My wife puts Tabasco sauce on her pizza, while I am convinced that an Italian person dies every time she does that. Help us sort this out, please.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Yay. Chili flakes are great, too.

    BTW, the worst pizza I ever had was served in Italy. Absolutely drowned in oil.

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    2 months ago

    Depends if it’s good pizza or not. If you’re talking a sauce heavy Italian/Boston style slice the Tabasco is a travesty… if it’s some shitty NY slice the load that sucker up.

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      2 months ago

      As someone who grew up in the NYC pizza area, but has lived in the Boston area for a few decades, this is incomprehesible to me. While there is some very good pizza to be had in the boston area, it is from very individual places, whose pizzas do not constitute any cohesive boston style (and some of which are NY style).

      What I would call the closest thing to a regional style is the pizza from sub / pizza shops, usually run by greeks and so sometimes called greek pizza, which tends to be cheese heavy (and i’m not sure what the mix is, definitely not just mozerella/parm), and lacking in the sauce department, to my taste.

      I’m sure there is bad NY pizza, but good NY pizza has a tastier sauce, thin crust, and a good cheese balance. And unless things have gone downhill since my last visit (which is certainly possible) even your average NY pizza is pretty decent.

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    2 months ago

    I haven’t been arrested by Italian food cops yet so I’d say it’s fine. Do whatever you want to food that makes it taste good to you because taste is a very subjective thing.

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    2 months ago

    If you wanted pizza to be “italian”, it would have to have no tomatoes, peppers, pepperoni, buffalo milk cheese, basil or a whole bunch of other ingredients that are commonly added to pizza.

    Pizza is a global food, do with it as you will

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    2 months ago

    Tabasco or some other hot sauce in the pizza sauce would be a lot more ideal, but on top is acceptable if that’s what’s available.

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    2 months ago

    You can do whatever you want to food, I wont stop you. Some would keep the gates closed to others; deeming this or that ingredient taboo. These people have never been to Naples, never had to make a frozen cheese pizza more palatable with canned peaches or starve to death. Hypocrites! Let them scoff, and weep at our scrambled egg sriracha breakfast pizza. They will never be happy like we are.

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    2 months ago

    I would prefer Sriracha (shout-out to Underwood Ranch specifically) but to each their own.

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    2 months ago

    I misread it “Tobacco” which was a hard no. Anyone who’s swallowed a wad of chewing tobacco will tell you the same thing.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I think that hot sauce on pizza is awesome and I have been doing it for years. My apologies if I am making their population decline, but I won’t be stopped.

  • psilotop@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I find it very tasty, however, I think hot sauce is adding more moisture to a food that’s already pretty wet. I prefer red pepper flakes to balance this out. But she should do what she wants