Whith shrimp?
That flatbread looks yummy.
I think if I called 100 pizza places in the US, with all types represented proportionally (fast food pizza, medium quality pizza, and fancy custom pizza places), I hypothesize 1-5% would offer eggplant as a topping and 1-5% would offer shrimp as a topping. I hypothesize the number of pizza restaurants in the US that offer shrimp and eggplant pizza as a pre-designated option is probably less than 20, but more than zero.
I agree these are factors based on where we are located in the world and the US has no monopoly or authority on pizza; neither does Europe, not even Italy, in my opinion. A lot of pizza development has occurred outside of the boot!
The more I think about it the more I am convinced eggplant shrimp pizza could be made deliciously.
Today I took my mostly vegetarian kid to pizza (he’ll eat some fish so I guess he’s pescatarian) and he ordered pineapple and fresh garlic. He’s never done this before. The waitress remarked that she’d never heard that combination and we joked about it a little. It was so uncommon that the cook made a pepperoni garlic pizza which the server caught and sent back before it hit our table. After apologizing for the delay she brought the correct pizza out.
It was super delicious. Savory, sweet, cheesy, with that delicious flavor of roasted garlic.
Not long ago I went to an east Indian pizzeria that served various curry pizzas. They were delicious.
As soon as I find or make a shrimp eggplant pizza I’ll report back. Just goes to show how most everything could go with bread cheese and tomato sauce. Maybe together we’ll make it common. But for now, it’s not. Not around here anyway.
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Wegman’s house brand frozen Sicilian pizza has eggplant. It’s listed in the ingredients. Cheap enough to warrant a try.
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Indian, no additional qualifiers or adjectives needed.
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I think a lot of North Americans (because some of us Canadians do this too) tend to use the term “East Indian” to differentiate between people from India and what we refer to now as First Nations people.
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I’ve never seen nor had eggplant and shrimp pizza. I have had both on separate pizze, however.
Germans are pretty… creative when it comes to pizza toppings, and my favorite cheapo π delivery in Berlin back when I used to live there offered a pizza “Atlanta” with ground beef, corn, … maybe mushrooms? I used to order the large, cheese-stuffed crust version of it.
They always had seasonal offerings, including white asparagus with hollandaise (since @kaleokahu brought up ‘albino’ asparagus - not that I’ve ever heard it referred to that way).
I’m pretty flex with my toppings, even tho I tend to prefer basic bish stuff like red onion, green pepper, shrooms. I don’t like fruit in savory applications, but will take your and/or your son’s word for the delight of mixing pineapple, cheese, and garlic.
Hell, I recently discovered my fondness for Detroit-style crust. The garlic dill pickle rendition is a casa lingua fave.
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Interesting! If you aren’t pulling our leg about your sleuthing, could you tell if the eggplant was available year round vs only in season?
ETA Ooops! I just noticed that you said if I called.
I can’t speak for the US, but my favorite pizza slinger in Berlin has it on the menu all year round. I’ve never thought of eggplant as a seasonal veg TBH.
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The thing about pizza is that pretty much anything on a sauced, baked crust can please some eaters. Rabbit pellets? Turkey liver? Gummy Bears? Oysters? Maybe even dryer lint.
Understood. Maybe it’s a Californian perspective.
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That’s adorable.
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Well three out of five isn’t bad. But I draw the line at dryer lint. 
Seriously, let people pizza the way THEY want to pizza! If they want to put 
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on their pizza, let them.
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Right. The operative word is ‘their’. You may recall this subthread came about because a patron faulted 'rias for THEIR pizza limitations.
Asked and answered upthread as well. Limitations on those ingredients for other dishes a restaurant offers. But you then chose to bash the particular combination of eggplant and shrimp. That is to what I was referring. Not the fact that the other poster couldn’t get that combo.
It is a cognitive dissonance for you. But not for others. Eat and let eat.
I know, but since everyone knows who went in the wrong direction and called the wrong people the wrong thing, and we’ve since corrected ourselves and finally don’t call those people the wrong thing anymore, maybe the actual Indians can just be… Indian? 
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Veering even further off topic, and of course you are right, but that seems like an example of how things differ, depending on who your audience is.
Hoping not to offend anyone, but the use of the term “Asian” seems to vary wildly, depending on the audience.
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Well, we don’t call Virginia “East” Virginia, for eg.
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No, I think they’re big on eggplant, especially with the Asian and Mediterranean populations. Maybe the Dakotas or upper midwest? 
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