Cauliflower Pizza vs. REAL Pizza

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

[fdpaq0580]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

You said on another thread you would start this one. You want to start a discussion on this topic. OK. I'll bite, the REAL pizza, that is. To me, the toppings can be almost any variety of things, it is the dough that make it a real pizza. A "pizza" made with any substitute base/crust is an imposter.

[B767drvr]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

It sounds to me like you're pre-judging cauliflower crust without interacting with an individual cauliflower crust pizza. That's a no-no! :ohdear:

Are you inferring that wheat is superior to cauliflower? Also a no-no! :ohdear:

Have you considered that not all people have access to a pizza store serving cauliflower crust? Perhaps they live in a cauliflower crust food desert? We should subsidize pizza parlors in underserved cauliflower crust areas to make it equal.

You sound like part of the problem. Can't we all just enjoy pizza without always separating us by crust preference?

If you're silent on this topic, you're complicit! :rant-rave:

[Jermaney Browne]

A New York style,well done,1/2 sausage,never pepperoni,with extra cheese,thatts a piza

[anothersteve]

It sounds to me like you're pre-judging cauliflower crust without interacting with an individual cauliflower crust pizza. That's a no-no! :ohdear:

Are you inferring that wheat is superior to cauliflower? Also a no-no! :ohdear:

Have you considered that not all people have access to a pizza store serving cauliflower crust? Perhaps they live in a cauliflower crust food desert? We should subsidize pizza parlors in underserved cauliflower crust areas to make it equal.

You sound like part of the problem. Can't we all just enjoy pizza without always separating us by crust preference?

If you're silent on this topic, you're complicit! :rant-rave:

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Steve

[davem4616]

We know what we like...and we like the traditional pizza that we grew up with....the pizza down here in TV is awful....so we make our own and we are happy with the outcome....okay so we cook...many of our fellow residents don't...not my problem...cooking is pretty easy

even on a bad day I can't imaging eating pizza with a cauliflower crust...give me a break...have a salad

we get the dough from Publix

[asianthree]

There are some that Do not tolerate grains. You can choose what crust you want, some do not have that luxury. If done correctly cauliflower crust can be thin an crispy. Egg, parm cheese, Italian herbs, and cauliflower. TJs make a decent one, but when our oldest is home I make ir from scratch in about 5 minutes. Zucchini crust is not my favorite

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

There are some that Do not tolerate grains. You can choose what crust you want, some do not have that luxury. If done correctly cauliflower crust can be thin an crispy. Egg, parm cheese, Italian herbs, and cauliflower. TJs make a decent one, but when our oldest is home I make ir from scratch in about 5 minutes. Zucchini crust is not my favorite

You'd be better off making a lentil-flour naan flatbread open-face sandwich. No grains - just lentil flour, water, yogurt, and a pinch of baking powder. You can use soy yogurt and make it vegan AND grain-free. It won't ever be confused for pizza. It doesn't try to pretend it's pizza. It is proudly lentil-flour flatbread, and doesn't ever have to apologize for it.

Cauliflower pizza, however, is an affront to vegetables and grains worldwide. It is a crime against pizza, a terrorist attack on Italians, Brooklynites, and Bostonians.

Cauliflower pizza is the Riddler of Captain America's Superman.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

We know what we like...and we like the traditional pizza that we grew up with....the pizza down here in TV is awful....so we make our own and we are happy with the outcome....okay so we cook...many of our fellow residents don't...not my problem...cooking is pretty easy

even on a bad day I can't imaging eating pizza with a cauliflower crust...give me a break...have a salad

we get the dough from Publix

I wouldn't mind making my own pizza but my oven doesn't go to 750°. That's how hot the ovens are at the woodfire pizzerias where I come from! Can you imagine that kind of heat in a Florida home? Fuggedaboudit.

[Topspinmo]

IMO all pizza around here is an imposter!:duck:

[Northwoods]

It sounds to me like you're pre-judging cauliflower crust without interacting with an individual cauliflower crust pizza. That's a no-no! :ohdear:

Are you inferring that wheat is superior to cauliflower? Also a no-no! :ohdear:

Have you considered that not all people have access to a pizza store serving cauliflower crust? Perhaps they live in a cauliflower crust food desert? We should subsidize pizza parlors in underserved cauliflower crust areas to make it equal.

