Top Four

00:00:00 ◼   ► welcome back to top for everybody hey

00:00:02 ◼   ► this is us we are continuing the food

00:00:04 ◼   ► theme for at least one more episode I

00:00:06 ◼   ► know we've done a lot of food recently

00:00:07 ◼   ► so much food but it's such a good area

00:00:10 ◼   ► for for these topics and we're gonna

00:00:12 ◼   ► move into something else probably not

00:00:14 ◼   ► probably the next show but one more food

00:00:16 ◼   ► topic for now and that is pizza toppings

00:00:19 ◼   ► cuz we wanted to kind of follow up

00:00:23 ◼   ► follow out to follow in follow the trend

00:00:28 ◼   ► of annoying somebody with our food

00:00:31 ◼   ► choices and usually that somebody is

00:00:34 ◼   ► John siracusa to bridge some of the

00:00:37 ◼   ► podcasting world here I'm not sure this

00:00:39 ◼   ► is gonna put a lot of bridges to be

00:00:40 ◼   ► honest now we'll see how it goes

00:00:41 ◼   ► you think there's gonna be some fire

00:00:43 ◼   ► involved so John has strong opinions on

00:00:45 ◼   ► what makes the like what is like the

00:00:48 ◼   ► canonical set of flank type X so if

00:00:51 ◼   ► you've set with us for choosing bagel

00:00:53 ◼   ► flavors that were not like among the the

00:00:56 ◼   ► official old-school New York bagel

00:00:58 ◼   ► flavors like the ISO cheese bagel and so

00:01:01 ◼   ► I expect he will have a similar issue if

00:01:04 ◼   ► we choose any pizza toppings I'm gonna

00:01:06 ◼   ► give it an ulcer like I a maybe yeah so

00:01:09 ◼   ► I suspect you any any like

00:01:11 ◼   ► non-traditional pizza toppings he's

00:01:13 ◼   ► going to have a big problem with so this

00:01:15 ◼   ► should be interesting but see anything

00:01:17 ◼   ► can go in a pizza because it's personal

00:01:19 ◼   ► you call up and you order pizza and you

00:01:21 ◼   ► put what you want on it so I think that

00:01:25 ◼   ► the argument that there are classic

00:01:27 ◼   ► pizza toppings is kind of that's kind of

00:01:30 ◼   ► weak yeah well also I think we were

00:01:33 ◼   ► helped here by the fact that like you

00:01:35 ◼   ► know bagel stores you could go into a

00:01:37 ◼   ► bagel store on Long Island in 1995 and

00:01:41 ◼   ► there be like you know what eight

00:01:43 ◼   ► flavors maybe like there wouldn't be a

00:01:44 ◼   ► ton of flavors whereas Pizza has always

00:01:47 ◼   ► like you go to a pizza place and there's

00:01:49 ◼   ► probably way more options than that even

00:01:51 ◼   ► back then let alone now as we discovered

00:01:53 ◼   ► new new and greater Pizza Sciences like

00:01:55 ◼   ► I think I think pizza even by like old

00:01:59 ◼   ► New York definition has just always had

00:02:02 ◼   ► more variety available yep yep I

00:02:05 ◼   ► actually had an uncle that owned a pizza

00:02:06 ◼   ► place and his first few pies were

00:02:08 ◼   ► horrible but then he got pretty good at

00:02:10 ◼   ► it that's

00:02:12 ◼   ► yeah I mean if it's anything like us

00:02:14 ◼   ► when we cook when we try to make pizza

00:02:15 ◼   ► that's totally totally understandable

00:02:18 ◼   ► what we make is not pizza I don't know

00:02:20 ◼   ► what that is it's calzones

00:02:22 ◼   ► it's a pile of garbage yes that just

00:02:24 ◼   ► happens to taste kind of delicious half

00:02:26 ◼   ► of which is burned on the bottom of the

00:02:28 ◼   ► oven yeah that part we leave in the oven

00:02:30 ◼   ► and just let it bake out all right so

00:02:35 ◼   ► all right the rules now because usually

00:02:37 ◼   ► we talk about our fantasy situations but

00:02:40 ◼   ► I'm going to bring it back to reality

00:02:42 ◼   ► for this and say that our rules are kind

00:02:46 ◼   ► of based on realistic availability and

00:02:48 ◼   ► execution an example only one place

00:02:50 ◼   ► makes you know a certain type of pizza

00:02:53 ◼   ► good and it's far away so does that move

00:02:57 ◼   ► it up or down your list because you

00:02:59 ◼   ► can't get it all the time but you prefer

00:03:01 ◼   ► those toppings on that pizza from that

00:03:04 ◼   ► place

00:03:05 ◼   ► that's totally legit but it has to stay

00:03:08 ◼   ► within that so like you might not like a

00:03:10 ◼   ► certain type of topping from another

00:03:13 ◼   ► place because they just don't have a

00:03:15 ◼   ► better they have a bad ingredient or

00:03:16 ◼   ► they prepare it differently but you have

00:03:19 ◼   ► to take into account realistic

00:03:20 ◼   ► availability combos are allowed but each

00:03:23 ◼   ► combo is its own entry mm-hmm so if you

00:03:28 ◼   ► have like two different toppings on one

00:03:30 ◼   ► pizza it's not you know you're not

00:03:32 ◼   ► saying topping a and topping B or my

00:03:34 ◼   ► like one and two it's the combination of

00:03:37 ◼   ► those toppings that then make the pizza

00:03:39 ◼   ► that you are getting right so that those

00:03:42 ◼   ► are your entries so entries could

00:03:43 ◼   ► include multiple toppings or single

00:03:45 ◼   ► toppings okay when you start off what is

00:03:48 ◼   ► your number four yeah we definitely

00:03:50 ◼   ► should move up okay my number four has a

00:03:52 ◼   ► question mark this is top four and we

00:03:56 ◼   ► can't stick to a topic five four well

00:03:59 ◼   ► you win the prize all right my top my

00:04:04 ◼   ► number four choice is the broccoli and

00:04:07 ◼   ► onion pizza from Aiello's in Pittsburgh

00:04:10 ◼   ► all right that's a very good pick but

00:04:13 ◼   ► okay so let me talk we will probably

00:04:15 ◼   ► never have this pizza again mm-hmm we

00:04:18 ◼   ► previously had a lot of this pizza when

00:04:20 ◼   ► we lived in Pittsburgh and I'm very

00:04:21 ◼   ► envious of the people who currently live

00:04:23 ◼   ► in Pittsburgh and get to enjoy this

00:04:24 ◼   ► amazing pizza

00:04:26 ◼   ► because uh so it's a broccoli and kind

00:04:29 ◼   ► of like sauteed onions sauteed but they

00:04:32 ◼   ► don't take it to a point where it starts

00:04:35 ◼   ► to get brown at all they're kind of like

00:04:36 ◼   ► translucent sweet delicious little onion

00:04:40 ◼   ► bits um with broccoli that also is not

00:04:43 ◼   ► taken to the point of dehydration it's

00:04:45 ◼   ► just it is cooked perfectly puffed in

00:04:49 ◼   ► like a nice little fluffy bed of white

00:04:53 ◼   ► pizza yeah it's a white pizza base it's

00:04:55 ◼   ► very important there's no red sauce on

00:04:56 ◼   ► this pizza and this is totally allowed

00:04:58 ◼   ► oh yeah that that is an option a white

00:05:01 ◼   ► base is totally available like in most

00:05:04 ◼   ► of New York so anywhere now yeah I mean

00:05:08 ◼   ► I bet John could even get one in

00:05:09 ◼   ► Sbarro's also I want to say like deep

00:05:11 ◼   ► dish or Sicilian is up for a game you

00:05:13 ◼   ► know it's in the running here for anyone

00:05:15 ◼   ► who wants to pick that any one being the

00:05:17 ◼   ► two of us and the people who contact us

00:05:19 ◼   ► on Twitter yeah whoo I like to hear

00:05:21 ◼   ► their opinions because it shows they're

00:05:22 ◼   ► listening to the show anyway so oh this

00:05:25 ◼   ► broccoli and onion pizza is just

00:05:27 ◼   ► absolutely divine everything that they

00:05:29 ◼   ► do with these toppings at this pizza

00:05:31 ◼   ► place just make it so good now it is my

00:05:34 ◼   ► number four regardless of its it's you

00:05:37 ◼   ► know inaccessible availability here

00:05:39 ◼   ► because I also like broccoli and onion

00:05:43 ◼   ► on other pizzas the trick though is

