Things Really Do Go Better with Chocolate

Have you tried chocolate pizza?

It sounds kind of ridiculous, doesn't it? I'd managed to go all through childhood and early adulthood without ever even thinking of chocolate pizza. But on a stop at the Ein Tisch Inn in Hagerman, Idaho, we were treated to a festival of different kinds of pizza, straight from the oven. The grownups enjoyed pizza with artichoke hearts, smoked chicken and other non-traditional toppings.

For the kids, dessert was the moment they'd been waiting for. Out from the oven came pizza slices so thick that they looked more like pie. They consisted of regular pizza crust, adorned with a generous amount of chocolate topping. After their first shrieks of delight, the boys got very quiet as they concentrated on eating up every last crumb.

(If only they had been as wide as regular pizza slices -- our younger boy recalls that his piece was narrower than he hoped. But that's traditional for him; it's way of saying something was so good that he would have liked even more.)

The ultimate verdict: they want to go back, even if they have to drive a long way. The cream sodas are good, too.