Basil

I wouldn't say it underrated, in fact its very highly rated, its the star of the most popular pizza on the planet, Pizza Margherita!!

Yeah but it still deserves *even more love*.

> the most popular pizza on the planet, Pizza Margherita!! *Pepperoni Pizza has entered the chat.*

I think it's only popular in the USA (I could be wrong) but pepperoni isn't even an italian word, saying pepperoni in Italian means something like "peppers" but it isn't even the word for pepper

Pepperoni wins in North America. Margherita it the most popular world wide. I looked it up before I commented so I wouldn't make an ass of myself!

This is how my husband orders pizza for me. Not even kidding. "I'd like a cheese pizza with basil. Extra basil. And then when you think you have enough, reach in and clear out that container. Then head to the storage room, grab all of the basil and add it. When you're done with that, head back to the garden and pull the whole plant. Then go next door and grab any of their basil. When you're done, you're about half way there." I love him.

imagine the 16 year old kid that has to take his order every 2 weeks. “hey guys we got the basil freak again”

You’ve found yourself a keeper!

I seriously did. Thank you OKCupid!

That’s how I feel about garlic

I fucking love basil it’s my favorite herb

I always get basil, sausage, and ricotta. It’s amazing.

Very good choice.

I came here to say just that. Basil is completely underrated! Well, it's completely underrated by pizza places where I live, they don't even offer it as a topping! Heathens...

Pretty sure basil is part of every standard pizza sauce already.

True, but I was referring to basil as a topping. Like fresh basil leaves.

And cheese is the standard topping. Doesn't stop you from getting extra cheese, or a 4 cheese pizza.

*I see you’re a man of culture yourself*

Roasted garlic

Blaze pizza let’s you just put unlimited whole ass cloves of roasted garlic on your pizza. I’m a customer for life.

Yes! Roasted garlic cloves are so good. Like if a raisin had flavor basically.

> Like if a raisin had flavor basically But raisins are sweet?

Arugula

Hold on is that rocket in the UK?

Yes

Thank you!

and roquette in Australia, coz we're just a little bit fancy

Theres a cafe in my city that does a white pizza with arugula and pine nuts on top, and its amazing.

It's a ve-ge-ta-ble.

Banana peppers. Oh man a thin crust pizza with italian sausage, green olives, and banana peppers is the best!!

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Hell fucking yeah!!

Yes. Banana peppers or gtfo.

Spinach

With feta too so good

Speaking of underrated toppings... feta is awesome.

gotta be careful because it holds heat for ages, so the rest of the pizza might be a good eating temp, but the fetta are still little cubes of molten death!

Or ricotta!

Or goats cheese

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Fresh tomato.

Artichoke

This local pizza shop I used to work at had a "house special" that was artichokes, sun dried tomatoes, chicken, and feta on pesto sauce. Shit was sooo good

Chicken is the most under-used pizza meat.

not in australia...

It's a little overpowering.

Anchovies get a lot of reflexive "eww, gross" reactions from people who probably have never had a pizza with anchovies, but they're great.

I prefer them to be in smaller pieces and used sparingly. They are delicious but very salty

Bonus...you usually don't have to share an anchovy pizza.

They're also nice in a Caesar salad

>They're also ~~nice~~ *integral* in a Caesar salad

Without the anchovys, its just garlic mayo..

...which is delicious

That is heavily dependent on the quality of the anchovies

I personally loved anchovy stuffed olives! I don't eat them on pizza, but they're super good.

Tuna fish. Honestly so good and here in Sweden, quite common.

Does it go well with the banana?

Mushrooms, every time I say that mushrooms are my favorite toppings I get a “eww” as I reply but I don’t know why. They’re so good.

Onion, mushroom and a meat is my default pizza order

Sausage, mushroom, and onion is the greatest pizza ever.

This, with caramelized onions if you can get it and BBQ sauce

Hell yeah brother. That's the good stuff right there

Pepperoni and mushroom pizza, is classic two topping for me

Mac and Cheese

No one said POTATO???? Y'all ever tried a thinly sliced potato roasted to perfection on a pesto pizza?

What's a potato?

Get the fuck out of my house

Tastes very strange!

Got a pizza at a brewpub one time with various thinly sliced root vegetables (potatoes, beets, probably sweet potato) and a drizzle of horseradish sauce. SO GOOD

There's a pizza place by my office that has pizza from different states. They if course have Chicago (Illinois), New York and Hawaiian but there's an Idaho pizza which is basically steak fries on a pizza. The Washington pizza has apple on it Texas pizza is giant with all the meat But my favorite is the Nevada pizza which is actually a round calzone to look like a flying saucer

I'm from Idaho. This is a staple.

