If you asked the American people to vote on the best pizza topping, I’m pretty sure we’d pick something nice and mainstream. But if you ask a hipster food writer to rank pizza toppings, you wind up with THIS. The website Thrillist just put out a list where their pizza writer ranked 26 toppings from best to worst. And their number one pick was fresh basil.
He got fairly poetic when he tried to justify that pick, “[Basil] is a simple aromatic herb that brings out the natural sweetness of the tomatoes, doesn’t hog the spotlight from the dairy, and elevates and refreshes even frozen slices.”
Here’s the full top 10, which seems to jump back and forth between pretentious and mainstream:
Fresh basil, pepperoni, prosciutto, artichoke, sun-dried tomatoes, banana peppers, salami, roasted bell pepper, black olives, and spinach.
The pick for the worst pizza topping is ham. Broccoli came in second-to-last.
(Check out the full list here.)
