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The staff ate it later

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477 points gyomu | 12 comments | 02 Sep 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.806s | 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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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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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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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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1. stevage ◴[02 Sep 25 22:02 UTC] No.45109705[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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2. rkomorn ◴[02 Sep 25 22:09 UTC] No.45109772[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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3. kulahan ◴[02 Sep 25 22:57 UTC] No.45110202[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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4. stevage ◴[03 Sep 25 01:07 UTC] No.45111163[source]▶
> feta has limited applications.

Politely beg to differ.

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5. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 05:30 UTC] No.45112501{3}[source]▶
Come on, it's 2025, no true HN user hasn't tried to make shakshuka by now. :D
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6. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 05:35 UTC] No.45112518{3}[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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7. iamtedd ◴[03 Sep 25 10:55 UTC] No.45114306{4}[source]▶
I don't even know how to spell shakshuka.
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8. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 11:17 UTC] No.45114438{5}[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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9. throwway120385 ◴[03 Sep 25 13:28 UTC] No.45115541{4}[source]▶
Try buying it brined.
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10. dotancohen ◴[03 Sep 25 14:54 UTC] No.45116541{6}[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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11. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 15:14 UTC] No.45116773{7}[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.

12. rkomorn ◴[03 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45116830{5}[source]▶
Pretty sure I have before but... what'll that change?