Pizza mythology

Delicious angles
London, ON
February 2026
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Pizza isn’t necessarily the optimal dietary choice, but I’d hate to go through life without the occasional slice. Or in this case, four slices.

It can be a comfort food, the meal choice that takes us back to moments we remember with the warm texture of nostalgia.

Many years ago, my first date with a really cute girl was at a local pizza restaurant. I fretted mightily over where we should go, and eventually settled on pizza as the least risky choice. No exploding raviolis or dangling spaghetti. No bits of salad stuck in my teeth.

It must have worked, because she married me. To this day we laugh about her never agreeing to a second date after a particularly messy meal choice, but she always gently corrects me, saying I’d get the millionth date no matter what’s on the menu.

Which explains why it’s pizza that grabs at my heartstrings whenever it comes up in the meal roster. It’s one culinary choice that reminds me how it all started, how it’s going now, and why sweet moments in life don’t always come with a dietician’s seal of approval.

I’d choose it again for any date with her, thankful as I’ve always been that I got the second date.

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