Visited a former KT'er Donna from OH, years ago, and she introduced me to sauerkraut pizza. Actually, enjoyed it with beer.

Only pizza I'll eat is either Frank & Helen's bacon pizza in St Louis (thin crust), or one of the fancy ones at Garage Bar in Louisville. I rarely eat either as it plays hell with my GERD.

We don’t eat pizza very often, but we have totally different toppings. DH is usually a meat lover’s style. I am typically a veggie pizza girl. Both of us like thin crust. I like mushrooms, red bell peppers, a little bit of olive and garlic, spinach, extra tomatoes (esp sun dried), not too heavy in the red sauce. I will have bacon on mine sometimes. And occasionally I eat a piece of two of pepperoni. When I make pizza at home I usually buy turkey pepperoni, which is probably sacrilege to purists.

I’m one of those people who commit pizza sacrilege - pineapple and ham pizza, extra cheese, easy on the sauce. Pan crust.

If I’m going to eat something as unhealthy as pizza I’m going to have the kind I like. ;)

Anchovies

I can do anywhere from just pepperoni, to a vegi pizza, chicken bbq, not a huge "meat lovers" type...I'd end up picking off some of the meat. One of my favorites is a white garlic sauce, feta, avocado, mushroom and artichoke heart.

And YES pineapple does go on pizza ;-)

I like it because it adds just the right sweetness to work with the saltiness of everything else. I just don’t eat pizza often. :p

NO pineapple on my pizza, please!

It must be the Canadian in me because I love pineapple, along with lots of veggies topped with shrimp on my pizza. Luckily DH agrees. Due to health problems I only can eat a whole wheat crust. Apparently pineapple on pizza is sacrilege for many but for me it's tradition:-).

Thin crusted white pizza loaded to the gill with veggies of all kinds..broccoli, mushrooms, onions,feta, artichokes,peppers, tomatoes.

Favorite pizza means one thing for me: thin and crispy crust (made with bread flour), a creamy white sauce with roasted garlic, very thinly sliced onion, and shrimp. So yummy with a spinach salad on the side.

But I like a broad range of ingredients, as long as there are vegetable and not loaded with meats.

If I'm ordering just for me, I order a veggie pizza with italian sausage (no longer a veggie). My very fave would be Italian sausage, black and green olives, mushrooms, cashews and fresh garlic. But I figure I need as many veggies as possible, so the veggie pizza gives me red peppers, onions, artichoke hearts and sometimes spinach. Pepperoni or salami is too salty and greasy for me on pizza (altho I like both). Pineapple is just yuck to me on pizza, I'd eat Canadian bacon or ham, but again, too salty with all that cheese. I've never had bacon on pizza (regular US bacon, but maybe the folks saying bacon are Canadian and are referring to what we in the US call Canadian bacon?). I don't care for chicken or bbq sauce on pizza.

I can't think of anything I'd actually pick off of a pizza though, or that would keep me from eating it. Unfortunately!

Well I’ve never made a pizza in my life.

When I'm feeling lazy or don’t want to cook I’ll have one delivered. Mariachi beef pizza!!

I like pepperoni best, usually precook some onion and bell pepper and mushrooms with lots of pizza cheese.

I grew up on plain "grated cheese" pizza. I don't even know if there are places that make them anymore. Now plain is mozzarella or in our neck of the woods it used to be scamorza. And for some reason, our parlors were named "apizza".

I prefer a thin crust and I can go for meatball & green peppers or mushroom....once in awhile a marguerita pizza. But then again, we have a joint that has a more greek style pizza with a thick sweeter crust that's also very good. Not my idea of a traditional pizza, but he's been in business for over 40 years, so I guess it's a tradition now...

I'm hoping tomorrow to head to New Haven for some *real* pizza!!!

We order or make half and half. DH likes pepperoni and sausage, at home will add jalapeno, olives, onion. I like veggie, except no olives! Usually just bell pepper, mushrooms, onions. Lots of mushrooms. Occasionally he will order just jalapeno and black olives. Boy, does that stink up my car!

We haven't tried using pesto, that sounds good.

