Pizza: Makin' it good for you?

A slice of pepperoni pizza is good for you, right? I mean it has crust (bread), cheese (milk), pepperoni (meat) and tomato sauce (fruit). That means it covers the four classic food groups (pay no attention to that food pyramid, which has been replaced and revised a few times anyway). Pepperoni pizza could be, ever-so-wryly, rationalized as one of the best foods for you.

Why is pizza and health on the mind? Well for starters, not only is Super Bowl Sunday the biggest day of the year for pizza sales, but the days leading up to the game are when the major pizza chains make a big deal about the new additions to their menu, particularly Pizza Hut. They've often been one of the Super Bowl's top advertisers.

This year, it looks like Pizza Hut is going healthy. Not only has it recently introduced The Natural Pizza, with multigrain crust, but its Web site features a new push that all of its pizzas are only made with natural ingredients (vine-ripened tomatoes, meat and beef topping with no fillers, etc. See www.pizzahut.com for details).

As far as regular guy pizza goes, I am not won over. Remember, if you tell me a pizza is sloppy, messy, greasy, well I am running right over to that pizza place and having a slice or two.

Hey, if fast food places and the national pizza chains want to get in on the health kick, that's fine. Pizza Hut isn't my favorite pizza, but I like their pizza. I guess I'm just wondering if this is all they have in store for us this Super Bowl Season. Maybe they'll surprise us, as we're all getting ready to watch the big Eagles victory, and during that much-anticipated first commercial break, we'll learn about the New Triple-Stuf Double-Roni XL Pan. Let's just hope it's not Jessica Simpson telling us about it.

In another note, Frasier's is the new name for old Lobby House on Loockerman St. in Dover. It is just a name change for the place, so the menu is the same. The Team Trivia each Wednesday night now starts at 8 p.m., one half-hour earlier.