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Jim and Will host this week's Pizza Roundtable, with guest Sean Taylor. Food & Wine crowns Little Caesars over Domino's, a chef loses his job over pineapple, and Minnesota hot dish lands on a pizza.
This week's top stories include:
🇧🇷 Brazilian Paulista Pizza Hits HonoluluPMQ profiles Andre Alves de Moraes, a São Paulo native making Paulista-style pizza in Honolulu, including the Belamante with corn, mozzarella, Canadian bacon and catupiry. Jim likens it to a neo-Neapolitan with funkier cheese and calabresa sausage, and he and Will are keen on the all-you-can-eat pizza rodizio with 30 flavors (PMQ Pizza Magazine).
🍍 Chef Loses Job Over Ham and Pineapple PizzaAn Italian chef, Davide Tamburella, lost his unfair dismissal case after walking out of a Brisbane function rather than make a ham and pineapple pizza, saying it offended his culture (Yahoo News).
🥔 Minnesota Hot Dish Becomes a PizzaJim explains Minnesota hot dish, a casserole of chicken, sausage gravy and corn topped with tater tots and cheese, then reads out a hot dish pizza as a pizza crime.
🫕 Fried Montanara Pizza Served as a DipperWill brings a Montanara-style fried pizza served broken up and dipped in a pool of marinara with basil, olive oil and grated cheese. He can't call it pizza and Sean would share it at the table, but all three agree they would eat it.
🏆 Food & Wine Ranks Little Caesars Number OneFood & Wine taste-tested Domino's, Papa John's, Pizza Hut and Little Caesars. Little Caesars won, followed by Papa John's and Pizza Hut, with Domino's last and called bland. Sean and Will both guessed Domino's first, and Jim, who lives in Michigan, was surprised too (Food & Wine).
📸 Papa John's Offers Free Pizza for Honest PhotosPapa John's is running an end-of-year promotion where customers send a photo and an unfiltered take on their pizza for a free pizza (Spork.com).
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Episode Timestamps:00:00 - Intro / Catch-Up14:38 - Brazilian Paulista Pizza Hits Honolulu19:52 - Chef Loses Job Over Ham and Pineapple Pizza23:00 - Minnesota Hot Dish Becomes a Pizza29:08 - Fried Montanara Pizza Served as a Dipper32:33 - Food & Wine Ranks Little Caesars Number One38:16 - Papa John's Offers Free Pizza for Honest Photos
Articles in this episode:14:38 Pizza Chain's Parent Company Fending Off Hostile Takeover From Smaller Rival (PMQ Pizza Magazine, Rick Hynum)19:52 'An insult to his culture': Italian chef sacked for not putting pineapple on pizza loses bid to get job back (Irish Examiner, Joe Hinchliffe)
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