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A World of Pizza Toppings
This episode celebrates the beloved comfort food, pizza, diving into its rich history, regional variations, and the ongoing debate about toppings. Join us for a delicious journey as we unite through our shared passion for this universally loved dish.
• Exploring the origins and evolution of pizza
• Discussing the secrets to a great pizza
• Debating traditional favorite and unconventional toppings
• Investigating how pizza took over the United States
• Examining unique toppings found worldwide
• Sharing personal pizza preferences and listener engagement
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What are we doing today? I don't know what's going on, not like the episode, chris. What are we doing today?
Speaker 2:I was trying to do an opening, Chris.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was trying to start us off. Get into it.
Speaker 3:Chris goes, I don't know, chris, this is the first episode, so bring the energy of the new season.
Speaker 1:This is the season of new energy Season three.
Speaker 3:I hope someone dies in this episode.
Speaker 4:That's the energy that we need. Welcome back to. I'm Not Dumb, but Today we're going to take a look at something that's close to everyone's heart and stomach Pizza. Ever wondered where it all started or what the best topping really are? Stay tuned as we unpack the history of pizza and the ultimate topping debate. I'm Not Dumb, but what is the best pizza topping?
Speaker 3:Welcome to the I'm Not Dumb but podcast, where we won't claim to have the answers to life's deepest questions but we'll give you an exciting journey into the realms of knowledge you never knew you'd need Might be mainstream, but not common knowledge. From artificial intelligence to conspiracy theories, no topic is too taboo for us to explore. Let's get curious together.
Speaker 4:I'm your host, chris, and I'm joined by Rob. Hello, cesar, yo Victor, how y'all doing? I gotta ask, okay, what do you think is the secret to a good pizza? The water, no Water.
Speaker 2:I definitely agree on the water, water, I definitely agree on that.
Speaker 1:Water, water, water. Is that why the pizza in Cali always sucks? Yeah.
Speaker 4:Because it's not a New York City water. Is that real?
Speaker 1:I think so Tell me if I ship over water.
Speaker 2:Some places do.
Speaker 4:Yes. And their product is better.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't travel everywhere. I've heard that with bagels.
Speaker 1:I've heard that with bagels, bagels, with bagels. I lived in New York, troy, I know what a bagel is, all right. So water, I'd say that you know. So I guess the water would change the crust and I agree with. But I think Sauce is pretty important too, I agree. I agree, because if the dough sucks, the pizza sucks.
Speaker 4:But if dough sucks? But if you have a decent topping it's still good. It still makes it better.
Speaker 2:Because the dough has all the consistency. It has the. You need that nice, thin, crispy dough. It's the texture All right. All right, I'm starving. What time does the pizzeria close? You could do Domino's. Oh, the cheesy bed. Remember cheesy bread.
Speaker 3:Remember cheesy bread.
Speaker 1:Ugh that cheesy bread was fire.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it was. Maybe it was because we were high, maybe because we were young, maybe because we were drinking underage, but Domino's pizza just hit the spot. Sometimes it was garbage, absolute garbage, but it hit the spot. It really did Trash.
Speaker 3:I will not order it.
Speaker 1:Not even, if you so, between Domino's or Pizza Hut what's your favorite?
Speaker 2:I can't remember ever having Pizza Hut. See, I grew up on Pizza Hut. What's your favorite? I can't remember ever having Pizza.
Speaker 1:Hut. See, I grew up on Pizza Hut, yeah, and so I always have the taste of Pizza Hut over Domino's, yeah, same here, no one on Pizza Hut.
Speaker 4:So before we start arguing about the best toppings, let me give you some history lessons on pizza. Oh, by the way, do we still have our?
Speaker 2:time machine. I mean, I think so, I think it still works. Jump in the time machine.
Speaker 1:Why not Shotgun? Hold on, let me hit the alarm. Who's hitting the button?
Speaker 2:Where are we going, fucking, tell us.
Speaker 4:We're gonna go to ancient civilization. Honestly, I don't even know, but he's gonna go way back.
Speaker 1:Are we going to? Yeah, caesar just got so amped.
Speaker 2:I was like what I'm gonna put in some vague fucking coordinates here?
Speaker 4:just go way back, just go way back, just way back way back 1979.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just started. Alright, here we go Way back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, way back 1979.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just started.
Speaker 3:All right, here we go.
