is that a dumb question? it seems like they have the same ingredients- ground beef, cheese, sauce. or is there something different in the cheeseburger pizza (type of cheese?)

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I was wondering this myself. The only thing I can figure is the ground beef is crumbled instead of balled up.

They probably do put different cheese on it and I suppose they could use ketchup instead of tomato sauce. Yuck!

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for all we know it has the same ingredients and just a different name

Ewwwww. Your description sounds so unappetizing! Ketchup?
Bleah! LOL!

Gee, would it be like Tom Hank's character in "The Terminal" making the pizza out of ketchup and saltines? LOL!

LAST EDITED ON 04-11-05 AT 02:51 PM (EST)

If you don't know the difference between a hamburger and a meatball, please don't ever cook for me

Generally, hamburgers are just ground beef seasoned with salt. Meatballs have more in common with meatloaf than hamburgers, and usually contain binders like bread crumbs and/or eggs, and seasonings like onion and pepper. Meatballs also very often contain other kinds of meat in addition to or in place of ground beef. Ground pork and ground lamb are both very popular.

And because of those binders, the meatball could contain just a tad bit more carbs than the cheeseburger topping.

But, if they use the same seasonings, there'll be little difference in taste, IMO, just in appearance. Where the meatballs are neatly (or so I think) laid out on top, the cheeseburger is spread evenly over the dough.

For klutzes like me, you will be well advised to go with the cheeseburger pizza. Like I said, if I'm gonna mangia meatballs, I'm gonna mangia them with spaghetti.

Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Why did the chicken cross the street?

Just blubberring away.................

C'mon. In the first place, a hamburger wouldn't use the same seasoning as a meatball, in the same way that vanilla ice cream doesn't use the same seasonings as ranch dressing. In the second place, the binders alone give a meatball a different flavor and texture than a hamburger. And in the third place, I didn't even talk about cooking methods. Hamburgers are generally seared or broiled, while meatballs are generally braised.

Every single person on the planet who's tasted both would be able to tell a hamburger from a meatball in a blind taste test.

Whatever, I'm not partial to either one anyway. That's why I said IMO, or should I have said IMHO ?

so basically a hamburger is slightly healthier in a low carb sense? sorry the questions sounds dumb. I generally dont like to add fillers to meat so would not add bread crumbs to meatballs in the first place- but then again I am no chef. so we are talking about a difference in flavor? but once a hamburger is on top of a pizza, with cheese, sauce and italian spices, what makes it taste like a cheeseburger?