"Pizza" in China

[KennethT]

11 hours ago, liuzhou said:

This, I'm told, is described in store, but as usual not on the the delivery app. As "Supreme Pizza"!

 

I am struggling to think of anything that looks less like a 'supreme pizza' or supreme anything else!  They are clearly delusional.

 

 

 

What, do they claim, makes this pizza supreme over the others?  Are the toppings buried under that thick down comforter of cheese?

[liuzhou]

4 hours ago, KennethT said:

What, do they claim, makes this pizza supreme over the others?  Are the toppings buried under that thick down comforter of cheese?

 

I can only go by the customer's review which discloses the name they  give it. That person described it as a very simple pizza. 

 

I strongly suspect that the store just saw the English name somewhere without knowing what it meant and decided to use it. I've seen that happening before in other so-called 'western' restaurants.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by liuzhou (log)

[Tropicalsenior]

2 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I've seen that happening before in other so-called 'western' restaurants.

That happens a lot here in Costa Rica. About 20 years back there was a pizza restaurant that opened in a little kiosk across the street. All the ever seem to have was ground beef, sauce and cheese despite showing about 20 items on their menu.

Their basic pizza wasn't really all that bad and we would request it with anchovies and they were always out. As we got to know them better we found out that they didn't even know what anchovies were. They had just taken somebody else's menu and copied it verbatim.

[blue_dolphin]

3 hours ago, KennethT said:

What, do they claim, makes this pizza supreme over the others? 

 

9 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I strongly suspect that the the store just saw the English name somewhere without knowing what it meant and decided to use it.

“Supreme” seem to be a common pizza descriptor in the US so it's not surprising they co-opted it though they don’t seemed to have borrowed the usually generous list of toppings, unless, as @KennethT said, they’re under the cheese!

From a recipe on the Ooni pizza oven website:

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The name “supreme pizza” is a less-than-descriptive term. One could argue that supreme pizza has made enough of a name for itself that it doesn’t need to be informative – everyone knows that it’s got mushrooms, peppers, sausage, onions, pepperoni, cheese and tomato sauce. Except… DiGiorno has a version that includes olives, Pizza Hut’s has ground beef, Domino’s uses all of those ingredients but calls it Deluxe and our recipe here forgoes the sausage. 

While places started serving supreme pizzas in the early 1960s – Shakey’s, America’s first pizza franchise, served a Portland Supreme with salami and peppers, and an Oklahoma restaurant advertised a supreme pizza covered in meat – things didn’t begin to standardize until Pizza Hut got involved. The Hut’s “Pizza Supreme” debuted in the late 1960s and has stayed much the same since, inspiring pizza makers around the country to add a version to their menus. 

Some vegetables are more standard than others – expect to see bell peppers and mushrooms before you encounter spinach and banana peppers – and meats are usually pepperoni, sausage and bacon.

 

[liuzhou]

6 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

They had just taken somebody else's menu and copied it verbatim.

 

Yes. Happens here a lot, too. Especially with steak restaurants. 

 

I have also encountered the permanently missing ingredients turning out to be something they'd never even seen. 

[liuzhou]

9 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

“Supreme” seem to be a common pizza descriptor in the US

 

Not only the US. Pretty much every pizza place in the UK features their version of a 'supreme'. It's usually just a mix of pretty much all the toppings they happen to carry.

 

The only thing hidden under that pile of cheese seems to be the pizza base.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by liuzhou (log)

[lindag]

My friends and I were vacationing in Costa Rica we located an outdoor restaurant that served pizza and stopped there for dinner.  

Unfortunately, while waiting for the pizza to arrive a nearby skunk sprayed.I don't remember the pizza but I do remember the smell.