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+title:  "Cheese Pizza Is What’s Wrong With the World"
+description: Why cheese pizza is a bad choice—and why we need to stop serving it. It shouldn’t even be called pizza.
+date: 2025-04-04 10:03:00 CST
+layout: post
+categories:  [convictions,family]
+tags: [pizza, food, children, parenting, healthy eating, picky eaters, family, opinion]   # Tag names should always be lowercase
+permalink: /cheese-pizza/
+pin: true
+---
+
+# **Cheese Pizza Is What’s Wrong With the World Today**
+
+### **TL;DR**  
+Cheese pizza is the food equivalent of giving up. It’s lazy parenting, bland tradition, and gutless people-pleasing all wrapped into one greasy slice. If you don’t want to read the rant, skip to the last paragraph. But don’t pretend cheese pizza is *real* pizza.
+
+---
+
+I **hate** cheese pizza. Not dislike—**hate**. And if that sounds dramatic, good. Because I’m sick of pretending it’s acceptable.
+
+I love pizza. I love *real* pizza. **Load it up—three or more toppings.**  
+- Supreme? Perfection.
+- Meat Lovers? Awesome.
+- Anchovy, mushroom, and onion? Fantastic.  
+- Pineapple and Canadian bacon? Bring it.  
+- Sausage, onion, and green pepper? That was the go-to with my college roommates.  
+Even veggie pizza? Totally in.
+
+Now look, I personally **don’t prefer a veggie pizza**. I like meat! (and vegetables together). But I support vegetarians—at least they’re putting some **damn toppings** on it. That’s more than I can say for the cheese-only crowd.
+
+**Cheese pizza?** It’s not pizza. It’s **glorified garlic bread**. It’s a **cop-out**.
+
+---
+
+You know why cheese pizza is everywhere? Because parents today are afraid.  
+Afraid to make their kids eat something they didn’t specifically ask for.  
+Afraid to have a backbone.
+
+We’re raising a generation of **precious little snowflakes** who can’t handle a friggin’ topping on their slice. That’s my tagline, and I’m sticking to it.
+
+> “**Little Jimmy can’t find one topping he can eat on a pizza? One? Out of a hundred possible toppings? Not one?**”
+
+God forbid we traumatize the kid by exposing him to a vegetable. Or a flavor. Or anything remotely outside his toddler-approved food list. We wouldn’t want to damage our little snowflake now, would we?
+
+And look, I get it. Not everyone likes bell peppers.  
+If one kid frowns at a bell pepper, we cancel toppings for **everyone**? But seriously—**a bell pepper?** 
+
+That’s not inclusivity. That’s **insanity**.
+
+---
+
+Here’s the thing: **parenting means leading.**
+
+You wouldn’t let your kid eat candy for dinner, right?  
+So why let them demand the **blandest, least nutritious** version of a meal that already isn't exactly health food?
+
+Pizza’s not great for you to begin with—but it can be better.  
+Add veggies. Add protein. Make it count.  
+**Sneak in the nutrients. Maybe they grow to like them. That’s called parenting.**
+
+But no. What do we get at every kid’s birthday party?  
+An avalanche of **cheese pizza**.
+
+Because we’re terrified someone might be **offended** by pepperoni.
+
+Meanwhile, every pepperoni and/or sausage pizza gets devoured, and the cheese is the sad stack left behind.  
+I’ve been to too many events where everything good is gone and all that’s left is the cheese pizza.  
+**No chance I’m taking a slice.**
+
+---
+
+And if we’re really so afraid of offending people, let’s talk about the **lactose intolerant**.
+
+Why aren’t we stacking pizzas with no cheese and only toppings?  
+If we’re bending over backward to not upset anyone, where’s *their* safe slice?
+
+---
+
+This obsession with cheese-only pizza isn’t about taste. It’s about **cowardice**.
+
+We don’t want to upset anyone.  
+We don’t want confrontation.  
+We’d rather feed everyone the **most boring, inoffensive thing possible** than risk a kid frowning at a bell pepper.
+
+---
+
+When I was a kid, if you went to someone’s house for dinner, **you ate what was served and said thank you.**  
+My father-in-law, as a child, once choked down an egg sandwich with ketchup on it—he hated it—but he ate it and said thank you.  
+That was the rule. **Respect. Gratitude. Standards.**
+
+Now we’ve got parents making entire party food orders around **one picky eater**.  
+Why? Because we've forgotten how to say:
+
+> **“Eat it or go hungry.”**
+
+It’s not abuse. It’s how you raise **flexible, respectful humans**.
+
+---
+
+So yeah, maybe I care too much. But it’s the principle.
+
+The **best man at my wedding**, god rest his soul—loved this Aaron Tippin song:  
+> *“You’ve Got to Stand for Something.”*  
+
+And I do. I stand for parents showing their kids what’s right, and having a damn backbone.  
+I stand against the virus of snowflake kids and the **mountain of cheese pizzas** shoved down our throats at every party.
+
+And I’ll thank my dad for playing Hank Williams Jr.’s  
+**“The Coalition to Ban Coalitions”**  
+for me when I was a kid. That one stuck. Let's get back to a more traditional America!
+
+---
+
+So please—**stop buying cheese pizza for your kids.**  
+Make your kid eat his or her veggies.  
+And anyone that’s offended? They’re wrong—**and they should rethink their life choices.**
+
+> **You’ve got to stand for something, or you will fall for anything.**