very funny that despite knowing what pizza is, when trying to recreate it, his English mind reverted to putting beans and fish on it

I love in England and I've never known anyone else do this... My God he really was prince of darkness

They can't help it

British Valhalla

yk about Carcinisation? that everything just evolves into crabs eventually? i think theres a similar law for british cuisine that everything they cook just ends up with shit like peas, beans, chips, etc

I enjoy how he refers to pizza ingredients as "gear."

Can you call that list “pizza ingredients”?

I can hear it in his voice

Oh god I made that same mistake once. You have to parbake the dough!!!! YOU HAVE TO PARBAKE IT OZZY

“This boring old British food, chips” Oh sure, toss aside your proud ancestral cuisine for some greasy, salty American food. What would King Arthur say to hear you speak such ill of potatoes?

"You may not pass until you tell me the weight of a swallow laden with a potato!" "Boiled or fried?" "What? Aaaaaaggggghhhhh!"

"what the fuck is a potato"

I'm still laughing at this 5 minutes later

This reminds me of any scene in a movie that’s set in pre-columbian Europe where an audience throws tomatoes 😂

fucking hell, he ate the bat to get the taste of that pizza out of his mouth

Overheard

I have repeated this story but my parents knew Ozzy and Sabbath and one time in mid 70's they visited my house and my mum recently told me Ozzy sat at our kitchen table eating tomato sauce sandwiches ... the thing with Ozzy whatever you saw in public or told us he was the same in private

the reason he was so damn loved is with Ozzy there was no fake about him and unlike many others he could not hide who he was.

He was never British on the inside. ❤️

Except he put BEANS on pizza!

HE WAS TRYING HIS BEST, BEANS IS ALL THEY KNOW

youtu.be/u6_vyGuhkfA?...

Just reading about that pizza that Ozzy made by himself had me in bloody stitches. Now there was an abomination worthy of the British kitchen!

For a Prince of Darkness, there was a beautiful innocence to the man

I live in upstate NY and he's absolutely right. There's nothing like a really good NYC slice or pizza. Not just the bread... but the sauce is just so smooth and is near perfect in most places. After seeing British food, I could imagine being blown away by it.

You're from the country of jello salad so I'd be a bit careful

Don't forget cheese in a tube. Always amazes me when Americans pipe up with "bRiTiSh fOoD bAd!". People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Nor should people who eat "meatloaf".

I think that's my point, every countries food has its good and bad sides (as anyone who has eaten tripe in any country knows)

We're the country that has people come from all over the world to bring their best food (and sometimes their worst... my family is half Dominican and half British... both countries not really world renowned for food).... lots of good shit over here.

I love Dominican food! But I’ve only had it in NYC. Dominican style chicken soup saved me when I’ve been sick so many times. I love maduros, pernil, pollo guisado you name it

😂

ok, boomer.

I'd eat a jello salad with fruit if it were put in front of me right now, but not with all the other crap some of the recipes require. America has FABULOUS food but he's not wrong.

Best part of having a lot of food to choose from is that you can also choose not to have it.

No one has eaten a jello salad in the US in 50 years.

So about the time that Ozzy first had pizza.... But I would ask, are you sure, or do you mean you haven't eaten a jello salad in 50 years?

I'm 50 years old. I admit putting Jello in a salad wasn't anything I've ever done or considered doing... not even when high or drunk

Jello salad and molded salads in various types of gelatin were a thing up to maybe the mid-70s, when even my grandmother finally got the memo that these quivering horrors were nothing anyone wanted to eat or even see.

I remember Jello molds and putting them in bundt cake type containers. I remember hating those things because no one wanted the Jello on the edges because it was always tougher to enjoy when it more solid than the rest. Nowadays, everyone just buys them ready made in cups.

I mean nobody prepares or eats jello salad here any more, it’s as defunct as tuna casserole.

Which people still eat

No they don’t. No one eats that crap.

He never stopped being the breath of unconventional fresh air

This is so funny

lol

Funny thing…in his New Order book, Peter Hook describes experiencing pizza in almost the exact same way!