00:05:46 ◼   ► onion is very hard to get right yes and

00:05:49 ◼   ► so is broccoli because sometimes the

00:05:51 ◼   ► broccoli slices that even we get now

00:05:53 ◼   ► because we regularly get a broccoli

00:05:54 ◼   ► slice broccoli white slice it is often

00:05:57 ◼   ► overdone and a little bit dehydrated and

00:06:00 ◼   ► a little bit burnt and crispy and weird

00:06:02 ◼   ► and that's when it gets bitter yeah but

00:06:04 ◼   ► when done right I like it and I like the

00:06:07 ◼   ► I yellows one so much that it Trump's

00:06:09 ◼   ► all of other toppings so I actually kind

00:06:12 ◼   ► of had a scoring well all on the top

00:06:15 ◼   ► except for the three there above this in

00:06:16 ◼   ► your list yeah but I'm saying like other

00:06:18 ◼   ► toppings except for three there about no

00:06:21 ◼   ► so I actually had a scoring method this

00:06:23 ◼   ► time I focused and I added plus one two

00:06:26 ◼   ► things and minus one two things based on

00:06:29 ◼   ► how I felt about them Wow

00:06:30 ◼   ► okay so with the ranking system I had

00:06:34 ◼   ► even the minus one for the low

00:06:37 ◼   ► availability at Aiello's

00:06:39 ◼   ► fact that it exists and that I once had

00:06:41 ◼   ► it makes it my number four that's pretty

00:06:44 ◼   ► good I got to admit I I was very tempted

00:06:46 ◼   ► to include that same entry on my list we

00:06:50 ◼   ► had that pizza so much it was so

00:06:51 ◼   ► freaking good yeah I mean a ellos in

00:06:54 ◼   ► Pittsburgh is just the best if I could

00:06:56 ◼   ► say one pizza place that I enjoyed more

00:06:59 ◼   ► than any other pizza place it would be a

00:07:01 ◼   ► tough call between our current one and a

00:07:03 ◼   ► ellos in Pittsburgh and yeah it's pretty

00:07:05 ◼   ► close but we can't remember how we would

00:07:08 ◼   ► always talk about know if we became like

00:07:10 ◼   ► gazillionaires and we could just form

00:07:13 ◼   ► our own town of all of the things that

00:07:15 ◼   ► we like the best that we would totally

00:07:17 ◼   ► pay to construct and fly out alo whoever

00:07:22 ◼   ► or whoever

00:07:23 ◼   ► mr. alo misses alo who owns the

00:07:27 ◼   ► restaurant and have them set up a place

00:07:29 ◼   ► in our fantasy food town which we pay

00:07:33 ◼   ► all of our favorite restaurants to move

00:07:35 ◼   ► near us okay so what's your number four

00:07:41 ◼   ► all right so my number four and and this

00:07:45 ◼   ► is a compound pic I know it's against

00:07:47 ◼   ► the rules but up to I'll explain why

00:07:48 ◼   ► wait you're going against the rules

00:07:50 ◼   ► already you you would against anyway I I

00:07:52 ◼   ► took into account the availability and

00:07:55 ◼   ► still picked it okay so I will too so

00:07:57 ◼   ► here's here's the thing my number four

00:07:59 ◼   ► is pepperoni and sausage with some

00:08:03 ◼   ► caveats oh I need I have things to say

00:08:04 ◼   ► about pepperoni and sausage good okay so

00:08:06 ◼   ► first of all I love I just it's just

00:08:09 ◼   ► like such like a nice like high salt

00:08:11 ◼   ► high meat high grease if that's what

00:08:13 ◼   ► you're going for like that is a it's so

00:08:15 ◼   ► good and those are all my negatives and

00:08:18 ◼   ► one of the NMS I should speculate or I

00:08:20 ◼   ► should specify here

00:08:22 ◼   ► I'm only including sausage if it is of

00:08:24 ◼   ► the crumbled variety not sliced I don't

00:08:27 ◼   ► like sliced sausage upon pizza just

00:08:29 ◼   ► grunt the crumbly part you know who are

00:08:31 ◼   ► you and what I like about this is that

00:08:33 ◼   ► it is basically the same taste no matter

00:08:36 ◼   ► where you get it you can get this is

00:08:39 ◼   ► this is no no way lighting that way not

00:08:41 ◼   ► this explain and then let me buzz you

00:08:44 ◼   ► okay pepperoni and sausage is the kind

00:08:47 ◼   ► of flavor that if you are at a really

00:08:49 ◼   ► good pizza place or a really crappy

00:08:52 ◼   ► pizza place

00:08:53 ◼   ► that will still be good regardless in

00:08:54 ◼   ► all likelihood like that I think and if

00:08:56 ◼   ► you if you are at all on the fence then

00:08:59 ◼   ► I'd say skip the sausage and just do

00:09:00 ◼   ► only pepperoni because that that would

00:09:02 ◼   ► also give the same general safety and

00:09:05 ◼   ► consistency of like almost anywhere can

00:09:08 ◼   ► make a decent pepperoni slice and I

00:09:10 ◼   ► think that includes everything from the

00:09:12 ◼   ► fancy New York places all the way down

00:09:13 ◼   ► to like Pizza Hut almost anybody can

00:09:15 ◼   ► make a decent tasting pepperoni slice

00:09:17 ◼   ► and most places can make a do statistic

00:09:19 ◼   ► pepperoni and sausage slice and that's

00:09:20 ◼   ► why my number four is pepperoni and

00:09:23 ◼   ► sausage with the speculation only if the

00:09:25 ◼   ► sausage has crumbled okay in my new

00:09:28 ◼   ► fangled in my new advanced rating system

00:09:31 ◼   ► pepperoni got a negative negative one

00:09:34 ◼   ► point for being too greasy

00:09:36 ◼   ► you know just blotted it's no big deal

00:09:38 ◼   ► still no it was too greasy and my

00:09:42 ◼   ► sausage also got a negative one point

00:09:45 ◼   ► because sausage is so inconsistent from

00:09:48 ◼   ► place to place you can have like

00:09:49 ◼   ► sausages you just get so piggy I don't

00:09:53 ◼   ► know it just tastes so piggy sometimes

00:09:54 ◼   ► and like I just it's terrible and then

00:09:56 ◼   ► good sausage sausage that's part of the

00:10:00 ◼   ► sausage good sausage is amazing and its

00:10:03 ◼   ► flavorful and it's delicious and whether

00:10:06 ◼   ► it's sliced or crumbled it doesn't

00:10:08 ◼   ► matter sometimes the crumbly ones feel

00:10:09 ◼   ► so grainy why would you like that the

00:10:12 ◼   ► grainy crumbly sausage I like it and and

00:10:16 ◼   ► to me like sausage to me the

00:10:18 ◼   ► best-tasting sausage for pizza is the

00:10:21 ◼   ► kind of sausage you find on cheap chain

00:10:23 ◼   ► pizza that is my favorite kind of

00:10:25 ◼   ► sausage on pizza no you need the nice

00:10:27 ◼   ► slice like Italian oh it's so good it's

00:10:30 ◼   ► the it's what I want on pizza is the

00:10:32 ◼   ► opposite of I would want on a sausage

00:10:34 ◼   ► pepper sandwich that's where you're

00:10:35 ◼   ► wrong that's where you're totally right

00:10:39 ◼   ► well that's why well that's why it's my

00:10:40 ◼   ► number four not yours yet I know what

00:10:43 ◼   ► I'm saying it's it is missed the mark

00:10:45 ◼   ► for me because of Pig eNOS and

00:10:47 ◼   ► inconsistency and grease factor that's

00:10:51 ◼   ► those are fair criticisms I respectfully

00:10:53 ◼   ► disagree but there's a fair criticisms

00:10:54 ◼   ► okay moving on number three my number

00:10:58 ◼   ► three all right you might need to help

00:11:00 ◼   ► me with this here it is debt it has a

00:11:02 ◼   ► solid position it is

00:11:04 ◼   ► um tomato and garlic pie which we get

00:11:08 ◼   ► here at our favorite pizza place slices

00:11:10 ◼   ► it is absolutely delicious is there

00:11:12 ◼   ► anything else on the tomato and garlic

00:11:14 ◼   ► pie really so it's a white bass that

00:11:16 ◼   ► you're talking about yes it's a white is

00:11:19 ◼   ► basically a white pie with a slice Anita

00:11:22 ◼   ► yeah of the entire circle of to make

00:11:24 ◼   ► note no sub circle no semi circles the

00:11:26 ◼   ► entire circle of tomatoes sliced yes you

00:11:29 ◼   ► know placed all over the pizza with a

