pizza toppings

[m31andy]

Dear friendslist,

I've just had the most weird pizza ordering conversation evar. When ordering a second custom pizza for myself, cuvalwen and guvngladys, the pizzaman couldn't stop laughing at me. So tell me, oh friendslist, is chicken tandoori, chicken tikka, mango, mushroom and broccoli such an absurd topping combo???

Yours, bewildered...

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Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought steak and chips pizza was more suitable for guvngladys...

[cuvalwen.livejournal.com]

Oh great. NOW you've done it. They're looking at us with pleading eyes.... Will have to make that now the next time we make pizza!

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Whose idea was the broccoli? Has Count Duckula joined you?

[cuvalwen.livejournal.com]

You know us, if we don't eat all our dessert there won't be any broccoli and sprouts.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Naw, it's only weird if you put anchovies on it.

pizza toppings

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

btw, it's delicious. We're going to call it the Sam Tyler, being, as it is, chicken and fruit!!!

[space-oddity-75.livejournal.com]

Being Italian, the mere idea of seeing chicken and fruit on a pizza repels me, but I understand how different nations offer different toppings according to the local taste. When I lived in England, I used to eat pizza with pinapple myself, so I cannot really judge your choice. Hope the taste was good, though! :)


(P.S. - appropriate icon is appropriate, LOL)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Did you never have the fruit pizzas as desserts, then? We did when I lived in Sicily.

[space-oddity-75.livejournal.com]

Until now, I didn't even know they existed! But I live in Lombardy (in the very North of the country, close to Switzerland) and our cuisine is very different from the Sicilian one. Southern Italy offers a bigger variety of foods and many of their specialties are almost totally unknown up here. Wouldn't mind trying them someday, though. :)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

I remember them being given to us in restaurants...

We lived halfway up a mountain south of Cefalu, and there were restaurants in the middle of nowhere. I distinctly remember one occasion when my dad to me, my brothers and my cousins out for dinner, when we were kids, and they gave us this pizza which had peaches and confectioner's jelly on, and was dusted with icing sugar.

[ian-wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Hell Pizza in Fulham does dessert pizzas. IIRC, they're Blackberry & Apple, and Chocolate-Banana.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

That's only just down the road from me - I'll have to try it out!

[gaspodog.livejournal.com]

the only one of those I wouldn't put on a pizza is mango, but I've never been one for fruit on pizza (e.g. pineapple). Nothing wrong with broccoli though...

When I lived in Brixton, a pizza takeaway near us offered the most ridiculously long list of toppings ever... I think we once contrived to have a pizza with chicken, turkey, duck, lamb, beef and pork (sausage) on it for sextuple-meat goodness. We had three choices of different kinds of duck too ;)

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

That pizza sounds like a marvel!

(The mango pizza worked really well, actually. But, there again, I'm a huge fan of mango chutney.)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Broccoli does not belong in this picture.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Broccoli.

(I've got a bit of a kink for it, to be honest!)

[not-here.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming they are all offered as toppings (I doubt the pizza place offers to nip to the shops for anything that springs to mind) thus how you choose to combine them is up to you and it's not for the pizza guy to comment.

You'd have mango chutney with a curry so I see that, not sure the broccoli melds that well - it's not really an Indian veg but I am a fan of having veggies on a mainly meat pizza, would probably have chosen onions myself

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly. Which is why we had to go for such a mixture, seeing as they offered them (and not a doner kebab pizza. I mean, they do kebabs as well - so it's not as if it's unavailable!!!)

Broccoli goes with everything. And I won't hear any different...

(It's getting to be a bit of a joke in the household. Both C and I adore broccoli, and eat it with anything that even slightly goes. Not had it with ice cream yet, though...)