In my limited experience, cheese pizza is for families with picky children.
Exactly this, I’d prefer getting some opinionated toppings on the occasions I get pizza. But unless I’m somewhere selling by the slice that just guarantees my kids won’t touch it.
“That looks disgusting!” “How do you know if you haven’t tried it?” “Just trust me, I don’t like it!”
It’s also great for parties. It’s inoffensive, anyone who’s good for pizza can default to it. It’s often the only meatless option ordered (though I prefer something with as many veggies as I can get)
Appreciation of cheese pizza comes with age.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s only a sometimes thing, I still love my monstrosity kitchen sink pizzas, but there’s something nice about the simplicity of a good cheese pizza. Seriously order one from your favorite pizza place and get a nice sour ale (preferably not a fruity one, one of the Flanders red or oud bruin styles if you can). No four+ cheese, that’s cheating! The greasy cheese cuts the sourness of the ale while the sourness helps cut the greasiness of the pizza, it balances amazingly well.
Uncluttered pizza, uncluttered mind.
EDIT: Depending on your pizza place, you may want to go 2x or 3x cheese, that’s also acceptable.
I’m not knocking it til I try it but something about the combination of sour and cheese makes me wary
Edit: ya nevermind, I like pineapple on pizza and that does have a tartness to it too
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I found myself wondering just how common this could be, then realized my favorite pizza is a cheese pizza, if not the version you’d think of first.
A super-thin spread of basil pesto topped with a smattering of feta and finished off with red pepper flakes is divine. On a thin crust it’s my absolute favorite. Simple, and the flavors shine.
I can’t afford toppings
You gotta wonder at the headspace of someone downvoting such a comment.
It’s just easiest. I don’t like pepperoni, or bacon, or sausage. Don’t like olives or banana peppers or jalapeños. Mushrooms are disgusting. Cheese is just easiest to order from most pizza places.
There are things I like on pizza. If we go to a place like MOD, I’ll get chicken, spinach, roasted garlic, corn, broccoli, red onion, balsamic glaze, ricotta… my pizzas get pretty heavy there.
But at most pizza places, especially with other people, it’s just easy to get cheese.
Does quattro formaggi count?
I would say so
I’ll branch out every now and then, especially if I’m sharing the pie, but I’ve always preferred a cheese pizza.
On a side note, as a small kid, Home Alone normalized and made me not feel ashamed for being so “basic” in my plain-cheese tastes.
Also, vanilla icecream is the best.
What is cheese pizza? As opposed to… pizza with no cheese? Don’t pizzas usually have cheese?
Out of curiousity, where are you from?
