Sideswipe: March 4: Not so special pizza topping

Pizza meat feast with extras

"Four of us had dinner out west last Thursday night and ordered two pizzas to share," writes Denise. "We found a dead cooked fly on one of them. The manager was not very apologetic and only gave us one pizza for free. We didn't finish it. I think we should have been offered more discount to make up for the horror of imagining if we'd ingested other flies."

Tweets about ... keys taken from driving tourists

1. "I say Dick, that chap looks foreign. Let's take his car keys." - Five Go to Te Anau (via Danyl Mclauchlan @danylmc)

2. Performing a powhiri for tourists will now be replaced by the public ceremony of taking their car keys away. (via Sanjay Patel @spat106)

3. Can someone come and take the keys off my bus driver? (via Andre Alessi @AndreAlessi)

4. I'm thinking of confiscating some lunch off a tourist today. (Bounder @DawgBelly )

5. I'm inspired to become a traffic vigilante, going around giving bad drivers Citizen's Demerit Points. (Keith Ng @keith-ng )

6. Trying to imagine the mayhem if I were to reach over from my bike and grab the keys of every motorist I see texting at intersections. (Mr Salteena @saniac)

7. Say what you like, having your car keys taken away in the backblocks of a foreign country is a great start for a horror movie. (Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood)

What's happened to the old flavours?

A reader writes: "Can some person in the know please explain why you can only get lemonade popsicles these days. In the 70s you could get coke flavoured, raspberry and orange."

Two into fore! will go

"I have two tickets to the Holden PGA Championship from tomorrow to Sunday," writes Brian from Henderson. "I cannot use them, so if any of your readers would like them they are free to a good home. They are valid for all four days." Email Sideswipe if you'd like to go into the draw. Entries close at 10am. Winner will be notified by 10.30am and put in touch with Brian.

Air New Zealand has asked passengers to fill in memory cards. (Via Twitter @Handsprings1)

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