What are your "weirdest" pizza toppings or other weird food combos?
What are your "weirdest" pizza toppings or other weird food combos?
One I've tried is cucumber with tomato sauce. It didn't taste so bad.
Swedish people have made it a science to have wierd pizza toppings. One example is the banan pizza 🙃
Needs to be curry and banana.
It's always the Swedish. Gotta have some neighbour love for them but still.
Banana pizza is child's play! In Skellefteå they have reached peak WTFery in the pizza game, let me present the "Calskrove": https://www.tasteatlas.com/calskrove
It's a Calzone, with a baked in "skrovmål" (double patty burger + fries). Enjoy!
Pineapple, pepperoni, and jalapeño turns out pretty good on a pizza.
The best 3topping in existence, hands down.
My theory on why people don't like pineapple on pizza is that most of them pair it with sweet ham, so they lose the full effect of the spicy/sweet/salty combo. Pineapple on pizza is amazing, hawaiian pizza is an abberant form that should be removed off menus everywhere and replaced with the true god-king: The PPJ.
That's peak Pizza for me! Especially with both pepperoni and sucuk (turkish garlic salami that's basically available in every Pizza delivery place in Germany).
Suçuk/mushroom is wonderful!
Hehe I tried to put pineapple on a zapiekanka (polish kind of pizza --> https://cuisineworld.org/recipes/zapiekanka-polish-open-faced-sandwich/) the polish guys around wanted to kill me :-D
Tuna Pizza aka Pizza Tonno.
This is very very very common in Europe (Italy, Germany, ...), but every time I mention it to anyone in the US they will look at me like I just told them I like eating car tires or something. My wife only eats tuna Pizza, but she has to make it herself because it is not sold anywhere in the US.
As an extra special treat, I get a pizza Hawaii (yes, with pineapple) with extra sauce hollandaise, feta cheese and banana. I realise this is hardly "pizza" anymore but I have no other word for it.
Another special treat is Nutella, salami, strawberry jam and gouda, in that exact order, on bread (as what Anglophones apparently call an "open-faced sandwich"). It's a fucking mess.
My father decided saurkraut on pizza would be nice. Thank goodness I'm coeliac or I'd have been obliged to try some...
That actually sounds pretty good. Especially on a sausage pizza.
IMO it's quite good! especially when paired with banana peppers as well.
haha, came here looking for the saurkraut mention! in my hometown there was a gas station pizza place that offered saurkraut (and banana peppers) and I thought it was quite tasty. :)
There’s no gluten in sauerkraut is there? You should be good to go now with the proliferation of gf crusts!
Sounds pretty good to be honest. In Sweden we usually have a side salad for pizza ("pizzasallad") which is close to sauerkraut, but not fermented. It's not uncommon to also put it on the pizza.
I once had a pizza with duck on, and orange sauce instead of tomato sauce. It was actually rather good, iirc!
Chicken sandwich with peanut butter, chili oil and soy sauce (just a bit if you need a bit of saltiness).
The "college kid" Pad Thai was chicken, pb, Sriracha, and a Ramen packet.
There's a restaurant nearby that does that on a sandwich instead of on Ramen.
I don't think you're far off
Pineapple and anchovy. Sweet + salty. It's a beautiful combo.
A little surprised no one has mentioned corn on pizza! I have a memory of being in a Sbarro as a kid and they had pizza with canned corn kernels on it and something about that just really grosses me out.
I've eaten pizza with corn my whole life, never considered it weird lol
grilled shrimp and pesto
That sounds really good to me!
Banana elevates every pizza
spicy mustard.
Sliced potato, broccoli, and mayo is quite common in Japan. And it takes like ass of course
Mango works surprisingly well.
I think that would unite the pro- and anti- pineapple debate.
Pro-pineapple (but anti-hawaiian, should be pep, pine, jalaps) here: I'd try it, but only with chicken and Habeneros if I can, jalaps if they have no habs.
My GFs go to is a hawaiian pizza... with olives, and blue cheese dip on the side.
I didnt think you could make hawaiian pizza worse, but there you go.
Not exactly weird, but prosciutto and ricotta with hot honey
Chorizos and Honey on a pizza. Its so good!
My favourite pizza is actually blue cheese and shrimp, I dont know if that is wierd or not? Its semi-common where I live.
Blue cheese and tuna is good, so I'm not gonna reject shrimp as an alternative. I'd try that.
Love a bit of blue cheese, pineapple and ham on my pizza (and not that uncommon in Finland), but I have actually had it with shrimp added and that was quite nice.
