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It was kind of the default in my family growing up. And the pizza there was new York style, thin crust.

Since then I've gotten more in the habit of toppings and only occasionally get a simple cheese. A really well made cheese pizza is thing of beauty, there is a certain quality you get from it that is lost when you as toppings. The thing is, though, it has to be just right, and lots of places that make a good pizza with toppings don't know how to make a really good cheese pizza, so to be worth ordering one, it has to be from the right place, made on a good night. IMO its got to be a thin ny style crust with a really good sauce.

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A cheese or margarita pizza is a great litmus test for a pizzeria. Anyone can pile toppings on sauced bread, but it takes skill, a well honed recipe and practice to make a simple pie sing.

Speaking on behalf of a friend, as I prefer toppings: they discovered that a variety of things give them body problems, and it's easier to just do a plain cheese pie than to try to guess if peppers are going to upset their body today.

I can't afford toppings

In my limited experience, cheese pizza is for families with picky children.

Hand tossed, Light cheese. As a tomato sauce fanatic, nothing beats that thin cheese barrier. This only works with places that have outstanding gravy, though. And I typically pile the toppings on wood fired.

Often, too, I find too much cheese is rubbery and unenjoyable.

Appreciation of cheese pizza comes with age.

Don't get me wrong, it's only a sometimes thing, I still love my monstrosity kitchen sink pizzas, but there's something nice about the simplicity of a good cheese pizza. Seriously order one from your favorite pizza place and get a nice sour ale (preferably not a fruity one, one of the Flanders red or oud bruin styles if you can). No four+ cheese, that's cheating! The greasy cheese cuts the sourness of the ale while the sourness helps cut the greasiness of the pizza, it balances amazingly well.

Uncluttered pizza, uncluttered mind.

I found myself wondering just how common this could be, then realized my favorite pizza is a cheese pizza, if not the version you'd think of first.

A super-thin spread of basil pesto topped with a smattering of feta and finished off with red pepper flakes is divine. On a thin crust it's my absolute favorite. Simple, and the flavors shine.

I've always liked cheese pizza. It's just that I was never able to order it before. My family would always get meat lovers or veggie pizza and I always had to pick everything off. Now that I'm all growed up I can order my own cheese pizza! I wish that was worth the tradeoff of being an adult but eh you've got to take what small victories life gives you.

As opposed to what? Plain bread with some tomato sauce and no cheese?

It's just easiest. I don't like pepperoni, or bacon, or sausage. Don't like olives or banana peppers or jalapeños. Mushrooms are disgusting. Cheese is just easiest to order from most pizza places.

There are things I like on pizza. If we go to a place like MOD, I'll get chicken, spinach, roasted garlic, corn, broccoli, red onion, balsamic glaze, ricotta.. my pizzas get pretty heavy there.

But at most pizza places, especially with other people, it's just easy to get cheese.

Typically the only time i order cheese pizza is if i am ordering for a large group, or if there are kids under 15 or so around.

What is cheese pizza? As opposed to... pizza with no cheese? Don't pizzas usually have cheese?