pizza

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Cyn and I were at the pizza place down the street. A young mother and her mother were trying to keep the two rambunctious boys in control. At one point, the grandmother said, "if you don't get over here and eat your pizza, you don't get any ice cream!"

I found this to be a strange thing to say, because I didn't think you should get dessert if your dinner was pizza. But I guess that's just the way I was raised. So I started thinking about it. Maybe I don't get dessert after pizza because I've always just stuffed myself with it. Lately I don't eat that much, but I feel pizza is fattening enough by itself. But I still don't want to eat anything sweet after that because of all the cheese and grease and tomato and spicy pepperoni.

What about you? What are your pizza eating habits? How much do you eat, and do you have dessert afterwards?

Comments

[emschin.livejournal.com]

It is odd, isn't it. I wouldn't have offered kids both of those as "a meal".

I've heard of families who sometimes had just popcorn for the evening meal. That always seemed odd, too. For as long as I remember I've thought in terms of "protein, vitamens etc". I end up eating a lot of junk, at times, but I habitually "lay down a base" of healthy food.

[beadge.livejournal.com]

Does Beer count as dessert? *URP*

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, don't even get me started about the eating habits of children these days, argh!!!

I rarely have dessert after any meal any more, let alone after pizza. I eat pizza maybe once a month. R eats it more often but mostly not at my house. If we have pizza at my house she'll eat fruit afterward if she's still hungry, but not dessert (which she eats more often elsewhere, too).

[kingseyeland.livejournal.com]

pizza was such a delicacy when i was young, there was never any room for ice cream. kids these days need a good sound wallop.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

nooooooooooo no desert. I eat three pieces if I am hungry and the rest goes in the fridge to nibble on cold. I don't eat anything else with it because I have to really guzzle the water. I am not used to all the salt, and pizza with all that water on top of it swells me up for a few days.

One of the standard public school lunches in this area is pizza, french fries and a fruit cup (loads of sugar) and it horrifies me.

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

I guess it's really no different than preparing macaroni and cheese with hotdogs for your kid's dinner. A couple of cookies afterwards is still dessert.

[banana.livejournal.com]

I don't understand the problem. Why wouldn't you be allowed some ice cream after your pizza? I can see you might not *want* to, but that's different.