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  #3330729 12-Jan-2025 20:57
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Man I am feeling quite annoyed today it seems.

 

 

 

Latest is that to enter a competition I need iHeartRadio. Fine. Install app and try and login with my Google account.

 

 

It says on top of basics, it wants my gender and DoB.

 

 

I don't tick those things and it won't let me sign up.

 

 

I have no issue with my gender, but forcing me to give you that information in order to stream..

 

 

 

Screw you.

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  #3330731 12-Jan-2025 21:27
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networkn:

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/trendy-uk-pizzeria-charges-220-for-hawaiian-to-discourage-customers-from-buying-divisive-variant/YX5MDFFI2ZB7HG2ZQ3YL34WSNU/

 

 

 

I despise food 'elitism'/snobbery. 

 

If you don't believe it's right for customers then don't sell it, but don't create conflict by offering it at a stupid price and start every conversation about it with conflict. 

 

A sign that says 'sorry we don't offer Hawaiin Pizza' would be far less wanky. 

 

 

Looking at the picture of it, I'd be disappointed if I'd paid £10 for that, let alone £100. The pineapple is supposed to be distributed across the pizza, not just cut into four and dumped in the middle!


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  #3330744 12-Jan-2025 22:24
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networkn: I despise food 'elitism'/snobbery. 

 

Exactly!  Everyone knows proper pizzas have peanuts, bananas, fries, and falafel.

 

They also list their customers favourite as Hawaiian Pizza.


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  #3330747 12-Jan-2025 22:59
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neb:

 

networkn: I despise food 'elitism'/snobbery. 

 

Exactly!  Everyone knows proper pizzas have peanuts, bananas, fries, and falafel.

 

 

Even pasta!

 

I think it has less to do with snobbery than with authenticity. You can put jelly beans on it for all I care, but that certainly doesn't make it food culture. Just like you don't put Coke in red wine (which I've also seen with a €100 bottle of red wine and discreetly ignored - if he likes it? But I don't need to comment on what he's signalling). If you want to communicate this to the outside world, feel free to do so. It is an art to be able to avoid these pitfalls as far as possible.





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  #3330748 12-Jan-2025 23:09
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Genuine Italian pizza from a pizzeria in Udine:

 


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  #3330750 13-Jan-2025 00:00
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neb:

 

Genuine Italian pizza from a pizzeria in Udine.

 

 

Just because a pizzeria comes from Udine doesn't make it authentic. The stuff in your photo is as authentic as tinned mushrooms compared to fresh meadow mushrooms.

 

“Pizza“ was a had working poor man's meagre meal, usually made to the best of one's ability from the ingredients one had access to. This was essentially flour, tomatoes, olive oil, cheese and herbs - nothing more. The forerunner of pizza is the Sicilian Sfincione (contains anchovis). What was then made of it is in part culinary rape - French fries (from Belgium, not France), pasta or even chocolate on a pizza are definitely part of it. As I said, everyone can eat what they want.

 

Here comes a picture of it:

 

 

„Don Tano here to solve your problem and you can leave the dictionary in your tote or whatever. One of the most common commodities you’re gonna find in Sicily is our famous street food. You might call sfincione a sort of pizza, but attention.

 

The Sicilian people have a quick and fiery temper, and they take their sfincione seriously, giving it its own special name and place in Sicilian cuisine. Like in the American commercials, if you call sfincione a pizza, you’re likely to hear someone yell, “Get a rope!

 

Now I have to say that normally, the Sicilian people are quite open and outgoing. They’re known to have a great sense of humor, but there can always be exceptions. They take their food seriously and you don’t want to insult anybody.“

 

 





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  #3330807 13-Jan-2025 07:52
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networkn: Man I am feeling quite annoyed today it seems.


Latest is that to enter a competition I need iHeartRadio. Fine. Install app and try and login with my Google account.

It says on top of basics, it wants my gender and DoB.

I don't tick those things and it won't let me sign up.

I have no issue with my gender, but forcing me to give you that information in order to stream..


Screw you.


Yeah drives me nuts stuff like that. For about fifteen years I've used the same wrong date of birth for anything that isn't official. Easily memorable and I just punch that in over and over.

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  #3330811 13-Jan-2025 08:31
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Tinkerisk:

 

neb:

 

networkn: I despise food 'elitism'/snobbery. 

 

Exactly!  Everyone knows proper pizzas have peanuts, bananas, fries, and falafel.

 

 

Even pasta!

 

 

Why stop there? Let's have pizza pizza!





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  #3330823 13-Jan-2025 10:11
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mudguard:

Yeah drives me nuts stuff like that. For about fifteen years I've used the same wrong date of birth for anything that isn't official. Easily memorable and I just punch that in over and over.

 

01/01/1970? That's my birthday too! 





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  #3330837 13-Jan-2025 11:13
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eracode:

 

Why stop there? Let's have pizza pizza!

 

 

Except that doesn’t solve the problem of what to have on our pizza.





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  #3330838 13-Jan-2025 11:35
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Well, I can tell you, I think $220 for a Hawaiin Pizza is a rip off. I'll do you mates rates of $180. 

 

 


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  #3330958 13-Jan-2025 13:26
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eracode:

eracode:


Why stop there? Let's have pizza pizza!



Except that doesn’t solve the problem of what to have on our pizza.



Yes it does, it's pizzas all the way down.

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  #3330966 13-Jan-2025 13:41
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Apparently the filling between KitKat wafers is made of crunched-up KitKats.


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Eva888:

 

Went to the fruit market on Saturday then to the supermarket.

 

In season Nectarines and Plums  $3.99 kg at Market. Eggplant $2.50, much smaller than last years.

 

Packn Save Kilbirnie. An obscene $12.99 kg for the same yummy branded nectarines and the plums. Eggplant, smallish $4.49 each. 

 

I'm always so skeptical about market fruit n veg.  We buy it, but due to lack of control I always wonder if it's treated to last longer.  We stopped buying from one of the Chinese merchants due to the way that their fruit n veg always seemed to go old in a weird way.... like getting bruised by itself but not getting rotten.

 

 





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It's not treated but bred for extended shelf life, which tends to select for longevity over taste.  This is why fruit sold in, and in NZ imported from, the US, has almost no taste.  It's also why things like peaches and plums from your backyard, half-life a few days, taste vastly better than anything from a supermarket, half-life several weeks, and often picked half-ripe and cool-stored.


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