A Food that you think "That can't POSSIBLY be good" but is: Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza (with pickles)!

[Paul F.]

So I was craving pizza on my way home from work yesterday. So I stop at my favorite pizza place - Papa Murphy's Take and Bake (you buy the raw pizza, and bake it at home).

I'm reading the specials... and find "Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza - Lg $11" Plus I had a $3 off coupon.

http://www.papamurphys.com/OurMenu/Overv...eeseburger

Pickles? On a PIZZA? Hamburger, cheese, and bacon, sure... but PICKLES?

So, y'all know me... I had to try it.

Fortunately, the pickles are on the topmost layer, so if necessary I could pick 'em off.
Turns out, "Burger Sauce", cheese, bacon, hamburger, and pickles with a little mustard in there someplace (could taste it, but it wasn't obvious) makes for a REALLY GOOD PIZZA! So very NOT traditional, and heck, maybe don't even call it a " pizza".. call it an "open faced baked burger"... but it's really good, pickles and all!

Just had a couple more pieces for lunch. Probably finish it off for breakfast or tomorrows lunch.


So what have YOU tried that you thought "this just CAN'T be good"... maybe a bite or two to be polite, and discovered it was actually GOOD. ?

[wurm]

I can't speak for myself because you couldn’t pay me to eat it, but my wife and daughter discovered scallop and bacon pizza this past summer... and they love it. I almost gagged just having it in the car as we drove home from picking it up.

[Paul F.]

Seafood on pizza is generally NOT a good smell.
Local place made a shrimp pizza for a while.. so I know what you mean.

[OWC Jamie]

I've made that same cheese burger with home made/canned dill pickles with peppers and onions when I didn't have any sausage or pepperoni to top with.

Meatloaf and pizza can both be items to use up some leftovers in the fridge with although meatloaf is a bit easier to hide leftover veggies in.

You won't find dead fish or mushrooms on any of my pizzas.

[DP]

Bacon cheeseburger pizza? Sounds fabulous! Especially with pickles...

[RAMd®d]

It doesn't have pineapple and it does have bacon!

Win-WIN!

And mozzarella?

Hamburger is a perk.

Pickles on pizza is as wrong as pineapple and sprouts, but I can munch on them while the pizza cooks.

[DinerDave]

One place we found recently has a special slice of the day that always
has "different" ingredients. They call the slice the "XXXX Dare "
Our favorite is "Skippy's Dare" . It has just 3 simple ingredients
On the dough, Skippy peanut butter, provolone cheese, and bacon.
We have not had a home made pizza party since our discovery, but
we want to try our own version of it.
The home made pizza that always goes the fastest for us can have any
popular standard toppings in our house at the time, onion, peppers,
hamburg, etc, just delete red sauce, sub in Alfredo sauce.

All this talk makes me want pizza, hmmmm, maybe Sunday afternoon.

Dave

[Cary]

On 14rd St in Manhattan, there is a place ta's claim to fame is artichoke pizza. It's called, appropriately, Artichoke Pizza. Never imagined i would like it. Great pizza.

Anthony's Coal Fired serves cauliflower pizza. Also counterintuitive, but delicious.

Had a dessert pizza (in itself a dubious idea, to me) at Red Tomato on Long Island a few weeks ago. Named "S'mores Pizza'", it featured Nutella and marshmallows. Hated the idea, loved the taste.

[Will Collier]

Godfather's had a fantastic bacon cheeseburger pizza when I was in college. Always ordered it without pickles, though. I hate dill pickles.