DETROIT – Hello, everyone! It’s National Pizza Day -- are you celebrating?
This holiday celebrates one of America’s favorite foods: pizza! More than three billion pizzas are sold in the United States every year. It’s super popular.
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Speaking of pizza popularity, it’s kind of weird that we have pizza-flavored chips, right? Like, I can understand BBQ, salt & vinegar, sour cream & onion, and even dill pickle as chip flavors because those are tangible, real flavors. That’s the problem: Pizza is not a flavor, pizza is a structure. You can have BBQ pizza, buffalo ranch pizza, BLT pizza, seafood pizza, carne asada pizza -- there are so many variations.
You don’t even have to go far to find variations. Buddy’s Pizza, the creator of Detroit-style pizza, sells a Greektown pizza -- which has feta cheese and a garlic parmesan sauce. They also sell a Mediterranean pizza that has beets on it.
Pie Sci in Detroit’s Woodbridge neighborhood -- which is opening a new location in Oak Park on Saturday -- has a constantly changing menu. They currently have a poutine pizza, a gyro pizza, a reuben pizza, a nacho pizza and its own take on a Greek pizza.
While yes, we associate the pizza “flavor” as being tomatoes and cheese, that’s not all pizza. And the tomato sauces and cheese can taste wildly different from pizzeria to pizzeria, the “standard” flavor isn’t even consistent.
I love pizza. And I love pizza-flavored chips, but pizza isn’t a flavor, pizza is a structure. Having pizza-flavored chips doesn’t make sense. It’s almost like having sandwich-flavored chips or salad-flavored chips.
On National Pizza Day, maybe we should respect what pizza is. Do you disagree? Come at me, bruh.
