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Nutrition researchers in Europe investigating the eating habits of people suffering from cancer of the mouth, oesophagus, throat or colon, made an interesting finding with regard to eating pizza. 3,300 sufferers were questioned regarding their eating habits, and their answers compared to over 5,000 healthy respondents.[citation needed] Those who ate pizza at least once a week had less chance of developing cancer, they found.

Pomidors...

Can't remember the movie but there was a line that I always liked.

Sex is like pizza, even when it's bad it's still pretty good.

Test a new pizza place by their napolitane - if they can get that right, good. Most can't.
If they can do good dough, sauce and use good cheese and anchovies, the rest will be good too. If they can't get the simple stuff right, the fancy toppings are just disguise.

This is because pizza is wholly made up of

Cheese (Good source of protien and calcium)
Tomato sauce (Beta carontene and antioxidants)
Flour/Meat (Thiamin and other b vitamins)


I can just throw a "study" out there that those who eat pizza and follow a controlled calorie diet not only will lose weight, but have better blood preassure, a reduced risk of heart disease, and better cardiovascular health.


Now where the bugger is my paycheck?

UFOs are flying pizzas! or is it other way around?

locutius wrote on Feb 12^th, 2009 at 3:43pm:

Can't remember the movie but there was a line that I always liked. Sex is like pizza, even when it's bad it's still pretty good.

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Nutrition researchers in Europe investigating the eating habits of people suffering from cancer of the mouth, oesophagus, throat or colon, made an interesting finding with regard to eating pizza. 3,300 sufferers were questioned regarding their eating habits, and their answers compared to over 5,000 healthy respondents.[citation needed] Those who ate pizza at least once a week had less chance of developing cancer, they found.

Problem with these nutrition studies is they never bring clarity to the relationships of the instances of certain diseases and certain foods. There's probably some ingredient in pizza that does a whole lot of good (like tomato) but there's also a bunch of stuff that is garbage and you shouldn't be putting into your body at all (like refined flour) that does a whole lot of bad in other areas. I've really just started ignoring the press when they report on nutritional studies.

Pizza is great and I enjoy all forms of it, including the fast food varieties. Armenian "pizza", lahmacun, is delicious too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Lahmacun_being_served.JPG/800px-Lahmacun_being_served.JPG

finda1 wrote on Jul 16^th, 2010 at 12:07am:

locutius wrote on Feb 12th, 2009 at 3:43pm: Can't remember the movie but there was a line that I always liked. Sex is like pizza, even when it's bad it's still pretty good. :(

I think it was "Reality Bites"...that's the movie where she wants to be a writer and an editor asks her to define Irony....she can't.

[assuming the question had no answer at all]
Lelaina: Can you define "irony"?
Troy Dyer: It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.

Pizza in Rome for example bears no resemblance to your typical pizza from a take-away shop in suburban Australia.

The active ingredient (it's an antioxidant too) in tomatoes is the carotene "lycopene" which gives them their bright red colour, and if you have a teaspoon of tomato paste every day, it reduces the risk of prostate cancer in men.

I'm tired of broccoli journalism also, and think so long as we enjoy a sensible varied and nutritious diet and wash it all down with a daily supplement or two, hey, we cant go wrong!

btw, the above Lahmacun looks better than mine even....stunning!

Thaks for that, I now have a craving for it after having had a rather ordinary dinner  tonight.

ho-hum...  So will have Lahmacun tomorrow night I think.

:)..  Sometimes I cheat and make mine on leb-bread, but they are always better when you use the right base.

I would give anything to have a real wood pizza oven in my own back yard.

Also, is that a traditional Lahmacun, the base looks rather thick, different to the Lahmacun bases I have made, bought.

Or is that an Armenian pizza?

Either way, it looks stunning!

I eat mine with parsley, slices of white radish , chilly and fresh tomato slices, sprinkled generously with lemon juice.

I roll mine up with the crispy salad inside.

What's the Turkish or Armenian word for Bellissimo?

:)

mellie wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 8:37pm:

Also, is that a traditional Lahmacun, the base looks rather thick, different to the Lahmacun bases I have made, bought. Or is that an Armenian pizza? Either way, it looks stunning! I eat mine with parsley, slices of white radish , chilly and fresh tomato slices, sprinkled generously with lemon juice. I roll mine up with the crispy salad inside. What's the Turkish or Armenian word for Bellissimo? :)

Turkish is mükemmel. Don't speak any Armenian.

We decide which pizzas come here, not them.

Dirty Paki Khunt wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 10:25pm:

We decide which pizzas come here, not them.

The karnal pizza - thick and cheesey.

Not thin, hard and stale?

You missed your chance, Karnal. Your pizza is burnt, man.  ;D

muso wrote on Jul 20^th, 2010 at 9:13am:

You missed your chance, Karnal. Your pizza is burnt, man.  ;D

Yes - burnt out.

The best pizza shops are the ones who make Banana and Bacon pizzas...

The BEST pizza shops are the ones that sell smack under the counter.

http://www.pointsincase.com/articles/how-rob-house

Dirty Paki Khunt wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:44pm:

The BEST pizza shops are the ones that sell smack under the counter.

It just goes to show. I thought Smack was an an open-source library for XMPP messaging.  Google knows better.

Heroin eh?

Buddha walks into a pizzeria and says, “Make me one with everything.”

Soren wrote on Jul 27^th, 2010 at 5:11pm:

Buddha walks into a pizzeria and says, “Make me one with everything.”

Then the guy at the counter short-changes him and Buddha asks
-hey - where's my change?
sorry - change comes from within

Important to note that it was a european study.

Italian pizza bears little resemblance to australian pizza...the emphasis there is on good dough, good sauce and minimal toppings.  Here in oz we get rubbish dough, rubbish sauce disguised by mountains of toppings.

... wrote on Jul 29^th, 2010 at 3:40pm:

Important to note that it was a european study. Italian pizza bears little resemblance to australian pizza...the emphasis there is on good dough, good sauce and minimal toppings.  Here in oz we get rubbish dough, rubbish sauce disguised by mountains of toppings.

Yeah - there are regional variations of course, but the ones you get served with in Lazio are more like Chapatis or giant crisps with a bit of tomato paste smeared on, and dollops of moist cheese that are cooked, not melted like plastic. They don't lie flat on your plate.  Buffalo mozarella is the best.  ;)

Some of the bases remind me of the flat bread that's baked in the oven and come out like a balloon. You have to pop it.

... wrote on Jul 29^th, 2010 at 3:40pm:

Important to note that it was a european study. Italian pizza bears little resemblance to australian pizza...the emphasis there is on good dough, good sauce and minimal toppings.  Here in oz we get rubbish dough, rubbish sauce disguised by mountains of toppings.

And of course there is also the fact  'Pizza' was invented in America...not Italy....

gizmo_2655 wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 9:15pm:

... wrote on Jul 29th, 2010 at 3:40pm: Important to note that it was a european study. Italian pizza bears little resemblance to australian pizza...the emphasis there is on good dough, good sauce and minimal toppings.  Here in oz we get rubbish dough, rubbish sauce disguised by mountains of toppings. And of course there is also the fact  'Pizza' was invented in America...not Italy....

I think that depends on how you define what a pizza is....eesentially it's base, with sauce and toppings.  No doubt this combination was 'invented' before America was even discovered, but pizza as we know it in Australia was most definitely invented in America.

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