Be careful what you wish for.

[Moksha]

The only thing better than a Hawaiian pizza is a Hawaiian pizza with extra pineapple! Full stop!

Please don't try to come in her and challenge this - you'll just look silly if you do.

Pineapple is the world's truest pizza topping

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Pineapple is the world's truest pizza topping

[Chap]

The only thing better than a Hawaiian pizza is a Hawaiian pizza with extra pineapple! Full stop!

Please don't try to come in her and challenge this - you'll just look silly if you do.

Pineapple is the world's truest pizza topping

Fortunately, nobody has told the Italians yet ...

[Some Schmo]

I share your enthusiasm for Hawaiian pizza, but it is not the only kind of pizza I like. Among my favorites are thin crust vegetarian pizzas including garlic -- especially if artichoke hearts are also included.

I'm not sure if I've told this story here before, but when I was about 9 years old, I bought and made a Chef Boyardee pizza kit and ate the whole thing. After that, I got about two feet from the toilet before throwing it all up. Note to all: Chef Boyardee sucks.

Since then, my perspective on pizza has not been favorable. I don't think I touched pizza again until I was a young adult, and even then, I was not keen on eating it.

Papa Murphy's Take and Bake pizza is not bad, but I think I don't mind it because they use some kind of garlic based sauce rather than tomato based.

I'm with you on thin crust, by the way. The less crust, the better. I can't stand that gooey bread dough taste, and I don't want all the calories.

[Gunnar]

I'm not sure if I've told this story here before, but when I was about 9 years old, I bought and made a Chef Boyardee pizza kit and ate the whole thing. After that, I got about two feet from the toilet before throwing it all up. Note to all: Chef Boyardee sucks.

Since then, my perspective on pizza has not been favorable. I don't think I touched pizza again until I was a young adult, and even then, I was not keen on eating it.

Papa Murphy's Take and Bake pizza is not bad, but I think I don't mind it because they use some kind of garlic based sauce rather than tomato based.

I'm with you on thin crust, by the way. The less crust, the better. I can't stand that gooey bread dough taste, and I don't want all the calories.

Interesting story. It's easy to see why that experience would have soured you on pizza in general.

I'm with you on Papa Murphy's pizzas. The best pizzas I ever had were from them, though some other past favorites I have had were specialty pizzas from Roundtable and Pizza Hut.

As for thin crust vs. regular or stuffed crust, I like the other types of crust too. Which I prefer depends largely on what toppings I order.

My favorite pizza restaurant of all time was Pizza and Pipes in Sacramento. Sadly, they are long gone. Not only did they have some wonderful pizzas, it featured a classic Wurlitzer Theater organ built into it, or rather, one could almost say, into which the restaurant itself was built. During our dining experience we were surrounded on all sides with the various pipes, bells, drums and whistles, just overhead on the upper walls, all operated from the organ console sitting near the main entrance. The main pipes and the bellows that operated them were displayed behind a glass window near the front of the restaurant so we could watch them operating. They had an amazingly virtuosic organist, at first, named Stu Boyer who played requests for tips.

He had an impressively huge and eclectic repertoire ranging from hard rock to jazz to classical and baroque. I tipped him often to play various requests, as did others, of course. I never saw him given a request that stumped him! With an amazing talent like his, it was not too long before he moved on to bigger and better opportunities. We only got to enjoy him a couple of years or so before he moved on and was replaced with another musician who, though a fair musician himself, could not hold a candle to Stu Boyer. Not too long after Stu moved on, the restaurant rapidly declined in popularity and closed down. I was heartbroken! Eating there was such a great musical experience that I probably would have eaten there even if the pizza had been mediocre! I still have LP vinyl recordings of him playing there.

[Res Ipsa]

LOL. I ate at Pizza and Pipes when I was a student at Davis. I remember it as being pretty good.

[Jersey Girl]

Papa Murphy's

[Some Schmo]

My favorite pizza restaurant of all time was Pizza and Pipes in Sacramento.

Good story.

It's funny you mention Sacramento. I've been wanting to visit that place for a while now. I've been to California countless times, but always the southern parts of the state. I've heard great things about Sacramento, and it feels like that would be a fun new California experience for me.

[Gunnar]

LOL. I ate at Pizza and Pipes when I was a student at Davis. I remember it as being pretty good.

I ate there fairly often. It intrigues me that you and I might have both dined there at the same time at one time or another.

I remembered the pizza itself as being excellent, but it was the atmosphere and ambiance of the place that really won me over. I suppose it possible that because of that enhancing my whole dining experience, I tended to rate the quality of the pizza itself more highly than I would otherwise have rated it.

Another venue I enjoyed when I lived in Sacramento was [Blank's] (I forgot the first name) Opera Café in the Arden Fair Mall. All servers, both male and female, were voice students from one or more of the local colleges with music departments, who often broke into glorious song in between taking and serving orders. It was a fun place to eat for music lovers like me and my wife. Perhaps you ate there at one time or another, while a UC Davis student, and can remember the exact name?

That place is, unfortunately, also long gone.

[Some Schmo]

All servers, both male and female, were voice students from one or more of the local colleges with music departments, who often broke into glorious song in between taking and serving orders. It was a fun place to eat for music lovers like me and my wife.

I would not enjoy that, unless the singers were all rock stars, and even then, I'm not sure I'd want people singing at my table. I sometimes get annoyed when servers linger and talk too much, let alone break out in song. I usually don't enjoy musicals because music has a place, and it's not people singing in movies (unless it's a concert scene or something where music is actually appropriate). An actor starting to sing in the middle of a scene always breaks the suspension of belief I assume when watching a movie.

I'm sincerely glad you enjoyed it, but I suspect the place is gone because more people are like me that way. Just a suspicion. I've met several people who don't like telling a restaurant it's their birthday because they don't want a bunch of servers coming over to sing, and now that I think about it, I haven't seen servers singing birthday wishes in a restaurant in quite some time.