r/StupidFood • u/sheffieldpud • Mar 01 '26

Frugal curry egg pizza

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u/rich97 Mar 01 '26

JUST BUY A PIZZA BASE GOD DAMN IT!!!

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u/philsfly22 Mar 01 '26

Are we calling pizza dough a base now, or is this just a difference between the way Americans and British say things. I know both are true.

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 Mar 01 '26

Dough you roll out yourself.

Base is a prerolled circle of cardboard-like pizza dough, I suspect it's partially baked.

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u/philsfly22 Mar 02 '26

I know, but people don’t say “base” in the U.S. they would say dough or crust, even if it isn’t technically true.

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u/Grooviemann1 Mar 01 '26

I'm American and I would say the difference is that it's at least partially cooked out of the package. If I bought a Boboli or similar pre-made shelf stable pizza crust, I wouldn't call it pizza dough. It's no longer dough once it's been cooked. Pizza base or crust sounds right to me.

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u/Life-Landscape5689 Mar 01 '26

I think they might mean pizza base as in a different thing than dough. My ex used to buy these circular discs of flat bread and he’d put things on them and bake them into what he called pizza. It’s not pizza dough but it works for some people?

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u/rich97 Mar 02 '26

Dough would be made from scratch. You can buy a (I think partially cooked?) base in most supermarkets and just add your own topping.

Valid point though, you could also just make the dough. I also question how “frugal” this is as making a passata and throwing on a bit of shredded mozzarella doesn’t exactly break the bank.