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I dislike onions, olives & pineapple on my pizza. What pizza toppings do you detest?
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53 Comments:
Seafood... any kind of seafood. It has no business on pizza.
deeoh1 at 8:01AM on 02/19/08
Ham and pineapple . . . keep it AWAAAAAYYY!!!!!
ride&cook at 8:04AM on 02/19/08
Chicken. I don't think chicken belongs on pizza.
elizabethw at 8:17AM on 02/19/08
I love veggie pizzas, but leave off the olives and mushrooms!
I hate sausage, and I'm not a huge fan of pepperoni either. Or anchovies. Yuck!
Keep it cheese, or pile on the veggies for me (AND pineapple)!
luswim06 at 8:18AM on 02/19/08
Mushrooms, tomato slices, and green peppers (which is funny because I like the green peppers with almost everything else).
jasonbrink at 8:44AM on 02/19/08
While I enjoy pineapple (particularly with ham and onions) on my pizza, I do not like ground beef on my pizza. Those "hamburger" pizzas are just bland and unappealing to me. I guess other people like them though since they keep showing up at Dominos.
feep at 8:58AM on 02/19/08
I'm afraid I have a rather long list...
canned mushrooms (or even just bland, soggy fresh white ones)
cannned olives
oftten, but not always, green peppers
pineapple
ham (prosciutto is cool)
anything "barbeque"
chicken
also seafood
emmab at 9:16AM on 02/19/08
pineapple, it's just wrong!
Lilartist at 9:21AM on 02/19/08
barbeque
pineapple
ham
onions
sausage
Lilla at 9:22AM on 02/19/08
I don't like anchovies (too fishy), pepperoni (too overwhelming and greasy), pineapple (too fruity-tasting), or any veggies that are not fresh. I'm also not a fan of extra cheese (throws the pizza out of balance). My usual M.O. is that if a pizza has a great crust and great sauce, you don't want too much cheese or other toppings to hide that stuff. I feel like a lot of pizza toppings are there as a novelty, to mask otherwise bad pizza (things like barbecue anything or buffalo anything).
Also, for all those no-seafood-on-pizza people, you have to try at least one white clam pie at a good New Haven, CT pizza joint (Pepe's, etc.) before you can denounce seafood out of hand.
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darronvigs24 at 9:26AM on 02/19/08
No tomatoes. Everything else is fair game. I'd even try anchovies if given the opportunity.
"beef topping" concerns me so I guess that could be number 2 on my list. It just sounds unnatural. And probably is.
AuntJone at 9:37AM on 02/19/08
anything fruity, seafood, oh and those silly pizzas that try to mask themselves as salad with lettuce and croutons and dressing on top of the crust.
ceforrester at 9:39AM on 02/19/08
Anchovies. It's just not right. And have you ever been around anyone reheating an anchovy pizza? You might as well evacuate the house for a week.
Also not a big fan of green peppers and shrooms.
frederika at 10:03AM on 02/19/08
anything barbecue, chicken, green peppers, pineapple (especially the overly sweet canned variety)
bitchincamero at 10:06AM on 02/19/08
No seafood or olives.
For a bunch of years I had digestive trouble and got sick if there was pig on my pizza, but now I can have some, so I am currently into sausage.
wellred at 10:07AM on 02/19/08
Anchovies -can't taste anything else
Raw onions - ditto
raw green pepper - ditto
Fruit (except tomatoes) - it is just wrong
lakeloverhh at 10:09AM on 02/19/08
Anything on pizza is good by me. I can't think of a single thing I wouldn't eat... But my absolute favorite is pineapple, green pepper and mushroom pizza. Dee. Lish.
sheeats at 10:14AM on 02/19/08
Anything other than mushroom, real (not canned) olives, peppers and a very light sprinkling of pepperoni is verboten. Even with the above, I'm not such a big fan. I'm a purist. I like sauce, mozzarella (either fresh or packaged) olive oil and seasonings. I think anything else takes away from it. But the worst, the one I can't even be in the room with, is anchovies.
chisai at 10:37AM on 02/19/08
PASTA! Pasta on pizza! It's wrong in so many ways.
savecara at 10:39AM on 02/19/08
Pineapple. If I want dessert, I'll have it after my pizza.
chiff0nade at 10:52AM on 02/19/08
green peppers everything else is good. pineapple however is not a savory and does not belong on my pizza. I did try it once with ham and it was not bad but not earth shaking either. My grandmother made pizza all the time.
I was raised on hand made pizzas.
JerzeeTomato at 11:05AM on 02/19/08
I have to agree with the raw onions. I just don't digest them well.
What I hate on pizza - truffle oil. Truffle oil ruins pretty much everything. Ever.
Otherwise, I'm open to just about any topping. Especially if someone else is buying. :)
Amandarama at 11:33AM on 02/19/08
Pineapple!!!!!!
