Internal toppings

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:40 PM -0700 6/19/07, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Pizza Hut has a commercial right now for their "P'Zone Pizza"
>(http://www.pizzahut.com/Menu.aspx), their version of calzone.
>
>They advertise it with "toppings", interesting since they are inside the
>pizza instead of on top. Innards probably wouldn't be a good substitute
>for toppings, but "innings" seems like it would. BB
>
Why not "fillings", as with calzones proper?  I suppose "toppings",
even unmoored from the original topographic reference, preserves its
identity as a pizza...

LH

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