Pizza!
A Blog Where Fierce Pizza Lovers Talk About Pizza
(and sometimes "Mad Men," too. But Mostly Pizza!)
Let's give a big Pizza! welcome to this week's guest-blogger, Burgrgrrl. Take it away, Burgrgrrl.
"against pizza"
posted by Burgrgrrl, 29 July 2010 at 14:21
pizza is to food as a swimming pool is to a warm bath. i dont love pizza. much as i love cheese. much as i love tomato sauce. much as i love crust... i *still* dont love pizza. pizza is a cheesy saucy privileged circle of imperialism flung at the marginalized foods/F-oodes/fudz of this world...
my friend kaiserroll said this on my previous post, and its my new favorite statement ever:
"So dont tell me you're a pizza lover. Your pizza never did a thing for me, or my burger, or my new england clam chowder (all white and creamy good.) Your pizza never did a thing for my panini, or my taco.
You know what? Fuck pizza and pizza lovers. There, I said it."
its all about radical love for the food/F-oodes/fudz, or what. anyway. radical love. the end.
COMMENTS:
pepperoni65:
Um, why was someone who hates pizza invited to write for a pizza blog?
tartarsauce:
@pepperoni65: it's all up there in Burgrgrrl's post. Why don't you read before you get angry?
Fresh Basil:
Wow. This blog is supposed to be a safe place for pizza lovers of all kinds. A post that says "fuck pizza and fuck pizza lovers" might be upsetting to some.
KaiserRoll:
This isn't all about you and your privileged shoesies, Fresh Basil. Where's MY safe space? You "pizza lovers" with your fresh basil and sundried tomatoes and fucking brick ovens come on here whining about safe spaces. Well I hold you directly responsible for all the marginalized kids in the midwest who only have Domino's and Chucky Cheese. Mull that over! Directly responsible, Ms. Pizza!
pepperoni65:
Again, if Burgrgrrl and her friends don't like pizza, why are they here? Why invite someone who clearly has hostility toward pizza to write for a blog called "Pizza!" Not getting enough page views lately or what?
Mozza Rella (Moderator):
@pepperoni65 and Fresh Basil: Burgrgrrl was invited to guest-blog here because she is a tireless worker for marginalized foodstuffs the world over. Read her post before you react; it's all in there. Institutionalized pizza has hurt the foods/fudz that Burgrgrrl advocates for. Just because you identify as a pizza lover doesn't give you the right to come in here and whine without listening.
Cheese:
Ain't pizza a food?
Crusty:
You guys, I really think we need to step back and listen to viewpoints from food advocates who have been harmed by pizza. Burgrgrrl is trying to open up a dialogue here. I for one think this is a great post. I love your writing, Burgrrgrrl. Hearted. So hearted. <3 <3 <3
Fresh Basil:
How is saying "fuck pizza and fuck pizza lovers" opening up a dialogue?
KaiserRoll:
Sigh. Again Fresh Basil, this isn't about you! It's all up there in the o.p.! Didn't you read? It's about radical love for non/pizza food/F-oode/fudz.
tartarsauce:
@Fresh Basil: check your privilege, asshole.
pepperoni65:
Oh, I see. "Fuck pizza and pizza lovers" = radical love.
Mozza Rella (Moderator):
Okay, I've read back through the thread and I can see why some who identify as pizza lovers might have been upset by this post. But you have to understand how advocates for marginalized foods/fudz and/or foodstuffs have been denied a safe space to speak their minds. Don't you see? It's all there in Burgrgrrl's post. We all need to listen to one another without overreacting. Also, I have a full-time job and I can't be expected to deal with this crap.
Anchovy:
Maybe the reason people keep having to explain Burgrgrrl's post is that it doesn't make any sense.
tartarsauce:
Whoah! Check-ity-check-check your PRIVILEGE, Anchovy!
Mozza Rella (Moderator):
Anchovy has been banned.
