Happy Special Pizza
So I go for the local recommendation of ‘Happy Special Pizza’ one of the better rated pizza parlors on the Hospital Road stretch. I walk to the counter and order a medium sized ham pizza for takeaway. In anticipation of munchies I order one half happy (with marijuana) and the other half plain and boring. Final price $6.50. With or without marijuana the prices don’t change which shows just how cheap this ‘seasoning’ is to supply. I pull out my SLR camera and start snapping evidence of the pizza shop which includes the proprietors who are of an older generation dressed in pyjama-like clothing. They don’t bat an eyelid. In their eyes there’s no wrong doing here, nothing out of the ordinary, just another day selling pizzas. Either way I am still a little unnerved by this somewhat unlikely experience. I order a beer for my wait and take a seat. In my head I remain skeptical “they’re not really going to give me marijuana on my pizza???” So when it arrives I was pleasantly surprised to see it half laced with generous chunks of “Happy”. So what do Happy Pizzas taste like? They taste like pizza topped with marijuana. Not quite oregano but not horrible either. While the herb is in no doubt marijuana it is of low potency and when I arrive back to the hotel we share two slices of happy pizza each and sit under revolving ceiling fans and a chorus of lizards, frogs and insects. For a good 30 plus minutes we sit… bored. For eating marijuana the affects take longer than when smoking and by the time we feel the minor buzz I wished we’d opted for a bottle of wine. Not the most exciting of experiences.