The House of Marinara

Over the next few weeks, I will be updating The House of Marinara with a few Greek restaurant reviews.

I will be heading to Greece this weekend along with Mrs. Marinara to celebrate 10 wonderful years of marriage. Mrs. Marinara made me promise not to bring my laptop; so no food postings from me. I will be posting trip updates on my sister site The Sadler Family Blog. I am also pleased to have a series of guest bloggers to bring a little variety while I am gone. And with all sincere apologies to iwishicouldcook, I will be updating you on my food escapades as soon as I return.

Thanks!

So I volunteered to help in the cooking line for a church breakfast on Saturday. I had been going back and forth with the organizer about when and where. Finally, I asked him the all important question about what is on the menu. I qualified the question by saying that I wanted to bring my own cooking tools. This surprised him a bit, and it made me very aware that I am in a small minority of people who are extremely picky about anything when it comes to food and food prep. I am not ashamed of this fact. Cooks and caterers do it all the time. Actually, it is fun to be an elitist in something.

This is a series where I mention the crappy foods that I actually like.

Today’s installment- The Flip Pepperoni Pizza at CiCi’s Pizza

Here is what it is, if you don’t know. Cheap, crappy dough topped with pepperoni and processed cheese sauce (think cheap Velveeta). The pizza is the folded over and topped with some garlic and parmesean-like cheese. Then it is baked and there you have….. Bliss! I don’t get it, but I can’t help it.

I have the joy of working in a cube next to Mike. Mike is a great guy, and he is one of those people who is filled with all sorts of facts and stories. The other day while discussing High Fructose Corn Syrup, he was telling me about how Coca Cola pulled a fast-one on the American public. As the story goes, Coca Cola removed its traditional product (made with cane sugar) from the shelves and replaced it with the now infamous New Coke. New Coke was disaster and was later replaced by what were told was the original recipe, Coca Cola Classic. The thing is that Coca Cola Classic was no longer made with cane sugar but instead with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Mike went on to say that this was due to tariffs imposed on cane sugar imports, and that there are places in the world, like Latin America, that still use cane sugar.