The Pizza Show - Obsession with Pizza

**A $2,400 Masterpiece: The Gold Pizza That Stole the Show**

As I stood there, my hair caught in the weight of the pizza, I couldn't help but think that this was no ordinary food. The pizza, encased in 24-karat gold and topped with truffles and caviar, was a true work of art. It was as if Frank had done it justice, showcasing his culinary skills to the world.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!" I exclaimed, trying to process the sheer magnitude of what I was seeing. "This is over the top! What do you think? Do you like it?" I asked my friend, and she simply shook her head in awe. "I love with it," she said. "The dough is good, the icing on it...it's sweet, but it's good." And then there was the presentation - a gold pizza that sparkled like a treasure trove.

"What's the exact name of this masterpiece?" I asked Frank, and he smiled knowingly. "It's called the 'Pizza Show' from Iceland," he replied, with a hint of pride in his voice. "And check us out," he added, as we began to take in the sights and sounds of the pizza-making process.

As it turned out, this was no ordinary pizza. The chef had brought in a special artist, Stephanie, who had created a unique way of preserving slices of pizza in resin, allowing people to treasure them forever. "I don't know how you're gonna feel about this," I said to Frank, but he simply grinned and said, "It's pretty." And it was - the gold pizza was truly a work of art.

Stephanie, the artist behind the Forever Pizza project, had grown up in a pizzeria and had always been passionate about food. She began by making pizzas for her friends and family, but soon realized that she could do more with them than just eat them. "I thought, why not make pizza into art?" she said, as we talked to her about her process.

The process of creating one of Stephanie's Forever Pizzas was surprisingly intricate. First, the pizza had to be dehydrated and treated to remove excess oil. Then, a mold had to be built around it, and resin had to be layered in to preserve it forever. "It's like chemistry," Stephanie said, with a hint of amusement on her face. "You have to get all the right elements together." And when they did, the result was nothing short of magical.

As we finished our tour of the pizza-making process, I couldn't help but ask Stephanie about the impact that this kind of food has had on people. "I think we're starving for authenticity," she said, thoughtfully. "Right now, there's a lot of fake food out there - and when you eat something real, like a pizza made from scratch, it's just...better." She paused, collecting her thoughts before continuing. "It's also about independence. People can make their own pizzas, with gluten-free crusts or vegan toppings...it's all up to them."

And then, of course, there was the social aspect of food. Stephanie mentioned that sharing a pizza is one of the most common activities people do together - whether it's after a Little League game, or as a celebratory treat. "It's like breaking bread," she said, with a smile on her face.

As I finished my tour of the gold pizza and its creation, I couldn't help but think that this was more than just food - it was an experience. It was a taste of something bigger than ourselves, something that connected us all in ways we never thought possible. And as I took one final look at the golden masterpiece, I knew that I would never forget this pizza - or the lesson it had taught me about the power of food to bring us together.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en$2,400 gold pizza with truffles so beautiful holy I'm like I took piece of art it's like eating Mona Lisa's ass this is like crazy bro I don't know what to do this is the epitome of the pizza show the word pizza brain here in Philadelphia the only piece of museum in the country and it just feels like pizza culture has reached an all-time high America people really love pizza it was adopted as sort of like the unofficial food of America I think about being a kid and eating pizza and a lot of these pictures sort of resonate with me whether it's clothing or internet viral videos every part of pop culture seems like Pizza has infiltrated we're gonna meet with some artists internet celebrities look over and I see a rat dragging a big a slice of pizza down the stairs beside me people that are involved in social media that are just obsessed with pizza well I think this should be my profile pic I just really want to get to the bottom of what is America's obsession with pizza so these days Pizza culture is a lot more than just having a slice of pizza today we're gonna sit down with my boy Matt little he's the guy who caught Pizza rat in action we're gonna talk to him a little bit about the pizza rat story and how it captivated America not your average pizza day I got to show you something I got this done a couple of years ago okay but I think you know it's applicable it's my know that's amazing so your og pizza wrap yeah I'm oh gee Pizza rat let's start from the beginning yeah well tell me the experience about Pizza rat how did this whole thing happen I was working at UCB in the East Village three in the morning or something we're dead tired been working all night my buddy Pat and I we walk up to the L at First Avenue to head over to Brooklyn and as we're walking down the stairs I look over and I see a rat dragging a big-ass slice of pizza down the stairs beside me then I realized oh I should probably record this because this is so weird that if I just told my friends that I saw this they'd be like yeah whatever but if I showed them they'd be like this is bonkers