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The X-Men Introduced Me To Pizza. I Just Had No Idea What It Was

CBR ran a piece, as every website is obliged to now and then, looking at the number of times Kitty Pryde has used the N-word in the X-Men comics

But it also reminded me of another scene in one of those infamous issues.

I remember that scene very well, but possibly for other reasons that intended by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr.

Picture me. Young boy growing up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, in the early eighties, completely unaware of pizza.

We hadn't had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles then, what pizza chains did exist hadn't extended that far north, or that far provincial, all the images, concepts, stereotypes hadn't reached me yet.

Because if you didn't now what pizza was, what Kitty Pryde was eating was a mystery. A large slice of watermelon? Some kind of pancake that you suck the juice out of? And what the hell was it doing in some kind of cardboard box.

I would learn in the next year or two what pizza was. And re-reading the comic, have a realisation.

Next up, water towers and fire hydrants…

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