The crust is the most variable part of the pizza. Sometimes, it's delectable, chewy and the right amount of fluff. Sometimes it's so thin and crunch you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a cracker.
It does tend to result in better and cheaper pizza, but oftentimes pizza is the answer to the question "I want to spend zero time preparing food today, what should I get?" And homemade pizza does not take care of the same problem :(
Lately I just use tortillas for the base. Better toppings to base ratio. Near zero effort. Mine looks more like: tomato paste, shredded cheese, garlic, pre-sliced chorizo, salami or pepperoni. Optionally portobello mushrooms. I use a "pizza flavouring" mix, which is just oregano, basil and marjoram, or if I'm out of that, I probably have basil and might have oregano.
In this recipe, the only thing I need to slice is the garlic, which I get from my own garden when possible, otherwise I try to find Estonian garlic since the Chinese stuff tends to taste weaker (not always though). Even the mushrooms can be bought pre-sliced. I don't always add them because I love them, but not every else does and honestly if I'm trying to get by on the cheap, that's 2 or 3 euros I can do without. Ananas is also strictly optional and I never add it myself, mostly because I forget it exists in cans and cba to buy a whole one and dice it lol
But my original comment of "I want to spend zero time preparing food today, what should I get?" mostly referred to the sort of day where I don't even want to go to the store or turn on the oven. I don't get them a lot anymore, which is why I only get pizza from a pizzeria like 2-3 times a year these days.
It's the phrasing of honouring or respecting the deceased that is the problem. If someone decided to kill and eat me and some weird afterlife shenanigan would allow me to be aware of it, I sure as hell wouldn't find it honouring that they made a cowboy hat of my skin and guitar frets of my bones. Though it would be very metal.
Slaying an animal to utilise every piece of it's corpse would be a more correct and honest take.
If your population was being hunted for food, would you rather have the hunters eat all of their kill, or only part of it? Keep in mind that in both scenarios, their energy needs are the same.
Yeah it's also good for the surviving animals. But it's of no benefit to the dead one. It's dead.
Also, the ancient Egyptians believed one needed all their organs intact to get to the good afterlife. That's why they preserved those mummies so well. If I were an Egyptian buffalo and someone ate My heart before I could weigh it against a feather, I'd be pissed.
I think at that point it has nothing to do with the dead animal. It has been transformed from a living being to a resource we can chose to be wasteful or not with. But there are some serious spiritual hoops to jump through if we want to see it as a honorary action towards our victim.
40 Comments
AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 81d
As if the crust wasn't delicious
sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 81d
I agree, with the exception that on shittier pizza and sometimes reheated pizza it’s not.
Rakonat@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 81d
The crust is the most variable part of the pizza. Sometimes, it's delectable, chewy and the right amount of fluff. Sometimes it's so thin and crunch you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a cracker.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 81d
Or it's underdone and/or overly-bready, and not chewy or crispy enough.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 80d
Needs a dipping sauce.
anzo@programming.dev · 1 pts · 80d
I always have pizza with hummus. I am surprised pizzerias don't offer it already in their menu ...
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 81d
With selective breeding its possible to achieve cheese, sauce and even hotdog stuffed crusts. The conditions are barbaric though.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 81d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-gNu4E9BE
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 81d
If you don't like crust it's not your fault. You probably just have bad pizza.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 81d
Yeah, I love crust on good pizza - but if its just stale cardboard...no thanks.
quips@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 81d
I mean real. A cow and pig suffered and died for that slice.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 81d
Yup. And a mama was separated from her baby for that cheese. The baby, if male, was killed at a few hours old.
