Back when I worked at Burger King in high school, there was me and a stoner running the late shift. I'm running the drive through and the guy wants a Whopper, plain but heavy, heavy, heavy, [...], heavy, heavy pickles. I push the "heavy pickles" button about 7 times. He probably said it 15-20. The stoner starts giggling and says "I'LL GIVE THIS FUCKER JUST WHAT HE ASKED FOR." He proceeds to put, easily, 100 pickle slices on the sandwich. At this point it's a pickle burger with a little meat. It goes out the window and we go about our day.
Manager gets a call about 15 minutes later. Guy calls in and asks to talk to the person who made his sandwich. Manager says "sigh, what did he do this time?" Guy says he's been eating at Burger King for 15 years and this was the first person to make his Whopper the way he wanted.
I struggle with spices. I make it clear at every Indian/Thai places that they should pretend I am from their country in terms of spice levels. That they literally can not make it to spicy even if they tried. That I want them to gag and cough and cry just being in the same room as my food. And yet all of them fail me.
Try Tibetan. It's a kind of spicy I've never experienced before or since. I'm not a huge spiciness fan, but it's totally different from the spiciness of Indian or Thai food, the spiciness of Mexican food or even the spiciness of horseradish. I do know that I took a Mexican friend to a Tibetan restaurant and he bravely ordered the hottest level of spiciness and said he totally regretted it.
The only place that ever puts as many pickles as I want on my burgers is Harvey's.
As you described, it's a pickle burger with meat.
You would have made my fucking day, month, year with that burger.
Just give me all the bacon and eggs olives you have. Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs olives." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs olives you have". Do you understand?
Got any fried chicken?
Best damn chicken in the state.
Bring me four fried chickens, and a Coke.
You want chicken wings or chicken legs?
Four fried chickens. And a Coke.
Yeah it does. I ordered pineapple and olive this weekend and they gave me like, 6 olives on the whole thing, so I'm very jealous.
Oof. That sucks. I'm so sorry about your pineapple pizza.
.... Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You don't mess with Italians about olives.
Try some taggiasche and tell me they taste like green ones.
Will they still taste like olives? Because I'm guessing they will.
This is like someone saying "I don't like apples" and someone else saying, "red delicious doesn't taste like granny smith." Yes, but they still both taste like apples.
First of all the black and greens have quite different taste. The taggiasche have a totally different flavour. Like there's people not liking black olives but are in love with taggiasche.
Depends on what do you mean by “taste like olives”.
For example, someone saying pizzas all taste like pizzas could be right if they mean that they all have the base taste of the dough. But then the overall taste is very different based on the toppings.
Taggiasche olives have a much stronger taste, something that’s usually made with Green ones would probably suck made with them and vice versa, that’s what I mean.
hey now, there are 3!
brined out of their minds green ones with bell pepper jelly inside them, and then normal green and black ones.
only the brined out of their minds ones are edible.
Me too! I don't know what they're like for everyone else, but I find them intensely bitter.
Olive oil is awesome, tho
Tomato sauce purist you say...
You realize tomatoes are not native to Europe at all? They are native to South America and weren't introduced to Italy until the 1500s. Even if you consider pizza at all to be Italian, the pizzas we know are a far cry from true Italian pizza.
Yup. Pizza as a word to mean a flatbread with toppings pre-date the arrival of tomatoes in Europe by a good 1400 years ish.
Just like how ketchup originally was just kind of a type of plant matter derived sauce with a runny consistency that utilized a fair amount of salt. Tomato ketchup was at one point a fairly new fangled novelty as for the longest time the favoured version of it was made of mushrooms.
The tomato more than most tends to just take over certain parts of food culture and drives out all other varieties. It's kind of the cuckoo of the food world.
for the longest time the favoured version of it was made of mushrooms.
What in the fuck?
Go on then https://www.realfoods.co.uk/ProductImagesID/9430_1.jpg
I might have to try it as well.