right so I threw it up on Instagram and my Instagram goes to my Facebook so about half hour forty minutes later I logged onto Facebook again and my friends are sharing it my roommate gets home and I tell them what's happening and he goes you need to put this on YouTube right now because this will go viral and I went yeah right and he goes no shut up dummy do this Gawker put it up and then it just exploded from there I heard from SportsCenter that night it just it just passed around so fast the other people that I heard from were these licensing companies I wound up signing with a company called Juke and media that night and I'm really glad that I did because the next day is when the late-night talk shows and stuff wanted it so then I had a partner set up that could license the video to the right what do you think about the video was so captivating could this video gone viral if it was a burger or a taco that's a good question people on the internet are obsessed with pizza and why not it's like the best food right I used to joke around pizza got me pregnant I would keep the baby that's how much I love pizza if it were a burger if it was tacos something like that I I think people would be like oh cool but it's specifically that it was this food that were already obsessed with right since that video came out and it's had a success and went viral what is it done oh man the grass is greener the airs sweeter now yeah yeah 100% we should we split ownership there are viral pizza videos and this viral pizza there are two very different things and one is way more delicious Vinny's in Williamsburg Brooklyn has taken the internet by storm with their inventive pizzas Sean one of the co-owners is a viral pizza whisperer of sorts and when he gets bored crazy social media heads I'm making our world-famous pizza box pizza you got your regular pepperoni pizza then you have like a Sicilian raised dough and then this is the the top of it which is kind of like a garlic bread we kind of cook them about 3/4 the way through and then we cook them all together a lot of these things kind of start off as experiments and just me trying to amuse myself and then some of them grow into me making them 20 times a day there's a trend now where people are trying to create the next viral thing or the big thing and I've never tried to do that it just kind of happens this is the pizza box pizza how do you think that Instagram and the internet have contributed to like this whole thing and like your business my business it's a huge help you know it's insane it's constant sharing and tagging the people in and you know you can put up a picture and also then people take that and run with it they won't just want content content content they're looking for the next viral thing or whatever and what was like the first pizza that was like maybe a little whack here a little different that was a successful is the first really really big thing was the pizza on pizza I'm just screwing around and well what if I make kind of the ultimate pizza topping little slice of pizza on pizza and posted it and it just went banana bananas did you know that it was gonna break the internet yeah no absolutely I think the cutest thing ever Sui have a lot of people that come in with their kids and they pick off the little slices of pizza for their kids or some people like to eat the little parts first or whatever you know whatever I don't know if you want to share any aces in the hole but you got anything coming up next that like you know we should be aware it's not so much but I don't want to share it's that I really don't know they come to me as they come the internet stores nothing's on deck it just the wheels are turning in there it'll hate it exactly some people take photos of their pizza for social media and other people take photos of girls they're inspired by eating pizza Martha Freeman has created hot girls eating pizza an Instagram account that features women she looks up to eating pizza we're gonna go inside she's gonna walk us through what a pizza date is with one of her homegirls I want to take it from there we known each other for a while yeah right best pizza days the early days you used to come in and visit me will you chop it up and then all the sudden there was this amazing Instagram it was hot girls eaten pizza thank you what exactly is hot girls eating pizza I call it a tasteful platform that's celebrate schoolgirls and hot pizza dough I like plays on words also I think I called it hot girls any pizza because I wanted you to be drawn in but it really is about these cool girls that are doing things and that are smart and funny and they have kids or they have companies right and it's just a picture of a mini pizza so it's just something empowering for you totally encho don't it's kind of brilliant thank you how did it all begin I lost my mom to cancer about four years ago in September and I've always been a social person I moved to New York when I was 18 and I just kind of needed a reason to just like not be at home watching TV and sad and it was basically a cute chick or a cool chick someone that you liked eating a slice of pizza just snap the picture and then you know did a little bio beneath right yeah I used to do BIOS then I realized people don't like to read on it right yeah you're gonna walk us through a little bit of a photo shoot today kind of show us how it's done yeah I have a pizza date that I've never met before do it what's up Zoe nice to meet you you hungry I'm so hungry good I usually take a few photos and I take them on my iPhone first and then if you like that I we just that's that's exactly a murmuration