Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 10, 2022

Nothing better than a regular slice with nothing extra on it.

We’ll see how long Stephan milks this trope

I’ve never had anchovies, but something seems fishy about the subject.

No little fishies

suddenly pizza becomes the latest flashpoint!

Sicilian pizza toppings: anchovies, tomato, basil, mozzarella, oilive oil, salt. Wonderful.

At least he didn’t say meat lover with extra bacon…

De’ja Vu City here.

Silly Pig. What YOU eat and what THEY eat need not be the same. Also generalize to preferred automobile. But the shared TV has real potential for strife.

Anchovies on pizza smell pretty good. I don’t think I need to eat one though.

Pepperoni, pineapple, anchovies, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

NO FISH on pizzas! No, no, no, no, NO!

If anchovies are cooked with a sauce, they lose their fishiness and just add umami.

Nothing wrong with anchovies.The problem is finding a pizza place that has them.

Peter Wolf back in the day with the J. Geils Band sums it up nicely. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRYfN1n7nGw

No anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man. I spell my name -Danger!

I remember a Futurama episode where Fry spent his fortune for a tin of anchovies and he and Dr Zoidberg were the only ones who liked them

For more than two centuries, tomato, mozzarella and basil have worked wonderfully

I’m strictly a red sauce and cheese pizza person.

I agree with pig, although ending things is kinda harsh.

I had anchovies on a pizza once, they were way too salty!

Rat, as usual, is 100% correct.

What other pizza toppings do you or many others consider wrong?

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle show slipped one past the censors when April O’Neil ordered her pizza with sausages and bananas

The first anchovie pizza:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99BEEx1r9so

I tried anchovies on a pizza once. It was a two in one occurrence, first and last.

Shall I just copy the comments from yesterday over? Pizza toppings are a leftover disposal. Throw on it what you like and hide it with intense cheese. If necessary even those nasty, salty fishies.

Whoever invented pineapple pizza and vegetarian pizza needs counseling. Pizza with produce is a serious crime against nature and fine Italian cuisine.

Pineapple goes on ALL my pizzas no matter what other toppings there are including some pig aka ham or bacon bits.

Anchovies: Nasty, Disgusting, Salty Lumps of goo!

Put on a pizza what you wish. Don’t judge others their choices, and maybe they won’t judge your’s. HAH! Who am I kidding?

I had my first pizzas in the early 50s. At that time there was no choice in the toppings they served. You always got some anchovies which if you didn’t like them you had to pick out. I wonder how those anchovies would go with pineapple pizzas today?

Pig is two for two!

If anchovy is a bit much for you, pineapple mellows it quite a bit. The style is called “Sicilian vacation in Hawaii”. And Canadians do not have bacon, A. They have nice little ham slices.

“Because anchovies thrive in salty water, it’s obvious they’re salty. To prevent their pungent salty taste, Italians combined the anchovies with cheese and tomatoes to create a Neapolitan pizza. That’s the original anchovy pizza, which may also be called Italian pizza.”

Hopefully Goat will show pig how to extend a black olive branch.

My go to is pepperoni and green peppers

I also love bianca pizza. If I get toppings I like grilled chicken and roasted red peppers

Try this, wafer thin crisp crust coated with cinnamon and sugar, spread with puréed strawberries, a layer of mixed fresh fruit, then hot fudge sauce and sweet cream drizzled over top.

So it’s not really pizza, but it stops the infernal pineapple arguing.

Pig, Rat and PIGITA need to settle this, once and for all! Agree to disagree and be done with it! OY ☺️☺️☺️

Pig, you should’ve dumped that rat years ago.

Pepperoni. That’s it. And this so-called “artisan” pizza with broccoli and other assorted rabbit foods is straight from the devil.

There is no pizza, properly speaking, without anchovies. Eat whatever you like, of course, enjoy it as you will, but you shouldn’t call it pizza.

Anchovies make great bait. So do worms. I don’t eat either of them.

It took Pig long enough.

