What's your favorite non-cheese pizza?

[PurpleShoes]

Everyone loves a Cheese Pizza. It's the classic, and often only correct answer.​

Still, everyone needs some variety every now and then. Maybe it's the guilty pleasure Hawaiian slice every once-in-a-while, or a Friday Night pie with chicken and broccoli on half. Sometimes bad Pizzerias can make great specialty slices!

On my town's main street, we have a very mediocre pizza place called Tino's. There crust is always underdone and their sauce is too sweet. Still, they make this bangin pie called The Walter. It's chicken with General Tso's and Buffalo sauce, drizzled in Ranch and it absolutely RULES!!!

What's your favorite non-cheese slice?

 

[zerobear]

As many pepperonis as it can physically handle. The Pepperoni Apocalypse

 

[No-Bo-Dy]

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Just with the sauce if I can't have cheese on it.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

meat-lovers, the true king

 

[PurpleShoes]

Just with the sauce if I can't have cheese on it.

 

[Eclipse14]

There's a place I used to go to that had this fantastic BBQ Chicken pizza. Roasted Chicken, BBQ Sauce, Red Onions, Mushrooms, and four different cheeses all at once. Slices alone were pretty huge. I really gotta get back there, sometime.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

I'm from St.Louis in the States and here we have a "St.Louis Style" pizza.

It's a cracker-thin crust, with provel cheese and a sweeter red sauce. It's VERY divisive outside of St.Louis. I love it, but I was born here so I'm biased.

 

[Tonberry]

A cheese pizza? You mean like, a plain pizza?

I’ve never heard the term before. That sounds awful! I don’t think I’ve ever had a pizza without topping, so my choice for the topic would probably be every single other kind of pizza lol

Another alien thing to me is buying a single slice. That doesn’t happen here, it’s the entire thing, piping hot and fresh, or nothing.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

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Ok. then no sauce and just the pizza dough.

 

[nemui-enbi]

This tapas restaurant I used to work at made this like, fig jam, goat cheese and prosciutto pizza that sounded so nasty to (at the time) plain Jane cheese pizza loving me, but was absolutely amazing. It closed down a year ago but I still crave that combo....

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

I'm actually not a fan of cheese pizza. It's... fine? But faaar from a preference and I'd never just pick it.

Pepperoni, mushroom, onion, and black olive is ideal for me.

 

[nemui-enbi]

I'm from St.Louis in the States and here we have a "St.Louis Style" pizza.

It's a cracker-thin crust, with provel cheese and a sweeter red sauce. It's VERY divisive outside of St.Louis. I love it, but I was born here so I'm biased.

For something so simple (and delicious) sounding, surprising that it's divisive. :o But there are a lot of people out there that have very strong opinions on their local pizza customs, so ig that tracks.

I'd like to try this though!

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

For something so simple (and delicious) sounding, surprising that it's divisive. :o But there are a lot of people out there that have very strong opinions on their local pizza customs, so ig that tracks.

I'd like to try this though!

I think it's one of those "It looks like a normal pizza but tastes different" bait-and-switch kinda things that gets people here. If you were served one and not told what it was, you could pretty easily think it's a classic mozzarella and marinara pizza until you bite into it.

 

[PurpleShoes]

A cheese pizza? You mean like, a plain pizza?

I’ve never heard the term before. That sounds awful! I don’t think I’ve ever had a pizza without topping, so my choice for the topic would probably be every single other kind of pizza lol

Another alien thing to me is buying a single slice. That doesn’t happen here, it’s the entire thing, piping hot and fresh, or nothing.

This may shock you to hear, but: In different places, people do different things.

I'm not sure where they don't have plain pizza, but here in New York, being able to make a good cheese pizza is a badge of honor. You're right in observing that it's a very simple food, and that's why it's so incredibly easy to screw up (and evident when done wrong). A good cheese pie needs to have the right ratio of acidity-to-sweetness in the sauce. The crust should be pre-fermented as a dough in order to give the crust a slight, but not overpowering flavor. It also ought to be hand-stretched as thin as possible giving a satisfying crunch as you bite into the fresh bread atop which your pie sits. The cheese needs to be ever so slightly pungent, but also not incredibly sour as to overpower the delicate mix of flavors.
When done right, a cheese pizza tastes like the color yellow, if you get me.
Certainly by-the-slice is a more uniquely NY thing, but we're not just eating room temperature pizza. It gets thrown back in the 450 degree oven for three-to-five minutes. Just enough to make it crispy and delicious once more!

 

[Tonberry]

This may shock you to hear, but: In different places, people do different things.

I'm not sure where they don't have plain pizza, but here in New York, being able to make a good cheese pizza is a badge of honor. You're right in observing that it's a very simple food, and that's why it's so incredibly easy to screw up (and evident when done wrong). A good cheese pie needs to have the right ratio of acidity-to-sweetness in the sauce. The crust should be pre-fermented as a dough in order to give the crust a slight, but not overpowering flavor. It also ought to be hand-stretched as thin as possible giving a satisfying crunch as you bite into the fresh bread atop which your pie sits. The cheese needs to be ever so slightly pungent, but also not incredibly sour as to overpower the delicate mix of flavors.
When done right, a cheese pizza tastes like the color yellow, if you get me.
Certainly by-the-slice is a more uniquely NY thing, but we're not just eating room temperature pizza. It gets thrown back in the 450 degree oven for three-to-five minutes. Just enough to make it crispy and delicious once more!

