Flickr Find: The Saunderses Do It Again!
The Saunderses of Brisbane, Australia have made good on their promise
and delivered a trio of magnificent creations that all appear to have the requisite amount of cheese and originality to warrant
a detailed review of their work.
For those of you dedicated readers who may recall, it was on the Saunderses flickr stream that we originally found
Mr. Bugeyes, who
acheived an impressive 9/10 rating and set the bar for amateur pizzas from Australia's east coast.
Since we have three pizzas to cover, let's get right to the ratings. First we have
"Olive Eyes" (pictured above), a creation by the Saunderses themselves. What's cool about
this guy is that if you didn't know it was intentional you might think it was an act of the pizza gods that the pizza ended up with this face. It also looks like quite a tasty pizza
with lots of veggies distributed all over the crust. However it also kind of looks like something from a
Clive Barker novel.
I can imagine that if you were driving in a car with no seatbelt on and had a head-on collision and you slammed face-first into the windsheild with your tongue sticking out that you might
end up looking something like this pizza does. I think
"Olive Eyes" shall hereby be known as
"Mr. Splatface".
7/10
Here we have
"Mexican", which was created by Wade using lots of anchovies. Now before we critique this pizza let me say to our Mexican
readers that the appearance of this pizza is by no means meant to represent all people from Mexico, but apparently a single person from that
great country who has an enourmous moustache and equally impressive unibrow. So please do not take offense at this pizza being dubbed "Mexican".
After all, have you ever seen a Hawaiian pizza that looked like anyone from Hawaii? Didn't think so.
Again, this is another tasty looking pizza with lots of veggies. There isn't much cheese, but I suppose not all pizzas have to be dripping in it.
-1 for a lack of cheese,
+1 for an abundance of anchovies (a brave choice!) and
+1 for naming the pizza "Mexican". This wins
6/10
and an official renaming from
"Mexican" to the more politically-correct
"Chavo Anchovy".
And finally we have
"Basil!" created by Jess using what looks like the bare essentials: tomato sauce, some peppers (and onions?), some cheese
and some basil pesto and peppers for facial features. What's interesting here is how the pizza looks like a cocksure little bugger in his pre-bake photo on the left,
but it looks like the baking took the fire out of him and he doesn't look so condifent with his cheese all melted like that. Sometimes simple is best.
7/10 for this guy and
no name change is required.
All in all these are great-looking pizzas and I'm sure they were enjoyed by all. Thanks to Daniel for sending these in and extra-thanks for
placing the before and after shots in the same jpeg! Cheers!
Check out the original pics on flickr:
Olive Eyes
Mexican
Basil!
This find is courtesy of Daniel Saunders
Flickr Find: Bugeyed Pizza Pie
Breaking News! I was recently informed by Daniel Saunders via e-mail that there was, in fact a co-creator of this wonderful high-scoring pizza.
Sanae (pleasantville), who is a native of Japan and apparently shared her happy
pizza fame with her family and friends back home.
I've been told to expect another new creation from these guys next week so stay tuned!
The best I can tell
the Saunderses (sp?!) are a couple from Brisbane, Australia who have excellent taste in photographic
subjects and an obvious sense of humour when it comes to making dinner.
The use of green olives for nostrils is a definite Happy Happy Pizza first, as is the use of a carrot slice for what is presumably a tongue and onion eyebrows.
This combined with the fact that this was obviously an act of unbridled culinary artistry performed at home earns this face a
massive 9/10 score!
This bugeyed fellow only lost one point for a lack of a smile. Aside from that, this is one of the more memorable flickr finds we've come across.
Check out the frightening full-size freaky face on flickr.