Comments on: Open Letter to German Pizza People

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:34:58 +0000

I love corn, I really do, and I love pizza… This sounds awesome. I would put corn on my pizza.. Most assuredly. I think I will… Ive made pizza with green beans on it before, also one with asparagus, or “Green Spargel” for the germans out there. Im sure that might make a few of you nauseous, but I like it, and since I made it, thats really all that mattered at the time.

But Corn and Pea’s are awesome.. I should try pea’s on a pizza.. I bet that would be great.

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:10:28 +0000

Serves you right for stealing!

By: kitty-kat

kitty-kat — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:55:12 +0000

A funny corn story:
A few years ago when still living in Munich- my husband and I had biked to a local lake for the day. On the way back we passed by a small cornfield with ripe corn. We decided to be really naughty and picked a few- only to find after cooking them that they were totally inedible! They were the sort of corn grown strictly for feeding livestock- which is generally the type grown in Germany- hence you can rarely find any good fresh corn.

By: kitty-kat

kitty-kat — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:50:35 +0000

Americans do put a lot of interesting things on our pizzas- note the rise in popularity of restaurants like “California Pizza Kitchen”- but I have to agree that putting corn and kidney beans is just not something we would do! (having just had an “american” pizza like this from Lidl the other day, it actually wasn’t so bad, but it certainly wasn’t “american”)

On the subject of bizarre pizza toppings, I never could stomach the idea of tuna on pizza when living in Germany! Now that we are in the UK, they have an even more disgusting use of tuna- on a baked potato!! Yuck! And it’s not even the edible white albacore tuna (in Germany or the UK) they only use the super fishy-smelling plain tuna!!!

By: EllyTeej

EllyTeej — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:14:21 +0000

ROCK ON! You are so right. We are Americans living in Berlin, and we cannot STAND corn on pizzas. In our experience, most things in Germany covered in corn are called “american” or >GASP< “mexican” (i have yet–in year–to have anything resembling authentic mexican food in germany). Furthermore, we are from the midwest and the quality of the corn served here is barely worthy of human consumption. Thanks for giving voice to our most hearfelt concern.

By: simi1983

simi1983 — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:20:34 +0000

Ok i like the chili-con-carne-corn-thingy-pizza. i don’t care if americans don’t. I’ll agree on abolishing them when americans stop deepfrying brezeln or worse cover them with caramel (seen it in a texan wal-mart).

By: Hoschi

Hoschi — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:50:03 +0000

“I’m pretty sure no American has ever made chili con carne pizza before…”

If you can put it on a tiny hot dog, why shouldn´t we use it as a pizza topping?

By: Bird of Prey

Bird of Prey — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:58:04 +0000

I want to know…
…what do Americans think when they see in German TV the pizza ad with the stereotypical American family?
Awful or Hilarious??

(I mean the one where everyone tells each other “I love you!” Eventually Dad says: “We love American pizza.” Mum reads what’s written on the package and announces: “It’s from Doitschländ!” So Dad says: “We love Doitschländ!”)

By: westernworld

westernworld — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:41:41 +0000

@frank im sorry to rain on your parade but the kuckucksuhren are a genuinely german thing, there is a reason why the are called schwarzwälder kuckucksuhren.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock#History

as for the pizza that seems to be the one dish every culture has its very own idiosyncratic take own, american pizza is great but has no semblance whatshowever to the Italian original, even less so than the german version - ask Italians how they feel about pineapple on on a pie, well they wouldn’t think of it as pie to begin with.
deep dish chicago style pizza is closer to lasagna than to an actual pizza

but all that pales by comparison to the korean approach to pizza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biIKpegx7h4

By: HermanTheGerman

HermanTheGerman — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:28:44 +0000

Well it’s just that Americans put all sort of crap on their food, so the “Pizza People” most likely thought that’s no problem.