Colorado Jim at 11:42AM on 02/19/08
No tinned anything (such as mushrooms, olives, pineapples, etc), no raw onions and no seafood. I'm not sure about fresh/grilled pineapple though - I love it in a couple of savoury dishes (sweet and sour chicken with pineapple, bamboo shoots, onions and peppers is incredible!), so I think that in a right combination it might be decent. That said, whenever I make pizza at home (not often, admittedly), it never occurs to me to use some pineapple as a topping:-) I also wouldn't put pepperoni on my pizza (while I don't mind pepperoni per se, I can't stand it when it's cooked), nor would I ever use ground meat or meatballs.
brooke29 at 11:49AM on 02/19/08
Anything other than fried eggplant; sauteed mushrooms, onions, and spinach; cheese, tomatoes and basil.
hereandthe at 11:57AM on 02/19/08
I never liked sausage on my pizza untill I tried the pizza ladys "soupie pizza" OMG if youre ever in stonington ct. try the pizza lady! but back on topic, keep fruit off my pizza and anything that comes out of a can!
huney_bumper at 12:14PM on 02/19/08
@hereandthe......switch your onions for pepperoni and you've described my perfect pizza. Different strokes, eh?
PerkyMac at 12:22PM on 02/19/08
I never like pineapple until I tried the Grand Avenue Pizza at Grand Avenue Pizza in Laramie. It's a good, fennelly sausage, pepperoni, jalapeno, and pineapple pizza. The pineapple balances out the heat from the jalapeno. Also, the Thai pie there is wonderful. It is "sauced with garlic and olive oil and crowned with chicken glazed in a light sweet'n'sour sauce, green onions and sesame seeds".
For real though, I don't like green peppers on my pizza. I don't like "Hawaiian" pizza. And I definitely don't like fish on my pizza.
lo82070 at 12:52PM on 02/19/08
you can keep it all away except for sausage, as far as i'm concerned, but please keep the pineapple and green pepper far, far away.
cybercita at 1:02PM on 02/19/08
no green or red pepper
no "fake" mozzarella cheese
no bacon
no anchovies
Bosmer at 1:04PM on 02/19/08
Olives. I love olive oil, hate olives. Stick an olive on my pizza, and you've rendered it inedible.
Adam Kuban at 1:25PM on 02/19/08
Onions. Uch. Feh. Perhaps I'll try scallions one of these days.
Over the years I shed my fears of peppers, mushrooms, olives, anchovies, and pineapple, as well as more unusual ingredients like bananas and pickles.
Keeping kosher means meaty pizzas are no longer in the cards, but the Gimme Lean "sausage" is an awesome edition.
Stufsocker at 1:51PM on 02/19/08
yeah to the "no pasta" comment. you're totally right: pasta on pizza is wrong in so many ways. I come from a small german village where it was a local custom to order zaziki as a sidedish to the pizza. I also find sausages and kebap meat on pizza apalling. I am momentarily living in France where people design hideous toppings for their pizza. Especially popular is replacing the tomato sauce by creme fraiche which I think undoes the whole idea of pizza. (I believe this contributes to the fact that contrarily to the U.S. and Germany, where pizza stores are mostly run by Italians, practically all pizza "restos" here belong to Maghrebiens who often sell kebaps, too)
nora palaks at 1:58PM on 02/19/08
no anchovies
no canned/bottled mushrooms - only fresh ones please
no green olives
no pre-cooked toppings - there is no need to pre-cook onions, peppers etc. They just make the crust soggy
no cheddar cheese or any yellow cheese for that matter
MadelynRodriguez at 2:22PM on 02/19/08
The worst abomination I have ever seen on a pizza was in the UK--SWEETCORN!
As a meat-eating little kid I admit I liked pepperoni, but now no meat for me.
Regarding toppings I regard culinary offensive:
onions and peppers (give me a veggie pizza with some real vegetables, please!)
cheddar cheese
And WHITE Pizza--ugh!
HeartofGlass at 3:03PM on 02/19/08
Now that I think about it, when I lived in London sweet corn was a frequent pizza topping that I could never get my head around.
Amandarama at 3:05PM on 02/19/08
Toppings I dislike on my pizza:
seafood
chicken
steak
canadian bacon
paris221966 at 3:15PM on 02/19/08
grounds beef, seafood (to include anchivies). I'm also not a real fan of white pizzas.
beth1 at 4:33PM on 02/19/08
I lived in Japan in the 1990s and was ECSTATIC when Pizza Hut opened in the city I was living (Sendai) because I couldn't stomach of the things on pizza I'd seen. The Japanese pizza companies offered pizzas tailored to Japanese tastes so sometimes toppings included mayonnaise, corn, and canned tuna, none of which I ever got used to and would always politely refuse. Pizza Hut offered those same unusual pizza toppings plus the standard pepperoni, mushroom, sausage, etc. Nowadays I like almost anything on pizza--even anchovies--and thankfully I've never seen any of those toppings used in Japan at any pizza place in the U.S.!
