The Europeans love the pizza. There are pizza places in every port we have visited. It’s what you get when you want cheap food. Nearly every little place we went had a pizza section on the menu. The varieties of toppings and combinations are very broad. Sometimes the house specialty pizza is really something special. I’ve had pizzas of the weirdest combinations of ingredients I have ever tried. Some of them have been fantastic and others, not so much.
There is a quattro stagioni (four seasons) pizza on nearly every menu in all countries that is four different kinds of pizza on the quarters of the pie. My favorite one of these was served in a little dockside pizza place in Tivat, Montenegro. My least favorite pizza I have tried was in Santa Maria di Lucia. It was not the fault of the pizzeria at all, it was the pizza I ordered. The menu said worsts and patatas so I was thinking it was some kind of little sausages and potatoes. It was actually a hot dog and french fry pizza. Not so good.
After the hot dog pizza event, I decided it would be fun to start documenting some of the pizzas I ate along the way. Something I found interesting with the pizzas served in Europe was they never cut them for you. I’m not sure if the pizza cutter has not been invented in Europe yet or what the deal is with that. You get used to just doing it yourself.
I included a picture of a plate of fried olives in this collection. They were not really that good but when we saw them on the menu we had to give it a try. The waiter laughed at us for ordering them. I also threw in one more non-pizza picture of a “hamburger”. After more than a month without a cheeseburger I got a craving for a big juicy burger. I finally found one listed on a menu at a little cafe. I asked the waiter, “Is this a good, American-style burger”? Yes yes! “Is it made from beef”? Oh Yes, Yes! The proper question I guess should have been “Is this made from the beef of a cow”? I think it actually ended up being beef of the pigeon mixed with a little beef of the horse. Again, not so good…
