traditional sunday dinner

pizza sundays has been reinstated in heidelberg. before i came to germany myself and irish pete indulged in what we liked to call pizza sunday. it started as a hangover cure for the incredibly drunken nights we started having on saturdays. usually starting with us being bored on a saturday and going out for drinks that ended with us coming home in the daylight hours on sunday - very boozy and very incoherent. this lasted quite a while and was a part of the week that we used to look forward to. (well i know i did anyway) nothing beats sitting on the couch, giggling about the previous night's exploits and watching really crappy tv (hello idol and america's next top model) or a movie. so here i am in germany several months later and pizza sunday has made a return.

the thing you have to know about german pizza is that although it is very similar to australian pizza there are several differences. the main one being the fact that when the pizza comes it isn't cut. i know, how strange. you have to cut it yourself, which creates a problem if you don't have a pizza cutter and have to use a knife. ever try cutting huge bits of ham covered in cheese with a knife? rather than cut, it just kind of pushes everything off the base. the other main difference is the toppings. they have something here called the dutchman and it contains tomato, ham, cheese, broccoli and hollandaise. it sounds disgusting, but in reality it is one of the tastiest pizzas i have ever had. the euros like broccoli on alot of things baguette related and it tastes good no matter what it seems to be. i am completely perplexed by the taste, but i still rather enjoy it. although i am yet to try the pizza gourmet which includes asparagus. that just seems a little too wacky for me. we did branch out the other week and try the mediterrana, which includes ham, parmesan, tomato and some green leafy thing i have yet to translate. it looked good in the picture and sounded nice, but when it arrived the green leafy yet-to-be-translated thing covered the entire pizza! it looked as if we were eating astroturf and we seriously wondered if this was a joke by joey's pizza heidelberg and they thought of us as cows. it tasted okay, but i will not be ordering another one soon. i like my pizza to look and taste like pizza, not a meal fit for rabbits.

so it comes to this, what do i try this week? i'm curious as to what the italia (salami, tomato, mozzarella and basil leaves) or the pizza crazy dog (which some words defy translation but does include sausage and pickle - curiouser and curiouser). but it will a cold day in hell when i try the athena (feta and spinach - why kill a pizza like that?)