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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Mmmm... now I fancy a sweet, milky masala chai
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mmm, tchaï....
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Originally Posted by kazbates
Sorry, Zelda!  That was my fault!! You would pronounce it shy-town. Just one of those silly names for the "City of Big Shoulders", ie. Chicago. 
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no need to apologise, it's interesting to learn these details ! thanks for the explanation.
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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
Do they even have pizza in Paris? I don't think I ever saw it there |
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Just curious, do other countries have a [insert country name] pizza? Here in Oz, when you look at a pizza menu (Four Seasons, Ham & Pineapple, Marinara, et cetera...or smoked kangaroo, Balmain Bug, Snowy River trout if they're being "gourmet") there's almost always the "Aussie Pizza". Now, it varies about, but is usually a mix of bacon, tomato, cheese, sometimes barbecue sauce, capsicum...but the defining ingredient (with a tilt of the hat to the bacon) is to have an egg or two cracked and spread over it and under the cheese ("essential" in the same way that a burger have a couple of slices of beetroot on it. Incidentally, an "Aussie burger" almost inevitably has a fried egg on it too). I'm not sure how the egg became such a defining characteristic. I do like it though (on my burger too).
I'm sure that the above isn't unique to Oz (okay, possibly the beetroot on the burgers  ), and it may even be a long-standing culinary tradition for some variety if pizza. My point is only that this is generally what an "Aussie pizza" includes. Do other countries have their own pizzas? The Swedish Pizza with Surströmming on it? The English Pizza with fish and chips on it? The Indonesian Pizza with mee goreng on it? The Italian Pizza with...no, wait, skip that one.
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Originally Posted by tompe
We have one pizza I like with an egg on it but it is cracked over the cheese...
I have never seen it. We do not have the concept of a Swedish pizza. I think I saw a pizza with meatballs on it sometime but that is very rare.
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perhaps ironically, i've never seen a "french pizza" (one that claimed to be so, anyway) but we do have pizzas which (officially or not) cater to specific cultures, like the pizza with chorizo (i think that's the name...), and we also have "nordic pizza" which is made with white cheese instead of tomato sauce. i've never tried one of those, they always have salmon or something on them...
we also have eggs on pizza sometimes (almost anything can be improved with an egg on top : crêpes, pasta, "croque-monsieur" (hot sandwich : with an egg on it's a "croque-madame"
), and pizza of course. but those are usually home-made pizzas or in a restaurant, not delivered. presumably it's too messy.