Pizza

[Old_Geezer]

Due to it's effect on my waist size, pizza is a fairly rare treat these days, but last night my woman said she fancied some so I looked at the leaflets that had come through the door recently, and finally went to a website as what was on offer in the leaflets seemed rather limited.

I've been aware, with some considerable disappointment, that trying to get a 'seafood pizza' has been near impossible for some time. But last night I couldn't even find a pizza delivery place that offered anchovies, not even as an additional ingredient !

What is going wrong with this world ? Even the food has gone down in quality/options. Should I blame it on Covid ? Or Brexit ? Or global warming ? Perhaps the anchovy is on the endangered species list.

And the pizza we finally chose wasn't as warm as one might have expected for a big name supplier :-(

[pimplyteen]

Just buy the base and top your own. Cheaper and better.

[-SharonA-]

Oooh a seafood pizza!! This brings back memories of the seafood pizza I had in Rome. It was to die for and I've never been able to find it here.

[Old_Geezer]

You either need your own toppings, or have to leave the house to get some.

[douglas9401]

If we're sharing the Roman pizza can I have the Latin quarter please?

[barry1010]

Just buy a tin of anchovies (or a jar) and keep them in the cupboard for the next time you order pizza, they're cheap enough

[Buenchico]

Apparently it's no longer economical to fish for anchovies these days:
https://eprimefeed.com/latest-news/the-most-difficult-coastal-anchovy-in-just-two-months-to-catch-40-million/55564/

[pimplyteen]

^ Plus the oil is to expensive to can them in. There are very few sardines to buy now in oil.

[jno]

never mind, pizza lovers can still get pineapples

[barry1010]

Anchovies in oil, £2.80 a jar and in stock at Tesco. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=anchovies&icid=tescohp_sws-1_m-ft_in-anchovies_ab-226-b_out-anchovies

[barry1010]

Sardines in oil, 90p a tin at Tesco, other supermarkets are available

[gingejbee]

"gone down in quality"...People who choose take-away pizzas aren't too interested in the quality of their food, surely?

[bednobs]

it's probably because people who like seafood pizzas are weird and in a minority. However, if you want to continue your weirdness in future, Papa johns offer anchovies (boke) :)

[Buenchico]

>>> Anchovies in oil, £2.80 a jar and in stock at Tesco

Given that the maximum price that pizza houses want to pay for any one ingredient is probably around 20p, you aren't going to get many anchovies on your pizza at that price!

[barry1010]

I wouldn't know, Buen, I have never eaten pizza

[Paigntonian]

You win the prize for the most tedious question of the month.

[Buenchico]

Life without pizza, Barry, is simply existence ;-)

[pimplyteen]

The only way they can make money on Pizza is to put less toppings on. Not that I buy Pizza ( apart from the base) the toppings in supermarkets are getting close to a skimming of next to nothing. A very poor buy really.

[barry1010]

Buen, I have eaten cheese on toast. That's good enough for me.

[Old_Geezer]

The price of the things are such that I can not believe they need to skimp. Choose to for profit maybe.

The trouble with holding your own toppings is 3 fold. You either have to create the whole pizza yourself, which isn't what you want to pay for, or you have to add them after the pizza has been cooked, which also isn't what is required. And the number I eat, the topping would be past the best before date by the time I risked my waistline on another.

[pimplyteen]

Well up to a point OG you are right about keeping the toppings if you don't eat that product very often.

It just so happens I've just made one and it don't take long. I always have peppers in the house and cheese, also tinned tomatoes or fresh. With a rasher or 2 of bacon cut up, eh oh done and dusted and it didn't cost me an arm and a leg and be stone cold on delivery.
The bases I buy come 2 in a pack and don't have to be kept in the fridge. They cost me £1.30 for the 2.

But if you like seafood ones then a bit more difficult.