Pizza Toppings, Ranked

It's Friday night, who wants some pizza?

1. Pepperoni

2. Extra cheese

3. Sausage

4. Onions

5. Ham and pineapple

6. Basil

7. Barbecue chicken

8. Olives

9. Garlic

10. Meatball

11. Mushrooms

12. Bacon

13. Green peppers

14. Ham (alone)

15. Banana peppers

16. Tomatoes

17. Buffalo chicken

18. Jalapeno peppers

19. Hamburger

20. Getting run over by a Domino’s delivery driver

21. Anchovies

22. Getting run over by a Papa John’s truck

23. Ranch

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50 Comments

  1. 5. Ham and pineapple

    NOOOOOOO!!!  and if you call it a Hawaiian pizza, I will fight you!  Hawaiian’s do NOT put pineapple and ham or Canadian bacon on pizzas!!!

     

    • Stop calling it Canadian bacon!

       

      You are also wrong about the ham and pineapple. If anything it should rank above onion. Banana peppers should always be grouped together with ham and pineapple.

  2. As long as it doesn’t have fruit or fish (STFU about “well actually tomatoes) then it’s probably OK on a pizza.

    That being said, you forgot about the diced, roasted green chiles, which should be placed at #4.

  3. Have you ever had pizza in northern Europe? Peas. Corn. Lettuce. Mayo. Mustard.

    I was once at a hip little pizzeria in London and they had a personal Pizza Quattro Formaggi (4-cheese) so I ordered that, one of my favorites. When it arrived I immediately realized that no one with active taste buds was there for the food but for the scene. The four cheeses they used were cheddar, double Gloucester, Stilton (which is not Gorgonzola) and one other. Rather than melting the cheeses together the pie was quartered, one cheese per. It was obviously made elsewhere, frozen, and microwaved in situ, so it went from scorching to barely room temp in about 30 seconds. I still have nightmares.

    In northern Germany I got another personal, frozen/microwaved pizza whose name was the name of the place, so it was called something like “Pizza Domplatz” or something. Figuring it was the house specialty, I ordered it. Beets and potatoes. Mmmm.

  4. 1. Watching Outsiders.

    2. Only liked pepperoni on pizza until I delivered pizzas for years starting out in NC, then Daytona Beach and also Northern, NY. I like everything but anchovies now. Pizza is amazing, different toppings is like a totally different meal, just a totally different taste from a pepperoni to, say a sausage and mushroom, but they are almost all good.

    3. What other food is good hot, cold, nuked (well, not my fav), reheated, next day, morning, noon night, … Damn, I want some pizza. It is one of the few things I miss living in Northern, NY, or specifically a rural one.

  5. …at the risk of antagonizing butcher…I have had a seafood pizza that was delicious…a thin “italian” base, no tomato or other sauce…bits of things like baby squid (& maybe mussels…it was a while ago) & bits of scallops with some chilli oil & a bit of garlic & what have you…certainly tasted good to me at the time, anyway

    …mind you I also once had pizza that was more of a deep dish deal but with a cornbread base…so…you really could only eat a little one…& also enjoyed that

    …so it’s entirely possible I’m just some sort of heathen

    …but not such a heathen that I’d eat the stuff it’s sadly all too easy to run into masquerading as pizza around the british isles…that might even go for the majority of the pizza to be found in the UK but edible ones are available…& last I checked easier to find than they were when I was growing up, at least?

      • …it used to be (& as far as I know still is) true that in a lot of chip shops in edinburgh (possibly even most if nothing’s changed) you could get deep fried pizza…possibly in batter

        …in fact some of them you could bring in your own pizza from somewhere else & they’d deep fry that for a fee…or just about anything you might want to deep fry & several things you probably wouldn’t

        …the “famous” example being a mars bar…never tried it myself but I’ve heard it alleged that those are tasty

        …all in all I’d be prepared to order pizza in edinburgh…if it was from somewhere a relative recommended…but not “on the off chance it’s good here”?

    • Some of the original pizza recipes from Naples had anchovies.  My buddy makes traditional Italian pizzas and uses them, they are actually delicious and I don’t even like anchovies!

    • I would never have ordered it for myself, but a fancy-pants pizza place opened in my hometown when I was in college and my parents really liked their jambalaya pizza.  I personally wouldn’t have gotten it, but I can’t deny that it was pretty good.

  6. When i order from my local place i get cheese, tomato, and spinach. When I buy a frozen (Screamin Sicilian or Home Run Inn) i get cheese or sausage. I’m pretty inflexible.

    But ranch isn’t a TOPPING, you dip your crusts in it after. Sheesh. 

  7. I like “Hawaiian” pizza which really should be called Greco-Canadian after the man who “invented” it.

    Mushrooms should be banned forever (I hate them) but I will eat them if I have no choice (if it is already on the pizza usually “deluxe” pizza) and won’t act like a giant baby unlike someone I know. Hate ranch too.

    Anchovies are great. I like them (not baked in) but “fresh” out of the can or bottle. Fits in with being a salt addict (or Asian).

    I don’t like deep dish. If I wanted a damn tomato pie, I’d order one. I nearly got torched by Chi-town locals for that opnion.

  8. I didn’t like fish on pizza before college, and then the shitty dorm food made this even worse.

    See, my college was in northeast Missouri and a fuckton of the students came from St. Louis, which itself has a fuckton of Catholic schools. Every Friday whether or not it was Lent they had fish. Typically shitty baked “whitefish” with a single thin slice of lemon on it. I don’t even know what kind of fish it was. It might have been baked styrofoam.

    They also liked to take leftover meat and reuse it the next day on the pizza options. Which if dinner was hamburgers, sure chop that up and make it a topping. Not great, but we were 18/19 and it was good enough.

    Those fuckers made fish pizza with that shitty leftover fish and it was your standard red sauce pizza with mozzarella, too. SO GROSS.

  9. Also you missed the worst topping of all.

    BROCCOLI.

    I had coworkers a few years ago obsessed with this “artisan” pizza place nearish the office and whenever they’d order pizza for the team it was from there. One of their “fancy” pizzas was their veggie pizza which they put chunks of broccoli on.

    Friends, it just would be charred and yet still undercooked. Gross.

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