Raisins

Sultanas, what have you.

So they are in many, many foods here.  Anyone convert from not enjoying raisins to loving them even on pizza?

On pizza?  I'd have to put that right up with sweet corn on pizza--ick!!

However, I do like them in other foods...breads, salads, sweet cakes, cinnimon rolls and the like.

I like to eat raisins by the hand full though, and sultanas don't cut it for that.  Good thing they have California Raisins at Tescos!!

I'd have to put that right up with sweet corn on pizza--ick!!

A-bloody-men!  Corn + pizza = yuck.

I like sweet corn pizza. LOL it's the tuna pizza that grosses me out!

pineapple has to be the worst pizza topping ever. bleuch

I think I've told this story before, but when I first moved over here I was really homesick and to cheer me up, my husband ordered a pizza.  I was SO excited and this was years ago, before there was a Pizza Hut on every corner, it was a huge deal.  And anyway, I opened up the box and there was CORN!  Corn on a pizza!  It was and still is one of the most disapointing moments of my life.     I actually cried.   

poor Mindy! that story's making ME cry now! i promise never to serve you a pizza with corn on it!!

poor Mindy! that story's making ME cry now! i promise never to serve you a pizza with corn on it!!

Thanks Liz.  It's funny now, but at the time it was the end of the world. 

My DH was just peering over my shoulder and said, 'I don't get it. What's the problem with sweet corn.' I said 'Brits put sweet corn on foods that no American would ever think of--on pizzas, in sandwiches...' He interrupted me to tel me he had a chicken sweet corn and mayonnaise sandwich for lunch and it was 'bloody gorgeous.' Aren't these Brits cute??!

Pizza Express has a pizza...I think it's the Venezia?  It has pine kernals, mozzarella, sultanas, garlic and some other things on it, including tuna.

No thanks.

When we first moved here, we rang them up and didn't have a menu so we asked for suggestions.  The first question:  are you looking for a fishy pizza?  No, we most definitely were/are not. 

I haven't adjusted yet to the sweet corn either.  Just not a big fan.  But it's better than sultanas on a pizza, I'll bet.

One of the first times I ordered a pizza was from a little place down the road, we'd walked in and were going to take it home with us. Here's me, California girl, looking at the menu, very impressed they are offering tomatoes on a variety of pizzas. So I order a pizza with tomatoes, onions, pepperoni, and extra sauce. You can imagine the almost Abbott & Costelloesque scene that ensued whereby I was asking for tomatos and extra sauce and the girl behind the counter was thinking I was extremely simple and just trying to confuse her because 'tomato' is what they call their sauce (which is also called 'base' as in 'tomato base').

Well I have now found a great pizza place that keeps our previous order on record which makes it easier to order with no accent/cultural confusion. And I like pineapple on my pizza but that's cause it makes a nice contrast to the jalepanoes. And I don't think I'd ever eat pineapple and jalepano together outside of a pizza but somehow, on a pizza, it's very good. Oh, and I get salami instead of pepperoni over here because the pepperoni here is not pepperoni, it's more like bologna and that is pretty manky on a pizza.

I am a big fan off odd things on a Pizza though must say I have not had corn on one here yet.  The whole pine nuts and raisens sounds good and reminds me of peshwari naan.  Yum. 

Spain does some odd ones too and even the Italians do some more traditional ones you won't find in the USA.

Still the great thing about Pizza is you can put just about whatever you like on it and it's a lovely food.

I love white pizzas with lots of cheese.  Must see if I can find a nice place here that does them.  We have a Pizza Express, Pizza Hut and Dominoes not 5 mins from our house...

..............hmmmm............

Oh and I forgot to mention another love I have... spinach with pine nuts and raisins....odd to think about but lovely....it's a side dish in Catalonia....

I like grapes in my chicken salad too with walnuts or even better a chicken salad with wither raisins or dried apricots and spiced with a nice madras curry.  Kind of a Coronation Chicken thingy with a twist.

 

dreaming of Pizza for dinner!

The pepperoni pizzas I've had here in the UK have looked and tasted just like the pepperoni pizzas I've had in the US...

Peedal.. wot no corn or raisins?  FOR SHAME!

How about pepperoni and anchovy?

I know!!! A whitebait pizza!!!

with corn of course!