Boycott Pizza Places That Don't Offer Anchovies?

[MineralMan]

Pizza Huts don't. Many others don't. Is this unfair? Should they be boycotted? Are Republican bigots responsible?

I vote for a boycott. Your thoughts?

Anchovies Are A Valid Pizza Topping!

[Wounded Bear]

1. I don't boycott...

mainly because I already don't frequent a lot of places that need it.

Oh, and I don't order anchovies on my pizza anyway.

[dewsgirl]

87. I do and I have a confession, I desperately miss Chick-fil-A.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Hear, hear!

[MineralMan]

8. +100

[Submariner]

70. Don't waste anchovies on pizza

Stop wasting them on pizza, save what's left for the Whales.

Anchovies are clustering in Monterey Bay and other near-shore areas, creating a feeding frenzy for humpback whales and other ocean wildlife.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/analysis/2015/11/12/no-whale-tale-anchovy-feeding-frenzy-is-a-mirage

[underpants]

3. No chain carries them as far as I know

I doubt they would sell enough. Stand alone shops often do. I know my favorite local place does. I love them.

[MineralMan]

4. Best Pizza Ever: Mushrooms, Black Olives & Anchovies!

[underpants]

7. Wrong!

Sliced tomatoes under the cheese. Black olives and mushrooms on top. I worked at a pizza place and we experimented quite a lot. I called it a "from unda cheese pizza"

[MineralMan]

11. Add anchovies, and I'll order it.

[Drahthaardogs]

41. Nope.

Margarita pizza either Vera Napoli or New York style crust the best. San marzano tomatoes and real mozzarella di bufalo is the best as the buffalo has a higher cream content.

Mortadella, arugula, and acciuge is a great pizza to enjoy anchovies. Get good imported anchovies cured in salt not oil and taste the difference.

Chain pizza is porcherie.

I have been to Italy dozens of times and I have never seen an olive on a pizza let alone those nasty black lye cured pressure cooked things

[GulfCoast66]

46. Throw in a little ham

And I am right there with you. I can eat anchovies out of the jar!

[brewens]

64. Our local independent place that owns the road has a great specialty. They call it

'The Shotzy". It has a mustard sauce, polish sausage, sauerkraut and onions. With the thin crispy crust they have, it's really good and their best seller. If you like brats and sauerkraut, you'll like this one.

[Awsi Dooger]

119. Mushrooms and Green Peppers

In fact, I had it tonight.

I don't mind black olives. Pizza Hut Veggie Lovers is excellent.

My parents loved anchovy pizza but never converted me.

[lastlib]

123. In the state I'm in, vegetables and fish on pizza are treated as felonies....

punishable by up to a year of George W. Bush speeches.

[MineralMan]

124. Charged with baited breath?

Nyuk, nyuk.

[Angry Dragon]

5. you want fish??

fry up some sunfish and crappies

leave my pizza alone

[MineralMan]

6. It's my pizza. Order your own.

I'm pro-choice on pizza toppings.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Boycott them only if they don't offer anchovy with pineapple pizza.

[MineralMan]

12. Don't like pineapple, but don't mind if you do.

[underpants]

13. Wrrrrrrrr

[marylandblue]

10. I don't eat anchovies, but I boycott places that put pineapple on pizza

Putting pineapple on a pizza should be a crime. Think of the children who could be seduced in eating such a wicked combination!

[Angry Dragon]

18. sauerkraut

[marylandblue]

20. AAAHHH! We are sliding down that slippery slope!

[MineralMan]

21. Kim Chi?

[GP6971]

27. Radish or cabbage Kim Chi? n/t

[Revanchist]

57. Cucumber...

But not on a pizza

[GP6971]

63. Love cucumber kim chi

but I agree...not on pizza.

[MineralMan]

94. I'll try either.

[Doreen]

78. Wouldn't that make it a pizzakraut?

[Angry Dragon]

84. don't know

[hlthe2b]

14. I used to eat anchovies, but boy are they salty... Now give me a sausage, mushroom & black olive

THIN crust pie and I'm ecstatic. As you say, to each his own.

I will still eat finely chopped anchovies in Caesar salads though. (one must be a PURIST, after all)

[JHB]

15. Sometimes a fish is just a fish...

...as long as none of them are on a pie that I'm eating.

