Packing for Adventure

You may have noticed a theme as you’ve followed along on our Pizza Crawl—we mostly ordered cheese or pepperoni at every stop. Occasionally, Chris added mushrooms or olives, but for the most part, we kept it simple.

There are a couple reasons for this.

1. We needed to do apples to apples comparisons of all the different pizzas. You can’t judge a meat lovers pizza against a Hawaiian pizza.
2. In judging a pizza, we decided the basics are the most important- the crust, the sauce, the cheese. These are the building blocks of a good pizza. If you have to add fancy ingredients to get a good pizza, then it’s not a good pizza.

Of course, we both love a variety of toppings outside this experiment.

My favorite pizza toppings are usually a veggie pizza (olives, green peppers, tomatoes) or a good barbecue pizza. Though I’ve come to love pepperoni in recent years (I never liked it growing up). Occasionally I dress it up with some fancy prosciutto, sun-dried tomatoes, and a sweet balsamic glaze.

Chris is easy to please. His favorite includes pepperoni, mushroom, and black and green olive. He also enjoys a meat lovers or a good Hawaiian. But really, you could give him just about any kind of pizza and he’ll be happy.

As for our adjudication process, Chris and I have had heated debates.

Chris scores off his gut reaction from 0-10. A score of 7 is really good, above 9 is incredible.

I think this is too arbitrary. You need a baseline for comparison. I score pizza based off what I believe is the gold standard – the closest thing to a perfect pie.

What’s the perfect pizza? Chris’s homemade pizza of course! (Stay tuned—I’ll be diving into that in another post!)

So how do you decide what makes a pizza great? Do you go by your first bite or compare everything to a favorite slice from home? Let me know in the comments!

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