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Breaking news, connecticut students told to use pizza toppings as metaphors for sex.

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Students at a Connecticut middle school were reportedly instructed to use “pizza as a metaphor for sex” and asked to cite their favorite toppings — including cheese for “kissing” and olives for “giving oral.”

The eighth-graders at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield received the “Pizza and Consent” assignment, which compared ordering a pizza to receiving consent, Fox News reported .

“We can use pizza as a metaphor for sex,” the assignment said, according to Parents Defending Education .

“When you order pizza with your friends, everyone checks in about each other’s preferences, right? Some people might be vegan, some might be gluten-free. Others might love pineapple, while others prefer pepperoni,” it said.

“Some might not like pizza at all. If you’re a vegetarian, your friend is a meat lover, sharing a pizza is going to bring up a lot of issues. You don’t know who you can share a pizza with unless you ask!” it continued.

The assignment used pizza and toppings as metaphors for sex acts.

“The same goes with sex! You have to check in with your partner(s) and ask for their preferences. Your partner(s) might be comfortable with one sexual activity, but not another,” the instructions stated.

“So start a conversation! It’s the only way sex (and pizza) can be comfortable and enjoyable for everyone,” it insisted.

The bizarre assignment then continued on another page, under the headline “Personal Pizza.”

'It was a mistake,' Superintendent Christopher Drezek said of the assignment.

“Now that you know this metaphor for sex, let’s explore your preferences! Draw and color your favorite type of pizza. What’s your favorite style of pizza? Your favorite toppings? What are your pizza no-nos?” it read.

“Now mirror these preferences in relation to sex! Here are some examples: Likes: Cheese = Kissing Dislikes: Olives = Giving Oral,” the students were told.

“Obviously, you might not be able to list all of your wants, desires, and boundaries, but hopefully you’ll start feeling more comfortable about discussing them,” the instructions continued.

“For those of ya’ll who don’t like pizza or sex at all, feel free to draw out another food favorite or include non-sexual activities,” it added.

Schools Superintendent Christopher Drezek said during a school board meeting Tuesday that the assignment had been sent “inadvertently” to the students, Fox News reported.

“The simple truth was it was a mistake. And I know that there are some who may not believe that. I know there are some who don’t necessarily maybe want that answer,” he told parents.

Parents appear at a meeting to discuss the controversial documents.

“In this particular case, I didn’t even get a chance to because the person who made the mistake jumped ahead of it before I was even notified that it had happened,” Drezek said. He said that while the assignment was “inappropriate,” there was no “hidden agenda.” “There was no secret cabal to indoctrinate kids on something. They sent the wrong document,” Drezek added. “So that’s what happened. And none of us are happy that it happened.”

The school claimed there was no 'hidden agenda' to the bizarre worksheets.

Teacher Brie Quartin, the district’s health and physical education coordinator, took the blame for the imbroglio.

“The incorrect version, as opposed to the revised version of this assignment, was mistakenly posted on our Grade 8 curriculum page, and was inadvertently used for instruction to Grade 8 Health classes,” Quartin wrote in an email to parents, according to Parents Defending Education.

“I caught the error after our curriculum revision in June but failed to post the intended version. I own that, and apologize for the error,” she wrote.

Parent Tracey Jarvis said the assignment was prompting kids to become sexually active 'before their time.'

Quartin explained that the correct version of the assignment was for “students to work in small groups to craft a pizza with toppings (no behaviors associated with said toppings) that would make everyone happy/comfortable using non-verbal communication only.”

“Students are then asked to reflect and discuss how thoughts or feelings can be confusing or miscontrued [sic], if we rely on non-verbal cues/communication alone. The parallel to be taught here is that when discussing pizza topping it is important that your preferences are clearly communicated to avoid any misunderstanding,” she added.

Parent Tracey Jarvis told NBC Connecticut : “This assignment is prompting kids to become sexually active before their time.”

Another parent, Marcie Talizeo, said the assignment was 'obviously' inappropriate but not 'intended to cause harm.'

Another parent, Marcie Talizeo, told the outlet that “this particular assignment was obviously not appropriate but it was not intended to cause harm to any child.”

The assignment used pizza and toppings as metaphors for sex acts.

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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Not quite " Detroit style " or Chicago’s infamous deep dish , Minneapolis is home to several notable pizza places that are gaining even more attention thanks to a recent ranking by consumer-review site Yelp.

Yelp has released the "ultimate guide to the Midwest’s best pizza" as part of its Top 100 Pizza Spots in the Midwest list.

On it, several Minneapolis-based restaurants made the cut.

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Of Minnesota pizza spots, Young Joni ranked the highest on the survey, taking No. 25 on the best of 100 list.

Not surprisingly, owner and founder Ann Kim won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2019, which recognizes the top chefs in the U.S. She was a semifinalist in the Midwest category in 2017. 