[Yupster]

16. Save the Anchovies

This small, misunderstood fish has been killed just to use as fertilizer or tidbits on pizzas.

Stop the destruction of anchovy stocks. Save the anchovy.

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. PETA. People for the Ethical Treatment of Anchovies.

I believe this was their original name, before they realized that they weren't getting many donations.

Disclaimer: I've never eaten an anchovy. But I've eaten a raw oyster, and they can't be any worse than that.

[Sailor65x1]

30. PETA

People Eating Tasty Anchovies

[underpants]

31. LOL

Come on! Raw oysters are like having a salty flu.

I'll eat oysters any way I can get them.

[appleannie1943]

32. I will gladly eat a raw oyster if I never have to even smell an anchovy again.

[samnsara]

17. i LOVE anchovies! not only on pizza but i use the oil....

...from the cans when I fry potatoes...

[MineralMan]

23. Yum!

[csziggy]

107. Have you ever had Jansson's Temptation (Janssons Frestelse)?

Jansson's Temptation (Janssons Frestelse)

Ingredients

2 large onions, cut into 1/4 inch wide strips
14 fillets Swedish anchovies, or regular anchovies
6 potatoes, peeled and cut into strips
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
2 tablespoons dry bread crumbs
1 tablespoon melted butter

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish.
Spread onions evenly onto the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Evenly distribute anchovies on top of the onions. Place potatoes on top of the anchovies, then pour in heavy cream. Mix bread crumbs together with the melted butter, then sprinkle over top of the potatoes.
Place onto a baking sheet to catch any cream which bubbles over. Bake in preheated oven until the potatoes have softened, the cream has reduced, and the dish has turned deep golden brown, about 45 minutes.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/139581/janssons-temptation-janssons-frestelse/print/?recipeType=Recipe&servings=8&isMetric=false

I haven't - I tried to make them once with Swedish anchovies I bought at IKEA. I had the other ingredients ready and when I opened the anchovies, they were bad. I cooked the dish without them, but I suspect it would have been much better with!

[spanone]

19. I hate anchovies, but I support your right to boycott.

[standingtall]

24. Hell no I've worked in a pizza place before

Anchovies stink! At least order them on the side in a can and put them on the pizza yourself instead of forcing other people to smell that crap.

[Blue_true]

25. Geez.

Only foggy old farts eat anchovies on pizza.

[GulfCoast66]

48. Get off my lawn,

And extra anchovies please!

[Blue_true]

62. BTW

I know anchovies are fish (I think). But how are they made? I still won't eat them, just interested in knowing how they are made.

[GulfCoast66]

66. Made?

They are fish. I thought they hatched?



Actually I do. And the ones I use are still preserved in salt.lin a can. I have to soak them in water and then 'filet' them. But my wife calls me a good snob.

And if you ever get to a Mediterranean country and see them grilled on the menu order them. They grill them fresh and along with grilled fresh sardines they are among the best fish possible. Plus very environmentally friendly. Very low on the food chain. We should eat more small fishes and less Tuna and swordfish.

Have a great evening.

[Drahthaardogs]

88. They are cured in salt

Like a fish proscuitto. The best are still packed in salt. They are VERY Italian and an amazing additive t I lots of real italian food.

Amercanized pizza is to italian food what Taco Bell is to Mexican food.

Sadly many Americans eat like four year olds.

[safeinOhio]

26. Ever been to Italy?

You’ll get the real thing, huge ones.

[RKP5637]

28. Well, after my 4th beer they're OK!

[appleannie1943]

29. I hate anchovies. I can't even eat a pizza that only has them on half.

[Turbineguy]

33. It's a bit like the Gumbo Conundrum.

With or without okra?

I'm in the "without" camp.

[GulfCoast66]

49. Off with your head!!

This half Cajun will fight to include okra in the gumbo! Well, not fight. But argue strenuously!

And do not dare knock File'!

[Turbineguy]

52. File

is a must. Absolutely! No Question.

[GulfCoast66]

54. Ok then...

Next you will be arguing against a roux!

[Turbineguy]

71. A toasty roux

is basic. I keep it in the pan until walnut brown.

[sprinkleeninow]

80. "Jambalay crawfish pie, file gumbo,

'cause tonite ahm gonna see my ma Cher a mio....."🎵

I ain't Cajun, but you gotta be true. File and okra is sacramental in gumbo! Yeesh cat.