00:11:31 ◼   ► healthy amount of garlic on top and I

00:11:33 ◼   ► and I believe do they put a little bit

00:11:34 ◼   ► of fresh basil on top under there's no

00:11:36 ◼   ► Passover and they might put a little bit

00:11:37 ◼   ► of fresh basil I'm it I mean that could

00:11:39 ◼   ► only make it better but they do not add

00:11:43 ◼   ► the ricotta right you know that's not in

00:11:47 ◼   ► this white pie it's just muscle yeah

00:11:50 ◼   ► yeah and is it fresh at this one cuz

00:11:53 ◼   ► right now I'm describing a margarita but

00:11:55 ◼   ► you're not though amory that's why I'm

00:11:58 ◼   ► trying that's why I said I need help

00:11:59 ◼   ► with this because I love this pie that

00:12:03 ◼   ► we order often and it is just really

00:12:06 ◼   ► delicious the way they do the thin kind

00:12:08 ◼   ► of crust and the edges of the crust

00:12:11 ◼   ► aren't too baked so it's all kind of

00:12:13 ◼   ► soft still and the fresh tomato and when

00:12:17 ◼   ► you can only get seasonally because when

00:12:19 ◼   ► the tomatoes aren't fresh this pie is

00:12:20 ◼   ► terrible exactly but when it's good it's

00:12:23 ◼   ► better than other things the tomato does

00:12:26 ◼   ► add a little bit of extra water I guess

00:12:29 ◼   ► because you also have the miss rel which

00:12:30 ◼   ► also adds water so it is kind of a bit

00:12:32 ◼   ► of a soggy pie but it didn't always come

00:12:35 ◼   ► very soggy sometimes the right people

00:12:37 ◼   ► make it and it's very very good it

00:12:39 ◼   ► probably also depends on the tomatoes I

00:12:41 ◼   ► can't like whether the tomatoes were

00:12:42 ◼   ► like more Meteor more watery yeah if you

00:12:44 ◼   ► get like a mealy tomato not this pie

00:12:47 ◼   ► then just just it's off the charts bad

00:12:49 ◼   ► like you cannot compare it to anything

00:12:52 ◼   ► so anyway my number three is a fresh

00:12:55 ◼   ► tomato and garlic pie with no red sauce

00:12:57 ◼   ► so I have two two already with no red

00:13:00 ◼   ► sauce you'll be surprised to hear that

00:13:03 ◼   ► my number three is almost the same thing

00:13:06 ◼   ► really my number three is the margarita

00:13:08 ◼   ► and and I should speculate or I should

00:13:10 ◼   ► stipulate I guess is the right word yeah

00:13:12 ◼   ► you keep saying speculate whatever I

00:13:13 ◼   ► should stipulate that a lot of people

00:13:17 ◼   ► call

00:13:17 ◼   ► a lot of different pies margarita I

00:13:19 ◼   ► don't think this name is standardized it

00:13:22 ◼   ► generally refers to a class of pies that

00:13:24 ◼   ► usually includes fresh mozzarella

00:13:27 ◼   ► instead of like dried shredded

00:13:28 ◼   ► mozzarella so usually cludes fresh

00:13:30 ◼   ► mozzarella of some form usually includes

00:13:32 ◼   ► some variation on tomato sauce either

00:13:35 ◼   ► fresh tomatoes or a little dollops of

00:13:37 ◼   ► sauce or both or stewed tomatoes or

00:13:39 ◼   ► stewed or crushed tomatoes like but not

00:13:42 ◼   ► just covered in the whole base and sauce

00:13:43 ◼   ► usually but sometimes they do that and

00:13:45 ◼   ► and then some like so it's like and

00:13:47 ◼   ► usually there's some kind of either

00:13:48 ◼   ► fresh basil or pesto added as well to

00:13:51 ◼   ► get that flavor in there and maybe some

00:13:53 ◼   ► extra garlic so but like so many people

00:13:56 ◼   ► have slight variations on that combo to

00:13:59 ◼   ► make what they call margarita or fresh

00:14:01 ◼   ► mozzarella slices my number three is the

00:14:04 ◼   ► margarita slice done the way that our

00:14:06 ◼   ► pizza place normally does it which is

00:14:09 ◼   ► you know nice thin crust of course all

00:14:11 ◼   ► my picks are thin crust I hate that

00:14:12 ◼   ► crust I mean you know I'll eat it if I'm

00:14:14 ◼   ► if I'm if there's no other choice but

00:14:16 ◼   ► yeah my picks are also thin crust yeah

00:14:19 ◼   ► if you even have to say that it's pizza

00:14:21 ◼   ► yeah sorry Chicago yeah like oh I like

00:14:27 ◼   ► crust pizza but when you eat pizza

00:14:30 ◼   ► you're not thinking thick crust you can

00:14:32 ◼   ► like thick crust yeah oh yeah no one's

00:14:35 ◼   ► saying you can't like that I mean we

00:14:36 ◼   ► there's Sicilian pizzas and all kinds of

00:14:38 ◼   ► stuff even available here in almost

00:14:40 ◼   ► every pizza place but you have to

00:14:42 ◼   ► specify that that's what you want

00:14:44 ◼   ► yeah the default is that if we say pizza

00:14:47 ◼   ► you know that that's the thing I get

00:14:49 ◼   ► unless you are in Chicago in which case

00:14:51 ◼   ► you can say pizza and get whatever that

00:14:52 ◼   ► casserole thing is they make well there

00:14:53 ◼   ► are also places that if you say plain

00:14:55 ◼   ► pizza you don't even get cheese yeah I

00:14:58 ◼   ► don't know what that's about

00:14:59 ◼   ► like who orders like a cheese pizza like

00:15:02 ◼   ► who says that that's so crazy to say

00:15:04 ◼   ► yeah by the way I have no respect slice

00:15:07 ◼   ► of pizza is like a slice of pizza I mean

00:15:10 ◼   ► come on there's like you know think of a

00:15:11 ◼   ► drawing of a pizza if someone was to

00:15:13 ◼   ► draw a piece that's a slice of pizza

00:15:15 ◼   ► right yeah yeah and I also have no

00:15:18 ◼   ► respect for the topping choice extra

00:15:20 ◼   ► cheese yeah what is that how much cheese

00:15:23 ◼   ► can your pie hold

00:15:23 ◼   ► I mean it's cheese so I order extra

00:15:26 ◼   ► cheese when we were when I was growing

00:15:28 ◼   ► up in Ohio ordering from my Pizza Hut

00:15:30 ◼   ► because that's just what everybody

00:15:31 ◼   ► and so I just learned when you order

00:15:33 ◼   ► pizza you ask for extra cheese and so I

00:15:35 ◼   ► don't think I've ever even had it with

00:15:37 ◼   ► the regular level of cheese that's

00:15:38 ◼   ► that's the kind of request that first of

00:15:41 ◼   ► all so having cheese at all right first

00:15:44 ◼   ► of all it sounds really gross

00:15:45 ◼   ► second of all it's the kind of thing

00:15:47 ◼   ► we're like do you think they're actually

00:15:48 ◼   ► putting on different amounts when you

00:15:50 ◼   ► say that or are they just charging you

00:15:52 ◼   ► more on putting on the same amount they

00:15:53 ◼   ► always do I think they put on I bet

00:15:55 ◼   ► you're right I don't think anyone has

00:15:56 ◼   ► called up like in New York pizza place

00:15:58 ◼   ► and ask for extra cheese we should ask

00:16:00 ◼   ► Isaac I actually did ask Isaac some

00:16:02 ◼   ► questions tonight but people order extra

00:16:08 ◼   ► cheese so anyway so my number three is

00:16:12 ◼   ► margarita done the way that they use

00:16:13 ◼   ► that they usually do it because what you

00:16:15 ◼   ► described with the fresh tomato slices

00:16:17 ◼   ► is delicious but it's so inconsistent

00:16:20 ◼   ► cuz it depends so heavily on whether

00:16:22 ◼   ► they can get good fresh tomatoes in at

00:16:24 ◼   ► that given day you know and so it and I

00:16:27 ◼   ► don't know what it is in recent years

00:16:29 ◼   ► we've had a very hard time finding good

00:16:30 ◼   ► Tomatoes yeah like we've had a number of

00:16:32 ◼   ► I think mediocre tomato seasons but when

00:16:34 ◼   ► that pie is good it is so good yes but

00:16:37 ◼   ► the entire rest of history and time and

00:16:39 ◼   ► future the regular margarita pie for me

00:16:41 ◼   ► is the better choice because it's almost

00:16:43 ◼   ► the same every time because they use I

00:16:45 ◼   ► believe it's stewed or crushed tomatoes

