I like pizza.

**Diehard** · December-04-09, 03:40 PM

This is a challenge to CC and dfunky, and anyone else who wants to play.

How can you spin the statement "I like pizza?" Can CC make it into an evil socialist plot to take away our liberties and destroy the free market? Can dfunky find a way to claim that my liking pizza means that all liberals are racists? Can anyone use it to debunk global warming?

Anyone else who wants to take a crack at spinning it in any direction, go for it. This could be fun.

Aaaannnnnnd..... GO!

**slick** · December-04-09, 03:51 PM

I like Pizza

Is it healthy pizza?
veggie and whole grain crust?
is it corporate pizza,
degoirno, or someother food company?
is it supporting your small business man on the corner?
is it a corporate monster using all their profits to buy up
downtown Detroit property!

need to refine it more than I like Pizza.

**d.mcc** · December-04-09, 04:01 PM

I bet Obama likes pizza, but he thinks all Americans should eat Chicago style deep-dish... Next thing you know, he'll be trying to force his pizza preferences on all the citizens of the United States. He should let free market choices dictate which type of pizza Americans like, instead of subsidizing one kind. New York and Detroit style deserve a fair shot...

**ghettopalmetto** · December-04-09, 04:09 PM

Pizza, by being cut into slices, is socialist by its very nature. Who does the pizza maker think he is, implying that I should share my pizza with anyone else?

**Diehard** · December-04-09, 04:11 PM

Let me try one...

Pizza? Pizza is what's wrong with America today! All those kids sitting around eating pizza and playing video games and getting fat! And those fat kids grow up to be pizza-gobbling fat adults!
I bet this so-called "pizza lover" is morbidly obese and diabetic, sucking at the public teet of Medicaid and collecting disability benefits, all because he or she doesn't have the willpower to put down the pizza! Isn't that the typical me-first mindset we've come to expect in this country? I want my pizza, and I expect the rest of the country to pay for it!

ccbatson · December-04-09, 04:43 PM

Easy..."I" expression of individuality to be suppressed by collectivists. "Like", unacceptable as the good of the many outweigh the good of the one under collectivism. "Pizza" dairy product from methane producing cows, tomatoes and herbs grown where corn could have been used to make fuel, and...of course, it comes from [[not Italy) Communist China.

**elganned** · December-04-09, 04:50 PM

The others were good, but you're still the master, Cc. Nobody can put right-wing spin on a statement like you can. Must be those years of practice.

Only one small critique: you neglected to ascribe the almost universal love of pizza to brainwashing by the liberal media.

ccbatson · December-04-09, 04:53 PM

I thought you would like that foray into self deprecating absurdity.

Pizza is natively tasty...therefore it must be stopped.

**Diehard** · December-04-09, 04:57 PM

Good one. Now I'm dying to see what dfunky's got.

Stosh · December-04-09, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by ccbatson

I thought you would like that foray into self deprecating absurdity.

Pizza is natively tasty...therefore it must be stopped.

Once again reinforcing your obstructionist status.

**Corn.Bot** · December-05-09, 09:41 AM

Personally, I would like to know what the political/social/cultural differences are between square pizzas, and round.

**East Detroit** · December-05-09, 02:09 PM

Good of ccBatson to admit his rap is just schtick.

**turkeycall** · December-05-09, 02:58 PM

Whether there's anything in them or not, those pizza oven are at 600 degrees all day long. They have to vent to the atmosphere. Think of all the greenhouse gasses they are producing.

But the pizza guys don't care about the environment. As a matter of fact, pizza shop owners are wild about global warming. They hope the thoery is true. If they keep blasting away with their ovens, maybe the earth will warm up so much that they can bake the pizzas in the unfiltered sunlight. What capitalist pigs!

Bearinabox · December-05-09, 03:37 PM

There are experiences I've had that prove to me there is considerably more to pizza that meets the eye...or any other of our basic five senses.

I've been on some knowledge quest since age ten and have assembled some curious data...that is seriously contrary to what many hold as truth and reality. Wildly contrary and possibly dangerous to everyone's well-being...and I feel compelled to warn against it as best I can. I am at a loss of what to do, I just know that something is up...of that there is NO question.

