PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland?

yes nothing wrong with good ketchup, people eat what's they like.

You talk sh1te

These are my favorite Pizza places in Warsaw, try them one day when you finally get round to visiting Poland:

nonsolo.pl/pl
ilcaminetto.pl
nanowolipkach.pl

what you call 'american food' is that what the immigrants brought with them on the bounty.

the original american food by the indians was extinct by the genocide the whites did to them before deporting them to 'reservates'. lol

polish pizza is cool.

polish pizza has hard crust and not enough toppings.

You are right- nonsolo is good- looks like they have renovated since I was last there- the other two....I will have to try them.

If you are ever in the Jozefoslaw area of Warsaw, tucked away is an amazing place called Numero uno. The chef lived in Australia for a number of years working at a pizza place- the Australian owner gave him the secret to the crust when he moved back to Poland.

trattorianumerouno.pl

the anitpasti and foccacia are amazing.

Pip, the best places in Warsaw are always the ones that are tucked away, they try harder than the ones on main street. All of the three places I mentioned are out of the main stream especially il caminetto, it is on the upper floor of a 1960's shopping block in Saska Kempa, they have the most amazing thin crust pizza.They were the first Italian family owned restaurant in Warsaw, it became something of an establishment amongst the Italian community here, it is certainly worth a visit with the family, although if you go on Sundays be sure to book a table in advance,

Pizza & ketchup IS THE BEST!!!!! HAS TO BE A HAM & PINEAPPLE PIZZA WITH LOADS OF KETCHUP

Hawiian

That's how you can tell someone is Polish. I think it tastes better, especially if it's a Pudliszki . But we're not the only ones it is entirely normal in Brazil or Trinidad.

The best tasting thing of all is Chili Sauce.

That sounds really good. Is Polish pizza ever baked with toppings under the cheese, inside the pizza?

We do this in serbia and montenegro
so that is two more countries

I don't know why vinegar on french fries would be "ughhh" in uk, they are fantastic in America. It used to be a favorite thing to get them every Friday night at the local racetrack.

Want to taste it as soon as possible.

Ummmm that's cause JETS pizza is just amazing without adding crap like Ketchup to the pizza.

It has puzzled me ever since I have been here.
That together with the big burgers that are filled with grated cabbage.
Considering that most of the popular ketchup brands in the country contain little to no real tomato puree in them-
this says a lot about the quality of food in Poland. With pizzeria's and most restaurants it is right to say that if you don't know much about them, cosidering the

rampant use of substandard ingredients, just walk away.

It's considered a little unsophisticated by many (in the capital anyway), but still persists. Some waiters/waitresses (more accurately students waiting table) are surprised when people don't want the sauce.


An ingrained habit, sadly.


Spot on.

A particular bugbear of mine is frozen chips. They're so rife that a lot of the post-89 generation don't know that real ones can exist.

Although there are quite a few "Frytkie Belgijskie" who a very decent job. There are two ones near ul. Szpitalna here in Warsaw who are really good, and there is Renesans on ul Francuzka in Saska Kępa.

Its almost the same as the tomato sauce base mixture. But I guess these 'sophisticates' have never made proper pizza have they?

There is nothing particularly wrong with adding ketchup to Pizza, people add worse. In Southern France, Chilli oil is a standard addition to Pizza.

I always add an bit of ketchup to any pizza or pasta tomato sauce base I make. Its also an ingredient to Salsa, chilli and Pad Thai noodles.

A BIT being the key, not spread it all over.

It is not Ketchup that they put on Pizza. It is homemade pizza base sauce but also there is a home made Garlic sauce used too.

It's nothing like. Check out what goes into ketchup. The image below is one of the better ones - the cheapest of the stuff in PL (and you didn't think your local pizza shop get it from Waitrose, did you?) is far worse.

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Here's a popular mid-price Polish brand:


wieszcozjesz.blogspot.it/2013/07/co-z-tym-ketchupem-kotlin-ciag-dalszy.html

Enjoy the benzoesan sodu.

My local pizza shop make their tomato sauce fresh every day.

Tomatoes, fried onions, sugar and herbs are the ingredient of Pizza tomato base.

The only major difference is the vinegar - which is an enhancement to tomatoes natural acidity. The 'spices' are among others, All Spice (English Spice).

I use Garlic, bay leaves, mixed herbs (oregano, Marjoram, Basil etc). pepper, even a little smoked paprika. But there is nothing in Heinz Tomato ketchup that is incompatible with Pizza.

I bet if you made a pizza with a thin layer of Heinz ketchup as the base you would not find it 'wrong', especially if you added garlic and the herbs.

We are talking about Cheese and Tomato on Toast, not caviar. I suppose its an essential food source to people who can't cook, but fundamentally its simple food for the poor.


Good for them, I assume them serve it to be added to the Pizza after serving?


Can you differential E211 in tomato products?

And how do you know thats it not used in the tomato puree they made the pizza base with?

You are picking and choosing what you don't like while buying industrially produced food without any ingredient label of any sort.

If Poles like to put tomato sauce on their Pizza (home made or industrial ketchup) then let them, its nothing wronger than eating Pizza in the first instance.

Who needs to? Your body 'differentials' for you whether you want it to or not.


As long as it stays under the cheese, that's fine.


That ain't pizza. Or rarebit. Or croque monsieur.


Outside a famine zone, that's what people do. And I choose to think - as a fair few other posters in this thread do and doubtless many more in real life, that ketchup on pizza is trashy and on a par with instant coffee (people buy that?), readymade mayonnaise (buy an egg and some oil), artificial 'non-dairy cream substitute', pasta salad and 'mild cheddar'.

Or buying a Pizza instead of making it yourself? Firstly you are mixing up your taste and what is 'trashy'. Some people like mild cheddar, others prefer non-saturated fat for their white coffee.

Some people like ketchup, most people in fact and it is very healthy - mores than fresh tomatoes. The E211 is an unusual and exceptional ingredient for Tomato Ketchup.


.The issue is adding ketchup to Pizza, not whether your body can magically detect something that is probably not in the ketchup or sauces that Poles put on their Pizza.


Oh dear, all sauce MUST be under the Cheese. Are you a Pizza Nazi as well as a Pizza Snob :)


With proper tomato base, Mozzarella cheese, olive oil and toast you can make better pizza that most pizza joints.

Not exactly rocket science. A bit of dough, a smear of passata and some good cheese.


Maybe you deliberately misunderstand or maybe you genuinely don't get it. If you put too many chemicals in your body you get sick. Maybe now or maybe the abnormal cell growth comes in a few years. maybe the crap someone feeds their kids when young doesn't cause the carcinoma until decades later.


If people like to wear socks with sandals or a black bra under a white blouse, have mooning garden gnomes, a blue plastic roof, drink alcopops or smoke in the bus stop, let them. That doesn't mean one can't say on a discussion forum that they think it's tacky. Or perhaps you think poor taste is beyond criticism...

Eating pizza is tacky. Criticizing what other people put on tacky food is hypocritical.

I'm making Pizza tonight, I may add ketchup.

Tell that to a Neapolitan! It isn't just ham and pineapple, you know.


Likewise, but no sugary sauce slathered near it.

Do they serve Pizza with gravy in Poland??? We have that a lot around here its AMAZING sooo good