Day 6: Childlike Faith? Really?

i have been invited for a fondue night. fondue is such a crazy concept. imagine centuries back, hardened gone-bad cheese, stale bread and a bunch of swiss dudes freezing their butts off thinking of how to live through the rest of winter. One dude sits up and says, "i dont give a crap, gimmie that stank-ass cheese... i'm starving!!!" finding that he couldn't just eat the cheese, he just got a pot and melted the damn stuff and then dipped pieces of stale bread in it. voila! fondue. he did this only cuz they had nothing else to eat, and because as we all know, Switzerland is just bursting with stale bread and off cheese in the winter. well as they say, necessity is the mother of all inventions. anyways, finding that it didn't taste that bad with some wine and herbs, the small ragged group made a meal of it. probably many meals out of it. thinking about it more.. i kinda feel sorry for those guys. oh well.

then in the middle ages some french farmers came together one day and then decided that fondue was not to be restricted to stale bread or old crappy cheese. they used elegant cheese and dippped nicer things such as meat and poultry, and as the french do, they soon made it into a delicacy. which translates into it costing loads of dosh for a pot of cheese, stale bread, and a couple slices of paper thin beef. thanks...

question: did pizza originate from some drunk dude dipping his fondue thingy in the tomato sauce and putting some ham on it? hmmmmmmmmm.....

we'll never know....