Chilli--as in the recipe, not the temperature

An Italian lawyer I know claims that pizza originated when women in Italy would gather together on the town square to cook the day's food. When they finished there were always leftovers so they would take sheets of pasta and throw everything on them: scraps of tomato, meat, vegetables, maybe a little horse manure and there they had it - pizza!

I'm a Southerner who dearly loves crispy fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. But have you heard of it on pizza?

There's a pizza place a couple of mintues west of me on the freeway
that serves all kinds of weird combinations. One of their dessert
pizzas is the Apple Annie, with melted butter, diced apples, drizzled
with caramel sauce, cinnamon and Jack cheese.

Another is the Einstein’s Glue with peanut butter, marshmallow cream
and chocolate chips, Graham cracker pieces and jack cheese. The Red,
White, and Blueberry pizza has vanilla cream cheese whip, raspberries,
blueberries, brown sugar and jack cheese.

It was fun trying all the different combinations, but when I get a
craving for pizza, I want the old fashioned tomato sauce, cheese,
onion, mushrooms, etc.

We have a pizza place like that, Abe. Shakey's. I used to think it was
like a pizza cracker. The one in Denver closed years ago, but I see
they're open here in S Calif. Of course everyone knows Calif is weird
anyway--at least according to the rest of the country.

Thin pizza is my absolute favourite. But then, my grandma was Italian, so perhaps it was meant to be.