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Matt and Jackie were waiting at Control Center for Inez to arrive. They had been in Cyberspace for about fifteen minutes and were wondering where Inez was, so to kill time, they decided to talk about things that were happening in their lives.
“...and she had the nerve to say it was my fault when she barely did any work!” Jackie complained.
“Man, that’s a lot of drama,” Matt remarked. “Glad I don’t have to deal with that.”
At that moment, the portal appeared and Inez hopped out of it.
“Inez!” Matt and Jackie exclaimed.
“Hi guys!” Inez smiled as she received high fives from the two older kids.
“We were wondering if you’d ever get here,” Matt joked. “What took you so long?”
“I was finishing up my school project,” Inez explained. “Then, I had some lunch.”
“Ooh, what did you have?” Jackie asked.
“Hawaiian pizza, it’s a classic.”
Both Matt and Jackie’s eyeballs became wider than dinner plates.
“Hawaiian pizza? As in pineapple pizza?” Jackie questioned.
“Well, there was also ham on it,” Inez added.
“Are you insane?!” Matt shouted. “Who in their ever-loving mind would willingly eat pineapple on pizza?!”
“Oh, come on, it tastes better than it sounds,” Inez answered.
“Pineapple, or any fruit for that matter, does not belong on pizza,” Jackie shook her head in disbelief.
“Technically, tomatoes are a fruit.”
“Says who?” Matt asked.
“Science, Matt, science,” Inez responded. “You two are being so dramatic, and quite frankly, same with most of the Internet. There are people who willingly eat anchovy pizza, and you’re gonna harp on me for being a pineapple pizza enthusiast?”
“Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Jackie spoke. “Whoever’s eating anchovy pizza should be locked up in a jail cell.”
Matt darted his eyes away from the girls and whistled innocently as they both looked at him in shock.
“Don’t tell me you actually like that,” Jackie groaned as Matt chuckled sheepishly.
“So pineapple on pizza isn’t fine, but anchovies are?!” Inez yelled.
“In my defense, it tastes better than it sounds,” Matt tried to explain.
“You are a hypocrite, Matthew,” Inez argued.
“How am I a hypocrite, Nezzie?” he retorted as he stormed towards her.
“Guys, chill!” Jackie sandwiched herself between Matt and Inez. “Inez likes pineapples on her pizza, and Matt likes anchovies on his. We can all agree to disagree…but I think we can all agree that corn on pizza is overhated.”
“Maybe there’s a reason why it’s hated…because it sounds disgusting!” Matt yelled. “The heck’s wrong with you?”
“Aren’t you a farm boy? Corn on pizza should be up your alley, and it tastes better than it sounds.”
“I like corn by itself, not on a pizza!”
“Noticing how we’ve all said this about our pizzas, that they taste better than they sound,” Inez pointed out. “Almost like we all have different preferences. In the end, we all love pizza and that’s what matters.”
“I need to have a talk with the Hawaiians and ask them what they were thinking coming up with that abomination,” Matt said.
“Actually, Hawaiian pizza was created in Canada.”
“Then let me speak to the Canadians!”
“We can all agree that pepperoni’s the best pizza topping though, right?” Jackie asked as both Matt and Inez nodded in agreement.
“Overrated,” a voice said out of nowhere.
The kids turned around and saw Digit standing there with a smirk on his face.
“Overrated?!” Jackie gasped. “You’re lying!”
“Nope, I think pepperoni’s overrated,” he repeated. “I don’t even hate it, I just think there are better toppings…like mushrooms!”
“You must be out of your mind,” Matt told him bluntly.
“Don’t knock it till you try it!” Digit winked.
“Okay, okay, since we can’t agree on a specific topping we all like, can we agree that regular plain cheese pizza is good?” Inez asked as everyone nodded in agreement. “Excellent, now can we move on from this stupid debate?”
At that moment, Jackie felt her phone vibrate. She took it out of her pocket and saw a notification from a blog she was subscribed to. She clicked on it and read the title of the blog post in her head.
“Guys, check this out,” Jackie said as everyone moved closer to her so she could show them the post. “‘Would cereal be considered a type of soup?’”
“Well…” Inez started.
“Oh, don’t you dare say it is!” Matt warned.
“Isn’t soup supposed to be hot?” Digit scratched his head in confusion.
“You can eat soup when it’s cold, Didge,” Jackie answered. “But no, cereal is not a soup and I will not let anyone convince me that it is.”
“Think about it, Jax,” Inez tried to say.
And thus, the Cybersquad got into yet another food debate.