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Irish people have a very strange understanding of "pizza"
I've been a fan of Blindboy Boatclub since I first discovered "Horse Outside," his hit(?) song with the Rubberbandits (and later, by complete happenstance, ended up staying at the same hotel that's featured in the video). His podcast consistently delivers a random, rambling mnage trois of weird knowledge, cultural connections, empathy, and utter hilarity, and his delightful short story collections take the traditions of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien and thrust them erotically into the social media sphere.
Or, if you want a perfect microcosmic metaphor for his career, there's this Twitter thread, where Blindboy talks about his misconceptions of pizza while growing up in Limerick, which goes from silly childhood observation to profoundly resonant insight about cross-cultural communications in a post-colonial edge. And Ninja Turtles.
I finally had a pizza, It was on one of my childhood birthdays, a small frozen one from dunnes, my ma refused to put the oven on for it due to the extravagance of putting an oven on for one item. So she fried it in a pan instead.
— Rubber Bandits (@Rubberbandits) January 1, 2020
Blindboy was not alone in this strange experience, as the replies swiftly reveal:
I have a memory of my late grandfather taking us to get pizza at the Parkway Dunnes in Limerick in the early 90s. You assembled the toppings yourself, and he insisted on piling on a mound of ham cheese &sweetcorn to make a proper feed of it.
— Eoin Daly (@eoinmauricedaly) January 1, 2020
Read the restBecause of TMNT I thought marshmallow and pepperoni was a proper pizza topping.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/748lE0bvaVQ/irish-people-have-a-very-stran.html