exactly collaboration a ship okay Oh Mary you look so cute oh my god you look so and you're so Joey are you wearing glassy eye yes sounds beautiful Wow I think we got it that's a wrap amazing well how do you know what type of pizza to choose honestly pepperoni performs really well people love it thank you for having me it's just so fun you're the best now that I'm an honorary hot girl eating pizza I felt like I was ready to try one of the craziest pizzas I've ever seen the taco taco taco pizza at Tony boloney's in Hoboken Mike the owner has been experimenting with his pizzas for a long time after looking through the case this isn't your typical New York slice shop can you tell me exactly what's going on and yeah so like this piece right here is it Jamaican beef patty called the bumbaclot the Mambo it made with tumeric curry powder butter a whole allspice it looks like a real beef oh yeah I mean even has like the crimped sides yeah I knew we do it up again like could I put beef patties on a pizza who gives you about that you don't like you want to do it right right this is a panko crusted pices panko bread crumb crusted with homemade truffle mozzarella so he actually put white black shaved truffles and a little white truffle oil in the curd this pot right here yeah that's a homemade and an sesame jewel pie I feel like all this stuff is just obviously takes a lot of work and that comes out and like the pizza the way the pizza taste the first time I had that taco pizza I loved it we've been here for five minutes and that's the second full taco pie that's been replaced unbelievable it is the Taco Tuesday there's 300 pies and that's it we make all the tortillas from scratch so they can we make so much you make 300 of these pies that's it you're gonna show me the setup for the top yeah what's doing you ready how is this dog for the taco peeps that different than the other pieces you want a little kick eNOS right so I keep that tortilla cakiness when you bite into it and it kind of like melt on your tongue a little bit lots of flowers what gives you time exactly our dough if you noticed a little loose it's not so tight how are you shuffle back and forth to keep it really really really low you know you're not gonna get those thin spots kind of like walk it on the table Piersol haka basically maximum string cheese yeah I put about a pound of this in the body this is the this is the Chipotle moly a brisket sauce so basically what I'll do is I'll type it around you know you're getting a carne asada Oaxacan molé a brisket pizza pasta tacos plus all this stuff I bet you if you costed it out this is like a two on drama pizza oh yeah dude I don't want to cost it up yeah I'm nervous cook time usually five minutes these pictures look great with Dulles awesome like can you make your own yeast you make your own dough this meas air bubble tipping things it's gonna happen that's the slice I want I want if you were blindfold and you're eating that do you think it's delicious yeah when did this pizza come into like existence here stoners in the shop they're high as hell let go let me get tacos and I was like yeah we're 20 below knees you know we do pizza subs the Gilberts Taco Tuesday bro how come you don't do tacos you know what you're right I don't know I'm like you know chill out for a second I got you yeah I came back here and I bust out taco pizza Wow that's how the legend started yeah we were start assembling tacos so we got here mezcal marinated sirloin and ribeye steak some queso Oaxaca it's carne asada brisket grilled chicken that we roast with Victoria beer it's like kind of mind-blowing so I'll do a little guac skee tastes it's it's crazy does the pickle jalapeno crema beat horseradish pink sauce this is salsa verde a little cilantro sprinkle on everything so that's at the pizza right there a little more cilantro what do you think of this guy is he crazy let's put this baby down for my arm breaks off so this is what I do I tell people all the time don't be a hero don't write a half this thing by yourself take a taco off yeah scoop it in the guac and this ski days hmm I feel like an animal I know some pizza makers now kind of making pizza for Instagram but you kind of been doing this for years now like way before the gram was popping on the food we've been making chicken waffle pizza for seven years who's never about that now of a sudden people just do it for that yeah you get sensational with it you put it out there people get excited about it you hope that enough people come in that maybe it warn't you making it maybe it doesn't you're saturating people's brains with nonsense right and the flip side of things it can be really good because something goes viral people like it like our taco pizza I'm Thrillist but we're getting calls from Columbia China national news call me to be on their TV show and Skype for the national commune that's great that's awesome organically the pizza kind of just spread it's not like you were just trying to put it up on Instagram it just people liked it so it's spread what do you think it is about pizza that has captured everyone's imagination everyone's heart this is a vehicle that people can get creative with and it's an affordable vehicle not just lost anybody can do these things and take biscuit dough or making croissants you know like it just it's it's so versatile I look forward to us hanging out more time together so far I've had pizza box pizza pizza on pizza tacos on pizza so the next obvious step of my viral pizza journey includes rainbows and edible gold there's only one person you could eat this kind of pizza with Jonathan Cheban food god oh this