You sound like part of the problem. Can't we all just enjoy pizza without always separating us by crust preference?

If you're silent on this topic, you're complicit! :rant-rave:
:bigbow:

[Kenswing]

If cauliflower was my only choice in a pizza crust I think I would just have to do without pizza.

[jacksonbrown]

Flipper's Spanish Springs (https://flipperspizzeria.com/spanish-springs-the-villages/) is the closest to New Jersey pizza (https://www.vicspizza.com/) of any pizzeria in The Villages or surrounding counties.

We've ordered the veggie pie several times recently. It's been ready when advised, hot and delicious.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Flipper's Spanish Springs (https://flipperspizzeria.com/spanish-springs-the-villages/) is the closest to New Jersey pizza (https://www.vicspizza.com/) of any pizzeria in The Villages or surrounding counties.

We've ordered the veggie pie several times recently. It's been ready when advised, hot and delicious.

Ugh no not even almost sorta close. Giovanni's is tolerable. Flipper's is like - when Dominos tries to open a pizza joint in Wooster Square, New Haven.

[Pamelah]

Today’s cauliflower is yesterday’s kale.
������ too both.

[Luvs21putt]

Cauliflower crust does not sound appealing but I am trying to keep an open mind until I try it. Are you that against change ?

As far as vegetables, I dare you to watch Farm to Fridge and then be against them. Farm to Fridge: 12 Minutes to Change Your Life (https://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welfare/the-new-documentary-short-from-farm-to-fridge-presents-the-problem-and-solution-to-factory-farming/)

[am.zinger@aol.com]

For those that can't tolerate a REAL pizza crust, it is a welcome substitute.

[nhtexasrn]

Sam's pizza is actually our favorite....

[drgoofy]

I happen to enjoy cauliflower in all its forms, even cauliflower mashed potatoes AND I happen to be diabetic so it works for me. I'm thankful the posters either don't like it or most likely haven't tried it. Otherwise there might be a shortage.

[merrymini]

I could try cauliflower pizza but until then, hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[BlackhawksFan]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

You're obviously a vegetablist preaching your vegetablist values there's no place for this. 😂😂😂😂😂

[Jayhawk]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

We got our first AND last cauliflower pizza last week.

It sucked.

[CFrance]

A New York style,well done,1/2 sausage,never pepperoni,with extra cheese,thatts a piza
I dislike sausage on pizza. Plain cheese pizza with maybe anchovies, in solidarity with my son and late mother-in-law. Or pesto, green peppers, pine nuts, feta & olives, no tomato sauce.

And I don't care if the crust is bread dough or cauliflower. I like them both.

Now I'm hungry.

[CFrance]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.
You said "discuss." Were we only supposed to "discuss" if we agreed with you?:icon_wink:

[kendi]

Tried pizza with cauliflower crust once and didn’t care for it. But would try it again at another pizzeria if it was offered to me just to see if their version is better. Wouldn’t pay for one again.

[Stu from NYC]

Ugh no not even almost sorta close. Giovanni's is tolerable. Flipper's is like - when Dominos tries to open a pizza joint in Wooster Square, New Haven.

We have had Flippers pizza and thought it was pretty good.

Waiting for the end of social distancing and will try Giovanni's like their regular entries and they seem to sell a lot of pizza.

Have not been to NYPD but they seem to have a large following.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Every time I've tried cauliflower bread or cauliflower mashed potatoes it taste like..........CAULIFLOWER.

I try to limit my intake of carbs and especially wheat, but cauliflower just does not do it for me.

I'm judge pizza by the type of crust it has. The less the better as far as I'm concerned. I'd never order Chicago style or deep dish pizza.

I grew up in Boston where pizza had a medium crust. I don't mind New York style which has a very thin crust, but to me, it's all about the sauce, cheese and toppings.

