Experiments in Cooking, and the Weirdo at the Pretzel Stand

* On "The Best Thing I Ever Ate-- Pizza" yesterday, I heard a chef talk about a pizza she'd had in NYC at Five Points Pizza. It was a yukon gold potato pizza with cheese and white truffle oil. I thought, "hmm... now this is a way to use the white truffle infused olive oil I have at home". So... above is the yukon gold with fontina, asiago, mozzarella, and romano, a bit of white truffle evoo, and voila! Yum! I bought a hand stretched pizza crust at our italian market, so it was very thin and very good. And only 7.5 WW points per 1/4 of the pizza! Yeh!

* I'm at the mall with the Magpie, when all of a sudden, he demands Wetzel Bits, which any mall hopper knows are pretzel dough cut into muti-bite size pieces and they give you far too many for one person. Undeterred, I acquire pretzel bits and being the new and improved Weight Watcher, I ask for the special "no butter" pretzel, which, the cashier informs me, will take a wait of 7 minutes. I'm inside in the air con and it is August in LA, so I'm cool with the wait. But then, this woman who is also waiting and blurting out things like "I hope that's not my pretzel I smell burnin'!" says to me:

"have you tried the Almond.. or the... oh what is it...yeah, almond with the glaze?"
Me: "Um, no I haven't heard of it."
Her: "Ooo girl! It's SO good!"
Me: "Well, uh, it sounds good, but I can't have the sugar on it. I'm going with the no butter pretzel."
Her: "Oh yeah, I been trying to lose weight forever. I drink this tea; I get it at the 99 cent store... diet tea."
Me: "Oh really? Is it green tea?"
Her: "No... it's diet tea... but it's in a green box."
Me: "Aha. Sounds inter...."
Her: "At the BIG 99 cent store though."
Me: "Oh, okay."
Her: "This tea makes you go the bathroom. So I take it when I get up, then I get ready for work,and by the time I leave, I'm done going to the bathroom. And you can see the fat! You can see it in the toilet!!"
Me: "ughhhhhhhh, ummmmmmmm...."
Her: "I lost it, but you know, I'm all flabby [holding stomach roll] and I got to exercise. By next summer I'll be, ya know, firm!"
Cashier: "Here's your no butter pretzel ma'am."
Me: "Thank you!"

-and then I ran away as fast as my feet could take me toward the parking lot!