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May 05, 2007
The Pizza Cone is a horrible concept
Pizza corner, over in Spencer's Junction in Trivandrum placed some fliers the front desk of the Ginger hotel. The fliers, about 4x7, show calzones, focaccia, pizza sandwiches and pizza cones. Nowhere do they show an actual pizza. I'm not even sure that they make it. I spent some time this morning trying to decide which was less appealing: the pizza sandwich or the pizza cone. Eventually I went with the pizza cone, which looks a bit like an ice cream cone, with a thicker, doughy base stuffed with wads of white cheese, red and green bell peppers, and mushrooms. It is the next best thing to saying "Look, I don't know what I want to eat this afternoon, why not just give me cheese in a tube?" Anyway, the pizza corner people call it a Conizza, which is not the most inspired name. What happened to "Cheese Horn" or "Pizza Round Spear Tip" or "Cheese Rocket." I'd buy a cheese rocket. It's the sort of thing a kid would ask for and eat while riding his radio flyer bike back to the picket fence house with the TV antenna in the kitchen at the end of the dirt road near the baseball diamond.
| By jb | 12:14 AM
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from "The Jerk" (1979):
Navin: Yeah, I got all this stuff from the old Cup 'o Pizza place before they tore it down.
Marie: Good pizza.
(the two of them are eating pizza in a cup)
Navin: Oh, this is the best pizza in a cup ever. This guy is unbelievable. He ran the old Cup 'o Pizza guy out of business. People come from all over to eat this.
(they exchange glances)
Navin: You know, you have beautiful skin. May I?
Marie: Yes.
(he squishes her cheeks)
Navin: So smooth yet flexible.
Posted by: will at May 5, 2007 01:11 AM
Yeah, I loved that movie. I had totally forgotten about that scene. There is a pub quiz question in that scene somewhere...
Posted by: jb at May 5, 2007 08:09 AM