90% eat pizza at least once a week

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I was surprised to read that 90% of adults eat pizza at least once a week. AIBU

HA. I used to eat pizza 5 times a week. Maybe even twice a day on some days.
But that was when I was a student working in a Pizza Express.
And yes, I got fat very quickly. Loved every bite tho and still get the PE cravings!!

Friday night is pizza night here. I make my own and try to tell myself that's more healthy!

There must be a dog whistle on Mumsnet that only people obsessed with showing their healthy eating credentials can hear

There must be a dog whistle on MN that only people obsessed with starting trouble on perfectly pleasant threads can hear.

Pizza is hot bread and cheese. I'd rather have a cheese and tomato sandwich.

"Pizza is hot bread and cheese"

Come round my house on Saturday. I will blow your mind.

Pizza is hot bread and cheese

What happened to you? And what did that person do to that poor pizza? ;)

Thanks to this thread I have bought a block of mozarella and a frozen pizza that looks nice, if a little plain because it is cheese and tomato only. As I said up thread, I don't like pepperoni or chicken on pizzas.

So sometime in the next week or so I will be having frozen pizza with additional toppings and home made pizza (breadmaker version). This may up the average pizza consumption somewhat.

Hmmm very sporadic here. Made homemade with whole meal flour last month. Had a dominos last night. Will prob eat it again in a month or so but probably not dominos

There must be a dog whistle on MN that only people obsessed with starting trouble on perfectly pleasant threads can hear.

Not at all. I am a keen cook. I don't make my own pizza but you can if you want. I'm sure it's delicious.

But claiming that only homemade will do in a breadmaker with wholemeal flour and that there is something wrong with getting a Goodfellas is wrong.

Not that you've said that. But some people have suggested it.

It's what happens with tedious regularity

I probably have about 6 pizzas a year. Maybe one takeaway one when I'm hungover and that's the only thing open, one in a restaurant and the rest supermarket jobbies. They're ok but I just don't get the pizza hype.

Is it next to your yurt though Girrafeski? And I hope that is organic, grass-fed clay it's made from.

Bertrand will it be the pizza of all pizzas that is not itself a pizza?

limitedperiod

Fair enough, but on this thread, by and large, Goodfellas fans are sitting happily alongside the homemade kale pizza fans. No one's taking pot shots yet.

Let's just back away slowly and enjoy a food thread that's not too scary to open yet.

I'm not fond of pizza but it's an easy meal. One pizza a month (max) is enough for me though!

I hardly ever have pizza. I do however have chips at least once a week from a chip shop and I am perfectly capable of cooking extremely unhealthy food for myself. I don't think pizza is particularly unhealthy but when I was a teenager we had a proper pizzaria near us with an old fashioned stone oven and they made the most amazing seafood pizza and nothing has ever been as good so every pizza after that has been a crushing disappointment and it isn't worth the calories. If I'm going to eat tat many calories I want to spend them on something I truly enjoy. Chips are more reliable.

Well the food police must be slipping. Nearly 300 posts about pizza and no-one has recoiled in horror at the salt content, not that I believe that salt is actually harmful to most people - like fat it has been unfairly demonised to take the focus away from sugar and there isn't any actual evidence that it raises blood pressure or is otherwise harmful to healthy individuals with normal blood pressure.

My frozen pizza contains 104% of an adults daily recommended salt intake and even naice homemade pizza will contain probably similar amounts of salt in the cheese and bread dough - my breadmaker recipe suggests a teaspoon of salt for 2 largish pizzas - the type that will feed 2 hungry adults or a Mumsnet family of 4 when hidden at the end of a rainbow of veg.

I never look at sodium content as I don't give a flying fuck.

This statistic is troubling me. Who said 90%? It seems crazy high to me, even though loads on here say they do. It seems strange that so many people are eating the same meal so many times. It also seems that I am severely depriving my children of pizza.

I'm not surprised by the statistic even though we only eat pizza about once every 3 months, if that.

Someone on this thread boasted about putting carrots on pizza .

I like carrots in their place, but they have no business being on a fucking pizza. In what world would you go into a pizza restaurant and say: 'I'll want the thin and crispy margherita with extra carrots'?

My mother used to do that when we were little. Carrot, leek, onion, sugo, two cheeses. And she's actually Italian :'D....

Did your Italian mamma put carrots on a pizza Chippie or did she use them finely chopped with onion and celery in a sofritto?

Fineley chopped with celery, yellow onion in a soffrito? Yes. When she made bolognese.

Grated with pesto on a sandwich.

On the pizza. Lovely and flavour intense tomato sauce cooked to thicken. And potatoe circles (?) to put on the pizza....

I once ordered a vegetable pizza in York that came with carrots on. Plus broccoli and chunks of roast potato, like the leftovers of a roast dinner. So weird.

How can you make a tomato
sauce without a soffrito?

Disclaimer: I do not always make the tomato sauce bit of a pizza.

Having erotic thoughts about the pizzeria in Pisa on the right hand side of the main street leading to the Piazza d'Miracoli ... the one with the tables outside and the red and white tablecloths and the most amazing pizza on the planet ... drooooooooool.