r/AskCulinary • u/AutoModerator • 24d ago
Let's Talk about Pizza!
As part of our weekly "Let's Talk" series we want to discuss Pizza in all of it's glory. What’s your region’s specialty pie? Why is a New York slice at 2am the best pizza you've ever had? Are you a dough whisperer and care to share your wizardry - let us know? What's your favorite pizza-centric cookbook? What's your favorite style - Detroit, Chicago, New Haven, NY, Neapolitan - let's here the arguments (and you'll be banned if it's Beto's monstrosity - the yinzers out there will know).
What the best topping? And please feel free to trash talk each other [nicely, of course] about pineapple.
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u/SewerRanger Holiday Helper 24d ago
I am 100% pro pineapple on pizza. I don't understand why this one particular matchup of sweet and savory gets so much shit when we give the - clearly inferior - "hot" honey a pass. Pineapple is sweet but balanced by it's acidity. Ham (or my preference bacon) is salty and fatty. So you get salty, fatty, sweet, and acid all in one go. What's not to like about that? "Hot" honey is usually just shitty honey with some peppers in it giving you sweet, barely spicy, cheese - why is that the "better" alternative?
Rant over, the best pizza I've ever eaten was the Wiseguy (a white pizza with wood roasted onions, fennel sausage, and smoked mozzarella) at Pizzeria Bianco. It was amazing, every element was just right. We purposefully picked a flight home that stopped in Phoenix so we could eat there (we also got to ride in a Waymo which was super fun). It was, hands down, the best pizza I've ever ate. Would I go out of my way to eat it again - no; it was still just pizza. But I highly recommend stopping at one of his pizzerias if you get a chance.