Speaker 4:So we're in, I'll say, way back to ancient civilization, to Greek where we land, I don't know, in Italy, ancient Rome, Ancient Rome, and Egyptians and Greeks.
Speaker 2:This is some diverse fucking place.
Speaker 3:All right, here we are.
Speaker 1:Here we are, roughly 2000.
Speaker 4:BC. Sure, why not? Why not wait? We don't know how far back? No, they don't. I think I couldn't find the time. That was the thing he just. They just say it's ancient civilization where the fuck you looking wikipedia using wikipedia is your source information the concepts of flatbreads with toppings can be traced back to ancient civilizations like Egyptians and Greeks and Romans. Okay, so ancient Greeks are credited with making the flatbread topped with olive oil, herbs and cheese, which could be considered a processor to pizza. I mean, that sounds like a focaccia Bro.
Speaker 4:Back in the day that's what it was.
Speaker 1:That's how it's Like. Somewhere in the Mediterranean ancient civilization we had a flatbread and they put what on it?
Speaker 2:Olive oil, olive oil, herbs, sea salt, any sea salt, probably some herbs. Imagine some Egyptian guy. He comes running out of like a kitchen and he goes guys, guys, guys, we got flatbread. And of like a kitchen and he goes guys, guys, guys we got flatbread, and then they just start fucking celebrating like oh shit, someone put cheese on it, try this olive oil they have a cart outside making flatbread it's halal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what do they call this flatbread? Like pita?
Speaker 4:I don't know if there was a name for it or not, but they just described it as flatbreads.
Speaker 2:Okay, and so who created za'atar? No, that was the fact. If you hate Aladdin and you like good food, this is the place for you.
Speaker 4:The pizza, as we know today, is originated in Naples, italy, napoli. The word pizza was first documented in 1997 AD.
Speaker 2:Wait, did we just jump to 1997? No, 1997 AD. That doesn't sound right Like it came out with the PlayStation.
Speaker 3:I told you we had. Brooklyn. Yeah, that doesn't sound right bro.
Speaker 4:No, no, no, I'm sorry. 997 AD.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:That makes more sense that's like 97.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so 900. Okay, that makes more sense, dude.
Speaker 4:Okay, that makes Okay my bad. That was my bad.
Speaker 1:Mugsy, bogues, jordan, delonco.
Speaker 2:They came out with Space Jam and we coined. What are you? An idiot sandwich.
Speaker 4:Alright, that was my bad, but um so again. 997 AD In Gita, italy.
Speaker 2:Gaeta.
Speaker 4:Italy Ah, that makes sense. But it wasn't until the 1700s In Naples. Gaeta, italy, gaeta, italy Ah, that makes sense. But it wasn't until the 1700s in Naples that it became closer to the modern version. Until then it was just like basic flatbread olive oil, you know, just simple stuff, cheese, and over time the toppings evolved to include tomatoes and cheese.
Speaker 2:Oh, so they didn't start with tomato? Well, they didn't have tomatoes. Tomatoes came from the North America. What, yeah, really? Tomatoes are native to North America. Europe didn't have tomatoes until colonization.
Speaker 1:So they didn't even have a pizza sauce at all, like a tomato sauce. So then why the hell am I going to the store?
Speaker 2:and only buying Italian tomatoes San Marzano? Yeah, because they grew better in volcanic ash.
Speaker 3:Fake news, bro. Fake news Wow.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:According to Google AI, tomatoes are native to South America. In fact, several species are still found growing wild in the Andes, Brought to Mexico tomatoes were domesticated and cultivated there by 500 BC.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, the tomatoes were brought to Italy by Spanish conquistadors.
Speaker 2:So imagine they spent. The roman empire had no tomatoes, no tomato sauce. How fucking crazy is that?
Speaker 1:I would have thought there was tomatoes being thrown about they had nothing to throw, what did they throw? Cabbage, probably cabbage. Yes, cabbage through cabbage, I think I saw that that in a movie like in Troy or something, they threw a cabbage Wow.
Speaker 4:Holy shit. And apparently pizza was like a street food.
Speaker 1:I'd say it's still a street food when you're drunk at night and going home from the bars you're grabbing pizza. Dollar slice $1.25 now. They don't change the signs, though.
Speaker 3:Those things exist.
