Is there any food that's been more thoroughly traduced than the humble pizza? The giant gloopy messes now sold as pizzas around the world bear about as much resemblance to the simple Italian original as I do to George Clooney.
And amazingly, people keep coming up with new abominations. You'd think it would be difficult to do much worse than the list of toppings available at just about every takeout pizzeria in the UK. Pineapple! Sweetcorn!! Tandoori chicken!!! But you'd be wrong. On our recent visit to Warsaw we ate at one place, otherwise quite decent and restrained, that set a new benchmark for bad taste with a pizza topped with....banana!
That benchmark lasted less than a week. In among the mail on the doormat when we got home was a flyer from Pizza Hut, bragging about their latest gourmet innovation. If the cheese-stuffed crust didn't quite do it for you, they were now offering a pizza with a crust stuffed with hot dogs (and just a soupcon of cheese sauce).
The flyer warned that this foodstuff of mass destruction would be available "for a limited time only", the limit presumably determined by how long it took for all of the customers to suffer massive coronaries. Mi dispiace!
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