Hatred And Hypocrisy At AF

[Ravenshire]

I am personally no great fan of swine and pine, but when it's done well on a nice crispy thin crust, it's delicious - as is pep and pine, or salami and pine. There's something about sour/sweet juxtaposed against the saltiness of the meat. I've nothing against pan pizza, of course, but for me there's something about cracker-thin crispy crust and minimalist toppings.

Pineapple is the one food that I never grew into. I've hated it my whole life. If there's a hint of it in anything, that thing is dead to me...except pizza. Pizza, in all its wisdom, grace, and glory, is the glue that brings all food stuffs together.

Pineapple is a big favorite of mine on a pizza, too, and nowhere else except upside down cake. But I can understand real NY establishments not liking using it.

Really good in a calzone, too. I wish PJs would do calzone for convenience.

Pineapple? By itself?!? How blasé.

Pineapple, kiwi, mango and papaya along with some ham and jerk seasoned shredded chicken and some good smoky gouda all on a thin crispy crust lightly sauced with sweet and sour... Ohhhhh... To die for!

You people must learn to push your boundaries!

[The Valkyrie]

I think I might have pizza for dinner tonight!

[c172]

I rarely ever have a one topping pizza. Pineapple, and other toppings, are good in combo with other things.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I love pineapple, but it has no goddamned business topping a pie. Take your pineapple, your anchovies, your artichoke hearts, and your avocados, and get them the hell off'n my pizza.

Motherfuckers.

[The Valkyrie]

[Longhorn]

I love pineapple, but it has no goddamned business topping a pie. Take your pineapple, your anchovies, your artichoke hearts, and your avocados, and get them the hell off'n my pizza.

Motherfuckers.

^^This^^

I fucking hate pineapple on pizza.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Confucius say:
Sometimes,  when looking for pearls, you need to suffer the seaweed!
(that's my dirty joke for the day! ...now back  work I go)

This should really be in the 'joke time' thread, but I am no slave to conventionality.

Why did the beach blush?

Because the seaweed.

Boru

[Ravenshire]

I love pineapple, but it has no goddamned business topping a pie. Take your pineapple, your anchovies, your artichoke hearts, and your avocados, and get them the hell off'n my pizza.  

Motherfuckers.

Are you one of those "no fruit on pizza" heretics?!?

[orogenicman]

Ever since I was little, I've known I was different.  There was something that set me apart from the other kids.  For a long time, I couldn't define it, couldn't even articulate it.  As I moved into my early teens, it became clear:  I didn't care for pizza.

Naturally enough, I hid my difference from those around me.  It was difficult, as you might imagine.  Pizza take away, pizza adverts, pizzas in pubs, the freezer section crammed to the ceiling with pizza.  Oh, I tried, believe me - it's OK to be different, but I didn't want to be branded as some kind of pervert, so I made the effort.  I'd be hanging with friends and someone would invariably suggest pizza.  I'd go along, I wanted to 'fit it'.  But I was living a lie.

I 'came out' in my early 20s at uni.  My roommate asked, 'Want to go out for a slice?'  I demurred, tried to tell him that I'd already eaten, that I had other plans.  He persisted, and I finally told him that I don't like pizza.  His eyes went blank and cold, as if he was contemplating where to hide my corpse.  'What did you say?', he husked.  I repeated it, and he left without a word.  I never saw him again.

Coming out was hard, but I felt this tremendous burden had been lifted.  Now I could live as ME, I could be ME.  But I underestimated the level of antipizzaphobia in the world.  I was a pariah, an outcast.  And the I found AF.

Like most new members, I perused the site before posting anything.  I found lots of funny, intelligent, tolerant people, and I thought to myself, 'Here at last is a place where I can be accepted without judgment for who I am, not for what I decline to eat.  Imagine my shock and heartbreak - yes...heartbreak - when I came across the hate-filled comments of Cthulhu Dreaming, Parkers Tan and robvalue (people who I sincerely admire, btw) marginalizing me for my foodstyle.

People here talk a good game - equal rights for women, racial minorities, the LGBT community, blah blah blah.  But you're showing your true colours now, buncha judgey antipizzaphobes.

I've got news for you lot - there's more of us than you think.  Deny it all your like, but odds are that you've all got at least one antipizzaist in your family.  We aren't a threat to your kids, there's no antipizzaist 'agenda'.  We aren't even trying to deny pizza to those who like it.  We just want to be accepted for being genetically predisposed to dislike pizza.  Let us live our lives, raise our families.  Treat us as you would anyone else - we're not a threat to your way of life.

But keep fucking with us, and we will - make no mistake - launch our plan to poison the world's pepperoni supply.  You have been warned.

Boru

ROFLMAO!

Brian, you've done it again.  Made my day.  hahaha.

I like pizza, but it doesn't like me (I have reflux).  So I rarely eat it.

[rexbeccarox]

I like pizza. I'm no snob about it, though. And I tend to buy it (delivery) when I have run out of sufficient groceries to fix a coherent dinner (life with a disability and weight probs). I like Papa John's. Up in North County, I've liked Flippin' Pizza, which my father hates, being a NYer.

I need to kind of lay off it, though. My belly gets big quickly, and pizza is the main culprit. I do find myself less in the mood for it lately, but I'm guessing that it's because I buy from the same place all the time: the aforementioned Papa John's.

I'mnot sure what my point was, but I get it. Both sides of the argument, I get it. Pizza seems like a cop out at times, and highly overrated. But then food hipsters love nothing more than tracking down that authentic NY slice, or Chicago deep dish.

I don't care. Is it any good? That's what I care about. I think my next non-delivery will be in Juneau next summer while watching the seaplanes by the dock.

Meh. Flippin'/ Knockout are oooookaaaayyyy, but Brooklyn Boyz in O'side is the place to go. They know what they're doing, and that's coming from someone who moved here from NY.