Burke Pizza Topping Guide

Posted by Adam Kuban, June 30, 2009 at 8:40 AM

The Burke Guide to Fully Cooked Meat Toppings [pdf], available at burkecorp.com, lists the terminology and sizes of various precooked meat-based pizza ingredients the company sells.

Hand-Pinched Style: Hand-Pinched Style brand by Burke is a unique product that is defined by the craggy, irregular appearance of raw meat that has been directly pinched onto a pizza. At the same time it offers the safety and convenience of fully cooked meats.

The size chart, complete with a handy ruler to show scale, should assist the pizza aficionado when it comes to discussion of "fine crumble," "crumble," and "100/oz" meat toppings. [via pizzamaking.com]

11 Comments (1)

Tags: pizza weirdness

11 Comments:

Cool post!

I must admit the top row with the largest sized offerings look disturbingly like random piles of dog poo!

Pizzablogger at 10:08AM on 06/30/09

I was going to say it looks like cat food but on reflection (for all of two seconds), I think pizzablogger above is right except I would add that the dog probably had the squits.

braciole at 10:27AM on 06/30/09

Yuck. Their ads in Pizza Today always gross me out too.

ratbuddy at 10:34AM on 06/30/09

I don't know if it's because it's early and I've had too much coffee but "hand-pinched" just gave me uncontrollable bout of giggling.

rheogs at 10:37AM on 06/30/09

"Hand-Pinched Style® provides the authentic craggy-style appearance of raw, with the convenience and safety of fully cooked – premium pizza toppings for premium products." Yum!

jakeyd at 10:56AM on 06/30/09

@jakeyd: I know, right?

Adam Kuban at 10:59AM on 06/30/09

Adam, their whole site is kind of scary, never heard of them before but now they're right up there with Sysco in thingsw I never want to see in a pizza joint.

jakeyd at 11:50AM on 06/30/09

@jakeyd: Then I've done a public service here, I guess! ;)

Adam Kuban at 11:55AM on 06/30/09

as you might notice from my own reviews, I am not really big on toppings! Plain is the best way for me to truly taste a slice in order to give my ranking

pizzaexpert at 3:18PM on 06/30/09

Looks like a sales tool for the reps who sell the products. Foodservice is a lot more perception than reality. Handpinched? That's a good one...

balabusta at 4:42PM on 06/30/09

mmm... poop on pizza...

shoneyjoe at 1:24AM on 07/01/09

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