Also, my favorite pizzas are 5 cheese, Mexican, and Bacon cheeseburger.

Now, just a minute here…

The J. Geils Band wants you to remember to say, “No anchovies, please.”

Walmart has a breakfast pizza. It’s made with biscuit dough and has egg, sausage, cheese and a country gravy topping. It’s different and the grandkids love it when they stay over.

Anchovies are fine. I personally don’t like them at all, but they’re proper topping.

Signed: a food-nazi Italian.

One time when I was younger, and my family (some extended) went to a pizza place, my Grandma ordered pizza with anchovies and it smelled.

Pig has good taste in Pizzas

I don’t like pineapple on pizza, but I can look the other way while you eat it. Anchovies on the other hand, no, too gross and disgusting.

Pepperoni is the basic requirement for pizza. Real bacon and possibly a bit of onion are good as well, but pepperoni is what makes pizza pizza.

I live in Chicago where they do a lot of ground sausage clumps on pizza, which also struck me as strange when I moved here decades ago. I still don’t understand it.

This world has far bigger issues than what should and shouldn’t go on a pizza.

“Oh my god! That bowling ball…….it’s my wife!”

Pig is the sweetest boy ever but apparently has a spine of steel when necessary.

I love pineapple on my pizza, but anchovies? He is dead to me.

is pig gonna transform into a lone wolf?

Rat is right!

The ‘Balance of Nature’ guy will probably just sprinkle a few capsules, on top of his pizza – it’s just so hard to eat vegetables!

Anchovies are great. We would get a plate of them on the side at our favorite eat in pizza joint so we could load up slices. Last night I used anchovies in caesar salad.

Mmm, anchovies and their salty goodness.

Anchovy and olive, the topping summit.

Aren’t Rat and Pig roommates? How can they avoid this anchovy feud every day?

I worked at a pizza joint in high school. When someone ordered a pizza with anchovies on it the kitchen staff drew straws. The medium straw had to take the pizza out of the oven and cut it, all the while getting a nose full of the stench. The poor sucker that drew the short straw had to make the pizza. Since this was before the practice of wearing food-handling gloves they would have to handle the anchovies with their bare shin. Their hands would reek of anchovies the rest of the night. No amount of washing would remove the odor. Even washing the dishes would not entirely remove the smell.

We hated it when someone ordered a pizza with anchovies.

The year was 1964, Ed and Margie Imo, a young couple with dreams of buying a home for the family, just opened a pizza parlor in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis, and still run it today, just sans pineapple & anchovies.. As a nod to their business survival, I’m shipped monthly four beauties.. https://www.goldbelly.com/imos-pizza/15190-imos-pizza-4-pack

No, of course not. Her tail went straighter than me.

This is just like American politics in the 21st century. Nobody can just be an individual anymore.

I have two cousins who, in their youth, only liked cheese pizza. We have yet to learn Pig’s preferred topping, but I’m guessing it’s something more than plain cheese.

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along!? Oh, right, sorry, silly me…

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

If it’s not green peppers, mushrooms, onions and ground beef on that cheese and sauce, it’s NOT MY PIZZA!

Three I disagree with.

Nothing wrong with a Hawaiian Pizza. Hell I’ve had Pizza with some truly odd topping that just worked. (Squid, Venison, Rabbit, Shredded Beef, Alligator, etc.) That being said the only Pizza I truly didn’t like was one I got by accident in Germany. Tuna Fish Pizza. (Think the Canned Tuna.) It just doesn’t work for me.

Now my favorite Pizzas are:Quatro Formagi with plenty of Garlic and Oregano on each layer.Home made, (I have one of the Ooni Ovens) a little Sauce, thin slices of either Peperoni or good Italian Sausage, some fresh Basil and then cover it with fresh grated Mozzarella. (You have to cover the Basil with the Cheese otherwise the Basil will char.)

It’s OK to buy/make more than one pizza.

Two for two, Pig! I’m with you on this journey in judgment….

Hawaiian is my favorite kind of pizza.

https://youtu.be/DP2H-6QzMlc