Poll - best food by country/ethnic group

[Syno]

Shrimp and garlic? KETCHUP?

Why would you do this? Who hurt you?

 

[civvver]

dude little pizza shops are everywhere cus the margins are so high on their food and labor costs are very low. They use conveyor ovens so they don't wait for one to finish cooking to start next so they can crank pizzas out, everyone makes minimum wage except maybe the shift manager, and bulk prices on stuff like flour, tomatoes and cheese are cheap. I'll bet at a big box store there's only $1-2 of ingredients in your $12 pizza. At home it's a different story since a package of cheese is like $3 alone, a can of sauce or tomatoes to make it is probably $2, it ends up costing the same or more than carry out by the time you are done.

In my little suburb there are not that many dine in restaurants but there's literally 2 pizza joins on every corner, probably 10 within 2 mile radius of my houses. It's ridiculous. It's about half chains and half independent stores.

 

[warpus]

Why do you need ketchup on pizza though? There's already tomato sauce. And ketchup is sweet

 

[civvver]

I like ranch and blue cheese dressing on pizza. More like to dip into though.

 

[metalhead]

dude little pizza shops are everywhere cus the margins are so high on their food and labor costs are very low. They use conveyor ovens so they don't wait for one to finish cooking to start next so they can crank pizzas out, everyone makes minimum wage except maybe the shift manager, and bulk prices on stuff like flour, tomatoes and cheese are cheap. I'll bet at a big box store there's only $1-2 of ingredients in your $12 pizza. At home it's a different story since a package of cheese is like $3 alone, a can of sauce or tomatoes to make it is probably $2, it ends up costing the same or more than carry out by the time you are done.

In my little suburb there are not that many dine in restaurants but there's literally 2 pizza joins on every corner, probably 10 within 2 mile radius of my houses. It's ridiculous. It's about half chains and half independent stores.

Back when I was in college, the ingredients cost for an 18-inch pizza was about $2 a pie at the pizzeria I worked at. We sold slices for $1.59. But that place had real pizza ovens (still don't need to wait between pies) and a wood fired oven for personal pies, and actually used high quality ingredients. I'm quite sure the pizza mills in town were under a buck a pie on ingredients. The conveyor ovens are cheap because they require a lot less energy to operate, though that might be less the case these days with natural gas being so cheap.

Still the best job I ever had

 

[civvver]

Yes the profit margins on pizza are very high. The founders of little caesars are billionaires who own the detroit red wings and tigers franchises. The founded of dominos is a billionaire as well I think.

 

[Oerdin]

Condiments are great on pizza, especially ketchup

Spoiler Here's me with a slice of shrimp and garlic pizza with ketchup on top from a local bar/restaurant :

Young man, I want you to sit in the corner and think about what you just said and how wrong it is.

 

[warpus]

It's not as bad as late 90s/early 2000s Poland, when pizza delivery places started popping up after the fall of communism, but instead of tomato sauce they were using ketchup, and instead of pepperoni they were using salami... .. ... Yeah, it was pretty horrid

 

[Oerdin]

That makes me sad inside.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Hell yes PIZZA

 

[warpus]

That makes me sad inside.

To be fair to Poland, we have slightly different ketchup there, and this is pretty much the national snack aka Polish pizza, which you always put ketchup on, so.. it was just logical to put it on pizza I guess.. having said that replacing tomato sauce with ketchup is a crime

 

[Hrothbern]

More crimes for pizzas
(the same oil as used for the fish and chips)

 

[Kyriakos]

^That looks revolting...

 

[PhroX]

More crimes for pizzas
(the same oil as used for the fish and chips)
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Traditional Scottish cuisine - everything's better battered and deep fried.

 

[Hrothbern]

Traditional Scottish cuisine - everything's better battered and deep fried.

Missed that. I must have been at least a dozen times in Edinburgh, but always with also a local colleague who was vegetarian. Quite nice food in many restaurants and I lover the cider.

 

[PhroX]

Missed that. I must have been at least a dozen times in Edinburgh, but always with also a local colleague who was vegetarian. Quite nice food in many restaurants and I lover the cider.

You mean you've never had a deep fried Mars Bar? You need to stop going to restaurants and start going to chip shops. Then you'll have a chance to truly appreciate Scottish food....

 

[Hrothbern]

You mean you've never had a deep fried Mars Bar? You need to stop going to restaurants and start going to chip shops. Then you'll have a chance to truly appreciate Scottish food....

I make me one at home, only for the experience....
Looked that Mars Bar up. Deep fried is a whole dimension on her own of cooking.... Gonna make me a deep fried butter as well (Canadian... or Scottish ancestral import ?)

 

[GoodSarmatian]

To be fair to Poland, we have slightly different ketchup there, and this is pretty much the national snack aka Polish pizza, which you always put ketchup on, so.. it was just logical to put it on pizza I guess.. having said that replacing tomato sauce with ketchup is a crime

May be a Slav thing.
In Yugoslavia -which had Pizza places during the Cold War because South Slavs are Best Slavs- they used proper tomato sauce, but you'd usually get a bottle of ketchup for the table.
Last time I had pizza in Bosnia (2012) they were still doing it.

 

[Groff]

May be a Slav thing.
In Yugoslavia -which had Pizza places during the Cold War because South Slavs are Best Slavs- they used proper tomato sauce, but you'd usually get a bottle of ketchup for the table.
Last time I had pizza in Bosnia (2012) they were still doing it.

It's still the same. You still get a bottle of ketchup and mayonnaise alongside pizza.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

It's still the same. You still get a bottle of ketchup and mayonnaise alongside pizza.

Mayonnaise ? I don't remember mayonnaise. When did they start doing that ?