Rant #1,958: Eat to the Beat

Finally, this workweek is coming to a close.

This has been a very long, hard week in my neck of the woods.

That story I told you about earlier in the week, well, it still haunts all of us.

And I haven't even told you the half of it, and I probably never will.

So when I was deciding what to write about today, I figured I would write about something very, very light, something that we could all chew on and have a good laugh about.

Yes, that will be a cure, albeit a temporary one, for our ills.

And what better subject to talk about than pizza, one of the greatest comfort foods ever created by mankind?

It seems that on Wednesday, it was "Pizza Day" in Arkansas, but for all the wrong reasons.

Police in that state had to shut down the westbound lanes of a cross-country interstate highway, Interstate 30, for four hours so crews could pick up gobs and gobs of pizza that were ejected from an 18-wheeler that evidently scraped a bridge support and had its carriage sliced open.

The truck was too tall for the road, the pizza fell out all over the roadway, and "Pizza Day" in the state began in earnest.

What's more, this accident happened right in front of the Arkansas Department of Transportation office.

And by the way, the pizza that fell out of the truck were DiGiorno and Tombstone frozen pizzas, not the real thing to me, but decent substitutes if you are in a pizza pinch.

No one was hurt in the accident and the part of the highway that was involved suffered only cosmetic damage, so you can laugh about such an accident, in particular if you were looking at it from a bird's eye view like I am.

I am sure those who had to clean up this mess were not laughing too hard.

I do feel bad for those who were deprived of their pizza because it ended up in the roadway and not in their local supermarkets, and I also wonder what happens to the pizza after it is retrieved--does it go back in another truck and heads for its destination, or does it get thrown out?

I guess after four hours on the road, the frozen pizza had thawed out, and it becomes good for nothing better than pigeon food, if even that.

Humans shouldn't be eating it, but then again, humans eat some very funny things to survive, so why not frozen pizza that has thawed out on an interstate highway?

Give me New York pizza, or give me nothing!

Have a good weekend. Speak to you again on Monday.