/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13231530
You lost me at tater tots, but you didn't lose Wisconsin. They threw in nacho cheese, ranch and scallions for good measure.

>>13011934
I've had the loaded tot-za from Topper's. It's an abomination.

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>>12199536
and this

>>12197793
Absolutely not. But I have seen an explosion of pizza stupidity in my lifetime. Stuffed crust, BBQ chicken, ranch dressing, breakfast pizza, whatever the fuck Pizza Hut and LC's are doing this week... Worst example is pic related, also from the Midwest. People are free to fuck with pizza all they want to, and others are just as free to like it. But at a certain point it's just fucking stupid. And we've sailed way past that point.
>>12197885
No idea what you're talking about.

>>11961984
Some of the things they do to pizza in the US, particularly the Midwest are so awful you almost want to try them out of disbelief. That happened to me at a truckstop while driving through Indiana. Something called loaded breakfast pizza was available. It was a pizza crust topped with sausage gravy, cheese, scrambled eggs and bacon. In Wisconsin I had pic related, which was a ranch base with tater tots, bacon and nacho cheese. Very strange things happen to pizza in the middle of the country.

Pic related is worst I've ever had. Ranch sauce, tater tots, bacon, scallion and cheddar cheese sauce. A horrible abomination from, you guessed it, the Midwest.

>>11326059
Drag someone from Manhattan to Wisconsin and serve the garbage like pic related from toppers with ranch dipping sauce and if they don't comment they're really gritting their teeth, and you know it.

>>11022286
Worst I've had is from a Midwest chain called Topper's.

>>10767018
You can look forward to tater tot, bacon and cheddar pizza from Toppers.

>>9806996
Topper's Loaded Tot-Za.

>>9457065
Almost, but it always hits a quantum point where everything just explodes. Pic related.

>>9372994
Pic related offended me when in-laws in Wisconsin ordered it. Didn't let it show, though, because I didn't want to offend them.

>>9353403
But that's my point. Food that would just be normal everywhere else becomes a lightning rod in the Midwest because it's not something grandpa ate. As for hot dogs I live in NYC. Hot dogs are a thing here, too. But while we love places like Nathan's on Coney Island, and might even tell a tourist not to discount the hot dog at Katz's we don't get all precious about them because there's so much else going on here foodwise.
>>9353421
That's what people say. Having visited recently and tried it all I can say is that to me it was fucking disgusting. Then again I don't eat any chain pizza, so maybe that's part of it. But Toppers in particular seems to go for a Pizza Hut level of overkill, making up for cheap ingredients by piling them on, then giving you ranch dressing to put on top. Pic related. Fucking disgusting. Who puts ranch, bacon, cheddar AND fucking tater tots on a pizza?! That's just grim as fuck.

>>9319324
Yeah. That kind of thinking leads to eating pizza like pic related. No thanks.

>>9209333
This? I thought it was fucking disgusting. Experienced it visiting in-laws in Wisconsin. They all seemed to think it was wonderful. But that's my point. Different people have different standards. Same goes for wine. The guy who has gotten into good Burgundy might pass on a run of the mill Bordeaux, but someone who likes Yellowtail or Barefoot would see that same Bordeaux as a waste of money. Different people have different ideas about what's good.

>>9194198
>dipping bad pizza in ranch.
This is the thing. I've never seen anyone dip good pizza in ranch, just the kind of bad stuff you get from chain pizza places.

>>9099550
>Anthony Bourdain can't concieve of people who are competent, intelligent, productive, and completely disagree with everything about his worldview without being bloodthirsty hitler-worshipping monsters. They exist, but he can't grasp that.
This is true. Most of New York (with the exception of Staten Island) kind of gapes in horror at what large chunks of the rest of the country's normal. Politics is part of it, sure. A Reagan, Bush Jr or Trump gets elected and we're in disbelief. We consoled ourselves with the fact that a lot of us were going to get richer under those leaders, but they weren't the direction we wanted to see our country move in. And it was hard to understand why people voted for them. From our view it looked like a mixture of fear, jingoism and racism - all things New Yorkers try to play down. I honestly know a few people who had panic attacks last election night. The richest guy I know has done business with Trump and knew him personally for a couple years. He stands to make millions off the proposed tax cuts, and still thinks the guy is an idiot.

But it goes beyond politics. New Yorkers have trouble understanding other things the rest of the country Food is a big one, too. Don't forget Manhattan had fafafel joints before we had a McDonald's. We had neighborhood delis and pizza joints before chain restaurants existed. We had fine dining restaurants before many towns in this country were established. We've been eating Chinese food for over a hundred years, and Japanese has been commonplace for almost thirty years. The idea that in other parts of the country people are enthusiastic about pic related dumbfounds us.

>>9070306
Toppers Loaded Tot 'Za, the only choice for discriminating fatties who put ranch dressing on pizza and live in a place where no one thinks that's weird.

>>9019531
>That picture for instance looks great but I wouldn't consider it very healthy
True, but it's nowhere nearly as crazy unhealthy as pic related, which is commonly served with ranch dressing.

>>8660964
Pizza is Italian in origin, and a huge Italian American thing. Nobody gets bent out of shape when the toppings resemble things you might fins on a pizza in Italy. But in North America (and Japan, for that matter) some pizza makers take great glee in coming up with the most outrageous pizzas possible. Pineapple and Canadian bacon was that back in the 60's. BBQ chicken was that in the 90's. Today it's Buffalo chicken with ranch dressing. And pic related. LC's is doing BBQ beef now, too. These pizzas are retarded, and Hawaiian pizza pretty much got the ball rolling on this level of retardation. It's the symbol of taking a good idea like pizza and fucking it up just because you can.

>>8656563
It's a thing in the Midwest and parts of the South. I didn't believe it until I saw it in Wisconsin. I watched an obese guy open a container of chipotle ranch dressing and pour it over a slice of pic related. People do this in the part of the country where pizza like this is considered normal.

>>8641724
>BBQ pizza, taco pizza, "california" pizza (chicken and some kind of weird ass vinegarette), hamburger pizza, fucking philly cheesesteak pizza. They're almost always terrible.
Yep. There's all kinds of retarded pizza for retarded people out there. Pic related.