I had one in Huntington WVa that was fabulous. It was caramelized onions and portabella mushrooms. Might have had spinach. Holy cow, that was good!

Gosh, I haven’t had pizza in so long! When we do have it, we always order half and half. I keep my pizza simple, pepperoni (or italian sausage) with sweet white onion and my DH likes mushroom, bell pepper and onion. We don’t mind a thinner crust as long as it’s not cracker thin.

Those homemade pizza’s look amazing!

Pepperoni, breakfast sausage, onion & mushrooms. My husband adds green pepper on his.

Homemade is rare, but when we do, it's a Stonefire Artisan pizza crust with San Marzano crushed tomatoes, a jar of chopped fire roasted red bell pepper, mushrooms, whole garlic cloves (oven roasted) broccoli, red & white onions, pizzeria seasonings, convection baked at 450 for 20 minutes. Drizzle with ranch dressing and serve. No cheese, please.

We've also made pizza with Naan breads.

I'm hoping tomorrow to head to New Haven for some *real* pizza!!!

Well Annie you'll be coming to the right town for pizza...I live in one of the 'burbs' of New Haven. The quality of the famed New Haven pizza has migrated over many years to the outlying areas, to the point where we don't have to go into New Haven itself for good pizza. Enjoy!

No pineapple for me. Love feta cheese, chicken and broccoli. Don't care for greasy meat but like pretty much any and all toppings.... artichoke, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, onions, olives, red peppers, lean ground beef...........

I guess it is just whatever we are in the mood for. Thin crust. Pepperoni, mushrooms, black olives, extra cheese. Or meat lovers. I add Anchovies and fresh sliced tomatoes to mine after it's on the plate. Sometimes husband will order half meat lovers and half Hawaiian. He likes the Canadian bacon and pineapple once in awhile. He loves my homemade taco pizza.

A former coworker of mine used to like pepperoni, pineapple and jalapenos. I don't eat pepperoni but I thought the flavor profile sounds interesting. Hot and sweet.

Funny story, friends getting together for football & pizza evening. Hubby & I brought several meat pizzas plus a cheese pizza. All the other ladies brought vegy only pizzas. At the end of the night my pizzas were gone and the most of the vegy pizzas were untouched.

Good topic!

easier for me to say what I don’t like in pizza: anchovies, pineapples, artichokes. Plus I hate the ethnic pizzas, “ Asian, Hawaiian, Mexican (r u serious with this?). Best pizzas I’ve ever had are in the NE. Worst: Nebraska, ha.

I didn't have pizza until I was around 10. It wasn't until the 60s that pizza parlours started popping up in our area and pizza wasn't on my parents menu at home. One was right next door to the roller rink I skated at. My first pizza parlour pizza entailed walking over with a friend and sharing a small pepperoni and a pitcher of root beer. We felt so grown up. We also weren't allowed to let our skate wheels touch the pavement outside the rink. So there were often trips to the pizza place "walking" on our toestops so we wouldn't have to change into shoes. LOL

Pizza's been in the news big time lately, and it is a big deal because of the LGBT rights issues involved.Memories Pizza in Indiana claimed they would not cater a same-sex wedding (not that this Mom and Pop outfit catered weddings anyway, but that's beside the point, and I don't really know of a wedding reception with pizza as the main course unless it was on the show Extreme Cheapskates, again, beside the point).

Pizza, rather than a wedding cake, has become the food of controversy in the same-sex marriage debate.

Now, based on people's general attitudes about pizza, I'm not that surprised that at some point a pizza outfit got involved in this controversy.

Pizza: what is it about pizza? It's not that is just a popular food that has taken on so many shapes and forms. but there's something, I don't know, deeply psychosocial about the way we approach it in the United States. Quite amazing for a food that essentially began as a vegetarian “peasant” food, a simple dough with a simple sauce on it.

In the United States, pizza seems to be the center of so many social functions. Not just the obvious ones like the Superbowl Party, but diverse work and school functions. In fact, I remember pizza was often a bribe to keep the masses docile.

In elementary school, the promise of a pizza party was definitely held over our heads to promise good behavior. The good classes got pizza, but the bad classes got nothing. The really bad classes got to pull weeds outside.

