(Poll) Things you will not eat on a pizza

[DirtyDishSoap]

Mushrooms and anchovies, I'd rather eat wiener

I love mushrooms and anchovies!

I'll take your mushrooms and anchovies. You can eat my wiener.

Is it swedish?

[mookiemcgee]

I will not eat 'kittens (which) are cute' on pizza

[Symmetry]

I'm glad to see sweetcorn taking the lead. Does anyone actually like it on pizza?

[Symmetry]

Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

[Dukasaur]

Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

Do they put it on pizza as just kernels, or actual cobs?

[Symmetry]

Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

Do they put it on pizza as just kernels, or actual cobs?

Every pizza in both NYC and upstate has to have a full cob of sweetcorn.

Thanks, Obama!

If you're eating non-cob 'za, it's probably illegal.

[2dimes]

So I just had to rage delete my comment to cause you to switch to better trolling?

I can't tell if I'm wining or losing here.

Everyone wins with that last post though, so either way I'm going to enjoy the good stuff like ordering a pizza with corn on it to my buddy's house without telling him.

Is there corn in Britain that has another name besides "sweetcorn"? You would almost never see it worded that way here until it's used to lure you to a particular road side stand.

Sweet Corn! Fresh Fruit. Homemade pies. Seafood

[Dukasaur]

So I just had to rage delete my comment to cause you to switch to better trolling?

I can't tell if I'm wining or losing here.

Everyone wins with that last post though, so either way I'm going to enjoy the good stuff like ordering a pizza with corn on it to my buddy's house without telling him.

Is there corn in Britain that has another name besides "sweetcorn"? You would almost never see it worded that way here until it's used to lure you to a particular road side stand.

Sweet Corn! Fresh Fruit. Homemade pies. Seafood

In British usage, the word "corn" just means "grain." Hence, the Anti-Corn Law League.

What we call corn over here therefore needs a special name to separate it from other grains.

Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

Do they put it on pizza as just kernels, or actual cobs?

Every pizza in both NYC and upstate has to have a full cob of sweetcorn.

Thanks, Obama!

If you're eating non-cob 'za, it's probably illegal.

I've never heard of it. Mind you, the few times I was in NYC, I don't think I had a pizza. But I've eaten pizza in Buffalo a few times and I don't remember corn being an option. Habaneros, yes, corn, no.

[mrswdk]

I don't think the word 'corn' is used here except as part of the words 'sweetcorn' or 'popcorn'. I wasn't aware there were any other types of corn, although Wiki says there are apparently. If someone said to me 'do you like corn?' I'd have no idea what they were talking about.

[nietzsche]

I don't think the word 'corn' is used here except as part of the words 'sweetcorn' or 'popcorn'. I wasn't aware there were any other types of corn, although Wiki says there are apparently. If someone said to me 'do you like corn?' I'd have no idea what they were talking about.

[mrswdk]

I wouldn't call any of those corn, except the popcorn.

I don't even know what half of them are. That last one looks like a piece of bread with a load of flies squashed inside it.

[nietzsche]

torillas, totopos, doritos, esquite, pozole, menudo, quesadilla de cuitlacoche.


cuitlacoche is this

[mrswdk]

I don't see the word corn in any of those.

Tortilla just taste like flour. And usually sour cream and chive dip because that's what I stick them in.

[KoolBak]

That would be a flour tortilla. Pic is of corn-t

[mrswdk]

"American food"

[Dukasaur]

I don't think the word 'corn' is used here except as part of the words 'sweetcorn' or 'popcorn'. I wasn't aware there were any other types of corn, although Wiki says there are apparently. If someone said to me 'do you like corn?' I'd have no idea what they were talking about.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/corn

1British The chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats.
‘fields of corn’

1.1 The grain of a cereal crop.

1.2North American
another term for maize

2informal Something banal or sentimental.
‘the film is pure corn’

[2dimes]

Oxford omitted the growth on some feet?

