h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>> The mobious strip baguettes were a bit of a let down though... <<

Those are called pretzels, mate.

~jwf~

Pretzils? two foot long and four inch across? I'm going to make a dodecahedron (however its spelt) olive ciabata next... or, square pittabread

has the Cornish pastey tax come in yet? I'm thinking of getting one from the bakery in a little while

I had the idea of making a e in the shape of a tesseract, only I couldn't work out where to put the filling.

On the outside, possibly.

In America, where bigger is too often better,
they consider a fist sized pretzel to be standard.
Pretzels aren't just nibbly bits, but big munchies.

There's lots of big pretzels in Google images.

But I got hung up on this entry: a mobius steak!

http://www.mronionsneighborhood.com/2011/06/mobius-steak-accepting-delicious-defeat.html


~jwf~

Just like the outside in pizza... an idea so wrong it is right (err think a pizza made as if it was a cornish pastey, all the 'topping' of the pizza, basically in the middle of the 'pizza base', which is, of course, made round, and 'wrapped' roudn the filling which was preiouvsly topping....) actually... huh... no I think that vaguely makes sense, in the same way a mint leaf, standing alone on a plinth, idley gazing at the crowds on market day, might, were the wind so inclined to assist, consider the lonely crumb from a fallen cornish pastey, as the earthly realisation of the demise and restoration of that which once was able to within sustain that which within which did about all pertain. err as my Nan used to say...

I think the guys who make pizza already have that covered. They call it 'calzone'.

(which means 'slipper', btw)

I always think of them as big, edible version of Findus Crispy Pancakes.

'calzone'? I have never heard of that before... maybe its not made it to this part of the country/world yet...

Eek! They're not a newfangled innovation or anything. They're, like, proper Eye-talian.

For thems as doesn't like cheese and tomato, there's always 'lahmacun', which is sort of an Arabic mince pizza.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahmacun

In Scotland we'd think of this as an inside out Forfar bridie.

I had my saw my first 'calzone on a menu and tried one in Kathmandu

There! They've reached Kathmandu but not (where is it) East Angular. 'The Land That Pizzas Forgot'.

Pizzas are banned from East Angular. They're afraid of them boosting the flatness quotient to meltdown levels.

There isn't a single takeaway in Cambridge which knows how to cook a pizza. They're all raw in the bass in the middle, and thereby indigestible Strange though... Perfectly decent ones down the road in Norwich

Ah. Now. I *definitely* once ate a calzone in an Italian restaurant in Cambridge, overlooking the Market Square. It was about a quarter century ago, mind.

Odd, the things you remember. OK - *I* remember.

I remember some odd things... Like when I was burrowing a tunnel underneath a hospital... well... I think I remember that... didn't seem to feature any kind of pizza though, nor pies now I come to think of it... the pies were one of the only edible things in the student canteen I found at Manchester uni when I was there I think...
Best pizza I had was in Bristol in 2004... mmmm...
I'm still annoyed though, my friends wouldn't let me climb onto the sides of the clifton suspension bridge I'd not have fallen... probably..

I prefer Calzones.Easier to keep all the toppings in one place and no one can nick the best ones..like they do with an ordinary pizza.

Hang on. Have I got this right? 2legs was tunnelling underneath a hospital in an abortive attempt to steal pies?

You know...I can well believe it.

....tunnelling out of a secure hospital possibly

........

I only thought I was tunnelling... Turned out, when I spoke to the tractors, that I'd only been digging a big hole in a field so I could bury the sardines safely... I could do with a pie about now... minc and onion in gravey in short crust or steak and kidney yep... steak and kidney