00:16:47 ◼   ► like a little like almost like little

00:16:49 ◼   ► spots of sauce between the dollops of

00:16:52 ◼   ► makes it bad does the spot a sauce the

00:16:55 ◼   ► person that makes it good uses the food

00:16:56 ◼   ► Tomatoes okay all right and then they

00:16:58 ◼   ► also do like little drops of pesto

00:17:00 ◼   ► around the pie so you get like them like

00:17:02 ◼   ► the basil flavor and because it's pesto

00:17:05 ◼   ► but not fresh basil and stewed tomatoes

00:17:07 ◼   ► and not fresh tomatoes it's the same

00:17:09 ◼   ► year round you can get it any day and

00:17:11 ◼   ► it's basically the same and it's

00:17:12 ◼   ► delicious and it's like slices of fresh

00:17:14 ◼   ► mozzarella which they make themselves I

00:17:16 ◼   ► believe so and so they layered those

00:17:19 ◼   ► slices on so it's not like a shredded

00:17:21 ◼   ► cheese covering it's more of like a slab

00:17:25 ◼   ► of areas and because the mozzarella is

00:17:28 ◼   ► thinly sliced to go on there and because

00:17:31 ◼   ► they're using stewed tomatoes instead of

00:17:33 ◼   ► fresh tomatoes there usually is not an

00:17:35 ◼   ► overly watery problem it is not a watery

00:17:38 ◼   ► slice most of the time sometimes it's a

00:17:40 ◼   ► little bit but you know it's it's fine I

00:17:42 ◼   ► so anyway that's my number three and I

00:17:44 ◼   ► think it

00:17:45 ◼   ► it's the kind of thing we're like if I'm

00:17:46 ◼   ► at a pizza place I've never been to

00:17:48 ◼   ► before I'm looking to see what slices

00:17:49 ◼   ► they have available I I'm very likely to

00:17:52 ◼   ► try whatever the equivalent is of a

00:17:54 ◼   ► margarita pie because it is it's the

00:17:57 ◼   ► kind of thing where even though there's

00:17:58 ◼   ► lots of different variations minor and

00:18:01 ◼   ► major to what people put in their

00:18:03 ◼   ► margarita pie and how they make it

00:18:04 ◼   ► they're all pretty good and I feel very

00:18:07 ◼   ► safe picking that option pretty much

00:18:09 ◼   ► anywhere and it's only your number three

00:18:11 ◼   ► yeah you're gonna hate my number one or

00:18:14 ◼   ► number two you're gonna love my number

00:18:17 ◼   ► one okay all right what's your number

00:18:19 ◼   ► two all right my number two

00:18:22 ◼   ► Oh first I want it I want to run back

00:18:24 ◼   ► backwards for a second and talk about

00:18:26 ◼   ► your Oni okay

00:18:29 ◼   ► oh wait well maybe I'll see what your

00:18:31 ◼   ► number one and two are okay guys if it's

00:18:33 ◼   ► pepperoni again without sausage then I

00:18:35 ◼   ► have something to say okay okay my

00:18:39 ◼   ► number two is ham and pineapple the

00:18:43 ◼   ► Hawaiian okay it's so good you got the

00:18:47 ◼   ► salty you got the sweet I like little

00:18:50 ◼   ► bits of ham you can't go wrong with ham

00:18:52 ◼   ► most ham in most places does not taste

00:18:55 ◼   ► piggy because it just tastes like ham

00:18:56 ◼   ► it's mean these would just buy deli ham

00:18:58 ◼   ► I would imagine like jelly ham some they

00:19:01 ◼   ► use like ham steaks where they chop it

00:19:02 ◼   ► up lightly you don't do that it's just a

00:19:06 ◼   ► ham steak I guess I don't like ham so I

00:19:08 ◼   ► shouldn't really judge okay yeah you

00:19:10 ◼   ► don't like him you're out of this game

00:19:12 ◼   ► okay so and pineapple no matter how they

00:19:15 ◼   ► put it whether it's like slightly

00:19:17 ◼   ► charred or if it's not if it's cold it

00:19:20 ◼   ► doesn't matter I love pineapple ham

00:19:23 ◼   ► pizza it is a really fun thing to order

00:19:26 ◼   ► when I don't feel like other things I

00:19:28 ◼   ► have it as my number two because I crave

00:19:32 ◼   ► it more often than I get it but I will

00:19:36 ◼   ► not ever turn down a pineapple ham pizza

00:19:40 ◼   ► and I've never had a bad pineapple and

00:19:42 ◼   ► ham pizza because my other number my

00:19:45 ◼   ► three and four

00:19:46 ◼   ► I've had bad versions of those toppings

00:19:48 ◼   ► and my number four is my perfect number

00:19:52 ◼   ► four is even hard to get so that's why

00:19:54 ◼   ► pineapple and ham Trump's my other two

00:19:58 ◼   ► because

00:19:59 ◼   ► it's consistent and I can get it

00:20:01 ◼   ► delicious anywhere and it's super fun

00:20:02 ◼   ► and I kind of actually love when people

00:20:05 ◼   ► are grossed out by it because I love

00:20:07 ◼   ► eating stuff in front of other people

00:20:09 ◼   ► that they're grossed out by what I'm

00:20:11 ◼   ► eating because I'm like haha it's

00:20:13 ◼   ► delicious to me I don't care what you

00:20:15 ◼   ► think yeah I gotta say like it must be

00:20:17 ◼   ► fun to be the one person in a group who

00:20:19 ◼   ► likes anchovy pizza well the good thing

00:20:32 ◼   ► is I mean Joey you're disgusting when

00:20:33 ◼   ► pineapple and hands actually really good

00:20:35 ◼   ► and so and so it's it's this option you

00:20:37 ◼   ► can order that is really good but it's

00:20:39 ◼   ► still I mean I know like it's been

00:20:42 ◼   ► around for a while it's been around for

00:20:43 ◼   ► a long time there are still people that

00:20:45 ◼   ► are surprised by it exactly it still

00:20:47 ◼   ► surprises people I'm like what rock have

00:20:50 ◼   ► you been living under that you haven't

00:20:51 ◼   ► tried a pineapple and ham pizza it's

00:20:53 ◼   ► like we have the internet people know

00:20:55 ◼   ► about enough now like and if you're

00:20:57 ◼   ► around anybody like when you're ordering

00:20:59 ◼   ► this if you're around anybody who is

00:21:00 ◼   ► over the age of about 50 there's a good

00:21:03 ◼   ► chance they've never heard of and it

00:21:05 ◼   ► will blow their mind yeah and they're

00:21:07 ◼   ► like what that's weird what I like it

00:21:10 ◼   ► it's it's so amazing to be able to

00:21:11 ◼   ► introduce the concept of a new weird

00:21:13 ◼   ► sounding pizza topping to somebody who's

00:21:15 ◼   ► never heard of it before yep pretty fun

00:21:17 ◼   ► so pineapple in a ham number 2 that's

00:21:20 ◼   ► that's solid pick thank you I got a

00:21:23 ◼   ► solid pick alright my number 2 is the

00:21:27 ◼   ► evil villain pizza from inside out the

00:21:30 ◼   ► white with broccoli so yeah the white a

00:21:39 ◼   ► white pizza with broccoli I it's really

00:21:42 ◼   ► good like I recognize that to children

00:21:45 ◼   ► who hate broccoli that probably sounds

00:21:48 ◼   ► horrible so I totally get why like a kid

00:21:51 ◼   ► would think that's really weird

00:21:53 ◼   ► especially if they already hate broccoli

00:21:54 ◼   ► but as an adult who likes vegetables I

00:21:58 ◼   ► like a white pizza with broccoli is just

00:22:01 ◼   ► so good I didn't in general I like white

00:22:03 ◼   ► pizza with almost any vegetable topping

00:22:05 ◼   ► like white pea soup with vegetables in

00:22:07 ◼   ► general is very good combo and I think

00:22:09 ◼   ► of all the vegetables I've had I think

00:22:11 ◼   ► broccoli is the best

00:22:12 ◼   ► I agree with you that if we were in

00:22:14 ◼   ► Pittsburgh at Aiello's I would get

00:22:16 ◼   ► broccoli and onion but in most places I

00:22:18 ◼   ► don't trust the onion enough to to to

00:22:22 ◼   ► order that and be set be tight with it

00:22:23 ◼   ► so that's because you don't like a raw

00:22:25 ◼   ► onion I don't mind if there's an

00:22:26 ◼   ► accidental raw onion yeah situation on

00:22:29 ◼   ► pizza okay now here's a question for you

00:22:30 ◼   ► it all I got to say it's you're talking

