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What Does Your Favorite Pizza Topping Say About You?

Find out your pizza-topping personality.

Written By: Catherine Boeckmann Executive Digital Editor and Master Gardener

What’s your pizza-topping personality? Dr. Alan Hirsch, director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, found that choices of pizza toppings can reveal personalities. 

Nontraditional toppings, such as pineapple: You’re an aggressive, achievement-oriented, natural leader who doesn’t suffer fools easily.

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One meat: You tend to be a little bit of a procrastinator and may have an irritable side.

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Bacon Pizza With Onions and Cheese, credit Sam Jones/QuinnBrein.

Several meats: You’re a dramatic, seductive, extrovert who thrives as the center of attention, craves novelty, and is impeccably groomed.

One vegetable: You’re empathetic, understanding, well-adjusted, and easygoing—the ideal parent. 

Zucchini Pizza, credit Sam Jones/QuinnBrein

Several vegetables: You’re trustworthy, loyal, dependable, humble, introverted, and function best in a group environment.

Italian Vegetable Popover Pizza, credit Becky Luigart-Stayner.

Extra cheese: Well, almost everyone likes extra cheese.

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We’re not sure if we buy this “pizza personality” idea, but we’re always a sucker for quizzes—and pizza. What do you think?

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Catherine Boeckmann

Catherine Boeckmann

Executive Digital Editor and Master Gardener

Catherine Boeckmann is the Executive Digital Editor of Almanac.com, the website companion of The Old Farmer's Almanac. She covers gardening, plants, pest control, soil composition, seasonal and moon c...
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<span>Brandy Lovelady</span> Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:56
Sausage and mushroom, not sure where that puts me. I heard of this on the radio so had to look this up. ha
<span>Jeff</span> Tue, 08/26/2025 - 14:51
hiya pizza
<span>Sharon Brown</span> Wed, 04/10/2024 - 17:35
My preference is thin crust with mushrooms and black olives. It won't break my heart if someone throws pineapple on it. If I'm eating it with hubby, then it's thin crust with sausage and pepperoni.
<span>Geri Reski</span> Fri, 02/09/2024 - 10:51
Pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, occasional red onion. BUT a white pizza great with garlic alfredo, cheeses, onion, grilled chicken OR shrimp…. AM HUNGRY NOW!
<span>Fairfield 54</span> Fri, 02/09/2024 - 08:59
Well, looks like I fall into all categories - just depends on the day. :):):)
<span>Allyssa</span> Fri, 02/09/2024 - 08:01
Well, I can't eat pizza due to allergies. So I guess it says nothing about me.
<span>Tom Chase</span> Fri, 02/09/2024 - 06:55
Pizza, whatever topping makes one want to sing while eating: Italian song 'O sole mio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw3c5d3aBSE&t=14s (3:36) Translationss: https://dailyitalianwords.com/o-sole-mio-lyrics-english-translation/ This Italian song is so famous that someone even tried to make it pass as Italy's national anthem! Written in 1898 by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua, it has been recorded by dozens of artists and translated into various languages, most famously Elvis Presley’s It’s Now or Never.
<span>Luvgabe</span> Fri, 02/09/2024 - 06:20
What about anchovies? Give us a link to the purported survey. All in all, this article is silly and wholly unscientific.
<span>Robert Havey</span> Tue, 01/25/2022 - 07:53
I like sausage, pepperoni, green & red peppers, onions, mushrooms, pineapple, shrimp, smothered in cheese…what’s that say about me? 🤔😉
<span>Sherry</span> Sat, 01/22/2022 - 20:09
So where does that leave people who like Canadian bacon and sauerkraut - which is found only in the Midwest? Since I moved to Florida, it's ham, pineapple, ground beef, black olives, and mushrooms?