Pizza Poll V and the take out order of the Phoenix

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Sorry, hate to be stuck in the past, but did someone two or three pages ago really call rum and raisin the best ice cream flavour? The ####?

That was me. I said it’s ONE of the best ice cream flavours. Meet me in the playground after school and we’ll have it out.

[Fuzz]

WTF? red onion? On a Hawaain? OK, now I have a problem.

[TheScorpion]

Christ. Imagine mixing raisins, the world's worst food, and rum, a disgusting affront to the idea of alcohol, and putting them in ice cream, of all things. I'd rather suck on a brick.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Christ. Imagine mixing raisins, the world's worst food, and rum, a disgusting affront to the idea of alcohol, and putting them in ice cream, of all things. I'd rather suck on a brick.

You don't like rum? What's wrong with you, only had Bacardi before?

[TheScorpion]

It ruins everything it touches. Give me literally anything else.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Yeah, no, you're objectively wrong about that. Give this a shot and if you still don't like it the problem is with you...



... well, it was always with you, but I guess it's more just a deeper seated issue that you're going to have to live with as opposed to something you can overcome.

[nik-]

"Don't like something? You should spend $300 on an entire bottle of it to be sure"

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

... Alright, fair point. Probably not a lot of places you could find to sell you an ounce of that.

Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva is about 50 bucks, and it's a solid one for the price, if a bit too sweet for my preference. El Dorado 21 is around $90 (or was the last time I bought it) and it's very good.

[PaperBagger'14]

Rum is one of my favourite alcohols, the flavour of it is unparalleled and it needs almost nothing to compliment it. The same goes for gin

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

See, I love gin for the variety of great cocktails you can make with it, and if I had to pick a single alcohol to only drink in mixed stuff for the rest of my life that would be it, but I just can't drink it straight.

[JohnnyB]

The next poll could be liquor instead of ice cream.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

See, I love gin for the variety of great cocktails you can make with it, and if I had to pick a single alcohol to only drink in mixed stuff for the rest of my life that would be it, but I just can't drink it straight.

The Botanist gin is delicious straight.


And you don't even need to spend much money to get decent rum, grab a bottle of Havana Club 7 year. Blows Bacardi out of the water.

[JohnnyB]

I wonder what the Hawaiian pizza of liquors is.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

It kinda seems like the main thrust of the problems is ordering something, then straying out of your 'pizza lane'. Which I'm totally down with.

When I ask for a Hawaiian pizza, that's what I'm eating until it's gone. If it's gone, and I'm still hungry, that's when I start browsing the other options (in a multi pizza setting). I bet if more folks did this, there'd be less griping about toppings folks don't like. Want to order a veggie pizza? No problem, order it...but if I catch you snacking on my Classic Pepperoni before your Veggie is gone...there's a problem.

If you order it (or request it in a group setting), you eat it before looking at the rest of the pies.

100% this. I find on the odd times we've done a pizza day at work, a good proportion of people in my office would get real fancy with their requests..like Asiago and just loaded with fruit, spinach, or too much veggies & other stuff I wouldn't want. But then when they see the pepp, they take as much of it as their own choice. Leaving me with enough for like 1, 2 tops of the one I requested, then I'm stuck with their fancy mess. Like c'mon man, I ordered something classic and simple for a reason..

[flamingred89]

Jaegermeister? Insanely popular, kinda gross, but gets more and more tolerable the drunker you get.

[FireGilbert]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

There are far dumber toppings than pineapple on pizza I have no idea why we care about this so much.

What about non traditional sauce? How is that not more of a controversy? Ranch sauce is not a ####ing pizza. Or cauliflower crust? Clearly you’ve not been to any of the dozens of modern hipster pizza places or you’d be institutionalize right now. It’s like pineapple pizza x1000.

Oh but there’s little pieces of fruit on my pizza. Pfft. You lost this fight decades ago man. People who whine about pineapple have completely lost sight of what really matters in life.

Oh yeah changing the sauce is a far bigger pizza transgression.

Like if you’re some old dude from Naples who believes pizza should only have buffalo mozzarella, San Marzano tomatoes, and basil I can understand railing against other toppings. If you’re a random internet dude hating one topping in particular you will be judged.

Maybe the issue with pineapple is it is coming from a can. Just like canned mushrooms it is an inferior product. Give fresh a go.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

The Botanist gin is delicious straight.

Botanist is my go to. The quality to price ratio is amazing. I have had Monkey 47, which I was told by a gin aficionado was his favourite, but I guess my gin palate just wasn't sophisticated enough to discern what made it better, so I stick with the Botanist.

And you don't even need to spend much money to get decent rum, grab a bottle of Havana Club 7 year. Blows Bacardi out of the water.

Yeah, but a good sipping rum blows that out of the water, too. Not that I don't appreciate Havana for mixing.

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by flamingred89

Jaegermeister? Insanely popular, kinda gross, but gets more and more tolerable the drunker you get.

Isn't that basically the case with all shots though?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Here's an article about the guy behind the success of Jaeger and also Grey Goose vodka, both of which actually deserve your misapplied title of "disgusting affront to the idea of alcohol".

https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfi...eatures/10816/

All over the country, Jager shots became a revered symbol of buck-wild partying, and the brand remains one of the hottest in the industry, growing at 40 percent a year. Yet not a single spirits expert I spoke with could explain the Jager phenomenon, beyond shrugging and calling Sidney Frank a “promotional genius.”

“It’s a liqueur with an unpronounceable name,” says Ted Wright of Liquid Intelligence, a beverage-marketing firm. “It’s drunk by older, blue-collar Germans as an after-dinner digestive aid. It’s a drink that on a good day is an acquired taste. If Sidney Frank can make that drink synonymous with ‘party’—which he has—he can pretty much do anything.”

I mean Grey Goose is fine because it's vodka and it's hard to completely screw up vodka, but it's not good, it's just overpriced.

[Pizza]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

Isn’t this pretty much the answer we’re looking for? If 25% say it’s blasphemy to put pineapple on pizza, that means 75% say it’s not blasphemy.

Last time I checked, 75 > 25.

"Blasphemy" is an extreme word to describe something you dislike. Like most strongly held opinions, I honestly thought it would be in the 10% range but was surprised to be 25%

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Pineapple is only the 9th most popular pizza topping. Chicken not even in the top 10:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/popul...ings_n_4261085

Pepperoni
Mushrooms
Onions
Sausage
Bacon
Extra cheese
Black olives
Green peppers
Pineapple
Spinach

Kind of surprising given the results of this poll. I am guessing pizza preference could be a regional thing.

Can we really respect that poll when Spinach is in the top 10? I can see people liking pineapple to back it, but I really doubt Spinach would be a written in choice of topping. It makes me wonder if their top 10 poll was really just "pick among these 10 choices"

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