Sometimes I do this, and my pizza ends up tasting plain. No pizza toppings! No reason to eat pizza. It just ends up being boring bread with cheese and tomato sauce. What am I, vegetarian?
So I try not to pick off the pizza toppings, unless I'm really hungry.
What about you? Do you pick the pizza toppings off the pizza first, and then eat the pizza? Does your boyfriend complain?
[question posted by beautyqueen26]
responses and comments:
If pizza has bacon on it, then I tend to pick it off and nibble at it. I don't know why, but I just can't resist bacon! =p Otherwise I tend to eat pizza pretty much intact. Though I have seen other people eat their pizza in the way you describe. The one that really annoys me is a coworker of mine who will pick at her pizza, pull most of the toppings off, and then go for another piece instead of even finishing that piece. It's just so wasteful. [lecanis]
I am with you on this one, Lecanis. Your coworker most certainly needs to practice a bit more manners in public. Growing up I was taught to finish what was on my plate before going back for more. Your coworker could have learned a few things at my mother's dinner table! [beautyqueen26]
I like to eat the pizza as a whole you know, with all the contents together in one mouthful. Depends on where the pizza comes from. Some make the crust too thick so for those yea, I pick the toppings and sometimes even discard the crust. But usually I am just too lazy to do it [vampoet]
I always pick off the olives, I could ask the pizza maker to hold the olives but my friends fight over my cast offs, it seems I am the only person in the world that doesn't like olives on my pizza or it seems that way, they used to look at me as if I was mad that olives were the most important part of the pizza then they realized my olives looked pretty goos on their pizzas... [lilaclady]
Olives, gross! I got olives on my pizza for the first time yesterday and it made the entire pizza taste rancid. At first I simply assumed that the pizza was sour or old. But, then I picked off the olives and tasted them seperately. Apparently, that is just how olives taste. Makes me wonder what people are thinking with their fascination with olive oil. I'm not a big fan of that either. [beautyqueen26]
I've never heard of anyone doing this. I just open the pizza box, grab a slice of pizza and start gobbling it up. If any toppings fall off of the pizza into the box, I pick those up and eat them too. I don't pick the toppings off of the pizza, but I will eat them out of the box. [danishcanadian]
I eat my fill of pizza, than pick the toppings off of the remaining pieces! LOL! I try to be very careful to not take so much that it is noticed, but I am a toppings girl, and he is a bread guy. What can I do! LOL He's also very picky, he like supreme, but not left over and not unless the onions are red onions. I'll eat anything, buy prefer the meats, especially pepperoni. Why? Because the worst things for us taste the best! LOL [Katesmama]
My baby doll only eats the pizza crust. She will be a skinny one I am sure. Pizza is not her favorite thing anyway. Go figure. I can't imagine where she gets her healthy eating habits from. [beautyqueen26]
If there is meat on the pizza I pick it off, because I am a vegetarian. But if I order it, I just order veggie pizza. It's just if someone else has ordered it and it has pepperoni or something, I will pick that off and eat the pizza with just cheese. Kelly [kelly3]
If it's pepperoni and it's all curled up and there is grease inside it, I am all over it lol. I also like to pick out the sausage if the pizza place uses the chunky pieces. Most of the time they throw extra cheese on top of the toppings so that makes it a little hard to get to the good stuff but hey, at least they aren't charging me for the extra cheese! [freak369]
I am a cheese pizza person. I like nothing on my pizza but cheese. This does not mean that I don't like things like pepperoni or sausage... I just don't like it on my pizza. Since I am the plain one and I have no problem picking off toppings on my pizza, I'll tell whoever I'm with to order whatever they want. Some of the toppings I'll pick off and eat first (like pepperoni or sausage) and others I'll pick off and put to the side (like pineapple because I don't like it). So, I pick off the toppings first and eat the toppings and then I eat the plain cheese pizza. That's the way that I love it. My friends and boyfriend don't complain because if I eat it this way, they get to order a pizza exactly how they like it =D [jessicalynmartin]
For me, it is tastier to have pizza toppings along with a piece of pizza bread. If the toppings are eaten first, it is just ordinary bread with sauce. [ssh123]
i rarely do picking of pizza toppings before i eat it. If i am hungry. i have no time to pick those toppings one by one.... i will geat a slice of pizza and start eating it... lol..... but if i am not that hungry. i will start it by picking the toppings... i enjoy it one by one..... so i can taste each toppings well. [fedjdc]
lol.... yes i agree that we have the same way of eating pizza.. [fedjdc]
Whether or not I pick the toppings off of my pizzas really depends on what's on the pizza. If it's a supreme pizza, with pepperoni and sausage and bell peppers and olives and onions along with the cheese and sauce, I definitely won't. Same thing for Hawaiian-style pizzas, with ham and pinapple on them. I love the way the toppings and the crust taste together, so eating them separately just doesn't make any sense to me. However, if it's a plain old pepperoni pizza... I'll glady pick off the pepperoni and leave the cheese and sauce. I just don't really care for only pepperoni on pizza, and the dog looooooves pepperoni, so it's a win-win situation for both of us! [Inazumi]
