noise."Signal Boost: Pegasus Pizza · 1:02am Jan 29th, 2020
In case y’all haven’t noticed the Feature Box today, right uptop there’s another not-a-contest story, called Pegasus Pizza. Ponies love pizza; that’s an actual fact.*
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*Not an actual fact
Back in my college days, I did pizza delivery for a while, for Little Cesar’s Pizza. Coincidentally, I was driving a white car.
It’s painted with one coat of Meijer Brand interior latex (that was cheaper than the exterior paint), applied with a brush. A proper ten-foot paint job.
It’s possible if you zoom in, it might say Admiral Biscuit up on the nose. I told y’all I’d been using that name for a while. 
Point is, I did it back in the day before GPS; I had to rely on paper maps. The struggle was real.
I should also mention here, since we’re talking about the not-a-contest, Level Dasher did what I should have did and created an official Not-A-Contest group, which you can find by clicking the blue text! I was gonna use one of those snazzy title cards, but it turns out you can’t embed a group as content. <shakes fist at Knighty>
Also, there’s a beautiful group banner that ZettaiDullahan made:
So go check that out for all your contest-related needs. 
Pizza!
Coincidentally, last Friday I was thinking of ponies working at a pizzeria. We had a bit of a discussion of that at the bar, and pondered what ponies might or might not normally put on pizzas. For example, my headcanon is that unicorns generally don’t like cheese, so cheese would always be an extra topping rather than a default. If one wanted to go with realism, horses don’t like tomatoes . . . which is good, because they’re toxic to equines. So maybe you order a plain pizza from a pony pizzeria, and you get a round crust.
(If any of y’all want to take that idea and run with it, be my guest.)
Nice.
Big big thanks!
According to Damaged, if you type the embed manually it works:
I've never actually tried to feed pizza to a horse (or pony). Now watermelon, and flat beer, both seem to be universal favourites.
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Everyone talks about how Twilight's daffodil-and-daisy sandwich would kill a man, but no one thinks about all the toxins humans casually inhale. Like theobromine.
Yeah, I have to assume pony biochemistry is at least somewhat different from our horses given the average chocolate intake. And this does raise the question about why ponies have tomatoes at their farmers' markets. What does Roma know that we don't?
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I didn't know Little Caesar's ever delivered. There's one up the road. Quite good food for the price, but maybe 1-in-3 times I order from them, they screw up the order or don't notice when the online order comes in.
Also, damn them for discontinuing the pretzel crust. That was good enough for Jehova.
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5193891
Pizza doesn't need tomatoes. Pizza was invented long before tomatoes were common. Bartolomeo Scappi gives a recipe for it in the mid-1500's, when the best physicians in Europe thought the tomato had little nutritional value (and encouraged all the wrong humors)
Even today you can get pizza with white sauce instead of tomato sauce, or with no sauce at all. Just a brush of olive oil and a sprinkling of toppings
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Yeah, when getting Papa Murphy's, I ask for the garlic white sauce more often than not. Then top it with some extra cheese that I smoked before baking.
Or I get the raw pizza from Papa Murphy's and smoke the entire thing. Though getting the temperature right is tricky. Just following the regular baking instructions will result in the edges being over-charred.
The Era of the Crazy-Eights. Pizza-Pizza.
5193958
You're talking about focaccia - which is basically seasoned bread sold in slices.
Modern Pizza is agreed to have tomato, basil and cheese with some olive oil. (Margherita is the famous recipe - the one that shaped pizza in its modern form)
Of course, pizza is basically 'flat bread with toppings' so the spirit of the dish remains intact to this day.
All right, who photoshopped the mangoes out of that first picture?
Already on my list of things to look at today, though this time I hadn't gotten to it yet. :)
...Is that a locomotive horn on the car?
And nice banner. :)
(Though at first my brain tried to parse that as all one vehicle, and had some difficulty with the different perspective on the changeling under the sink. :D)
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I'm remembering coming across, a while ago, and I don't recall the place, the idea that ponies have so many bright colors because they are in fact themselves poisonous enough to want to advertise that fact to potential predators. How likely it is would depend on the universe, I think, but I found it an interesting idea. :D
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"Make it worse? How can I make it worse?!"
"Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!" (dances)
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You earned it--the story brought back good memories for me.
Admittedly, I’m a bit salty that you passed me in the feature box, but only a little bit.
Huh, I’ll try to remember that. I just cut and paste, and it said it wasn’t valid.
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You’d want to be very careful; tomatoes are not good for horses (at least according to the internet), I’d think the right pizza with the right toppings might be something a horse would like, though.
I watched a video on YT once where someone was feeding peanut butter to their horses . . . one of them loved it, while the other wasn’t interested at all.
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Just don’t order a spicy salad; that’ll kill you for sure. Or go drinking with Apple Munchies; her jacked wine blinds you and then kills you.
I’d say so. Although really, that’s laziness on the part of the writers, and unless there’s tons of canon evidence to the contrary, I’ll stick with them being more equine, because that lets me do fun research.
That if she kills enough ponies, she’ll be queen of Ponyville.
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I don’t know if they do any more. Maybe only in limited markets . . . I don’t live close enough to any Little Cesar’s to be in a delivery area (or any other pizza franchise besides Hungry Howie’s). I’ve never tried to online-order, I usually just get a Hot and Meow.
The only pretzel crust I ever had was at Pizza Hut, and it wasn’t great.
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I agree, and some of my favorite pizzas are non-tomato. Truth is I’m not that much of a tomato fan; I don’t like catsup, for example.
I was just listening to a thing about the history of tomatoes, and for how long they were considered toxic ‘cause they were related to nightshade.
Urban Pie has a great pizza with a pesto sauce. Sadly, Meijer stopped carrying that brand and I’m too lazy to change my shopping habits to find a grocery store that does.
