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Oct 06, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
I thought long and hard about writing this letter. In the end I believe I owe it to the Guyanese people as an opinion-maker to offer my view on what happens in my country. Every word that I have used in this letter to describe a pizza I eat recently from the latest pizza seller in town comes from my analytical mind. There are no normative conclusions. There is no emotion involved.
This pizza was simply below any standard in all the countries including Guyana that I have had pizza. I say in all honesty this was the worst pizza I ever ate. I am still somewhat in shock that any food house can make such poor stuff. It is almost commonsense to assume as a consumer that when a new seller comes on the market, they would better the existing product. It is also instinctive on the part of the investor that when he/she opens a company offering a line that is long on the market, then that company has to compete with a better product
It all began when my daughter called from Berbice to say that she would not be staying over the weekend but would be coming home on Friday evening. She requested her favourite pizza type – Italian Supreme. I decided I would check out the new kid on the block. They didn’t have Italian Supreme so I bought another pizza that the advertisement board says it has Italian sausage. I bought a large that was five hundred dollars more than what all the large size cost at all other pizza parlours
I took the pizza, put it in my car trunk and closed the door. A feeling came over me telling me look at it. I did. When I opened the box, I saw an ugly dish. This is not what a pizza look like. I repeat, this is not what a pizza look like. I am over sixty years of age and I have been eating pizza since I was in my early twenties in other countries
I was amazed at the sight of what I saw. My eyes just stared down at this hideous thing in my car. I swear on my parent’s grave this was the feeling that came over me. The pizza world arrived in Guyana over fifteen years ago. There are many pizza parlours not only in Georgetown. My daughter’s favourite – Italian Supreme is indeed supreme. Guyanese must by now know what a good pizza look like and taste like.
I was still in shock at what I saw when I came out of the DVD store. This thing was on my mind for that afternoon while I drove around Georgetown to do my chores. Once more, I opened the trunk and looked at this little Italian caricature. I was livid because I know that any restaurant should have done better. Even the second grade restaurants you go to that sell slice pizza are of a better standard
Well, so far, I only looked at it. They say looks can be deceiving. This wasn’t the case. I went home and ate the stuff. This pizza was bad. I mean, it looked bad and it tasted badly. The bread was hard. There was hardly any cheese. There was hardly any sauce and those pepperonis I saw were not Italian sausage.
I had cause to comment on our local ice cream. If you are going to make below standard ice cream then your price has to be below what the good, foreign ones cost. On Friday afternoon, I dashed out of CNS channel 13 studio where I was filming with Chris Ram, Michael Carrington of the AFC and Leonard Craig, chairman of the dying protest movement, The People’s Parliament.
I didn’t have time to tell Chris, Michael and Leno that I was leaving. I was late to pick up my wife and forgot that I had ordered Italian Supreme for my daughter. At the time of typing (Saturday afternoon, there are still two slices left in the fridge). Mama Mia! Will that restaurant, bake better pizzas! How do you say “please in Italian?
Frederick Kissoon
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