Warmest winter day and i’ve got the cold
Moan, moan, moan… but its true! 28 degrees and i come down with a cold! It’s one hour since work started in the UK and I can’t sleep a wink.
Still, we had a great time last night, at a Pizza Party organised by a friend of Rachel’s from ESO. She first held a pizza party in Hawaii, where, surprisingly, there is very little pizza (and none of it with pineapple). Being italian, she decided to learn how to make them from scratch and now makes a mean pizza base dough! She provides this and basic toppings (by basic, we mean Italian extravagance… roasted aubergines, pan-fried garlic with green peppers). Each person had to create and name their pizza.
After tasting each creation, we sat down to vote, over two rounds. Heckling, comments, bets, blackmail, collusion, slander, corruption and buying votes were permitted. Indeed, last year, it is said that one astronomer offered his children and his liver to win. But he was Italian too.
Extra, special toppings were encouraged. Strangely, Rachel and myself were the only ones to provide additional, adventurous toppings. Douglas’ pizza, called The Big Apple, included tomato sauce, chopped apple, peanut butter, mozzarella and black pepper. Rachel’s One-point Pizza included tomato sauce, spinach, mozarella and came complete with a marmite stuffed-crust!
Given our sacrilegious toppings and newcomer status, it probably isn’t a surprise to you that we earned no points and came joint last in the competition, despite offering a free jar of marmite/peanut butter to every participant if one of us won. But we left satisfied…. because a german won!