anchovy pizza
Briny topped flatbread
Anchovy pizza is pizza topped with anchovies—small, intensely salty cured fish.
The topping is polarizing: devotees prize the briny, umami punch, while detractors find the fishiness overwhelming.
Anchovy pizza often serves as a cultural shorthand for divisive taste preferences: Who actually orders anchovy pizza?
- saltyTasting of brine
- fishyArousing doubt, colloquially
- fish smellMarine creature odor
- NaplesMediterranean port city
- pepperoniSpiced cured sausage
cheese · olives · capers · tomato · red sauce · crust · savory · umami · pungent · acquired taste · toppings · Mediterranean · slice · garlic · oregano · delivery · take out · late night
- pizzacrust, dough, pepperoni, slice, meat lovers
- pizza typespepperoni, Hawaiian, supreme, veggie, meat lovers
- Seafood Dishesfish and chips, fried shrimp, crab cakes, shrimp cocktail, clam chowder
topping intensity/controversy
anchovy pizzacheese pizza
Untopped tomato-and-mozzarella pie
pepperoni pizza · cheese bread · breadsticks · garlic bread · Hawaiian pizza