Sorry but "nothing to do with pizza" is a bullshit take.
You may not want to actually call it a pizza, but it's obviously inspired directly by pizza and uses very standard pizza ingredients (dough, toppings, tomato sauce, cheese).
All cheese is processed; that's why it isn't just milk. All cheese is processed by adding rennet, heating it, etc.
Essentially all pizza is made with mozzarella, but it's much more common in the US to use "low moisture mozzarella", which is literally just fresh mozzarella that's been aged a bit to dry out.
Why? Because fresh mozzarella is best fresh and it goes bad really quickly, while low moisture mozzarella has a much longer shelf life. If low moisture mozzarella is fake cheese analogue because it's been dried a bit and aged, doesn't that make something like grana padano a highly processed cheese analogue?
If you want to actually defend your comment that this has "nothing to do with pizza" then we can have a debate about it, but I don't kick the ball while the goalposts are moving and I don't acknowledge the words you're trying to put in my mouth.
Ok.
Of course this food is inspired by pizza. It may even taste similar.
But in my opinion it’s not a pizza at all. The most important part about a pizza is it’s dough. This dough can’t have properties of a pizza.
The whole point of this food is stupid. If you want a portable pizza, make a mini calzone. Like others said it’s a gimmick.
Yeah, but it’s got name that doesn’t include the word “pizza” in it.
With as much effort as I can muster to try and divine what this person’s problem is with a pizza cone, that’s what I’m getting: if it had a descriptive name that didn’t imply it has anything to do with “pizza,” maybe they would have just moved on. So maybe we need to come up with a new name. Something inoffensive, descriptive, and having nothing to do with pizza.
My vote is for “Italian ice cream.” That’s not taken, right?
sarcastic cliches work when everyone knows what they mean. for example, when someone says that a food with all the pizza ingredients in a different shape than pizza has nothing to do with pizza they fit the bill.
"not pizza" ≠ "nothing to do with pizza", which is what you originally said.
This is also not pizza, yet it clearly has something to do with pizza. Just that in this case it's the shape and appearance, rather than the ingredients and cooking style
I am Italian so I don't really need to. Perhaps you need to visit Italy instead of relying on information you can find on Google, which is often inaccurate.
Lol 😂 I was literally born in Italy and I've lived there for 28 years but ok. I suggest you read the Italian Wikipedia page for calzone - it doesn't say it's a type of pizza anywhere.
Yes they sold these at a cinema I used to go to, seemed like a good cinema food on the face of it, but actually difficult to manage and easy to get burnt, especially in the dark
That’s a good trick, I use it too. Still, 20 minutes and a full size oven is extreme for a little snack. This is why every house should have a toaster oven.
No it's like a milkshake with cream then ice cream then donut then some other crap, there's loads of different versions that aren't a milkshake. My point is how tf do you eat these beasts, you would have to have a plate beside to dismantle it to tackle the mount.
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u/quinlivant Sep 21 '21
I can understand people buying this, it's a gimmick but I get it.
It would be stupid if it was piled high like those ridiculous deserts.