00:22:33 ◼   ► about a regular white slice not just a

00:22:36 ◼   ► slice without sauce that's right you

00:22:39 ◼   ► need to specify that for people who are

00:22:41 ◼   ► unsure or who have never had a white

00:22:43 ◼   ► slice before because that is also pretty

00:22:45 ◼   ► common yes so I'm talking about the

00:22:48 ◼   ► white slice that is crust mozzarella and

00:22:52 ◼   ► dobbs of fresh ricotta and which is a

00:22:56 ◼   ► hard word to say I don't know quite how

00:22:57 ◼   ► to say it either like a jerky jerk who's

00:23:01 ◼   ► trying to say like can't say ricotta

00:23:06 ◼   ► because that sounds awful too so the one

00:23:09 ◼   ► no matter how weird in the middle like

00:23:12 ◼   ► yeah no matter how you say it somebody

00:23:15 ◼   ► is somebody who hears you is going to

00:23:17 ◼   ► either be mad that you said it to

00:23:19 ◼   ► American or is going to not understand

00:23:21 ◼   ► what the heck you're saying you said it

00:23:23 ◼   ► to Italian yeah yeah well it's gyro gyro

00:23:25 ◼   ► situation it's like what the hell yeah

00:23:27 ◼   ► yeah but I feel like I feel like you can

00:23:29 ◼   ► safely say gyro in most places without

00:23:32 ◼   ► making anybody mad that's true

00:23:34 ◼   ► but yeah except Greece well around here

00:23:37 ◼   ► yeah it's it's I'm very afraid to say

00:23:39 ◼   ► that type of cheese yeah I I just avoid

00:23:41 ◼   ► talking about it but anyway anyway yeah

00:23:46 ◼   ► that always goes in Dobbs on a white pie

00:23:49 ◼   ► and and that it's a combination of the

00:23:52 ◼   ► the fresh mozzarella or the regular

00:23:54 ◼   ► mozzarella that and broccoli is just the

00:23:57 ◼   ► best and it's very simple you have to

00:23:58 ◼   ► get the ratio right though yes that's

00:24:00 ◼   ► true and and the broccoli has to be as

00:24:02 ◼   ► you mentioned it has to be fresh not

00:24:04 ◼   ► dried out not burnt and but that's

00:24:07 ◼   ► another one like like a broccoli white

00:24:09 ◼   ► slice is also another one where you can

00:24:11 ◼   ► order it in a lot of different places

00:24:12 ◼   ► and it's generally gonna be good like

00:24:15 ◼   ► it's a pretty safe bet it's it's pretty

00:24:18 ◼   ► hard to screw that up it in a big way

00:24:20 ◼   ► yeah because I don't even mind that much

00:24:22 ◼   ► when it's burnt honestly because I like

00:24:24 ◼   ► broccoli so yeah

00:24:26 ◼   ► me too and yeah I mean when I cook

00:24:27 ◼   ► broccoli I burn about a third of the

00:24:29 ◼   ► time anyway so we always parboil our

00:24:31 ◼   ► broccoli

00:24:32 ◼   ► oh not like no but it's usually it's

00:24:34 ◼   ► like in like a stir-fry with other

00:24:35 ◼   ► things like or it's like it's in a it's

00:24:37 ◼   ► in a pan with like onions stuff also so

00:24:39 ◼   ► I often overcook it where it doesn't

00:24:41 ◼   ► burn but it like it kind of turns like

00:24:43 ◼   ► more Brown than green you know okay I

00:24:46 ◼   ► mean I try not to but when I screw up

00:24:48 ◼   ► that's what happens all right what's

00:24:50 ◼   ► your number one my number one is

00:24:52 ◼   ► margarita okay for almost all the same

00:24:56 ◼   ► reasons you were saying I was just like

00:24:59 ◼   ► taking all my reasons but it gained

00:25:03 ◼   ► points it plus one all over the place

00:25:06 ◼   ► and moved itself to the top of my list

00:25:10 ◼   ► Margaery could do whatever it wants is

00:25:12 ◼   ► delicious it is

00:25:14 ◼   ► I love margarita mainly for its

00:25:17 ◼   ► universality when you're talking about

00:25:18 ◼   ► pizza you can get a good margarita pizza

00:25:21 ◼   ► anywhere just like you said and I even

00:25:24 ◼   ► want to add to that if you're like out

00:25:25 ◼   ► at a restaurant that has like brick oven

00:25:28 ◼   ► pizza brick oven margarita is amazing

00:25:31 ◼   ► yeah you can like get little personal

00:25:33 ◼   ► pan pizzas from like bar pizza and

00:25:35 ◼   ► margarita is gonna be amazing because

00:25:37 ◼   ► it's usually either very very fresh

00:25:40 ◼   ► ingredient or like you said ingredients

00:25:42 ◼   ► that can translate really well and stay

00:25:44 ◼   ► flavorful even if they aren't perfect so

00:25:46 ◼   ► it is just ideal

00:25:48 ◼   ► I love caprese salad I love those

00:25:51 ◼   ► flavors in the summertime when

00:25:53 ◼   ► everything is fresh and beautiful and

00:25:55 ◼   ► this is just kind of like the cooked

00:25:57 ◼   ► pizza version of that yep and so I

00:26:01 ◼   ► always crave that kind of fresh bright

00:26:04 ◼   ► type of pizza and I know John is

00:26:08 ◼   ► probably freaking out right now it's not

00:26:10 ◼   ► like a regular New York kind of pizza

00:26:12 ◼   ► with none of I don't think any of mine

00:26:15 ◼   ► are regular New York kind of Excel pie

00:26:17 ◼   ► normally is not I I think that I don't

00:26:19 ◼   ► think I didn't have margarita until I

00:26:21 ◼   ► was much older like when you just when

00:26:24 ◼   ► you order a pie you get like the typical

00:26:26 ◼   ► things that regular choose about plain

00:26:28 ◼   ► or you get pepperoni or you have peppers

00:26:31 ◼   ► and onions that's always a big order

00:26:33 ◼   ► when I was a kid I don't do so well with

00:26:37 ◼   ► peppers anymore so that didn't make

00:26:39 ◼   ► sorry TMI sorry I was sorry peppers

00:26:42 ◼   ► you're off the list and you know I love

00:26:46 ◼   ► a regular pepperoni pizza I really do

00:26:48 ◼   ► like a solo pepperoni pizza who doesn't

00:26:51 ◼   ► like that just like you said I would

00:26:52 ◼   ► never turn down a slice of pepperoni

00:26:53 ◼   ► pizza it's delicious

00:26:55 ◼   ► if I've just felt like a random topping

00:26:57 ◼   ► but man that margarita it is just always

00:27:00 ◼   ► good no matter where you go no matter

00:27:02 ◼   ► who's making it it's really hard to

00:27:04 ◼   ► screw up

00:27:04 ◼   ► thin crust the crust it doesn't matter

00:27:06 ◼   ► it's just so good yeah that's that's a

00:27:09 ◼   ► very solid pick and I mean I I honestly

00:27:11 ◼   ► thought about making my number one also

00:27:13 ◼   ► but I just a few things I like better

00:27:14 ◼   ► but it is like whenever whenever we get

00:27:17 ◼   ► slices and we get an assortment of

00:27:20 ◼   ► slices we oh I almost always throw in

00:27:23 ◼   ► one margherita slice at least and it's

00:27:25 ◼   ► like I don't know if I'm only gonna be

00:27:27 ◼   ► getting one slice I often might pick

00:27:29 ◼   ► something else but if I'm going to be

00:27:31 ◼   ► getting multiple slices I almost always

00:27:33 ◼   ► want one of those among them it's also

00:27:35 ◼   ► really good cold for breakfast

00:27:37 ◼   ► yes you know it's well I like all these

00:27:39 ◼   ► like old for breakfast yeah yeah but the

00:27:45 ◼   ► one they all disagree with you on though

00:27:46 ◼   ► is that I'm not sure I I think for a

00:27:49 ◼   ► universality of where you're ordering

00:27:51 ◼   ► I think pepperoni beats margarita for

00:27:53 ◼   ► life do you want this to be good from

00:27:55 ◼   ► anywhere and I think I think I think

00:27:57 ◼   ► pepperoni is more likely to be good from

00:27:59 ◼   ► like like the big chains and like the

00:28:01 ◼   ► kind of crappier places ok crappier

00:28:03 ◼   ► places yeah like Cheyney places yeah I

00:28:06 ◼   ► do agree with you but I would still

00:28:08 ◼   ► personally prefer a margarita that's

00:28:11 ◼   ► fair all right for my number one for my

00:28:18 ◼   ► number one I want John siracusa to stop

