i might have bought this back in university days where budget to calorie and number of meal ratios made this sort of thing appealing and broke the monotony of ramen.
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OK, itâs official. The end times are upon us. Repent your sins folks.
Yes, the true connoisseur applies tomato sauce immediately before serving.
For those confused: This is a squeezy
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Interesting. I was picturing a foil packet.
Tomato sauce as a pizza condiment must be an Aussie thing. (Anywhere else?)
In the States, you might add grated cheese and/or red pepper flakes. There are shakers on pizzaria tables, and little packets in pick up / delivery pizzas.
My willingness to try the original-topic horror aside, canonical pizza is the Margharita. Mozzarella , tomato sauce, basil.
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We are guilty of many crimes against cuisine in Australia, but that is not one of them!
That pizza is surrounded by tiny meat pies, and the tomato sauce goes with them.
This thread has gone completely surreal.
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But⊠But⊠Doesnât the tomato sauce go under the cheese?
You know what? I am a pizza snob. A serious snob. But I have no problem with this.
As long as pizza advertised as thin crust neopolitan is correct, and i dont accidentally get one of those, i donât care about the crust innovations in other restaurants.
Ironically pizza hut gluten free is frickin great.
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So. Is âfourân twentyâ Australiaâs version of, â4:20 broâ?
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Jebus, thatâs a bit much with my 8 week old son sitting next to me!
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Iâve actually converted to âwhite pizzaâ completely when I make my own because I feel like the sauce tends to make the crust soggier and for other texture/ eating experience reasons. Hereâs my favorite recipe;
sauté 2 large shallots in a half a cup of olive oil and spread on pizza dough as you would tomato sauce. Top pizza with 50/50 mixture of fresh mozzarella and fontina cheeses. Top as you like, but my favorite is prosciutto and kalamata olives, or arugula salad with lemon vinaigrette. Tomatoes are good too, but I prefer fresh tomatoes on top rather than sauced tomatoes inside.
Also, please provide plans/pics of this wood burning contraption!
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Only took 9 years to get from Japan to the USA.
Hereâs the 2006 press release
http://japan.kfc.co.jp/news/news061215ph.html
2003 is when the started with sausage in the crust
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Ah, thatâs the crucial bit of missing information. It wasnât clear that they were meat pies. (Which arenât a âthingâ in the US fast food thing. Although you can find the spicy/hot ethnic varieties in some neighborhoods.)
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Probably closer to the ancient origins of pizza.
The Romans had stands which sold spiced flatbread as fast food. Not a stretch from pizza. I can imagine them having cheese, but no way theyâd have tomatoes.
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ugh
#thatâs a cracker
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Just to be clear (as an American this came as a surprise to me at first) âtomato sauceâ means âketchupâ in Australia and New Zealand. The stuff youâre thinking of is âpasta sauceâ or âpizza sauce.â
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Pizzahut did really raise their game in the UK a few years back, with quite passable pizza, like this one below (served on slate, with balsamic drizzle - which was all the rage back then)
Then other âposh-pizzaâ places came and squeezed the market - so they reverted back to targeting gluttons.
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I certainly will! It is ugly as sin right now since I havenât cut the bricks, but I want to do a few test burns before I make it permanent.
All I know is the stuff in the picture above has never even met a tomato 
But really live and let live. The crazy pizzas pictured would be considered masterpieces if served by Fergus Henderson. But I will not forgive the marketer that came up with squeezies.
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