I like a thin crust, but not too crispy, white pizza, with a layer of shredded cheeses (mozzarella, romano, asiago, fontina) finished with crumbled feta and a dollop or two of ricotta.

Add leaves of fresh basil and a few cloves of roasted garlic.

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

Hand tossed ham and pineapple

Cheese pan pizza for hangovers

The Jeff's Special from Gem City Pizzeria, ham, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, extra homemade sauce.  God I miss waiting tables there.  Free dinner every night.

So thanks a ton for making me instantly hungry with this thread ;)

Either a good tomato-ey chicago style deep dish pie (we have a local chain out here called Zachary's that even native chicagoans agree is pretty good)

 or

a simple thin crust with good cheese, carmelized onions, fresh tomato slices, and basil

 I've only found them a couple of times, but crusts where the flour is cut with some cornmeal are really good.  not too hard to make though.

Wow, smeds and 12r, you guys are torqued out. Interesting and sounds good.

from a good pizzzaria I would get regular ground floor pie.

Sometimes, er for awhile, i was adding anchovies, spices.

Still I'm in the shallow end of the pool compared to you guys.

enjoy :)

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

For fancier pizza, there's an Italian restaurant that delivers in my neighborhood, and they have a thin-crust pizza with asparagus, mozzarella, parmigiana, fontina, and rose sauce.  Pretty amazing, but it's a once-in-a-while thing.

For regular ol' pizza, my usual is pepperoni and/or bacon, pineapple, and mushrooms, on a thin or medium crust, with regular pizza sauce.

I want to like whole-wheat dough, but I don't.

In general thin crust, crisp enough to stand up for itself if one were to hold it by the edge.  Lightly covered with a well spiced tomato sauce and a good amount of mozzarella and perhaps some Parmesan and Romano. Well done.  Most pizza parlors seem to want to speed the pie through as fast a possible.  In my opinion melting cheeses keep getting more flavourful the darker they get up until the point they dry out.

 From delivery; Zekes frog belly green : 'Olive oil glaze, mozzarella, Zeeks own basil pesto, topped with roma tomatoes and a sprinkling of parmesan.'  (Their Featured Pie at the moment : 'The Cherry Bomb (new!)
Italian sausage, sweet-hot roasted red peppers, parmesan, fresh basil layered over mozzarella and our fresh tomato sauce.')

Frozen; Tombstone Xtra cheese with yet more cheese (Mozz and cheddar generally) again, burnt. Periodically I do get the urge for what I think of as 'dog ass pizza', one of the little frozen ones like Tonstinos 

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

I do the same thing with the cheapie shit frozen pizza craving, redbear. When I was a kid, my grandmother always had a supply of Celeste frozen pizzas for me to nosh. Total crap, but as a kid you just don't care. So every once in a blue-ish moon, I get a nostalgic craving for a Celeste pizza. Which I then eat and am reminded of exactly why I never eat those. :)

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Well to be frank...I rarely eat pizza. Regardless of what the toppings are or where the pizza is coming from, it's just not something I eat much of anymore. You've seen me, Nefud. You can understand why i'd cut out a food that is essentially carbs and fat. So I apologize if my selections seem snobbish and weird. If I'm going to put myself out there and eat a fucking pizza, I'm going to make sure it's a taste combination that's really going to knock my socks off.

Before I became so cautious about what I eat, though...I totally rocked Round Table thick crust with red sauce, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms, bell peppers, and cheese.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

I wasn't referring to anyone specific.  I was being vaguely obnoxious or obnoxiously vague.

I wish pizza was good for your health.
 

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"exotic" + "pizza topping" = oxymoron

Pizza is bad for you. But if you truly don't like it, you're probably a Commie (the Chinese think cheese is revolting.)

lol   

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

* ruins another thread with pointless commentary.

Why are you obsessed with my edits, j? Get a life.

 i think j's referring to people who define themselves by their quirkiness, and carry it so far as to not be able to shut the fuck about about how much they love pan-seared pea snaps or whatever the fuck on their pizza. no one in this thread is like that but god almighty i have met them

Well I was going to do my regular 'oh the boss is here so I better post this quick and edit it later' edit to my last post but for some reason I've become edit shy...

Totinos, the frozen dog ass pizza is called Totinos not Tostinos or whatever the hell I called it.  I actually prefer Jenos but my local market (two blocks from my house, nice if you don't drive) stopped caring them in their relentless drive to increase their profits by selling more and more high end stuff to rich people. But I'm not Bitter!  Anyway, DAPs must have little cubes of meat like stuff on top and must have crushed red pepper sprinkled on them post baking.

I had Chicago style in Chicago a couple of years back and it was a damn fine piece of pie.  I don't generally like thick crust but that was an exception.

Regards topings, no mushrooms (I like many wild mushrooms (going Morel hunting on Monday!) but Agaricus bisporus I'm not generally a fan of,) no green peppers (they aren't ripe!) and only appropriate cheeses (Pagliacci, the place next door will put Ricotta on some of their pies which I can't figure.)  For meat, the standards like pepperoni, sausage and, of course, anchovies.  I don't think the 'everything' pizzas are particularly good, the individual toppings get lost in the crowd.  The most inspired topping I ever saw was Spam.  Yeah most people think it's gross but really you get a couple of cans, they will last forever and you have yet another thing to add to your list.

Had two pep for lunch and Pags between last post and this.  Not the best they have ever made but they were quite serviceable.

About The Cherry Bomb I shit you not Amanda although I've not had it so they may be shitting both of us.  It's one of the Monday slices o' the day so I might check it out just to be sure.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu