The Good, The Bad, And The Crispy
I LOVE PIZZA. CORRECTION: I LOVE MOST PIZZAS.
Pizza is a very simple dish (or pan). It is not difficult to make. I suspect that you could make a passable pizza in one of those old “Suzy Homemaker” or “Easy-Bake” ovens.
NO! NO! NO!
The only way to screw up a pizza, IMHO, is to use ingredients that just don’t belong. Strawberries? On a pizza? Some chef has posted a recipe for a “Strawberry, Balsamic Pizza with Chicken, Sweet Onion, and Applewood Bacon.” Really? I suppose I could pick off the strawberries if I had to.
“Deep Dish Apple Pizza?” That’s not a pizza – that’s an Apple Pie. Blasphemy! I don’t think that fruit belongs on a pizza. I’m sorry if that offends anyone, but – I’m right. Get over it. And there is no such thing as a Breakfast Pizza or a Dessert Pizza. No!
Where Anchovies Belong
I also think that one should omit Olives and Anchovies. Olives? That’s like chewing on erasers. Anchovies? I’d bet that Anchovies were first put on a pizza as a prank. The eating of Anchovies should be left to other, larger, fish in their food chain.
The reason I bring this up at all stems from a chance encounter last week involving pizza.
It was a Sunday Evening and both my wife, the lovely and pizza knowledgeable, Dawn, and I were both pooped. It was about 7 PM and neither of us had the energy or desire to go into the kitchen for any reason beyond using it as a shortcut to the Toyota.
“Why don’t we order a pizza?”
More excellent words could not have been spoken. I took my phone and actually used it to place a real phone call for the first time in weeks.
“Yes, a medium, thin crust, Pepperoni with extra cheese.”
Now, THAT is how you order a pizza!
Twenty minutes later I cut a path through the kitchen and drove off to pick up our pizza. I don’t 
mind taking the effort to pick up a pizza. It makes me feel like I have worked to put the food on the plate. It’s a guy thing – part of that Hunter-Gatherer mystique. Hit the dinosaur on the head and drag it home to feed everyone in the cave.
When I got to the Pizza Joint (All places that sell pizza are, by definition, “Joints.”) I had to wait a few minutes for our pizza to finish baking. It was then that I heard someone calling my name.
“Krafty. Hey, Krafty.”
Sitting at a table were two members of the Usual Suspects away from their pew at St. Arbucks. Being the sociable sort that I am, I toddled over to their table. It was then that I had one of those “Run that past me again” moments. One of the Suspects asked me…
“Are you here to get some Pizza?”
There I was standing in the middle of a Pizza Joint surrounded by about 20 other people munching away on pizza. The air was redolent with the heavenly aromas of the pizza ingredients and I was standing next to two people who had a Pepperoni Pizza on the table just 
inches away from their mouths – and he asks me, “Are you here to get some Pizza?”
I gathered all of my Grown-Up civility and politeness skills before answering – then I realized who I was talking to.
“No, I came in here hoping to find some new shoes.”
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Our Pizza was delicious and there was just enough left over to make a truly classic breakfast. No strawberries. No Olives. No Anchovies. Just some real Pizza.
Down the Hall on Your Left 
Ha! Love it!
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