The following is a thread from "column8" in the SMH. "I have had a delicious haggis pasta in a small pub on the Isle of Skye" "I ate at Goofy's Kitchen at Disneyland, which served a peanut butter and jelly pizza" "I am trying to persuade a friend in Edinburgh to try the fried pizza from the local chippie. She tells me that the fried pizza is the Scottish version of the calzone - pizza base topped with chips (french fries), folded over and fried. It's called the 'golden slipper'" "The diversity of pizza in KL continues. I had a Beef Randang Pizza only two weeks ago"
And then there is a personal recolection. De Lucca Gelato was started by a Sicilian immigrant around 8 years ago. He has built quite a substantial business and personal following. Seven years ago, locals started a "fan club", and would meet at his shop each month for a range of new flavours. He expressed his gratitude by making a vegimite gelato. Now before you go leaping in, just remember the entry above about peanut butter and jelly pizza.
quote:And then there is a personal recolection. De Lucca Gelato was started by a Sicilian immigrant around 8 years ago. He has built quite a substantial business and personal following. Seven years ago, locals started a "fan club", and would meet at his shop each month for a range of new flavours. He expressed his gratitude by making a vegimite gelato.
Gives new meaning to the tradition of the hit man. Was there a second batch, or was that the coup de glace?
Posts: 2054 | Location: Suburban Philadelphia | Registered: 08 July 2002
Does barbecued chicken pizza count? I know it's popular. How about a good deal of the Olive Garden menu? Or those Oscar Mayer "Lunchables" pizzas, with cardboard crusts, gooey 'sauce' and shredded excelsior 'cheese'?
Posts: 403 | Location: Wisconsin | Registered: 26 April 2002
quote:Originally posted by Gavin Crawford: Please someone, give us some horific examples from some other country.
A couple Italian examples. Spaghetti "Cielo e nutella". Spaghetti boiled in blue colored water (blu di metilene) and garnished with nutella. Also, I happened to meet a woman very proud of her carbonara made with vegetable cream (no cream in true carbonara) and diced "extralean" horse bresaola broiled in wine.
Alice Twain -- Te recuerdo Amanda / la calle mojada / corriendo a la fabrica / donde trabajaba Manuel La sonrisa ancha / la lluvia en el pelo / no emportava nada / ibas a encontrarte con el Ese cinco menudos / la vita es eterna en cinco menudos Victor Jara
quote:Originally posted by Robyn P: Alice - thank goodness it isn't only us!
Do you want to hear an Australian story about Italian food? A freind of my father went to Australia in the late 60's for a few months of exchange with an Australian student. One night he went to a restaurant with another Italian friend belonging to the same program, ad they chose an Itlaian resturant because they felt food-somesick. The Australians in the resturant were served these large three sectors dishes, with a salad on one side, some pasta in the middle and tomatoes on the other side. They mixed them toghether and ate with great gusto. As they started to order, the waiter (italian too) heard them talking and told them: "You are not going to eat that stuff, If you are not in a hurry, wait another hour: after the resturant closes, we are going to fix some real pasta, you can have dinner with us then. Otherways we can fix you some spaghetti aglio e olio in a few minutes!" ^_^
Alice Twain -- Te recuerdo Amanda / la calle mojada / corriendo a la fabrica / donde trabajaba Manuel La sonrisa ancha / la lluvia en el pelo / no emportava nada / ibas a encontrarte con el Ese cinco menudos / la vita es eterna en cinco menudos Victor Jara
The thread continues in the SMH today with the following:
From a reader in Tokyo: "Until you've tried the corn,squid and pickled ginger combo offered by a popular Tokyo pizza chain, you really haven't tried anything!"
Another reader: "When I lived in London, a friend was parital to the tuna, sweet corn and mayonnaise pizze which several home-delivery places offered."
From a CNN employee: "Saw a lamb and rice pizza in a Baghdad restaurant the other day - I didn't taste-test."