[Codeine]

50. Okra; the only vegetable that finishes in your mouth.

[Thomas Hurt]

34. it is certainly discrimination, however you know that you get no sympathy from the GOP...

they are just going to tell to show some personal responsibility and get your own tin of the nasty little fishes to ruin your pizza.

Just my two cents worth of political analysis and personal revulsion for anchovies.

[yardwork]

35. That reminds me. What happened to anchovies on Caesar salad?

[Texasgal]

55. Exactly!

A caesar is not a REAL caesar without them!

[miyazaki]

56. A good Ceasar dressing has anchovies in it. n/t

[dhol82]

59. Just recently had two Caesar salads

One had heavy anchovy - yum, and the other had heavy parmigiana - also yum.
Would prefer anchovy but, if not, then extra parm will do.

[democratisphere]

36. Love anchovies on pizza, but fewer and fewer places have them available.

The boycott would involve the majority of pizza places.

[Cirque du So-What]

37. Anchovies are for pikers

Real men order lutefisk on their pizza.

[dalton99a]

39. Surstromming.

[ProudLib72]

44. Lefsa! nt

[sprinkleeninow]

82. Oh no. Lutefisk.

Husband Swedish thorobred. Family females prepared Lutefisk for the Christmas Eve smorgasbord. I will eat almost 'anything', but this one was gag-worthy.

[sprinkleeninow]

83. My Italian friends back in the day prepared 'Baccala'

for the holidays. Same stuff. They'd soak it in a bathtub to rehydrate.

[Drahthaardogs]

90. Baccala and polenta!

Bagna Cauda too every holiday. If you Google to see what it is Michael Chiarello's recipe is completely bullshit. He uses olive oil and says anchovies are optional. This is a NORTHERN dish from the pianura! We use BUTTER and this dish is about anchovies!

Cuddaruni with patate e cima di rapa fom our Southern Italian friends.


Real italian food!

[sprinkleeninow]

97. I would love to vist Italia.

I'm Czechoslovakian decent, but love all European ethnicities.
Husband is Swedish heritage. We get on good bc of our fondness for FOOD! 😉
My Italian friends made strufoli and panforte which was to go ga-ga over.

[sprinkleeninow]

104. Oh, man. Rustic bread, potato(?), broccoli rabe. What's not to like.

You guys slather with butter? Interesting.

I want. Now.

[Drahthaardogs]

114. Butter anchovies and garlic

Cooked slow so all the flavors mellow, then eaten like a fondue with crusty bread, cardoni, and vegetables.

Mom's side finishes it with a touch of heavy cream. Dad's side does not.

Most Americans have only eaten Amercanized Italian food. Pizza when done right is luxurious. Gnocchi, all the cured meats like proscuitto and coppa, as well as amazing deserts like cassata cake.

It's sad what Americans think italian food is

[sprinkleeninow]

115. So true. Myriads of apizza places abound. We have never found one really astounding.

Closest is thin tossed crust, very little cooked tomatoes with light seasonings, good quality whole milk scamozza. Some we've had, there was so much topping and heavy sauce, the crust was almost raw. Blech. Some pizza parlors are owned and operated by 'not of Italian heritage'.

I make my own now. Saves $$ and you can't beat made at home.

Cappicola? I love it. Where we are now, not readily found. Then if you do, making sure it's fresh. In CT there were Italian imports markets in abundance.

[Drahthaardogs]

117. I make my own cured meats and sausage

We are macellaio for over 200 years. My recipes are ancient.

[sprinkleeninow]

118. Neighbors of ours in CT cured meats also. Hung them in the basement.

Made their own wine also.

I buy high quality pastas and whatta difference. Paid 8 bucks recently for a pkg. of pappardelle. No comparison.

My maternal grandfather owned a butcher shop for a time and made his own kolbasa sausage. Those were the days.🤗

[VermontKevin]

100. No---you rehydrate the baccala in the wash tub. The bathtub holds the eel.

[sprinkleeninow]

103. Ha, eel!

I love calamari, but never had eel. What is it like, chicken or a seafood texture?

[VermontKevin]

112. Rich seafood....fatty and full of flavor.

[Drahthaardogs]

113. Traditional Christmas Eve dinner

Fried eel. It's good.