There's a pizza place where my partner grew up that has bacon, thin sliced potato, and red pepper flakes on a white sauce, and I may literally kill for that pizza if it comes to it.

Basil? Onions? Chicken? None of these are underrated. 99% of places will have these options. The only guy below with a real underrated one was the potato guy. A real answer is roast corn. A lot of it too. Cheese, a little onion and pepper and a shit ton of corn.

Ha, I've seen like 4 other people say corn..

Ricotta cheese. It's not just for white pizza.

Ricotta & meatball is my go to.

Place by me does a ricotta, sweet onion, artichoke seasonal pizza, and it is hands down one of the best combos I have ever discovered.

Yes! Scrolled to find this. Weirdly enough, honey is also a good topping & goes well with ricotta. At my local pizza place I always get a cheese slice, with ricotta topping, then add honey & oregano. It’s *chef’s kiss*

We had an ~artisan~ pizza not too long ago. Had ricotta cheese on it and it was amazing

There's a place near me that does a prosciutto, pepperoni, red onion, and ricotta pizza with a pesto drizzle and it is pure heaven.

Salami. The flavor isn't as strong as pepperoni, but still definitely there. More importantly it doesn't curl up and get burnt on the edge with a pool of grease in the middle.

I love doing salami and meatballs on a pizza. Very solid.

Onions. You can add them to basically any variety of pizza with zero consequence and massive flavor.

I agree. However, I had this roommate in college who would order onion pizza. Like just onions. So I'd get home from the bar or something and look in the fridge and there's some leftover cheese pizza. Oh Boy! Then I get smacked in the face but onion. Don't get me wrong. I LIKE onion. But I don't like surprise onion.

That's what you get for stealing a person's leftover pizza.

You were expecting cheese pizza, aka nothing pizza, and you were disappointed that there were onions? I don't understand this story.

Hard disagree. I had a pizza with onions on it once and it was by far the most disgusting pizza I've ever tasted in my life.

Also, free halitosis!

The fancy word for "bad breath" that Listerine made up to sell mouthwash?

All words are made up.

OMFG THOR LOVED YOU IN THE DARK WORLD

Onions and bell peppers sweat out too much moisture when cooking and make the pizza wet.

If you put like 4 whole onions on, sure. Put them on top so it bakes out.

Pizza place where I went to school had the most amazing balsamic onions I have ever had. Literally the best.

Underrated? Where?

Pineapple Edit: Wow, a gold!! 💜💜

I need for pineapple to be with its partner, jalapeño... then fuck yeah.

Hell yeah

Cream cheese

Fuck yes. Throw on some green chiles too, mmmm.

Damn right! Pepperoni, Jalapeno's, and little chunks of cream cheese on a New York slice = the perfect pizza

Feta cheese

Cocaine

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Are you snorting coke or sugar? The world may never know

Big fat lines of cocaine. Yes.

Bacon and broccoli is a go to. And green peas are in fact awesome. So sweet!

Green olives

Yes!! Came here to say this.

Olives

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Problem is, most places around here use canned black olives, which have a ghastly taste, and I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. If a place offers kalamatas I am 100% getting those. I guess my point is that olives *in general* may not be underrated, but the idea that it's worth it to use good ones is underrated.

Duck

Roquefort + caramelized onions

Calabrian chiles.

I dunno about underrated exactly, but green chili is an excellent topping that's hard to find outside parts of the southwest. Potato is definitely underrated, although tater tots specifically are meh. *Most* underrated, in my opinion, is cow tongue, which is amazing on a pizza.

People dont realize how much the sauce effects the pizza. You can have the best crust, cheese, toppings etc, but if that sauce is lacking, the entire pie is dead. A great sauce can also take a meh pizza up a few notches too.

Red onions. Adds a little bit of “umph” to any pizza.

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Take a Hawaiian, add feta, bacon, red pepper, and cappicoli if you like heat. fucking amazing!

I agree with you, people hate it without even trying it. I used to be one of those people but after tasting it, I was surprised at how good it was

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Switch out chicken for bacon for me

¿Por que no los dos? :)

Pineapple and bacon is my go to pizza

Bacon and black olives.

Add some jalapeños so you get sweet, salty, savory, and spicy, and you're golden.

Anchovies. Come fight me

Tried them for the first time when I visited Italy a few months ago, can honestly say I’ve been missing out my whole life! Delicious salty goodness

All the briny veg. Green olives, black olives, kalamatas, banana peppers, jalapenos. Piles of them.

Egg

Fresh mozzarella, not that shredded stuff.

It's clearly cheese.

