As snackers go, I lack flair. If I'm feeling peckish, I'll have a banana, some dry cereal or a few raisins. Under few circumstances do I have toast, and never do I top it with cheese. If needs must, I eat my bread raw and butterless.
Today, then, I've gone nuclear. It's mid-afternoon, and I'm snacking on a toasted pizza. That's right: a pizza that I shoved in a toaster for three minutes, and then ate.
Cheese sarnies used to be the student's snack of choice. Then it was pot noodles. Will the toasted pizza be next? It has certainly got off to a good start. The £2 pizza is a recent Marks & Spencer invention, and the first three stores I try have already sold out. It doesn't taste bad. A bit bland, perhaps – the two I eat consist of cheese and tomato smeared across a 5in pizza base – but nicer than many takeaways. And, weightwatchers, it's only 190 calories.
Thing is, though, it's all a bit fiddly. You have to plop the pizza in a special brown bag, which keeps the cheese from dripping all over your toaster. Getting it in isn't the hard bit; it's when the melted cheese sticks to the bag's innards.
And then there's the sneaking suspicion that this is the culinary version of the emperor's new jeans. There's only one thing separating this from the standard cheese toastie, and that's tomato.
