Posted on 08/31/2024 2:58:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Forget red sauce or white sauce, thin crust or deep dish — the real question is salad or no salad? On top, that is.
New Yorkers are talking after a curious image popped up on the Long Island Foodies Facebook page: a slice of pizza topped with a chicken Caesar salad.
“It’s a bad picture, but in your experience, is a salad slice normally on a regular slice?” Sam Marshak asked his fellow foodies. “I’ve never seen this, so just curious what the norm is.”
Yes, if you’re like this reporter and didn’t know, “salad pizza” is a thing.
The pies are typically made sans the tomato sauce, with either melted mozzarella cheese or no cheese, and then adorned with raw leafy greens, according to the blog SliceLife.com.
As with all culinary creations, there are no hard rules when it comes to building the perfect salad pizza, though popular renditions include garden, Greek, kale, and Caesar salads.
Not surprisingly, reaction to Marshak’s post was mixed, with one user calling it “an abomination.” “Blasphemy,” replied another.
It wasn't all bad, though: “I think it looks yummy,” said one commenter from Fort Salonga.
“Def not the norm but I’d eat it," said another.
One incredulous user suggested the government get involved: “Board of health should be called on the place for serving that slice.”
On Long Island, the following restaurants earned shoutouts for their own salad pizzas:
Satellite Pizza in Bayport
-La Bistro Pizzeria in Coram
-East End Pizza in Long Beach
-Caffe Amici in Selden
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Cooked bread with meat and salad stuff on it, sounds like Navajo fry bread street taco.
Does Blasphemy have NYers divided?
Well, more like the tribe Iron Eyes Cody was a member of.
Yes, it’s what you will often see in Italy, especially in the hot summer months, when salad generally grows very well - and is also quite refreshing to eat 🙂
When Pizzas die it’s not pretty.
Shakey’s Pizza at Tyson’s Corner had a taco pizza with ground beef, cheddar, and lettuce in the late ‘70s. That was pretty good, actually.
Tyson’s Corner...haven’t been there in years. Was more of a Generous George or Armand’s fan when it came to pizza.
My teenage years. Far from having developed appreciation for finer flavors. Still, I’d really like to have one of those Shakey’s taco pizzas just for old times’ sake.
And if you’re familiar with the area, there was a restaurant by the name of Rudy’s around the corner from the Super Giant and next to the Baskin Robbins in McLean that served the best filet mignion I have had *ever*.
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