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• Date:

  Saturday, 26 Jul y 2008 - 15:53 GMT

  Graham Steel said:

  Amazing scientific findings. No more pizza for me !!

• Date:

  Saturday, 26 Jul y 2008 - 17:03 GMT

  Kristi Vogel said:

  I agree, except that I’d change the statement slightly: There’s a reason I don’t eat Dominos pizza. I’ll happily eat pizzas homemade by friends or myself.

  The one exception to that would be a “pizza” made by a Japanese colleague, who explained that his favorite pizza consisted of a Boboli crust, mashed potatoes, ketchup, mayonnaise, peas, corn, and tuna or BBQ chicken. Blech.

• Date:

  Saturday, 26 Jul y 2008 - 20:40 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  Blech indeed. I did enjoy the sight of the cardboard-and-Oreo-cookies pizza, and the strawberry milkshake dessert pizza, for their sheer repulsiveness. After a long and very hot day at the Maison Des Girrafes one could conceive of the golden retriever, siamese cat, guinea-pig, chicken, hamster, corn dog snake and small child meat feast pizza. With a melted cheese and basil topping.

  Cambridge legend has it that a zoology lecturer once celebrated the end of term by cooking up what he called a ‘Five Phylum Stew’. Coming up with four phyla is relatively easy -

  Chordata – fish, chicken, steak, dog, cat, child etc;

  Echinodermata – sea urchin gonads roe;

  Mollusca – clams, squid, slugs and so on

  Arthropoda – shrimp, lobster, scorpions, locusts etc.

  But unless you cheat and subdivide arthropods, what you’re left with, pretty much, is worms.

  Unless you like jellyfish.

• Date:

  Saturday, 02 Aug ust 2008 - 20:01 GMT

  David Whitlock said:

  Oh come now Henry, what about plants and fungi? Or are you so Animalista centric that you don’t consider plants and fungi to have Phyla?