Crazy Mashup: Marshmallow Pizza

Posted by Adam Kuban, February 28, 2007 at 8:00 AM

I've been chronicling the evolution of insane doughnut-bunned fusion burgers over at Slice sister site A Hamburger Today, so it's somehow fitting that my Serious Eats coworker Alaina sent me the link to this Livejournal entry about a marshmallow-topped pizza.

Unfortunately, the pizza itself actually sucked. The marshmallows had a weird effect on the taste of the cheese. It was how I imagine miracle fruit might work, except instead of making sour food taste like sweet food, it made cheese taste like moldy old gym sock. I couldn't taste the marshmallow at all, just rotten cheese. And I know the cheese itself wasn't bad, because I had the other half of the pizza, the part without marshmallows. The cheese tasted fine on that part.

The marshmallows on pizza experiment [mokinbot.livejournal.com; from Alaina via dirtynerdluv]

4 Comments

Tags: Fusion Pizza, Oddities, pizza weirdness

4 Comments:

I had marshmallows on seared duck breast at a NY restaurant a couple months ago and it tasted awful, not to mention the weird texture that the marshmallow gave, so I'm not surprised this pizza sucked. I had a more palatable mash-up of pizza and bananas in Peru - it tasted pretty good with the other toppings: egg, ham, and sausage.

Slice Gerald at 5:10PM on 02/28/07

I humourously appreciate your efforts to create the ultimate "gym-sock" tasting pizza. It was one of the most creative ways of expressing the taste....made me smile and cringe at the same time ! :)

Slice Medini Pradhan at 7:05PM on 02/28/07

Back in 1999 I styled a pizza at one of the Disney resorts that had marshmallow on it, but they also included other obvious toppings such as peanut butter and chocolate chips. There was no cheese or sauce on that pie. I recall several portly kids attacking it after the shoot.

Slice Brian Preston-Campbell at 12:57AM on 03/01/07

Thats because you baked the marshmallows with the pizza....... when i was little i would buy a piece of pizza in the school line and then put the marshmallows on top of the already cooked pizza which i got from a episode of the ninja turtles...... its actually not that bad when you do it right believe it or not

m_vanhuysse at 11:50PM on 04/01/09

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