Yesterday it was the Daily (Hate) Mail. Today the Guardian. You can see the British rubbing their hands with glee it being justification and proof that the Italians don’t really have any better taste than us!

I must admit to being slightly shocked to see frozen pizzas in the supermarket, when I first came here. I mean, why? I’ve never bought one here, to be honest and yet, in the UK, we used to have at least one in the freezer all the time. Here, it just seems so stupid.

So, conducting my very own poll* because I find it so hard to believe this story, I find that S, my colleague, does have a frozen pizza in her freezer and, yes, it’s a Ristorante pizza. Her daughter, C, likes them, apparently. She uses them when she doesn’t have time to prepare something fresh.

When I’m in one of our local supermarkets though, I notice that it’s usually the foreigners who buy the frozen pizzas. I mean, certainly when you live in Milan, with a pizzeria and wood-fired pizza oven on every corner, why on earth would be buy an inferior frozen pizza?

S says that the crust is strange and it’s not a real pizza at all. The topping is, apparently, very rich – much richer than you get in Italy, I guess.

But, I still don’t really understand. I can’t even imagine having a frozen pizza when I can, within half an hour, have a freshly cooked pizza from one of the wood-fired ovens.

Still, when you look at the figures quoted it’s noticeable that these pizzas account for 20% of the Italian market. Nowhere does it actually say the number of pizzas sold nor the overall value of this market share. I suspect it is nothing like the value of the equivalent percentage share in the UK.

However, it does make me want to try one – just to see what they are like.

On the subject of pizzas, our chef at work, asked how my Hawaiian pizza was. I said it was beautiful. She said I would have to come up with some more ideas. S, my colleague has also said she might have the Hawaiian one to try

* A poll taken of 1 person