Tuesday, March 3, 2020

The Frozen Pizza


It’s 8:57 in the AM, and a crazy thought
entered my head. I’m thinking about having
frozen pizza for dinner. Screamin’ Sicilian

is the brand my son picked up at the Sun Fresh
Grocery last week. Pretty damned good for
store-bought frozen. Not as tasty as the freshly

made pizzeria kind, but certainly better than
no pizza at all. Now here’s the weird thought
which came to mind: I wondered about the

employee at the frozen pizza company who
is assigned to put the pepperoni slices on the
Pizza Supreme? Oh yes, there is sausage and

olives, peppers and shredded cheese on top
as well. And a thick crust of dough underneath
holding all the ingredients in place. A note in

fine print on the cardboard container states
that the toppings may shift in shipping. And in
removing the product from its box, I can attest

to that very happening. So, why did the guy or
gal responsible for placing the pepperoni so
precisely spaced even bother? Why not just

dump everything in a pile to one side? Seems
to me it would save time in properly positioning
each pepperoni aesthetically pleasing and pro-

portionately in place. Who knows, perhaps at
4 or 5 dollars an hour or whatever their pay,
the assembler just threw a pile of ingredients

to one side and blamed the disarray on shipping.
I straightened out the mess, preheated the oven
to 425-degrees, baked for 15-minutes and ate

the whole damn thing in one setting. Now all the
toppings are a jumbled up mess in my stomach
anyway. Go figure? Pretty damn tasty pizza though.

                                           -30-

Chris Hanch 3-3-2020

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