Speaker 1:For all our European listeners if you ever go to New York City and you see a dollar slice, they're going to charge you about $1.25. They haven't changed the signs.
Speaker 2:Also, the place has a C rating. That's how you know it's legit, yep.
Speaker 1:C is good C is for consume.
Speaker 2:Consume. Yeah, all right, it's legit yep, c is good.
Speaker 4:C is for consume, consume. Yeah, all right, it's time for fun.
Speaker 2:Fun facts with chris do you guys know how margarita pizza came about? It's from a princess or some shit. Oh, very close. How do you know?
Speaker 1:how do you know? How do you know that? How do you know all of this? You're not even Italian, what the hell.
Speaker 3:I know everything. I'm a Portuguese. You're always like we used to know about the tomatoes.
Speaker 4:Wow, in 1889, pizza gained international fame when Rafael Esposito Esposito, a pizza maker from Okay, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2:Can I just stop you for a second? Anytime you say an italian word, you gotta say it with italianness. Any names?
Speaker 4:rafael esposito I'll try, I'll do it all right. And then he created a pizza for queen margarita of savoy. The pizza featured tomato red, mozzarella white it's mozzarella Mozzarella and basil green, representing colors of Italian flag. Hence the name Pizza Margherita oh my god, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita, pizza Margherita.
Speaker 3:Pizza Margherita. Pizza Margherita, that shit probably killed that night, bellissima. Those people were probably blown, they're like this is Italy right here, this is freedom, that was creative.
Speaker 4:So when Italian immigrants brought pizza to the US in the late 19th centuries, particularly to cities like New York, chicago and Philly, and initially it was popular among Italian-American communities. But the pizza gained popularity after World War II when soldiers returned from Italy craving for pizza. In the 1950s pizza chains like Domino's and Pizza Hut emerged. They started in the 50s.
Speaker 2:Wow, that kind of sad, though. What do you mean? So Domino's is out here and it's, you know, spreading throughout the country, introducing people to pizza for the first time, and they have their first experience of pizza.
Speaker 1:Shitty fucking domino's pizza it was probably really good then it was probably still shit, yeah, probably do you remember wendy's burgers back in the day, like growing up, yeah, and then them now that's all.
Speaker 2:Fast food was peak, though, in the 90s.
Speaker 3:To be honest, it felt like after COVID everything.
Speaker 1:food quality no it was way before COVID that went down when they started getting rid of trans fats, but RFK is going to change all that.
Speaker 3:Is he bringing them back?
Speaker 1:He's bringing back polio.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But not trans fats. That shit will kill you.
Speaker 4:A lot of. It's a hoax. It's a hoax, I mean, it's a money making industry. Okay, the American innovation led to the creation of regional pizza styles like New York thin crust and Chicago deep dish. What does Philly have? Cheesesteaks.
Speaker 1:Cheesesteaks, cheesesteaks and high crime.
Speaker 3:I've never had a Chicago deep dish.
Speaker 2:It's not a pizza, it's a fucking casserole.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you can say that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it seems like, and everyone says that it's like underwhelming.
Speaker 2:There's also Detroit style pizza. What's that it's like? Made in a tray.
Speaker 1:I that it's like made in a tray. I do like. Like a deep dish pizza, though sometimes A thicker crust.
Speaker 2:yes, yeah, like a like a pan pizza.
Speaker 4:Is that a Detroit style? Yeah, so. So I'm from Portland, oregon, right? So there's no like Portland style pizza or anything. So I grew up eating like Pizza Hut. Do you guys have heard of Papa's Pizza? Papa John's, papa John's, is that Papa John's?
Speaker 1:Yeah, papa John's, yeah, papa's, or Papa John's, maybe john's, papa john's, is that papa?
Speaker 4:john's, yeah, papa, john's. Yeah, papa's or papa john.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's papa john, they're big on the west coast.
Speaker 4:So right, so I thought. Until I came to new york I thought that was it.
Speaker 1:That's sad it's better than that is sad. There's people in this world living that that's sad.
Speaker 2:currently at papa john you can get the Chacaroni Pizza Extra large, extra pepperoni, extra cheese. It's our extra biggie, ultra foldy super pepperoni pizza.
