Tuesday Supper: Double Sauce No Cheese

In my job I eat meals with my customers. I don't mean that I take the customers out for lunch now and again, I mean that for a month, I eat at the same table as my customers, usually for both my meals every day. It's where we plan and where we find out what is happening next, and demonstrate that we are the sort of people they want to be involved with. It's relatively important that I appear normal in this respect, to the extent that I ever seem normal.

Sunday I begged off with some excuse. It's okay to do that now and again. Monday by coincidence everyone was eating leftovers, or had a late snack or the like, and didn't want to go out. Today was the test. It's pasta night at Boston Pizza, so I knew we'd be going there. But what could I eat?  Their menu is online with nutritional information, but not ingredients. The FAQ mentioned vegetarian options, but not vegan. On Sunday night I used a web contact form to ask for an ingredients list for the vegetarian dishes, and the site said they would respond within 48 hours, but they haven't yet. I studied the menu and then phoned and asked if they had an ingredients list for the pizza sauce and crust. They had an allergy list, which would do, because eggs and dairy were possible allergens. But the items I asked about contained no eggs or dairy. Score!

At the restaurant, when the ordering got to me I admitted I was going to be a little high maintenance and then requested, "A small vegetarian pizza on whole wheat crust plus pineapple, double sauce, and no cheese." She repeated "no cheese?" with just a touch of incredulity, but wrote it down without a struggle.

The pizza came, and I was going to risk weirdness by taking a picture of it for you, but there was no point. It looked totally normal. It honestly didn't look sufficiently different from a loaded pizza with cheese for it to be worth taking a picture of. And it was delicious. I liked it better than a pizza with cheese. Seriously, you should try it. I think I'll always order pizza this way now. The toppings fell off a little more easily than with cheese, but how cool is a grease-free pizza? 

It came with a caesar salad, but they substituted a garden salad, no dressing, and that consisted of good lettuce, red onions and red peppers.