You Guys, Pickle Pizza Is Kind of a Big Dill Right Now

Naomi Tomky
Naomi Tomky
Seattle-based writer Naomi Tomky uses her unrelenting enthusiasm for eating everything to propel herself around the world as an award-winning food and travel writer.
updated Jul 1, 2019
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Arguing about whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza is so last year. 2019’s official pizza topping argument is about whether or not pickles belong afloat on a sea of cheese and boat of crust. According to the state of Minnesota, it seems the answer is a resounding yes. 

Before you start yucking the North Star State’s yum, have a look — because honestly, the pizza looks darn good. It starts with garlic-dill sauce in place of tomato sauce, then gets a layer of Canadian bacon, which they make in-house and smoke for two days. Then it gets the now-infamous layer of pickles, mozzarella cheese, and then a second layer of pickles for good measure. Before it goes in the oven, it gets a sprinkle of more dill.

The pizza topping blew up after being featured in a video that went viral. It comes from QC Pizza in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, but a quick glance at Instagram shows that they’re not the only ones with this flash of brilliance in the oven. Last year, I might have looked sideways at the concept, but in writing my cookbook last year, I had a chef add a layer of pickles to the Dungeness crab mac ‘n’ cheese, and frankly, it’s a total level-up for cheese-based foods.

The pizza is almost like an open-faced, dill-flecked version of a Cuban sandwich, in fact: you’ve got bread, ham, pickles, and cheese. Apparently, the idea didn’t come from there, though: it stemmed from something called “Minnesota sushi,” which is a snack food made by slathering a pickle spear in cream cheese and wrapping it into a piece of ham, and slicing it into a bite-sized snack. I’m still unwilling to yuck anyone else’s yum — especially not before I’ve given it a try. But I’m definitely digging into the pickle pizza before I get to the Minnesota sushi.