to think it is very odd indeed to have chips or garlic bread with pizza?

[Mintyy]

or even garlic bread with a pasta dish?

Have people not heard of carb overload .

I did see a man go to Subway for sandwiches to take out for his family and while he did that his DW went to the Chip Shop next door to get 'a large portion of chips to go with them'. That's a bit much.

In our house garlic bread would not be with the pizza - we would eat it before the pizza as a starter. Or garlic dough balls. Mmm.

My DD is obsessed with garlic bread and would eat it with everything. She is a tall, skinny, active 15 year old.

Pizza and chips go together well, imo. But pizza and garlic bread is just too much dough! I try and eat fresh veg or salad with it anyway.

We have pizza, jacket potato and salad. Just as carb heavy as pizza & chips. Yabu I think. Also spaghetti bolognaise needs garlic bread.

What do you use to mop your sauce up if you don't have garlic bread with your pasta?

YANBU. It's the same sort of madness that sees people having chips with their lasagna. Double carbing is just all sorts of wrong.

I spell lasagne with an e on the end because I am not American and I wish my autocorrect would just fuck the fuck off and mind its own business.

oh ffs.. what is all this "double carbing" and "carb overload" shite... if you ate half a pizza and chips, or a full pizza and no chips, you are still eating fucking carbs!!

healthy eating is all about a balanced diet, and a meal heavy with carbs once a week will not make you suddenly turn into the size of a house..

we have pizza with jacket potato and coleslaw, and garlic bread... and it hasnt turned us obese yet..

YANBU, the Italians I know find it unfathomable.

I seem to recall being taught in primary school that "carbs" were what humans were supposed to mostly live on. (i.e. that rice, potatoes, wheat etc. were staple foods.) Obviously there is a difference between those and high-fructose corn syrup.

I think the bad reputation of "carbs" is a fad. I believe the reason low-carb diets work is that they make you eat more meat. Apparently eating meat kills appetite quicker, resulting in fewer total calories consumed.

You'll not approve of a chip butty then OP?

Yabu. It's yummy - try it!

YANBU I've never understood it. I rarely eat pizza but if I did, it would be in an Italian restaurant (never cook it at home) and I'd have it with salad. But I'd probably order grilled fish in such a place anyway! .

Never eat pasta either so ditto there! And as for the 'don't you eat chicken tikka, potatoes, rice and naan?' question posed above. Nope. Chicken tikka yes but only veg to accompany. Maybe rice but never rice AND naan and / or potatoes.

I think the bad reputation of "carbs" is a fad

Me to, anyone would think they were poison the way some folk carry on rather than the main source of energy in our diets.

Pizza and chips and lasagna and chips I find odd and a bit 70s.

But when I go to the pub I do have chips with my bacon and Brie baguette which is clearly just as odd!

YABU. I cannot be doing with faddy food nonsense dressed up as some sign of being a superior being.

Particularly as it ends with threads of tedious pearl clutching about other people's bodies.

Our local pizza places do pizza platters. They are the same price as a regular pizza, but instead of a whole pizza you get half, with chips, salad and coleslaw. I can't eat more than a couple of slices of pizza as I find a meal of just one food immensely boring so this works for me.

Everywhere I've lived, various places and countries, pizza takeaways have given free garlic bread with orders over £10/?10 so lots of people who sell pizza around Europe seem to think they go together.

chips with second day lasagne are gorgeous. chips and garlic bread go really well with pizza, you strange people.

YABU

My local take away do meal deal for £5.60

Pizza
Portion of chips
Can of pepsi

Best meal ever! And spaghetti with garlic bread is beautiful

I want pizza now

'I think the bad reputation of "carbs" is a fad'

I don't.

Too much white carbs such as sugar, white rice, potatoes and bread make us fat. There are plenty of good carbs in fruit and vegetables.

Btw I'm tiny so overweight comment is bullshit

What about when a loaf of white was bunged on the table to fill up the family when food was meat and two veg - prob with a slathering of dripping!

I think my family would be very very pleased if I dished of mac cheese pie with salad and garlic bread. With salad and a yummy dressing. Salivate emoticon anyone?

mmmm Lasagne and chips. Getting that chip and dipping it into the lasagne sauce. num num num.

I am overweight (by a stone), but I simply refuse to cut out carbs. Why stop eating something I enjoy

• Obviously I dont 'double carb' every meal, but most days I eat some form of carb and I dont care.

I'll never get over the Italian waiter's face when we were in a fairly naice ristorante near the Spanish Steps in Rome and the American-sounding woman on the next table was trying to insist on ordering a side of French fries with her pasta. It (his face, not the pasta) was a sort of disgusted disbelief that anyone could be so barbaric. But I suspect his objection was more related to the abuse of a fine culinary tradition than outrage at carb overload.