Speaker 4:By the 1980s and the 90s, pizza had spread worldwide, adapted to local taste, with variation appearing in nearly every country. The pizza industry now is a multi-billion dollar global market, with both traditional pizzerias and fast food chain. Toppings have expanded far beyond the basic with options like pineapple, truffle oil or even dessert pizzas. I found some interesting pizza toppings around the world and I want to see what you guys thinkapan mayo jaga, mayo jaga. So apparently jaga is potato, so it's a combination of mayo, potatoes and bacon, so it often comes with a creamy and savory flavor. I think it's like a potato salad. What's this?
Speaker 2:sauce. I have seen shrimp and mayo as a popular japanese pizza shrimp. I never tried it because I'm a new yorker and therefore we'll never eat that shit man, yeah, that sounds gross.
Speaker 1:I you know, when I see mayo at huh, it's kind of like one of like a bacon cheddar ranch that kind of gives me that vibe. It's good for one slice. You do a couple of slices of that and you're just kind of getting your stomach's getting weird, Okay next place, Australia.
Speaker 2:G'day mate, Maybe some fosters and some kangaroos.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely going there.
Speaker 1:Wow, well done. I've never been able to do the Australian accent. I just able to do the Australian accent. Just try to make.
Speaker 3:Can't do it, still can't do it, I'll crack it out. Done it recently.
Speaker 1:If you're listening out in Australia, please rate that.
Speaker 4:Leave a comment.
Speaker 1:Leave a comment, subscribe, reach out to us. All right, mate I don't know Sounds like a pirate Sounds like Johnny Depp in the third video Dick, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.
Speaker 4:So some pizzerias offer kangaroo meat as topping.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say that but I just thought it was like too on the nose.
Speaker 4:They said that it gives pizza like a gamey and exotic twist to it.
Speaker 2:I guess that's putting like any type of like, like venison on a pizza right is that what really they're eating that?
Speaker 1:and I feel like they probably eat a lot of seafood or something I don't know, maybe, maybe a dingo got the pizza damn I, I gotta step back a dingo, ate your baby.
Speaker 2:I have lost my fiance, the poor baby.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but I don't know Would you guys try that.
Speaker 2:Would you guys try kangaroo? I'd try kangaroo in a second. You gotta try it once, Chris.
Speaker 4:I'd try kangaroo just to say I tried it, you gotta try it once. Next place is Sweden Meatballs, obviously. Yep obviously Swedish meatballs Easy.
Speaker 2:But Obviously Swedish meatballs. But I don't feel that's a weird. I've seen regular pizza places with fucking.
Speaker 4:But it's not just meatballs. They often pair it with creamy sauce like lingonberry jam and cream potatoes to reflect traditional Swedish flavor Sounds like some Viking shit. So whatever you get in Ikea, they just mix it together and put it on this topping.
Speaker 3:You got to assemble it yourself.
Speaker 1:I just don't like the idea of potatoes on a pizza.
Speaker 2:It's a little too high carb for me.
Speaker 1:You know what's the weirdest pizza I've ever had Tuna pizza. Yeah, they do like a tuna salad. I know what you're talking about. I'm telling you this one place does it tuna salad. I know what you're talking about. I'm telling you Uh-huh, this one place does it right.
Speaker 4:If you know you know, Next country is Thailand. Uh.
Speaker 2:Chlamydia Close, but no.
Speaker 1:You get that after you eat it.
Speaker 4:It comes with the pizza. They have Pad Thai pizza, pad Thai with the pizza.
Speaker 2:They have pad thai pizza. Pad thai, pad thai, pad thai. Yeah, that's too much, yeah, that sounds like a lot. Yeah, the pizza's an extra step at that point.
Speaker 4:South Korea uses sweet potatoes.
Speaker 1:Again with the potatoes, do you?
Speaker 3:like that Sweet potato like fried Depends.
Speaker 4:It's sometimes they mash, Sometimes they use as like a wedges. It all depends. It's actually pretty good. You would say that, Chris, Some reason Korean like the pizza in Korea. Like Korean people like sweet pizza. So often in Korea's pizza have ketchup on it.
Speaker 2:So I'm looking at a photo of it Guguma pizza. Yeah, Guguma is sweet potatoes. It doesn't look bad. You're just picturing pizza with a fucking with sweet potato on it. There's more stuff to it than that. There's more flavor to it than that. What?
Speaker 1:What does it say? Mustard? It's baked, mashed, pureed. It's like a double, twice-baked potato pizza. Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 3:I don't like the look of it. It'll rise. I think it'll be better.
