Pizza lovers: Do you eat the crust or toss it?
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Absolutely eat the crust! But, I kind of even it out, bite of the very cheesy part, small bite of crust, so it’s all in my mouth at once more or less. If it is cheeseless, then I don’t bother trying to even it out. If I am walking with a folded piece of pizza then making sure it doesn’t fall apart and there is plenty to hold on to near the crust is most important.
When I was a kid I never ate all the crust, just a few bites at the end. My mom or dad ate whatever crust I left over.
I don’y usually eat pizza, but I hate when people throw out the crust. Throwing out the crust is such a waste of bread. If it’s so boring then dip it in sauce or something!
I toss unless it is soft. Hard crust feels like its going to tear my esophagus.
I eat my entire slice, and I take everyone else who doesn’t and put it in a baggie for later.
It depends on how hungry I am.
@YARNLADY: What? you take everyone else? Or are you saying you take the uneaten pizza?
I hate crust-wasters! Aside from the cold pizza leftovers the next day, the crust is the best part! I don’t even leave any pizza on the crust, I like my crust all by itself. I’ve never met a crust I don’t like!
The crust is the best part!!
I eat the crust under the toppings, but give the edges with no toppings to my dogs.
@jca I collect all the uneaten crust from my family and save it for later. I used to give it to the dog, but he can’t have people food anymore.
Same answer as @marinelife (except I have a singular dog).
She really looks forward to her crust.
The crust might actually be my favourite bit.
You can’t be a pizza lover if you dislike part of it so much you would rather throw it in the trash than eat it. Pizza is an experience.
I usually eat 3 slices of pizza in a sitting, but I save all 3 crusts for last. Always have, don’t know why. Now I’m craving the Shakey’s Pizza of my youth!
The crust has to be pretty awful for me not to eat it.
I eat it.
Sometimes I’ll spread a little butter on it or dip it in some ranch dressing, if there’s any of either left.
What pizza purveyor puts cheese inside the crust? I had some once and it was a major yum.
@Brian1946 Yes, yes, yes! Dip the crust in Balsamic vinegar! Yum!
People throw away pizza crust? Really?
I usually heat up some sauce and turn the crust into bread-sticks.
Creeping in here as a crust hater.
I never eat the crust. The dogs love me for that.
We grew up poor as shit. I eat it all.
I’m a huge dough/bread fan so no. I’m more likely to discard of excess cheese/meat vs the crust. I love dipping the crust in hot sauce too.
@jca Yes, why wouldn’t I? We are talking about the top edge of the circle, right? I just trim off the part where they ate and what is left is the same as bread sticks.
Eat it. Eat it. Eat it! If it isn’t good enough to eat, get another kind of pizza!
Crust rules. I always eat it. I like that Pizza Hut pizza crust that has cheese in it, too. I admit, sometimes if I’m too full I may not finish the crust, but otherwise it’s some good eaten’.
I wonder, do pot smokers leave the crust? Seems like perfect munchie eats for the next day anyway.
I eat my fill of the rest (the “meat”) of the pizza first, because that’s the best bit, the crust is kind of wasting space.
Afterwards I will eat the crust, or, depending if it was an extra large pizza and I am full, I will save the crust for the next day. It’s still good, but I prefer the rest of the pizza over it and I have on occasion just thrown it out.
Sometimes my local pizza place has a deal with bread sticks and they give what is essentially pizza sauce with them, then the crust is very good, dipping it in and whatnot.
It depends, if the pizza is homemade sure I’ll eat the crust but if it’s a pan pizza from Pizza Hut, dripping with grease, nope, that crap is thrown away faster than an exploding atom.
When I was young, my two older sisters would always leave the crust and I found it to be absolutely delectable. Still do.
@YARNLADY: Why wouldn’t you? Some people would not want to eat others’ leftovers, even if they cut the crust off. It depends, I guess, on whose leftovers we’re talking about. Either for health reasons (the germs of other people, even with crust cut off) or because eating other people’s leftovers implies you’re desperate for food.
I usually toss it uless it’s cheese filled, in which case there won’t be scrap left to toss.
@Sunny2: “Eat it. Eat it. Eat it! If it isn’t good enough to eat, get another kind of pizza!“_
^ This. “Eating the crust” shouldn’t be a chore. It should be as enjoyable as every other bite of the pizza. If it isn’t, then the pizza has no business existing..
I don’t like pizza…there, I said it.
Now I’m really curious to try this cheese-filled crust everyone speaks of.
@ucme What?? You’re lying!!
I eat the crust, unless it’s fire-cooked pizza, like we have at the Renaissance Faire. Somehow, the crust always ends up charred to a crisp.
note to self: one more reason to be suspicious of @ucme.
