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The staff ate it later

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477 points gyomu | 31 comments | 02 Sep 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.077s | source | bottom
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duxup ◴[02 Sep 25 18:03 UTC] No.45106795[source]▶
I wonder how this plays out.

As noted sometimes the staff can't eat it, heck sometimes you might not want to eat it. That has to happen pretty often.

I worked at a company with a particularly sensitive HR team who would host pizza parties now and then, but they'd only order "weird" pizzas and I guess they liked it, but they were quite miffed when people stopped coming / didn't want to eat some pizza with some kind of fake cheese and unrecognizable veggies.

They were really miffed when my boss ordered our team pizza on their pizza day too, suddenly very concerned about waste...

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1. MisterTea ◴[02 Sep 25 18:31 UTC] No.45107158[source]▶
> didn't want to eat some pizza with some kind of fake cheese and unrecognizable veggies.

What I want to know is what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese and what are mystery veggies?

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2. duxup ◴[02 Sep 25 18:40 UTC] No.45107266[source]▶
It was from an actually good pizza place that had some wild choices for pizzas.

Inexplicably they didn't order any of the "regular" pizzas from there.

3. zahlman ◴[02 Sep 25 20:37 UTC] No.45108695[source]▶
> what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese

Most of them, I imagine, in order to accommodate vegan customers. Some advertise it louder than others.

> what are mystery veggies?

There's quite a variety out there. I've seen broccoli, sundried tomato, artichoke, spinach....

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4. bondarchuk ◴[02 Sep 25 21:56 UTC] No.45109633[source]▶
Those are very normal weggebobbles for anyone outside the US. Big no-no to vegan cheese though.
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5. stevage ◴[02 Sep 25 22:02 UTC] No.45109705{3}[source]▶
Eh, I find vegan cheese very variable. I never seek it out but experience it relatively often. Sometimes it's tasty and chewy. Sometimes it's a bland monstrosity. I don't know why.
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6. rkomorn ◴[02 Sep 25 22:09 UTC] No.45109772{4}[source]▶
Vegan feta has the best success rate for me. Unfortunately, feta has limited applications.

(I'm not vegan but I like to try vegan products anyway.)

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7. Tallain ◴[02 Sep 25 22:28 UTC] No.45109945[source]▶
I don't see how any of these could be considered "mystery" veggies in most contexts, let alone on pizza.
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8. schuyler2d ◴[02 Sep 25 22:43 UTC] No.45110064{3}[source]▶
I'm pretty sure they weren't unrecognizable or mystery and it's just being used as a pejorative for food they didn't like
9. shermantanktop ◴[02 Sep 25 22:45 UTC] No.45110093{3}[source]▶
Are they not normal inside the US?
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10. kulahan ◴[02 Sep 25 22:57 UTC] No.45110202{5}[source]▶
If you haven't make shakshuka yet, it's worth a shot. It's one of my favorite places to use lots and lots of feta. It's not normally vegan since it's topped with an egg, but that's easy enough to remove and forget. Eat it with toasted pita.
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11. MarkSweep ◴[03 Sep 25 00:10 UTC] No.45110765[source]▶
Whole Foods is an offender here. They were selling a slice of fresh vegan pizza, which I assumed just had vegetables on it. Instead it had this obscene goopy “vegan cheese” that had more in common with mochi than cheese. (Yes, you can find pizzas with mochi on it in Japan, but they don’t call it cheese!)
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12. bigstrat2003 ◴[03 Sep 25 00:12 UTC] No.45110774[source]▶
Vegan cheese is an abomination. Even if one is vegan they shouldn't eat that crap, just eat something else instead. You can make much better vegan food if you focus on trying to make vegetables good versus torturing them into a facsimile of animal products.
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13. stevage ◴[03 Sep 25 01:07 UTC] No.45111163{5}[source]▶
> feta has limited applications.

Politely beg to differ.

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14. girvo ◴[03 Sep 25 02:46 UTC] No.45111780{3}[source]▶
Eh, there’s some that are perfectly meh and are useful for texture reasons. I don’t really bother with them, but “abomination” is quite amusing me.
15. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 05:30 UTC] No.45112501{6}[source]▶
Come on, it's 2025, no true HN user hasn't tried to make shakshuka by now. :D
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16. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 05:35 UTC] No.45112518{6}[source]▶
It's not particularly sliceable, meltable, or all that edible on its own. That rules out many cheese applications for me.