Another one from Tokyo: When I ordered a napoletana pizza, I assumed it meant the pizza was made using napoletana pasta sauce. When it turned up, it included the spaghetti as well as the sauce on a pizza base."
Gavin - No pizzas like this for us please at our GTG
Cheers Robyn
Posts: 62 | Location: Sydney, Australia | Registered: 22 July 2003
quote:Originally posted by Robyn P: From a CNN employee: "Saw a lamb and rice pizza in a Baghdad restaurant the other day - I didn't taste-test."
This is neither astonishing nor a crime against Italian food. Pizza actually comes grom the Middle-East. Over there they make several kinds of pita-like dishes ("pita" is probably the original name of pizza). Basically it is a flat roundish bread topped with minced meat and other stuff and cooked in the oven. The bread base can either be precooked and than topped or cooked with the topping. Pita can also be served alone, with no topping, as bread. Finally, moving south, towards the medirerranean shores of Africa, you can find similar foods, again basically with meat, with the only difference is that the meat and other stuff is not a topping but a filling, with the bread going all around and over it. In Western Europe these foods became in southern Italy pizza (originally simply bread dough fried or baked and topped with oil and salt or filled with ricotta cheese and other stuff, than topped with tomato sauce, garlick and oil, while the Pizza Margherita, with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and basil was invented in the late XIX century, in honor of Queen Margherita) in contral and coastal northern Italy focaccia (plain or topped with salt or cheese) and in Spain empanadas. All these food were brought to western Europe either by the Arabs or by the Turks.
Alice Twain -- Te recuerdo Amanda / la calle mojada / corriendo a la fabrica / donde trabajaba Manuel La sonrisa ancha / la lluvia en el pelo / no emportava nada / ibas a encontrarte con el Ese cinco menudos / la vita es eterna en cinco menudos Victor Jara
Alice, Turkish Pizza are very popular in Australia, and are exactly as you describe them. In fact, my staff insist on Turkish Pizzas a couple of times a year.
Now that you remind me, we might just have to have them today.
quote:Originally posted by Gavin Crawford: In fact, my staff insist on Turkish Pizzas a couple of times a year.
I have a small Turkish resturant by the office, and I eat either kebab or a Turkish pizza a couple of times every month AT LEAST ^____^
Alice Twain -- Te recuerdo Amanda / la calle mojada / corriendo a la fabrica / donde trabajaba Manuel La sonrisa ancha / la lluvia en el pelo / no emportava nada / ibas a encontrarte con el Ese cinco menudos / la vita es eterna en cinco menudos Victor Jara
Are these turkish pizzas like armenian "pizzas", also known as lamejuns? These are flat breads topped with a mixture of cumin/mint/lamb. Holy cow, these are GOOD! I usually get them from the Eastern Lamejun Bakers, which are happily near where I live. I see on their poorly constructed website that they also ship items, but inexplicably only the vegetarian lamejun? Odd.
Anyway, I LOVE these things- they are certainly not a crime against Italian food, but instead a wonderful ethnic treat in their own right.
quote:Originally posted by ktravers: Are these turkish pizzas like armenian "pizzas", also known as lamejuns?
IOn italy usually traslitterated "lumechun". It's one version of them. And, as far as I know, Italian food is ethnic too, if you are outside Italy ^____^
Alice Twain -- Te recuerdo Amanda / la calle mojada / corriendo a la fabrica / donde trabajaba Manuel La sonrisa ancha / la lluvia en el pelo / no emportava nada / ibas a encontrarte con el Ese cinco menudos / la vita es eterna en cinco menudos Victor Jara
quote:Originally posted by Alice Twain: And, as far as I know, Italian food is ethnic too, if you are outside Italy ^____^
Of course it is! I certainly did not mean to imply otherwise. I simply meant that lamejuns seem to be an ethnic food (Middle Eastern) in their own right, not some odd bastardization of some other ethnicity's food (Italian).
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I spit out while laughing!
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