[sprinkleeninow]

116. Buono!

[VermontKevin]

120. It's very rich and delicious. More seafood texture, I highly reccomend

ordering unagi at a good sushi restaurant. (cooked eel with barbeque sauce.)

[sprinkleeninow]

122. We are into seafood bigtime. Lived very short distance from

Long Island Sound. Could inhale salty sea breeze when wind just right. We were spoiled!

Will look into the recommendation of eel. Thanx!

[HopeAgain]

38. They're even taking them out of Caeser Salads

Its all part of an evil plan tied to the pineapple cohort.

[guillaumeb]

42. Pineapple on pizza is great.

For the record, I am not a pineapple grower nor a seller of pineapple.

[sprinkleeninow]

109. Every Great Fast (Paschal), I do my ritual

and eat smashed sardines with squeeze of lemon, dash of pepper and some butter lettuce on white bread. The not good for you kind of gummy bread. Then I'd clean my face like a kitty cat.😤 My husband makes scrunched up faces and says yuckkk. Hahah! He don't know what good is.

Christmas his dad (they're all Swedes) made homemade pickled herring.😋 I hovered by the dish on the smorgasbord groaning table. I didn't clean my face with my paw in the midst of the gathering! 😆

[guillaumeb]

40. Anchovies should be illegal.

And if I were King, they would be illegal.

[JI7]

43. in the UK they put Corn on pizza

[Codeine]

51. That actually sounds really delicious. nt

[ProudLib72]

45. When I worked at an all you can eat pizza place

One customer wanted his pizza super anchovy. My friend put dozens of anchovies on it and then dumped the oil they were in on top. The customer loved it, said it was the best pizza he'd ever eaten.

At some point we came up with the idea of rolling up the raw pizza crusts and making cinnamon rolls out of them. Mind you, the crust had black pepper in it. We experimented and put the rest out of for the customers. They were gone in seconds. From then on, we had customers asking for cinnamon rolls.

So I wonder what the reaction would be if we had made cinnamon rolls with anchovies in the middle. Might have been a hit.

[dgauss]

47. Anchovies are basically salt in the form of a small fish.

They can be used to enhance the flavor of almost anything.

[dhol82]

60. And the problem with that is.........

Anchovies are the food of the gods.

[Buns_of_Fire]

67. I'm convinced. I'll try them in the next pound cake I make. nt

[dgauss]

73. Moderation is the rule.

A tiny, tiny bit and you might be pleasantly surprised.

Or... it might be the worst pound cake you've ever tasted. Honestly I'm kind of guessing here. Worth a try I say.

[Buns_of_Fire]

86. Great culinary discoveries are sometimes the result of odd combinations!

And sometimes you wind up with my kale-banana-pepperoni smoothie, which wasn't one of my better ideas (I should've left out the banana).

I admit I'm tempted to buy a tin of the little suckers next time I'm at the store just to see what it's all about. After all, Andrew Zimmern hasn't keeled over yet.

[Thor_MN]

74. I'll take my extra salt on pizza as green olives, thanks.

Pepperoni green olive pizza, all the sodium a cardiologist would hate you to have.

[dgauss]

75. Add the anchovies, a pitcher of water on your bed stand,

and a resolution to never eat such a thing again, and you have yourself the perfect pizza.

[VOX]

53. Chicago-thick crust, with Canadian bacon and pineapple...

And a horse-trough full of cold water to guzzle due to the godawful thirst that such a salt-bomb will produce.

[NightWatcher]

58. Who puts fish on pie? I just want ham and pineapple 🍍 🍕

[Blue_true]

95. I love mild Italian sausage and roasted sweet red peppers. nt

[brewens]

61. I never tried them because so many places don't have them. I'll try anything.

I especially like about any seafood too. Anchovies come canned don't they? No reason to not have them if you just need to keep a few cans on hand.

[RhodeIslandOne]

65. One drop of Anchovy slime on a pizza will ruin it

You can taste that salty jizz and it's gross.

[cwydro]

68. Me lurves anchovies!

On board for a boycott!

[Raine]

69. eck

"no anchovies please"

[eppur_se_muova]

72. Just for you, MM ...

full version:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58qqlh

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

76. Good god! I once made the mistake of agreeing to a pizza

that was half anchovies and half pepperoni. The nasty anchovy flavor TOTALLY ruined the entire pizza.

