Would you assume a restaurant pizza's "house cheese blend" contains some parmesan cheese?

[Anonymous]

You again?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1082845.page

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would expect it. Mozzarella, asiago, romano, and parm are standard in blends

Interesting. Those are "fancy" cheeses, to me. I would expect a normal cheese or pep pizza to just use good mozzarella and/or provolone.

This are fancy cheeses? I'm dying to know where you grew up because those are basic cheeses. Like, you can buy a pound for $5 at your local Aldi kind of cheeses.

Also, I LOL at "normal cheese"

"Fancy" in the context of a pizza, which is what pizza reviewer Dave Pornoy calls it. Fancy vs traditional. Maybe fancy isn't the right word. Artisanal would work, too. I like premium well-made brick or wood fired pizza but I want it with mild cheese. I don't want weird cheeses and oils drizzled on it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your kids don't like parmesan? Dang. My kids would eat a block of it.

Yup. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have Parmesan. Once you get an Italian cheese blend, Parmesan is expected.

+1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes this. Last time it was parmesan and garlic and the ridiculous kids won't eat it. Stop ordering pizza, OP.

[Anonymous]

Sally's is one of the best pies in the country and doesn't use a blend or add asiago or parm. Just good mozzarella.

https://sallysapizza.com/menu/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids don't like parmesan? Dang. My kids would eat a block of it.

Yup. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have Parmesan. Once you get an Italian cheese blend, Parmesan is expected.

+1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes this. Last time it was parmesan and garlic and the ridiculous kids won't eat it. Stop ordering pizza, OP.

Maybe restaurants should stop trying to reinvent the wheel. A good cheese pizza doesn't need to be monkeyed with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids don't like parmesan? Dang. My kids would eat a block of it.

Yup. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have Parmesan. Once you get an Italian cheese blend, Parmesan is expected.

+1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes this. Last time it was parmesan and garlic and the ridiculous kids won't eat it. Stop ordering pizza, OP.

Maybe restaurants should stop trying to reinvent the wheel. A good cheese pizza doesn't need to be monkeyed with.

Enjoy your pizza with ketchup sauce and stale shredded mozzarella.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids don't like parmesan? Dang. My kids would eat a block of it.

Yup. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have Parmesan. Once you get an Italian cheese blend, Parmesan is expected.

+1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes this. Last time it was parmesan and garlic and the ridiculous kids won't eat it. Stop ordering pizza, OP.

Maybe restaurants should stop trying to reinvent the wheel. A good cheese pizza doesn't need to be monkeyed with.

Enjoy your pizza with ketchup sauce and stale shredded mozzarella.

Needing a funky aftertaste or garlic bomb to enjoy a good simple pizza doesn't make you cultured.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids don't like parmesan? Dang. My kids would eat a block of it.

Yup. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have Parmesan. Once you get an Italian cheese blend, Parmesan is expected.

+1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes this. Last time it was parmesan and garlic and the ridiculous kids won't eat it. Stop ordering pizza, OP.

Maybe restaurants should stop trying to reinvent the wheel. A good cheese pizza doesn't need to be monkeyed with.

Enjoy your pizza with ketchup sauce and stale shredded mozzarella.

Needing a funky aftertaste or garlic bomb to enjoy a good simple pizza doesn't make you cultured.

I'm not the one crying that pizza places keep ruining my pizza for me any my picky kids by adding normal ingredients.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids don't like parmesan? Dang. My kids would eat a block of it.

Yup. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have Parmesan. Once you get an Italian cheese blend, Parmesan is expected.

+1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes this. Last time it was parmesan and garlic and the ridiculous kids won't eat it. Stop ordering pizza, OP.

Maybe restaurants should stop trying to reinvent the wheel. A good cheese pizza doesn't need to be monkeyed with.

Different people have different ideas of what “good cheese pizza” is. If your kids are picky, stick with very basic pizza places. In fact, they might like frozen pizzas. You can read the ingredient list ahead of time and frozen is cheaper.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would expect it. Mozzarella, asiago, romano, and parm are standard in blends

Interesting. Those are "fancy" cheeses, to me. I would expect a normal cheese or pep pizza to just use good mozzarella and/or provolone.

I have never heard of provolone on a pizza?

I’ve heard that’s a Wisconsin thing, but I have no personal experience.

Provel is a (vile) cheese blend used on (vile) St. Louis pizza.

I would call is a “cheese food product blend” but you have otherwise nailed it.

[Anonymous]

I always thought Parmesan was standard on pizza. Even Chef Boyardee pizza kits have parmesan. While they were a big treat growing up, I don’t consider them particularly “fancy”.

Now one time when I had a cheese pizza, I was surprised when my tongue started swelling. When I checked the ingredient listing, I discovered that their pizza cheese blend contained blue cheese. That was a little too fancy for me.

[Anonymous]

This was posted before- like last year. Very weird.

[Anonymous]

You have to be the same poster as this:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/1082845.page#23417343

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would expect it. Mozzarella, asiago, romano, and parm are standard in blends

Interesting. Those are "fancy" cheeses, to me. I would expect a normal cheese or pep pizza to just use good mozzarella and/or provolone.

I have never heard of provolone on a pizza?

Same here. I love provolone, but not on pizza. Also, parmesan and romano are "fancy?"

Tell me you didn't grow up in NJ without telling me you didn't grow up in NJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to be the same poster as this:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/1082845.page#23417343

If so, there is a definite Life Tip needed here: If you know your children won't eat garlic or parmesan, then whenever you order Italian (including pizza), ASK first. Let's not keep reinventing the wheel with a continual shocked Pikachu face.