is the new food god logo right here and swaggiest every single dot has a diamond in it they do a crazy piece in here take 24 karat gold caviar I was at the one of the $2,000 one oh that's here too they were smart they should son that if they don't give us that Pizza I'm not instagramming not even insta storying one thing for that as the packet of gold are they warming it up for us oh they are gonna well the food guys here that's alright I wear grills people just think it's like regular Thursday afternoon and the way to they MTV Awards wait it's not Caspian caviar around let them know settling but no I'm so excited is this real alligator pizza that's why we got to do the pop candy land right well that's first or does our pizza look anything like that girl's hair yeah it does that's what I feel like I'm so inspired I like that I like that a lot really you're offering who's this you don't have person dollar ninety-nine I think I invented those and no go like 15 years ago how did this happen how did this all happen how did you ascend on to us as the food god I've had Instagram since like the first week I remember everybody had it people are putting up shoes flowers this dad I'm like Dutch sucks I hate all that yeah and I just start putting up food and I'll just like take good pictures of it and like I love this and then it's been a natural thing where everyone so I can only love that food I love that thing you put up and then the food God would like was born two days later I was going to Iceland to film Kardashians with Kim and Kanye and I was like I'm gonna test it on them it's like slowly like brought it up and we were like standing there and then Kanye goes for me go food gone can you get me the ugh oh my god I was like one later god I was like it resonated that fast and he's calling me I'm like all right now so that's the cosine or that was a cosign whoo all right let's the alligator the alligator how is it I like it not been kind of nice a chicken come on times like this the old-school Gucci belt swag ooh you like that garlic bread with little truffle gorgonzola good they love over-the-top so they could tag people and be like we need this Jackie you know whatever is but your shots are you are like the most lit spots you at you in LM being deep in Brooklyn well that's the thing I'm really real I grew up in New Jersey yeah so I'm not bougie I don't just see the notebook I mean I do we didn't know who every night but I also go to blue Malnati's to Chicago pinched Lee's start average they're a little bit different that come as like a pie paper-thin but I love those as well Wow you know all these spots Oh food god I got all I do is eat all day oh you purist at heart yeah yeah yeah no I'm real purist I like regular cheese pizza yeah I would have never guessed up I did it by like looking at your Instagram I would have thought you only like the wacky stuff guys here comes something special yep here it is unicorn pizza that is absolutely beautiful are you the chef oh no I'm kidding no no this cannot be rushed guys this is special it's kind of brilliant maybe if I'm standing it could be a fun pick my hair's crazy they'll weight this weigh-in is torture hold on I'm gonna see the angle getting there gonna put my hair down on one side it's a whole thing oh my god it's molding with my shirt it's connecting with my shirt and I can't even tell where the pizza was what are the chances I wore a freaking cotton candy shirt you just did like a little photo shoot yeah oh my god I'm popping and rocking I don't know what the hell is going on I'm about to frickin explode something like this people really deserve to see in the best way absolutely oh man that is good what do you think I like it I love with it the dough is good the icing on it it's sweet but it's good got some crazy candy on top imagine a little kid coming here for their birthday can't beat it no best birthday pizza ever Oh after all there we go how could you do this to me oh come oh no this is over the top $2,400 gold pizza with truffles caviar I don't even know what to say about this Frank tell him tell about this to show me your tattoos - yeah - so what's the exact name of the show pizza show Iceland check us out munchies food God's been eating all this decadent stuff and I had to do the best pizza of all the two thousand dollar pizzas Wagyu that's Aggie trying to get the watch it music orders chips yeah a week's see cuz it's like the crumbled ones and then the bigger ones underneath I was gonna meet you chef thank you Bon Appetit my cheers he answer of the cheers I feel like I'm meeting a Rolls Royce it feels amazing unbelievable the 24 karat gold Pizza is truly a work of art I knew the perfect person to bring a slice to Steph Amanda's the artist known for encasing slices of pizza into resin so that you could treasure them forever I don't know how you're gonna feel about this but it's pretty it's pretty extravagant gold pizza this would preserve really well Steph is a product designer and artist who grew up at a pizzeria and mean she's as pizza as it gets nickname in high school was just pizza a pizza nightlight Pizza coasters piece of luggage tag piece of hot cold pack and then pizza sticky notes Steph's latest project forever pizza blew up on the internet and now people put their name on a waiting list to get the favorite slice of pizza encased in resin so they could keep it forever when you're forever eyes in these pizzas what is the process exactly working with the resident how does it actually get done you dehydrate the pizza you treat the pizza you then build a mold you layer in some resin you then put the pizza in and then