Pineapple on Pizza

Auspice

@auspice Papa Johns had promotions for whenever the Redskins won a game, so one Monday when I was hungry af, I decided to put in an order. Ended up the promotion was 8 toppings but alas, Papa Johns only allowed a max of two of each topping. So I had 2x bacon, 2x pepperoni, 2x ham, 2x sausage. It was a real dumb pizza lol.

Sometimes you just need a meatitarian pizza.

Doozer

@rucket how didn't that pizza survive under all those toppings?

I don't eat papa Johns. Makes me sick.

surreality

I have the same problem re: Papa John's. Though it isn't so much them, as that one location. They must store their boxes with cleaning supplies, because so help me gods, if you open a box, you don't smell pizza, you smell chemicals and pine sol strong enough to drop you. Instant nausea. I can't even be near one of the boxes without choking, it's so bad.

Other locations I've not had this issue... but they won't let you order from anything BUT your closest location online, or you couldn't last I checked. We try every couple of years since they have some stuff we liked (like the spinach-chicken-bacon alfredo pizza, mmmmmmm), but keep running into the same problem every time.

If we're out of town? Awesome. If we're where we live? FML, and fuck you, Papa John's.

We also send a collective GrumpyCat face at Pizza Hut for getting rid of some of their crust options. I liked the pretzel one.

Rucket

@shincashay said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@rucket how didn't that pizza survive under all those toppings?

I don't eat papa Johns. Makes me sick.

It barely managed. Barely. It was a real mess, haha.

@surreality Pretzel crust is the shit. That's disappointing that Pizza Hut got rid of it.

TiredEwok

I rather enjoy pineapple and pepperoni on my pizza. I enjoy the sweet-salty-savory-spicy combination.

RnMissionRun

@ganymede said in Pineapple on Pizza:

But Papa John's? Fuck Papa John's.

Heresy!

Cupcake

Papa John's is delicious, but Papa John himself can suck a bag of dicks.

If you've ever been in Seattle, you know Pagliacci's is the way to go.

Pepperoni + Pineapple = BEST.

Sparks

@cupcake said in Pineapple on Pizza:

If you've ever been in Seattle, you know Pagliacci's is the way to go.

Pepperoni + Pineapple = BEST.

Co-signed.

Sonder

Pineapple on pizza is amazing.

Seraphim73

@cupcake Mmmmm... Pagliacci's.

RnMissionRun

All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.

Auspice

@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:

All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.

Send it my way.

RnMissionRun

@auspice said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:

All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.

Send it my way.

You probably wouldn't like. The toppings are BBQ sauce, bacon, beef, canadian bacon, onions and jalapenos.

Auspice

@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@auspice said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:

All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.

Send it my way.

You probably wouldn't like. The toppings are BBQ sauce, bacon, beef, canadian bacon, onions and jalapenos.

That actually sounds fantastic!

ThatGuyThere

You mean there are people that actually like chain pizza? I get preferring one as a cheap lazy option when good pizza would be too much effort or expense but liking it.... who knew?

Auspice

@thatguythere said in Pineapple on Pizza:

You mean there are people that actually like chain pizza? I get preferring one as a cheap lazy option when good pizza would be too much effort or expense but liking it.... who knew?

I think once you've lived in enough areas where there aren't non-chain options / aren't non-chain options that deliver / aren't non-chain options that aren't wildly expensive... you end up liking them.

I've lived where it was either:

Only chain options.
Only chain options or 'order and drive 20+ minutes before 8pm to pick it up'
Only chain options or pay $30+ for a medium pizza.

And when you're generally poor and/or work 2nd shift? Yeah. You go for the chain places.

ThatGuyThere

@auspice
Wow I grew up in a town of 5k but we had a mom and pop pizza place that also had the arcade version of golden axe in their game room. Heck the city I live in now is only 125K and it has plenty of non chain options that are decent and not significantly more expensive, most don't deliver though so I will admit when I am too lazy I go out i chain it, but I couldn't honestly claim to like it besides in the Pizza is like sex way. (Even when it is bad, it is still pretty good.)

Wretched

This whole thread is an abomination.

WildBaboons

Just because a local place has a pizza oven doesn't mean their stuff is any good.

Aria

I am a pineapple on pizza person, but that pizza must have some sort of salty pork product on it, and preferably also chicken and barbecue sauce.

My default option at most places is pepperoni, sausage, and mushroom -- usually a safe selection, even at places that are 'meh'.

But the pizza of my dreams? The pizza that I yearn for? When I went to IU Bloomington, there was a local pizza place called Aver's that specialized in gourmet pizzas. We're talking, like, "these people have won national awards" level gourmet pizza. And they had one named the Cream and Crimson, which were our school's colors. They delivered it to our house by accident one night, as someone else in our complex apparently had ordered that plus one of the two pies we'd gotten and the driver accidentally swapped the two. By the time we figured out what happened and called the shop? They told us they were already sending out replacements to both places and to just eat it. So we did. And it was amazing.

I present, from their website:

"Cream & Crimson - Alfredo sauce and cheese are blanketed with a layer of oven-roasted red potato seasoned with fresh garlic and dill. Topped off with bacon, cheddar and creamy gorgonzola cheese."

http://averspizza.com/

If you are ever in the Bloomington, IN area? I highly recommend ordering from them. Highly. I haven't lived there in almost 13 years and I still miss their food.