One I’ve tried is cucumber with tomato sauce. It didn’t taste so bad.
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
Try pepperoni and black olives, that’s also pretty good.
IMO that’s pretty normal, maybe even classic!
Also, how are black olives so bad and other olives so good? I’ve never understood it. Kalamata olives would be so much tastier.
That’s a matter of preference - off pizza i prefer green ones!
Also, for this, strangely enough it works better with the sliced ones than the whole ones. They’re a bit saltier. Like me 😋
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.
You sir, are an absolute barbarian!
Call me Red Sonja then.
Red Sonja, destroyer of pallets, ruler of strange food combinations, punisher of pizza culture on a global scale. All hail thee! :-)
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
Swedish people have made it a science to have wierd pizza toppings. One example is the banan pizza 🙃
Needs to be curry and banana.
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!
It’s always the Swedish. Gotta have some neighbour love for them but still.
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. :)
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.
There’s no gluten in sauerkraut is there? You should be good to go now with the proliferation of gf crusts!
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.
I once had a pizza with duck on, and orange sauce instead of tomato sauce. It was actually rather good, iirc!
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
Pineapple and anchovy. Sweet + salty. It’s a beautiful combo.
You mean like left beef none pizza, OP?
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.
Not exactly weird, but prosciutto and ricotta with hot honey
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.
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.
I’ve had (sweet) potato work on a pizza before, the pieces need to be pretty thin to cook properly. The octopus was overcooked on that one and the potato were large chunks and undercooked.
Jesus fucking Christ, I’m Italian and when I was in Korea we tried a couple of pizzas (it’s always fun to see how foreign countries make it) and they were all so damn sweet. Turns out they put sweet potatoes everywhere.
Potatoes and octopus doesn’t sound bad tho! I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it but I sure would try it (if they’re well clocked that is)
I really appreciate an Italian who isn’t prescious over pizza! Of course, traditional Italian pizzas are great, but that doesn’t mean alternatives can’t be awesome too!
IMO, so long as the toppings go well with the sauce (eg a fajita pizza should have a spicier sauce) then you can make something great.
Yeah man, we Italians are unbearable when someone from other countries DARES to even THINK about modifying the holy recipe. And I kind of get it. I, too, cringe when I see people putting ketchup on their pasta or shit like that, but I eat sushi with Philadelphia cream cheese in it so what right do I have to criticize ketchup on some pasta or pineapple on a pizza (which is actually freaking good when done well)?
At the end of the day, the cool thing about cousine is how it changes and evolves around the world and through the years. Jesus, most of the recipes we consider “traditional” didn’t even exist one or two centuries ago (some of which were invented, at least in part, by american soldiers in italy during WW2, and generally come from external influences).
We Italians are a bunch of snobby conservatives when it comes to eating. Well, we are a bunch of conservatives when it comes to anything, but that’s another story.
P.S. This whole concept of topping and sauce is completely alien to me, here we have “white” (with no sauce) and “red” (with tomato sauce) pizzas, and put a bunch of stuff on it
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.
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.