Oh.. you mean you pick off the toppings and eat them first and then you eat the pizza? I thought you meant that you pick off the toppings because you didn't like them.To answer your question, no I don't pick off the toppings. I like only pepperoni and green peppers on my pizza so there aren't that many toppings to pick off. And I like cheese pizza. A plain pizza is a good change of pace once in a while. [sarahruthbeth22]
I am guilty of this one also. My grandson and I love the pepperonis and so my hubby will ask them to add a cup of pepperonis to the order so he can have some. LOL He also gets the stuffed crust so there is flavor at the end. Hugs [bambi_doe]
you know im a pizza addict.. so far since last summer i try to eat and experience the yummy pizza atleast once a week.. indeed, im a pizza lover.. any filling will do, not to mention the thick mozarella cheese on it.. i love the pizza toppings and i dont pick them off from the pizza dough.. and its sooo great... try to experience the yumm'ness of the toppings, and you'll surely love it, i hope so.. [leizlmarie]
I usually get the onions and bell pepper out of my pizza. I don't like the taste of these on my food. My sense of taste is very simple so I just want my pizza to be plain. So I stick to the simple flavors like hawaiian or ham and cheese. My boyfriend thinks its funny but he does not complain because when I take off the onions or bell pepper, I usually put it on his pizza, LOL! [mari_skye]
Nope.. i just love to eat pizza with its toppings like the meats or bacons or hams or veges in there.,,. im a pizza lover,\. i like hawaiian delite, meat lover delite...sllmmpp i love eating pizza. [keithcortes05]
I only pick the toppings off the pizza if I don't like them. This past weekend my cooking club had a pizza themed event. It was nice. I didn't pick anything off until after the 3rd or 4th slice then it was like we were getting way too full! typically I like white pizza...nothing much to pick off. I don't like anything on my pizza besides cheese anyhow so it's pretty hard to pick off that. I hate sauce though so if my pizza has too much sauce I'll usually pick off the cheese, wipe off the sauce and then put the cheese back on. [raychill]
What's the point of this picky eating? If you don't want asomething, don't order it! My wife has a friend who will buy a tuna salad sandwich, and then spend most of her lunchtime picking off bits of lettuce, tomato, and cucumber till it's just a plain tuna sandwich! Why not buy a plain one in the first place instead of going through that ritual. It's a crazy world, my friends.... [Noot54]
I seldom eat pizzas to be honest. But when I do eat them, I eat them whole. I eat it slice by slice, with the toppings and all. I don't just pick the toppings off to eat since it will just leave the plain pizza behind.:P [lordwarwizard]
I am not a bread eater! thats what I did too! eat a pizza topping! and my husband who eat the bread.He complaine that kind of atitude I have! but I just love the topings only not a bread! specially those small sausages. [subrecary]
Pizza e uma delicia nao tem pra cabeça!!!! Sempra q posso como!!!! [marllon08]
yes, we like the pizza the way we like the pizza our way [asawako48162]
I don't often take off the pizza toppings, unless there is one on there that I either don't like, like anchovies, or something that doesn't agree with me like green peppers. I'm a bit of a purest though when I order pizza. I usually just get the traditional kind with cheese and sauce or I get something that is heavy with veggies since I try to eat as healthy as possible. Pizza is one of my favorite foods and however it is served, I usually enjoy it very much, probably a little more than I really should. [wachit14]
No, I do not think that I have ever done this. Usuallt what maked me full is the bread - not the topping. This way I would also end up with a plain bread - not nice =) [Marie2473]
no ..it is not to complain about..but when I saw some of my wife's Philippine friends put catsup on good pizza i flipped out (no pun inteded..) see got mad and said some people like catsup on pizza.. well, ok. but i never saw anyone doing this..my bad.. eat pizza the way you like..it is your call [asawako48162]
I'm guilty of that but i don't pick them clean because i might as well have bought bread and cheese. but yeah i pick out the onions and sometimes i pick out the olives when i don't feel like eating them and just set them on the side of the dish. there's this thing on my favorite pizza restaurant where the customer gets to pick out the toppings to put, i might try that soon, that way my dish will be clean and i won't have to pick anything out from my pizza. [diannebcrs]
I eat the whole pizza at the same time crust and all. The only way i would pick any of the toppings off at all is if i didnt like something that is on it. My daughter eats all of the toppings first though and after she does she eats the crust. I asked her why she did it and she said it was how she liked to eat it. Doesnt bother me really though she still eats the whole thing it is just how she wants to eat it. [kitkat1]
I used to take the toppings off before polishing off the pizza. At times, it is the other way. I bite of the crush first and leave the toppings for the last. Nowadays, I just eat it as it is though at times, I still pick at the toppings. [whyaskq]
No, I don't usually pick the toppings off. The only time I might do that is if I know I'm too full to finish whatever is left of a particular slice. Then I'll sit and pick the toppings off and eat them, or at least some of them.. I prefer to eat the whole thing together, as I am definitely not a fan of cheese pizza. [TeresaK]