Pepperoni and green olives.

I do mine Combo

There's a place near here that offers pesto as a topping, get that with all the veggie toppings except onions. Love eggplant, too!

then topped with sweet peppers and sun dried tomatoes..yum!

though you wouldn't believe what some places try to pass off as sweet Italian sausage these days.


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Pepperoni, mushrooms, onions & black olives.

Great. Now I want pizza.

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I believe they boasted that their large pie w/everything had over 4 pounds of toppings --
which included virtually EVERYTHING that you could think of in that era that might go
on any usual pizza to include popcorn shrimp and pineapple and, 3 minutes or so before
it was done, they would pull your pie from the oven and cover it with thinly-sliced fresh
tomatoes. Inexpensive, too.
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Pitchers of beer.
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Spanky & Our Gang movies projected on several walls and, on the weekends, a live
ragtime piano player would come in for FUN sing-alongs.
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The ex-MsMFM and I and another young married couple would go out for this just about
every other weekend -- GREAT inexpensive fun night out.
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Tucson used to have a coupla Shakey's here and when I heard that, I got pretty
nostalgically excited, only to have my hopes dashed with the news that they had left
town shortly before I arrived here.
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in Orange County, California... but I can't remember what the pizza was like.

Didn't the employees wear straw hats?

One of my older brothers played for their baseball team! Great memory of my brother occasionally taking me along for pizza after a game. Thanks for the reminder.

that comes close to theirs.

I could go on.

That would be great.

Salty fishies are good on pizza.

I always get everything & add anchovies

I can't stand tomato sauce.

a few dead veggies too

put it on a fermented glutinous flat circular starch disk while you are at it

I love that. Some places make it great, some not so much.

They're real big in the NYC area and I can only get them elsewhere by places that make "real" pizza.

Most pizza places in NYC offer anchovies as a topping. My choice is a half anchovy/half pepperoni pie.

However, I'm also quite partial to onions, tomatoes, and garlic. I'm just against the non-pizza toppings that some people will put on pizza. I dislike mushrooms, but at least they're a real pizza topping.

My middle daughter likes pineapple and portobella chunks. We don't do meat, so pineapple and bacon (Hawaiin) is out. But as for OTHER "non-pizza toppings", have you ever tried spinach and artichoke hearts? That's particularly good on a white pizza, and yes, regular alfredo sauce works as a base if you toss in some freshly ground parmisan. How about english muffin pizzas made with BBQ sauce and cheddar cheese? Then there are the quick and easy (build your own) tortilla pizzas. And a roasted garlic and broccoli pizza is pure heaven, especially with Tabasco.

Speaking of Tabasco...

As you know, pineapple and bacon are not pizza toppings, no matter how many people eat them. There are enough emergency room x-rays floating around for you to know very well that people sometimes use things in the wrong way; just because someone else did it doesn't make it ok. HOWEVER, who ever gave you the idea that spinach and artichoke hearts aren't pizza toppings? I think they're both classic. I've also heard the term "white pizza" to mean just an olive oil or oil-based sauce base. I don't know if alfredo sauce counts or not; I'll have to talk to the other board members about that.

These other things you mention are simply no more related to pizza than is sweet and sour chicken or a roasted goat. I don't know what you're doing there. (except for roasted garlic and broccoli, which is fine)

Clearly, SHE knows pizza.

I have ever had on a pizza were marinated in Garlic butter.

If you're not from Texas, Shiner is what most beers want to be when they grow up.

(Oh, hope you don't mind if I peel off the pepperonis and feed 'em to your dog.)

Plus several different kinds of cheese and lots of it.

the cheese, and nobody gets hurt...

I forget what it was called, but a brick oven pizza joint (Bertucci's I think, might have been Uno's) had one on the menu. Anyway, I planned a special evening out with my wife. I rented a limo and we took it two hours into Boston (and the ride back was seriously fun). Anyway, I'd pre-arranged the seating and meal at this pizza place and had them make one in a heart shape with the ricotta all in the center, also in a heart, and black olive slices around the perimeter. She melted. It went really well with the bottle of merlot I ordered. One of the best damn pizzas I've ever had, and I've made similar here at home, but we don't have a brick oven.

As for Boston, I didn't know the clubs so I asked the driver for a suggestion. We ended up in a place with what might have been a Hungarian gypsy band. They had beer, so we were cool. They also had a huge dance floor that NOBODY was using. Note: I was in a 3-piece suit and she had on a pink and white low-cut strapless sundress that flared out at the bottom and the white size 3 pumps she wore for our wedding. We danced all night and in the appropriate gypsy style. It occurred to us later that a lot of the compliments we got were probably because they thought we were PAID dancers. We still laugh about that. But hey, we were drunk, full of pizza, and love to dance whenever and wherever.

I like almost anything on it.

If you listen closely, peppers in particular, you can hear them scream as the knife punctures the flesh. Sadistic you say? Sadistic? Well, okay, sure. It's still fun.

Srsly. Spam is so popular in Hawai'i that at least one pizza joint out by Pearl Harbor offers it as a topping! Never tried it, though.

Also, the so-called "Hawaiian" pizza is considerably more popular in CA than it is on the sacred 'aina.

... you have no spinach, no onions, no green pepper, no artichoke hearts, no green olives, no garlic, etc.


There's a world of pizza toppings you still need to try. Get started!

I don't do dead animal anymore.

except me. Ewww they say. But I'm chipping in - so, they agree we can get one with sausage.

And when the pizza arrives, guess which one everyone eats first?

That's right. Everybody wants it, but will never admit it.

That's the sort of thing the people who eat my sausage pizza order say.

And they're not fooling me by slipping it under that slice of mushroom and toenail fungus pizza on their plate.

Nice fennelly Italian sausage.

25 years ago, I got some purple Thai peppers and made chili. Even I couldn't eat it, but I did anyway.

A couple of days ago my wife picked some of our own peppers. I grabbed a paper lantern habanero and ate the whole thing. On the plus side, it did clear out my sinuses and cure my indigestion, but it also turned my face bright red and required about six glasses of water to ease the pain. DAMN that fucker was hot!

I do like extra cheese and crushed pepper flakes.

They're quick, easy, and satisfying. And yes, Tabasco DOES stick to pizza. It's my favorite topping.

On a side note, I was at a bar where some guy was having his 21st birthday party. They were putting one or two drops of Tabasco in tequila and acting like it was hot. I intervened and said if they bought me a shot, they could put as much Tabasco in it as they wanted. Then I left for the bathroom. I looked back and saw the evil grin as they loaded it up.

When I got back, there was about an 8th of an inch of Tabasco in the bottom. I tossed it back and said, "thank you." They all looked stunned. I grew up eating stuff covered in hot sauce.

What kind of tobasco did you use?

I usually get the all-meat when I go get pizza. Pepperoni, sausage, ham, sometimes bacon or a couple others. I like meat.

Best topping ever!

that's it. Yummmmmmm edit to add cheese.

Pizza is merely a holder for mushrooms - It's pointless to eat it with any thing else, or eat it plain

I often ordered the pizza for a large group of hungry people who had been working and drinking beer all Saturday, and ordered more mushroom than anything else. Other people would say "no! everyone likes plain! or pepperoni!" but I never listened, and I'd order 4 mushroom, 2 veggie, 2 plain, and 2 pepperoni, and there would always be some plain left over.

If I do have pizza, it's because someone else has ordered it and there's nothing else to eat.

Curiously, the purple asparagus turns green when cooked, but if you just blanch it and put it on pizza it stays purple. Go figure.