Go vote, order free pizza to your long line

Maybe you’re waiting in a gigantic line to vote in the election. You could hope and pray that something cool like Paul Rudd handing you a cookie happens, but that happened in Brooklyn and there’s no guarantees it happens again. Rudd’s a busy guy, and maybe you’re not even in Brooklyn. — Read the rest

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Apparently, the Coronavirus Is Coming for Our Pizza Toppings

“I’ll just hunker down and ride this out,” you said. “I’ll just call the pizza guy and get my vital nourishment delivered,” you said. But the coronavirus comes for everything that’s good.

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Source: https://gizmodo.com/apparently-the-coronavirus-is-coming-for-our-pizza-top-1844730048
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Pinsa pizza: What is the trendy style and is it really that new?

It’s been described as biting into a cloud

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Irish people have a very strange understanding of “pizza”

I’ve been a fan of Blindboy Boatclub since I first discovered “Horse Outside,” his hit(?) song with the Rubberbandits (and later, by complete happenstance, ended up staying at the same hotel that’s featured in the video). His podcast consistently delivers a random, rambling ménage à trois of weird knowledge, cultural connections, empathy, and utter hilarity, and his delightful short story collections take the traditions of Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien and thrust them erotically into the social media sphere.

Or, if you want a perfect microcosmic metaphor for his career, there’s this Twitter thread, where Blindboy talks about his  misconceptions of pizza while growing up in Limerick, which goes from silly childhood observation to profoundly resonant insight about cross-cultural communications in a post-colonial edge. And Ninja Turtles.

I finally had a pizza, It was on one of my childhood birthdays, a small frozen one from dunnes, my ma refused to put the oven on for it due to the extravagance of putting an oven on for one item. So she fried it in a pan instead.

— Rubber Bandits (@Rubberbandits) January 1, 2020

Blindboy was not alone in this strange experience, as the replies swiftly reveal:

I have a memory of my late grandfather taking us to get pizza at the Parkway Dunnes in Limerick in the early 90s. You assembled the toppings yourself, and he insisted on piling on a mound of ham cheese &sweetcorn to make a proper feed of it.

— Eoin Daly (@eoinmauricedaly) January 1, 2020

Because of TMNT I thought marshmallow and pepperoni was a proper pizza topping. So I asked my mum to top a standard frozen pizza with marshmallows and pepperoni. It was absolutely gross, as per the warnings I ignored previously.

— RappingPresence (@grumpy30ishnerd) January 1, 2020

Way way back in the day, before tomatoes were brought to Italy from South America, pizzas were made with garum, a delightful concoction made of fermented fish guts. Any fatty fish would do, but anchovies were preferred. So in a way you were right, just really really old school.

— AgTuíteáil (@LMacMuiris) January 1, 2020

I grew up in Irish-American family in New Haven, the birthplace of American pizza, so I had genuinely never thought about the appropriative abomination that might happen to those delicious pies in other places in the latter half of the 20th century.

But then my friend Darach Ó Seaghdha, host of the Motherfoclóir podcast, took this even further, with some deep-dive research into historical Irish newsclippings on pizza:

An article about “pizza” from the Evening Herald in 1974. pic.twitter.com/NuoG6fEs4L

— Darach (@darachos) January 1, 2020

In 1977 the Irish Independent suggested making pizza with a scone base.

Because scones are reassuringly Irish and familiar. pic.twitter.com/aBTNHFpZjc

— Darach (@darachos) January 1, 2020

SCONES.

Irish Press, 1966.

Pizza is a round cake filled with anchovies, tomatoes and cheese. pic.twitter.com/7P8W4PLRgK

— Darach (@darachos) January 2, 2020

CAKE.

Irish Press, 1971. A social diarist on the women’s page is impressed by a suave bachelor friend who offered her pizza. pic.twitter.com/T7oFdXYlGV

— Darach (@darachos) January 2, 2020

I knew that pizza was a versatile thing. I just … never thought about the ways that other places might interpret it before the Internet. My mind is sufficiently blown.

(Also I’m … kind of morbidly curious about that scone pizza)

Image via Jackie/Flickr and deliberately chosen to piss off my Irish friends who hate the American trend of dying everything green and calling it “Oirish.”

 

Source: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/07/irish-people-have-a-very-stran.html
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The time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial

In 1997, Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, needed some cash. So he made a Pizza Hut commercial. Of course there was more to the story than that, but not really so much. He reportedly received $1 million for the spot. “I thought that it is a people’ s matter — food,” Gorbachev told the New York Times after the filming. “This is why if my name works for the benefit of consumers, to hell with it — I can risk it.” Over at Foreign Policy, Paul Musgrave tells the tale:

Gorbachev had suffered the same fate as many Soviet retirees, who had looked forward to generous pensions only to find themselves forced to hustle and scrape to get by as the Russian economy collapsed around them—shrinking by 30 percent between 1991 and 1998. The foundation, too, was tottering, with even Gorbachev’s significant lecture fees unable to sustain both his family and the foundation and its staff, let alone any projects he might want to pursue to leave a legacy. Even generous donations from Ted Turner only went so far.

Gorbachev was determined to stay in Russia and fight for reform, not to take up a life of well-compensated exile abroad. To do that, he would need money to fund his center, his staff, and his activities—urgently. As Gorbachev later told France 24 when asked about the ad, “I needed to finish the building. The workers started to leave—I needed to pay them…”

(After months of negotiations,) Gorbachev finally assented—with conditions. First, he would have final approval over the script. That was acceptable. Second, he would not eat pizza on film. That disappointed Pizza Hut. “We always wanted the hero of the ad to eat the pizza,” (Pizza Hut ad exec Scott) Helbing said.

Gorbachev held firm. “‘As the ex-leader, I just would not,’” Helbing recalled Gorbachev saying.

(Katie O’Neill Bistrian, a talent rep at IMG who was representing Gorbachev) suggested a compromise: A family member would appear in the spot instead. Gorbachev’s granddaughter Anastasia Virganskaya ended up eating the slice. Pizza Hut accepted.

“Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle” (via Weird Universe)

Source: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/02/the-time-mikhail-gorbachev-sta.html
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