@Katniss I never lie
No reasons to be suspicious anyway, @cookieman must be either deluded, paranoid, or just plain weird.
@ucme The pizza hater thinks he is just plain weird?
@dxs Deep pan weird at that.
I am a crust-acean and proud of it.
@ucme I rarely eat it, but not even I can admit I don’t like it. Are you American? They have an interesting spin on pizza.
Am I American? Now lemme see…err, no!
What’s fucking weird is someone claiming they apparently have numerous reasons to find someone suspicious, wondering if that startling crap can be explained, could be fun, although I suspect not.
He’s from the side of the pond that puts vinegar on their French fries and calls them “chips”.
England! lol
I love vinegar on my fries. It’s soooooo good!!
I don’t like vinegar either…wow, shock, horror!
Ha ha. I like malt vinegar on my “chips” as well.
@ucme Maybe your wife is actually an excellent cook, and you’re just a picky bastard.
She is an excellent cook, i’m just an ironic bastard.
@ucme I know what ‘bangers and mash’ is, but what is ‘bubble and squeak’?
@Katniss Main ingredients are cabbage & potato, but you can basically toss any vegetable in there, whatever takes your fancy.
@ucme Thank you! That actually sounds really good.
I don’t like it…yeah, delicious :)
lol That’s because you’re picky! Or perhaps you just have discriminating tastes.
@ucme @Katniss – I had bangers and mash about two months ago in a small pub in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, USA). They were as good as the ones that I had in a London pub about three years ago.
Don’t underestimate the value of a good banger…
@elbanditoroso Trust me, I never underestimate the value of a good banger! lol
Note to self: Reminder, ignore lard arses…good lad.
I love a good banger, but i’m a pie & mash man myself, loadsa gravy mind.
* sigh * Never had a proper meat pie. Tried to make them myself once, and it was a spectacular failure. It’s really hard to cook something you’ve never seen in person before.
^^Another shit cook fishing for excuses ;-}
Do you yanks guys do steak & kidney pudding? It’s nomtastic…
The fact the you just used the word kidney is scaring me.
Monty Python sketch lingers in the background of my mind, where it shall stay because it’s almost tea-time & we can’t have upset stomachs, oh dear me no.
The crust is often my favourite part!
@ucme I’m actually a great cook, but I have to have a finished product in my brain first. ^_^ Imagine trying to make sfogliatelle, from a recipe, having never actually seen a sfogliatelle in person. “Uh, is this what it’s supposed to look like?” “I dunno.”
And the only pudding typically eaten in the US has Bill Cosby as the spokesperson.
@Seek_Kolinahr Do you not put vinegar on your chips/fries in the states?
@ucme Hold on now, I am usually very sympathetic to a person’s dislike of a particular food, but pizza? No combination suits you? White pizza, no cheese pizza, all meat pizza, all veggie, BBQ pork pizza, nothing? What you don’t like the dough/crust? You can put anything you want in the pizza pie.
What is this…pizzagate? :)
Okay @JLeslie seeing as though it’s you i’ll clarify. I’ve eaten pizza, of course I have, but it’s really not something I crave, I grudgingly accept any offered to me & never buy one myself.
Just does nothing for me, the wife & kids love pizza though…which is nice.
@ucme Well, I do appreciate you taking the time to address my question. I guess I can let it go; over time I will probably forget you even mentioned it and you will be in my good favor again. :)
For me the crust is the pizza. It bugs me when people toss it.
@JLeslie Ha, if it’s any consolation the wife just read through this thread & said “serves you right”
She thinks it’s weird too…“cheers pet”
@Leanne1986 Not traditionally. I do, because I’m 99% British anyway. ^_^ Typically, people put ketchup and salt on their chips here. Some weirdos put mayonnaise on theirs. Occasionally I’ll dip mine in my chocolate milkshake if I happen to have one, or a certain brand of salad dressing that I“m fond of.
I take offense by the words “toss it”. Throwing away unspoiled food is highly unethical and when I see this in American movies or series (like in How I met your Mother) it always drives me crazy. I was taught to never do that. We save everything and put it in the fridge.
Yes, some pizzas contain too much dough compared to everything else on it. In such cases I cut away the extra crust to save it for later. It’s possible to eat it together with cheese for example.
It’s good policy to toss your salad though…always.
Now I need pizza. Damn you all.
I thought @mattbrowne was going to say toss it sounds too much like throw up to be used during a discussion about food.
@Seek_Kolinahr Where is there decent pizza here?
Most salads spoil easily. Pizza crust doesn’t.
Well, I’m lucky enough to work in Channelside, home of Precinct Pizza, which is owned and operated by people from the Old Country (erm, Manhattan). It’s the closest I think you can get to real NY pizza without trucking in water from the Reservoir.