00:28:21 ◼   ► listening I'm serious stop turn it off

00:28:24 ◼   ► stop listening don't buy the airplane

00:28:25 ◼   ► Wi-Fi do not buy the airplane Wi-Fi my

00:28:29 ◼   ► number one pizza

00:28:30 ◼   ► I'm so sorry John is barbecue chicken

00:28:35 ◼   ► whoa number one barbecued chicken and I

00:28:40 ◼   ► know this we need to talk about this I

00:28:41 ◼   ► know you would say about barbecue

00:28:43 ◼   ► chicken we will and this was a tough

00:28:46 ◼   ► call for me because I do recognize that

00:28:49 ◼   ► in many ways it's like barely pizza you

00:28:52 ◼   ► know it's very it's

00:28:53 ◼   ► so far out and barbecue chicken it has a

00:28:56 ◼   ► wide variety of how its executed most of

00:29:00 ◼   ► them I've liked from like the the crappy

00:29:02 ◼   ► pizza place to the frozen pizza to the

00:29:05 ◼   ► good pizza places and two different ways

00:29:07 ◼   ► good pizza places do it

00:29:08 ◼   ► I have almost always liked a barbecue

00:29:11 ◼   ► chicken slice and what I like it like

00:29:13 ◼   ► first of all I guess like barbecue sauce

00:29:14 ◼   ► in fact I recommend if you are a

00:29:17 ◼   ► broccoli white pizza fan try at one time

00:29:20 ◼   ► with a little like zig zag a barbecue

00:29:22 ◼   ► sauce on it it's a very good flavor

00:29:24 ◼   ► combo anyway love barbecue sauce and and

00:29:28 ◼   ► the sweet kind not but not like the

00:29:31 ◼   ► super smoky kind I don't like artificial

00:29:32 ◼   ► smoked flavor so thus we can drive

00:29:34 ◼   ► acusó anyway I'm sorry for whatever

00:29:36 ◼   ► part of the us hate sweet barbecue I'm

00:29:39 ◼   ► sure there's like some part like is it

00:29:40 ◼   ► like everyone likes something yeah but

00:29:42 ◼   ► is it like you know like Tennessee that

00:29:44 ◼   ► hates ater Kansas or Texas or what like

00:29:46 ◼   ► I'm sure there's some someplace anyway

00:29:49 ◼   ► it doesn't matter

00:29:51 ◼   ► so barbecue chicken the way our pizza

00:29:54 ◼   ► place does it I really enjoy it's a it's

00:29:57 ◼   ► just a white base with no Regatta a

00:29:59 ◼   ► white base with barbecue sauce coated

00:30:04 ◼   ► fried chicken like square pieces on it

00:30:07 ◼   ► and that's it so you're getting the

00:30:10 ◼   ► tomatoey flavor from the barbecue sauce

00:30:12 ◼   ► you're getting the pizza flavor from the

00:30:14 ◼   ► combination of that and the white base

00:30:15 ◼   ► and and the cross and you get this nice

00:30:18 ◼   ► chicken so it kind of it kind of bulks

00:30:19 ◼   ► it up it makes it it changes the ratio

00:30:22 ◼   ► of like how much like protein versus

00:30:24 ◼   ► dairy versus Starks you're eating to

00:30:29 ◼   ► tilt it more because then it's it's like

00:30:30 ◼   ► you're having a whole bunch of chicken

00:30:31 ◼   ► and also a little bit of starch and

00:30:33 ◼   ► cheese so it like depending on what your

00:30:36 ◼   ► going forward I jest of Lee it can can't

00:30:38 ◼   ► kind of help with that

00:30:39 ◼   ► some places really dress it up with

00:30:42 ◼   ► weird stuff some places we'll put corn

00:30:44 ◼   ► or red onion in there and the fries corn

00:30:47 ◼   ► I know and I actually I don't like those

00:30:49 ◼   ► as much I don't dislike them it's still

00:30:52 ◼   ► good to me it's so I know this is really

00:30:54 ◼   ► weird and if the only kind of ever had

00:30:56 ◼   ► was the one was the ones with corn and

00:30:59 ◼   ► onions and everything I wouldn't like it

00:31:00 ◼   ► as much but the fact that our pizza

00:31:02 ◼   ► place makes such a good one that is just

00:31:03 ◼   ► the barbecue sauce coated chicken fried

00:31:06 ◼   ► bits

00:31:07 ◼   ► on top of a white pie it's just so good

00:31:09 ◼   ► and every time that is available I get

00:31:13 ◼   ► it and if I only get one slice sometimes

00:31:15 ◼   ► if I like if I go there like on the way

00:31:17 ◼   ► to the train or something I know if I'm

00:31:18 ◼   ► only gonna have one slice and I have

00:31:20 ◼   ► enough room for it because it's pretty

00:31:21 ◼   ► filling

00:31:22 ◼   ► I will almost always pick the berry

00:31:23 ◼   ► chicken slice because it's just so good

00:31:25 ◼   ► I have things to say about checking on

00:31:28 ◼   ► pizza I'm so sorry the thing about

00:31:32 ◼   ► chicken on pizza is it's usually awful

00:31:34 ◼   ► chicken on pizza is just the worst it is

00:31:40 ◼   ► so much worse than broccoli on pizza

00:31:43 ◼   ► because chicken on PITA

00:31:44 ◼   ► you can get like the most dry sinewy

00:31:47 ◼   ► like nasty chicken it could taste like

00:31:50 ◼   ► freezers because most of the time almost

00:31:53 ◼   ► all of the time chicken on pizza is

00:31:55 ◼   ► frozen and they just kind of like either

00:31:57 ◼   ► have frozen chicken bits which is

00:31:59 ◼   ► horrible yeah or they have like frozen

00:32:03 ◼   ► chickens that then they you know do

00:32:05 ◼   ► things to and put on the pizza and also

00:32:09 ◼   ► weird barbecue situations but regardless

00:32:12 ◼   ► any kind of chicken on pizza I find to

00:32:14 ◼   ► be just horrible because not only that

00:32:15 ◼   ► they usually overcook the chicken even

00:32:18 ◼   ► if they are cooking like something and

00:32:20 ◼   ► then they put overcooked chicken on top

00:32:23 ◼   ► of a raw pizza and then cook it again

00:32:25 ◼   ► and so you have dried out pieces of

00:32:28 ◼   ► chicken oh it's just so horrible slices

00:32:34 ◼   ► the place Marco is talking about who we

00:32:36 ◼   ► are plugging and it's not sponsoring us

00:32:38 ◼   ► but I mean we pretty much sponsor them

00:32:43 ◼   ► they have fresh chicken every time that

00:32:48 ◼   ► they they make their chicken fresh they

00:32:50 ◼   ► make it fresh every day it is never

00:32:53 ◼   ► frozen mmm they make their own

00:32:55 ◼   ► mozzarella cheese like it just looks

00:32:58 ◼   ► kind of like a hole in the wall new york

00:33:00 ◼   ► pizza place it doesn't it doesn't it's

00:33:02 ◼   ► not fancy yeah it doesn't see noteworthy

00:33:05 ◼   ► compared to any other New York Pizza no

00:33:07 ◼   ► it doesn't look like hipstery like no

00:33:10 ◼   ► fresh pizza it's just like guys in a

00:33:13 ◼   ► pizza shop kind of pizza place like

00:33:15 ◼   ► they're all over right but they make

00:33:18 ◼   ► everything fresh you could you can walk

00:33:20 ◼   ► into a pizza

00:33:20 ◼   ► it looks just like this and everything

00:33:22 ◼   ► could be like frozen and terrible but

00:33:24 ◼   ► everything's fresh everything's

00:33:26 ◼   ► delicious and they do the chicken on the

00:33:30 ◼   ► pizza right there chick it there chicken

00:33:32 ◼   ► pizzas are the first effort chicken

00:33:34 ◼   ► pizzas that I've ever ever ever liked

00:33:36 ◼   ► yeah they got they got you to to not

00:33:38 ◼   ► only try chicken pizza after much

00:33:40 ◼   ► traffic went for me not only try it but

00:33:44 ◼   ► now you actually like it yeah well from

00:33:46 ◼   ► there chicken on pizza in general is an

00:33:48 ◼   ► abomination no I mean I will give you

00:33:50 ◼   ► that chicken is very easy to be mediocre

00:33:53 ◼   ► or bad on pizza

00:33:55 ◼   ► I have literally wrote down oh my god

00:33:56 ◼   ► black no I mean that I get why you don't

00:33:59 ◼   ► like chicken when it's done badly on

00:34:01 ◼   ► pizza but I like there's so much that I

00:34:04 ◼   ► think it makes up for that the handful

00:34:05 ◼   ► of times that I've had like you know

00:34:06 ◼   ► overdone or dry chicken on pizza I for