Frigidlollipop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 81d
Not always the case. Lots of male steers go on for regular beef production. Circa 2 years, still short compared to a real lifespan.
pheelicks@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 81d
That pizza wheel arrow. :D
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 80d
Pizza is so expensive lately I've decided to learn how to breed pizza in my own oven
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 80d
It does tend to result in better and cheaper pizza, but oftentimes pizza is the answer to the question "I want to spend zero time preparing food today, what should I get?" And homemade pizza does not take care of the same problem :(
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 80d
I know... I know... 🥹 It's ok. We'll be ok.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 80d
=> cheap + low effort Pizza that is also 10x times healthier than the store-bought version.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 80d
Lately I just use tortillas for the base. Better toppings to base ratio. Near zero effort. Mine looks more like: tomato paste, shredded cheese, garlic, pre-sliced chorizo, salami or pepperoni. Optionally portobello mushrooms. I use a "pizza flavouring" mix, which is just oregano, basil and marjoram, or if I'm out of that, I probably have basil and might have oregano.
In this recipe, the only thing I need to slice is the garlic, which I get from my own garden when possible, otherwise I try to find Estonian garlic since the Chinese stuff tends to taste weaker (not always though). Even the mushrooms can be bought pre-sliced. I don't always add them because I love them, but not every else does and honestly if I'm trying to get by on the cheap, that's 2 or 3 euros I can do without. Ananas is also strictly optional and I never add it myself, mostly because I forget it exists in cans and cba to buy a whole one and dice it lol
But my original comment of "I want to spend zero time preparing food today, what should I get?" mostly referred to the sort of day where I don't even want to go to the store or turn on the oven. I don't get them a lot anymore, which is why I only get pizza from a pizzeria like 2-3 times a year these days.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 81d
Take a bit of crust and cheese part at the same time.
Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 80d
Bugsnax
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 80d
Brutal.
Graphic.
I've never been so horrified at the execution of a pizza before.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 81d
Wording? "Don't just leave the crust" implies that not only should you leave the crust, but leave other parts of the pizzanimal too.
And I'm sure that's the opposite of what they meant.
Last pane should say something like:
Waste nothing. Use every part of the Pizzanimal. Including the crust.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 81d
"Don't just leave the crust"
It could have been phrased clearer.
DaedalousIlios@pawb.social · 3 pts · 80d
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs sequal is looking blursed!
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 80d
I love the crust. Give it to me.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 80d
From the pattern that looks like a holstein pizza.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 81d
Only humans would decide that the way to honour a dead creature is by desecrating more of its corpse.
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 81d
I mean otherwise what, you killed a living creature to eat half of it? You killed it for sport? That's just extra wasteful of a life.
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social · 3 pts · 80d
It's the phrasing of honouring or respecting the deceased that is the problem. If someone decided to kill and eat me and some weird afterlife shenanigan would allow me to be aware of it, I sure as hell wouldn't find it honouring that they made a cowboy hat of my skin and guitar frets of my bones. Though it would be very metal.
Slaying an animal to utilise every piece of it's corpse would be a more correct and honest take.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · -5 pts · 81d
Well you could take only what you need, and then give what remains of the creature a proper burial and some brief rites.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 81d
If your population was being hunted for food, would you rather have the hunters eat all of their kill, or only part of it? Keep in mind that in both scenarios, their energy needs are the same.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · -1 pts · 81d
Yeah it's also good for the surviving animals. But it's of no benefit to the dead one. It's dead.
Also, the ancient Egyptians believed one needed all their organs intact to get to the good afterlife. That's why they preserved those mummies so well. If I were an Egyptian buffalo and someone ate My heart before I could weigh it against a feather, I'd be pissed.
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 81d
Still seems more wasteful than preserving it for use later to me.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 0 pts · 81d
Yeah, I agree, sustainability is important and we shouldn't waste. But I don't think not wasting shows respect to the dead animal.
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 80d
I think at that point it has nothing to do with the dead animal. It has been transformed from a living being to a resource we can chose to be wasteful or not with. But there are some serious spiritual hoops to jump through if we want to see it as a honorary action towards our victim.
nerv@fedinsfw.app · 6 pts · 81d
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 81d
I would say the same logic also applies to me
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 81d
Sometimes I just eat the toppings offa couple of whole slices and leave all the bread WHAT NOW BITCH?!
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 81d
You'd better call me or any other local scavengers to come finish the natural course of things.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 81d
The Anti-scavenger.