Craving a different sort of pizza? See what the world has to offer.
America: bacon, Canadian bacon, ground beef, bell pepper, extra cheese, mushrooms (ugh. Sorry, I don’t like them), onion, pepperoni, pineapple, sausage, tomatoes
Australia: shrimp, pineapple, barbecue sauce
Brunei: honey, garlic, barbecue, chicken
Brazil: green peas, hard-boiled eggs
Canada: spaghetti
China: thousand island dressing, eel sushi
Costa Rica: coconut, pineapple
France: flambée (bacon, onion, fresh cream)
Germany: egg, asparagus, tuna
India: pickled ginger, lamb, chicken tikka
Italy: pepperoni, prosciutto, sausage, pancetta, tomato, peas, olive
Japan: ketchup, eel, squid, and Mayo Jaga (mayonnaise, potato, bacon)
Korea: sweet potato, shrimp
Netherlands: double meat, double cheese, double onion
Pakistan: curry
Russia: mockba (a combination of sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon, and onions), red herring
Sweden*: allspice, artichoke, banana, bacon, beets, bell pepper, Bearnaise sauce, cabbage, caper, carrot, chicken, chocolate, crab, curry, duck, eggplant, filet mignon, French fries, fruit cocktail, gorgonzola, guacamole, ham, hard-boiled eggs, honey. kebab meat. leeks, mashed potato, mayonnaise, onion, peanut, pepperoni, pickles, pineapple, raisin, salami, sausage, shallot, shrimp, white sauce, taco spices, tuna, and zucchini.
Venezuela: corn, goat cheese
Enjoy!
* = Sweden really is the cutting edge of pizza toppings.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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