George M. Middius > writes:

> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>>>>the general rule is that smoked meats have no place on pizza.
>>>
>>> Your viewpoint is eccentric, but I'm sure you knew that.
>>
>>I think of it as "traditional"; pizza ingredients were quite stable for
>>the first decade or so I knew about pizza, and then suddenly people
>>started adding just anything. And nearly all the new stuff goes badly
>>on pizza.
>
> ... also provincial to the point of being insular.

A continent is, after all, just a big island.

I think the usage has caught on among my friends because it had become
hard to answer the question "what do you like on pizza". Used to be I
could say "anything except green olives or dead fish". Now it would
take 10 minutes and I'd probably forget or not know about many of the
things people have put on pizza. So it's a very useful short-hand to
say "only actual pizza ingredients, no green olives or dead fish".

(The joke is partly a reference to Germany's Reinheitsgebot, and a local
ad campaign by a regional brewer that talked about "real beer
ingredients".)
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