you fill it up Wow and how long does that process take a long time yeah I have to remove as much of the oil as possible gosh it's a lot of chemistry I find that really interesting pee-wee Herman tweeted about it someone gave one to Demi Moore world's first pizza museum called like it just kind of just went and win the win right I want to kind of get to the bottom of this Pizza craze and how its kind of gotten to this level how do you explain why it's important to so many other people right now I think we are starving for authenticity right at this point time and always but like particularly right now where there's this like what's real what's not real pizzas real like it's real and you can eat it yeah yeah yeah we don't have to think about it and I think what happens when we do that is you eliminate fear and that just feels better it just is yeah pizzas probably one of the first foods anybody bought that they could buy themselves so it's also independence is it pending you know it's celebratory it's the after the Little League game it's like as a prize it's a snack it's breakfast it's lunch it's dinner it's drunk food it's gold and $2,500 and the most exquisite thing ever right like it's it's vegetarian it can be gluten-free like you can do all these things with it it's a cannabis I always tell people it's a simple food but it's incredibly nuanced and complex right so even though there's only three components to it it's more complex than you could ever imagine and the way that you're describing it from like society and the social aspect its kind of the same way it's totally the same way I mean you can talk about eating together and it's obvious that's a shared thing to do but like what's going on beneath the surface is trust the modern breaking of the bread awesome$2,400 gold pizza with truffles so beautiful holy I'm like I took piece of art it's like eating Mona Lisa's ass this is like crazy bro I don't know what to do this is the epitome of the pizza show the word pizza brain here in Philadelphia the only piece of museum in the country and it just feels like pizza culture has reached an all-time high America people really love pizza it was adopted as sort of like the unofficial food of America I think about being a kid and eating pizza and a lot of these pictures sort of resonate with me whether it's clothing or internet viral videos every part of pop culture seems like Pizza has infiltrated we're gonna meet with some artists internet celebrities look over and I see a rat dragging a big a slice of pizza down the stairs beside me people that are involved in social media that are just obsessed with pizza well I think this should be my profile pic I just really want to get to the bottom of what is America's obsession with pizza so these days Pizza culture is a lot more than just having a slice of pizza today we're gonna sit down with my boy Matt little he's the guy who caught Pizza rat in action we're gonna talk to him a little bit about the pizza rat story and how it captivated America not your average pizza day I got to show you something I got this done a couple of years ago okay but I think you know it's applicable it's my know that's amazing so your og pizza wrap yeah I'm oh gee Pizza rat let's start from the beginning yeah well tell me the experience about Pizza rat how did this whole thing happen I was working at UCB in the East Village three in the morning or something we're dead tired been working all night my buddy Pat and I we walk up to the L at First Avenue to head over to Brooklyn and as we're walking down the stairs I look over and I see a rat dragging a big-ass slice of pizza down the stairs beside me then I realized oh I should probably record this because this is so weird that if I just told my friends that I saw this they'd be like yeah whatever but if I showed them they'd be like this is bonkers right so I threw it up on Instagram and my Instagram goes to my Facebook so about half hour forty minutes later I logged onto Facebook again and my friends are sharing it my roommate gets home and I tell them what's happening and he goes you need to put this on YouTube right now because this will go viral and I went yeah right and he goes no shut up dummy do this Gawker put it up and then it just exploded from there I heard from SportsCenter that night it just it just passed around so fast the other people that I heard from were these licensing companies I wound up signing with a company called Juke and media that night and I'm really glad that I did because the next day is when the late-night talk shows and stuff wanted it so then I had a partner set up that could license the video to the right what do you think about the video was so captivating could this video gone viral if it was a burger or a taco that's a good question people on the internet are obsessed with pizza and why not it's like the best food right I used to joke around pizza got me pregnant I would keep the baby that's how much I love pizza if it were a burger if it was tacos something like that I I think people would be like oh cool but it's specifically that it was this food that were already obsessed with right since that video came out and it's had a success and went viral what is it done oh man the grass is greener the airs sweeter now yeah yeah 100% we should we split ownership there are viral pizza videos and this viral pizza there are two very different things and one is way more delicious Vinny's in Williamsburg Brooklyn has taken the internet by storm with their inventive pizzas Sean one of the co-owners is a viral pizza whisperer of sorts and when he gets bored crazy social media heads