kopphanatic wrote:If I want just cheese, I specify cheese. I'm afraid that I'll end up getting bread and sauce if I just say plain.

http://www.co-pane.com/menu.pdf

That's the menu for a well regarded new pizza place in NY.

There's the "Pizza Bianca," which is just bread and salt and olive oil.

There's the "Rosa," which is crushed tomato, garlic and fresh oregano.

Plain, according to PTK, would be...?

How is cheese not a topping?

It's like regular coffee--plain pizza is mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. Gourmet pizza might have be pesto based, or a white pie has no tomato sauce only cheese.

This thread is making me hungry

Doors that swing open into heavily trafficked hallways (this only seems to be a problem at my office). One of these days I'm afraid I'm going to be knocked unconscious by a careless co-worker who's rushing to the bathroom.

lethal wrote:

kopphanatic wrote:If I want just cheese, I specify cheese. I'm afraid that I'll end up getting bread and sauce if I just say plain.

http://www.co-pane.com/menu.pdf

That's the menu for a well regarded new pizza place in NY.

There's the "Pizza Bianca," which is just bread and salt and olive oil.

There's the "Rosa," which is crushed tomato, garlic and fresh oregano.

Plain, according to PTK, would be...?

I'd suspect that they do sell by the slice, or do delivery.

Boutique restaurant pizza is a relatively new phenomena growing up in the last 10-12 years... ordering it off a menu like that doesn't count...

Plain is plain. Anyone at a pizzeria/parlor knows what it means... my PEEVE is with the advent of the label "cheese pizza" as though its a menu option different than pepperoni, sausace, olives, etc...

There is plain pizza, or a topping(s). That's how it is.

"Pizza Bianca" or "Garlic fresh tomato" etc... is boutique stuff, not the joint around the corner where you catch a slice... c'mon

mickbayne wrote:Doors that swing open into heavily trafficked hallways (this only seems to be a problem at my office). One of these days I'm afraid I'm going to be knocked unconscious by a careless co-worker who's rushing to the bathroom.

My junk is at the exact height of the standard door knob... this is why I always wear a cup.

TenuredVulture wrote:I never got hurt by an asshat on the phone, but I agree with PiP. $#@! who talk on the phone while driving are loathsome $#@! wads who deserve jail.

It's illegal to drive a car that hasn't been properly inspected because it's hazardous to other drivers.

You can't drive while intoxicated because it's hazardous to other drivers.

I fail to see why cell phones get a pass in this regard. Study after study shows that driving while operating a cell phone greatly increases your risk of being involved in an accident.

Cell phone + talking or texting + Driving = Huge fine; repeat offenses = jail time.

Hey, here's an idea: legalize and tax marijuana, and as a way to keep the prison-industrial complex alive, criminalize the use of a cell phone while operating an automobile.*

* Excepted are those in specific professions, such as police officers and emergency rescue personnel.

Not only did I just provide a huge boost to the economy, but I also keep corporate fat cats' wallets full, and I saved millions of lives in the process. Where's my friggin' Nobel Peace prize?

TenuredVulture wrote:It's like regular coffee--plain pizza is mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. Gourmet pizza might have be pesto based, or a white pie has no tomato sauce only cheese.

I disagree - sometimes gourmet pizza is giant chunks of runny tomato (instead of sauce) and weird slabs of mozzarella (as opposed to shredded). You'd probably have to be someone who hates giant chunks of runny tomato to notice though.

People that chew with their mouth open and do the lip smack. Are you 5 years old? Chew with your mouth shut you heathen.

VoxOrion wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:It's like regular coffee--plain pizza is mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. Gourmet pizza might have be pesto based, or a white pie has no tomato sauce only cheese.

I disagree - sometimes gourmet pizza is giant chunks of runny tomato (instead of sauce) and weird slabs of mozzarella (as opposed to shredded). You'd probably have to be someone who hates giant chunks of runny tomato to notice though.

Oh, yes, I know, I said might--there's more options than even I listed of course, which would complicate ordering a plain pie, and so you might have to specify that you want cheese. They probably charge extra for the cheese as well.

