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B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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You are three quarters of the way through a pizza. You have two mouthfuls of appetite left.
Do you go for the middle or the crust?
If you don't eat pizza - no problem, I'm not over keen either. Think carbs v other.
In London. Keen but lazy.

Absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with gardening and totally unscientificšŸ• 34 votes

Crust
17%
madpenguinBlue OnionLG_Mary370SuesynBiglad 6 votes
Middle
82%
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Have you explained to him that his body is not a dustbin? @pansyface
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Middle
    Is it really a question? There was a time when I wasn't able to eat a whole pizza in a restaurant/pizzeria and was too shy to ask to have 1 or 2 pieces packed. So I ate only the middle and left the crust. It's there for technical reasons only, isn't it?
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Crust
    I love crusts, toast, bread, pizza, pies......yum
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We eat pizza maybe once a year and in a local restaurant that sells them by size so no leftovers, even for me, and I tend to go for a savoury galette anyway.
    VendƩe - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    pansyface said:
    I go for the middle because I know that my OH will be guaranteed to eat the crust rather than see it thrown out for the birds.

    He is so incapable of throwing food away that I have actually seen him taking stale cheese out of the box we keep for bird food and eating it.Ā 

    It comes from a deprived childhood.šŸ˜Š
    Mine is exactly the same! Ā Canā€™t leave anything, he was born on a small struggling farm, last one of 5 children so everything had to go 7 ways.Ā 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Neither.Ā  If I had only two mouthfuls of appetite left, I'd save them for a pudding.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2020
    It depends ... if itā€™s one of my really thin really crisply baked sourdough pizzas like the one weā€™ve just had ...Iā€™ll take my time, pour another glass of wine and eat it all ... slowly šŸ˜‹


    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We weren't rich by any means. We weren't posh enough for a fruit bowl but we never went without food. I have three brothers. Any goodies available, you ate immediately or someone else would have them. My husband was one of two. He leaves the best on his plate til last. He was absolutely gobsmacked when IĀ  nicked the saved sausage off the side of his plate. "I thought you didn't want it" I said straight faced.
    It's so sad that childhood deprivation still haunts people into comfortable adulthood.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Middle
    I have the habit of leaving the last two mouthfuls on the side of the plate. Also tea. Nearly always. It drives my friend mad. She lost much of her family to the holocaust and they have deep scarring from it, which includes they have an inability to throw food away. It creates intense anxiety.Ā 

    I have relied on food as a major comforter all my life and so had little real knowledge of what my actual hunger and appetite were doing. Now I have a better relationship with food, though I still serve myself too much. So often, towards the end of a meal, I ask myself and check, am I actually hungry still? The answer is usually, no. I often put the last bit of rice etc back in the fridge for the next day.

    I'm not into bread, pizza, pastry etc. My father, who grew up in a very poor Jamaican household was always puzzled. "You don't drink or eat bread? Bread and wine are the stuff of life!" he would say. Yes indeed. If I'd grown up in the war, like my parents, I would no doubt have a different trajectory. Chronic illnesses have pushed me down a different path.


  • islandanchoressislandanchoress Posts: 238
    B3 said:
    Have you explained to him that his body is not a dustbin? @pansyface
    An interesting angle and really pizza is junk food so who is talking about dustbins now!!!! I would not insult my body with pizza..Ā 
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