My mom always argues with me about this one,
but it is a true story.
[LAUGHTER]
It's called, "Pizza with Light Bulb."
Mama always made the best Arabic pizza:
soft, thick with olives, mushrooms and cheese
and of course, ketchup instead of pizza sauce.
But that night, there was something different about it.
We knew one should never complain about homemade food,
so we crunched and swallowed, washed it down with Pepsi
until she heard the glass shards under our teeth.
She opened the oven, found out the light in there had burst.
The doctor on the phone said the only side effect would be
our asses lighting up at night.
It was a practical thing, after all,
to turn into lightning bugs with the electricity gone from
midnight until 6:00 AM.
True story, we ate glass.