Speaker 2:The thought of it is worse than what it actually looks like.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:If you want to have like Korean pizza, I guess next time you eat pizza get a ketchup. No Dip into the ketchup and take a bite with it.
Speaker 2:no, I will not do that chris, if I see you doing that, I'm fucking calling you to the trump's deportation team I'm reporting you to papa trump. They're gonna get rid of you because you'd be in jail next country is france.
Speaker 1:Croissant pizza escargot no no, no, I I call bullshit I call bullshit.
Speaker 4:Where did?
Speaker 1:you get this list from.
Speaker 2:This is like why it's just too like kangaroo yeah, it's like stereotype, stereotype pizza, it's too stereotypical I don't?
Speaker 4:They paired with garlic butter and herbs.
Speaker 1:I feel like they would have gone with a ham and like a brie or a duck it's disgusting.
Speaker 2:Just look in the chat, I'm putting them all there. Yeah, man, no this can't be real. That looks disgusting. It looks like a fucking olive that moves. It wasn't olive that moved. No, where to next?
Speaker 3:that moves. It wasn't all of that moved. No, number one bullshit guy.
Speaker 2:Where to next.
Speaker 4:Now I want to hear what's your, you guys', favorite toppings Caesar Simple.
Speaker 3:I'm a simpleton Favorite toppings Pepperoni, double pepperoni, if you can. I like the chicken bacon ranch and I like freedom on my pizza.
Speaker 2:In that order Freedom Freedom. Yeah, freedom Freedom. It's what you lose when you dip it in the ketchup.
Speaker 3:Other than that, I'm pretty simple. Don't go crazy With the pepperonis.
Speaker 4:Do you like the regular original?
Speaker 3:ones or the smaller ones. You know what I'm talking about. The little cup ones are all right. The cup ones that they like crumble upwards and they get the little bowl of oil on each one. Yeah, those are okay Every time you eat it it's like a little bowl of oil.
Speaker 1:It's the best. We make pizza at home Well, not me, because I can't cook, but my wife does, and she does pepperoni and banana peppers Fire. Then another one is the buffalo chicken slice. Those are good, ooh you walk into a place you're not sure you go buffalo chicken slice you can never go wrong with that? Now I'm done, and then a white slice. You can't say no to a white slice, but I can only do one white slice. Pretty impressive.
Speaker 4:What's the difference?
Speaker 1:between white slice and just regular slice, they do the ricotta cheese the little oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't say it like that. I'm never sure if I'm actually saying it like that.
Speaker 2:I say it like that to be honest those are the three.
Speaker 1:Those are the three right there. Okay, now you can go to fucking victor victor, fucking jokes.
Speaker 2:Can I be real with you? Can I be real with y'all? Be real, real, son be real, be real, real son he's trying to kill my father say where did he try to kill your father, son? Plain cheese only. No cheese, only wow seriously, what a vanilla type of guy. I don't want shit on my pizza.
Speaker 1:That's such a basic, fucking bitch answer like it's like the straight missionary of pizza.
Speaker 2:Plain cheese pizza. Don't put shit on it. It adds extra grease, it adds extra this. It's just plain cheese pizza.
Speaker 3:When you guys go to a shop, do you guys add, like the actual garlic and stuff?
Speaker 4:Yeah, or do you guys just eat the peppers, peppers garlic, Garlic pepper flake. A little bit of cheese. That's it, that's it.
Speaker 2:I add it because other people add it. I get no enjoyment from it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I look at it.
Speaker 2:I'm like, huh, like, if I'm there and like Rob's there and he grabs the powdered garlic and fucking starts dumping it on it.
Speaker 4:I'm just going to take it to and just match. When you add all those to like plain regular slice, it enhances the flavor?
Speaker 2:No, it doesn't. It gets lost in the sauce.
Speaker 3:Bro, pizza is pizza, regardless of what it is Shitty pizza, it's still good pizza. Yeah, seriously.
Speaker 2:That's why we like Domino's. It's fucking shit, sometimes at 3 am it's the only place open.
Speaker 4:If you have to put one topping on it, what would you do? What would it be? Yeah?
Speaker 2:If it's like a regular pizza place, I'll do chicken cutlet like a chopped up chicken cutlet.
