Pizza with extra toppings

[mtbc]

Pizza is in the British news at the moment as Public Health England is considering recommending calorie limits for various popular foods. Despite that, today I appreciated that to our margherita pizzas Miranda added extra toppings: anchovies for one and Danish blue cheese for the other, both of which I enjoyed. I suppose that the Department of Health and Social Care probably worry about our food's salt content too but blue cheese does need a fair bit of it.

Comments

[aldabra]

I don't even see how that would work for pizza. You buy a too-large pizza and eat it until you're full and microwave the rest for lunch the next day. Is this only a proposal for restaurants?

[mtbc]

Exactly: indeed I plan to have more of the said pizza today having already carefully calorie-counted it with the extra toppings, Miranda having been kind enough to weigh as she went. Or one shares with somebody else at the time: we rarely end up eating a whole separate order component ourselves: in our household for things like Indian and Chinese most of the little cartons get subdivided then we each get more variety if desired.

It very much looks intended to affect takeout. The least irritating related online news source that I find on this is The Telegraph who to my relief do not include a video. It mentions Domino's, Deliveroo, etc. I quietly boycotted the Domino's on Hills Road for a while: I went in, stood at the counter, watched the distant staff for quite some time, then being unacknowledged eventually got bored and went away again to replan dinner. I have found only in England the peculiar phenomenon of shops appearing to be open but the staff not behaving as if they too thought that.

[aldabra]

Yeah, so they make the portions smaller and you buy more of them.

I am reminded of WeightWatcher's chicken in orange, which was one of my go-to suppers at Oxford, except that you had to eat two of them.

Perhaps they're actually trying to reduce calories-per-mouthful, which might be possible.