Pizza

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Hare Krishna.

 

> > All glories to Transcendental Pizza Prasadam!

>

> Balarama Prabhu, may you could post the 10 offenses to be avoided while

> eating pizza.

 

Shyam, I'm so glad you asked. Although actually these are quite serious. As

you know Pizza Prasadam is serious business, not to be taken lightly. I

leave it to the distinguished reader to decide how much (if any) I have my

tongue hiddden in my cheek.

 

By the way, the list has grown. Any suggestions for additions to this list

will be considered. If they are submitted in the proper reverential mood, I

will in turn submit them to Srila Pizzapad (whose identity must remain a

secret) for inclusion in the Pizza Purana.

 

Without Further Ado --

 

APARADHAS TO AVOID WHILE PREPARING, OFFERING, AND

HONORING PIZZA PRASADAM

 

 

It has been noted that many devotees involved with planning, cooking, and

honoring pizza feasts are prone to a number of aparadhas, the most

important of which to avoid are as follows:

 

1. To cook for health at the expense of taste.

2. To not use the tastiest ingedients available, such as any olive oil

other than extra virgin, or any cheese other than a whole milk cheese.

3. To not cook ample pizza for everyone honoring a pizza feast.

4. To allow those not invited to a pizza feast to find out about it, thus

causing them unparalled grief.

5. To damage the good reputation of pizza feasts and to cause others to see

them in a negative light by allowing a feast to affect your sadhana

afterwards, as by sleeping through some important service or spiritual

function.

6. To overcook the cheese on the pizza to the point of it becoming

predominantly brown and dry, to undercook the cheese by removing the pizza

from the oven before it starts to bubble.

7. To serve the pizza too cold.

8. To serve preparations along with the pizza, that, rather than compliment

the meal, take away from its mellow.

9. To speculate and experiment with new ingredients at the time of an

important pizza feast and to thus risk disappointing your guests.

10. To use only tomato paste as sauce when fresher ingredients are

available, and, when forced to use only tomatoe paste, to do so without at

least adding sufficient water and spices.

11. To have been invited to a pizza feast and to have eaten before it, to

the point of not being sufficiently hungry to properly honor the pizza.

12. To serve out the pizza too slowly.

13. To eat the pizza while it is too hot, thus damaging ones tastebuds and

ruining ones ability to relish the pizza to one's maximum capacity.

14. To think that the type of pizza one likes the best is, in fact, the

best, not

recognizing the fact that pizza, the glories of which are unlimited, can

indeed

be relished in innumerable thoroughly enjoyable ways.

15. To habitually cook pizza for yourself without wanting to relish the

mellows with others, thus not taking advantage of the superexcellent quality

of pizza to uniquely enhance loving exchanges amongst devotees.

16. While serving pizza, to stash some for yourself, or to hope that those

you are serving will not eat so much so that you can enjoy more afterwards.

17. Preaching the glories of pizza prasadam to the faithless.

18. To fail to cook pizza prasadam for the devotees on occasions when it is

obviously appropriate and auspicious to do so.

19. To be so inconceivably cruel and miserly that you choose not to share an

excellent pizza recipe with those hankering for it.

 

Any devotee who is not able to sufficiently avoid the above aparadhas

undergoes serious risk of having his taste for pizza drasticly diminish,

even up to the point of losing that taste altogether. On the other hand,

one who avoids the above offenses will be able to relish ever increasing

varieties and quantities of pizza throughout his life, in spite of the

otherwise limiting factors of old age, disease, and high cholesterol."

 

Pizza Prasadam Ki Jai!

 

Hare Krishna --

 

ys, Balarama Dasa