Is it chili without beans? Chili is called chili because it’s made from chili beans. (NOTE: This is not true.) Chili contains beans, chunks of meat, peppers, onions, spices, and the goop that holds it all together. I always thought of it as the aether of chili. Removing the beans makes it a bolognese or a stew or a Manwich. Beanless chili is pretty much just meat soup. No beans? No chili.
Is a hot dog a sandwich? No. Just because two objects are made of the same materials doesn’t necessarily place them in the same category. Some walls, a roof, and drywall makes a house, but it also makes a dentist’s office. Both would fit under an overarching category of “structure,” but to call them equivalent at a parallel relationship is a taxonomical error. Just because two foodstuffs are made of starch-wrapped-around-meat doesn’t make them the same. Tacos aren’t sandwiches, and neither are calzones.
New York v. Chicago pizza. False binary. Chicago-style pizza is, in fact, not pizza. It is a casserole about which a city lies. Everyone outside the Greater Chicagoland Area knows that whatever the fuck this monster mash of a tomato nightmare that’s been placed in front of them is, it’s not pizza. Can you fold it over and eat it with your hands? No? Then it is not pizza. (And, yes, of course: you can technically fold anything over and eat it with your hands, but I’m talking about civilized humans. We are not CHUDs, people; let’s not behave like them.)
Pineapple on pizza? I can’t answer this. I’ve never had a bite of pineapple in my life. My father used to drink pineapple juice in the mornings. Tiny cans that he would set upside-down in the glass tumbler and it would glugglugglug out. The smell would hit me over my Rice Krispies. Sweetly pale and on-the-verge of rot. Like a different, better fruit had gone sour. And my father would turn to me every morning and say,
“Klaatu barada nikto.”
And I’d answer,
“This entire narrative is shoddy and poorly written.”
And then my dad would say,
“KLAATU BARADA NIKTO, YOU DISAPPOINTING MOTHERFUCKER!”
And then he would beat me using my brother as a cudgel.
Stop writing.
Okay.
[NOTE: With thanks to Mr. Completely for the idea.]
Because of it’s high water content, pineapple is generally a negative on pizza. All the water leaves the pizza undercooked. Same with big slabs of mealy tomatoes. BUT…when pineapple is well-cooked with both jalapenos and sausage, it’s truly the best pizza combo. This is a prove-able fact…it’s science (sweet, spicy, savory).
Not that you’ll ever try it after what you’ve been through.
Some friends and I would order an anchovy, pineapple and jalapeno pizza every week after dart night. It started as a drunken lark but we quickly decided we loved it. The place thought we were pulling a prank at first but we became regulars for a semester.
I don’t get why people from New York hate Chicago style pizza; it’s great. I wouldn’t get pineapple on it, though.
🙂 I will not mention some of the food combos that have been eaten while on the road, and, deemed delicious! 🙂
Can we talk about Klaatu the band now?
Pride of Canada ? , one really good album, California Jam.. great song. Great album cover art.
i’m on board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsK2SIDLgyM
Since ToTD is recklessly discussing race, perhaps we can lure him to klaatu with this..
“I wonder what it would be like, to be the octamaroon that was first on the moon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAvrbzqgJTI
Geeze Klaatu really went downhill after first album..
So it goes
There is a science to the hot dog question
https://flowingdata.com/2017/05/02/sandwich-alignment-chart
Actually I’m completely sure that I just read maybe a month or two ago an obituary of the guy who invented pineapple on pizza, I mean ham and pineapple is one of the top pizzas of all time.y
And with a minute of research, here it is ..Sam panopoulos
http://www.cbc.ca/news/hawaiian-pizza-sam-panopoulos-1.4155044