What bothers me is when there is a huge border of crust without any sauce or cheese on it. We got a pizza from Papa John's, which usually is acceptable (not great) and there was an inch and a half of crust on the perimeter. I throw most of that away so a large pizza becomes a medium.

But no cauliflower please.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

We have had Flippers pizza and thought it was pretty good.

Waiting for the end of social distancing and will try Giovanni's like their regular entries and they seem to sell a lot of pizza.

Have not been to NYPD but they seem to have a large following.

NYPD is good. I've never had Giovanni's pizza but I like their other dishes.

[GoodLife]

Pizza from New York is a soggy undercooked overpriced abomination.

Everybody knows real pizza comes from Chicago.

PS The only decent pizza in the tri county area is Belleview Pizza. Be prepared to wait in line and bring cash.

[erhrph]

I've tried Cauliflower pizza and don't like it at all. Yes, wheat is far better than Cauliflower!

[Jayhawk]

PS The only decent pizza in the tri county area is Belleview Pizza. Be prepared to wait in line and bring cash.

I'm betting if you read their online health inspection results you'll feel different.

Belleview Pizza | Marion County | Restaurant Inspections | tallahassee.com (https://data.tallahassee.com/restaurant-inspections/marion/belleview-pizza/sea5200415/2201529/)

[BS Beef]

It sounds to me like you're pre-judging cauliflower crust without interacting with an individual cauliflower crust pizza. That's a no-no! :ohdear:

Are you inferring that wheat is superior to cauliflower? Also a no-no! :ohdear:

Have you considered that not all people have access to a pizza store serving cauliflower crust? Perhaps they live in a cauliflower crust food desert? We should subsidize pizza parlors in underserved cauliflower crust areas to make it equal.

You sound like part of the problem. Can't we all just enjoy pizza without always separating us by crust preference?

If you're silent on this topic, you're complicit! :rant-rave:

BRAVO :a040::clap2::a040::clap2:

[GoodLife]

I'm betting if you read their online health inspection results you'll feel different.

Belleview Pizza | Marion County | Restaurant Inspections | tallahassee.com (https://data.tallahassee.com/restaurant-inspections/marion/belleview-pizza/sea5200415/2201529/)

Oh please, every restaurant gets the occasional warning from the health inspectors. Your link shows a couple warnings issued since 2012, which were fixed. 90% of those reports are "met inspection standards"

[Barbinga]

Look up fathead pizza crust original recipe. It’s pretty darn good and puts cauli crust to shame. 😊

[Troopie]

Your post gave me a chuckle. I feel the same way about Hawaiian pizza! I was actually on a low-carb diet recently. I was craving pizza, so I broke down and tried the cauliflower pizza at Piesano's in Deaton Plaza. To my surprise, it was delicious! You would never have known the crust wasn't dough. It is just like a thin crust pizza. I am no longer on the diet, but still order that cauliflower crust pizza whenever I go there.

[NavyVet]

Tried a cauliflower crust 'pizza' once - it was disgusting. All I could taste was cauliflower which literally makes me gag. In fact all gluten free 'pizzas' I've tried are, well, sort of edible, but are simply NOT pizza, just a funny tasting flatbread with stuff on it. Calling a cauliflower crust pizza is like calling fat free cheese … cheese. Nothing like the real thing. Tomato sauce is important too. Pizzas w/o sauce is not real pizza. Good crust is the best part of most pizzas. Can't stand it when people don't eat their crusts. Throwing them away boggles my mind. Pizza is one of my most favorite foods that I had to give up, haven't had one in months.
That said, does anyone know of any place where one could find a whole wheat or whole grain crust pizza around here?

[Ftallmadge]

I watch my diet very carefully and thought I could never eat pizza again. Pizza is not the crust that could bring my sugar out of site. If you eat pizza with me I eat the toppings off the pizza and love it. Cauliflower has lower carbs than pizza dough. This is a win for diabetics.

[Topspinmo]

Talking bout cauliflower?

