Herman Cain and Prince Harry Love Meat Toppings on Their Pizza

COMMENTARY | One of the things most endearing about Herman Cain is his occasional politically incorrect utterances. No further example can be found than when he condemned vegetable-topped pizza as "sissy." This aroused the ire of the media.

Mind, the idea that pizza toppings are now somehow a political issue is rather mind-blowing. I happen to love pepperoni, sausage, ground meat, and bacon on my pizza. I will, however, allow the more spicy plant material, such as onions, garlic, and jalapenos. Pineapple, though, is right out. Putting fruit on pizza may or may not be sissy, but it is certainly unnatural.

Cain is being attacked for an excess of machismo for declaring his pizza topping preference. I'm not certain why this should be. Eating meat on pizza is as required as having it in lasagna or meatballs in pasta sauce. Vegetarian pizza is a sign of either someone on a doctor-imposed diet or of someone who does not know what is good.

Cain has good company in liking cooked flesh on his pizza. One suspects that Sarah Palin likes her pepperoni and sausage, even if it is made from caribou.

Another person who likes his meaty pizza is none other than Prince Harry, the younger brother of Prince William. Hot Air tells the story of an act of lese-majeste that took place at a pizza place called Little Italy at Gila Bend, Arizona. Prince Harry has been stationed at a local Air Force base training to be a helicopter pilot.

His Highness was at Little Italy with 30 of his squadronmates where he committed the sin of ordering a meat lover's pizza. This in turn aroused the wrath of PETA. PETA dispatched two young lovelies wearing paper bikinis with jalapeno pepper attached to them. They carried signs that said, "Harry, Let Us Spice Up Your Life" and "Spice Up Your Life: Go Vegan."

This would have been tempting fate had Prince Harry actually clapped eyes on the two scantily clad ladies. He is known as a womanizer, which was the cause of some concern on the part of the town's mayor, and it is just as likely he could have converted them to carnivorism as they would him to veganism. But His Highness has been warned off of interacting with the locals, which means no fornication. That is too bad. The jokes would have written themselves otherwise.