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I like a pizza ploughman's 😋

Sounds promising but I'm not giving up my Porkpie.

Professor Elemental OBVIOUSLY never had to work at Domino's.

When eating pies, which I tend to do a lot of, the magic happens with the first bite and the last bite. The bit in the middle is just diabetes(renal is between me and the bakery). So pies just need to be two bites big. Same experience.

But with pizza, the last bite is the boring crust, which always makes me sad.

Maybe eat it crust first?

https://fastfoodpursuits.com/do-you-eat-pizza-crust-first/

Not actually pizza.

Which is why we make our own from scratch - all vegan too.

We use a pizza steel raised two inches on firebricks on an infra-red BBQ grill.

Heat up for at least 25 minutes, insert pizza, cook for six minutes, perfick.

Yes, if having turkish, or amercan like maddonalds type of stuff.
But the more original idea is just the opposite, which is called by american: empty not enough cheese! type of Pizza.

Also, the Italians have a solution for this particular conundrum.

Quattro Stagioni pizza. I have eaten more of these in Italy than I can count.

Oohh - that looks delicious! Never heard of it that way.

One of the absolute delights of Italy - among many food wonders.

I was expecting that. I have no rebuttal.

Me either, at least not in Italy. But the turkish variaton, which we all know, it has that inch of cheese over all.
First rule is: cheese should be under!

Isn't that why people buy the Rav4? "It was there, so I bought it."

I imagine it's difficult to find in the freezer section.

As long as there are mushrooms and goat cheese involved, I'm not tired of life.

Mushrooms are serpent poop left by the devil in the garden of Eden.

Current Favorite
Carne Asada Fries
Fries, Carne asada[steak], beans, cheese, quseo [sour cream], Guacamole
Mexican Poutine?
I eat with my fingers as long as I can find a clean fry to pick up
Tried to eat with the fork upside down but all the good shyt falls off

Hot Take
Wearing underwear ruins your testicular suspension, causing excess sag in old age

But not wearing underwear causes chafing and unwanted erections

Agreed. I didn't even like eating the magic kind.

Snakes and mushrooms but Australia isn't the garden of eden.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/560865/mushroom-murder-trial-death-caps-reported-in-area-months-before-deadly-lunch

Actually, mushrooms are amazing (and delicious).

https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-mushrooms

Lion's Mane mushrooms in particular:

https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-mushrooms

I don't understand why Americans choose the most streakiest, fat filled slices of bacon and then burn it to a crisp! WTF is that all about?

It tastes good!

Sadly, I am forbidden real bacon these days, have to settle for turkey bacon, which isn't too bad once you get used to it.

How so when all the flavour has been burnt out of it?

Who says they're unwanted?

It's not actually burned to a crisp. But for many, the desired end result is crispy. Those two things are not the same.

If you're eating burnt bacon, then you did it wrong.

That may well be, but 'shrooms are a textural disaster in my mouth.

I like English- (or Scottish-, I suppose) style thick-cut back bacon, done until it's just a little brown. My wife likes American-style thinly-sliced belly bacon (what we'd call "streaky bacon" back in the UK).

Bacon as I like it is too "meaty" for her!

Well, it can be overdone, but cooked just to crispness - it's a delight.

I make a stuffed portobello cap that I would easily choose over steak.

Exactly, you wouldn't cook the flavour out of a Steak by cooking it to a crisp so why do so with bacon? I just don't get it

Crispy on the outside ... (with mushrooms and onions)

Also ...

I agree with lomunchi & Syd.

I've heard pro-mushroom arguments that "you can't taste them" and "they take on the flavor of what they're cooked with." My counter to that is, what's the point of adding them, then? If they have no flavor of their own, then there's some other reason for adding them. If they take on the flavor of what they're cooked with, then they're just unnecessary filler.

Ultimately, my argument against them is the same as Syd's - it's the texture and consistency that I'm against.

I have the same argument against avocado, mainly due to my first experience with it. I'd never had it before, and was served a burger with a slice of avocado on it. I saw the layer of green, and expected something firm or crisp, like a thick slice of cucumber. Instead I had a mouthful of mush. Guacamole is good, though.

Why do Brits eat beans on toast? Or crisp butties? Or jellied eels? Or any other godawful abominations?

I'm not making any excuses for American cuisine, mind you. Some of it is genuinely awful. But I think generally Americans are aware that there is a whole world out there full of people who have different tastes and like different things and have different customs.

For whatever reason, the British always seem confounded by this fact.

That's wrong, though. They definitely have flavor. Anyone who says otherwise probably smokes two packs of cigarettes a day.

They also add a ton of umami to almost any savory dish.

Either that or we like to join in on a light hearted internet forum topic from time to time and hope we don't get berated for having a slightly different but non relevant difference of opinion on how we like our processed meat to be cooked?

That's fine, and you're welcome to express yourself on such topics.

But don't be surprised when your surprise at how the rest of the world likes things surprises those of us who already knew that the rest of the world occasionally likes different things.