Speaker 4:Throw that on top extra protein. But wait, hold up, don't you think that's more of like a New York City thing though? Chicken cutlets, yeah, I feel like, why not? I don chicken cutlets, yeah, I feel like, why not? I don't know, I'm asking, I don't know. I don't remember saying chicken cutlets in portland.
Speaker 2:so no, no, no, it's never on the menu. You have to ask for it and they don't charge you, they'll charge you like six bucks extra to do it but yeah, you just have to ask. Yeah, so the chicken make a rent the pizza places here usually have like chicken parm, so I just want them to take that chicken from the chicken parm, chop it up and then fucking put it on my pizza for some reason that costs six dollars yeah, um jesus, or, depending on where I go, hot oil hot oil, hot oil actually it's pretty good.
Speaker 4:I'm with you on that fucking.
Speaker 1:That's the shit you drip out of the pizza.
Speaker 2:No, it comes in a pepper oh.
Speaker 1:I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:What are your thoughts on dessert pizza Nah. I had to say You've never had it.
Speaker 4:Dessert pizza Like a cheesecake. I think I had it before, but no, it's like a paste, kind of a pastry.
Speaker 2:No, it's a pizza crust and it's usually covered in Nutella, and then marshmallows or a fruit.
Speaker 3:No, I'm not a fan of Nutella. It's too sweet for me.
Speaker 1:I'm not a fan of Nutella because I feel like there's nothing in Nutella. What do?
Speaker 2:you mean it's just hazelnut. It's hazelnut. I don't even think there's any hazelnut in Nutella.
Speaker 1:No, that's how they get Nutella. It's hazelnut In America, is it even hazelnut, isn't Nutella? Italian Nutella contains 13% hazelnuts All right, what's the other percentage?
Speaker 2:Palm oil and sugar. I still eat it.
Speaker 4:Still 13%.
Speaker 2:That's not bad. No food dyes.
Speaker 1:No food dyes. That looks good. That's like you know what it reminds me of when I see this picture with the Nutella and the strawberries, Like a sweet crepe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not folded over and it's a bit thicker, right, right, right.
Speaker 1:I mean in this area, though, like where's the best pizza? Because I mean I've been to all the ones in Brooklyn that are all pretty bad.
Speaker 2:Oh, you got to go to New Haven Connecticut.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I heard that's the capital of the world it's been created apparently.
Speaker 2:I heard that too.
Speaker 1:What's the pizza place up there?
Speaker 2:The original Frank Pepe's, which is alright. I'm not a huge fan. Sally's Bar Modern. A pizza Modern's my favorite.
Speaker 4:Is it really taste different than New York City pizzas or look different?
Speaker 2:It looks about the same but it tastes better. But you have to get it there and you have to eat it there.
Speaker 1:You have to eat it there, right, and you can't do it by the slice, or you have to get it.
Speaker 2:Well, if you're sitting, down at a restaurant, just get the pie, because you're not going to go there, because all these places have lines out the door, so if you're gonna sit there, you're gonna go all the way over there and you're gonna sit there, you're gonna sit down, you're gonna get a pie, got it?
Speaker 1:I remember when I went to syracuse and they were like, uh, we were ordering pizza for the first time and I was like, yeah, can I get a large pie? And the lady goes this is a pizza place, not a bakery.
Speaker 3:And I go what I go what?
Speaker 1:Because apparently they don't call it pies in central. New York. What do they call it? Pizza?
Speaker 4:Pizza, large pizza, large pizza, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, large pizza. They don't call it a pie. That's what she had.
Speaker 2:An issue with the fact that you called it a pie. It's a pizza pie.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, she didn't know what a pie was. She's like the over-educated college asshole. No, these were townies, so they were uneducated.
Speaker 2:It shows.
Speaker 3:It shows. No, she called you that. Yeah, I mean she wasn't wrong.
Speaker 4:I'm pretty much uneducated.
Speaker 2:You went there with your books and shit in your worldviews, calling it a pie Talking about pies, fucking nerd.
Speaker 4:Or I learned this when I came to new york was like the regular slice. You guys call it regular like, not like cheese pizza. Yeah, it's cheese, I just call it cheese. Can I get a cheese?
Speaker 2:you can order an extra cheese right, but no, it's like a.
Speaker 4:It's like a, but you guys call it a slice or regular.
