It does n’t weigh if you ’re wreak for minimum salary or you ’re the loss leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world — no one is immune to the charms of pizza . ( Except maybe the Dalai Lama . ) Check out these six account where pizza pie and power overlap .
Boris Yeltsin
During a serial of consultation with Pulitzer Prize - get ahead author Taylor Branch , Bill Clinton
revealed
that Boris Yeltsin nearly create an international incident in 1995 because he wanted pizza pie so badly . The Russian chair was stay at Blair House , the government ’s Edgar Guest quarters in Washington , D.C. , when he decided he need a late - nighttime pie . Instead of dialing Domino ’s or asking staff to procure some pizza pie for him , Yeltsin himself ramble out onto Pennsylvania Avenue and tried to herald a cab , adorn in nothing but his underwear . Secret Service agent found him before he was able to get his pizza pie . Yeltsin may have still been searching for the perfect slice the following night , when he escaped from his handlers to go up into the cellar of Blair House , where he was originally mistaken for an intruder .
Mikhail Gorbachev
Another Russian drawing card raised eyebrow when he appear in a commercial vendition food for Pizza Hut in 1997 . Mikhail Gorbachev
said
he appeared in the ad to raise money for his Gorbachev Foundation , but also because he truly conceive in the top executive of pizza : “ It ’s not only consumption , it ’s also socializing . If I did n’t see that it was beneficial for people , I would n’t have agreed to it . ” Citizens seemed less than impressed with Gorbachev ’s spokesperson spear . “ The next step will be to advertise Tampax , ” one Russian told CNN at the time .
The Dalai Lama
In 2011 , the Dalai Lama was doing an interview with an Australian tidings station . course , one of the anchors think it would be an opportune time to essay a dada joke out on His sanctity : “ The Dalai Lama walks into a pizza pie shop and read , ‘ Can you make me one with everything ? ’ ”
Crickets . The pun was lost in translation , although the Dalai Lama tried really hard to be benignant about it .
The Pope
Boris Yeltsin could have taken tips from Pope Francis , because
this
guy knows how to make a pizza bringing chance . Earlier this yr , the Pope deplore that one of the only downside of being il Papa is the lack of comely pizza . “ The only thing I would like is to go out one day , without being recognized , and go to a pizza parlor for a pizza pie , ” he
differentiate
Radio Vatican .
Well , the Lord works in mysterious ways . While he did n’t get to go to an factual pizza shop , the Pope did get his wish when a pizza possessor from Naples made an oblation of dough and cheese to the papal motorcade . See it take place
here
.
Silvio Berlusconi
There ’s no doubt about it — Italians obviously make fantastical pizza pie . But that does n’t mean that it ’s o.k. to mock the traditional culinary art of other state , specially when you ’re a world leader travel to said country . In 2005 , Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wrick his nose up at Finnish food , read that he had to “
endure
” it during his stay . A couple of years later , a Finnish chef accept first place at the famous New York Pizza Show , besting two Italian chefs . afterwards , the chef
named
his award - winning macrocosm “ the Berlusconi . ” The special topping ? Smoked reindeer .
Kim Jong-il
Thanks to Kim Jong - il ’s fixation with pizza , North Korea last beat its first pizzeria in 2009 . Yes , 2009 . “ General Kim Jong - il said that the people should also be allowed access to the creation ’s famed dish antenna , ” the restaurant ’s manager tell .
It apparently took at least 10 years to find a recipe desirable for public use , because the dictator ’s pizza enthusiasm begin sometime back in the recent nineties , when he brought Italian pizza pie chefs to Pyongyang to teach army officers how to make the delicacy . It ’s
rumored
that Jong - il himself stopped in to superintend the lessons . “ I am not in the view to say whether it was really him , ” one of the chef later said . “ But our chef , who had no reason to fib , was , for the space of several minutes , utterly speechless . He said he matt-up as if he had seen God , and I still begrudge him this experience . "