Kim also runs Pizzeria Lola and Hello Pizza in Minneapolis. The former places also ranked on the list, coming in at No. 80.

Deviating from the Italian cuisine, Boludo – described as a "taste of Buenos Aires" while also offering empanadas on its menu – ranked at No. 39. The restaurant opened in 2018 in the Kingfield neighborhood of Minneapolis, but has since expanded to downtown and Como.

The final Minneapolis-centric spot on the list offers a unique pizza variation – cooked in a wood-fired, open-facing oven, Element Wood Fire Pizza, ranked at No. 89. It can be found in the St. Anthony West neighborhood of northeast Minneapolis.

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Also representing the Twin Cities, Mama's Pizza in St. Paul made the list at No. 27.

In the suburbs, Brianno’s Deli-Italia in Eagan (No. 82) and Tono Pizzeria + Cheesesteaks in Maplewood (No. 89) were honored as well.

Wisconsin pizzas among the best

Several places from the "cheeshead state" also made the list.

Novanta in Madison (No. 49), Wells Brothers Restaurant in Racine (No. 65), San Giorgio Pizzeria Napoletana in Milwaukee (No. 86) and Ang an Eddies in Fond du Lac (No. 95) all cracked the top 100.

Pizza worker in critical condition after dog attack in Flatiron District: NYPD

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FLATIRON DISTRICT - A man has been charged with attempted murder after beating and allowing a dog to attack a worker at a Manhattan pizza shop.

The incident happened at around 9:57 p.m. at Roma Pizzeria in the Flatiron District.

Police said that Tyshaun Watson, 35, from Secaucus, New Jersey entered the shop with his pit bull unleashed, and the worker asked him to take the dog outside.

The two got into a fight, and Watson's dog attacked the 50-year-old man.

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Authorities say the victim sustained multiple dog bites, and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.

Watson was arrested, and has been charged with attempted murder.

The dog has been taken into custody.

The 50-year-old victim has not been identified yet.

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NYC pizza shop worker attacked by dog owner, pit bull, police say. Suspect charged with attempted murder

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Updated on: August 20, 2024 / 7:25 PM EDT / CBS New York

NEW YORK – A dog owner is facing attempted murder charges after he and his pit bull allegedly attacked a pizza shop worker in Manhattan.

It happened at Roma Pizza on Fifth Avenue between 19th and 20th streets in the Flatiron District.

Manager attacked after telling customer dog wasn't allowed in shop

According to the shop's day manager, store employees said a customer walked in with an unleashed pit bull just before 10 p.m. Monday.

"The guy told him you're not allowed to have dogs here because of the health department. Then the guy just got mad because of that. He didn't listen. He kept sitting down," the day manager told CBS News New York.

He said things escalated with the dog owner, identified by police as 35-year-old Tyshaun Watson.

"He went behind the counter, and he just started punching him, punching him, punching him. Then the guy fell on the floor. He got on top of him, choking him, then the dog started, when he went on the floor, the dog started going. So it's him and the dog," the day manager said.

The pizza shop employee – identified as 50-year-old Zakaria El Sherif, who works as the store's night manager – was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. Police said he was unconscious after the attack.

"Very good person, very friendly, always talking nice to the customers," the day manager said.

"They're really nice guys that work there," neighbor Stephen Sonkin said. "I mean, we're on Fifth Avenue here, right? So I feel like when I'm walking down here, everyone is very civilized and never really see a lot of pit bulls walking around."

Watson is now charged with attempted murder and assault. As for the dog, it's with the city's Animal Care and Control.

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Nicholas Rossi appears at preliminary hearing in rape trial

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SALT LAKE CITY — Once one of most wanted fugitives in the world, Nicholas Rossi returned to a Salt Lake City courtroom Thursday for a preliminary hearing in his rape trial.

During the brief hearing, only a sexual assault investigator with the Utah Department of Public Safety took the stand where details of the case were discussed.

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The judge later set an arraignment and bail hearing for Oct. 17.

Previous appearances by Rossi in Utah courtrooms had become newsworthy in their own right, with a judge even issuing a reasonable force order earlier this year to make sure he actually appeared.

Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, was extradited from Scotland in January, years after he allegedly faked his own death and fled to Europe. Rossi left the U.S. after being identified as a suspect in a 2008 rape case in Orem .

During multiple court appearances in Utah this year, Rossi has used a British accent that goes in and out during conversations, and has claimed his name is actually Arthur Knight and that he is not the man authorities were searching for.

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Rossi did the same thing Thursday, correcting the judge and insisting he be called Arthur Knight.

When prosecutors tried to ask the lead detective Rossi's birth name, the question was quickly shut down by the defense and never answered.

Before being brought back to the U.S., Rossi has claimed that he's really an Irish orphan and that he'd been framed by authorities who took his fingerprints while he was in a coma so they could connect him to Rossi.

