After watching this I can no longer enjoy pizza as a food. It really is a shit food for children and when made properly a slice or two is only a lunchtime item comparable to a sandwich.
It's cheese, tomato and toppings on top of a bread base. Is it worth the money I spend on it? Absolutely not. Am I still going to buy and enjoy it regardless? Absolutely.
>>13477 >cheese coloured plastic overload your taste-buds? Does bread excite you?
Yes and yes. The combination of bread, cheese, tomato and meat is more enjoyable to me than any other foodstuffs, even if the ingredients are cheap.
You just sound like you've never eaten anything beyond the Tesco Value range. People don't put kraft singles on their pizza, they use normal cheese, no matter how 'plastic' you think it is. And yes, bread excites me - you're fucking telling me you don't like a nice crusty bread and some butter? Even just toast? You don't like toast? Fuck off.
Can I explain why freshly* baked dough, creamy fatty cheese, and a zing of tomato to cut through it all is delicious? Do I really have to? Can I explain why adding salty, fatty umami meat on top makes it even better?
This entire argument seems to be down to the fact that pizza is quite simple, and that's somehow bad? Do you think Spag bol is shit too, that's only about five ingredients and is mostly just 'plain carbs' in the form of pasta? Do you hate ready salted crisps?
You seem to be completely ignoring the fact that a combination of carbohydrate, basic fat and creaminess from cheese and tang and sweetness from tomato isn't almost a perfect combination of exactly what our hind-brains crave and cause a firework display of dopamine in our brains.
There's plenty of bad pizza out there, but it's still, as the bloke in the video points out, basically just a cheese toastie - why is that bad?
Also, "overloading my tastebuds" isn't a good thing - if you think it is, just go ahead and drink straight vinegar or eat a block of stilton for every single meal. There is nothing wrong with a subtle flavour, not that I think most pizzas are subtle. To expect everything you eat to blow your tongue away seems pretty childish, really.
Ultimately, is there really any other combination of food than cheese, tomato and carbohydrate? It's so simple and yet can do so much, and I don't think anyone in the world genuinely dislikes it.
It's like the diatonic natural major scale of food. Everything else in cooking can be understood in relation to the humble cheese, tomato and carb combo. Pepperoni is the augmented fourth of ingredients.
There's ranting and there's ranting. "I don't understand why people enjoy eating salt, fat and carbohydrates, these foodstuffs that we're biologically programmed to enjoy as they're rarer in nature it's so confusing to me and when I don't understand simple things I get angry" just fuck off already. Pizza's pretty basic and the people who get super into it are just as annoying as people who get similarly super into anything else, get over it.
>>13474 Yeah, pizza is just an open-face sandwich, what are you, a fucking moron? It took some greasy YouTube cunt harping on for you to realise pizza from an Indian takeaway made by a Turkish lad isn't the peak of human culinary achievement? I don't even like pizza that much, it's fine, but this is why I'm annoyed; it's the last thing you need to have a strong opinion about.
While we're on the topic of pizza, Papa John's used to do an amazing Tandoori one where they used madras sauce as a base instead of tomato and drizzled mint raita over it with cheese and tandoori chicken. Tried recreating it myself but it just wasn't the same.
Take one flour tortilla. Spread tomato puree over it. Top with grated or round-sliced mozzarella. Sprinkle some seasoning on top. Bung in the oven for about 6-8 minutes as high as it'll go.
>>13474 >After watching this I can no longer enjoy pizza as a food.
The internet is going to be a dangerous place for you if you're that easily convinced by ranty videos.
This has got me thinking about what delicious atrocities I can commit with a peshwari naan, a splat of jalfrezi, crumbed paneer and some blobs of saag.
