the other mike
Diamond Member
I'm gonna try a maple-helicopter pizza.Pizza sauce is made from fruit....Any kind of fruit on pizza is nasty. What's good on pizza:
- corn
- kielbasa
- squid
- salami
- octopus
The fact that they're both fruit is actually irrelevant. Pineapple is above all sweet. Sweet surely has its place, and in that place can be quite appealing.
(appealing/fruit - see what I did there, I kill me)
However a tomato sauce/oregano/garlic environment is emphatically NOT that place. It's like I rant at the grocery store when jarred tomato sauces are infested with sugar --- "ever see anyone sit down to a meal of pasta or pizza and say 'please pass the sugar'"? No.
Well there's a reason for that. Culinary ingredients must complement, not conflict. The same reason you don't put spinach and peppers together on that pizza: one will overwhelm the other. Gotta pick one. So either have a pizza, or have something sweet. This is War --- pick a side.![]()
Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists. Botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower ovary and contains seeds. Tomatoes, plums, zucchinis, and melons are all edible fruits, but things like maple “helicopters” and floating dandelion puffs are fruits too.

Is a Tomato a Fruit or a Vegetable?
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