Bulgarian pizza
I thought the Romanians (and others) were disgusting for the horrifying practice of ruining great pizza with ketchup.
But our wonderful, southern friends in Bulgaria take culinary tackiness to a new extreme.
Ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard. Yech.
July 18th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
yuck! that is really really disgusting. it might as well be called a pizza sandwich.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Geez. I wonder what they think about the “curent”…
July 18th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
If i Never see another Pizza again it will be heaven…sos sos sos alb sau rosi sau nu sos ustoroi aaaaaagggg just make a simple tomatoe sauce with basil and herbs and put some freakin cheese on it too…romanian pizza sucks..i have never eaten a good one here..pizza hut in timisoara is packed out and you have to make a reservation why god knows?? just wait until real food is discovered..
July 19th, 2007 at 4:01 am
I had friends visiting from Romania and they hated the NY pizza (are u kidding me? it’s better than any pizza I had in Italy) - they wanted the thick-crust-ham/swimming-in-ketchup pizza they knew - bleah!!!
Mayo and mustard? That’s not pizza. It’s flatbread with mayo, mustard and ketchup :))
July 19th, 2007 at 4:25 am
Ketchup/mayo on pizza is also a Brazilian thing… it’s still disgusting.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I was hanging out with a drunken Czec girl a couple of years back who had an undying craving for pizza…so, we go get her pizza…who am I to deny her late night pleasures:)) She then proceeded to horrify me with the slathering of the condiment (that I believe to this day ONLY belongs on frenchfries)…since then I have been on a search for a good pizza in Eastern Europe. They can’t all need a blanket of bad ketchup. By far the best I’ve found is Pizza Gente in Cluj…..almost as good as home….Not all Romanian pizza sucks…just most of them! There’s also another spot at the old CRF headquarters about a kilometre or two form there that’s really great…can’t remember the name…
July 19th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
How it is that weed gets on forbidden-stuff list and such a terrible thing like ketchup escapes it? And if ketchup alone is disgusting, what to say about ketchup on a pizza? Beah!
July 19th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
And I thought at first it was a pancake with jam and a blueberry on top! Maybe we need to send some cooking channels over to the cable tv?
July 19th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
I have to admit to being pretty shocked about the ketchup and pizza thing, but I guess I can’t say much considering what we eat here.
July 20th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
cluj-napoca, 2 pizza places worth visiting…the only 2 we visit. 1) Pizza Rex, #2)Il Milanese (an Italian place run by people who know how to cook real Italian food).
July 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
jon….is PIZZA REX the one in the old CFR headquarters? it was really good there…as an American Chef who makes his own pizza better than anyone elses, I was pleasantly surprised…
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Rex is close to the Sora shopping center, just across the street and down a small side street towards Agape Rest. Same one you’re thinking of?
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Putting stuff like ketch-up or mayonnaise on pizza might be a very disgusting thing to do. I dislike it as much as you do.
But, in the end, you americans are not the finest example of good taste in eating habbits, are you?
Therefore, let’s go down south and eat Italian way, with a lot of sea food, olive oil, verdura, and we’ll live better and longer!
If you ever come to Focsani, there’s this place called Pizzeria Wasserman. It doesn’t sound pizza-like but they realy know how to make it! I’m buying! :)) Hope they won’t change the pizzaiolo by the time you’ll get to taste it !
July 25th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Hey hey now, don’t generalize American eating habits…sure there’s many who live off crappy Mcdonald’s and Burgerking…but I like to think of this as survival of the less stupid or lazy…There are may people whom also eat far Healthier than most Romanians…
Every country, everywhere, make claims of better and best, but unfortunately we all experience the same diversity of good bad and ugly just the same…and the cuisine you described would be deemed as Mediterranean…not just Italian…
August 6th, 2007 at 7:09 am
One of the first phrases I learned in Romania was “Nu porumb, va rog.” I didn’t want corn on my pizza after all.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
My husband (who is Bulgarian) and I went to the pizza shop in Sofia while I was there meeting the family. We ordered a pizza. I’d already learned not to order meat on my pizza unless I wanted squares of lunchmeat on it…(I don’t want to remember the 4 meat pizza we ordered that one time or the ‘mexican pizza’ from the place in town) but when I ordered my kalamata and mushroom pizza the waitress asked if I wanted ’sauce’ to go with the pizza. I looked at my husband and said ‘oooh, what kind?’ (he was translating) and the ’sauce’ was: ketchup or mayo…gag. Now I knew what the huge bottles of squeeze mayo were for in all the restaurants…