However, David is right too. This is a pizza review site. Asking “what can we add to a bad pizza to make it good?” seems like a deviation, and not really a useful guide to other prospective diners–other than, of course, that we are able to immediately understand that this is a place that can't stand on its own merit.

This might just be my opinion, but I'd say that of you're going to review a pizza place, keep it about how the pie tastes when it comes out of the oven, rather than about how well you've masked its flavor.

My original point was that if something is SO bad that the only way to salvage it is to use a topping that tastes great on watermelon, then it does not belong here and has no business earning a 4-slice rating.

garlic, parmesan, crushed red peppers, and sriracha or perhaps Tabasco sauce.

I can't rip on Tajin without having tried it. There are some that have not experienced the bliss of sriracha atop a cheese slice and would not understand.

Maybe I'll try this.