Speaker 2:So it's a regular one. What would what else? Would it be Cheese pizza, but it's your standard, it is. Everything starts off with cheese. It is yeah, so it's just a regular slice.
Speaker 1:There's a base. Our listeners right now are just going.
Speaker 2:What the fuck, are these guys talking about?
Speaker 1:I know you start with the base slice and then you build up, like when you do a car online.
Speaker 2:The base model is the cheese pizza, so you just call it a regular regular car
Speaker 4:I'll take the regular going back to the uh favorite toppings spinach and I uh, someone in the group, one of you guys, told me to not to say this, but pineapple, I told you not to say that it doesn't belong on fucking pizza.
Speaker 2:I've had it and welcome to Chris's last episode Hot pineapple it's gross dude.
Speaker 3:It's a hot fruit, Chris. I'm with you, buddy. Why are we heating it up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, before you eat pineapple, did you just throw it in the microwave for? A bit Fucking. Warm it up for yourself.
Speaker 3:I might start now.
Speaker 2:Oh God, I have a fruit salad. Let me just leave it in my car during the summertime, eat it later. I cut a pineapple in slices and I eat it, as God intended, whoa whoa wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I got something.
Speaker 4:What about pineapple pie? Apple pie, you eat apple, hot Pineapple pie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a different mechanism. It's a pie.
Speaker 3:Blueberry pie. Ha, victor. He said ha, take your L and keep it moving when a guy hits you with a ha when a guy hits you with a low-key hi, you might have lost that one.
Speaker 2:You're done, take your L.
Speaker 4:I learned about this pizza when I was up in Syracuse. Have you guys tried cold pizza.
Speaker 2:You mean leftover pizza the next morning? No, that's the only cold one I eat.
Speaker 4:So it's like a regular pie Cheese goes on first and then the sauce goes on top. People usually buy it and then you leave it out cold and you eat it cold. It's like a thing in upstate. I think you can eat all pizza cold.
Speaker 2:Like Chinese food. It's great warm, but it's also great cold which?
Speaker 1:is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 4:All right. So what do you guys think? What was the key takeaways?
Speaker 1:Rob. Listen, pizza is a staple. We grew up with it. It's just one of those foods where you can eat it hot. You can eat it cold If your dinner sucks, it's a great plan B. And you can eat it cold if your dinner sucks, it's a great plan b. And you can try any different types of things. I mean the. The beauty of it is the toppings. I've learned what I like for a pizza and what I want and what I look for, so I think it was a good one good one to talk about victor.
Speaker 2:Since most of us grew up in new york, pizza is a very staple and we've had billions of pizza options Everyone knows about you. Go down the streets from where we grew up and there's 30 million pizza places. We can tell you about all of them. We can tell you about the shady ones, the ones that make you sick, the ones that don't. We just try pizza and I'm always curious about how the rest of the country views pizza, because the rest of the country has shit pizza like really bad, and so it's always just like what are you guys actually eating technically? Or like do you just go to Domino's and Papa John's and are like this is it? This is what pizza is supposed to be?
Speaker 1:So that's true, this is what pizza is supposed to be, so that's true.
Speaker 2:Being that I said that, I want, if you are listening, to reach into the comments and tell us what is the local pizza that you order. How do you order it? What are the toppings? Reach out to us on Twitter, YouTube or wherever the fuck you're listening to this, and let us know.
Speaker 1:Also, chris has terrible taste in pizza and um, pineapples are awesome. Put pineapple on your pizza. Chris goes to papa's pizza.
Speaker 2:If there's a playpen where you get your pizza, then you shouldn't be eating there, caesar yeah, man, pizza is a staple at the house.
Speaker 3:We eat a little bit too much pizza. But uh the whole, uh the fact about tomatoes in italy, I did not know that. And shitty pizza is still good pizza, no matter what amen.
Speaker 4:It's clear pizza is universally loved. Whether you're into classic or crazy combos, there's no wrong way to top your slice. We want to thank you for listening. If you enjoyed today's show, don't forget to name drop this podcast to your friends and family To stay updated on new content and join in on the discussion. Check us out on the YouTube at I'm Not Dumb but Podcast and on Twitter at I'm Not Dumb but, and. Please rate, like and review wherever you get your podcasts. Also, what's your favorite topping, or what's the one that you can't stand? Let us know on social media. Until next time, stay curious.
Speaker 3:Peace.
