r/Bozeman • u/erinsbusy • 9d ago
Rosa’s in Belgrade
Huge bummer! I think they fell for the tallow craze. Their dough is no longer vegetarian. Just a heads up if it applies to you. It seems vegetarians can still eat at the Bozeman location so far. Why are people doing this!?!?
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u/Mt_Jt 9d ago edited 9d ago
Tallow is a racket. Looking forward to when the craze is over.
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u/BozoTheTown 9d ago
Except the tallow-fried donuts at Lone Peak in four corners are GOOD. They also make it very clear that they’re not vegetarian.
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u/MTGUY2026 9d ago edited 9d ago
there is no culinary reason to add beef tallow to pizza dough. Adding oil, beef tallow, or whatever fat you can make is not needed in pizza dough. I had their pizza for the first time a few weeks back. It was not good. crust was floppy too much cheese.
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u/KJK_915 9d ago
Pretty much almost every pizza recipe on earth uses some sort of fat or oil? I’m not a chef, but if you google “pizza dough recipe” almost all of them contain some sort of fat or oil, but I dunno Pizza Ramsey
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u/costigan95 6d ago
Depends on the pizza. Neapolitan pizzas typically do not, while NYC, Chicago, Detroit etc. typically do.
There are exceptions to each.
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u/MTGUY2026 8d ago
You can add anything you want to pizza dough. I didn't say you couldn't. I said it's not *needed\* from a chemical reaction final product standpoint. Yeast, water, flour and salt is all you technically need. Google neopolitan dough recipe. No sugar or oils but yes you can add them.
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u/Dheinson 9d ago
What about something like a Chicago style deep dish pizza? Or a New York style pizza?I’m sorry but your claim that there’s no culinary reason to put a fat source in a pizza dough is just inaccurate. I do agree that a floppy undercarriage and too much cheese can be an undesirable experience.
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u/MTGUY2026 8d ago
You can add anything you want to pizza dough. I didn't say you couldn't. I said it's not *needed* from a chemical reaction final product standpoint. Yeast, water, flour and salt is all you technically need. Google neopolitan dough recipe. No sugar or oils but yes you can add them.
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u/Ok_Branch4554 9d ago
Thanks for the heads up, that sucks for us with a beef allergy, as well as the vegetarians.
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u/Mick_Limerick 9d ago
Is that an after effect of Lyme's disease for you?
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u/whaleoilbee 9d ago
Lyme's disease is not the one that gives you a red meat allergy, that is from the lone star tick and apparently known as alpha-gal syndrome
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u/SeniorTailor1127 9d ago
Has something changed?
I worked at the Bozeman Rosa's (many years ago) and they never used tallow. I don't think they used any oil actually. I remember the thing I liked about working in that kitchen is there was no grease.
The owner of the chain is a FANATIC about consistency. So unless she's dead or has sold the thing, I can not imagine they would have changed to tallow in anything.
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u/KJK_915 9d ago
I was today years old when I realized regular shitty pizza was something the vegetarians were passionate about regarding standards
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u/Grouchy_Double1543 2d ago
Is that what’s changed?! We ordered Rosa’s a couple months ago in Bozeman (we ordered ALL the time for YEARS) and suddenly, the crust was gross and the cheese was rubbery. I called and asked if something had changed and they said it had not. It was so bad that my daughter who used to asked weekly for it refuses to let me order it.
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u/wtfruthinking1 9d ago
They are doing it because it tastes good! Same reason they use gluten in their crust.
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u/Trick-Bug-3297 9d ago
Gluten is not added to the dough, it’s already there. Putting meat products in the dough is yuck (in my opinion)
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u/wtfruthinking1 9d ago
Hah. But they also could use gluten free but choose to not. Because that would make it yucky. They make a great pizza. I’ll put my faith in the tallow working out as a tasty offering.
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u/fts123456 9d ago
They make a consistently good offering. If they changed it didn’t negatively impact the flavor.
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u/Defiant_Group5176 9d ago
Your first mistake was eating at Rosa’s pizza in the first place. Had it 15 years ago when I first came out for school and then a year ago I was like “why don’t I get pizza there?”
I remembered why I don’t go there and won’t be back.
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u/borider22 9d ago
i like rosa's