Otabenga at 4:48PM on 02/19/08
I hate the idea of mixing fruits and veggie together so if I have a piece of Hawaiian pizza I have to take the pineapple off.
Hunnyoil at 5:03PM on 02/19/08
WOW--some these toppings I have never heard of as being a pizza topper options--pasta, corn & tuna:(
I love desserts but not in the form of pizza...cookie crust with fruit or other sweet toppings is fine but please don't put sweet items on regular pizza dough crust!
JEP at 5:44PM on 02/19/08
No pineapple, no tangerines, no fruit period. Except for tomatoes which are technically a fruit. Must have some sort of tomato product.
kathyvegas at 5:53PM on 02/19/08
No:
- onions
- pepperoni
- sausage
- any kind of pork
- garlic cloves
- chicken
- cilantro
- parsley
In scant amounts:
- bell peppers
- green olives
Waitaminute, I don't even like pizza. o.O I don't mind pizzas that aren't "real" pizzas, like California Pizza Kitchen pizzas. I'll order a lot of their pizzas, just w/o the above-mentioned stuff. =) So their mushroom pizza is pretty good and so is there tomato-basil.
I like squid and octopus on my pizza with mayonnaise. To my husband's dismay, I usually pick them off to eat them, leaving the pizza behind.
Cassaendra at 7:07PM on 02/19/08
Oh yeah, I don't care for pineapple and mangos unless it's fresh-picked from the ground/tree. Since I can't get those at the moment, none of those either. :P
Cassaendra at 7:12PM on 02/19/08
Nothing but fresh tomatoes, basil and cheese.
almondjoy at 8:34PM on 02/19/08
seafood, ham, chicken, and other random hunks of meat. i do love sausage and the like, and i don't mind pepperoni.
pineapple, other random sweet things like BBQ or teriyaki sauce
any sauce other than tomato or pesto
stumbler02 at 11:40PM on 02/19/08
Pepperoni, though incredibly popular, is disgusting in my book. So is fruit, I've seen dried fruit on pizza- which is disturbing to me. Pineapple has no place on pizza as far as I'm concerned.
PumpkinBear at 3:34AM on 02/20/08
Ahhh...Japanese pizza! Such a curiosity...they also throw things like shrimp, octopus and squid onto pizza.
An acquired taste, I'm sure. Pizza is so much more expensive there than the local specialties, so there was never any actual incentive (besides maybe morbid curiosity) to try Japanese-style pizza.
I actually like pineapple on my pizza! Somehow it compliments the sauce so well...
I really dislike pepperoni and sausage though. I'll eat it, I suppose, if theres no alternative, but a lot of the time the meat is too fatty and oily or rubbery.
fuuchan at 4:10PM on 02/20/08
I am definitely not a purist. I will eat just about every pizza. I am the one who loves a good slice of NY, but then I am just as happy to stuff myself with a Chicago style loaded with everything in the kitchen. Then Mario at Mary Angelas in Carytown, in Richmond, VA made a special Sicilian style pizza with hot peppers, some cheese (not mozz) that was specific to this pizza, and anchovies. WOW. And I've had my fair share of chain and nonchain pizzas with everything on it and weird combinations because my pizza companions had set ideas about pizza toppings. ahem.
However, I have not tried tuna pizza or the Japanese pizza. So, it is possible that I just have not met the pizza I don't like. I would like to try them though.
I do not like cold pizza. I do not eat cold pizza. Didn't even do it in college. Don't understand how anyone can stomach it. Pizza should be consumed immediately after cooking. Not 24 hours later straight from the fridge. Ugh. Everytime I see it in a movie or on TV, I shudder.
wookie at 4:37PM on 02/20/08
I don't care for pineapple on pizza. Love it, just not on pizza.
Also don't care for:
Barbecue sauce
Imitation cheese food products
Anchovies
Beef "topping"
Pork "topping" - want the real stuff - not anything named "topping"
I love white pizzas!
SayWhat at 5:30PM on 02/20/08
Raw onions. Don't put them on anything, please!
CookiePie at 6:11PM on 02/20/08
JEP, we differ! While I do dislike onions (of course!) I LOVE olives and pineapple! I'll also do mushrooms or pepperoni but those 4 are the only considerations, ever!
I hate spinach, green pepper, onions or sausage on my pizza. Hate hate hate them!
Hillary
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Chew on That at 4:20PM on 02/22/08
NO:
I do experiment with pizzas in my own home, with other sauce/topping variants, but eating out, it's probably the cheese or sausage pies I go after.
p.s. Yay! I found bullet points LOL
deepitbhatia at 8:52PM on 02/24/08