They say pizza is a comfort food. A comfort food makes you feel good when you eat it, but it is not necessarily a healthy food to eat. Pizza is a food of choices, there are just a few basic ingredients that must be in a pizza and the rest of the toppings are pure choice. The basics are the crust and the cheese. The selection of toppings is huge. Pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, pineapple, potato, green peppers, olives, the list goes on and on. But there is one topping that generates a stronger reaction than any other, anchovies. When you ask someone if they want anchovies on their pizza the typical response is, "No way. I hate anchovies." When I hear that, I always ask a follow up question. "Have you ever tried anchovies on a pizza before?" and strangely the answer is frequently, "Never, I hate anchovies!"

Now I'm sure that among God's creation, the anchovies alone are happy about this reaction that people have. But isn't it interesting that people who have no experience eating anchovies, have such a strong negative reaction. I decided to tap into that mysterious aversion to pizza toppings by creating bundaegi pizza. What is a bundaegi you might ask? Wikipedia defines bundaegi as bombyx mori which I am sure doesn't help much, so I'll give you the common man's definition, silkworm pupae. Yes, it is a bug, a monophagus, mulberry leaf eating bug that generates the silk used for thread, parachutes and very expensive suits and shirts. Now as soon as the word "bug" is mentioned in the context of food about 99% of readers will instantly be turned off to trying bundaegi on pizza or in any other fashion. That is fine with me because the law of supply and demand says that if more people ate bundaegi the price of $2 for a small cup of bundaegi would rise.

Now as it happens, bundaegi is a very healthy food. Depending on preparation they can be almost 80% protein. The rest is fat. So if you are doing a lot of strenuous activity bundaegi is just the ticket for energy and restoring worn muscle. So it stands to reason that adding bundaegi as a topping on a not so healthy food like pizza can contribute to improving the nutritional effects of pizza eating. At the same time the general aversion to eating bundaegi will contribute to an overall decrease in consumption of this not so healthy food. Thus bundaegi can be seen as a possible solution to the problem of people consuming vast amounts of marginally nutritional food.