Pizza!  Is one of the greatest food items ever created.  I’ve loved pizza my whole life and it’s been part of some defining moments in my life.  I’ve eaten the worst pizza on earth at the Navy Exchange Cafeteria in Yokuska, Japan while going to high school there as a Navy brat.  I’ve spent many a Friday evening in high school eating pizza at Fillippi’s in Lemon Grove, California after Mount Miguel High School football games.  In 1982 when I gave up drinking I even thought I’d never be able to eat pizza again because the thought of not having a beer with my pizza was beyond my understanding.

Tonight was another of those defining moments.  Pizza without meat!  I’m sure I broke some obscure law of nature with a veggie pizza.  It has to be so.  But what’s worst of all is that I actually enjoyed it.  This will have to be our little secret.  Now before anyone thinks I’ve gone off the deep end and become a vegetarian I’d still prefer a pizza loaded with sausage but for Meatless Monday this was one darn good pizza.

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