This only way I like cauliflower

Roasted Cauliflower Recipe | Food Network Kitchen | Food Network (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/roasted-cauliflower-recipe-1945072)

My homemade crushed red peppers 🌶 it HOT. 50,000 plus on SH scale. Plus I pour my pickled peppers on them also.

[fdpaq0580]

I watch my diet very carefully and thought I could never eat pizza again. Pizza is not the crust that could bring my sugar out of site. If you eat pizza with me I eat the toppings off the pizza and love it. Cauliflower has lower carbs than pizza dough. This is a win for diabetics.

As I stated earlier, to me the crust is what makes it "pizza". That being said, I have had any number of dishes called pizza and enjoyed them. I just thought the term "pizza" was a misnomer. While "a rose by any other name will smell as sweet", not every sweet smelling flower is a rose.
I applaud you for sticking to your diet. I know it isn't easy. But, imho, a "pizza" without the crust is a different type of meat and/or vegetable and/or cheese platter, still good, just not "pizza".

[OlifOlif]

Hunter once conned me in trying a pizza that had phony meat toppings. He said it was the best way to go. I don't remember where we went to "try" this pizza out. (I think it was somewhere in Jacksonville, but I don't remember let alone care!) Anyway, although it tasted OK for what it was, I didn't care for it because it was not real!

The best pizza you can have should be all real with lots of cheese goo, spices that are hot but not too hot, and meat junk that is real and all real! If you're going to put anything else, top it off in tomato sauce loaded with more meat jazz!

[LynnMG]

If it wasn't for Cauliflower crust I would never be able to enjoy pizza. I'm allergic to wheat - white flour - and most other grains. Don't knock it. It works as an alternative!

[New Englander]

Cauliflower pizza is just like almond milk. FAKE

[theruizs]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

As a vegetarian and wanabe vegan, I do not necessarily disagree. However, after you’ve been off meat and animal products for a long time stuff like that tastes much better than you might think, and then sometimes not. For me, cauliflower crust pizza is in the not column. There are much better vegetarian and even vegan crust alternatives. I suppose it’s all personal taste.

[oldtimes]

It sounds to me like you're pre-judging cauliflower crust without interacting with an individual cauliflower crust pizza. That's a no-no! :ohdear:

Are you inferring that wheat is superior to cauliflower? Also a no-no! :ohdear:

Have you considered that not all people have access to a pizza store serving cauliflower crust? Perhaps they live in a cauliflower crust food desert? We should subsidize pizza parlors in underserved cauliflower crust areas to make it equal.

You sound like part of the problem. Can't we all just enjoy pizza without always separating us by crust preference?

If you're silent on this topic, you're complicit! :rant-rave:

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::bigbow:

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Cauliflower crust does not sound appealing but I am trying to keep an open mind until I try it. Are you that against change ?

As far as vegetables, I dare you to watch Farm to Fridge and then be against them. Farm to Fridge: 12 Minutes to Change Your Life (https://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welfare/the-new-documentary-short-from-farm-to-fridge-presents-the-problem-and-solution-to-factory-farming/)

I love vegetables. Veggies and fruits and grains, seeds, nuts, it's all good. But it is sacrilegious to pretend that you can make pizza dough out of cauliflower, and not wheat. My position is unassalable.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Pizza from New York is a soggy undercooked overpriced abomination.

Everybody knows real pizza comes from Chicago.

PS The only decent pizza in the tri county area is Belleview Pizza. Be prepared to wait in line and bring cash.

Them's fightin words.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

As I stated earlier, to me the crust is what makes it "pizza". That being said, I have had any number of dishes called pizza and enjoyed them. I just thought the term "pizza" was a misnomer. While "a rose by any other name will smell as sweet", not every sweet smelling flower is a rose.
I applaud you for sticking to your diet. I know it isn't easy. But, imho, a "pizza" without the crust is a different type of meat and/or vegetable and/or cheese platter, still good, just not "pizza".

A pizza without REAL pizza crust is just a flatbread open-face sandwich.

[B767drvr]

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::bigbow:

:1rotfl:

My wife does not agree with your obviously "sophisticated" sense of humor. She usually says something like, "That's not very funny!" I, of course, am doubled over in laughter, which just makes it worse.

