An Interesting Combination

In the past year and a half or so that I've been here I've gotten pretty used to the different foods that Bulgarians eat. I thought that I was to the point where nothing really surprises me...but I was wrong. Today's lunch threw me for a loop and made me realize that "yes...I can still be surprised" when it comes to Bulgarian food. I got a little pizza today from the cafe near school. I've come to expect that any pizza I order will most likely not have pizza sauce, but will have ketchup or mayonnaise...or both, and that it will also probably have corn or pickles on it and some unidentifiable meat. ("Is that chicken or pork?") Today's pizza had no ketchup or mayo (yay!), but it did have my usual corn and pickles. But the thing that I've never seen before, and never imagined could be on a pizza, was peas and shredded carrots! I think that this is taking the "vegetarian" pizza thing a bit too far. And it wasn't even a vegetarian pizza because it was still covered with shredded mystery meat! I guess that I will continually be surprised by what Bulgarians can do with food. (Just a FYI - the pizza wasn't half bad)