00:34:10 ◼   ► the most part the record is very very

00:34:11 ◼   ► good but you also tend to like chicken

00:34:13 ◼   ► on pizza so that's true so yeah so

00:34:15 ◼   ► that's my number one I don't know that's

00:34:16 ◼   ► that's gonna anger a lot of people so so

00:34:19 ◼   ► just pretend if if you're angry about

00:34:21 ◼   ► BBQ chicken pizza just pretend like I

00:34:22 ◼   ► stopped at white with broccoli though I

00:34:25 ◼   ► think it's really fun about pizza

00:34:26 ◼   ► toppings is that they really really can

00:34:28 ◼   ► be so different between people because

00:34:30 ◼   ► you can order whatever you want there's

00:34:33 ◼   ► a whole bunch of toppings there's a

00:34:34 ◼   ► whole bunch of bases there's a whole

00:34:35 ◼   ► bunch of combinations that you could do

00:34:37 ◼   ► so you know really we don't hate on each

00:34:40 ◼   ► other for pizza everyone just gets along

00:34:42 ◼   ► it's pizza you can get half a pie of

00:34:44 ◼   ► something if you can't agree like that's

00:34:46 ◼   ► amazing you could just get like oh I'll

00:34:48 ◼   ► have half this and you have half that we

00:34:50 ◼   ► can all get along you don't have to

00:34:52 ◼   ► decide you can just get what you want

00:34:54 ◼   ► it's pizza yeah it doesn't like pizza

00:34:58 ◼   ► remember when we ordered all that um

00:35:00 ◼   ► what do we get all the time was it

00:35:01 ◼   ► Little Caesars no yank on it was it

00:35:04 ◼   ► Domino's or little no there's Little

00:35:06 ◼   ► Caesars because they did a special where

00:35:07 ◼   ► you get an entire pepperoni probably for

00:35:10 ◼   ► five bucks the best and we'd watch Sex

00:35:12 ◼   ► in the City

00:35:13 ◼   ► when we first we were in college in my

00:35:15 ◼   ► crappy apartment and again pepperoni

00:35:20 ◼   ► pizza it was perfect

00:35:21 ◼   ► that was the only option it was five

00:35:24 ◼   ► dollars for an entire pepperoni pie they

00:35:26 ◼   ► were already made in a big stack and you

00:35:27 ◼   ► could just walk in and pick them up for

00:35:29 ◼   ► $5

00:35:29 ◼   ► talk about being paid and being gross I

00:35:31 ◼   ► know but it but I totally was again

00:35:33 ◼   ► biggest pepperoni

00:35:34 ◼   ► good and it was a smaller large pizza -

00:35:36 ◼   ► it was like it was enough for both of us

00:35:38 ◼   ► to split yeah I mean well it was enough

00:35:40 ◼   ► to both of us shouldn't eat the whole

00:35:42 ◼   ► thing but we could and we usually did

00:35:43 ◼   ► together yeah yeah we only got one we're

00:35:46 ◼   ► not animals well at a time yeah but we

00:35:49 ◼   ► did it on a number of occasions pretty

00:35:51 ◼   ► much did it every like Sunday night

00:35:52 ◼   ► before you left we would just say cuz X

00:35:54 ◼   ► in the city together and we'd eat one of

00:35:56 ◼   ► those pizzas yep and see pepperoni was

00:36:00 ◼   ► the universal flavor it's the universal

00:36:02 ◼   ► light no matter where you are good or

00:36:04 ◼   ► crappy pepperoni will probably be good

00:36:06 ◼   ► pepperonis king but it's not on any of

00:36:09 ◼   ► our lists it was on mine my number four

00:36:11 ◼   ► no pepperoni sausage was your number

00:36:13 ◼   ► four we discussed that that's part of

00:36:15 ◼   ► the rules you pick pepperoni sausage

00:36:17 ◼   ► combo

00:36:17 ◼   ► oh you're right oh well sorry pepperoni

00:36:22 ◼   ► you're the best but we didn't pick you

00:36:24 ◼   ► so uh that's it all right so thank you

00:36:26 ◼   ► for listening everybody do we want to

00:36:27 ◼   ► talk about the the pineapple and

00:36:29 ◼   ► pepperoni thing you want to discuss or

00:36:33 ◼   ► should we just drop in some after show

00:36:35 ◼   ► business let's discuss it so we did a

00:36:37 ◼   ► little taste testing this evening

00:36:39 ◼   ► yesterday Marco got us a whole bunch of

00:36:41 ◼   ► slices because we thought we were going

00:36:42 ◼   ► to be recording last night I when he

00:36:46 ◼   ► came back with all the slices I was like

00:36:47 ◼   ► wait we were supposed to taste test this

00:36:50 ◼   ► pizza topping combo that a whole bunch

00:36:53 ◼   ► of our friends over at Relay and the

00:36:55 ◼   ► incomparable we're raving about so which

00:36:59 ◼   ► is the pineapple and pepperoni pineapple

00:37:02 ◼   ► pepperoni combo I spearheaded by I

00:37:05 ◼   ► believe Jason Snell and then spread

00:37:07 ◼   ► throughout all of Europe by Mike early

00:37:10 ◼   ► and veteran Jason was right so we got

00:37:13 ◼   ► one of these pies before the show

00:37:14 ◼   ► tonight yesterday and so Marco didn't

00:37:17 ◼   ► pick up that slice said that we got it a

00:37:19 ◼   ► whole entire pie fresh made yeah so

00:37:22 ◼   ► because we wanted to give it the fair

00:37:23 ◼   ► shot possible and you know that our

00:37:25 ◼   ► pizza place didn't have pepperoni and

00:37:27 ◼   ► pineapple slices already made sitting

00:37:29 ◼   ► yeah and they could just like you know

00:37:31 ◼   ► put some pineapple on a pepperoni slice

00:37:33 ◼   ► putting it in for a minute but that's

00:37:34 ◼   ► not like a fair shot that's like a hack

00:37:36 ◼   ► okay some people don't understand this

00:37:38 ◼   ► concept in pizza place in New York the

00:37:40 ◼   ► slice pizza flea no really I know weird

00:37:43 ◼   ► well it's not weird to us it's like our

00:37:45 ◼   ► life but you know this so in New York

00:37:47 ◼   ► you

00:37:48 ◼   ► walk into a pizza place there is a

00:37:49 ◼   ► counter that looks like a pie shelf but

00:37:54 ◼   ► hi it's it's pizzas and pizza pies and

00:38:02 ◼   ► you can just like get a slice and they

00:38:04 ◼   ► throw it in the oven real quick heat it

00:38:05 ◼   ► up and hand it to you order it by the

00:38:07 ◼   ► slice and you can get you know whatever

00:38:09 ◼   ► like whatever they happen to have made

00:38:11 ◼   ► at that moment you can go order from

00:38:12 ◼   ► those choices and usually like their

00:38:13 ◼   ► most popular things are kind of out and

00:38:15 ◼   ► made and sometimes they'll have like

00:38:17 ◼   ► some strombolis out sometimes they'll

00:38:18 ◼   ► have like a whole thing of garlic knots

00:38:20 ◼   ► ready to go like everything that's just

00:38:22 ◼   ► kind of ready to go for people for just

00:38:24 ◼   ► walk-ins and we often when we order our

00:38:27 ◼   ► pizza Marco just goes and picks up

00:38:29 ◼   ► walk-in slices we don't order pies that

00:38:32 ◼   ► often because it's just the two of us so

00:38:34 ◼   ► and Isaac makes those pizzas nice and

00:38:37 ◼   ► big so you can cut a slice in half and

00:38:38 ◼   ► it's enough for each person to have some

00:38:40 ◼   ► yeah usually like I'll get four large

00:38:43 ◼   ► slices and you know we'll split them and

00:38:45 ◼   ► so that's enough for two people and it's

00:38:47 ◼   ► nice you don't to wait for it and you

00:38:48 ◼   ► get variety right away it's nice anyway

00:38:50 ◼   ► so if like you're walking around New

00:38:52 ◼   ► York and you feel like a slice of pizza

00:38:53 ◼   ► you don't have to like go in somewhere

00:38:55 ◼   ► in order a pizza you can just like grab

00:38:58 ◼   ► one they put it on a paper plate and you

00:38:59 ◼   ► walk out eating it yeah exactly so we

00:39:02 ◼   ► wanted to give it a fair shot so we got

00:39:03 ◼   ► an entire pie fresh made pineapple and

00:39:06 ◼   ► pepperoni and I gotta say I really liked

00:39:10 ◼   ► it a lot the the only thing that that we

00:39:13 ◼   ► both cited as like I was like a reliable

