A style of pizza endemic to New Haven, Connecticut, incorporating a thin, oblong crust, charring, oregano, and tomato sauce but only a small amount of grated Parmesan cheese.
Alternative spelling of cheeseball [A spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as an hors d'oeuvre or finger food, usually with bread or crackers.]
A casserole-like deep-dish pizza, the crust of which has a characteristically high edge, on which the toppings are often layered "upside down" (first cheese and meat or vegetables, then tomato sauce).
(uncountable) A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
An open-faced sandwich from St. Louis, Missouri, consisting of a half section of Italian or French bread, spread with garlic butter and topped with ham and cheese, then toasted.
A speciality sandwich of Chicago, made with flattened fried green plantains instead of bread, a garlic-flavoured mayonnaise, and a filling that typically includes meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomato.
(neologism) The 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the French language on its menus. The incident was falsely believed to have been an attempt by Quebec to ban the word ‘pasta.’
(uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit
An educational visitor attraction in the form of a small farm on a circular piece of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza wedges. Each plot produces one ingredient that can be used in pizza, such as wheat, tomatoes, or pork.
The oldest style of Neapolitan pizza, the original pizza; a handmade (without rollers or other equipment) pizza with a filling of cheese, pork, tomato, enclosed by two pizza dough platters, and deep-fried; similar to pizza pockets: calzone, panzerotti.
(informal) A wood-fired brick oven with a stone floor in the baking chamber. (From being an oven found in traditional pizzerias, and an accessory built in backyards for pizza)
A pan specialized for making US-style pizzas, similar to a pie pan, cookie sheet, or paella pan, frequently with a perforated bottom. (in making an Italian pizza, the flattened dough is placed directly on the floor of the oven)
A type of small calzone that may be baked or deep fried; a pizza dough bun stuffed with pizza toppings, in a central cavity, that is usually round, rectangular, or half-moon-shaped.
Alternative form of pizza face [(slang, derogatory) A person whose face has blemishes, acne, welts, bruises, colored splotches, etc; the face of such a person.]
(slang) A 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was involved in human trafficking, and alleging the existence of a secret child sex ring associated with the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C.
Pronunciation spelling of pizza. [(uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit]
Initialism of poor man's pizza. [(informal) A snack resembling pizza but made with cheaper or simpler ingredients, such as bread instead of dough and tomato soup instead of pizza sauce.]
Alternative form of po' boy [(especially Louisiana) A traditional submarine sandwich from Louisiana, typically consisting of meat or seafood, usually fried, served on a Louisiana baguette.]
(informal) A snack resembling pizza but made with cheaper or simpler ingredients, such as bread instead of dough and tomato soup instead of pizza sauce.
A pie and casserole dish in the cuisine of the Southwestern United States, consisting of a cornmeal crust over layers of the ingredients typically used in tamales.
Alternative form of zampogna [A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.]
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