March 21, 2008
Okay, I’m offended, too.
A Staten Island pizzeria is offering a seafood-topped pizza for Lenten observers abstaining from meat. The name of the pie with the lobster, crab meat, and shrimp toppings—The Passion of the Crust—is riling some Catholics.
—Gothamist
I laughed out loud, because I’m a godless infidel, but then I gagged a bit when I read a more detailed description of the pizza:
Their Lenten-specialty pizza features tender chunks of lobster, crabmeat and shrimp drizzled with a champagne and blackberry brandy cream sauce, tomatoes and scallions scattered above a layer of homemade fresh mozzarella cheese. Atop a cheese and coconut-infused 10-inch crust, it’s a veritable slice of heaven.
—Staten Island Advance (emphases mine)
What the hell?!? I don’t think this is a religious issue.
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Coconut pizza crust? Blasphemy!!
It might be appropriate for some toppings, but these? Gack! How about, say, parsley? Or garlic? And what does blackberry brandy have to do with any of this?
acccckkkkk! double acccckkkkk!!
How many “h’s” in Fatwah? I’m bad at this.
Could somebody help me out, I’m trying to pair a wine with this.
Michael, I think the appropriate beverage would have to be a kir royale, to pick up the champagne and berry notes in the sauce. And then you’d want to float some Malibu on top of that with a spoon.
This just proves that it’s a slippery slope when you start putting pineapple on pizza and blueberries in bagels. Abominations both.
(India – Blackberry brandy is obviously symbolic of the blood of the lamb.)