MDDM Ch. 23 Summary, Notes

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Maire makes an impromptu anchovy pizza in order to cover a *faux pas*
> and
> maintain his anonymity. It is "arguably the first British pizza"
> ever, and
> all seem to enjoy eating "those pointed things". (236)

A while back y'all were debating the base vegetable of ketjap. This
episode makes it clear, to me anywhay, that P is indeed expecting the
reader to make the ketjap/catsup/ketchup connection, and that ketjap is
tomato based. Just like the stuff labeled "Heinz 57".

I smiled rather broadly for several minutes, if I didn't quite laff out
loud, at the way P developed this cheap and juvenile jest over a long
span of many difficult chapters. The closure of this joke caps, for me,
the first section of the book. From here the focus of the narrative
shifts decisively to America, and it feels to me as though the whole
narrative turns upon the silly fulcrum of the loathsome "First British
Pizza". It is the Patriarch and Sire of a line of champion Vile Pizzas
that have flourished and afflicted Britain right to the present day.

FWIW
Mark

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