Loosen that Belt, but Keep Your Surgery to Yourself
As we enter the final stretch-of-the-pants holiday eating season, perhaps we all feel a little tight in the trousers, but apparently not as much as the chatters last week over on TomChat offering their inane advice on what a poor patron who has undergone gastric bypass surgery should tell a waiter who wonders why so much of a meal has been left on the plate. The discussion dominated last week’s last-of-the-year chat, thus crowding out any serious discourse on holiday cocktails or the pros and cons of dining out on New Year’s Eve.

Sheesh. Smile and ask for a doggie bag. No need to agonize or apologize.

Mia’s is Marvelous
Speaking of Tom, we have a little bone to pick with his take on Bethesda’s new Mia’s Pizza. The sloppy mac n’ cheese is not meant as a prelude to pizza. It’s for kids who won’t eat tomato sauce flecked with oregano because it’s “TOO SPICY!!!” We have witnessed this phenomenon first hand.

And we love the homey touch of the children’s drawings on the wall. Besides, the pizza, as interpreted by Pizzeria Paradiso scholar Melissa Ballenger, is crispy, crusty, and terrific. And who orders a chicken entree at a pizza place anyway?