{"id":20273,"date":"2025-03-19T21:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20273"},"modified":"2025-03-24T21:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:28:58","slug":"daily_3669_-_pizza_guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/daily_3669_-_pizza_guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3669 &#8211; pizza guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In eight grade, Swedish schoolchildren get to do practical work experience. The concept is called <i>prao<\/i> in Swedish. Kids spend two weeks at an actual workplace, doing real work.<\/p>\n<p>This is Adrian&#8217;s second week of <i>prao<\/i> at a Brillo Pizza, and I stopped by to see him at work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3669_pizza_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first challenge is to find a <i>prao<\/i> place. Some find a place through friends and family, but I couldn&#8217;t find anything suitable at Sortera. (It&#8217;s all either office jobs, or work that is too dirty and dangerous for an inexperienced underage worker.) Adrian spent hours searching, both online and just walking from place to place, before landing a <i>prao<\/i> place at Brillo Pizza near Odenplan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3669_pizza_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got to order a pizza from Adrian, pay him for it, and watch him make it fresh for me. I found out that pizzerias have machines to flatten balls of dough into standard-sized pizza bases. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3669_pizza_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also learned that they pre-portion all the toppings such as cheese in plastic cups during slow periods, so when it&#8217;s time to make a pizza, there&#8217;s no measuring or guessing &#8211; just grab a cup and spread its contents on the pizza. A standard pizza gets 110 grams of cheese. A pepperoni pizza has exactly 14 slices of pepperoni, and a kebab pizza gets 80 grams of meat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3669_pizza_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adrian made a pizza for himself as well and then we could have lunch together. We both opted for a &#8220;Maggan&#8221;, which is a fancy margherita topped with extra mozzarella after it&#8217;s baked. (Mine is half-sized since I don&#8217;t eat like a growing teenager any more.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3669_pizza_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In eight grade, Swedish schoolchildren get to do practical work experience. The concept is called prao in Swedish. Kids spend two weeks at an actual workplace, doing real work. This is Adrian&#8217;s second week of prao at a Brillo Pizza, and I stopped by to see him at work. The first challenge is to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20278,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions\/20278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}