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Final grade: 6.5/10. There’s a clear concept behind it, definitely not just a rogue random-ingredient generator, but not fully developed either.

(And no, this post isn’t sponsored. If anything, I’m risking my citizenship by doing this for free and without biases)

Things that don’t work: The color. It adds nothing except fear. Also, the random spinach leaves look like they fell onto the pizza by accident during packaging. Maybe swap them for something with a bit more personality? (Also the size is remarkably small)

Room for improvement: The toasted chickpeas were supposed to be the crunchy element, but after freezing, they completely gave up on that mission. And the ingredient distribution felt like a lottery, as mentioned.

That stracciatella is actually more like béchamel, which turned the whole thing into something halfway between a pizza and a lasagna (and honestly? I didn’t hate it). The overall flavor was also strangely close to (I know it sounds insane) mortadella

Taste test: Surprisingly… balanced? The problem is you rarely get all the components on a single slice, but when you do, it kind of works. The stracciatella absolutely does not taste like itself (unsurprising, considering it survived a trip through the frozen-food dimension)

Speaking of red flags… this pizza was red. Like, aggressively red. I didn’t realize just how red until I opened the box. But hey, this is supposed to be a space free of biases and preconceived ideas, so there we go

...the frozen pizza I ate yesterday, topped with basil hummus, stracciatella di burrata, and raspberry vinaigrette. The n.31 on the box was a red flag. Could it be the name of the creation? Maybe. The number of attempts it took before they produced something edible? Also possible

“Since they’re responsible for destroying Gaza […] Israel should be held responsible for what happened,” he said replying to a similar question asked in the same building by an Italian journalist being dismissed from his post after posing it

(out of the joke, it's unfortunately a sad story, BBC has more on this)
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

One day it'll happen and I'll be there

Read more on this morning's Brussels Playbook (he's definitely not listed as one of the two unwanted men of the newsletter's title)
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