17 comments:
Fuck anybody who bans Anchovies!
Anchovy, via hir attitude, was directly responsible for the demise of the 'smore.
SNERK, snerkity, snerkins.
I heart you...Always.
Even if I hate whatever it is i'm supposed to hate here...or love..or love radically...or...
WHATEVER!
Sigh. This isn't about YOU, okay? Just kidding! Thanks Eileen.
Oh and, you're supposed to love food, but hate Pizza (as opposed to pizza) because mainstream Pizza has been harmful to so many marginalized foods.
This is food justice 101 stuff, Eileen. I'm surprised at you. ;)
I just love chawclet...and I don't see no discushun about chawclet here, so I am so confused. I mean, I eat food and stuff, but really, I'm only concerned about chawclet, and pizza has dissed chawclet bad. Real bad.
So I hate everything but chawclet, which is all I really know or care about, and if you weren't so effin pizza centered and priveleged an shit, you'd be more open and aware of my radical message of chawclet love.
I'm just sayin'. ;-P
(Moderator)
This. I think it's great that you've come in here to school us with your chawclet love. We abjectly apologize for our Pizza-centrism. While we continue to call our blog Pizza!, we will try to weed out the Pizza lovers and only keep the pizza lovers. It's all about open minds, people.
I am with anchovy. Fuck anyone who can't be bothered to capitalize, spell and use some semblance of grammar.
Go ahead, call me the grammar oppressor, the voice of the ones who get to name the grammar.
I'm gonna call you The Gramma'pressa for short.
So because I couldn't not wade back in to the stinking morass that inspired this little post, I've begun to suspect what the problem is. And it is this:
Mainstream Feminism (aka the feminism of the "privileged" or white ladies) is ONLY about defending abortion and being child-free. (No matter that many of us "privileged" types said, "uh, wait a minute, I have kids too.")
The feeling among the "marginalized" women seems to be that white women want women of color to stop breeding. But they won't go so far as to say that outright.
They've bought the right-wing myth of what feminism is, and they don't even know it. But if I say anything, I'll get crucified. So fuck it.
Pizza.
...and her newest post is about Palestine. Talk me down, please.
That needed to be said, and to several constituencies that I can think of. Thank you for your brilliance, PJ. I <3 U.
Also, chawclet is not a real fud. Technicalli, it is candi. I don't mean any disrespect to Eileen but I don't think we should allow posts about non-fud items on this safe food space. Just sayin'.
Sigh. This isn't about YOU and your safety, Lindy. Where's EILEEN'S safe space? I'm just sayin'.
Heh. Thanks. I did enjoy writing those faux comments. I know pizza isn't really analogous to feminism, but hey.
And, I <3 you too. So hearted!
You nailed it PJ.
And those who doing schooling, don't want to have to step back and um, be schooled about their school.
Oh, and my Lindsay..I was soooo waiting for someone to pick up on the non-food status of chawclet!
The world, she is so damn complicated. Can't we all just get along?
Bottoms line, we rule and fools drool.
Yeah, basicalli we rule.
PJ - I just came back over here to say that I liked this and I think youz a genius.
PS - My Captcha was wicwaan, non-fud item to be sure.
Peeeee Jaaaaaay...
Write something for me. I be so sad when I come over here and you not be blogging. Please blog again.
PS - captcha is fartion. A really small one, like a fart ion. Oops, I just let out a fartion. LOL. I love that!
Now, of course, I am tempted to sign in under an assumed name.
Okay Lindy... just for you, I'll try. I really did finish my novel (first draft) which is something I never quite believed would happen. So I've been revising it. Very satisfying feeling! Besides, after yesterday I think I should never open my mouth on the internet again. ;)
Actually, I am pretty sure it is OTHERS who should not open their mouths on the internet again. And, Lillian Daniel should just be banned from speaking.
I can't wait to walk into the book store and buy your book. It'll be available on Kindle, right?
<3
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