The movie: District 9. Immigrant aliens park their immense but stranded space craft above Johannesburg, South Africa, and settle into degrading camps. Food for the movie: a dish consisting of grapes, apple slices, and maple-smoked sausage from top producer Fortuna, pan-braised in olive oil, butter, balsamic vinegar, and red wine, mixed with sauteed spinach; PLUS thin-crust pizzas. Pizza #1: vodka-tomato sauce, with sliced peppers and pepperoni bits. Pizza #2: white with corn relish and guacamole. Both pizzas topped with two grated cheddars, horseradish and sharp. Ahhhhh! Sigh! Trad on the cocktails: dry martinis with blue-cheese-stuffed olives. The Moops coconut cream pied the dessert. L-r: Mrs. Lauramoop raises a glass to a tough week, the laundry toilet and miracle light room where the washing machine weeps, the (few) unheated leftover slices. This is why pizza is a complete food: it's good hot or cold.
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