[Kenswing]

I love vegetables. Veggies and fruits and grains, seeds, nuts, it's all good. But it is sacrilegious to pretend that you can make pizza dough out of cauliflower, and not wheat. My position is unassalable.

You're cracking me up.. Compared to some of the other threads in circulation right now this one actually makes some sense.. :1rotfl:

[Spikearoni]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.
It is everything you say it is but for those of us who must select gluten free food, a cauliflower crust makes it possible to eat pizza. Would I rather enjoy a delicious traditional wheat flour crust? In a heartbeat!

[tophcfa]

If someone puts a slice of pizza with flour crust in front of me, I will take a knife and scrape off the sauce, cheese, and other toppings and eat it and chuck the dough in the garbage. If someone puts a slice of cauliflower pizza in front of me I will try it. Not sure if I will like it or not, but I will give it a try. I do like cauliflower, so who knows, I might find another good low carb eating option? However, I will always check the ingredients before eating, if the so called cauliflower pizza dough has sugar added to it, the cauliflower pizza will go straight into the garbage.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

The FDA needs to forbid the use of the word "pizza" in all labelling and advertising of that stuff. It isn't pizza, if it isn't made with wheat. Just like they had to change the name of meat analogues that pretended to look and taste "just like chicken tenders" to chik'n.

[tophcfa]

The FDA needs to forbid the use of the word "pizza" in all labelling and advertising of that stuff. It isn't pizza, if it isn't made with wheat. Just like they had to change the name of meat analogues that pretended to look and taste "just like chicken tenders" to chik'n.

My wife makes awesome eggplant and zucchini pizza frequently, and I gladly call it pizza and enjoy it. I think the FDA tries to regulate the safety and health of our consumables, so perhaps they should forbid pizza dough made with white flour and sugar, both of which have little to no positive health value. Now if you are looking strictly to flavor and stimulating the palette, and are not concerned with your health, then throw down a flower crust grease wheel.

[linko38]

As a person fighting to not be diabetic I had to learn other ways to make pizza. I have a partial pancreas due to cancer. I have found my own favorite delicious crust. My whole family loves it! Fat head dough. Google it. It’s the best. I wish I could post a picture. Beats cauliflower hands down!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

As a person fighting to not be diabetic I had to learn other ways to make pizza. I have a partial pancreas due to cancer. I have found my own favorite delicious crust. My whole family loves it! Fat head dough. Google it. It’s the best. I wish I could post a picture. Beats cauliflower hands down!

I'm sure it tastes great. It's still not pizza. Flatbread, but not pizza. Pizza is made with wheat. Flatbread is what you call a pizza that's made with something other than wheat.
Same thing, different name, different ingredients. I blame the keto trend for this nonsense.

[jrg908369]

A New York style,well done,1/2 sausage,never pepperoni,with extra cheese,thatts a piza

I have tried several places and have not found a true NY style pizza...any recommendations. Thin crust and crispy. Thanks

[Topspinmo]

Cauliflower pizza is not pizza. It's a fake imposter shell masquerading as bread, covered with ridiculous things that shouldn't ever be combined with cauliflower. It is an insult to vegetables and to wheat and should be permanently stricken from existence.

Discuss.

Any pizza around here is an imposter!!!:welcome:

[rjn5656]

Real crust is the real deal.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Any pizza around here is an imposter!!!:welcome:

Giovanni's is actually not bad at all. They don't physically toss the dough but they stretch it as if it was tossed. Pretty decent sauce, generous fresh toppings, thin crust, imperfect shape, a drizzle of oil and oregano on the pie to top everything off before popping it in a high-temp oven.

[Halibut]

I was actually on a low-carb diet recently. I was craving pizza, so I broke down and tried the cauliflower pizza at Piesano's in Deaton Plaza. To my surprise, it was delicious!

I'll have to give it a try. Cauliflower crust is the only type I eat these days, but we've only bought it from the grocery store. It's different than a flour crust but I think it tastes fine.