I was just confused by the term is all. It was a major culture clash, but American pizza has always kind of perplexed me.

I know you can order plain pizzas here (they’re usually referred to as Margherita but that’s sort of incorrect). Pepperoni is also super uncommon here but I see it’s like the most common thing to put on pizzas in the US. Salami is the most common sausage to use here.

In Sweden, most fast-food pizzerias are traditionally run by Arab or Turkish immigrants, or children of immigrants, so the pizza culture here is very different in general. The most common pizza is the Vesuvio, which is a plain pizza with sliced ham, or the legendary kebab pizza. My personal favorites are pizzas with different kinds of meat (usually bacon, minced beef and pork tenderloin) paired with bearnaise sauce (which is super common here, but uncommon almost everywhere else in the world it seems). It’s lethal, but insanely tasty.

Just about all pizzas have names here, so I was confused at just calling a particular one the thing that’s on it.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Another alien thing to me is buying a single slice. That doesn’t happen here, it’s the entire thing, piping hot and fresh, or nothing.

I don't think you'd be able to see a single slice on the overworld, the sprite would be too small. But really, I've not seen a single slice very often, unless it was at the school cafeteria, a gas station or a food court. I'm interested in trying one of the legendary single slice New York City pizza places, but I can't see myself in New York City, uh, almost ever.

As for the topic, I'm up for most anything, but I like white sauce over red when possible. The only thing I really don't like is uncooked tomatoes on pizza. I've never tried anchovies on pizza. I know that's a thing, but I've never felt like condemning a whole pizza if I end up not enjoying it.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Pizza Bianca, or White Pizza is delicious too. I like it with mushrooms and spinach.

 

[PurpleShoes]

I was just confused by the term is all. It was a major culture clash, but American pizza has always kind of perplexed me.

I know you can order plain pizzas here (they’re usually referred to as Margherita but that’s sort of incorrect). Pepperoni is also super uncommon here but I see it’s like the most common thing to put on pizzas in the US. Salami is the most common sausage to use here.

In Sweden, most fast-food pizzerias are traditionally run by Arab or Turkish immigrants, or children of immigrants, so the pizza culture here is very different in general. The most common pizza is the Vesuvio, which is a plain pizza with sliced ham, or the legendary kebab pizza. My personal favorites are pizzas with different kinds of meat (usually bacon, minced beef and pork tenderloin) paired with bearnaise sauce (which is super common here, but uncommon almost everywhere else in the world it seems). It’s lethal, but insanely tasty.

Just about all pizzas have names here, so I was confused at just calling a particular one the thing that’s on it.

Fascinating! I'd love to hear more about Swedish food culture if you're ever interested! I considered studying abroad in Sweden for a time (before covid hit and took studying abroad off the table).
In the US we have something called a Margherita Pizza, named apparently for Queen Margherita, but that story is contested. Our Margherita Pizza is fresh basil leaves and patches of Mozzarella cheese over sauce, as opposed to a standard (or plain) cheese pie which is all cheese. Funnily-enough, your Salami pie is probably much more authentic to Italian Pizza, as what we in the US call Pepperoni is a facsimili of Italian Salimis. Over here Salami goes on Sandwiches more than anything else (and it's wonderful).
All those pizzas you described sound incredible! Right now (at least in my part of the US), Chicken Bacon Ranch is having a real moment which sounds a bit similar to the meat ones you described.

Yeah, to be honest I wish we had more codified names for Pizzas in the US. You just kind of order by what you want on it, named specialty pies are a rarity.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Cheese enjoyer be like

 

[Tonberry]

Another one I really like that’s not quite as deadly as the one I mentioned before is my go-to vegetarian pizza, where I usually top it with (apart from the tomato sauce and cheese) pesto, red paprika and sun-dried tomatoes.

In the US we have something called a Margherita Pizza, named apparently for Queen Margherita, but that story is contested. Our Margherita Pizza is fresh basil leaves and patches of Mozzarella cheese over sauce

Yeah, this is the ”proper” Margherita. Over here it’s often simplified to be more like the ordinary ”plain cheese pizza” you refer to.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Fascinating! I'd love to hear more about Swedish food culture if you're ever interested! I considered studying abroad in Sweden for a time (before covid hit and took studying abroad off the table).
In the US we have something called a Margherita Pizza, named apparently for Queen Margherita, but that story is contested. Our Margherita Pizza is fresh basil leaves and patches of Mozzarella cheese over sauce, as opposed to a standard (or plain) cheese pie which is all cheese. Funnily-enough, your Salami pie is probably much more authentic to Italian Pizza, as what we in the US call Pepperoni is a facsimili of Italian Salimis. Over here Salami goes on Sandwiches more than anything else (and it's wonderful).
All those pizzas you described sound incredible! Right now (at least in my part of the US), Chicken Bacon Ranch is having a real moment which sounds a bit similar to the meat ones you described.

Yeah, to be honest I wish we had more codified names for Pizzas in the US. You just kind of order by what you want on it, named specialty pies are a rarity.

Interesting, over here in the Midwest Margherita pizza is most prominent for having lot's of sliced tomato. It's like everybody has a different idea of what it is lol.

 

[miguk]

East Asian pizza lords over your pizzas like a buff god of meals:

 

[jankusanagi]

PIzza without cheese?? What kind of crazy world is that?

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Whelp, I know what my last meals gonna be if I ever end up on death row.