You should keep these on hand in case anyone starts acting nostalgic for the 20th century. It's a good reminder that food was invented in 1998 and before that we were basically eating plates of warm pig shit. God food culture was so horrid in the 80s and 90s. : p

Pretty sure pizza existed in the 1980s…maybe not in northern England, but in other places it was exceedingly easy to get a decent slice

That's more or less how it was in America. In some big cities there was food. In the rest of the country there was boiled potato and a brick of something that could be meat, could have been boiled shoe leather. Horrific century.

Nah, we had pizza in the 80s in Yorkshire

But I grew up outside Philly so my viewpoint may be skewed

Considering pizza is Italian, and has been produced there for thousands of years, they're probably laughing at the thought of people thinking it's a yank food.

Who is thinking that? The whole discussion is of Ozzy Osbourne and Peter Hook’s first experiences of pizza, as written in their respective memoirs. If you want to argue about that, take it up with them. Ozzy may be a bit harder to get ahold of.

I was responding to your tweet about pizza not being available in England. Probably available here before the USA. I don't know why he was so shocked, but maybe it wasn't as widely available as it is now.

Pizza is Italian, but wouldn't have resembled modern pizza until the 1500s at the earliest, since tomatoes are native to the New World and were not known in Italy until then. Italian cuisine as we know it now didn't exist until then.

Pizza made it to the North in the 80s.

Didn’t like pizza and didn’t call him Ozzy. Of course the marriage was doomed.

I don't think most people would like a madman's vague recollection of a pizza made with baked beans and pilchards.

Fair point lol

My dad once sold the Osbournes a bunch of tacos. I wonder how Ozzy liked them.

If pizza blew his mind, tacos rocked his soul. Coincidentally, this is what I want on my tombstone.

"It's American and it's called pizza."

What are pilchards I just thought it was the last name of the cop in I Am the Walrus.

Inferior version of sardines

“Semolina pilchards” or “flour sardines” or “absolute gibberish because this song is just a collection of words chosen for their sound and not their meaning because John loved Lewis Carol but didn’t know his nonsensical poems actually had deeper allegorical meaning”

Don't buy them to find out. Bitter, greasy tinned fish in tomato sauce. With bones in. And skin. Awful awful childhood food.

It's another word for sardines.

One of the supermarkets tried unsuccessfully to rebrand them as "Cornish sardines" a few years ago. Pilchards are just inherently a comedy food.

LOL, fuck me

I wanna put that on a plaque and mount it over my Ooni pizza oven.

Before anyone comes in with "Uhhh pizza's not American", comparing American-style pizza to oldschool Italian pizza is like comparing spaghetti to soba just because they both use wheat noodles. Similar initial ingredients, very different endpoints.

For chrissakes, one of the two major styles of pizza from Italy *doesn't even use cheese*! And the other one, it's like little disconnected islands of mozzarella. It's good, but it is not remotely the same as even New York style pizza, which is the least-changed variant.

And no, this doesn't mean Chicago-style is valid. There are limits to what an artform can endure.

I had Detroit style a little while back. Somewhere in between pizza and cake

Detroit-style ain't bad, I like a little deep-dish now and then, as long as, y'know, the cheese is *on top, where God intended it to be*.

This book is a lot of fun, I read it about 8 years ago. My favorite story in it is from around this same time period in the 70's when Ozzy thought he killed this priest that ate a slice of cake his wife accidentally served him that was full of hash.

Beans???

Bean addiction is a serious problem among musicians. I suggest never starting. Not worth it. youtube.com/shorts/gdz97...

Lol…i guess so…

Musicians default to musical fruit.

Any person thinking that pizza is from the US makes me want to puke RIP Ozzy

It was the 70s, though. We thought prawn cocktail was exotic and posh. I'm from Hull and didn't have pasta until I was 13, and rice was only eaten as a pudding (late 80s). It's just the way we were. Now I'm a real foodie.