Does Cheddar Have Any Business Being on A Pizza? for Questionland Seattle

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Does Cheddar Have Any Business Being on A Pizza?

I recently have been to Papa Murphy's take and bake. The first time the pizza was ok, but didn't taste quite right. Then I noticed all these yellow spots in the cheese. I decided to give them another try and noticed as they were preparing it, they put some mozzarella from one bin and then reached into a bin with some white and yellow cheese. What's that? I asked. Cheddar and provolone.

Call me provincial but there is one basic pizza cheese...mozzarella. After that, you can sprinkle on Parmesan. For the esoteric among you, you can add things like sliced asiago.

But cheddar? That goes into the pile with people who think you can use cottage cheese in place of ricotta.

John Bailo asked in Cheese & Dairy about 1 year ago | Report

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Cheddar on a pizza is always wrong.

Fnarf answered in Cheese & Dairy about 1 year ago | Report

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Good story.

But seriously...

It sounds like you don't really like Papa Murphy's, John. The simple solution is not to go there again- it doesn't mean their pizza is essentially flawed, and you don't need validation to back up your own taste. I happen to really like their pizzas (since they were Papa Aldo's, in fact), as do plenty of others, apparently, because they're still in business. If you're delighted by the idea of take and bake and it's just the cheddar that you object to, I'm sure the staff at your local PM's would be willing to make your pie exclusively with mozzarella (assuming you ask politely and tip accordingly).

Sphinx answered in Cheese & Dairy about 1 year ago | Report

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No that's not the point.

When I went back and got a basic large pepperoni for $7, and stopped them before they put the cheddar on it was fantastic.

It was so good, two days later I went back and ordered a sausage and mushroom, but I had to remember to insist on no cheddar.

For the price of a top end frozen I get a lot better (and more) pizza.

So, I guess my consternation is that mindset that anyone would ever think of putting cheddar cheese on a pizza -- as a basic!

John Bailo commented about 1 year ago | Report

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Okay, I'm getting you more now, but think about all the things that we put on pizza that weren't part of the "traditional" toppings. Innovations and substitutions are made all the time when people cook- sometimes the results are crummy and often the results are pretty tasty. I think that PM's cheese mix is delicious, but you and Fnarf disagree- does that mean that I'm wrong? Taste is taste, right? You're entitled to eat what you like, I'm entitled to eat what I like, and we're both eating food that is delicious to us. Anyway, I'm glad you got them to make it the way you like, and I'm glad that you're supporting their business ('cause I think they're awesome, especially for chain pizza, and I can't keep 'em all open by myself), but I just don't see it as a "right" and "wrong" kind of issue.
And man, I hate it when I get thumbs down for disagreeing. Or maybe it was the mild (I thought) snark.

Sphinx commented about 1 year ago | Report

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First of all, I just gave you a thumbs up on both your original comment and reply.

Second, I guess what I was trying to portray here is my own inability to comprehend a certain choice.

No, more than than.

It's about trying to comprehend a choice that seems so wrong in the absolute -- cheddar cheese on a pizza.

And even more incomprehensible is that it is a default choice. Yes, I've heard of various styles like the Mexican Pizza. I wouldn't order it, but I can understand others might want to.

But we're not talking about specialty pizza. We are talking about a base substrate of all pizzas -- one that includes cheddar!

Is this a criticism of the world -- or myself. I don't know. That something could seem so farfetched to me as being impossible, and yet, I see the pizza customerizers blithely layering on the cheddar-provolone mix as if they were at Famous Ray's doing it like it's always been done, caused me to question my own perception of the world, and my place in it.

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To handcuff your pizza to mainly mozzerella seems like a culinary crime. Like the sandwich, pizza is a lovely platform for innovation. (But maybe not ideally at Papa Murphy's.)

dicrisci answered in Cheese & Dairy about 1 year ago | Report

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Food, like language is ever evolving.

Sometimes, I throw a variety of cheeses on a pizza if I'm making it at home. Mozzarella, gorgonzola, brie, cheddar- whatever is in my fridge. It adds really nice variety. But that's a different beast than an actual Italian pizza. If I found orange cheddar on a pie at a pizza place, I'd be pissed.

Misty Brown answered in Cheese & Dairy about 1 year ago | Report

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