00:39:15 ◼   ► problem with it is that because

00:39:18 ◼   ► pepperoni is already on the high grease

00:39:21 ◼   ► side and pineapple is so watery that

00:39:24 ◼   ► there was an issue of a lot of water

00:39:27 ◼   ► pooling up in certain places in the pie

00:39:29 ◼   ► yeah it was kind of like when Italian

00:39:31 ◼   ► dressing separates where it's all I said

00:39:36 ◼   ► over and over again yeah III don't I

00:39:38 ◼   ► don't think if the flavors were

00:39:40 ◼   ► delicious but the execution was wrong

00:39:42 ◼   ► and that's why pineapple and ham is

00:39:44 ◼   ► superior because you don't have the

00:39:46 ◼   ► grease lever grease level given off by

00:39:49 ◼   ► the pepperoni I see I mean and so I'm

00:39:52 ◼   ► biased because I don't like ham that

00:39:54 ◼   ► much and I do like pepperoni so I I

00:39:56 ◼   ► greatly preferred the flavor of this pie

00:39:58 ◼   ► I agree with you that ham is lower

00:40:00 ◼   ► moisture and so there

00:40:02 ◼   ► like a ham and pineapple pie holds

00:40:03 ◼   ► together better but I think what we had

00:40:06 ◼   ► tonight the pineapple in pepperoni it

00:40:09 ◼   ► tasted better and it was a mess to try

00:40:11 ◼   ► to hold it up it did improve over time

00:40:13 ◼   ► as it cooled and the last times I had I

00:40:16 ◼   ► blotted it first and that also helped a

00:40:18 ◼   ► lot it's gonna make an amazing breakfast

00:40:19 ◼   ► yeah when that when it's cold it's gonna

00:40:21 ◼   ► be awesome

00:40:22 ◼   ► but I would say I really enjoyed it I

00:40:25 ◼   ► think Jason was right it's a really good

00:40:27 ◼   ► flavor and I can see myself ordering it

00:40:30 ◼   ► again in the future all right I also

00:40:33 ◼   ► liked it but I probably would not order

00:40:35 ◼   ► it because of the fresh out of the oven

00:40:38 ◼   ► consistency was not my favorite that's a

00:40:41 ◼   ► fair criticism no I I love pineapple on

00:40:43 ◼   ► pizza as by my list but I don't think I

00:40:46 ◼   ► would be going to the pineapple and

00:40:49 ◼   ► pepperoni slice on my own

00:40:52 ◼   ► if someone ordered a pie of it damn

00:40:54 ◼   ► right I take some so I thought I would

00:40:56 ◼   ► close by revealing some interesting

00:40:58 ◼   ► information from our pizza guy I'm Isaac

00:41:01 ◼   ► Carson slices pizzeria been here 14

00:41:04 ◼   ► years and run the pizzeria so what would

00:41:08 ◼   ► you say are the top four toppings that

00:41:10 ◼   ► are ordered on pizzas okay in the order

00:41:13 ◼   ► that I think is the most popular of

00:41:15 ◼   ► course pepperoni

00:41:18 ◼   ► chicken chicken bacon ranch a chicken

00:41:21 ◼   ► parm margarita margarita white is not as

00:41:26 ◼   ► popular I'm trying to think whatever

00:41:28 ◼   ► in good old-fashioned mushrooms it's

00:41:31 ◼   ► still popular it's an acquired taste but

00:41:35 ◼   ► they're trying to think and you know

00:41:37 ◼   ► like that I don't think in the top four

00:41:39 ◼   ► so how popular is the BBQ chicken

00:41:42 ◼   ► barbecue chicken is very popular buffin

00:41:44 ◼   ► Buffalo is probably more popular and now

00:41:47 ◼   ► they're going for chicken bacon ranch as

00:41:49 ◼   ► well as buffalo bacon Ridge and chicken

00:41:52 ◼   ► broccoli Tomatoes so chicken is a big

00:41:54 ◼   ► winner with toppings right now why do

00:41:58 ◼   ► you think most people places seem to

00:42:00 ◼   ► have really terrible chicken on their

00:42:01 ◼   ► pizza and why don't you I make my

00:42:04 ◼   ► chicken every day and we give a good

00:42:07 ◼   ► amount we don't put it sporadic on the

00:42:09 ◼   ► pie we make a nice healthy pie is there

00:42:13 ◼   ► a topping that like if somebody orders

00:42:14 ◼   ► it you just totally dread it cuz it's

00:42:16 ◼   ► like a pain in the butt or it's or it's

00:42:18 ◼   ► just hard to keep or whatever else like

00:42:19 ◼   ► what do you really hope people don't

00:42:21 ◼   ► order what I hope people don't order

00:42:23 ◼   ► their pies that are very difficult to

00:42:25 ◼   ► make like a taco pizza it's very

00:42:26 ◼   ► time-consuming but what they hate

00:42:29 ◼   ► dealing with is the anchovies they hate

00:42:31 ◼   ► anchovy pies the staff you mean you go

00:42:34 ◼   ► this fast how often do you get an order

00:42:37 ◼   ► for an anchovy pie I would probably

00:42:40 ◼   ► guess probably about three times a week

00:42:42 ◼   ► four times a week what do you what what

00:42:44 ◼   ► is right yeah I'm actually like a whole

00:42:47 ◼   ► pie mean so what would you say is the

00:42:49 ◼   ► least popular topping that you still

00:42:51 ◼   ► have probably sun-dried tomatoes it's a

00:42:55 ◼   ► rare pie but anchovies is probably one

00:42:59 ◼   ► of the least most popular pineapple is

00:43:01 ◼   ► also not as popular but if you have a

00:43:04 ◼   ► Hawaiian with ham and pineapple it's

00:43:06 ◼   ► much more popular

00:43:07 ◼   ► was I the first person to order a

00:43:09 ◼   ► pepperoni and pineapple pie yes you were

00:43:11 ◼   ► the first to start with that and how did

00:43:13 ◼   ► you like it honestly we loved it we

00:43:16 ◼   ► thought it was it was a bit of a

00:43:17 ◼   ► moisture issue there's a lot of water

00:43:19 ◼   ► that comes out of the pineapple plus a

00:43:20 ◼   ► lot of the grease in pepperoni but well

00:43:23 ◼   ► after like a blotting it or after it

00:43:25 ◼   ► cooled down having a cold it's amazing

00:43:26 ◼   ► and

00:43:27 ◼   ► really it was really good for breakfast

00:43:29 ◼   ► good breakfast pizza and and another one

00:43:32 ◼   ► is some people ask for bacon and

00:43:34 ◼   ► pineapple once in a while as opposed to

00:43:36 ◼   ► the hand so that's a pork pork product

00:43:39 ◼   ► all right so we had a debate on the show

00:43:42 ◼   ► when people ask for extra cheese is that

00:43:45 ◼   ► actually different than the regular

00:43:47 ◼   ► amount of cheese or you just put the

00:43:48 ◼   ► same amount on

00:43:49 ◼   ► oh no we absolutely put it we put the

00:43:51 ◼   ► sauce the cheese and then we let it sit

00:43:53 ◼   ► and then we put cheese on top of it so

00:43:55 ◼   ► it's actually it looks like a mountain

00:43:56 ◼   ► of cheese on top and how often do people

00:43:58 ◼   ► ask for extra cheese a good amount of

00:44:00 ◼   ► time yeah it probably thirty times a

00:44:02 ◼   ► week and they do it on slices as well if

00:44:06 ◼   ► not only pies it could be unsliced

00:44:07 ◼   ► but that's when it slices cold then you

00:44:10 ◼   ► put the extra cheese on top of it I'll

00:44:12 ◼   ► stop your head what do you think are

00:44:13 ◼   ► your top four personally favorite slices

00:44:15 ◼   ► it's funny you say that

00:44:17 ◼   ► mushroom margherita regular old plain

00:44:21 ◼   ► and Sicilian Wow all right

00:44:24 ◼   ► see and it's plain it's not cheese pizza

00:44:27 ◼   ► not a regular right because if somebody

00:44:31 ◼   ► said plain you would never think they

00:44:33 ◼   ► meant like the only sauce one know very

00:44:36 ◼   ► few people ask for marinara now if they

00:44:38 ◼   ► do they say marinara

00:44:39 ◼   ► they don't say can I have a plain pizza

00:44:41 ◼   ► without any cheese all right thanks a

00:44:44 ◼   ► lot to Isaac it slices here in Hastings

00:44:46 ◼   ► on Hudson and I encourage everybody to

00:44:48 ◼   ► come here and visit because it's our

00:44:49 ◼   ► favorite pizza we appreciate it we hope

00:44:51 ◼   ► to see y'all thank you anything we can

00:44:52 ◼   ► do for you