Posted on 01/24/2022 11:38:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
We have reached a dangerous crossroads. Cold pizza has landed in New Jersey as a thing.
Now before my time, there was some guy I read about in the history books named Barry Goldwater. Some didn’t know what to make of this politician because he was quite liberal on social issues like gays serving openly in the military, legalization of medicinal marijuana, abortion rights and environmental protection. On the other hand he reformed his Republican Party in a conservative way that set the path for the Reagan Revolution.
I’m like that in a lot of ways. On money and spending and taxes, on criminal justice, I’m very conservative. On social issues I’m very liberal.
Look, if you are consenting adults, it’s none of my business who does what to whom in the bedroom. Wear feather boas and bring in trampolines while blasting RuPaul and have an orgy for all I care.
But pizza is another matter.
And before America goes careening wildly off course into a Sodom and Gomorrah culinary downfall I must speak up.
It has come to my attention thanks to Jeremy Schneider of NJ.com that in a small pizza shop in Sussex County serving cold pizza is catching on.
In Sussex County! A county Trump carried in 2020 by almost 59%!
Look, cold pizza is beyond the pale. There’s snowflake liberalism and then there’s outright moral anarchy. Serving pizza cold and not as God intended has brought us to such a brink today.
According to Schneider, the culprit is Carmine’s Pizza in Netcong. As part of some foodie event a food blog was involved with, Carmine’s was recently serving a slice of pizza with cold cheese thrown on top.
Now granted, the entire slice wasn’t cold but this is like a gateway drug. And granted, this was for an event and isn’t on their regular menu but as Schneider points out, if you ask for it you know they’ll comply now that this unholy Rubicon has been crossed.
Will it be long before other pizza joints follow suit then carry it further and serve entirely cold slices of pizza?
This is no joke! It upsets the natural order of the universe.
People who eat cold pizza straight from the fridge need to have a psychiatric exam. It is not OK to eat pizza cold. Dare I say it’s even worse than eating it with a fork or at the very least on par. If we accept a world where cold pizza is OK then anything is OK. And if anything is OK then nothing is OK!
If this catches on in a red county like Sussex I’m willing to go so far as to ask them to secede from the state. Go be part of New York if you want to engage in such perversion.
Cold pizza is not funny. It’s not cute. It’s not OK. Is it our own fault? When pineapple found its way into pizza years ago good men did nothing. We sat by as pizza covered in chocolate became a meal that identified as a dessert.
We cannot sit by and let cold pizza become normalized for our next generation. I will lead this fight. You either stand with me or you’re part of the permissive problem.
This ends now!
I can live with using a fork as long as it’s hot.
I’m a folder, not a forker. Is that acceptable?
People in Pittsburgh eat leftover cold pizza all the time. There’s hardly anything worse than cold pizza IMO. Although room temperature garlic cheese pizza might pass.
Dork. I grew up in NJ and ate cold pizza from the box laying out from the night before, all the time.
Even pizza with pineapple on it.
My friend could eat pizza right out of the refrigerator for breakfast. I think this was before microwave ovens were common in homes.
My father ate both pizza and fried chicken with a fork and knife. His father immigrated from Italy. I don’t know if it was a personal idiosyncrasy, a family tradition or something considered normal in Newport, RI where he grew up.
My kids and their pals who stay overnight eat cold pizza off the range top for breakfast..
I like reheating a piece of pizza for breakfast the next morning, and washing it down with a glass of cold milk. Try it.
Pizza is just as good, if not even better, when cold.
Weekend morning breakfast in college might be cold pizza and warm beer.
There is no nutritional value in heat. Plus, I have yet to burn the top of my mouth from leftover pizza.
I call shenanigans on the athor of the article. I betcha he has eaten cold pizza, liked it, and was glad to have it. Especially with his warm beer on a Saturday morning.
So if he objects to someone having the nerve to offer it for a price, and folks are willing to pay for it, he is way outa line! :-D
Well, not refrigerator cold but next morning countertop cold is a breakfast treat.
A grind of pepper and some coffee...Best evah!
Breakfast Pizza is served cold with hot coffee.
Distinguish between refrigerator cold and room temperature pizza which has been sitting on the table top. Room temp pizza is delightful for youthful folks of all ages.
Now, let's discuss the disgusting practice of reheating pizza in a microwave. Don't do it!
What good pizza looks like:
https://evergreen.campusdish.com/LocationsAndMenus/TheMarketPlace/Topios
What bad pizza looks like:
https://www.oathpizza.com/
Cold pizza is the best thing I know to cure a hangover
In my youth, it was the preferred method.
Yep. I grew up in South Jersey and that leftover cold pizza from the night before went down good before my first cup of WaWa coffee.
Don’t eat cold Domino’s pizza in the dark because you might be eating the box......
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