I sometimes watch this 18th century cooking show on YouTube and saw that a while ago and was surprised since we consider tomatoes synonymous with ketchup. IIRC mushroom ketchup has more of a consistency to Worcestershire sauce than tomato ketchup.
I guess every culture that came to the conclusion to make some kind of bread at some point in time eventually put stuff on that bread. Like leftovers. The question is, do we call that a pizza... Or is it a flat sandwich or something...
This is amazing. I feel enlightened and the cube is my new religion. I must spread the word and tell everyone that pizzas are toasts and hotdogs are tacos.
Thank you! I will use this knowledge to be even more of an annoyance and smart-ass to my surroundings. It's perfect...
Bread was invented in Egypt so by your standards "true Italian" pizza can't have that either.
My favorite kinda pizza comes from Detroit. Runner up: Chicago. Italian style pizza isn't even in contention :P
Probably more than most Americans. Dozens of times? I haven't kept count.
Why the personal jab tho? I'm just sharing my pizza opinions.
I'm pretty sure you can leave America and still like American-style pizza, what with it being sold in many, many other countries too.
That actually looks really tasty. Lol
I love it that there's a container with some extra olives too (i'm assuming)
I went to Olive Garden restaurant once with a friend of mine, and during dinner he made the claim that Olive Garden consumes 20% of the world's black olive supply. I couldn't convince him of how ludicrous this was even despite pointing out the measly two slices of black olive in our shared salad bowl.
It's a shitty garden that causes a net decrease in the world's supply of their crop.
Just another way Olive Garden is terrible.
in what country do pizzas cost $30? edit: damn your pizzas are either huge or expensive, here in finland a standard pizza costs about 12€ and with 25€ you get heavenly pizza made with the best ingredients baked in a wood fired oven. And i thought food here was expensive
The same place where you can get that many olives on a pizza without paying extra, I guess.
That's like standard price in many parts of the us for a large/XL real pizza, not like pizza hut :(
I live in nyc. You can get large plain pie for $18 from most places. Toppings are usually about $4 each.
But there are expensive places. At work we ordered some pies for an in-office event last week. The guy picked a fancy place where all the pies were at least $30.
Canada for one, a large pepperoni at my local pizza place is $28. Most of the loaded type pizzas are $35-$40 for a large.
I went to a place on the Oregon coast not that long ago that was selling large pizzas for $43. There was nothing special about the pizza, it was not in a particularly touristy area, I don't know what they were thinking.
That's what I thought. Imagine paying 30 bucks for a pizza in (I assume) the US and then be expected to give a six dollar tip. Brutal. I'd never order in.
Eh pizza from these types of restaurants already isn't that healthy to begin with and your body can more than tank the effects of an occasional special treat like this.
Just remember to drink a lot of water.
It's salty before the 10 lbs of olives, this is gonna be like licking a salt block, regardless of the health consequences.
Speaking of, wasn't there an article on lemmy the other day saying the studies on salt and blood pressure are not actually that conclusive?
Uh.... Asking for a friend
Yeah but who's gonna eat a whole pizza by themselves? They probably had two slices like a normal person and ate the rest the next day.
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Who's to say there's a problem with licking a salt block? You're out there in the pasture sweating in the hot sun and there it is, all tempting and shiny and blue...
The only issue is the shiny comes from the cow slobber
Probably less salty still than these things!
I worked at subway forever ago and they trained us to put like 3 olive slices at a time per 6inch. If they asked for more we were specifically told to keep doing 3 at a time because most people feel too awkward to keep asking repeatedly. I always felt like such an asshole sprinkling them on while they stared at me in disbelief at my stinginess...
Hey i just sent this to my brother saying "me at subway"
Thanks for sharing this because now i know it's not that they aren't understanding me but that this is standard operating procedure for the workers. Ill try to have fun with it and try to make it less painful for them in the future.
Thanks!