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February 5th, 2008 at 04:52 am

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Over ate during the Super Bowl as we hosted the Duvall friends. Another anchovy pizza lover is so, so very rare, so when a medium arrived with anchovies, I went whole hog.

Usually the anchovy pizza is a covert, solitary pleasure - when DH is on the road, often I will order an anchovy pizza to nosh on for days - because during pizza ordering all it will take is just one "ick" and nix on the anchovies. "Ick" it will be because no one is middle of the road with anchovies. Sure we do have the anchovy posers who pick off the 'chovies and eat the rest, but really the best use of anchovies, other than their delicious saltiness, is the place holder feature: the area around the anchovy is inedible to anchovy haters.

Darn useful for marking pizza. In a mixed crowd, ever notice that the vegetarian pizza gets snarfed up before the meat pizza? Strategy! The meat eaters can eat the veg pizza, the veg eaters can't eat the meat pizza, so of course the competitive eaters figure that if the first piece is the veg, they can always get a meat pizza slice later, at their leisure. Add anchovies and the balance of power changes. We can eat whatever pizza we want. Bwahhhahhh!

One last anchovy pizza story. When I was a TA in grad school, I taught labs and graded tests along with 4-5 other grad students. Grading tests was a chore, so to make it a bit better we would order pizza and make a party out of it. The first test, for our pizza order we conferred using the "what do you hate-we'll leave it off" technique. One of our brethren just for laughs, said, "you know, I really like anchovies." We all looked at each other and said slowly, "we like anchovies, too." What are the odds of finding fellow anchovy pizza lovers? We ordered anchovy pizza for the entire quarter.

6 Responses to “anchovy pizza”

  1. compulsive debtor Says:
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    I looooooove anchovy pizza too!

  2. SMB Says:
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    I recently bought a small jar of anchovies at ChefShop, and am trying to decide what to do with them as I am "new" to anchovies. I am not afraid of the tiny, salted fish. Maybe I'll try a pizza!

  3. davera Says:
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    Mmmm, count me in as an anchovy pizza lover. But I always ask for them on the side, and put them on myself so they don't get all shriveled and spiky in the oven. I enjoy them much better that way.

    Only thing is, I am up all night drinking water to quench the saltiness after indulging in an anchovy pizza.

  4. debtfreeme Says:
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    your grad school stories always make me laugh!

  5. baselle Says:
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    SMB - MUST make authentic Caesar salad. Also tapenade (olives, anchovy, caper spread). And homemade worchester sauce is made with anchovies.

  6. ChovyChap Says:
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    I'm with you lot, anchovies on pizza is sooooo scrumdidlyumptious!

    davera: I've never heard of anyone ordering pizza asking for their 'chovies on the side. Until now!

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