Huh, thanks to a Duke we find out once again the Brits can't just speak English.

Sweetcorn indeed.

"American food"

Yes, in fact I read a rumour it was discovered in the new world. How the bloody blue blazes it ended up getting brought back and put on pizza is a mystery.

[mrswdk]

I don't care what the dictionary that refuses to accept new words are actual words says, a wheat field is a wheat field not a 'field of corn'.

[2dimes]

Agreed but, now we know why you gnobs call corn "sweetcorn" and you thought Doritos were potato chips.

[Dukasaur]

I don't care what the dictionary that refuses to accept new words are actual words says, a wheat field is a wheat field not a 'field of corn'.

Prefer Collins?
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/corn

1. uncountable noun
Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
[British]
...fields of corn.
He filled the barn to the roof with corn.
regional note: in AM, use grain

Canadiana?
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/corn-laws/

Corn Laws

Corn laws, 1794-1846, set duties on grain imports into Britain to protect British agriculture from outside competition. (In Britain, "corn" is the name for CEREAL CROPS.

Webster?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corn

3 British : the grain of a cereal grass that is the primary crop of a region (such as wheat in Britain and oats in Scotland and Ireland); also : a plant that produces corn

BHO?
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/traded-goods-dictionary/1550-1820/corn-cornus

Corn

[corne]

Any GRAIN such as BARLEY, OATS, RYE, WHEAT, but probably not RICE, nor the so-called INDIAN CORN that only became commercially available towards the end of this period in Britain. Sometimes PULSEs like BEANS and PEAS may also have been included. This generic meaning can clearly be seen in such records as 'In Corne and Catall' [Inventories (1543)], in which the grain was distinguished from the livestock. However, the term was often applied locally to the grain most commonly grown in that district so that in much of England it indicated WHEAT. This gives rise to records like 'Corn and Lent Graine now Growing' [Inventories (1723)] in which 'Lent Graine or LENT CORN would have been understood to mean BARLEY and/or perhaps OATS. Other records that have similar meanings are 'Mallt & corne in ye house' [Inventories (1634)], and 'Corne, Malt, and Oates' [Inventories (1723)].

Cambridge?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/corn

B1 [ U ] UK (the seeds of) plants, such as wheat, maize, oats, and barley, that can be used to produce flour:
a sheaf of corn
grains of corn
​

[ U ] mainly US UK usually maize a tall plant grown in many parts of the world for its yellow seeds, which are eaten as food, made into flour, or fed to animals:
corn-fed chickens
the corn-growing areas of the Midwest
​

[ U ] mainly US UK usually sweetcorn the seeds of a particular type of maize plant, eaten as a vegetable

(emphasis added in section 2 of the last definition.)

[mrswdk]

You said 'British English'. It doesn't matter what your dictionaries say, I'm telling you what British people say.

This is like the time someone I know in China kept on trying and trying to tell me that British people say 'beancurd' and not 'tofu', because that's what her dictionary told her the English was. Didn't matter how many times I told the bish that everyone says 'tofu', she wouldn't believe me.

[jonesthecurl]

You said 'British English'. It doesn't matter what your dictionaries say, I'm telling you what British people say.

This is like the time someone I know in China kept on trying and trying to tell me that British people say 'beancurd' and not 'tofu', because that's what her dictionary told her the English was. Didn't matter how many times I told the bish that everyone says 'tofu', she wouldn't believe me.

First time I ate it the restaurant called it "beancurd". There used to be loads of Chinese restaurants and almost no Japanese ones, and it was usually called beancurd. They probably had the same dictionary.
Once Brits started to cook it at home, they bought it as tofu, and people started calling it that. Some didn't realise it was the same thing for a while.

[jonesthecurl]

https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/beancurdwithoystersa_90178

[Symmetry]

Wait till Dukasaur finds out what canola oil is called in the UK.