When I ushered at benefit concerts in college, the ushers got pizza to ensure they were not served food only for the wealthy benefactors, which happened one year, creating a furor among the administration.

And at one notably condescending paternalistic place I worked at, the floor who got the people out in the least amount of time for the fire drill “won a pizza party.” Yes, pizza on paper plates, and you got your own soft drink from the vending machine. Thrillsville. Our floor didn't win.

Pizza as privilege. Pizza as a bribe. Pizza or the lack thereof as punishment.

Pizza, pizza, pizza!

I've always thought of pizza as a great equalizer among Americans. I think many a problem about world peace could be solved if you throw the right people in a room over some good pizza. Of course I'm only semi serious.

How on earth did a "what are your favorite pizza toppings" post turn into a LGBT rant? Really?

Pizza for me: needs stringy melty cheeses and OREGANO. Fresh or dried oregano, either works. Usually tomato, but I do love a local pizzeria that serves slices of shrimp and broccoli on cheese, no tomato.

I seriously dislike just "plain up" pizza, no toppings. Spending my hard earned money on the stuff, I want toppings. No, I don't want the garbage can pizza either, with every topping one could think of in sight.

I do like pepperoni and sausage, but often I decide to go vegetarian. I love artichoke hearts, black olives, mushrooms, onions, garlic, basil. I'm fine with roasted peppers

I'm only actually interested in broccoli with the aforementioned shrimp, because, well, shrimp. If broccoli follows other things on, that's okay.

Years ago our computer club would meet at a pizzeria. One guy would order anchovies on the side, and I'd take ONE... One is simply enough salt for a night. I'd slice it over my two or three slices (that also had a couple other toppings).

I don't care for the crust... I wish pizza makers would spread the goodies as close to the edge of a pizza shell as possible. If the edge has to be there - thin is best.

I've never tried pineapple and ham - I should, but there are always tastier sounding options available. I know I have no interest in dropping dry pieces of flavorless chicken breast on my enticing pizza slices!

Guess I am the odd one out, I have never had a pizza & don't want one. I make homemade pizza for hubby at least once a month.

I don't care for the crust.

I typically am not impressed with most crusts. Will say that the recent visit to Rocco Pizzeria changed that. It was by far the best crust ever! I'm sure their imported Italian wood-fired oven had something to do with it.

No pineapple, no chicken! They’re just wrong for pizza. I like traditional sauce, cheese and lots of veggies. Also like pesto, goat cheese, Roma tomatoes and basil. Yum!

Not enough controversy here, so I am adding fuel to the fire. Pizza is a finger food. Even if messy, it is a finger food!

mary3444, my dad and my daughter don't eat pizza either. You're rare, but not alone!

I love just about anything on pizza EXCEPT seafood -- no anchovies, no shrimp. I don't need a pizza to be overloaded with greasy meats ... just one greasy meat at a time will do, thanks. Two or three veggies, but preferably not broccoli. Fungus (that is, mushrooms -- lol) good. Pineapple good with ham. Mostly I like thin crust, but won't turn down thick.

One pizza I dream about is from Bella's Pizza in Abingdon, VA. It's called a Syrian pizza. Their version is a thin, flavorful crust, garlicy buttery white sauce, lots of very thinly sliced onions, a bit of feta (?) cheese, and a generous turning of black pepper. Oh my.

I refuse to eat the voted #1 best pizza in central Ohio.

Too much meat, grease, cheese.

I was making a social commentary. Somewhat tongue in cheek but also serious. Semi floofy. Pizza the great divider. Plus the whole post was not about that issue. It was about the overall social constructs in America regarding pizza. Plus a little history. I write a weekly column for which I am paid and I pasted in parts of that column. I add the payment part because to be frank I am proud to get paid. As for pizza I used to like the spinach and mushroom combo on a thin crust. Chicago where I live is known for its deep dish pizza.

I of course am an oddball. I like a nice yeasty crust with olive oil, black olives, sharp aged asiago, and as many anchovies as possible. I never had one until I was in college and a friend drug me to a dark dingy place. In the daylight it looked clean and nice but only a few of the lights were turned on so that most of the light shown from the kitchen at night.

