year-round insanity

One of the many cool things about Tokyo is that nearly every restaurant employs guys who zip around on little motorbikes, delivering food to anyone too busy/lazy/cold/hot/etc. to go get it themselves. You can get just about anything delivered here: curry, sushi, pork cutlets. Even booze!

Even this:




The skeptics among you may be thinking, yeah, this has been on the Internet for a while. It's totally Photoshopped. Funny, but fake.

Let me restore your faith, o cynics: this is NOT Photoshopped. This was in my mailbox when I got home from work last night. (And my 'Shop skills are nowhere near this good.) This is the Four Seasons pizza from the oddly named Strawberry Cones (the name makes me want ice cream, or maybe crepes, but not pizza).

Let's take a look at what we have here, shall we?

Clockwise from top left, this culinary masterpiece has four topping sections:

• Sweet corn, in what appears to be curry or barbecue sauce
• Tuna with potato, tomato, onion, garlic and parsley, crisscrossed with mayonnaise
• Salmon and broccoli with "gratin sauce"
• 5-cheese margherita

The toppings aren't that noteworthy -- pretty typical for Japanese pizza, especially the corn and the mayo. (Why must they ruin all food by squirting mayo all over it?)

The part that takes the cake, er, pie, is the crust. Note the artful arrangement of the extras. Each section gets two. First, the yellow globs (I think, based on my previous experiences with Japanese pizza, that these are mozzarella; this topping does not hold up well, as the globs get cold and congeal quickly.) Not in the mood for rubbery cheese balls? Well, you're in luck, because the other half of the crust is topped with ... pigs in a blanket!

All this can be yours for only $25!!!!!*

* For a medium. Large pizza is $35.