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My wife and I order pizza and have a friend over for a movie.  The friend is a vegetarian.  They usually get cheap pizza from Dominos and even order 3 pizzas.  (One fancy veggie for the friend, one meaty one he likes, one meaty one she likes.)

But tonight, she wants to try a new place that's higher quality (and thus more expensive.) 

She suggests to the group: "Is it OK if we just get cheese?"
Him: "Hell no.  What's the point of getting the better thing if you're just getting the lamest thing?"

Super easy and shouldn't even be a discussion for anyone who considers themselves a pizza enthusiast. Even ordering plain cheese pizza for the low end is unacceptable for anyone over the age of 5.

Can you not get a pizza with mixed toppings in FLA??? (ex. half sausage, the other half green peppers).  I occasionally like just plain pizza, so I'd be okay with no toppings, but don't make it a rule.

Yes.  You can.  I understand that there are solutions to fix the problem.  It's really more about going to a nicer place just to get a weaker pizza.

HEY A-HOLE, I LIKE CHEESE PIZZA  ;D...but I also like it with meat toppings.

Option C...get rid of the vegetarian.

I wonder if people are misunderstanding your question since the voting goes against all logic if you ask me. You are at a nicer place, paying more money, and she just wants to order cheese only. You are at the nicer place for the purpose of enjoying the ingredients. You might as well have some of them or else just get the cheaper one.

Sorry your logic doesn't resonate with the rest of us.  I go to a nicer place for a better pizza.  That would include everything from the water to make the dough, the dough itself, the sauce and the cheese.  You can definitely taste the difference between Little Caesar's vs a nice pizza restaurant, even if it's cheese.  I don't mind meat toppings, but I'm cool with cheese as well.

I guess we just have different ideas of what a pizza should be. As Dave said, getting just cheese is a weaker pizza experience. I am paying more for less enjoyment. That defies all logic regardless of what toppings you like. I would never eat pizza with only cheese anyway.

As long as the pizza doesn't have anchovies or some funky buffalo chicken sauce on it, I am good to go.

I do enjoy a good cheese pizza...especially a white pizza with a yummy garlic cream sauce.  I'd say that one out of around every 5-6 pizzas I get are cheese.

Can we make this a regular TDMMC series?

Is Dominos cheap in Florida?

+1 on Both Phish's points

Save the cash and buy frozen, take and bake from the supermarket...I've given up on buying big fast food pizza chains that deliver (Domino's,Pizza hut,Pizza inn,Papa Johns,etc),I got tired of paying an arm and a leg for crappy ass soggy,greasy ass flavored pizza.

I either do Papa Murphy's take and bake,or make my own.

Just my wonky feeling, unless it's a 1 topping pizza,I'm baffled by all meat topping pizzas.The idea  is extremely unappealing to me,might as well drink the fryer grease. :P

Fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, good tomato sauce... great dough, hand-tossed, wood-fired oven. Just the right amount of crispiness.

There's way more to pizza than "extra" toppings.

I've never had a good pizza in a cardboard box.

We have a nice Italian restaurant that we recently discovered and it has awesome pizza among other things. (Filomenas on 17-92 if you want to try it Phish. They also have great $5 lunch specials) This means we have been eating a lot of pizza lately. I like everything on it but my wife doesn't like green peppers and onions so her half is without. If we forget to ask, or they forget to not put green peppers and onions on her half she will take them off and not complain too much.  If we are eating with someone else, like my kids, and they do not like everything we purchase another pizza for them.

While I will eat just cheese or a pepperoni pizza it is really boring to me. With that said if I was paying more money for better pizza I would think I would have an even bigger issue with just cheese. 

They are not extra, they are the toppings. I don't consider just slathering mayo in between two slices of bread a sandwich either but I know some who eats it. In my mind, it is wrong to call that a sandwich also.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just looked them up and they have some good reviews. I'm going to give them a shot.

Come on, Phish, cheese on pizza isn't the same as mayo on a sandwich. The mayo on the sandwich is like the marinara sauce on the pizza. A better comparison would be to a cheese sandwich...and I occasionally eat those too.

If the cheese(s), sauce and dough on a pizza are really good, you really don't need anything else to make it a great pizza.

Yeah, I'd say so.  They have deals during the week, where I'll get like 3 pretty big pizzas for $30.  It'll feed 3 adults that night and then snacks and lunch for the next couple of days.

I'd like that, if we can think up disagreements that are debatable.

I'm personally glad to see the voters are coming around.  >:D

Phish, it's a little disturbing how passionate you are about pizza toppings, lol.

I know. I should probably talk to someone.

None of the traditional Italian pizzas have any of the stuff you seem to consider "the toppings".

Personally, I like some kind of meat on mine (preferably a good cured sausage with a nice kick to it), but that is way down on the list of what makes a great pizza in my book.

It's a good thing that I'm not Italian and you are incorrect.

Pizza capricciosa is a style of pizza in Italian cuisine prepared with mozzarella cheese, Italian baked ham, mushroom, artichoke and tomato. Types of edible mushrooms used may include cremini, white mushrooms, and others. Some versions may also use prosciutto (a dry-cured ham), marinated artichoke hearts, olive oil, olives, basil leaves and egg. Some versions may be prepared using a thin crust.

When I said traditional, I was referring to the three classics, as recognized and protected by the STG (specialità tradizionale garantita). One of the requirements is that the product has been made the same way for a really long time (30+ years), i.e. a classic by definition.

That said, there are plenty of great Italian pizzas with meat and other stuff on them, although I would argue that the AMOUNT of stuff on a pizza in Italy is usually substantially less than the domestic variants.

Really good quailty pizza great crust, sauce and cheese, stands on its own and is dimished by adding toppings.  Cheap pizza needs topping to have some taste.

Likewise store bought icecream is better buried in hot fudge and whip cream, but fresh homemade icecream is better in a cone without the additives.

Cheap rum is better with a mixer than straight, fine 150 year old brandy is better straight than with a mixer. 

I have the greatest wife in the world.  If there is one thing that could lead to us divorcing, it is pizza.  I'm a minimalist, pepperoni only.  She wants everything that can possibly be piled onto a pizza, shoved onto it.  Being the wonderful spouse that she is, she pretty much always caves in and we just order pepperoni.  But just once I think we are going to each order half and half of what we like just to see how comical the pizza is going to look.  My half will just have pepperoni and her half will be sitting about 8 inches higher than my half from all the crap piled on top of it.   ;D