Okay, so if you like anchovies don't go to pizza places that don't offer them. But do NOT expect the rest of us to be willing to tolerate them.

[SeattleVet]

77. We have a mixed marriage...

I love anchovies on pizza, my wife not so much.

When we go out for pizza, I have them do ½ with anchovies, but to put all they would have put on the other half on my half, too. Essentially, ½ double anchovy.

I have a tube of anchovy past that I add to a lot of recipes to add some 'umami'.

In some Italian markets you can get jars of anchovies packed in salt, without the oil. Super flavorful!

[Doreen]

79. Sorry, no go for me. I hate anchovies.

I tried them twice to make sure but I did not like the taste and they are way way to salty for me. I would boycott a place that did not have mushrooms however. A pizza is not a pizza if there are no mushrooms.

[Liberty Belle]

81. I love 'em. Roundtable Pizza, a chain in the West, has them.

Look up their locations here: http://www.roundtablepizza.com/rtp/finder_location_all.asp

[area51]

85. I can't believe I'm the first to post this.

[Dave Starsky]

92. Ha ha. I remember that album!

Everyone was shaking their heads wondering, "WTF did I just listen to?"

Popular music doesn't have a sense of humor anymore.

[Buns_of_Fire]

89. One word to those opposed to anchovies in any form:

Worcestershire Sauce.

Okay, so that's two words. Or up to five, depending on how you pronounce "Worcestershire".

[HAB911]

91. Boycott!! I love anchovies!

buy them by the six-pack at Costco!

[Dave Starsky]

93. Anchovies are wonderful and SO good for you.

Rich in Omega 3 fatty acids and protein. Also an important source of dietary sodium when you can't get to the McDonald's.

[Adrahil]

96. Anchovies should only...

Be used to make Worchestershire Sauce.

[eppur_se_muova]

98. Pissaladire -- more anchovies, less pizza.

I have heard it suggested that this is the true ancestor of pizza, and may even be the source of the name. Don't know about that, but at least you can try making it at home:

Pissaladière (French pronunciation: ​[pisaladjɛʁ]; Niçard: pissaladiera, [pisalaˈdjeɾɔ] or pissaladina [pisalaˈdinɔ]; Ligurian: piscialandrea [piʃalanˈdreːa]) is a dish which originated from Nice in Southern France. The dough is usually a bread dough thicker than that of the classic pizza Margherita, and the traditional topping consists of usually caramelised (almost pureed) onions, black olives, and anchovies (whole, and sometimes also with pissalat, a type of anchovy paste).[1] Now served as an appetizer, it was traditionally cooked and sold early each morning around Nice.

The etymology of the word seems to be from the Latin piscis,[2] which in turn became pissalat (via peis salat, "salted fish" in Ligurian and Niçard).[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissaladi%C3%A8re

[MineralMan]

99. Thank you so much for that information!

[Orrex]

101. A pizza place that doesn't offer anchovies is not a pizza place. Full stop.

[MineralMan]

110. Yup, exactly.

[TheFrenchRazor]

102. been in the pizza business 20+ years; more is less when it comes to toppings, IMO, for a number of

reasons. the important thing is quality, not quantity.

[alphafemale]

105. Yeah. A boycott by .001% of the population.

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Proceed.

They do sell those things in stores.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

106. Anchovies are for Caesar Salad, not pizza.

Pizza is onion, tomato, and basil. The best.

Does Pizza Hut serve beer? If not, I'll join your boycott.

[kwassa]

108. Capers and anchovy paste make Puttanesca sauce incredible ....

Trader Joe's

[Mediumsizedhand]

111. You are making me want to order a pizza with anchovies every time i see this title.

[treestar]

121. I've never seen them

As a kid, on sitcoms, it was a frequent joke to indicate how awful they were.

[yuiyoshida]

125. MM

In San Francisco most people go to the "Mom & Pop" local Pizza places and the Big Huge Companies don't get much business here

I nominate: Gaspare's Pizza House & Italian Restaurant

[helpisontheway]

126. Nope..I wish they did not put them on pizza or in Caesar salad

I have a shellfish allergy and I react to anchovies.

[KWR65]

127. You're a very sick man.

[burrowowl]

128. Anchovies and capers on a margarita