Hey, A little blacktop never hurt anyone.

The pizza man didn't violate the 5-Second Rule, so it's all good.

vevolis: Actually, I've got worse... living in Toronto a few years ago, I ordered from a new Chinese restaurant. When my food arrived, I realized there were small PEBBLES in my bean sprout chow mein. What did I do? I sort of ate around them for a while and threw it out. I DID NOT CALL THE RESTAURANT because they'd have just hung up on me or said "me no speak Engrish" or something horrible like that.

This is in my top 5 most regrettable moments of my life.

Heh heh... the WORST Chinese restaurant my wife and I ever ate at was about a decade ago on Yonge (just south of Bloor), a buffet advertising a CAN$4.95 price (should have known right there). The Lettuce was "slimy", they used ketchup as a substitute for spaghetti sauce, the fried rice didn't smell right and tasted even worse. Oh, there was some sort of "meat on a stick" that did not resemble anything I've ever seen. Lots of egg foo yung, not that we would touch it, as nasty as it looked. They had a "buffet" that consisted of a total of maybe 8 items. We booked out of that place and our next visit found that, regrettably (not really), that place had gone out of business.

The second worse place I at at was also off of Yonge... this time, down by Dundas, for a brief while was a place called "UFO Pizza" offering pizzas for a loonie. They looked like little flying saucers because they didn't toss the dough, so they bubbled up in the middle. A spoonful of sauce, some meat more resembling bologna rather than pepperoni, and a slice of KRaft's singles was their idea of a pizza. Even the homeless people threw it away after one bite.

On the other hand, lots of good eats down Yonge as well, over the years. Wife and I used to make one or two trips to Toronto a year, until the exchange rate went wonky and the tax rebates became ridiculously hard to claim.

vort3xxx: LesserEvil: They had a "buffet" that consisted of a total of maybe 8 items.

But did they have sugar covered doughnuts? 'Cos that's all I really need to be happy at a Chinese buffet.

Nope, nothing edible. If they had bothered to make something like that, the sugar probably would have been substituted with salt and the dough would have incorporated wood putty. It was that bad.

The only thing a person could consume was the canned sodas we had (purchased separately from a cooler at the front of the place, when you pay first), and we got out of there so quickly, we forgot to grab our sodas to get the taste out of our mouths. We had to stop at a market on the next corner to get something.

I never thought I could feel violated by food, but that was just nasty. It made me question the existence of god. It was a "Nuke it from orbit" kind of experience.