Two interesting reports on fast food habits. Really don’t like the reporting style in The Local’s piece but the statistics are interesting.
I have noticed since first coming to France that more and more French people are overweight in the area I live in, especially young people. I imagine it’s all connected… 
We have to drive 14k there and back for a takeaway pizza.
Not so fast.
Super U do a very good chorizo one and we usually have a couple in the freezer.
There are 2 fast food restaurants in the villages either side of ours (ours is too small for one) and both are pizza shops. Just 5 minutes drive for us but they’re expensive. I prefer to buy a simple cheese and tomato pizza and add our own toppings 
Like you Mandy… I generally have a basic cheese/tomato pizza in the freezer… and then, if I wish, I can add whatever takes our fancy… 
I suppose we have pizza twice a month… when time or enthusiasm is lacking…
we do pizza once a month from the van in the village but we regularly make our own, my son hates any cheese but catherdral city mature and loves ham tomato and pineapple pizza.
making our own saves a fortune too.
we make our own…rolling out the dough…thin.
j says that tomatoes make a pizza soggy.
So his half has not tomato.
Fav pizza is Pizza Expess UK
Pizza express used to be good about 30 years ago. Last time I had one it was half the size of what they used to be, with a really slimmed down amount of topping, normally pepperoni for me, and not cheap.
Good…well smaller is ok.
They are still the best for me.
Nothing is cheap.
To run a restaurant certainly is not cheap.
This old thread seemed the best place for a new pizza post, and in any case, there’s always more that can be said or written about pizza.
The link below is an enjoyable article cum guide on Marseilles’ pizza culture from the NY Times weekly French Newsletter - not to be confused with…
There’s a paywall normally, but subscribers can free share a limited number of articles per month
I couldnt actually give a toss what the NYT thinks about anything in Europe. My thoughts on how some Americans think we should run things just to suit them
Nevertheless, their articles about France are far superior to the Guardian’s coverage .This is writing about places and their culture, rather than somewhere that someone went on holiday.
Those bases look pretty amazing!
The kids here are all really into ‘tacos’. I occasionally have a kebab on a wrap rather than breadroll but I’m always so disappointed compared to Aussie ones which are an amazing mix of hommous, Lebanese Parsley tabbouli, loads of salad and either meat or falafels on Lebanese bread. Mmmmmmm 
I use the same Fast-Food habits here as I did in UK…
I buy a selection of fresh food, depending on the season… then…
Ready, Steady, Cook! 20 minutes or so was what the TV show reckoned… and they taught me well… 
of course, a different country offers different products/flavours/possibilities
thus my Specialities can be just a little bit like venturing into the unknown…
but I’ve not poisoned anyone yet… …
From my perspective, if I cook a dish or whatever, first time is all by error. Get it right and it gets written down and its produced quickly compared to experimenting. Just made yorkshire pudings for our friends, not something I have done in years. They have risen to the occasion 
I make yorkshire pudding so infrequently that I have to look at my old cookbook for the recipe… 
but, OH is overjoyed at the results… a real treat
Just a warning to those with tastes like ours: pepperoni on pizza in France is a kind of salami, not for vegetarians. I once ordered a veggie pizza and asked for pepperoni extra to spice it up, and it took a while before I realised what I’d got!
I didn’t realise that pepperoni could be anything else.
Maybe it’s because I lived in Germany, where pepperoni is 
As far as I know here, Oz and UK it is all the word for a vaguely spicy salami.
Most of us would probably think of Germany as a chilly country, rather than a jalapeño one (you were expecting the pun, weren’t you?)
And then of course there’s Scotland and Scotch bonnets (not to be confused with Scottish ones)
It’s certainly a complicated Old/New World…