Pizza-athon

As we headed to Italy in late September, Kane made a pact with himself. He vowed to eat as many pizzas in our three week trip as he possibly could.

Let me back up and tell you that Kane loves pizza. He loves all pizza, be it American, Australian, Italian, or frozen. Bread, tomato sauce, cheese. His very favorite is Margherita pizza, but I think he'll eat just about any kind happily. We had “pizza Fridays” in Melbourne where we would patronize his very favorite pizza place ever, Medici, on the ground floor of our building. I would wager that he could eat pizza every day for eternity and still have a huge smile on his face on the millionth bite.

So, in the land where pizza was invented (if not perfected), Kane vowed to gorge himself.

We were in Italy for 20 days, but the first and last were the travel days in and out, so we're only really counting 18 full days of Italian tourism. And therefore, 18 days were available for pizzas to be consumed by Kane. His initial goal was to have a 3:2 ratio of pizzas to days, meaning 3 pizzas every 2 days, or 1.5 pizzas a day average. It was plain pretty soon that this would be very difficult. I will take the blame and say that if I weren't there to fuss over food and insist on not constantly eating pizza, he probably could have done it. My digestive system, however, is not as resilient as his; I need other kinds of food too.


And so, over the 18 days we were walking, talking, and eating Italian, Kane consumed a whopping... 25 pizzas. Yes I photographed every single pizza he ate just so that this collage could be made. Isn't it impressive? Isn't it gorgeous?? I think so. Kane drools at the sight. You may notice that only 24 pizzas are shown in the picture, which is because one night he ate two identical pizzas from the same take away place (he was hungry), and I only took a picture of one of them since they were the same. It makes the collage neater, so it worked out.

And, he actually came quite close to his 3:2 goal; only 2 more pizzas and he would have been on target. I'm proud of him anyway. As for Kane's single favorite pizza? The winner, the champion, the best pizza in the world?? Margherita pizza, Medici's Restaurant, Melbourne, Australia. Go. Freaking. Figure.