Pizza is usually shaped like a disc and based on some standard ingredients — wheat-based dough, cheese (commonly, mozzarella), and tomato sauce. Who doesn’t love eating a pizza now and then?
Pizza is a well-known food worldwide. It’s suitable for either lunch or dinner, and it’s one of the most popular dishes in the whole world.
Pizzas generally look the same — a disc with cheese, tomato sauce, and toppings (mushrooms, bacon, meat, spices, and so on) — but some variants look weird, even though they are tasty. Let’s look at some of the ugliest pizzas in the world.
Pizza With Jelly and Peanut Butter
It definitely looks weirder than it tastes. However, any pizza lover out there will find this option more than just awkward. It should be made more as a pie with jelly and peanut butter, but it’s sold as pizza in various locations around the world.
The pizza with jelly and peanut butter takes 25 minutes to cook, and it’s easy to prepare. The dough is classic pizza dough, except you should add honey. Once the dough has baked, cover it with peanut butter and add jelly.
Breakfast Pizza
If you want to eat breakfast in the form of a pizza, this one is for you. The one in the image is clearly one of the ugliest pizzas in the world, but, depending on your taste, you may like it.
As you can see in the photo above, this variant has everything from eggs to bacon and beans. Of course, you can come up with many versions of this breakfast pizza, but the result might still be as weird as the one in the image.
Pizza With Squid Ink
Now, you might think we’re joking, but this pizza exists in Japan. Obviously, it is one of the ugliest pizzas you have ever seen.
This Japanese variant of classic pizza replaces the tomato sauce with squid ink. Besides squid ink and other standard ingredients, shrimp are also included on there.
It is easy to prepare, as the dough is classic pizza dough. However, squid ink is the most challenging ingredient to find to cook this pizza.
Happy Meal Pizza
We’re not going to debate whether fast food is junk food or not. But, if you love pizza and Happy Meals, though, you will be happy to hear that a pizza variant that combines both exists.
It looks bad, but we think it’s probably tasty for all the fast-food fans out there.
The Pizza-Burger Monster
If the pizza with Happy Meal from above is not enough, the monstrous pizza-burger hybrid is undoubtedly one of the ugliest pizzas in the world.
It contains two pizza doughs with the standard ingredients, and between them, there are five pounds of burger meat with toppings.
Manakish
This Lebanese dish is not quite a classic pizza, but it is based on the same ingredients to some extent.
Even though it’s tasty, the greenish topping might make it one of the ugliest pizzas out there for some people. The green topping contains sesame, sumac, thyme, and spinach, among other ingredients.
Pizza Fritta
Even though this pizza is a classic in Naples, Italy, it does not look like anything we might expect. However, it’s one of the most popular varieties in restaurants and pizza places across the well-known Italian town.
The toppings reside between two layers of dough. It’s tasty, but it’s still one of the ugliest pizzas ever.
Pronto Pizza
Pronto Pizza is a half-cooked pizza sold at a restaurant in Chile. As you may have already figured out from the image above, this pizza comes with a layer of almost raw meat, pineapple slices, and cherries.
Yes, cherries! We don’t recommend you taste this one, but it’s evident that it is one of the ugliest pizzas in the world.
Summary
We all love eating pizza, and we all appreciate a well-cooked, tasty pizza. However, some restaurants across the world come up with various variants of the traditional Italian dish.
Some turned out well, while others became the ugliest pizzas in the world, as you can see from the images in this article. We hope we didn’t ruin your pizza appetite.