Then again, I'm French, so our takes on cheese may be very different! :)

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17. vintermann ◴[03 Sep 25 06:18 UTC] No.45112746[source]▶
I thought I liked vegan pizzas, having only tasted the restaurant varieties which either don't have cheese or have some sort of savoury dressing instead. Then I tried a vegan frozen pizza, and I found out what people hate about them. Some gray slimy substance which apparently someone, somewhere, thought was similar to melted cheese.
18. aziaziazi ◴[03 Sep 25 07:05 UTC] No.45113037{3}[source]▶
US cheese-in-tube is an abomination (I’m French ;-) ) and my Italian neighbor thinks the same about pinanle-fat-dough pizzas.

As for every product type there’s good and bad. I love this one[0], it’s made by a bunch of artisan chiefs near my city. Ingredients: soy, cajun nuts, ferments. Probable process: cook, smash, add ferment, wait.

Beside tradition offense there’s no reasons to restrain ourselves torturing-with-ferments lipid products that didn’t came out from udders. Fermented products are delicious and cooking has always co-evolved with technology, product availability and customs, why should someone restrain from experimenting?

I share the ultra processed disdain but to be honest there’s as much UPF in "fascimile" that some of their counterpart. That non-vegan-milk cheese has 16 ingredients in it[1].

0 https://www.vegetalfood.fr/affines/3868-albert-bio-100-gr-ja...

1 https://www.amazon.fr/cfuda-Easy-Cheese-American/dp/B000S5PH...

19. bregma ◴[03 Sep 25 10:41 UTC] No.45114221[source]▶

    Curry             5p

    Meat Curry        7p

    Named Meat Curry 15p
20. mr_toad ◴[03 Sep 25 10:41 UTC] No.45114225[source]▶
I don’t get the trend of vegan restaurants etc selling fake meat products. If you want vegan food you’re probably better off going to an Indian restaurant where they actually know how to cook without meat.
21. iamtedd ◴[03 Sep 25 10:55 UTC] No.45114306{7}[source]▶
I don't even know how to spell shakshuka.
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22. raxxorraxor ◴[03 Sep 25 11:07 UTC] No.45114382[source]▶
I think the larger reason is that fake cheese is cheaper.

In parts of Europe restaurants are allowed to sell it as cheese. That isn't true for frozen supermarket pizza, where regulations force to either declare it as fake cheese or use real one.

Most restaurants use fake cheese out of price concerns.

23. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 11:17 UTC] No.45114438{8}[source]▶
You don't have to! You can just say it's imported from a language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet, so there's no canonically correct way to spell it.

It's probably a lie but it doesn't sound like one!

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24. throwway120385 ◴[03 Sep 25 13:28 UTC] No.45115541{7}[source]▶
Try buying it brined.
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25. evilduck ◴[03 Sep 25 14:46 UTC] No.45116444{4}[source]▶
They're normal vegetables, but not normal pizza toppings. Just look at the menu offerings of any big US chain pizza place, deviating from that without warning is going to cause disappointment.
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26. dotancohen ◴[03 Sep 25 14:54 UTC] No.45116541{9}[source]▶
Though Arabic has quite a few letters you won't find in the Latin alphabet, all the letters in the word shakshukah map perfectly to Latin letters. But put an H on the end, and quarter-pronounce it.
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27. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 15:14 UTC] No.45116773{10}[source]▶
The spelling still had to be romanized. The Wikipedia page has three different spellings for it, though none match yours.

I stand by my point.

28. 0xffff2 ◴[03 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45116825{5}[source]▶
I'm from California, can't speak to the rest of the US... To me all except broccoli are perfectly normal pizza toppings. Not toppings I would expect to see on a Dominos pizza, but definitely to be expected on a "veggie" pizza from any independent pizza place.
29. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45116830{8}[source]▶
Pretty sure I have before but... what'll that change?
30. jjani ◴[03 Sep 25 16:08 UTC] No.45117402{3}[source]▶
The huge majority of cheese consumed in the US isn't any better than vegan cheese. And yes, the US does have good cheese! It's just a tiny sliver of all cheese consumed.
31. shermantanktop ◴[03 Sep 25 16:57 UTC] No.45118052{5}[source]▶
> any big US chain pizza place

I guess that counts as "normal," but that's fast food, where picky children's tastes rule. Predictability and therefore high-volume turnover of ingredients is paramount.