I'm making our world-famous pizza box pizza you got your regular pepperoni pizza then you have like a Sicilian raised dough and then this is the the top of it which is kind of like a garlic bread we kind of cook them about 3/4 the way through and then we cook them all together a lot of these things kind of start off as experiments and just me trying to amuse myself and then some of them grow into me making them 20 times a day there's a trend now where people are trying to create the next viral thing or the big thing and I've never tried to do that it just kind of happens this is the pizza box pizza how do you think that Instagram and the internet have contributed to like this whole thing and like your business my business it's a huge help you know it's insane it's constant sharing and tagging the people in and you know you can put up a picture and also then people take that and run with it they won't just want content content content they're looking for the next viral thing or whatever and what was like the first pizza that was like maybe a little whack here a little different that was a successful is the first really really big thing was the pizza on pizza I'm just screwing around and well what if I make kind of the ultimate pizza topping little slice of pizza on pizza and posted it and it just went banana bananas did you know that it was gonna break the internet yeah no absolutely I think the cutest thing ever Sui have a lot of people that come in with their kids and they pick off the little slices of pizza for their kids or some people like to eat the little parts first or whatever you know whatever I don't know if you want to share any aces in the hole but you got anything coming up next that like you know we should be aware it's not so much but I don't want to share it's that I really don't know they come to me as they come the internet stores nothing's on deck it just the wheels are turning in there it'll hate it exactly some people take photos of their pizza for social media and other people take photos of girls they're inspired by eating pizza Martha Freeman has created hot girls eating pizza an Instagram account that features women she looks up to eating pizza we're gonna go inside she's gonna walk us through what a pizza date is with one of her homegirls I want to take it from there we known each other for a while yeah right best pizza days the early days you used to come in and visit me will you chop it up and then all the sudden there was this amazing Instagram it was hot girls eaten pizza thank you what exactly is hot girls eating pizza I call it a tasteful platform that's celebrate schoolgirls and hot pizza dough I like plays on words also I think I called it hot girls any pizza because I wanted you to be drawn in but it really is about these cool girls that are doing things and that are smart and funny and they have kids or they have companies right and it's just a picture of a mini pizza so it's just something empowering for you totally encho don't it's kind of brilliant thank you how did it all begin I lost my mom to cancer about four years ago in September and I've always been a social person I moved to New York when I was 18 and I just kind of needed a reason to just like not be at home watching TV and sad and it was basically a cute chick or a cool chick someone that you liked eating a slice of pizza just snap the picture and then you know did a little bio beneath right yeah I used to do BIOS then I realized people don't like to read on it right yeah you're gonna walk us through a little bit of a photo shoot today kind of show us how it's done yeah I have a pizza date that I've never met before do it what's up Zoe nice to meet you you hungry I'm so hungry good I usually take a few photos and I take them on my iPhone first and then if you like that I we just that's that's exactly a murmuration exactly collaboration a ship okay Oh Mary you look so cute oh my god you look so and you're so Joey are you wearing glassy eye yes sounds beautiful Wow I think we got it that's a wrap amazing well how do you know what type of pizza to choose honestly pepperoni performs really well people love it thank you for having me it's just so fun you're the best now that I'm an honorary hot girl eating pizza I felt like I was ready to try one of the craziest pizzas I've ever seen the taco taco taco pizza at Tony boloney's in Hoboken Mike the owner has been experimenting with his pizzas for a long time after looking through the case this isn't your typical New York slice shop can you tell me exactly what's going on and yeah so like this piece right here is it Jamaican beef patty called the bumbaclot the Mambo it made with tumeric curry powder butter a whole allspice it looks like a real beef oh yeah I mean even has like the crimped sides yeah I knew we do it up again like could I put beef patties on a pizza who gives you about that you don't like you want to do it right right this is a panko crusted pices panko bread crumb crusted with homemade truffle mozzarella so he actually put white black shaved truffles and a little white truffle oil in the curd this pot right here yeah that's a homemade and an sesame jewel pie I feel like all this stuff is just obviously takes a lot of work and that comes out and like the pizza the way the pizza taste the first time I had that taco pizza I loved it we've been here for five minutes and that's the second full taco pie that's been replaced unbelievable it is the Taco Tuesday there's 300 pies and that's it we make all the tortillas from scratch so they can we make so much you make 300 of these pies that's it you're gonna show me the setup for