Confused Caterers

[oggbashan]

In Broadstairs, Kent, UK, they make a lot of fuss with the connections with the author Charles Dickens.

They have a 'Dickens' House' and 'Bleak House' where he wrote several of his novels (but not 'Bleak House'!) and shops and restaurants with Dickensian themes.

Then there is the oddity:

FRANCO'S CANADIAN PIZZAS

WTF?

The building has a red-coated Mountie about 20 foot high, with a background of snow-covered mountains painted on the side of the building and an another wall has a nude mermaid holding an annoyed lobster (I think it is a lobster?) across her breasts.

I think of Franco as a Spanish name. Pizzas are Italian. WTF are 'Canadian Pizzas?'.

What am I missing? Maple Syrup Pizzas?

Would you order a pizza with confidence from Franco?

Og

 

[CharleyH]

Would you order a pizza with confidence from Franco?

Og

LOL - As a Canadian, I can say with confidence that even I would not order a Pizza from Franco, but then again, I am not partial to pizza.

 

[R. Richard]

Then there is the oddity:

FRANCO'S CANADIAN PIZZAS

WTF?

The building has a red-coated Mountie about 20 foot high, with a background of snow-covered mountains painted on the side of the building and an another wall has a nude mermaid holding an annoyed lobster (I think it is a lobster?) across her breasts.

I think of Franco as a Spanish name. Pizzas are Italian. WTF are 'Canadian Pizzas?'.

What am I missing? Maple Syrup Pizzas?

Would you order a pizza with confidence from Franco?

Og

In the US of A they make a pizza using 'Canadian bacon.' If there is any such thing as a 'Canadian pizza,' I would think that the Canadian bacon thing would fill that bill. However, I would not think that a place could survive selling just Canadian bacon pizzas.

However, more information is needed here. Is the pizza chef a Canadian Mountie? Is the waitress a topless mermaid? Are customers threatened with the lobster's claws if they do not buy a pizza? Research man! Research is needed here.

JMHO.

 

[shereads]

I thought Italian food was mostly from Argentina. No?

 

[cantdog]

Surely Pizza belongs to the world by this time. I am acquainted with the technical differences between New York-style and Chicago-style pizza, and despite practically being a part of Canada up here, I do not know what a Canadian pizza might portend.

We have a couple of pizza places (one is called Napoli and has Pisa's famous campanile on the sign) which appeal visually to Italian themes, including a predilection for green, white, and red in the decor, but which are run by folks called Farnsworth, and Moody.

Farnsworth's pizzas are good, but he cheats and makes them smaller than the standard sizes. His "small" pizzas consequently cost less than other people's, and so forth down the roster. But they are quite a bit smaller. A little change in diameter swings a big lever in area.

So a real Italian heritage is certainly no guarantee. Franco wouldn't faze me. But the Mountie, now, sounds unappetizing.

 

[shereads]

Franchise opportunity: "Farnsworth's Authentic Maine-Style Pizza"

 

[neonlyte]

Re: Re: Confused Caterers

In the US of A they make a pizza using 'Canadian bacon.' If there is any such thing as a 'Canadian pizza,' I would think that the Canadian bacon thing would fill that bill. However, I would not think that a place could survive selling just Canadian bacon pizzas.

Pigs with snow shoes?

Do they ski?

Ice Hockey?
Franco could sponsor 'Deep Dish Pigs'.

Neon (Too much wine at lunch)

 

[GingerV]

I'm gonna bet they cover the pizza with cheese curds, then pour gravy over it.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hawaiian pizza, made with ham and pineapple chunks is quite popular.

One of the biggest chains around is round Table Pizzas, which claims to sell English pizza.

Like Cantdog says, pizza is an international thing now, just like hamburgers.

 

[R. Richard]

Hawaiian pizza, made with ham and pineapple chunks is quite popular.

Please, not just before I eat lunch!

 

[shereads]

My local Italian take-out place does those crispy thin-crust brick-oven pizzas with fabulous fru-fru toppings like goat cheese. You can't go wrong with crispy crust and goat cheese.

But my favorite thing on their menu is Dolce Pizza, a dessert of unknown nationality. Guam, maybe?

Thin crispy hot crust, covered with sliced strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries, drizzled with sweet ricotta, raspberry puree and bittersweet chocolate sauce.

They deliver.



I have a phone call to make.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I look for one thing and one thing only in a pizza place: the old man in the back who doesn't speak English yet and makes the dough. That's the Holy Grail of pizzadom.

Shanglan

 

[Guest]

I haven't had a really good pizza since I moved to California. I dream of the pizzas of my youth in Detroit and those I've had in Manhattan and New Haven. I might eat at Franco's if it were the last restaurant on earth, or maybe not.

I've lived in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, but I'm here to say there is no real pizza in California.

Perdita

 

[snooper]

I look for one thing and one thing only in a pizza place: the old man in the back who doesn't speak English yet and makes the dough. That's the Holy Grail of pizzadom.

Shanglan

Yes. The best pizzas in the world are made by a Sicilian called Joe who has a little pizzeria on the Rue Princesse Elizabeth just on the City side of Boulevard Lambermont in Brussels.

Photos of Joe, his family and dog can be provided, if necessary to prove this assertion.