The Newest Innovation in Pizza

This is a very interesting pizza ... and very Italian, if perhaps a tad unorthodox in its structure and approach to the food: Kono Pizza. How do you slice it? Ellipses? Ovals? Never underestimate the ability of a society to trash its own heritage.

I particularly like the Take-Away KonoBox!

JimInLoganSquare wrote:How do you slice it?

Hmm... Conic Sections: Where Calculus Meets Kono Pizza

I know I vowed to use my inside voice when discussing pizza, but this stuff isn't technically pizza and it does serve to illustrate the "further from Naples" principle. Only 438 miles away and you get "an alternative dinner" than which nothing is better "to seduce one's friends."

Gotta be better than Gino's Pizza Rolls, though.

JiLS,

As one of several board spokespeople for the Italian-American community, I ask that you consider several distinctly Italianate factors about this food:

• Style: the cones and other geometric containers present to the viewer many more “design features” than the traditional drab slab. Think Milano, baby. Flash, pizzazz, wow it’s now.

• Transportability: this food is clearly the product of Italy, the home of Futurism, an art based on the religion of dynamic forward movement. You can easily enjoy these miniature pizza containers as you blast down Via Cavour on your Moto Guzzi or run hand-in-hand with your compatriots to a rally in the piazza.

• Adaptability: Italians are a very flexible people. Since the days of the Empire, we’ve traveled around world and become one with the natives (to the extent that one of our own portrayed the Crying Indian in commercials about littering: http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.htm). Why shouldn’t the Italian pizza and the native American ice cream cone become one.

• Cool: Kono is “Il Cool Snack,” and Italians are cool. We can’t help it. Brando, Pacino, Benigni. Need I say more?

“Trashing” the Italian heritage? Nay, these products are a living example of the enduring strength of the Italian tradition. Buon apetito!

Hammond

David Hammond wrote:• Cool: Kono is “Il Cool Snack,” and Italians are cool. We can’t help it. Brando, Pacino, Benigni. Need I say more?

Benigni?

This Benigni?

All I can say is: there's no <k> in the Italian alphabet...

Ke skifo!



Antonius

gleam wrote:

David Hammond wrote:• Cool: Kono is “Il Cool Snack,” and Italians are cool. We can’t help it. Brando, Pacino, Benigni. Need I say more?

Benigni?

This Benigni?

Guess I forget to list "irony" as an Italianate cultural feature.

David Hammond wrote:Guess I forget to list "irony" as an Italianate cultural feature.

I don't think "irony" would explain the PizzaKono, David. Not even close. The Konos people and the inventor, Rossano Boscolo, take their product and their plans for world domination very seriously. They are even selling them at Harrod's. And you, I and everybody else are way behind the curve; the Konos is now all over the InterWebs.

David Hammond wrote:Guess I forget to list "irony" as an Italianate cultural feature.

Oh cmon, I was clearly setting you for an "Ed has no sense of humor" joke

gleam wrote:

David Hammond wrote:Guess I forget to list "irony" as an Italianate cultural feature.

Oh cmon, I was clearly setting you for an "Ed has no sense of humor" joke

You're way too subtle for me, my friend. -- and subtlety is an Italianate cultural feature, too. So is lack of subtlety.

Hammond

I think it is pretty interesting, a cone "pizza". When was the last time you saw something innovative like that? I sure people were starting to get bored with just stuffing cheese into a different part each time.


The Calculus pizza. Nice one Choey