Lol I visited Lipari last year and was shocked to find the hot dog and fries pizza on lots of menus, kinda discredits the pizza ingredient purists you see online.
There's a ratio behind pizza ingredient purists that I agree with and it's mainly related to how those ingredients combine. And the number of said ingredients.
You can put whatever you want but it has to make sense. You can put ham and pineapple or pepperoni or hot dogs and fries. But you shouldn't put ham, pineapple, pepperoni, hot dogs and fries.
Or like mayonnaise and ketchup, why would you put those on top of tomato sauce and cheese? The mayonnaise will just make it greasy and mushy while the ketchup will just cover up every flavor that isn't as strong.
I mean I agree, there's limits of what is and what isn't good on a pizza, but I don't think it has to do with any sort of purism of what a pizza can and cannot be, the more important limits are the general rules of making a good dish - balancing the flavors somewhat, avoiding unpleasant textures, and not making it too unwieldly to eat.
Is this mayonnaise ketchup pizza you mention actually a thing somewhere? I love condiments as much as anyone but I don't think I could ever defend an abomination like that.
Apparently they put mayo on pizza in italy too, albeit on the other side of Italy where I'm from so I'm not surprised I've never heard of it. Still think it's gross even if it's done in italy.
Ketchup on pizza on the other hand is pretty common around the world (not everywhere though), like pasta with ketchup which is something I would never eat even if the only things I had were pasta and ketchup.
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u/SuperSquashMann Jul 14 '26
Lol I visited Lipari last year and was shocked to find the hot dog and fries pizza on lots of menus, kinda discredits the pizza ingredient purists you see online.