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Either Fried Green Tomatoes or a chutney. If they are not very flavorful than the chutney would be excellent because there are lots of spices added. A hot sauce would be a good use too.

The weirdest topping I've had is probably Ranch Chicken or Baked Ziti. I've also had Buffalo Chicken on top, which is so good if it is really spicy.

I'm ok with pepperoni. The best combination of meats is pepperoni, sausage and bacon - I had that combination at a birthday party and it was excellent.

I agree that the most wonderful thin-crusted pizza with the best cheese and sauce is perfect the way it is. Really good pizza doesn't need anything but sometimes a few toppings makes it more interesting.

You can't live by plain pizza alone!

I do similar things. When I'm on vacation, I buy either restaurant t's OR coffee house t's. I have Joe's Crab Shack and a t from this coffee place in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. I almost bought one from a coffee place in Nags Head this past summer but never got back to the place to get it. I also regret not getting a T from Awful Arthur's in the Outer Banks. So good.

The last rock concert I went to was the Rolling Stones and the t's were so expensive ($35) that we bought one to share between the 2 of us and I bought a cap (which was still over $20).

My mom never made Jell-O Salad or those meatballs with the grape jelly sauce. Never heard of it until I went online.

She also made an avocado dish in the summer that I didn't like until I grew up - she opened a couple of cans of those tiny salad shrimp, made a shrimp salad with it and some celery and mayo and stuffed a half of avocado with it. At that time, I hated mayonnaise and avocados so I never would eat it. Now I would. At the time I thought it was very strange as no one elses' mom made anything like it. She made it just for luncheons she made in the backyard with her friends.

I don't think she made anything else that I considered weird. She did overcook frozen brussel sprouts though. She would start the boiling process around 4 pm every time. Then about every half hour or so she would re-heat them, boil them for a few minutes and then she would turn it off. She was waiting for my dad to come off the bus. BUT he didn't get on that bus until 5:15 every day and it took over an hour with traffic to get to Brooklyn from Manhattan. Why would she start the brussel sprouts at 4:30? I would start them last. Make sure the meat was ready by 6:45, the grain or pasta by 7:00 and start the veg around then. She had 4 burners. What was the problem? Those brussel sprouts were always grey and tasteless. I would feed them to the dog! Now I make fresh brussel sprouts, I roast them OR I parboil and then dry them off and pan-fry them until crispy. They are wonderful but i hated brussel sprouts all my life until I found that you could roast them. Now I love them. Her fault I hated them for so long.

I have a very picky kid. I guess he got it hereditarily from both my husband and I. We were both very picky as children BUT not now! He sees everything on our table. About 5 years ago, I had had it. I stopped making my son a separate meal (pasta or mac n cheese - yes the blue box) and told him he had to try a bit of everything I made. If he didn't, he would starve. My husband thought I was being too touch but he wasn't the one making 2 different meals every night. He was miserable for many ages until he realized that it is just easier to eat it and not fight about it. Now he looks at his plate and says "you expect me to eat that?" and when I say "Yes, I do" - he says "OK" and he eats some. If he hates it, he leaves the rest. If he likes it, he asks for more. He is now 12. At that age, they start to realize what all their friends are eating and they decide to stop fighting. I was never the one to only give him chicken nuggets. If I did, they were homemade - from scratch.

These days I make my own chicken fingers, if I am going to make them. He has a grain and a veg with almost every meal. He still has a way to go -but he is so much better than he was.

I applaud Tony Bourdain in getting a tiny child to eat stuff like that. My 12 year old still won't eat capers or olives in anything. He will eat bulghur wheat and quinoa though. He'll also eat more veggies than just peas. So we're getting there.

I really think that most parents are just too lazy to put a good from-scratch meal on the table - they fear the looks and the attitude. Not only are they too lazy to change the way the kids eat, they eat the same way. They are all too picky. If they had grown up with parents who cooked everything - all the time - they would try everything. I know lots of parents who barely cook - and expect their kids to eat dinner at 4:30-5 pm every day and all they serve are convenience foods. I would rather die than serve my son that stuff. First off - you are breeding picky children and picky adults and secondly you are making your children fear food. If you show them that you don't like something, they will follow suit.

ham and sauerkraut. Yep.

Whenever I try a new pizza place, I always order "The house special" because I want to see that place's idea of what the ideal pie is.

It is never a plain cheese or pepperoni pie, in my experience.

I almost never order sausage, because I love it and most places use crap.

My favorite place serves a pie with tons of ingredients and I savor every bite for the depth of flavors.

try leftover pizza. i have been making this for years. whatever your favorite pizza. scrape the toppings off, heat, and add to 3 beaten eggs. add cheese on top. the best omelette ever. enjoy

tuna and blue cheese.

Try it, love it.

Green olives and onion. I ate it first at the insistence of a girl I was dating. She's now a distant foggy memory, but her pizza toppings still provoke the occassional craving.