When eating Pizza...

[Christina Anikari]

When food is charred completely black and has actually turned into a kind of charcoal it is a carcinogen. And what is natural about stuffing a crust? I can think of quite a few evolutions that seem to make more sense...though putting salad and dressing on a pizza like is often done here is not one of them.

[Mistress Guendolen]

Putting salad and dressing on the pizza?... Okay, that just sounds really unnatural. Granted, there's a restaurant here in this city whose specialty feature is the option of serving their customers a sandwich with fries and cole slaw piled on top of it. That's just... ick. **shudder** I haven't eaten that, needless to say. Even if it is considered local tradition.

[Cow Belle]

.... That's a little unusual and odd @_@

[Mistress Guendolen]

Yes, it is. But as I said, it's a local quirk thing.

[Christina Anikari]

Well it is not the really bad one. What about Bearnaise-sauce, which is a danish modification of some fatty french sauce using lots of egg and butter, on a pizza? Denmark is a rather barbaric place really

[Mistress Guendolen]

I think the salad is actually weirder. Though I agree that the sauce is rather strange. I was eating pizza tonight, and it was so very very good.... And yes, I did indeed eat the crusts. We all did.

[Garath the Shadowshifter]

One of the more 'unique' pizzas I've ever had was this 'Apple pizza' at a local place whos name I forget right now.

It's a desert pizza, and when I first heard of it I was very skeptical. I couldn't see how a pizza could be made like that, and be considered a desert.

But oh MAN (women) is it GOOD.

Of course many of you may be aware of this odd pizza, but it was a first for me.

[Mistress Guendolen]

Oh, yes, I've had dessert pizza before. In cherry and blueberry flavors as well as apple. The cherry is the best, to my mind. But I concur wholeheartedly that it is indeed delightfully tasty stuff.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

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I have to admit something. I am the single vote for "I don't like the crusts!"

I am the heretic!

[SweetSophia]

When I was an insane little kid, for whatever reason I only ate the toppings and left the entire bread part. Now, I'm slightly more mature and can eat the entire pizza without messing over it.

What tha heck was going through my mind at 7...

[Mistress Guendolen]

Hey, a lot of us do weird things when we're 7. At that age, I thought croutons dipped in Ranch dressing was a salad. So I was weird, too.

[Mitera Nikkou]

When food is charred completely black and has actually turned into a kind of charcoal it is a carcinogen.

Ah, I see. I'll have to look that up, since I wonder if that includes small particles in toast. <.<

And what is natural about stuffing a crust? I can think of quite a few evolutions that seem to make more sense...

Any examples? Will you argue against doughnuts? They didn't start filled. After their conception, they went from toppings to fillings. And what about turkey stuffed with stuffing? That may or may not be a trend in Denmark, but it's "traditional" in at least some parts of America. Particularly for Thanksgiving. And then comes the calzone... Practically a pizza, save that it's all stuffed and there're no toppings.

Either way, I don't think that evolutions are supposed to make sense anyway. I think this is simply a case of your dislike for something. I'll assume as much, anyway... 'Cause if we become asses, we can moon everyone.

[Christina Anikari]

It is more that i have never heard about this crust stuffing thing from anywhere but the US and frankly given what a pizza actually is here it makes no sense, for one thing there is no space in the crust to stuff. In order to make it stuffable you would first have to double the thinkness of a pizza and then you would have to start intentionally making a crust, instead of just having it be the residue at the edges that you don't cover with sauce and cheese. That is why it seems pretty silly to me.

[Mitera Nikkou]

I don't think that they have to double the thickness of the pizza. There are probably several methods, but I'm most familiar with pizza dough being folded around the rim by about an inch (give or take anywhere between a centimeter or two), while the thin crust probably doesn't involve folding the rim (and thus is why the crust usually turns out small with little "clean" space for putting your fingers). (As a note, I prefer this folded variety because the crust turns out more chewable, like a bun, and easier to fold while still being tough enough for leverage.) For stuffed crust, as far as I can tell, the thickness remains the same, but the rim is folded over sticks/slices of cheese, or the shredded variety, and it still turns out to be about as thick as you'd expect from a folded rim without it being filled. Well, I guess it would depend on who makes the pizza... I have encountered stuffed crusts of gargantuan size. X_X You know, I'd probably be more worried about American content than American methods as far as food is concerned... The average American eater has quite a poor diet and ingests questionable things. At least I find what a lot of things contain to be questionable.

[Christina Anikari]

Every country has bad content in much of the foodstuff, Denmark probably has worse than the US in fact. And i have to admit that if the crust is folded over like that and become large and thick i probably wouldn't eat it, just a lot of dry bread and pizza bottom isn't exactly the most interesting bread you can find.

And when i say double the thickness keep in mind that in Europe pizza is rarely if ever more than a quarter of an inch thick. There is no way you could stuff that thin a crust.