On a similar note of "but if you scrape the cheese off a cheeseburger it'll still have traces of cheese", I do have a friend who orders hawaiian pizza and takes the pineapple off--she likes the flavor the pineapple leaves behind, but doesn't actually want to eat it.

My sister does this with roasted peppers on sandwiches.

My sister does this with roasted peppers on sandwiches.

Yep - it's a texture thing.

Taste, sure. Texture, not so much.

I will also eat any discarded roasted peppers anyone would like to give me. (With the olives. The cilantro will have to be used on something else.)

I'm like that with mushrooms. Don't mind the taste, mostly, can't stand the texture.

I'll take any roasted peppers. No olives, though.

Oh my god. The word "muffaletta" has lost all meaning. And started to sound kinda dirty.

Hec and Java, thank you for the info.

Staying far, far away from the m*ff*lett*a thing.

Muffaletta-arguing people, you have made a pudgy Australian of dubious taste very happy. I thank you.

t heads to bed to dream of the Broodwich and its sun-dried tomatoes

So you're saying that, if you put the meat and cheese and olives onto a sub roll, you'd still have a muffaletta, rather than a sub with olives?

It would be a poor muffeletta but would have greater claim to that name than having everything but the olives on the proper bread.

Hec, you are wrong like a wrong thing. There's no way you can make a muffaletta on a roll.

Jessica is brilliant, by the way.

You can call yourself SuperFab Fonzie Dude With a Big Swinging Dick, but it doesn't make it so. It makes you comically deluded..

It's far too early in the morning for me to laugh this hard.