Blue Footed Booby posted:

I don't understand why food derails are so consistent. And half the time they start with "I don't want to start a derail but..." Like that fools anybody, you loving liar.

RareAcumen posted:

So, I swear I saw a twitter post of the Cell Games being cancelled because of CoronaVirus with Goku has coronavirus below it, was that this thread?

Uppa posted:

It’s because of kids. I’ve never seen an adult order a cheese pizza for themselves, but when kids are involved, cheese pizza is the only thing you can reliably count on them eating.

Data Graham posted:

In New York City, the home of pizza (just ask them), the archetypical pizza is not even "a pizza", but a single giant floppy slice from a heatlamp case where it's been sitting all day. You order it for like a dollar and they stick it in the oven for two minutes and then you take your "pizza" walking down the street, folding it in half so you can eat it one-handed.

You do not order toppings on the heatlamp pizza. Toppings are apparently just there to dress up the display case, where certain display pizzas are half-gone or reassembled from several showcase styles they evidently ordered from a catalog, and they are invariably gross and sad. Flabby gray canned mushrooms, sad tasteless pepperoni, stale penne pasta (!!!), wilted broccoli. If you order a slice with toppings it interferes with your ability to carry it and eat it one-handed because they will roll off the slice and disappear down your sleeve.

One time a coworker in Manhattan (a 20-something rich boy dude with a topknot and hipster beard) got hungry mid-morning and called out to order TWO LARGE CHEESE PIES to be delivered to the office, just for him. He sat at his desk at 11:30 eating his giant floppy cheese slices and whimpering with tears basically streaming down his cheeks about how it's "so fuckin good" and then he discovered he was full and put 1.75 LARGE CHEESE PIES into the office fridge, there to sit for weeks.

I do not have particularly good associations with cheese slices or cheese slice eaters

Data Graham posted:

In New York City, the home of pizza (just ask them), the archetypical pizza is not even "a pizza", but a single giant floppy slice from a heatlamp case where it's been sitting all day. You order it for like a dollar and they stick it in the oven for two minutes and then you take your "pizza" walking down the street, folding it in half so you can eat it one-handed.

You do not order toppings on the heatlamp pizza. Toppings are apparently just there to dress up the display case, where certain display pizzas are half-gone or reassembled from several showcase styles they evidently ordered from a catalog, and they are invariably gross and sad. Flabby gray canned mushrooms, sad tasteless pepperoni, stale penne pasta (!!!), wilted broccoli. If you order a slice with toppings it interferes with your ability to carry it and eat it one-handed because they will roll off the slice and disappear down your sleeve.

One time a coworker in Manhattan (a 20-something rich boy dude with a topknot and hipster beard) got hungry mid-morning and called out to order TWO LARGE CHEESE PIES to be delivered to the office, just for him. He sat at his desk at 11:30 eating his giant floppy cheese slices and whimpering with tears basically streaming down his cheeks about how it's "so fuckin good" and then he discovered he was full and put 1.75 LARGE CHEESE PIES into the office fridge, there to sit for weeks.

I do not have particularly good associations with cheese slices or cheese slice eaters

Data Graham posted:

In New York City, the home of pizza (just ask them), the archetypical pizza is not even "a pizza", but a single giant floppy slice from a heatlamp case where it's been sitting all day. You order it for like a dollar and they stick it in the oven for two minutes and then you take your "pizza" walking down the street, folding it in half so you can eat it one-handed.

You do not order toppings on the heatlamp pizza. Toppings are apparently just there to dress up the display case, where certain display pizzas are half-gone or reassembled from several showcase styles they evidently ordered from a catalog, and they are invariably gross and sad. Flabby gray canned mushrooms, sad tasteless pepperoni, stale penne pasta (!!!), wilted broccoli. If you order a slice with toppings it interferes with your ability to carry it and eat it one-handed because they will roll off the slice and disappear down your sleeve.

One time a coworker in Manhattan (a 20-something rich boy dude with a topknot and hipster beard) got hungry mid-morning and called out to order TWO LARGE CHEESE PIES to be delivered to the office, just for him. He sat at his desk at 11:30 eating his giant floppy cheese slices and whimpering with tears basically streaming down his cheeks about how it's "so fuckin good" and then he discovered he was full and put 1.75 LARGE CHEESE PIES into the office fridge, there to sit for weeks.

I do not have particularly good associations with cheese slices or cheese slice eaters

The Bloop posted:

I was in NYC this year for a convention (for work, not anime titties) and I stopped at a pizza place, standing room only, long line. $3 cash only, two slices and a can of soda.

It was loving good.

chitoryu12 posted:

Scratch Monkey posted:

Are the people on the right some new subculture I'm not aware of? They like like slightly updated versions of Morrissey fans from the late 80s

Sir Not Appearing posted:

Unless the Italian pizza industry has changed a lot since 1987, if you asked for anything other than cheese, pepperoni or margherita they gave you the "you dumb, fat American" - look even if it predated the obesity epidemic by a couple decades.

Captain Jesus posted:

I don't know if you're talking about italian-american pizza industry, or bona fide italian pizza industry, but I can tell you, that by far the worst and most bizarre pizza toppings I've ever seen were in Italy, namely in Rome and around it. There is no purism there, anything goes on a pizza. And it's not catering to foreigners or anything, because it's crap no sane person would come up with. Fries and egpplant? Why not!

Captain Jesus posted:

I don't know if you're talking about italian-american pizza industry, or bona fide italian pizza industry, but I can tell you, that by far the worst and most bizarre pizza toppings I've ever seen were in Italy, namely in Rome and around it. There is no purism there, anything goes on a pizza. And it's not catering to foreigners or anything, because it's crap no sane person would come up with. Fries and egpplant? Why not!

Android Apocalypse posted:

When my mom visited Italy she was astounded that they put whole bell peppers on their pizzas. When she came back she got a pizza stone & made some pretty good homemade 'zas.

Broke: folding your NY-style pizza bilaterally to eat it one-handed.
Woke: rolling your pizza tip-to-crust and eating it like a pizza cigar.

chitoryu12 posted:

Data Graham posted:

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/11/19/dave-berg-before-the-lighter-side-pizza-pie

Picnic Princess posted:

Food is food and being pedantic over names is lame as hell

Aramoro posted:

No one is being pedantic over names, they're arguing over which is the best. Which is easy, super thin crust sourdough pizza base with tomato, param ham and rocket on it.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I don't understand why food derails are so consistent. And half the time they start with "I don't want to start a derail but..." Like that fools anybody, you loving liar.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

My favorite pizza topping is well-done steak.

chitoryu12 posted:

It’s important to remember that pizza began as a peasant food and it was hardly well-regarded until the 20th century. The Neapolitan purist movement is pretty modern.

Der Kyhe posted:

With pineapple ketchup, I presume?

Who What Now posted:

The gently caress is a "hearty pancake"?