Give me Pizza or Give me Death! Could this be the new battle cry for an American Revolution?
Patrick Henry would be proud!
In a move that has to rank with the dumbest ever - New York City is introducing legislation to force restaurants with wood-fired pizza ovens to reduce their emissions by 75% - basically a ban on pizza ovens. In New York City. Where (argue with me - go on - I dare you!) you can get the best pizza outside of Italy.
I only heard about this last night when I did my talk in Mullumbimby. Someone asked about this ban and whether I thought it would succeed or not. And I had to say I hadn’t heard of it but I thought it would because the New York of today is far different from the New York I grew up in.
Watching this native New Yorker speak, however, gave me hope that the NY spirit isn’t completely dead. And his accent made me homesick. And the pizza made me hungry! I hope he wasn’t throwing away Famous Ray’s which isn’t really that far from City Hall (where he was throwing the pizza).
I also hope he didn’t get arrested. If anyone knows what happened next, please do share in the comments below.
Revolutions can start for the most unusual of reasons. In America, first, it was tea. Could the Pizza Revolution be next?
