What the Fark???

[Kepler]

Re: What the Fark???

I'll rephrase, your honor: If you ask for anything sweet on a pizza (instead of savory), you deserve the berries.

I think pineapple actually counts as a sweet, but to be honest there are foods where that line gets really fuzzy (what are glazed vegetables or sweet corn?)

[JF_Gophers]

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I blame being bored at work for being pedantic on the internet.

[bigblue_dl]

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Hawaiian pizza is great stuff.

[JF_Gophers]

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I prefer pepperoni and pineapple over the use of ham or Canadian bacon.

[St. Clown]

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isn't tomato a fruit?

Any time you're eating the reproductive organs of the plant it's a fruit. Any time you're eating the stalk, leaf or root you're eating a vegetable.

I prefer pepperoni and pineapple over the use of ham or Canadian bacon.

You know what Canadians call Canadian bacon? Ham.

[FreshFish]

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I'm not sure what thread this nuggest belongs in...

I was walking in midtown Manhattan yesterday in one of the concrete canyons at 5th Avenue and 48th street and saw a grasshopper.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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isn't tomato a fruit?

Yes, and it doesn't belong on a pizza.

Non-seafood meat and cheese are the only things that should top a pizza.

[French Rage]

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I'll rephrase, your honor: If you ask for anything sweet on a pizza (instead of savory), you deserve the berries.

Edit: Next time I am in Palo Alto, let me know where to try to find this abomination "well done" and I am willing to try it one more time.

He's lying. There's no good Hawaiian pizza up here. Because there is no good Hawaiian pizza anywhere. But all the native Californians think so, and he gave in to them. I, however, continue to stand for what I know to be true. :P

[bigblue_dl]

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I like all kinds of pizza. Disliking some of it just seems like I'm not living a full life.

[RaceBoarder]

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I like all kinds of pizza. Disliking some of it just seems like I'm not living a full life.

I'm the same way... I love the reaction I get when I bring up getting a "veggie" pizza without any meat... Pizza is a food where it's fully customizable to what you like... Run with that however you want to....

[FreshFish]

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I like all kinds of pizza. Disliking some of it just seems like I'm not living a full life.

To me, there is a large category of "meh" ingredients that I neither like nor dislike. I can understand how others might like them. While i don't "like" them, I don't really "dislike" them either.

Like chicken. Some people like it, I'd never request it, but I wouldn't refuse it either. While I like anchovies, I can easily understand why someone else would not, and so I rarely request them either.


Once, someone offered me a slice of broccoli, walnut, and black olive pizza. Given the setting (ahem. ) I acted as if I'd be interested in trying it. To my surprise, that particular pizza actually was pretty good, although in retrospect there was sauce and seasoning and cheese selection that complemented those flavors as well. I've tried that combination again and it wasn't nearly as good (in fact, it tasted just about as good as it sounds.)

Sometimes I like sausage, sometimes I don't. It really depends upon the quality of the sausage. Bad sausage is awful. Most of the time, if I'm ordering pizza, I'll include pepperoni but I'll exclude sausage -- too risky unless I've had their sausage pizza safely before. On the other hand, nowadays I make pizza far more often than I buy it, and so we'll have sausage pizza every time, since I know I'm buying the good stuff.

At some point, it's hard for me to resist an aside to someone who says a fruit like tomato doesn't belong on his pizza, me, I like marinara sauce. It's really fun when I use garden-grown tomatoes, cayenne pepper, green pepper and oregano in making the sauce (along with garlic, black pepper, and onions). We have a deep dish pizza tray and sometimes if the spouse is away I can even have pepperoni!

We used to have a local place that made a great white pizza with spinach. Another surprise combination from someone else that I'd never have thought of but really enjoyed. It's gone now though. Ordering the same pizza from a different place, again, it's "meh" because there was something special about the way the first place made it that no one else seems to replicate.

[bigblue_dl]

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To me, there is a large category of "meh" ingredients that I neither like nor dislike. I can understand how others might like them. While i don't "like" them, I don't really "dislike" them either.

Like chicken. Some people like it, I'd never request it, but I wouldn't refuse it either. While I like anchovies, I can easily understand why someone else would not, and so I rarely request them either.


Once, someone offered me a slice of broccoli, walnut, and black olive pizza. Given the setting (ahem. ) I acted as if I'd be interested in trying it. To my surprise, that particular pizza actually was pretty good, although in retrospect there was sauce and seasoning and cheese selection that complemented those flavors as well. I've tried that combination again and it wasn't nearly as good (in fact, it tasted just about as good as it sounds.)

Sometimes I like sausage, sometimes I don't. It really depends upon the quality of the sausage. Bad sausage is awful. Most of the time, if I'm ordering pizza, I'll include pepperoni but I'll exclude sausage -- too risky unless I've had their sausage pizza safely before. On the other hand, nowadays I make pizza far more often than I buy it, and so we'll have sausage pizza every time, since I know I'm buying the good stuff.

At some point, it's hard for me to resist an aside to someone who says a fruit like tomato doesn't belong on his pizza, me, I like marinara sauce. It's really fun when I use garden-grown tomatoes, cayenne pepper, green pepper and oregano in making the sauce (along with garlic, black pepper, and onions). We have a deep dish pizza tray and sometimes if the spouse is away I can even have pepperoni!

We used to have a local place that made a great white pizza with spinach. Another surprise combination from someone else that I'd never have thought of but really enjoyed. It's gone now though. Ordering the same pizza from a different place, again, it's "meh" because there was something special about the way the first place made it that no one else seems to replicate.

One of my all time favorite pizzas is the Lobster pizza at, of all places, a little bar in Houghton. About as far from lobster as you can imagine, but there is just something good about that pizza that I love, and I would have never thought I would have liked it until someone else ordered it and told me to try a piece.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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One of my all time favorite pizzas is the Lobster pizza at, of all places, a little bar in Houghton. About as far from lobster as you can imagine, but there is just something good about that pizza that I love, and I would have never thought I would have liked it until someone else ordered it and told me to try a piece.

IIRC, it's white colby, lobster, tomatoes, parsley, and garlic olive oil, served with lemon on the side.

[FreshFish]

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So today is the big vote in Scotland about independence from Great Britain.

Two W - T - F elements:

1) How did they come up with a 50% threshhold for the vote? for a matter this important, the typical standard is more like a 2/3 majority. if 50.01% vote 'yes' and 49.99% vote 'no' that is not a very strong gauge of sentiment one way or the other.


2) I saw a news report about the Shetland Islands, which is currently part of Scotland. The story said that if the Scotland vote succeeds, the Shetland Islands would then petition to have a vote to make them independent of Scotland.

[St. Clown]

Re: What the Fark???

So today is the big vote in Scotland about independence from Great Britain.

Two W - T - F elements:

1) How did they come up with a 50% threshhold for the vote? for a matter this important, the typical standard is more like a 2/3 majority. if 50.01% vote 'yes' and 49.99% vote 'no' that is not a very strong gauge of sentiment one way or the other.


2) I saw a news report about the Shetland Islands, which is currently part of Scotland. The story said that if the Scotland vote succeeds, the Shetland Islands would then petition to have a vote to make them independent of Scotland.

In purely democratic systems, I'm not so certain that super-majorities are really all that common a requirement for anything.