My dogs would starve if I ate the disgusting pointless crust.

Get mini-pizzas. No crust to waste.

What about a calzone? Do you bust it open like a pin~ata and guzzle it like a bucket o' toppings?

This coming from the man who makes an Atkins pile on his plates of food NOT for health, but in memory of Dr. Atkins ;)

This is a tough one.

On the one hand, I eat the crust and I like it.

On the other hand, if no one ever threw out their crusts, I'd have starved to death in graduate school waiting months and months for my overdue checks.

I must say, though, that the pizza crusts in Canadian trash cans are MUCH better than the ones I was eating here out of American trash cans a year and a half ago.

knife and fork

Growing up as an American of Italian background, tied intimately to my Italian roots (our family lived in North Beach and in Alameda), we *never* had pizza.

My grandmother used to say, "You don't eat pizza in my house; that's Siciliano!" She used "Siciliano" to label everything she thought was wrong with the world. Growing up I just thought she was racist against our Sicilian brethren, who were relucantly brought into the Italian federation when the "country" of Italy was created in the 19th century.

But then I read about pizza and found out it wasn't my grandmothers dislike of Sicilians, but the fact that pizza was peasant food. It was basically leftover bread loaded with various leftovers and whatever people could scrounge from neighbors, and baked to try to make it more palatable. If a family ate pizza it was because they were poor.

So, the concept of a pizza restaurant was like, say, a restaurant specializing in serving leftover dumpster food.

Myself, I never ate pizza until I was in college, and certainly not in Nonnie's (my grandmother's) presence. I happen to like pizza (especially when you add Northern Italian things like pesto, zucchini, maybe chard...

sorry phoenix, but as a former new yorker, nothing out here even remotely resembles pizza.

but that said pizza is a pretty impossible recipe to fuck up. bread, sauce, cheese, etc.

it's all good.

Are you a man?

yeah- there are a minority of pizza I like eating the crust- but it usually goes to my dogs.