Cardboard Food

28 Apr 2008

·Dawn

What are we going to eat tonight? I'm not in a creative mood. Chinese noodles would be my own choice but the kids all want cardboard food. I've desperately tried to ween them off, they tell me it's full of good things. I don't really care if it's healthy or which extras the courier brings. You can keep your multiple toppings, they all look like fish paste to me. And whether it's stuffed crust or crispy, the cardboard's still cardboard, you see. Don't point towards healthy Italians and tell me that pizza's their bag. The ones who are lean eat the salads, the ones eating pizza just sag. And the only good reason for pizzas is to make something useful with dough that's been pounded with fists till it's tasteless, then tossed in the air, just for show. Or maybe they shattered their plates once, devised culinary cardboard instead. It wouldn't sell well if they told us so they gave it the name: Pizza Bread I'll pass, on the sunbaked tomatoes which look like cheap ketchup from here, forget the double cheese extras; they just hide the fish paste, I fear. Mind you all of my cupboards are empty and my kids are giving me the eye I suppose it is time I should try one Ok, pass me the list again. Sigh! Just for fun... thought it was time to be frivolous.

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Started writing poems at age 14, lyrics a lot later and am still doing both to my astonishment. Along the way I wrote a couple of novels and they are published by Amazon. I am gloriously happy in my marriage, after 50 years and I am relieved to say...

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