SC - OT-OOP but I gotta RANT!!!

[Laura C. Minnick]

"James F. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> "Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> 
> > Hmm... where are you? Here in Oregon, they put all sorts of things on
> > pizza. I've had goat cheese, artichoke hearts, capers, smoked chicken,
> > barbequed chicken as well as the 'usual' things (though I know 'some'
> > people who think pineapple on pizza is 'weird', which mystifies me
> > because I've eaten it that way since I can remember).
> 
> That's because you've been weird for as long as you can remember...:)

Not. I'm just 'cuisinarily different'.

See what I put up with, folks? (but he's worth it...;-)

> My favourite pizza has always been just bread, olive oil, some herbs,
> maybe a little Parmesan cheese or garlic.

This is popularly known as a 'foccachia'. They're yummy.
 
> I've seen 'taco' pizzas,

An abomination! Oh, that the world should be delivered!

> 'cheeseburger' pizzas (wasn't Trimaris,
> either),

Beef, cheese. Not _that_ far off...

> 'teriyaki'
> pizzas, pizzas with shrimp and crab,

I'll do the shrimp, but Teriyaki tastes weird with the tomato sauce.

> that aforementioned bizzarness
> called 'Hawaiian' pizza. 

Not even Hawaiian- at least when I lived in Hawaii I never saw one. I
think they were invented at Shakey's (which went bye-bye years ago. :-(

>I think I even saw a 'Reuben' pizza once on a
> menu. People are strange.

You certainly are, sweetie.

Are pizzas the cuskynoles of the modern restaurant? They all seem to be
different- and there's even different methods of cutting them... and
everyone claims to be canonical and 'original'.

'Lainie