Fizzle

[caddyman]

It’s all really rather distressing: I may be developing an allergy to pizza.

Pretty much on the spur of the moment last night we decided to go to ASK for pizza rather than cook. We have a nice chicken in ready to roast, but that would have taken until after 10 pm and that’s probably a little late to sit down and eat a large meal. We toyed with other ideas, but the pizza won out.

All good stuff: a rather splendid calzone for me and a spicy pepperoni pizza for Miss Furtle. A couple of bottles of beer and then home to watch the taped Doctor Who. Splendid.

Except that I woke up around 2.30 this morning with acid indigestion. This has happened the past few times I have had pizza in an evening – at some point I wake up in the early hours and reach for the Remegel. This is rather disconcerting as pizza is one of the great culinary delights of our age. I am hoping that it might just be the time of day I ate it. Cheese on its own does not do this, unless consumed in industrial quantities. It is the splendid combination of doughy pastry, olive oil, cheese and toasty goodness that seems to do the trick.

Drat, drat and thrice drat.

Give up pizza or stock up on the antacids? No contest, really.

Comments

[pauln.livejournal.com]

I'm heading to buy shares in SSL International plc.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

I wonder what aspect of the pizza it is. You're right that cheese alone doesn't seem to do it. I thought maybe it was the takeaway place - cos they do huge portions, but ASK pizzas aren't the same style at all. What an affliction!

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

If you find a supplier, can you let me know? I miss pizza.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Someone else I know used to have a similar problem, but found that ordering thin crust instead of deep pan made a huge difference.

[lucyas.livejournal.com]

I often get indigestion after eating pizza too - and flatulence, which one does not want in company :(

[nortysarah.livejournal.com]

You might find it's something else - like the herbs you don't usually use or something. It took me years to work out that I'm allergic to wheat preservatives so bizarrely I can eat expensive or bakers bread, but cheapy nasty bread really makes my tum hurt. There's a brilliant book called 'A for additives' which lists all the e-numbers and side effects and what they're generally in. You might find there might be some other things that don't agree with you but you haven't noticed. Buy a couple of pizzas and write down everything on their labels - that's somewhere to start!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm relieved that I am not the only one going off pizza. I don't have the ailments but I just am not as enthusiastic as I was years ago. Pepperoni must be the most popular topping, as that's what turns up every time someone orders the stuff at work, and I just look at the things and walk away. Still, a local Italian restaurant does the most gratifying vegetable pizza, which I find I prefer to anyone else's meat-topping varieties. The onions, peppers, etc are far more tasty than boring old pepperoni. This is odd, as I do like meat. Still, a decent, thick, succulent sausage pizza always goes down well.

PARP!

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

It's the pizza base. being a yeast based doughy mixture it is guaranteed to gripe tums of a certain maturity. Especially when said mature person is of shall we say robust stature. Are you sure it's not the old gall bladder beginning to act up? after all you do fit four of the five Fs

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

Sounds to me like what they call Acid Reflux Disease, which I started suffering from a while back. You can keep it under control with Prilosec, which is available over the counter over here. I think its generic name is omeprazole. One tablet a day and you get no indigestion, no reflux and your breath smells better too. Highly recommended.