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Leaning Tower of Pizza — A Pun Born on the Road to the Pisa Airport

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I spent last week in the La Spezia/Cinque Terre region on a Road Scholar hiking trip — the kind of trip where your legs ache pleasantly every evening and you eat more focaccia than is strictly necessary. On the drive to the Pisa airport at the end of the week, someone mentioned we'd be flying out near the Leaning Tower, and it struck me: to my ear, "Pisa" sounds exactly like "pizza." I'm sure any actual Italian speaker would hear a clear difference, but mine apparently isn't tuned finely enough to catch it.

The pun wrote itself from there.

A towering stack of pepperoni pizza slices, cheese dripping like mortar between stone arches, leaning at an angle in homage to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, with bold gothic-script lettering reading Leaning Tower of Pizza
Leaning Tower of Pizza — Funny Food Pun Illustration

Stacked pepperoni slices standing in for stone arches, mozzarella dripping like mortar between the levels, and the whole thing tilting at the same improbable angle as the real tower — built with AI assistance, once the idea had lodged itself firmly enough in my head that I had to see it through.

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