pizza and root beer

Before we got married, one Valentine's Day Lew came home with a pizza and a bottle of root beer for dinner. He gave me my card first - a Snoopy card that read, "I love you more than pizza and root beer." He was in grad school and I was teaching toddlers for $5.00 an hour. We didn't order pizza. It was too expensive. Well, one place did run a special once a month (the last Tuesday of the month, the end of the month after paying all the bills) that they called "Poor Man's Pizza" where you could get a large one topping for only $5.00. This was before the days of Little Caesar's or Domino's running the $5 deals you find now. We only ate pizza on the last Tuesday of the month.

So, a pizza on Valentine's Day was wildly extravagant. But delicious.

And we have been having pizza and root beer on Valentine's Day ever since.