In my continual studies on that quest...including a lifelong inexplicable utter fascination with the composition of pizza crust and the viscosity of tomato sauce...I've found too many trends that point to something 'other' happening in plain sight, yet many others simply either cannot perceive it or choose to ignore it.

As a more solid basis for my thesis, let me lay down a few solid truths:

It is proven fact that our government illegally grabbed as many Italian pizza chefs as they possibly could after WWII.

It is also proven fact that a significant black operation was begun that included live testing of new topping combinations on unsuspecting human subjects.

One of the portions of this anti-human study included manipulation and feeding of people, against their will.

[[I'm pretty fond of free will, and defend it fully whenever I'm not eating pizza!)

The most successful public implementation seems to be through Electro-Magnetic radiation of certain frequencies, feeding the body pizza through a PROVEN sixth sense that most people still think is imaginary...and they are chased away from investigating nearly anything related to it by an angry Italian with a wooden spoon!

I see that the Italians [[I have no better term to use) have succeeded thus far in feeding pizza to the largest portion of the masses in this country, and possibly beyond. There is NO other conclusion for me to make with the pizza I've gathered.

Some of the main players in this exist deep within the TOP SECRET portion of our own government. They are protected by nested layers of thick, gooey mozzarella and grease-coated pepperoni.

It is absolutely huge...

Through some incognito visits to the clandestine network of tunnels connecting Buddy's to a bunker underneath the Detroit River, I've discovered some very curious and amazing things...that help PROVE that this group exists and is actively attempting to carry out the most devious and destructive of their plans to make pizza...not unlike Orwell's 1984 in application, but much tastier when finished.

So, I believe I stumbled upon the fringes of a plan for world domination. The CIA mapped a route to the original pizza ovens in Italy, one of the enigmas of our existence! [[they were not made by Italians, nor any sooner than 1975)

I'd like to know why...and this whole post is an attempt to see if putting this story together will make the crust any crispier.

Will anyone notice...will anyone care?! It always seems to fall on deaf ears...or full mouths. I postulate that eating pizza laced with cheese and major complex man-made/derived tomato products...leads one to more easily believe everything you've been taught. Makes one dull and automatic, unable or willing to pursue complex thought. Might get in the way of understanding all of this theory or story! [[don't get me started on eating too many bread sticks!)

So...hope that helps some, this post is a rough outline of a grand story I've been researching and writing all of my adult life.

Cheers,

Bearinabox

Stosh · December-05-09, 03:51 PM

I applaud you. A masterpiece.

ccbatson · December-05-09, 04:31 PM

We need Gannon's take on this one.

**ghettopalmetto** · December-05-09, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by ccbatson

Easy..."I" expression of individuality to be suppressed by collectivists. "Like", unacceptable as the good of the many outweigh the good of the one under collectivism. "Pizza" dairy product from methane producing cows, tomatoes and herbs grown where corn could have been used to make fuel, and...of course, it comes from [[not Italy) Communist China.

Wow. I never knew that Napoli was located in Communist China!

You learn something new every day on the DYes forums.

ccbatson · December-05-09, 04:41 PM

Yep...started in China...Italy later.

Stosh · December-05-09, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by ccbatson

Yep...started in China...Italy later.

You are wrong. Really wrong.

Flatbread was being used in the Middle East and Greece long before Marco Polo ever brought it [[allegedly) to Rome. While there may be a "special" kind of flatbread from China, I doubt it had any influence, as leavened bread was being baked long before that

The import of tomatoes from Peru enabled the two to be mated together to form PIZZA, not flatbread. That happened in Italy, not China.

ccbatson · December-05-09, 04:54 PM

Controversial:

http://go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/gohrw_rls1/...1%20Pizza%2013

1300s brought to Greece from China, therefore has origins in China prior to that date.

Stosh · December-05-09, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by ccbatson

Controversial:

http://go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/gohrw_rls1/...1%20Pizza%2013

1300s brought to Greece from China, therefore has origins in China prior to that date.

Which is the precise site I went to before I posted.