Pickles and bacon!
Chocolate and banana pizza
Mushroom pizza with a sunny side up egg.
That isn't that unusual in Italy, but usually we use boiled eggs!
This was in Japan. They put raw egg on everything.
Apparently pizza is quite exotic to them, because they cost more than other foods and they had no idea of how to make a regular pizza.
I got the egg thing because I couldn't order anything ordinary, so I asked the waiter for his suggestion and took his word for it. I don't regret doing that but I probably won't order that pizza again.
I really love pickles on pizza
Pickled jalapeños on pizza are great, especially with pepperoni. I can imagine other pickled things could work
Pineapple Jalapeno Goat cheese is something weird I did that I liked
Hot sauce on peanut butter on toast.
Don’t knock it until you try it.
Banana and Salad Cream sandwiches.
The Salad Cream adds a nice tangyness, you can tell yourself the banana makes it healthy, and you've got a proper student sandwich.
Works surprisingly well.
semi-unrelated but jesus christ do i miss the cheeseburger pizza at dominos
Not mine and I wouldn't recommend it, but in Barcelona once I had a pizza with octopuss and potato.
To this day it remains the only pizza I did not want to finish.
Once I tried Hawaiian pizza with cherries on top. That's my pizza I did not want to finish. But I probably wouldn't want to even try the octopus and potato one either.
Waste of good octopus, I bet.
Spanish crimes against pizza should be prosecuted in the Hague.
Let me introduce you to the "pizzalad".
That sounds like a pizza version of Polbo à feira.
Which is a culinary abomination.
Try vegemite and golden syrup on a pancake, it works well.
Potatos. Was actually good.
I’ve been spreading the gospel of mac & cheese pancakes ever since I saw this video and tried making some. https://youtu.be/ayZYfRXS6Do
My home version is slightly different, rather than cooking macaroni separately I just take advantage of whenever we have leftover mac & cheese.
Not on pizza, but a combo to try - Dill pickles with peanut butter. It’s gotta be smaller non-sliced crunchy dill pickles, cold. Peanut butter needs to be the processed creamy kind, with some sugar added. Delicious.
My wife says it's unholy that I put tuna in mac'n'cheese.
I like putting together cheese and peanuts. Mac and cheese with peanut butter. PB & J and cheese.
And also, I douse things I don't want to eat with fermented shrimp paste. You know how some people put ketchup or hot sauce to make things more tolerable? Same but with stinky shrimp paste. When I'm bored with porkchops or fried chicken, I just dip it in. 10/10 would recommend everyone to try it at least once. You can buy the paste from Asian groceries.
Spaghetti in tomato sauce on pizza. NZ thing, our youngest loves it.
Y'all just eating flatbread.
When I get a hoagie sometimes I get both tomato sauce and honey or honey mustard. It's a surprisingly good sauce combo. It tends to take on the texture of tomato sauce but the flavor of honey mustard
Spaghetti with the normal tomato sauce and meat balls and spontaneously decided to try it with soy sauce (sorry fellow Italians)
They messed my pizza order up once and I'm not entirely sure what I got, but it had chicken, pineapple and curry sauce instead of tomato. I decided to give it a taste and as weird as it was, it was kind of nice. Nothing I would order again, but I didn't complain either.
Marshmallow and pesto pizza
For pizza, my go to is thin crust with bbq sauce, sausage, pineapple and jalapeño.
Non pizza, Bagel with guacamole. The poor man's avocado toast.
Outside of Indian cuisine, the best use of achaar is on perogies.
How has nobody ported r/pizzacrimes to Lemmy yet
I routinely make unusual pizzas. One style we like to go with:
A white pizza with 1) thinly sliced raw green beans, asparagus, or kale 2) leftover grilled dark meat chicken or sausage to add a smoky punch 3) then usually sundried tomatoes or artichoke hearts 4) garlic and black pepper
Roasted some slim Jim's, then put it on pizza. Kinda like pepperoni.
the "worst" pizza I ever had was a dessert pizza - pizza, to my mind, is supposed to be savory. a pizza with gummi worms, crushed oreos, m&m's and skittles drenched in cinnamon roll glaze is a crime against man and god.
Sliced turkey, pear, and feta 🤌
Not a pizza topping, but I occasionally make a grilled s'mores sandwich.
You make it like a grilled cheese, but instead of cheese, use chocolate chips, or chocolate bars, and marshmallows.
My father just introduced me to the joy of putting banana peppers on my slices. I don't really like peppers ftmp, but damn is it good on just a plain slice.