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You tell kids these days that when you ordered a pizza from Little Caesar’s, you got two pizzas in a really long box, and they don’t believe you.
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One thing I’ve been thinking about ever since I made spinach and cheese pancakes for research, there are some foods that are meant to have whatever done with them (which is perhaps why they are popular). Pancakes, crepes, tortillas, bread, rice, pizza--what you put on it is limited only by your imagination, and there are few if any wrong answers. The right foods to fall in that group, IMHO, are the ones that have little flavor on their own, but which take a form that’s easy to modify to the eater’s desire.
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No, but it’s in that family. I honestly don’t remember where I found them.
I did, too. And I was like, “okay, it’s a long truck with a food booth in the back and . . . no, wait, that doesn’t make any sense.”
I put that in a story once, although I won’t claim that that’s where you came across it:
- MLP: FiM
- Dark
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
Have you ever wondered why you shouldn't drink applejack or eat a spicy salad? This is why.(chapter six is the toxic ponies)
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If I zoom in on the car, it looks like it says 'ADIMAFLEX BUTTNATE.' At least I'm pretty sure the first word starts with 'A' but has too many letters for 'admiral' and appears to end in 'lex.' Now that I think about it, the second word might be 'roommate,' so the whole think could be 'A-----LE'S ROOMMATE.'
Am I close?
5193934 To be totally fair, I'm enjoying a small glass of poison right now, so...
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Ah, thanks.
Ah, not just me, then. :D
It does look like it could be the back of some sort of food truck, though, with the curving back, the matching color, and the suggestion that the serving hatch opens upward to provide a weather shield.
Oh, huh. No, haven't read that that I recall (though it's on a list now :)). Might have been someone else who got it from there, though; I'm afraid I still recall basically nothing about where I heard it.
...And I assume that the picture's presence there makes more sense in context? :D
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"I was just listening to a thing about the history of tomatoes, and for how long they were considered toxic ‘cause they were related to nightshade."
I think I recall that there was also a chemical interaction with some material common in European tableware at the time that actually did produce something dangerous. Not sure, though.
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To give you a proper answer, I’d either have to walk down to my shed, in the dark, uphill
bothonly one way, and climb over the car to get to the front end and then hope that that’s still there. Or else I could dig through boxes until I find the actual photo that’s a scan of, get a magnifying glass, and hope I can make out the details.I can tell you this, though. I know that it said on the trunk lid “Millenium Biscuit.” I know it said somewhere “Admiral Biscuit,” and that was likely the driver’s door. There’s every possibility that it also said “Oldsmobiles Ruminate” on it, and if I’d painted that on the car, it probably would have been the front.
Because you might be wondering, the genesis of the joke is that this one time at band
campwe were playing a song called Sheep May Safely Graze. Our conductor, not wanting to write all that out, wrote “Sheep . . . Graze” on the chalkboard.Somebody then added “Cows . . . Ruminate.”
And later, I added “Oldsmobiles . . . also Ruminate.”
A small glass? Pfft, lightweight. I’ve got a five litre box of poison conveniently next to my computer. There’s a box inside the bag and I just realized if I were to buy one of those reusable metal straws and sharpen it, I could have the best adult Capri Sun there ever was. #Trotcon2020goals
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Yeah, and that’s what I was thinking at first, too.
It very much does.
Yes, I think you’re right, and I think that was mentioned, too. Maybe silver? Or pewter? I think the acid in tomato would corrode/tarnish one or both of those, and everybody knows if it stains your plate, it’s not good for you.
5195053
Pewter, I think it was, yeah.
5195052 I'm gonna go ahead and confirm that says 'Oldsmobiles Ruminate.' The 'O' really looks like an 'A' but other than that, it fits perfectly.
lol to be fair, I have a selection of poisons under my computer desk for convenient consumption. Unfortunately, I cannot find the aliens comic wherein one asks the other something along the lines of 'would you prefer the big weak poison, or the small strong poison?' So I'll just leave you with this one instead:
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5195053 5195125 Pewter traditionally is mostly lead, so the tomato acid would leech the lead out, staining the metal, but also leaving your food with a lot of lead-laden liquids, which you'd obviously be consuming with your food. Not exactly healthy.
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Thanks!
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I usually keep my selection of poisons in the kitchen. Some actual poisons, too; there was a can of brake cleaner on the kitchen counter for a long time until I needed to use it for something.
I love those comics
Kinda fits in with what I like to do in HiE/PoE, as well.
Also, if you don’t have enough minerals, you’re also gonna have fewer revolutions.
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So I went and found the video I’d heard this from, and according to it, there were likely two reasons. The reaction with pewter, and an influential English botanist named John Gerrard who said they were poisonous. Interestingly, they were eaten in the Mediterranean at the time.
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Ah, interesting; thanks.
(And, of course, they had been eaten by natives in the New World for something like a thousand years at least, but, you know, their ability to be just fine eating something supposedly poison is probably evidence of their inferiority to Europeans somehow, and definitely not a sign that the Europeans are wrong about something.)
5195554 Interestingly, John Gerrard (I believe it was him, anyway) didn't actually contribute much to botany, instead he just translated a lot of older botanical texts and put them in one book, yet that book somehow became the gold standard of botany at the time. Also he just decided to add that tomatoes were poisonous. idk why.
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Still, sometimes that’s a useful contribution. Especially if the English hadn’t been thinking much about it, or if he was collecting lots of different treatises and putting them into one big book.
Well, they can’t all be winners.
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Not just indigenous people in the New World, but they quickly became popular along the Mediterranean as food. Meanwhile, the English just grew them as ornamental, and when they wanted catsup, they fermented fish.
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History's funny sometimes...