Note, that I said pizza, not flatbread. By definition, it's with tomato sauce. This is pizza, not some Chinese invention, from your website:

The first modern pizzas were invented in Naples, Italy. The poor people of the town made several kinds of pizzas, but the first official pizza was made for Her Majesty the Queen Margherita. Raffaele Esposito made a special pizza to honor the Italian flag that had white mozzarella cheese, red tomato sauce, and fresh green basil. It became so popular that it is still sold today as Pizza Margherita.

**Corn.Bot** · December-05-09, 07:08 PM

My eyes were moving too fast over a post, above, and I read two words as one:

flatbread + influence = flatulence

Sonny Eliot could not have said it better. Positively Freudian. And if not that, blame the pepperoni.

**Pam** · December-05-09, 07:52 PM

Interesting story Bear, but I have a question. Who is the guy looking at the camera with his elbow in the giant pizza? Is that a signal that he is a time traveler or from another dimension?

**3WC** · December-05-09, 08:46 PM

Pelosi and Reid took a 6 slice pizza and cut it into 24 pieces; they believed they enlarged the size of the pizza and everyone could have 4 times as much.

Obama doesn't even like pizza, which proves he was not born in the U.S.

andybsg · December-06-09, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by Bearinabox

There are experiences I've had that prove to me there is considerably more to pizza that meets the eye...or any other of our basic five senses.

I've been on some knowledge quest since age ten and have assembled some curious data...that is seriously contrary to what many hold as truth and reality. Wildly contrary and possibly dangerous to everyone's well-being...and I feel compelled to warn against it as best I can. I am at a loss of what to do, I just know that something is up...of that there is NO question.

In my continual studies on that quest...including a lifelong inexplicable utter fascination with the composition of pizza crust and the viscosity of tomato sauce...I've found too many trends that point to something 'other' happening in plain sight, yet many others simply either cannot perceive it or choose to ignore it.

As a more solid basis for my thesis, let me lay down a few solid truths:

It is proven fact that our government illegally grabbed as many Italian pizza chefs as they possibly could after WWII.

It is also proven fact that a significant black operation was begun that included live testing of new topping combinations on unsuspecting human subjects.

One of the portions of this anti-human study included manipulation and feeding of people, against their will.

[[I'm pretty fond of free will, and defend it fully whenever I'm not eating pizza!)

The most successful public implementation seems to be through Electro-Magnetic radiation of certain frequencies, feeding the body pizza through a PROVEN sixth sense that most people still think is imaginary...and they are chased away from investigating nearly anything related to it by an angry Italian with a wooden spoon!

I see that the Italians [[I have no better term to use) have succeeded thus far in feeding pizza to the largest portion of the masses in this country, and possibly beyond. There is NO other conclusion for me to make with the pizza I've gathered.

Some of the main players in this exist deep within the TOP SECRET portion of our own government. They are protected by nested layers of thick, gooey mozzarella and grease-coated pepperoni.

It is absolutely huge...

Through some incognito visits to the clandestine network of tunnels connecting Buddy's to a bunker underneath the Detroit River, I've discovered some very curious and amazing things...that help PROVE that this group exists and is actively attempting to carry out the most devious and destructive of their plans to make pizza...not unlike Orwell's 1984 in application, but much tastier when finished.

So, I believe I stumbled upon the fringes of a plan for world domination. The CIA mapped a route to the original pizza ovens in Italy, one of the enigmas of our existence! [[they were not made by Italians, nor any sooner than 1975)

I'd like to know why...and this whole post is an attempt to see if putting this story together will make the crust any crispier.

Will anyone notice...will anyone care?! It always seems to fall on deaf ears...or full mouths. I postulate that eating pizza laced with cheese and major complex man-made/derived tomato products...leads one to more easily believe everything you've been taught. Makes one dull and automatic, unable or willing to pursue complex thought. Might get in the way of understanding all of this theory or story! [[don't get me started on eating too many bread sticks!)

So...hope that helps some, this post is a rough outline of a grand story I've been researching and writing all of my adult life.

Cheers,

Bearinabox

Well played BinB. This deserves a hall of fame thread all its own. Tponetom couldn't beat this yarn.