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Maybe it's a matter of language? You can't have a marinara WITH mozzarella, because the marinara doesn't have mozzarella, but you can have a marinara PLUS mozzarella, because that's now not a marinara.

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Because last week I made the mistake of asking her for a marinara - which is a simple tomato and garlic pizza - with the addition of mozzarella.

No, unless this paraphrasing misrepresents the original wording, that's not the issue.

Far more likely is the "Black coffee with milk" suggestion at the end of the article.

I don't know. If you specifically ask for a "pizza rossa with mozzarella", that's a contradiction. But to ask for an item that just happens to by itself be a type of pizza rossa, and then ask for mozzarella on top, I don't see the problem. You're not asking for a contradiction, you just want two items put together.

If I go to a burger joint that offers an option with no burger patty, and I order "cheese sandwich with a burger patty added", I've gone a bit roundabout but I haven't asked for anything contradictory or 'nonexistent'.

the black coffee with milk is the right example, as you don't order a veggie burger with meat.

I order veggie burgers with bacon on top all the time, it's delicious.

I don't see how that's different. Take black coffee, add milk, that's what I want.

Though you are right it is black coffee + milk, but it's not called black coffee.

In practice it might seem that a Marinara + Mozzarela might be the same as a Marguerita + Garlic but in practice it may not (for example, amount of sauce, cooking time, etc)

Veggie burger with meat, vanilla ice cream with chocolate flavour, mild peppers with a bit of extra spice, etc...

I interpreted it not as her saying that she wouldn't make the pizza he wanted. She did. She was saying that you can't have a pizza marinara with mozzarella because it's a contradiction. Like black coffee with milk.

You can of course add milk but then it's a white coffee. As you can add mozzarella but then it's a margherita.

The problem is that mozzarella doesn't keep at sea.

Untrue

This may be the case in the current age, where ships have freezers. But this article[1] says that in a refrigerator (not freezer), mozarella lasts for just a couple of weeks. I have no first-hand knowledge of this myself.

http://www.eatbydate.com/dairy/cheese/brie-feta-mozzarella-s...

It is untrue because you don't make pizza onboard of an old ship: you can't have the oven over there! You make pizza on the coast, where mozzarella, flour and tomato are produced

Maybe Popeye eats cold leftovers.

lol

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