December Meme: Pizza

[netgirl_y2k]

For today selenay said Okay, I just have to: Any day, life-related pizza preferences :-D

Okay, see, I know what I did there I missed a comma (in my defense, whoever I copied and pasted this from missed the comma, I just didn't catch it) and you mean life-related pizza preferences as opposed to, like, virtual pizza preferences.

Um, if you ever come to Scotland you will be presented with the option of having haggis as a pizza topping. I beg of you, I beg of you, do not avail yourself of this option. There are times and places where eating haggis is appropriate; at a Burns Supper, for instance, or at two o'clock in the morning when it's been deep-fried and served alongside chips (additionally I suggest having spent several hours in a nearby tavern before embarking on your haggis eating adventure), but on top of a pizza is not one of them. All of this also applies to black pudding.

There is also a thing called a pizza crunch. Which is one quarter of an onion pizza, deep fried, and served with chips and a can of Irn Bru.

As an aside, when I was a student I had a drinking buddy who used to drink vodka and diet Irn Bru, because she thought that the sugar in Irn Bru was really bad for you; the vodka aside, forget the sugar, it's whatever makes it glow-in-the-dark orange that's going to kill you. Oh, for those of you not familiar with Irn Bru, here enjoy!

You used to be able to get pizza-crunch for lunch when I was at school. We were all shocked, shocked, I say, to grow up and discover there was a public health crisis in Scotland. I ordered one a few months ago in a fit of nostalgia; nostalgia for the days when I could eat deep fried pizza without spending the rest of the evening lying on the floor feeling nauseated, perhaps. Which just goes to show you that nostalgia is a lying liar who lies.

My favourite pizza topping is Florentine; the one with the spinach and poached eggs. By the way, if you make people a Florentine pizza they'll be really impressed; you run out of time, present the same thing on top of bread and call it Florentine Toast they'll look at you strangely. Maybe if I'd gotten some nicer bread?

Any non-pizza questions can go here :-)

Comments

[falena]

I'm always intrigued by what is considered an appropriate pizza topping abroad (I'm Italian and we're very conservative when it comes to pizza). :D

[falena]

Ps: I wouldn't put it on pizza, perhaps, but I found haggis quite delicious.

[netgirl_y2k]

Oddly, I find vegetarian haggis delicious and much prefer it to the regular variety.

Still wouldn't put it on a pizza, though.

[via_ostiense]

I ordered one a few months ago in a fit of nostalgia; nostalgia for the days when I could eat deep fried pizza without spending the rest of the evening lying on the floor feeling nauseated, perhaps.


Hahaha I know what you mean. I haven't had deep fried pizza (something that needs to be remedied posthaste, and yet another reason to visit Scotland), but fried food of other sorts has provided similar experiences.

What does Irn Bru taste like?

[netgirl_y2k]

If you do come to Scotland you will also be able to obtain deep fried mars bars, and other sorts of deep fried chocolate; these are not real things that Scots eat, we only do it to screw with tourists.

What does Irn Bru taste like?

Irn Bru is hard to explain-- it tastes a bit like ginger, and a lot like sugar and e numbers; mostly it tastes like orange (not the fruit, it's totally unrelated to the fruit) it tastes like fluorescent orange would taste if colours had tastes.

[kmo]

Florentine pizza sounds delicious. is it made with white sauce? Or do you still use tomato sauce? I'm a white sauce fan and this causes minor problems in our household.

What does Irn Bru taste like besides orange?

[netgirl_y2k]

Tomato sauce, a small amount of mozzarella, pesto, and baby leaf spinach, then I break some eggs on top to cook over the last 8-10 minutes. I'm told I use too much pesto, but I like pesto, and other people are free to make their own pizzas.

What does Irn Bru taste like besides orange?

God, how to even explain Irn Bru-- it tastes a little like ginger, and a lot like sugar and e-numbers. Mostly it tastes like orange (not the fruit, it has no relation to he fruit) it tastes like dayglo orange would taste if dayglo orange had a taste.

[kmo]

I'm with you- there's no such thing as too much pesto.

Irn Bru sounds like Mountain Dew except orange. Pretty sure that tastes like neon yellow.

[fyrdrakken]

Irn Bru tastes not unlike Sunkist, though I've had Irn Bru more recently than I've had Sunkist, so I'm basically giving my remembered impression from years ago.

[selenay]

Too...much...pesto...

Nope, still lost on that concept :-)

[dhampyresa]

Deep fried pizza sounds amazing, as does Irn Bru.

[netgirl_y2k]

Irn Bru is magic, best hangover cure in the world, it's also possibly slowly dissolving my insides.

[umadoshi]

I think I'd like the idea of deep-fried pizza better if it weren't specifically onion pizza, I must admit.

As for haggis...yeah, no. Not on pizza. (I've only had it once, and liked it fine on its own, but I feel not-on-pizza is a reasonable limit.)

[netgirl_y2k]

Yeah, I don't know why it's always onion pizza. To be fair, it could be worse, at least it's not haggis pizza... although haggis suppers (deep fried haggis) are a thing.

[adafrog]

Haggis on a pizza? huh.

[netgirl_y2k]

Scotland is a weird place.

[selenay]

I couldn't resist the option that missing comma provided :-)

Also, pizza. Pizza is very important to me. I have many and varied views on pizza and pizza toppings and its place in my life. I am shocked that I haven't tried Florentine yet, because it sounds like my pizza crack, and this will need rectifying.

Deep fried pizza sounds like a travesty and a terrible idea. I'm shocked nobody in my little corner of Canada has tried it yet. Thank goodness.

You're right about the haggis. It's...not entirely awful, but not something I'd chose to eat sober again. And really, really not on pizza. That would be as terrible as donair on pizza (never, ever ask what donair is).

[netgirl_y2k]

I've just googled donair. I know, I know, you tried to warn me.

Eugh. Yuck. My liver is waving a white flag at the amount of beer you'd need to drink in order to make that seem like a good idea. And I say that as a person who has voluntarily eaten a deep fried haggis.

Florentine pizza is great, ignore the pesto naysayers.

[selenay]

Donair is Atlantic Canada's post-pub kebab truck. It's terrible. And yet, donair is one of the most popular pizza toppings. It comes with the disgusting donair sauce for dipping. It's vile stuff, and yet when my office orders in pizza, the donair one always forms at least half the order.

On Florentine, pesto is one of my favourite things in life, so a pizza that incorporates it sounds like something I need right now this minute :-)