Get your sweats on, find a good movie on Netflix and get your favourite takeaway on the phone, because it’s National Pepperoni Pizza Day!
Show me a person who doesn’t like pizza and I’ll show you a liar, because the simple-yet-delicious dish is one of the most versatile things out there, and it never fails to provide comfort.
Pepperoni is an extremely popular pizza choice – proven by the fact there’s a whole day dedicated to celebrating it – but the range of toppings goes far beyond spicy sausage, and can cater to vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians, flexitarians, and pretty much every other
Still, pepperoni remains a firm favourite, proven by the fact that the top-selling pizza at Domino’s last year was its Pepperoni Passion. Out of a total of 105 million pizzas sold in 2019, just under 10 million were Pepperoni Passion, and the amount of pepperoni used by the company was enough to go around the world more than once.
It’s no secret that there are some topping choices that are considered more controversial than others – I’m looking at you, pineapple – but to celebrate National Pepperoni Pizza Day
A social media deep dive revealed that unusual add-ons far bypass pickles, pineapple or even kiwi fruit, with one Twitter user revealing that they’d once found octopus eggs nestled among the cheese and tomato.
Describing it as the 'weirdest' thing they'd ever eaten, they wrote:
I went to a Japanese restaurant as a kid and ordered a "Japanese pizza" that had octopus eggs. I thought it was sausage.
While fish eggs, aka caviar, are considered a delicacy, I think the octopus is one sea creature whose eggs we can avoid, especially when it comes to pizza.
Not everyone has been so unfortunate as to face a stomach-turning topping; in fact, one social media user knew exactly what he was doing when he topped his pie with 'unpeeled peas'. Not loose peas, not sugarsnap peas, but specifically peas which had been unpeeled, but which remained in their pod.
Check it out below:
The Twitter user described the topping as 'the most underrated', so it might be worth keeping in mind for anyone who's willing to experiment with their pizza order.
