olives are best pizza topping, unpopular opinions
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What are unpopular opinions?
I woke up this morning in the mood for debate, okay? I want to rile people up. I want to stir the pot. I want to start some minor arguments. And that's why today I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes to an hour discussing some of my unpopular opinions. Some of these might anger you. I know that, okay? Wow, my voice is really raspy today. It's very raspy, but it's raspy in a good way. I lose my voice all the time. My voice is always kind of raspy. But it's a little different every time. Like sometimes I lose my voice and it sounds weak and fragile and it hurts to talk and that is not fun. And then sometimes I lose my voice like this where it doesn't hurt to talk and it just sounds kind of sexy and smoldering. Super exciting. I went out last night, which is why I lost my voice.
And I have not been going out recently. I go through phases where I go out a lot. Then I don't. Then I do. Then I don't. Then I decide that I'm never going out again. Then I decide that being social is the only way to live my life. It's like a very, very unhealthy back and forth. And every single time I go through a phase, I... think that that phase will last for the rest of my life, which is stupid, just to then ultimately go back to how I was before. You know what I mean? Like, it's just a mess. So what was the point of all that? Oh, I went out last night after not going out for a while. I actually had fun and that's kind of rare. So good for me. But now my voice is raspy and sexy and smoldering. Okay. That is my cat.
Okay, let's get into it. Let me share with you some of my unpopular opinions.
Okay, to start...
Very controversial. I truly do believe that olives are the best pizza topping. I truly believe that. I also understand why people don't like olives on pizza. I get it. Olives have a slightly sour, sometimes even metallic kind of taste. They look kind of gross. You know, texturally, they might be kind of gross to some people. I personally think they're delightful, okay? When you're taking a bite of pizza, it's salty, it's maybe a little tangy, it's yeasty, it's bready, it's sort of umami, like fatty. It is so nice to have a pop of acidity when you're eating pizza. It just brightens the whole thing up, okay? From like a scientific level. I don't understand food science. I didn't study it. But I think I'm hypothesizing, and I'm too lazy to Google it right now.
I don't want to Google it. But I would assume... that adding acid to pizza is good for the overall flavor experience, okay? You know, when you're eating something, you want to have fat. You want to have acid, sourness, tanginess. You want to have umami. You want to have, you know, all these different flavor profiles. The more you have going on at once in harmony, the more explosive of flavor we got going on. To me, I just think olives provide that, okay? They provide a bit of tartness, a bit of tanginess. I also like the texture they provide, a slightly harder thing to chew on. And I don't know, they're just kind of foolproof. Like a flawed pizza topping, in my opinion, would be bell peppers.
Sometimes bell peppers on pizza are delightful when they're cooked before they're put on the pizza. So they're soft and they're caramelized and they have a lot of flavor. When a pizza shop just plops on a bunch of raw bell peppers on the pizza before they throw it in the pizza oven, a lot of times that's not enough cooking time to fully soften a bell pepper. So now you have crunchy bell peppers on the pizza. It just like isn't good. Same thing with onions. I personally do not like raw onions. I think that they are vile. Occasionally a raw onion can work, but it just has to be so masterfully done. It's just, it's a lot to ask. I like a cooked onion. Throwing a bunch of raw onions on a pizza, they just don't get cooked and caramelized enough for my liking. A big slab of tomato on pizza, you know, you take one bite and you... fucking pull the whole tomato off the pizza. Okay, stupid. It looks beautiful, whatever, but it's not an effective topping. Basil.
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