{"id":14355,"date":"2004-02-03T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/cup-o-pizza\/"},"modified":"2004-02-03T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T17:36:00","slug":"cup-o-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/cup-o-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup o’ Pizza?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN<\/i> reports on the trend of Atkins dieters, AKA “Atkinites” or “carbovoids,” further eroding the American culinary landscape. First it was “bunless hamburgers” (Hello? That’s not a burger anymore; it’s just a slab of meat!), and now there is talk of low-carb pizzas.<\/a> Some restaurants are attempting to utilize “soy protein and other ingredients” in an attempt to produce a low-carb crust. At least that is a “breadlike-product,” but I’d be very surprised if it didn’t taste like crap. As one innovator of low-carb crust says, “Wipe away any memories of your old traditional pizza crust.”<\/p>\n

Reminiscent of the “bunless burger,” Bearno’s Pizza of Louisville, Kentucky “offers a crustless pizza on the usual circular baking pan.” I don’t get that one at all. Perhaps the most disturbing item mentioned was Escondido, California’s Pit Stop Pasta offering “what may be a traditionalist’s worst nightmare: ‘pizza in a bucket.’ It has all the pizza toppings placed in a crock or, for takeout customers, a metal can.” OK, this is just ludicrous, straight out of The Jerk<\/i><\/a>. Cup o’ Pizza<\/a>, anyone?<\/p>\n

I guess I can’t fault people for trying to stick to a diet while still eating food that they enjoy, but in some cases, those two things just need to be mutually exclusive. It is a diet, after all. I shouldn’t talk, as I could stand to trim down a little, but the Atkins Diet is definitely not for me…<\/p>\n

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CNN reports on the trend of Atkins dieters, AKA “Atkinites” or “carbovoids,” further eroding the American culinary landscape. First it was “bunless hamburgers” (Hello? That’s not a burger anymore; it’s just a slab of meat!), and now there is talk of low-carb pizzas. Some restaurants are attempting to utilize “soy protein and other ingredients” in … <\/p>\n

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