Rater's Ridiculously Rambunctious Random Ranter #229

[Bartmanhomer]

Would you eat peanut butter and clam pizza? No tomato sauce, no cheese. Just peanut butter and clams. Because that exists, but I don't think most people would eat it or even consider it pizza in the first place.

What most people think of as pizza is, essentially, a variation of pizza marrianara which started life as a savory sauce made from crushed tomatoes covered with mozzarella cheese and parsley. This is also from where "marinara sauce" comes from, as it's a refinement of the original pizza sauce. Tomatoes parsley, garlic, onion, sometimes peppers.

The product is, by default, savory and spicy. Not sweet, the way a raw tomato would be. This isn't my opinion, if your marinara sauce is sweet, you have made a mistake in making it. If you are using something other than marinara sauce or similar, you are not making what most people think of when they think of pizza.

Marinara, and thus, pizza, is not something like say, Barbecue sauce which comes in a dozen different varieties and can taste like anything. There's a consensus on what a red sauce, and thus marinara, and thus what pizza, is supposed to be like.

Pineapple runs counter to that... If you like it, fine... But I can't understand why, because in terms of culinary science the pineapple clashes with both the sauce and the cheese. You expect certain things when you eat a Pizza and Pineapple runs counter to those things.

And, again, the thought of mixing those flavors makes me nauseous. I am not allergic to any of the ingredients, there is nothing about the individual ingredients that makes me sick, but the mixing of those flavors causes a physical reaction of sickness. I can only conclude that there's something wrong about it that either the people who like it ignore or have trained themselves to like.

Re: Bugs.

"Bug" is a category that covers most arthropods as well as several other varieties of invertebrates: A lobster is, in terms of genetics, evolutionary history, and cladistics closer to a spider or roach than it is to anything that most human beings would willingly eat. It has a hard shell, it looks like an alien, and it has the wrong number of legs. Ergo, it's a bug.

The only reason Lobster has considered a delicacy is because once we had trains able to haul lobster to the midwest before they died, fishermen on the coast would sell it to rubes in the midwest by saying it was a delicacy. People only like it because it's expensive. Before that, a net full of lobster was considered a day of fishing wasted and it was legally considered cruel and unusual punishment to make prisoners eat lobster more than three times a week.

People have different tastes for different foods. If people like pineapple pizza, then that's great. If people don't like pineapple pizza then that's also great. People can eat whatever they want so I don't understand where'sour complain about different tastes of food coming from?