pretty much the most awful pizza I can imagine. >.>
Well I mean, mushrooms are okay. But potatoes do pretty much the same job, texture-wise. And they are potatoes.
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What? Potatoes and mushrooms do not have the same texture. I like them both, but they have different applications.
Also... if people like potatoes on pizza, has anyone had one with mashed potatoes as the sauce? Probably one of the best pizzas I've ever had.
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Not the same, but if you're making a fully-veg pizza they both add a bit of chewiness.
Mashed potatoes on pizza sounds amazing and I would love to try it.
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Wow, a LOT of crazy pizza styles here, at least compared to what is considered "traditional" here in USA.
In particular I'd never even HEARD of potatoes on a pizza before now. Mashed in particular. Could be good though.
Personally I prefer Hawaiian style pizza, with the ham and pineapple and most importantly, brown sugar! Nums.
BFEL is into the sweetmeats. This is also why I like onion on my pizza. I don't think I've ever had a pizza where the onions didn't carmelize into sweet tasting deliciousness.
After Hawaiian I prefer supremes. With a buttload of onions, olives and peppers, as well as the pepperoni and sausage.
Hmm...would LOVE to try crab on a pizza. Crab is the naturally sweetest meat, therefore it is the best meat.
As for crust style I guess I'm in the weirdo "thinner is better" camp. Not so much because its tastier, but because crust is naturally uninteresting to me so the less of it in relation to the good stuff the better.
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I've had sliced potatoes on pizza before. Hashbrowns, too. I've put a pizza in mashed potatoes (and mac & cheese, and rice, and noodles, and a few other types of pasta...), too, but I don't I've done much actual mashed potatoes on a pizza proper. Maybe occasionally layering a bit of some on a slice or two, since I've done that to... basically everything I eat, at least a few times. Pretty alright regardless! Better than pretty alright when it's various sorts of seasoned potatoes.
Also the thin advocation's not really a weirdo camp, though it may be for your particular region. Lot of people are very insistent thin crust is the only proper way. They deny themselves vast reams of doughy goodness, but to each their own, et al. Me, I'll eat both, but I also have an unholy love for bread that's only just shy of carnal so the crust is very interesting to me regardless of the thickness (I've totally just scraped all the toppings and sauce off a pizza and ate the crust by itself before, usually when I wanted to use the rest for cooking something else). Though you can, admittedly, do more with thick crust in regards to filling and whatnot. Make a second pizza and use that as the base. Pizzaception. Still, thin is good, too.
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Me, I'll eat both, but I also have an unholy love for bread that's only just shy of carnal
I actually like bread, to the point I'll eat it with nothing on it or done to it and not feel weird about it, but pizza crust just doesn't do it for me.
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Me, I'll eat both, but I also have an unholy love for bread that's only just shy of carnal
I actually like bread, to the point I'll eat it with nothing on it or done to it and not feel weird about it, but pizza crust just doesn't do it for me.
My mother's home-baked bread (long before "bread-making machines" made it a 'hip' thing to make use of), various batches made of various different flours, were a staple of my growing up. I still remember that it was at a (9th?) birthday party at another kid's house when I first had white bread (probably shop-bought pre-sliced). Didn't like the taste. Tasted a bit bleachy. Probably for good reason, given that I was used to largely untreated bread-products, pretty much, up until that point.
(Don't hate white bread, these days, but the loaf I bought today is farmhouse grain (wholemeal, with four different grain-types in it, and sprinkled atop) and sliced (because some things save time/awkwardness/mess). Although it's not a patch on me mum's bread.)
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I've never actually tried it, but I'm pretty sure that fried chanterelles on a pizza would be absolutely kill.
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Pineapple pizza master race.
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Isn't pizza just an open faced sandwich...
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Is a two year old pizza still a pizza?
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Real Humans eat Raw Bread! Pizza is for sensible people!
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Last year I had a very nice Ostrich and Mango pizza
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There's a joint down the way that serves a pizza called the "American"; topped with beef, Bearnaise sauce, onions, jalapeño slices... And french fries.
It's... Not bad. The fries could do with being a bit crispier, but hey.
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And apparently, when we weren't looking, pineapple got to the 3rd place.
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Hail Ananas
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Hail Ananas
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Blessed be Ananas, the best of froot.
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I don't get why so many people voted for pineapples, it just seems weird to put fruit on pizza.
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Who the fuck puts peach on a pizza. its a pizza, not a peacha.
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I don't get why so many people voted for pineapples, it just seems weird to put fruit on pizza.
You are wrong
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I don't get why so many people voted for pineapples, it just seems weird to put fruit on pizza.
but you put tomato on a pizza
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So apparently the current Average Best Bay12 Pizza would be:
Ham, Mozzarella, Bacon and Pineapple.
That's... I mean, I'm ordering pizza tomorrow evening, so I might as well try this mix.
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You have pineapple on gammon (cured leg of pork), so on bacon and ham wouldn't be far off. And cheese goes with everything (especially more cheese!) so no problems there.
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Oh my, a toppings thread!
Well uh. Continuing from the other thread, celery was a good choice. Not sure why, it just sort of drifted into my mouth without me really thinking about it. Also, didn't realize chicken actually had a decent following. Where I'm from, most people demand sausage/pepperoni over any other meats.
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Those are probably still top of the list in most places (english speaking, at the absolute least), I think. There's definitely been an expansion in cultural norms regarding commonly appropriate toppings over the last decade or two, though, chicken among them.
Oddly enough, pizza's like the one thing I can stand ranch dressing on, and that specifically because I tried some chicken and ranch topped pizza (hungry howies) and it was pretty great. But yeah, sausage, pepperoni, bacon, canadian bacon, chicken, some fish, hamburger... think that most of the normative meat toppings. Don't seem to see turkey very often (mind, it works just fine; I put honey turkey on the pizza I eat on home pretty regularly), though.
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Kebab and gyros are the most common toppings
Also the best
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My favorite pizza topping is pizza.
EDIT: However, if my favorite recursive pizza place is closed due to stack overflow, I can settle for peas and mayo (https://imgix.elitedaily.com/elite-daily/2017/05/08095247/pizza-with-peas-and-mayo.jpg)
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Kebab and gyros are the most common toppings
What? Where? And how do I go there?
Honorable mention: Pastirma/pastourma. It's a very nice topping if you like it's strong flavor.
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In any sensible European country
It was invented by Swedes (well, likely by Turks running pizzerias in Sweden, but that's only relevant when it's bad ;) ) but it has since spread to all of the Nordic countries and at least to Germany, that I know of, so I assume it also exist in the rest of Europe by now.
While you're here you can also try another Swedish creation, the Pizza Salad (totally not Croat), shredded cabbage marinaded in oil and herbs. It's what we eat while waiting for the pizza here instead of bread sticks.