the top yeah what's doing you ready how is this dog for the taco peeps that different than the other pieces you want a little kick eNOS right so I keep that tortilla cakiness when you bite into it and it kind of like melt on your tongue a little bit lots of flowers what gives you time exactly our dough if you noticed a little loose it's not so tight how are you shuffle back and forth to keep it really really really low you know you're not gonna get those thin spots kind of like walk it on the table Piersol haka basically maximum string cheese yeah I put about a pound of this in the body this is the this is the Chipotle moly a brisket sauce so basically what I'll do is I'll type it around you know you're getting a carne asada Oaxacan molé a brisket pizza pasta tacos plus all this stuff I bet you if you costed it out this is like a two on drama pizza oh yeah dude I don't want to cost it up yeah I'm nervous cook time usually five minutes these pictures look great with Dulles awesome like can you make your own yeast you make your own dough this meas air bubble tipping things it's gonna happen that's the slice I want I want if you were blindfold and you're eating that do you think it's delicious yeah when did this pizza come into like existence here stoners in the shop they're high as hell let go let me get tacos and I was like yeah we're 20 below knees you know we do pizza subs the Gilberts Taco Tuesday bro how come you don't do tacos you know what you're right I don't know I'm like you know chill out for a second I got you yeah I came back here and I bust out taco pizza Wow that's how the legend started yeah we were start assembling tacos so we got here mezcal marinated sirloin and ribeye steak some queso Oaxaca it's carne asada brisket grilled chicken that we roast with Victoria beer it's like kind of mind-blowing so I'll do a little guac skee tastes it's it's crazy does the pickle jalapeno crema beat horseradish pink sauce this is salsa verde a little cilantro sprinkle on everything so that's at the pizza right there a little more cilantro what do you think of this guy is he crazy let's put this baby down for my arm breaks off so this is what I do I tell people all the time don't be a hero don't write a half this thing by yourself take a taco off yeah scoop it in the guac and this ski days hmm I feel like an animal I know some pizza makers now kind of making pizza for Instagram but you kind of been doing this for years now like way before the gram was popping on the food we've been making chicken waffle pizza for seven years who's never about that now of a sudden people just do it for that yeah you get sensational with it you put it out there people get excited about it you hope that enough people come in that maybe it warn't you making it maybe it doesn't you're saturating people's brains with nonsense right and the flip side of things it can be really good because something goes viral people like it like our taco pizza I'm Thrillist but we're getting calls from Columbia China national news call me to be on their TV show and Skype for the national commune that's great that's awesome organically the pizza kind of just spread it's not like you were just trying to put it up on Instagram it just people liked it so it's spread what do you think it is about pizza that has captured everyone's imagination everyone's heart this is a vehicle that people can get creative with and it's an affordable vehicle not just lost anybody can do these things and take biscuit dough or making croissants you know like it just it's it's so versatile I look forward to us hanging out more time together so far I've had pizza box pizza pizza on pizza tacos on pizza so the next obvious step of my viral pizza journey includes rainbows and edible gold there's only one person you could eat this kind of pizza with Jonathan Cheban food god oh this is the new food god logo right here and swaggiest every single dot has a diamond in it they do a crazy piece in here take 24 karat gold caviar I was at the one of the $2,000 one oh that's here too they were smart they should son that if they don't give us that Pizza I'm not instagramming not even insta storying one thing for that as the packet of gold are they warming it up for us oh they are gonna well the food guys here that's alright I wear grills people just think it's like regular Thursday afternoon and the way to they MTV Awards wait it's not Caspian caviar around let them know settling but no I'm so excited is this real alligator pizza that's why we got to do the pop candy land right well that's first or does our pizza look anything like that girl's hair yeah it does that's what I feel like I'm so inspired I like that I like that a lot really you're offering who's this you don't have person dollar ninety-nine I think I invented those and no go like 15 years ago how did this happen how did this all happen how did you ascend on to us as the food god I've had Instagram since like the first week I remember everybody had it people are putting up shoes flowers this dad I'm like Dutch sucks I hate all that yeah and I just start putting up food and I'll just like take good pictures of it and like I love this and then it's been a natural thing where everyone so I can only love that food I love that thing you put up and then the food God would like was born two days later I was going to Iceland to film Kardashians with Kim and Kanye and I was like I'm gonna test it on them it's like slowly like brought it up and we were like standing there and then Kanye goes for me go food gone can you get me the ugh oh my god I was like one later god I was like it resonated that fast