Slice & Dice – Albuquerque, New Mexico
You might remember a 2004 documentary called Supersize Me in which writer-producer Morgan Spurlock explored the consequences on his health of a diet consisting solely of McDonald’s food for one month. Spurlock has nothing on Dan Janssen who as of 2019 had eaten almost nothing but pizza for nearly thirty years. That’s pizza for lunch and dinner every day of the year for just about three decades. Janssen is certainly no believer in the old adage that variety is the spice of life because the only spice with which he tops his pizza is oregano. Nor does variety extend to the type of pizza he enjoys. Every day he usually consumes one fourteen-inch cheese pizza for lunch and another for dinner. Any dietary diversity he enjoys is through eating at different pizza restaurants–even chains, about which he declares “they’re all pretty bad, but I do frequent them. Pizza is like sex—even when it’s bad, it’s good.” Ironically, as a teenager Janssen became a vegetarian for “ethical reasons” but determined rather quickly that he didn’t like vegetables. A pizza diet seemed to make sense. Just as a diet of nothing but McDonald’s food for a month wreaked havoc on Morgan Spurlock’s health,…
