Vile Mystical Pizza (was Re: VLVL 4: War, politics and love)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> And Baba Havabanada is exploiting fourteen years old kids and sells
> pizza
> that shouldn't carry that name. I'd prefer the pizza from "Mason &
> Dixon" to
> this "slowest fast food in the region" (note the typical pynchonian
> combination of opposites).

I made M&D's "first British pizza" a few years back using a ginger &
molasses & soy recipe for the ket-jap sauce (tip: simmer the sauce down
until it gets thickish then refrigerate). My 9/10 year old son
pronounced it peculiar; I rather liked it even if it is peculiar and
might be called *vile* by someone who hates anchovies. I've made it
twice since for a friend of mine, who thought it was an incredible
edible and consumed mass quantities over Scrabble.
The moldy blue stilton and the anchovies are a wild combination! The
pie is salty and good with icy lager.

My high-school civics teacher, Rod Birleson, had a brother who was the
proprietor of what you might call an "alternative pizza purveyor" near
the campus of Antioch College in Ohio in the early '70s. He was said to
make pizza out of all sorts of things including bananas, pineapples,
conch-meat-modules, avocados 'n' sprouts, peanut butter, even *beets*
--- most anything really including some mystical ingredients the
customers would bring in themselves. Mushrooms! Hashish! Marijuana
trying to push back a bit into Oregano's territory (just for a
change)... Yum. Birleson, incidentally, was one of the backers of
Michael Moore's film "Roger & Me", which, even though my childhood
friend the Rabbit Lady starred, sadly was much less fun than "Withnail
& I", in which alternative intoxicants trigger truely majestic displays
of gustatory self-abuse.
Mark

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