Pizza: a new review

I have always been a cheese pizza lover. Pepperoni, no, mushrooms, no, onions, no, peppers, no no no, the only thing I want is cheese, tomato sauce, and dough. When my girlfriend and I decided to go to our local pizza and grill shop for dinner, I imagined two large slices of cheese in my hand. This figurative food pushed me to eat only a light two glasses of milk, granola bar, goldfish snack when I got home from school. As the clock ticked to six, my scrumptious pizza image faced some unexpected competition. New foods, like wings and burgers, and cheesy bread and calzones invaded my mind. All of these beauties infested my mind with what ifs. What if pizza was not the correct choice? What if the burger would fill me up more? I was lost, waving my simple slices of cheese away when a new what if appeared: what if I got a pizza with toppings on it?

My plain cheese loving self never dared to try new pizzas. I knew cheese was the best, but I had nothing to compare it too. This oxymoron made me come to the decision I needed to try a new pizza. I looked at the pizzeria's menu and spotted a delicious looking Black N Bleu Steak specialty pizza. Tomato sauce, a blend of house cheeses, shaved steak, grilled onions, cherry tomatoes, and crumbled bleu cheese --- all things I liked--- made up the pie. My trembling mind decided to bow to this new thought, and like that, I was telling the cashier "I'll have a small Black N Bleu Steak pizza.

The pizza looked normal. It had cheese and sauce, with just a smattering of toppings which looked much lighter then I expected. The steak was quite thin, and the onion and tomato count was only around one or two per slice. As I picked up my first slice, it held surprisingly well. The cheese and toppings stayed attached to the bread, and with a big bite, I enveloped the flavors. Taste-wise, I felt there was little difference. The tomato and cheese was the main attraction with the only outlier being the blue cheese. The blue cheese added a sharpness to the pizza which a cheese pizza just does not have. This sharpness, while not being awful, overpowered all the other subtle and major flavors for me. So, after my first bite, I felt like I would enjoy this pizza, but not put it ahead of my usual plain cheese.

My second slice lent a different scenario. As I picked up my slice the cheese, sauce, and toppings all down the thin dough. This was a disappointment which really knocked the pizza down a peg for me. All my subsequent slices followed this same pattern, and I had to scoop up the pizza salad on my plate to have a real pizza taste. The one thing I did notice from these later slices was a nice texture that my standard cheese pizza lacks. The extra ingredients like the just enough chew steak, and the slick, but not soggy onions, added a real difference while eating. Another positive addition was the overall heftiness of the pizza. By having more ingredients, the pizza filled me up quicker than a plain cheese ever would. Another positive aspect of the pizza was the ending bite which left my pallet with a greater diversity of flavors to end on, instead of the non-changing tomato and cheese of plain pizza.

I liked this pizza, but a lot of what made it special was that it was a pizza, not that it was a new pizza. In accordance, this Black N Bleu Steak pizza did not outstrip my expectations, but just barely met them. I liked branching out and hope to again, but I will stay away from the stronger flavors like the blue cheese.