Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing

Brit supermarket chain Morrisons has sacked 1,500 middle managers – but fear not, they’ve also vomited out an unholy creation that is part pizza, part Yorkshire pudding. The 6½” thing is made by filling an oversized Yorkie Pud with tomato sauce, cheese and typical pizza toppings. A photo of this strangely alluring monstrosity …

[Anonymous Custard]

Re: it’s the first Sunday of February, which would make it the fifth this year.

So does that make it a blue super blood pizza pudding?

As for me, I'd serve it with beer, following on from a beer starter and with beer for dessert. Possibly a crate each of Peroni and Black Sheep to be in(n) keeping.

[jake]

Re: it’s the first Sunday of February, which would make it the fifth this year.

I think the fifth is what you'd need to wash this monstrosity down with ... for medicinal reasons, of course. Or a little well deserved memory dehancement.

[ukgnome]

Wazzock!

A true hipster would serve this fusion delicacy on a dutch hoe with a plant pot of gravy as a chaser.

I am not a hipster, instead I would take this foul affront to northern cuisine and post it to their head office, however before I do I would crap in a piping bag and write a bespoke message that would simply say - Wazzock!

[Alister]

Re: Wazzock!

A true hipster would serve this fusion delicacy on a dutch hoe

Is that the ones who wave to you from the windows in De Walletjes in Amsterdam?

[Aladdin Sane]

Re: True hipster

You're forgetting the obligatory pulled pork. And the Yorkie would have to be gluten free.

[TRT]

Re: True hipster

Deconstructed.

[Paul Crawford]

Re: Obligatory pulled pork?

Is that also on offer from ones those who wave to you from the windows in De Walletjes

[Chemical Bob]

Re: Wazzock!

Actually, the gravy isn't a bad idea as long as it's my wife's homemade sausage gravy. Chug about a quart before eating and another quart after eating the thing in order to coat the stomach and to provide a pleasant final taste sensation when done.

[Alister]

Well obviously, I'd wear it in place of me flat cap.

Or possibly use it as a bowl for feeding me whippet.

Actually, the idea posted above of filling it with donor meat and chilli sauce has a certain fascination, need more beer.

[Anonymous Custard]

I was wondering if you meant doner meat, but I'm not altogether sure yours isn't more accurate :)

[Alister]

I was wondering if you meant doner meat,

Doh! Yes, thanks.

But, the odd misplaced heart, lung or liver... Who knows :)

[Aladdin Sane]

As served by Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler.

[Alister]

As served by Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler.

Named meat - and NO we don't mean Alice or Bob!

[jake]

"But, the odd misplaced heart, lung or liver... "

Never misplaced in sausage ...

[Anonymous Coward]

the odd misplaced heart, lung or liver

Ah, the Lyonnais version...

[jake]

I rather suspect ...

... that the Whippets about the place would completely ignore this thing. Not that I'd offend 'em with it in the first place. We don't want almost dead ground squirrels in the pantry again ...

[Chemical Bob]

Re: I rather suspect ...

"We don't want almost dead ground squirrels in the pantry again ..."

Then don't grind 'em alive!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Well obviously, I'd wear it in place of me flat cap."

That somehow provoked memories of flinging stale chapatties* off the top of Malham Cove to see how good they were as frisbees**

* not yer poncy tiny things you get in posh restaurants; plate sized ones from a Bradford curry house

** they flew surprisingly well. dunno what the sheep thought of them

[Steve McGuinness]

It should be used for a culturally sensitive remake of "Last of the Summer Wine" where a group of Italian Pensioners move to Yorkshire and attempt to blend into a small farming community with predictably hilarious results when they wear "Pizza Puddings" instead of Flatcaps.

[Little Mouse]

Why am I picturing this "culturally sensitive remake" as starring Hammond, May & Clarkson?

[Nevermind]

Reminds me..

... of the bolognese sauce filled one I had served me inn South Shields. This one? Chilli sauce and JDaniels on ice.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Reminds me..

"... of the bolognese sauce filled one I had served me inn South Shields. "

Which eatery was it? I like trying new things!

Mam used to make plate sied Yorkie puds when we were kids and fill them with sausage, chips, peas and gravy. Luuurvelly!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Reminds me..

There's a pub round the corner from Olympia that serves Yorkshires like that, filled with some sort of stew. I had the Indian with rice instead, which I think was the better choice.

[Pen-y-gors]

Re: Reminds me..

Reminds me of a reverse version a friend had in a Pizza joint in Peterborough, in the days when pizza was a new thing - Spag Bol Pizza - standard neapolitan pizza with spag, amd bol sauce on it.

