I must be an "American Pizza" guy

I hope I'm not hurting any feelings here, but wow... it really feels like I've had some bad pizza since I've been outside the U.S.  I had the chance to go out on the town tonight and see London and I turned it down.  I chose to stay in and rest up for my big race in the morning.  Instead I ordered a pizza from a local place near my hotel.  My thoughts are: "it's technically food".  Which I'm still thankful for considering there are starving people in the world.  It made me realize I'm quite a snob when it comes to pizza.  I'm so used to how the U.S. does it, speaking of most of the chains as well as independents.  The pizza I had in France as well as the pizza tonight was drastically under par.  For some reason, they choose to cut the toppings in MASSIVE chunks and just pile them all in the middle of the pizza.  I got a veggie pizza but others were like this as well.  Although I might have guessed this, I don't like eating a huge chunk of onion.  I find that pizza with toppings placed like this provides you with any one piece with a large topping of one kind, and none of the other kinds.  It leaves me wondering if the kitchen staff is just lazy or if this is normal around Europe.  Is it too much to ask to chop up the toppings a bit more so it covers the whole pizza?  Again, hope I'm not hurting any "traditional Italian" feelings here, I just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.  Regardless, I had some decent dinner and ready to wind down for the night.  I swim the 100 Backstroke around 9:00am Local Time, 4:00am EST.