So if you’re ever going to the Forum for an event, stop by for a slice or ten. ^_^
I eat the whole damn thing. Look at this pizza from a local pizza shop. How could you not?
@Seek_Kolinahr Good to know. If you ever want to meet for pizza let me know. FYI: the next two weeks are impossible for me.
It’s a date! ...eventually. ^_^
…Am I the only one who got @ucme‘s joke?
went right over the smart guys head :D
Got pizza for lunch. Mmmm…. greasy cheese-bread. * drool *
@bookish1 I was starting to think the same thing until I saw your post…lol
All this pizza talk had me thinking about pizza all day at work! I’m making one as soon as I get home!
@bookish1 All this fuss over a little joke, bunch of tossers :)
@ucme You keep askin’ for it by always dropping the soap. XD
Sshh, quiet in the cheap seats.
It depends on the crust. If it is a huge crust, I won’t eat it. My partner will eat mine (and we give a tiny bit to the dog, since she’s tiny). If it is small, I’ll eat it. If we have some type of sauce to dip it in, we’ll do that. I will not eat a hard crust though (well, unless I was starving on some island). I don’t like a ton of bread in my pizza, I get thin crust. When we make it at home, I make my outer crust about half a cm to a cm long… or wide… or whatever, lol.
I haven’t had a steak and kidney pudding for years. Or a cheese and onion pie.
@woodcutter this is a steak and kidney pudding. Instead of a traditional pastry, this is made with suet pastry.
This is a cheese and onion pie. It’s a pie filled with cheese and…wait for it .. onion :D
This is a pork pie.
None of these foods are very healthy! They would all blow your diet out of the water. Thankfully, because I like to eat them, only the pork pie is available in Australia and the pastry here isn’t so good. So unless I make my own, and that isn’t the same at all, I do without.
@Leanne1986 I’m from the US and I always put vinegar on my fries. @Seek_Kolinahr Is only partially right. Big fast food chains do not supply vinegar but any mom and pop burger/pizza place, that sells fries, always has vinegar out. Also, concession stands at carnivals, amusement parks and beaches, all supply vinegar.
Gravy is also good on fries. It’s a Canadian thing. I’m in Maine. Canada surrounds half our state.
@flip86 any mom and pop burger/pizza place, that sells fries, always has vinegar out.
That has to be a regional thing.
I’ve never seen that in the US, even around Detroit which is SOUTH of Canada (no kidding, look at a map).
I love vinegar on fries, but it’s weird in the US.
@jaytkay It could be regional or maybe a New England thing, but most places here have a bottle of vinegar sitting on the table or counter.
Th gravy thing isn’t common at all.
@jaytkay @flip86 I think that vinegar on fries is a North East/Mid-Atlantic thing in the US. I’m from Maryland, and tons of people here eat their fries with malt vinegar, and we generally call this “boardwalk fries.” No respectable person eats Thrasher’s or Five Guys without malt vinegar on top!
Yeah, in the south I have to specifically ask for vinegar, even at the British restaurants.
@Seek_Kolinahr Are you considering Tampa to be the south? Or, you mean the actual deep south? I have been to pubs and Irish or British restaurants in the south and there is vinegar readily available, sometimes even served in a little dish/condiment cup right on the plate with the fish and chips. Around here I don’t know the deal, I haven’t noticed. I don’t often order fish and chips or fries as a side that often.
Some Fish & chip outlets here will actually pour vinegar on your tuck without bothering to ask…i’ve stopped this in it’s tracks a few times, hate the stuff.
I prefer ketchup on my fries myself. I don’t like my food soggy with some sort of watery condiment that gets sucked up by food. It’s the same reason I don’t like pancakes with maple syrup or a french dip au jus.
Precisely, it’s like devil juice :D
@ucme Agreeing with me on this is like you brought me flowers after our pizza spat. All is forgiven.
No but, I said it first see, so you’re agreeing with me so there :P
Be wary of those flowers @JLeslie, coming from me they may just squirt water in your eye :D
@Seek_Kolinahr @jaytkay I love how you two seem to think you’re the authority on all things American.
@Fly Thanks for setting the record straight.
Well, I have lived here all my life…
…& consider yourself 99% British, only you get sunny Florida…best of both worlds then.
I’ll trade you, right now, straight up.
Oh yeah, I forgot, you’re on the move aren’t you?
On second thought, I think i’m okay with our shitty climate, too much sun would do my head in.
@ucme: In the end, that’s why y’all lost India, isn’t it? :-p
@bookish1 Probably, us pasty Brits just ain’t used to the perishing heat…“It Ain’t Half Hot Mum”
@ucme: But we do have the Raj to thank for the India Pale Ale and the Gin & Tonic… 10 drinks a day keeps the heat-stroke away…
not to mention the malaria.
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