trivia poem #7
here’s a trivia question when was
pizza invented well I will have to
tell you for you’ll never guess it was
before 753 BC I was just rereading the
aeneid (in translation) and when you
get to the part where they land on the
shore where rome will be founded sick
starved sore from their travails they
know it’s the destined spot – the harpy’s
curse prophesied they’d be so famished
they’d eat their tables the tables the
latins give them are flat wheaten cakes
pizza crust right? and atop these disks
are sprinkled herbs and fruits no tomato
sauce for 2000 more years but it is still
pizza probably olive mushroom so aeneas
was the first I prefer salami myself with
green pepper onion but some do like ham
and pineapple some even like plain cheese
though it would’ve been goat cheese then
©2015 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2015.
