Originally posted by: ricarleite
Here's a curious discussion I'd like to propose. Pizzas ALWAYS have tomatoe sauce, right? Well, here in Brazil, only the state I live in - in which a massive ammount of italian immigrants and further generations live - pizza is done the traditional italian way. With tomatoe sauce, on a proper log oven (not propane or electric), with the proper dough...
Now, if you eat a pizza OUTSIDE this state (São Paulo), you'll get a thin, crappy pizza with NO sauce on it, cheese directly into the dough, on electric ovens, and get this... people smear ketchup, mustard and even mayonase on it. If you do that here, where I live, people will think you are some sort of lunatic (or an outsider). It is even considered bad etiquette on some pizza places around here, to ask for ketchup.
So, my question is, HOW are pizzas prepared where you live, and do you commit the CRIME of putting ketchup, or... God forbid, mayonase on it??
My Gosh, that would probably get a person hung where I live...
Lots of sauce, lots of cheese, I'm getting hungry! They use propane mostly where I live, but there are 1 or 2 places that do Brick Oven with hot coals and such, which I guess is more traditional than gas. There's a place right down the street from where I live that's been there since 1991, and we go there once a week like clockwork!
A lot of places do make what's called a White Pizza, which is dough covered with olive oil and such, instead of red sauce. They then cover it with vegetables, mostly either spinach or broccoli.