The latest cliche used by athletes and sports broadcasters: "Control our(their, your) destiny". Destiny, by definition, is something that cannot be controlled, so that phrase makes no goddamned sense! I started to hear it in the NFL playoff race last season and I'm hearing it in baseball now. Just gets on my nerves. That and the overuse of "execute" and "make plays" by so many football players because they hear the other guy say it and don't have the intelligence or ability to express themselves in a different way.

CrashburnAlley wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I never got hurt by an asshat on the phone, but I agree with PiP. $#@! who talk on the phone while driving are loathsome $#@! wads who deserve jail.

It's illegal to drive a car that hasn't been properly inspected because it's hazardous to other drivers.

You can't drive while intoxicated because it's hazardous to other drivers.

I fail to see why cell phones get a pass in this regard. Study after study shows that driving while operating a cell phone greatly increases your risk of being involved in an accident.

Cell phone + talking or texting + Driving = Huge fine; repeat offenses = jail time.

Hey, here's an idea: legalize and tax marijuana, and as a way to keep the prison-industrial complex alive, criminalize the use of a cell phone while operating an automobile.*

* Excepted are those in specific professions, such as police officers and emergency rescue personnel.

Not only did I just provide a huge boost to the economy, but I also keep corporate fat cats' wallets full, and I saved millions of lives in the process. Where's my friggin' Nobel Peace prize?

Cell phone (unless hands free) usage while driving is illegal in NJ already.

Cell phone usage while walking is annoying enough. There are times when it's no big deal, but if you're in Center City walking very slowly in front of me right in the middle of the sidewalk because you're absorbed in your phone, I want to kill you

Cell phone usage while at the checkout at the supermarket, drugstore, etc., when I'm behind you in line, also punishable by death. It's incredibly inconsiderate both to those waiting behind you, and the clerk to whom you owe your attention as a basic courtesy.

Bakestar wrote:Cell phone usage while at the checkout at the supermarket, drugstore, etc., when I'm behind you in line, also punishable by death. It's incredibly inconsiderate both to those waiting behind you, and the clerk to whom you owe your attention as a basic courtesy.

Absolutely. On a slightly lower rung of offensiveness, I'd like to complain about people who get up to the counter at a CVS or whatever, and after the clerk tells them how much the total is, they then start rummaging through their purse for their wallet, as if it has come as a total surprise to them that they would need to pay for their products.

Speaking of CVS, for awhile I would shop at the CVS in Bloomfield NJ, but they really pissed me off because I'd go up to pay for my purchases, but the manager would be there telling the clerk to do some menial task other than ringing me up! I'm wtf, I'm a customer, and that menial task will still be there after I pay for my stuff, but I may leave your store before the clerk finishes that task.

And it's true. I stopped going to that store. There was a mom and pop pharmacy across the street, and as a bonus, the pharm tech was smoking hot.

TenuredVulture wrote:Speaking of CVS, for awhile I would shop at the CVS in Bloomfield NJ, but they really pissed me off because I'd go up to pay for my purchases, but the manager would be there telling the clerk to do some menial task other than ringing me up! I'm wtf, I'm a customer, and that menial task will still be there after I pay for my stuff, but I may leave your store before the clerk finishes that task.

And it's true. I stopped going to that store. There was a mom and pop pharmacy across the street, and as a bonus, the pharm tech was smoking hot.

pharmacy techs as a general rule are pretty hot

Bakestar wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Speaking of CVS, for awhile I would shop at the CVS in Bloomfield NJ, but they really pissed me off because I'd go up to pay for my purchases, but the manager would be there telling the clerk to do some menial task other than ringing me up! I'm wtf, I'm a customer, and that menial task will still be there after I pay for my stuff, but I may leave your store before the clerk finishes that task.

And it's true. I stopped going to that store. There was a mom and pop pharmacy across the street, and as a bonus, the pharm tech was smoking hot.

pharmacy techs as a general rule are pretty hot

In my experience, CVS pharm techs are dudes or uggos.

Cross-posted from pizza thread...

People who refer to pizzas as pies.