and he's calling me I'm like all right now so that's the cosine or that was a cosign whoo all right let's the alligator the alligator how is it I like it not been kind of nice a chicken come on times like this the old-school Gucci belt swag ooh you like that garlic bread with little truffle gorgonzola good they love over-the-top so they could tag people and be like we need this Jackie you know whatever is but your shots are you are like the most lit spots you at you in LM being deep in Brooklyn well that's the thing I'm really real I grew up in New Jersey yeah so I'm not bougie I don't just see the notebook I mean I do we didn't know who every night but I also go to blue Malnati's to Chicago pinched Lee's start average they're a little bit different that come as like a pie paper-thin but I love those as well Wow you know all these spots Oh food god I got all I do is eat all day oh you purist at heart yeah yeah yeah no I'm real purist I like regular cheese pizza yeah I would have never guessed up I did it by like looking at your Instagram I would have thought you only like the wacky stuff guys here comes something special yep here it is unicorn pizza that is absolutely beautiful are you the chef oh no I'm kidding no no this cannot be rushed guys this is special it's kind of brilliant maybe if I'm standing it could be a fun pick my hair's crazy they'll weight this weigh-in is torture hold on I'm gonna see the angle getting there gonna put my hair down on one side it's a whole thing oh my god it's molding with my shirt it's connecting with my shirt and I can't even tell where the pizza was what are the chances I wore a freaking cotton candy shirt you just did like a little photo shoot yeah oh my god I'm popping and rocking I don't know what the hell is going on I'm about to frickin explode something like this people really deserve to see in the best way absolutely oh man that is good what do you think I like it I love with it the dough is good the icing on it it's sweet but it's good got some crazy candy on top imagine a little kid coming here for their birthday can't beat it no best birthday pizza ever Oh after all there we go how could you do this to me oh come oh no this is over the top $2,400 gold pizza with truffles caviar I don't even know what to say about this Frank tell him tell about this to show me your tattoos - yeah - so what's the exact name of the show pizza show Iceland check us out munchies food God's been eating all this decadent stuff and I had to do the best pizza of all the two thousand dollar pizzas Wagyu that's Aggie trying to get the watch it music orders chips yeah a week's see cuz it's like the crumbled ones and then the bigger ones underneath I was gonna meet you chef thank you Bon Appetit my cheers he answer of the cheers I feel like I'm meeting a Rolls Royce it feels amazing unbelievable the 24 karat gold Pizza is truly a work of art I knew the perfect person to bring a slice to Steph Amanda's the artist known for encasing slices of pizza into resin so that you could treasure them forever I don't know how you're gonna feel about this but it's pretty it's pretty extravagant gold pizza this would preserve really well Steph is a product designer and artist who grew up at a pizzeria and mean she's as pizza as it gets nickname in high school was just pizza a pizza nightlight Pizza coasters piece of luggage tag piece of hot cold pack and then pizza sticky notes Steph's latest project forever pizza blew up on the internet and now people put their name on a waiting list to get the favorite slice of pizza encased in resin so they could keep it forever when you're forever eyes in these pizzas what is the process exactly working with the resident how does it actually get done you dehydrate the pizza you treat the pizza you then build a mold you layer in some resin you then put the pizza in and then you fill it up Wow and how long does that process take a long time yeah I have to remove as much of the oil as possible gosh it's a lot of chemistry I find that really interesting pee-wee Herman tweeted about it someone gave one to Demi Moore world's first pizza museum called like it just kind of just went and win the win right I want to kind of get to the bottom of this Pizza craze and how its kind of gotten to this level how do you explain why it's important to so many other people right now I think we are starving for authenticity right at this point time and always but like particularly right now where there's this like what's real what's not real pizzas real like it's real and you can eat it yeah yeah yeah we don't have to think about it and I think what happens when we do that is you eliminate fear and that just feels better it just is yeah pizzas probably one of the first foods anybody bought that they could buy themselves so it's also independence is it pending you know it's celebratory it's the after the Little League game it's like as a prize it's a snack it's breakfast it's lunch it's dinner it's drunk food it's gold and $2,500 and the most exquisite thing ever right like it's it's vegetarian it can be gluten-free like you can do all these things with it it's a cannabis I always tell people it's a simple food but it's incredibly nuanced and complex right so even though there's only three components to it it's more complex than you could ever imagine and the way that you're describing it from like society and the social aspect its kind of the same way it's totally the same way I mean you can talk about eating together and it's obvious that's a shared thing to do but like what's going on beneath the surface is trust the modern breaking of the bread awesome\n"