I told the family we were having flatbread for Pizza Friday. The distinction between pizza and flatbread is a hot debate. Isn’t flatbread just a pizza? Is pizza a flatbread? If you could use the terminology interchangeably (which you definitely should not), wouldn’t you just refer to everything as pizza? Both are bread topped with deliciousness. How do you distinguish one from the other?
My position on the debate goes like this:
Pizza is raw dough topped with goodness and baked together.
Flatbread is cooked dough topped with goodness and heated to warm the toppings and melt the cheese.
The distinction is that the bread is either raw or cooked when the toppings go on.
We were having flatbread.
I made the flatbread dough and set it to rest. Then, I prepped the toppings and placed the baking steel in the oven to heat. One thing led to another (by this, I mean one margarita led to two), and before I knew it, Mike and I had shaped the flatbread, added the toppings, and started baking them. I completely missed baking the flatbreads first before adding the toppings.
By my very own definition, we ended up having pizza for dinner.
I tried to pretend it was flatbread, but Ethan noticed. He polished off his last slice of buffalo and took his plate to the kitchen. On his way to the basement, he turned and said, “Thanks for dinner. Pizza was good.”
There’s no fooling him.
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