Pizza

>> Friday, May 15, 2009

Whenever we're I'm too lazy/tired to cook, we sometimes like to play pizza roulette. It works like this: you call up Telepizza or Pizza Gold (the two Nicaraguan pizza places in Masaya) and you request whatever toppings you want. Two times out of three you will get a pizza with missing ingredients, added ham, or both. 
This is a pizza we ordered a while ago; we asked for tomato (check) and garlic (missing) but not ham (it came with ham). The default pizza here is ham and ketchup, so we're at a big disadvantage if we want something else. This was a lot more frustrating when I was a vegetarian and was a leading reason why I switched back to eating meat, but it's still annoying now. 
This was temporarily solved when we ordered a lot from Pizza Gold. They got to know me as Don Paul; I would call, start talking, and they would cut me off and know immediately who I was, what we wanted, and where we wanted it delivered. When our sitemate John moved into our old house and ordered Pizza Gold, they were really confused why a different gringo wanted a different pizza delivered to Don Paul's house, but they eventually allowed it.

It's kind of sad to admit, but one of our favorite restaurants in Masaya is Papa John's... okay, it's our favorite, but there's not much else to choose from! It's a little pricey, but when we're ready to splurge, there's no better use of $15 than a large pepperoni from PJ's. It always comes exactly like we order it arrives right when they say it will on an awesome pizza moto.
A picture isn't even really necessary since it's exactly the same as in the US, but here it is:
Even though Papa John's isn't healthy, Nicaraguan, or cheap it's been a good comfort food for us and has been there to celebrate election day, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, and many other milestones during the last two years.

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