One Meter Pizza in Italy

"Salute, Amore, Denaro e Tempo per Goderli" Spanish/Italian toast which translates to "Wish you lots of Health, Love & Wealth and (most importantly) Time to enjoy all of them", announced Daniele's aunt Rosy on one of the fine Luncheons @ their summer home in Casine, Modena-Italy. I knew that when it comes food Italians are unique but the last trip to Leoneli's summer home redefined my imagination. I always believed (and treated) breakfast as very important meal of the day but I never knew that breakfast should be done twice (one @ home and one in the town) in order to prepare for a sound Lunch and the purpose of the sumptuous lunch is nothing but to get ready for a rendezvous dinner. Every evening during the trip was unique. Every evening was special and more importantly it always used to be a surprize.

A delicious home dinner in day 1* followed by an authentic multi course dinner on day 2 was still fresh in our minds and on the third evening Daniele declared, "Tonight, we'll go to have a One Meter Pizza!!!" and everybody started dreaming about One Meter Pizza that indeed whetted the appetite of one and all. After a small walk as we reached the restaurant, everybody was surprized at the amount of cars being parked at the restaurant. It was as if the entire town had descended to taste a one meter Pizza on the day. Although the wait took us a while to get a table for 10, it seemed all the worth. "What toppings are we going to go for?", Daniele as we occupied the table. Soon the toppings were decided, the orders were placed and we kept eagerly waiting for the special One Meter Pizza. The drinks were served but what all of us wanted was the glimpses of that One Meter long Pizza which I was eagerly waiting to see for the first time. "The son of the owner has received a special training to make the special Pizza", Daniele extended the curiosity once again and now we were no longer able to hide the curiosity looking at the kitchen door from which our Pizza would be brought at any moment.

Finally the wait ended and there it was, in the hands of the waitress who hurriedly parked herself at our table serving us much awaited Pizzas, not one but two (Two but hey, we ordered only one :-)) and two half meter ones :-( Ooops!!! That's not ON :-(:-(:-(:-(:-( Not at all. Even two most beautiful Miss Universes can't replace the woman in your mind.

Pic. 1. Two Half Meter Pizzas. Disappointing :-(

They were big, indeed were huge. They were certainly mouthwatering and yet I believe they did disappoint us. Tastewise, they were undoubtedly one of the best Pizzas we have ever had but that one shear look of One Meter Pizza eluded us may be we all be looking for that elusive one meter Pizza in the heart of Pizza Land during all our forthcoming trips....

Eating the last piece of delicious Pizza ended Tomas hallucinating about One Meter Tiramisu. "If not Pizza, let's have One Meter Tiramisu, Daniele", Tomas. "Not a bad thought", Daniele,"One meter? in which direction though? 2D or 3D?". Not a bad thought either but "Why not One Meter long Tiramisu in all directions?"...LoL.

Pic 2. Can we have One Meter 2D/3D Tiramisu?

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* I understand from Massimo that it really proved to be an ordeal for them to cook a vegetarian meal only for me. Thanks a ton for the effort. I really liked it.