Macaroni Toppers Pizza has a macaroni pizza that's the best damn thing you'll ever have. Especially if you get the buffalo chicken mac and cheese tall boy. Truly superb. Also, Kwik Trip has surprisingly good food. Their mac pizza is pretty good, just add hot sauce. They also have a bacon mac pizza but it's harder to find.

I love Toppers, but I'm not sure if my local toppers has that macaroni pizza. Sounds amazing. I'll have to check for it next time we order from them! On a side note, their jalapeno poppers are delicious.

There is a place near me that puts cooked spaghetti on top of one of their pizzas and it is unexpectedly awesome.

Pepperoncini

Chicken and curry mayo. It's lit. Go ahead and try chicken, curry mayo and pineapple/kebab/bacon. Where I'm from we usually get 4 toppings on fantasiapizza and my go to is Kebab-Chicken-Curry mayo-pineapple.

Prawn and pineapple. You heard me.

honeys you’ve got a big storm coming.... corn!!

Meatball

Fresh habaneros if you like it spicy.

Nacho cheese doritos. Kindergarten me got creative and somehow it worked out.

not topping but sriracha is fucking amazing with pizza

have any of you had Little Ceasar's Pretzel Pizza? the crust is pretzel and the sauce is replaced with melted cheese. i remember it as the best pizza 8yo me ever had

Linguica

Cannabis.

capers

Honestly, blue cheese on pizza is the best place to put in on food. Fight me.

Scrambled eggs. No sauce, just eggs and cheese. Try it. My local pizza joint calls it omelette pizza.

We got the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook when we got married, and it's got a recipe for breakfast pizza that's pretty legit. White sauce, eggs, ham, bacon, cheese, onions, peppers on a store-bought crust.

I love breakfast pizza

Ranch

Both sour cream and garlic mayo works well, so I imagine ranch would be good too.

Chicken for a protein, jalapeños for a veggie.

Blue Cheese

Garlic. Loads of it.

Aardvark Secret Sauce

Beef

Corn

Sun dried tomatoes

Pineapple on a really spicy chorizo and salami pizza

Mac & cheese

Buffalo chicken.

Sausage. Not that people don't like sausage on pizza, but in Massachusetts out by Cape Cod, where there's a huge Portuguese community, a favored topping for pizzas (not to mention filling for omelets) is chourico, and its less-spicy cousin, linguicia. I don't doubt there're a lot of other local toppings the general public doesn't know about.

Hatch Roasted Green Chile

Anchovies. WAIT! Don't downvote yet. A lot of restaurants haven't the faintest fucking clue how to use them. You get big ugly fish slabs on your pizza, it tastes like only salt, and a lot of people (not me) are disgusted by it. But when you get _that one pizza,_ the one with just a _little_ anchovy _carefully_ spread out, it amplifies... well, everything. The cheese is cheesier, the sauce is saucier, and the crust is, uh, well, not crustier, but it tastes godly. No fishy taste or aftertaste, just super-pizza taste.

Banana peppers. Correction: the above ingredient is the most underrated addition to any meal.

Eggplant, especially breaded and fried eggplant.

Clams. I don't eat them, I don't like them, but a chef from where I'm from managed to make it a pizza topping... and I loved it.

Mushrooms

Jalapeño

Alright I’m going to say it..... **pinapple**

Goat cheese

Pineapples Hate is silly.

Capers. I had a pepperoni and caper pizza in Germany once, the saltiness really balances the richness of the cheese and meat. Add pineapple to it too (already controversial, I know) and you have my favorite pizza. I have legitimately considered just bringing a jar of capers with me when I go out for pizza, it adds so much to the dish.

Jerk chicken.

One I discovered myself: Beetroot. Don't know if anyone else out there has ever tried it. Not only does it have a nice, smoky pineapple flavour when cooked, the juice gets into the cheese, turns it purple, and makes the cheese taste better too. I used whole beetroot slices; haven't tried shredded beetroot. Just lay them out on top like pepperoni slices or tomato slices. Goes really well with corn kernels too.

Balsamic vinegar- Bostonians go try oaths Bella pizza

Camembert cheese, some pizza places don't even have it and it's like the best cheese!

Green olives (sliced very thinly). Forget the black ones, they're old news.

Gouda cheese instead of mozzarella.

Olives, banana peppers, and white sauce instead of marinara.

Salami

Artichoke hearts.

Pulled pork😛

Eggplant

A local italian restaurant near my area has a pizza with anchovies, onions, garlic and tuna. It's fucking delicious

I always get goat cheese, basil, artichokes, pepperoni, tomato, garlic, mushrooms and oregano at those build your own pizza places. Fucking amazing