Garlic Bread

Last night we had pizza delivered for dinner. I called in the order, and in a moment of dietary weakness, I added some garlic breadsticks to the delivery. I’m kind of burned out on most pizza, but it’s been a while since I had garlic bread.

Once we had the boxes opened on our kitchen counter, I ignored the pizza. I plopped a few pieces of soft, hot, garlic breadsticks on my plate. Mmmmm. So delicious. They had so much butter in them my hands got greasy wet just holding them. There was so much garlic that I had to lick the flakes off my fingers after finishing every piece. I grabbed seconds before I even thought about it, and I savored every bite.

Just a few minutes after the meal, those breadsticks were weighing heavy on my stomach. I had eaten six pieces, which probably equaled about two and a half to three pieces of pizza by volume. But I think breadsticks swell as they sit in your stomach. It didn’t seem like that much going down, but boy, it’s a lot once they have time to settle.

They were absolutely wonderful, but they should never be eaten as a meal all by themselves. Maybe next time I’ll just lick the breadsticks.

Bullgrit
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