“That’s Just Not Right”
We are talking about taking in the new “ferociously exciting” movie Argo today, and having a bite to eat afterwards at Mellow Mushroom. AdventureMan likes their pizzas (you can watch them toss the dough in the air for the crusts) and I like their Portobello Reuben sandwich or sometimes their spinach salad.
“Law and Order Man always has pineapple on his pizza” AdventureMan said, “and every time he does, he says ‘I know there are people who think pineapple doesn’t go on pizza, but I like it.'”
We laugh. We know who he is talking about. It’s us. We have our ideas of what pizza is supposed to be based on our pizza experiences in Germany and Italy and France. Not a lot of sauce, not a lot of cheese, and a sprinkling of toppings – our very favorite being a seafood pizza we ate in Dinard, France, where they threw and handful of tiny still-in-the-shell creatures on and put it in the big, hot wood-burning oven and minutes later we had this thin crust pizza saturated with briny tiny sea creatures, cooked exactly right.
Pineapple on pizza – it just doesn’t seem right to us. I’m glad our son has the gumption to stick to his guns and have pineapple on his pizza if that is what he likes, but . . . not me. Never!
So we were laughing about our preferences this morning and AdventureMan says “that would be like putting pineapple on a peanut-butter sandwich” at which point . . . I stopped agreeing with him.
“That sounds sort of good!” I said thoughtfully.
“No! That’s just not right!” he almost stomped his foot. He will mix peanut butter with jellies, but for some reason, the thought of pineapple in his peanut butter is unthinkable.
I’ve heard of a sandwich Elvis loved, something like peanut butter and banana and bacon, all grilled together between two slices of bread . . . that doesn’t sound good to me, but then again, I haven’t had the courage to try one. I guess it might be the calorie count that also holds me back – fat on fat on fat, LOL.
Do you have any irrational food preferences? Or combinations that, in your perspective, are just not right?
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I’m with you, pineapple is an unnateral pizza topping. the latest thing that is tweaking my sensibilities is Burger Kings chocolate and bacon sundae. The idea kind of makes me shudder.
Oh! Bacon on chocolate sundae . . . It sounds awful! I’m glad I can pass on that one!
When I was kid, a friend of my mom’s came to visit. My mom made us pineapple sandwiches (sliced pineapple on bread with mayonnaise.) My mom’s friend had never heard of it; we practically grew up on it. Later in life I was in a “creative” lunch mood (i.e., not much in the cupboards) so I made a pineapple sandwich but used peanut butter instead of mayonnaise. To this day, it’s still on of my favorite snack sandwiches. The juice from the (canned) pineapple cuts through the thick stickiness of the peanut butter – pretty yummy!
I also like to mix ketchup and mayonnaise for a fry sauce. I thought that was kind of unique until just recently when a friend told me a lot of places in the mid-west and west server “fry sauce” with their fries. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry_sauce)
And, I know lots of people who like to dip their french fries in their Wendy’s Frosty.
As for pineapple and pizza – it’s great! Especially with things like Canadian bacon/ham. One of our southern based pizza places (Shakey’s) used to have a pizza called “Mad Merriment” – pineapple, Canadian bacon, shrimp, black olives – it was our all time favorite.
Creativity is the chef’s greatest spice!
No kidding, Ken! You’ve actually had peanut butter and pineapple! And plain pineapple sandwiches – I have never heard of that. Fry sauce sounds a lot like McDonald’s ‘special’ sauce, doesn’t it? My favorite fry sauce is the hand-made mayonnaise they serve with fries in Belgium and northern France. π You are right; creativity – and the willingness to try something new – is the greatest spice π
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