sk eats...Ribs Pizza

Pizza places in Korea are strange.  Period.  They offer the standard pizzas such as cheese, pepperoni and combination, but even those come with added Korean flare.  For example, it is just understood that those three always come with sweet corn on them, which is awesome!  Things get much less awesome when you venture into the 'new' or 'seasonal' menus...  

The toppings on these pizzas can be anything the chef dreams up.  We mean anything.  Some honorable mentions include, rice cakes, chicken wings, waffle fries, mashed sweet potatoes, steamed pumpkin, mussels (in the shell), unpeeled shrimp, potato wedges and pasta to list a few.  It sometimes seems as if the Korean pizza chefs eavesdropped on a room full of potheads, hungry and stoned out of their minds.  It's pretty amazing what they dream up!

One of our favorites, that was widespread and heavily advertised, was Ribs Pizza.  It was a 'standard' cheese pizza topped with one or two pork ribs per slice.  They marketed it as a great pizza innovation, showing how regular pizza only required one hand to eat where as Ribs Pizza ingeniously utilized both hands (as if that was a concern people had when eating pizza).  We discussed the merits and flaws of ribs on pizza for a while, until we finally worked up the courage (or the hangover) to try it ourselves. 

Pizza School's Ribs Pizza

Mmmm, bones and questionable bits of meat on pizza...a tasty addition!

As imagined, the verdict was:  Not so good.  The meal was essentially just a cheese pizza with a side order of ribs, only they didn't come on the side.  Since they had to be eaten separately, there was absolutely no point for them to be on the pizza in the first place.  Needless to say, that was our one and only Ribs Pizza, but we commend their adventuresome spirit!