I learned something yesterday.
After a brutally long and stressful day at work, I knew I wouldn't have the energy to cook dinner, so I gave in to a combination of laziness and desperation and stopped at the pizza place. I would like a small pizza, I said, and the woman shook her head in exasperation, clearly fed up with these fools who walk in around dinner time and try to order food. You'll wait for half an hour, she said. She then gestured to the pizzas already available by the slice. There was a whole pepperoni pizza sitting there, and she pointed at it meaningfully. We've got a fresh one right here. Three of these big slices are about the same size as a small pizza, and a few crowns cheaper.
Normally I would shake my head right back at her and tell her I don't mind waiting, but I was really at my limit for the day. I just needed to get home. Generally, I don't get pizza with meat on it. I always get mushroom. But I was too tired to argue. I shrugged my shoulders. Fine, I said. Just give me three of those.
When I got home and opened the box, I discovered that the pizza was barely even warm. When I order a whole pizza, it's still hot when I get it home, so I knew this one wasn't as fresh as she had claimed, sitting there in the glow of the warming lights. I ate two slices anyway. They were just awful. Really, really quite bad. Far greasier than the veggie pizza ever is, made with cheap meat, and with too much oregano. I ate two slices and left the third for later. I always get hungry just before bed, and I can't sleep if I'm hungry.
Amazingly, I didn't get hungry again last night. Whenever I started to feel peckish, I thought of the third slice sitting there in its box, waiting to be warmed up and consumed, and discovered that miraculously, my hunger had vanished. I didn't even feel like eating anything else.
So last night I learned that eating food you don't like can kill your appetite for the rest of the day. And also that I should never trust the woman who works at that pizza place, nor should I ever get meat pizza from them since they clearly use inferior quality meats.
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