Submission 2,486

Mustard Pizza

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Overview

Mustard Pizza refers to a pizza created by Lions and Tigers and Squares pizzeria in New York City that replaces tomato sauce, the traditional base for pizza, with mustard. After Food Insider made a video about the dish, it prompted strong responses on social media.

Background

Lions and Tigers and Squares, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, first posted about their mustard pizza on June 28th, 2018 to Instagram (shown below).

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A post shared by Lions&tigers&squares (@lionsandtigersandsquares) on Jun 28, 2018 at 3:43pm PDT

Developments

On September 4th, 2018, Food Insider tweeted a video of their staff talking about and trying the dish. The tweet gained 760 retweets and 2,200 likes (shown below).

This pizza uses mustard instead of tomato sauce 😳 pic.twitter.com/XUKKQOBLwM
— FOOD INSIDER (@InsiderFood) September 4, 2018

Most of the responses to the video saw people expressing their disgust at the concept. User @NPatrick19_ tweeted an image from a Cartoon Network cartoon, gaining over 50 retweets and 950 likes (shown below, left). User @1CynicalCyborg tweeted a GIF of Gordon Ramsay that gained over 20 retweets and 390 likes (shown below, right).