9 years ago
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The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
Ordering the wrong combination of pizza toppings in Italy will reveal you to be an ignorant foreigner - and may annoy the pizza cook.
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I mean, I kinda get where the Italians are coming from with this one. Dishes have a "soul," if you will, in that you can vary the ingredients but still get to something people can recognize as that dish. "Hamburger" is minced meat between bread, for instance, but within that range you can still create infinite varieties that can be called "hamburger."
It sounds like pizza marinara's very definition involves not having mozzarella... So asking for marinara with mozzarella is probably asking for something which, in essence, isn't marinara. Imagine someone asking for "hamburger in a hot dog bun"... We'd probably tell him "OK, but that's a hot dog, not a hamburger."
Really, I don't think it's just an Italian thing.
I'm going to have to side with the French on this one. A well done steak is no less than an abomination unto the LORD. At least it should be. The fact that the Bible says nothing about a well done steak being a sin throws some serious doubt to its credibility.
Yeah, no kidding. That's the fastest and easiest way to get the shittiest cut of meat lying on the kitchen floor.