desperance ([info]desperance) wrote,
@ 2009-07-02 18:48:00
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I don't think that word means what you think it means
I just picked up a flyer that came through the door, and the first line I saw read "1st Vegetarian Pizzeria". Which is presumably meant to make us think "Newcastle's first vegetarian pizzeria", which for all I know it might have been, except that the next line I read said "Country Style: ham, chicken, mushrooms".

Closer examination shows that the flyer has meaty pizzas on one side and sans-meat pizzas on the other. But I still don't think it can claim to be in the least vegetarian, when they both come from the same kitchen; separating them on the flyer is not sufficient. Besides which, the "vegetarian" side of the flyer adds "Free Chicken Wings with orders over £14.50", which would seem a little self-defeating.

Also, who out there wants to eat cauliflower on a pizza...?

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[info]mrissa
2009-07-02 06:04 pm UTC (link)
I contest the idea that anything with cauliflower on it may properly count as pizza at all. Flat bread food, all right. Pizza, no.

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[info]timill
2009-07-02 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Next you'll be objecting to hoi sin duck pizza...

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[info]bellinghman
2009-07-02 09:38 pm UTC (link)
Or donner kebab pizza (a variety that's been found in more than one Cambridge outlet).

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[info]timill
2009-07-02 10:00 pm UTC (link)
I'll pass on that...

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[info]mrissa
2009-07-02 09:51 pm UTC (link)
I don't object to it. I merely do not classify it as pizza.

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[info]triciasullivan
2009-07-02 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Cauliflower on pizza? That can't be legal.

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[info]rhionnach
2009-07-02 06:16 pm UTC (link)
I remember that American fans at Worldcon in Glasgow in 2005 were very bemused by the concept of sweetcorn on a pizza.

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[info]rysmiel
2009-07-02 06:33 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I'd be interested to give that a shot. Like black pudding, artichoke hearts, eel, sliced boiled new potatoes, beetroot and (I am assured by those who like it) sliced hard-boiled egg, it's one of those things that's not obviously pizza topping material but that works unexpectedly well when used as such.

Edited at 2009-07-02 06:33 pm UTC

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[info]jeremy_m
2009-07-02 06:57 pm UTC (link)
My boss once started to order working-late-pizza and, on hearing I'm veggie, asked for Turnip Pizza, assuming that would be the only option. Fortunately it wasn't.

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[info]la_marquise_de_
2009-07-02 08:03 pm UTC (link)
I'd be willing to try cauliflower on pizza. But then, I am very very fond of pizza.

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[info]martyn44
2009-07-02 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Quite frankly, I'm glad they don't deliver this far out. Cauliflower pizza? Get thee behind me . . . someone or other.

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[info]moral_vacuum
2009-07-02 10:15 pm UTC (link)
who out there wants to eat cauliflower on a pizza...?

One of your Cats of Strangeness.

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[info]handworn
2009-07-02 11:38 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps if they kept kosher, using separate utensils and perhaps even separate sections of the kitchen, meating and non-meating...but then again there'd be that secondhand meat aroma wafting around, wouldn't there?

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[info]shewhomust
2009-07-03 09:58 am UTC (link)
Cauliflower with anything involving melted cheese is fine by me. And since 'pizza' presumably means no more than pie, I don't see problems of authenticity.

But I won't eat ham and pineapple pizza - that's just wrong.

*departs in search of puffin pizza*

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