Unusual...

[Philip Stott]

I’d buy one of those USB coffee warmers for my office PC and leave the the foul thing sizzling all day to piss off my coworkers (I am a sociopath).

[S4qFBxkFFg]

Of course I'll eat that.

If it's a normal-ish Yorkshire pudding with stuff added, it's going to be far too dry imo - that means gravy, but to dunk, not poured - so put it in a ramikin.

As for toppings, add pineapple (for polarising opinions), ham (yorkshire pud needs meat, but beef on pizza is vile), and basil leaves.

To balance out the stodge, serve with Caesar salad, I'd also be drinking some inexpensive red wine it.

For afters, a few chocolate digestive biscuits sandwiching some dairylea (or equivalent) cheese.

[Pen-y-gors]

There was a young gourmand from Crediton

Took some pate de foie gras and spread it on

A chocolate biscuit

Then murmured "I'll risk it"

His tomb bears the date that he said it on

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd eat it naked with the heating off while watching battlefield earth. If your going to suffer you might as well do it properly. On the other hand it might be quite nice so what have you got to lose.

[Chemical Bob]

If you're trying to suffer properly, replace Battlefield Earth with Mormon pornography.

[Anonymous Coward]

"[...] coworkers [...]

I read that as cow-workers. Probably something to do with the shape of that concoction priming my cognitive neural network.

[John Sager]

Cow Orkers, though orking a cow might be classed as animal cruelty or something worse.

As for Yorkshire puds, I have long liked, and regularly eat, a big YP filled with chilli-con-carne. I first encountered that decades ago in a pub in Lancashire.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

As for Yorkshire puds, I have long liked, and regularly eat, a big YP filled with chilli-con-carne.

I could just go for some of that right now

in Lancashire.

Nevermind

[Loyal Commenter]

Re: Cow Orkers

Have a surprisingly safe for work Urban Dictionary link:

Orking

[John Sager]

Re: Cow Orkers

Saw the second defn. Perhaps they meant 'norking'.

As for Lancashire, I'm very open-minded, even taking on, and liking, the other side's delicacies. But then I'm funny anyway, not liking Hotpot...

[PNGuinn]

@AC

cow-workers.

cow orkers. Simply an hyphen missing.

FIFY.

[Tigra 07]

Serve with sausages and mash to create a monstrous Toad in the Pizza Hole

[Anonymous Coward]

How else?

I would eat it post pub in memory of Lester Haines' tremendous "Post-pub nosh neckfiller" articles on the subject of weird, wonderful and varyingly edible things to demolish in such a manner.

Bit early for the first pint but I can start planning it.

[Alister]

Re: How else?

Well said! Have another.

[Dr Who]

Re: How else?

CTRL-F "post pub" found Mycho. My thoughts exactly although amazed it wasn't the first comment on the list! RIP the legendary Lester. My first pint will be raised to him this evening.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: How else?

"RIP the legendary Lester. My first pint will be raised to him this evening."

Ditto, in my engraved, hewn from the living glass, LOHAN tankard.

(which gets daily use, I might add!)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How else?

To do it properly, however, we should hold a massive buffet serving one of each of the less lethal neckfillers alongside half a dozen or so of these morrisonstrosities and enough booze to dissolve a moderate sized elephant. Then see what happens, for science.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How else?

There will be a Horrible Stench, nothing else.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How else?

I did specify the less lethal neckfillers. I'm aware that some of them are capable of reducing an average human to a horrible stench, but I was hoping to exclude the ones that involved actual isotopes, because where's a splod like me going to get that stuff anyway?

To do it properly we need to coordinate with The York Roast Company for their specialist expertese in making yorkshire pudding based abominations. I have no doubt that their offerings will beat so many shades of shit out of Morrisons' that horrible stenches will be everywhere.

[chivo243]

Chicago Style Deep Dish Copy

I can say with authority, that this is a rip off of a Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza. Having made 1000's during my university days...

I would eat it, but would throw another pizza skin on the top and make it a Stuffed Pizza ;-}

[Patched Out]

Re: Chicago Style Deep Dish Copy

That's called a Priazzo. I'm not kidding.

[jake]

Re: Chicago Style Deep Dish Copy

The question is, WHERE is it called a "Priazzo"? Never heard of it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Chicago Style Deep Dish Copy

A quick web search suggests a 1980s Pizza Hut.

[jake]

Re: Chicago Style Deep Dish Copy

That would explain why I never heard of it. Pizza Hut is to Pizza as Donald Trump is to Presidential.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Chicago Style Deep Dish Copy

Two things only slightly over half of people believe have anything to do with one another?