In a virtual hearing in January, court officials were unable to understand Rossi as he insisted on speaking while wearing an oxygen mask.

"Objection, m'lady!" Rossi replied. "That is complete hearsay and I would ask that your ladyship and prosecution show cause for why I am..." before being cut off by the judge.

State investigators claim multiple sexual assaults occurred sixteen years ago. Thursday's preliminary hearing was over the alleged rape in Salt Lake City.

The details of the case were briefly covered in court.

"Approximately when did [the victim] tell you that Nicholas Rossi assaulted her?" asked the prosecutor.

"That was in December 2008," said former lead investigator Detective Derek Coats.

"There is no DNA in the Salt Lake County case to your understanding, correct?" asked the defense.

"Correct," answered Coats.

Rossi's preliminary hearing for the alleged rape in Utah County (also in 2008) is next Tuesday.

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Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do?

Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration's efforts to take unhealthy foods out of schools.

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. These include limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line, putting new restrictions on sodium and boosting the use of whole grains. The legislation would block or delay all of those efforts.

The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now.

SDA had wanted to only count a half-cup of tomato paste or more as a vegetable, and a serving of pizza has less than that.

Nutritionists say the whole effort is reminiscent of the Reagan administration's much-ridiculed attempt 30 years ago to classify ketchup as a vegetable to cut costs. This time around, food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes and lobbied Congress.

School meals that are subsidized by the federal government must include a certain amount of vegetables, and USDA's proposal could have pushed pizza-makers and potato growers out of the school lunch business.

Piling on to the companies' opposition, some conservatives argue that the federal government shouldn't tell children what to eat. In a summary of the bill, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would "prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and ...provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals."

School districts have said some of the USDA proposals go too far and cost too much when budgets are extremely tight. Schools have long taken broad instructions from the government on what they can serve in the federally subsidized meals that are given free or at reduced price to low-income children. But some schools have balked at government attempts to tell them exactly what foods they can't serve.

Reacting to that criticism, House Republicans had urged USDA to rewrite the standards in a bill passed in June. The Senate last month voted to block the potato limits in its version, with opposition to the restrictions led by potato-growing states. Neither version of the bill included the latest provisions on tomato paste, sodium or whole grains; House and Senate negotiators added those in the last two weeks as they put finishing touches on the legislation.

The school lunch proposal is based on 2009 recommendations by the Institute of Medicine , the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences . Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said they are necessary to reduce childhood obesity and future health care costs.

USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe said Tuesday that the department will continue its efforts to make lunches healthier.

"While it's unfortunate that some members of Congress continue to put special interests ahead of the health of America's children, USDA remains committed to practical, science-based standards for school meals," she said in a statement.

Nutrition advocate Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said Congress's proposed changes will keep schools from serving a wider array of vegetables.

Children already get enough pizza and potatoes, she says. It also would slow efforts to make pizzas - a longtime standby on school lunch lines - healthier, with whole grain crusts and lower sodium levels.

"They are making sure that two of the biggest problems in the school lunch program, pizza and french fries, are untouched," she said.

A group of retired generals advocating for healthier school lunches also criticized the spending bill. The group, called Mission: Readiness, has called poor nutrition in school lunches a national security issue because obesity is the leading medical disqualifier for military service.

"We are outraged that Congress is seriously considering language that would effectively categorize pizza as a vegetable in the school lunch program," Amy Dawson Taggart, the director of the group, said in a letter to lawmakers before the final bill was released. "It doesn't take an advanced degree in nutrition to call this a national disgrace."

Specifically, the bill would:

- Block the Agriculture Department from limiting starchy vegetables, including corn and peas, to two servings a week. The rule was intended to cut down on french fries, which many schools serve daily.

- Allow USDA to count two tablespoons of tomato paste as a vegetable, as it does now. The department had attempted to require that only a half-cup of tomato paste could be considered a vegetable. Federally subsidized lunches must have a certain number of vegetables to be served.

- Require further study on long-term sodium reduction requirements set forth by the USDA guidelines.

- Require USDA to define "whole grains" before they regulate them. The USDA rules require schools to use more whole grains.

Food companies who have fought the USDA standards say they were too strict and neglected the nutrients that potatoes, other starchy vegetables and tomato paste do offer.

"This agreement ensures that nutrient-rich vegetables such as potatoes, corn and peas will remain part of a balanced, healthy diet in federally funded school meals and recognizes the significant amounts of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C provided by tomato paste, ensuring that students may continue to enjoy healthy meals such as pizza and pasta," said Kraig Naasz, president of the American Frozen Food Institute.

The school lunch provisions are part of a final House-Senate compromise on a $182 billion measure that would fund the day-to-day operations of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on the bill this week and send it to President Barack Obama .

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