Any comments about the various ways that pizza is cut? I realize that for some eaters and situations the squares work better but when I think pizza I think pie like slices.

I like both squares and slices. When I make homemade,it's always squares because I use frozen bread dough,which ends up in a rectangle,so squares makes more sense. When I order out,either makes me happy .

I prefer pie cut slices. I don't like squares as much because I like the crust. I also prefer them cut smaller rather than dealing with a large slice. But the question reminded me of a place I go to sometimes that offers what they call a "slice". To put things in perspective that is a 9 -9.5 inch long oval plate.

Mmm. Aside from anchovies, there isn't much I'm adverse to on a pizza! Very open minded and accepting when it comes to pizza- thin crust, regular crust, pan pizza-- all just fine :^)

We use to make homemade pizzas often, but don't anymore. Never seem to have enough time once our kiddo was in school, and we have a very good pizza joint literally 2 minutes from the house- and they always seem to have a good special going on.

Anyhow, my pizza of choice is regular crust, with a standard amount of cheese and sauce. Toppings are pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Italian sausage, onions, and peppers- but not overloaded with toppings.

With the kids gone I don't make pizza anymore. It used to be ham and pineapple which the kids loved and chicken with lots of vegies for DH and me.

Now I buy the thin crust Dr. Oetker vegetarian pizzas and use it as a side for baked chicken. And never ever ever, mushrooms on a pizza.

Everything!!!! I like all pizza from just cheese to everything and everything in between. For crust I'm just like quasifish, any crust is fine by me. I never met a pizza I didn't love.

I truly love pizza and there aren't many toppings I dislike -- even a light bit of anchovy adds a nice bit of flavor. Right now my favorite is kale or spinach or arugula, with goat cheese or feta.

I am also fond of Canadian bacon and pineapple, vegetable with thin sliced eggplant and zucchini (Leucadia Pizza in Encinitas, CA made a wonderful one), and most any other veggie combo. Pesto instead of tomato sauce is great also. Simple, classic pepperoni occasionally. Fresh herbs. It depends on my mood on the day!

When I make my own, I like to put a variety of veggies and greens, and use the muffaletta mix from Aldi (my DD likes the spicier version, but this is plenty hot for me). I might put a little meat on (whatever I have on hand) but usually don't.

I'll dress up my favorite frozen pizza with extra herbs and veggies.

What I don't care so much for is thick bready crust (the thinner the better), fried crusts, sweet tomato sauce, hamburger (just seems wrong), barbeque (likewise), green peppers (I love them in meat loaf but almost nowhere else) and multiple fatty meat combos. None of that would stop me from eating it, though!

Italian sausage and mushrooms. Or Pizza Perfect's cheeseburger. Or (at work) Pizza Hut supreme. But my preferred is the first. I don't do deep dish and don't really care for thin. I do eat the "pizza bones".

Squares or slices? I don't really care, as long as my bit isn't nearly all crust. We usually but not always see slices around here (New England).

Finger food. Yes. I don't mind if others at the table may use a knife and fork (I can think of only one friend who eats food this way, but he eats EVERYTHING this way including chicken wings. Well, maybe not sandwiches but he was gluten intolerant so I never got to investigate... we have a gluten-free pizza place in the area, and so he got his own pizza from which to take home leftovers...) But I consider pizza to be fingers for me.

I prefer CT / New Haven pizza to deep dish, but I won't turn down the latter if it is seasoned and topped up nicely.

Hawaiian....Canadian bacon and pineapple.

When I ate beef I use to get just a plain hamburger pizza. Everyone else would get all these toppings on their pizzas and guess who's pizza was always the first to disappear. :\ Now I like chicken alfredo pizzas or regular pizza with chicken and Canadian bacon. At one pizza place I made my own and put chicken, Canadian bacon and ricotta cheese. One of the workers almost ate it. lol I like NY style pizzas too.

Also the bbq pizzas from Pizza Hut in FL were pretty good but it's been a loooonnnngggg time since I had that.

Mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, green olives, pepperoni, ground beef. I also like Hawaiian pizza but don't order it very often.