Here in Jönköping, there are pizzerias everywhere. I have written about some of the strange pizzas they make over here in past blogs but today I am going to focus on another aspect…
The Pizza Salad.
I personally am not a fan, but it comes free with every pizza so I give it to my wife in hopes that she will fill up on it…thus leaving more pizza for me! The pizza sallad is the white stuff in the containers on top of those pizza boxes.
But this is really what makes me laugh.
I see this all the time! Why is there always pizza salad on the sidewalks? Note the spray patterns…there was some velocity here! Was this person upset with the pizza salad? Mir thinks that the pizza salad probably just slides off the top of the pizza box and hits the ground. That seems like a good explanation, but if it is so common, why isn’t everyone more careful?
swedenusa said,
April 25, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I love how you just used some random picure of pizza boxes… this one happened to be from Romania…
Mir
Sam said,
April 25, 2007 at 3:08 pm
OK…But the bottom one was mine. I took it with my cell cam near a very busy street and yes..people were looking at me and laughing.
Shie said,
April 25, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Though I don’t mind the salad, the pizza (in Sweden) takes precedence! Maybe people fumble and retrieve the pizza, which they paid for, and forgo the free salad!
Anyway, I am curious to find out what is printed under the salad boxes. Contest, anyone?
Sam said,
April 26, 2007 at 12:12 am
It looks like a Swedish Flag…which doesn’t really make sense…
Johanna said,
April 26, 2007 at 3:23 am
Pizza salad on the side walk is actually not the consequence of an accident. Has anyone seen the Hitchcock movie about the attacking birds? The truth is, Swedish sea gulls (which you can find anywhere in the country -not only in the coastal areas) are known to be vicious -like the birds in the movie, when the scent of Swedish pizza reaches their beeks. Swedish pizza is not just a delicacy for humans… Pizza salad is the best bate to use to distract attacking sea gulls. You throw it on the ground and they think it’s an all-you-can-eat-buffet of the delicious and very rare silver worm, which has its natural habitat in the southern coastal parts of the Galapagos Islands. This means that the sea gulls take a dive at the pizza salad which gives you enough time to get out with your take out, so to speak.
Sam said,
April 26, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I would gladly sacrifice that stuff before my pizza!
Irish said,
April 26, 2007 at 9:04 pm
The white stuff would have made a good contest!…”Guess what THIS is?”
I like those comments about spray pattern and velocity, Sam!! You must be watching “CSI.”
diana said,
April 28, 2007 at 3:37 am
I liked reading your site and viewing your photos. I found your blog because Mirjam had made a comment on my webblog. (Nice to meet you Mirjam.) There isn’t much on my page as I have many other sites that I write on but I think I will try to keep current on this one again!
Although I am an American, my heritage on my fathers side was Swedish. My grandfather came to America from Sweden and my grandmother was also Swedish. Anyway…the story of the pizza salad was sort of interesting!
Sam said,
April 28, 2007 at 8:39 am
Welcome aboard!
Maxima said,
April 29, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I like Johanna’s story about the aggressive birds. I can just see the birds dive bombing the pizza boxes. Kamakazi Swedish birds ….zoom zoom!
Jay said,
April 30, 2007 at 6:32 am
I think that they should outlaw the pizza salad.
Em said,
April 30, 2007 at 7:13 am
oh please put away the pizzapictures! They make me want to throw up a ………
Sam said,
May 1, 2007 at 3:50 am
OK OK… I am on it!
erin... said,
October 2, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I cannot thank you enough for your picture of the pizza salad. Learning about pizza salad was one of the highlights of my first trip to Sweden last August, when my boyfriend and I staying in Amal overnight en route to Tallberg. I am predominantly Norwegian, courtesy of my immigrant father, but I had never been to Sweden and my mom is half-Swedish, so this was an adventure. I have been laughing hysterically at my desk at work, because while we were sitting with our pizza salad (which the Amal proprietor kept pushing and pushing on us to eat more of) and pizza on the back porch of Amal Pizza, we were watching customer after customer drop their carry-out pizza salad containers while trying to get into their cars. Thanks for the memories!
Daniel said,
November 16, 2008 at 10:44 am
Well, to clarify the mystery:
The pizza box belongs to a Swedish company but it’s from a Romanian restaurant in Brasov, I recognize the phone number’s area code. And on the side of the box it says: “Now also in Romania”. Enjoy.