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The democratic chaos you pile on top while the base does the actual work.
means The optional ingredients added to the surface of a food, like cheese, fruit, or sauce, to customize it.
from From the verb top, meaning to put something on the highest part, in food use since the early 1900s.
Pizza warPineapple remains the world's most argued-over topping.
Plural powerAlmost always plural, since one topping rarely satisfies.
Sundae logicCherry on top earned its idiom as final flourish.