mad-dame-zou

OK, I thought about it and there are two things that make me really uncomfortable with this post (and, no, pineapple is not one of them). The first is the very idea of policing pizza toppings.

/me fully agrees on what MadameZou is saying on the topic.

(except for her ideas on pizza kebab (not my favourite, but it isn't so bad) and pineapple on pizza (YKINMKBYKIO, as long as you don't get near me with that thing). I do agree however that the pizza speck and mascarpone from her town is delicious. And I am partial to mele and gorgonzola, which is quite widespread in the north and considered blasphemous in the south.)

On an hopefully more useful note, bad pizza is widespread in Italy, even in the traditional pizza areas, especially (but not only) in the more touristic restaurants where they think they can get away with it because their customers aren't coming back anyway. If you can ask some local for recommendations you have higher hopes to get a good one, but it has to be a pizza-lover local and remember that different parts of Italy have quite different ideas on how pizza should be (It can vary between very thin (~1mm) and crunchy to 4-5 cm high and quite soft), and the results will vary because of that.