"A gourmet meal" -- yum!by KenYeah, yeah, you're not supposed to knock it if you haven't tried it. But I'm here to tell you that I have no intention of trying pizza topped with SpaghettiOs.Sometimes you have to wonder what people think pizza is about. On the one hand there are the micro-thin pizza fetishists, who don't seem to grasp that we're talking about a form of bread here, and that the crust is an integral part of the package. (I always think they would do better to spread some sauce on their arm and stick it in a wicked-hot pizza oven for a really thin crust.) Of course bad pizza crust is no treat, but the solution to this problem, surely, is good, not disappeared, pizza crust.Then at the other end of the "gourmet spectrum," I've been astonished to discover on highly occasional visits to a certain theme park I won't name that the combo of pizza and fries is a thing. Is it really necessary to explain what's wrong with the basic concept?SpaghettiOs?Here's Thrillist's Perry Santanachote:
There is no shame in eating SpaghettiOs as an adult, especially as a pizza topping. It’s just like pizza sauce... with texture. And it’s still just as exciting when you find three different-sized O’s neatly nestled within each other.While you could use SpaghettiOs with Meatballs, the sweet tomato sauce actually pairs much better with the spicy kick you get from subbing in fresh Italian sausage. Add shredded mozzarella, and you basically have a gourmet meal.
If you can control your excitement long enough to hit the link (here it is again), I'm here to tell you that onsite there's actually a recipe for "SpaghettiOs Pizza," for which all you need is 12 ounces of pizza dough, AP flour for dusting, olive oil, a 15-ounce can of Original SpahettiOs (remember, you're going to use it with real sausage instead of using the meat-ball version of SpaghettiOs), fennel seeds, shredded mozzarella, Italian sausage, a pizza stone, and a pizza peel.Look, it's not that there's any "shame" involved in adults eating SpaghettiOs. And if the idea of the SpahettiOs Pizza tickles you, by all means make it, and enjoy. But do we have to pretend that you're going to wind up with "basically a gourmet meal"?#
