The worst Pizza you ever ate!!

IMHO, the absolute worst thing you can eat, pizza wise, is a frozen pie with sausage or hamburger. Those meats, especially the sausage, look like rabbit pellets and taste like a cross between Tender Vittles and Alpo. We don't really have that many good pizza joints in Salisbury, but in Concord there's a place called Italian Oven that has brick oven pizzas and chicken marsala that are superb. I don't know if this is a chain or not, it's the only one around, and I've never neard of one anywhere else.

For me its Papa John's. Hate the stuff...no pizza should taste sweet and IMHO both the sauce and dough are way too sweet. Maybe to appeal to college students? I used to work on a campus and students love PJ! Mind boggling.

Godfather's is so greasy, ick. I've tried the only local pizzeria in our little town, and it was horrible. The Yellow Mushroom in Waseca, MN. Avoid at all costs. Tough, thin crust, sparse toppings, and to add insult to injury, over $17 for a large pie. Ridiculous!

So we're stuck with Dominos until I can find something better nearby...any ideas? We're about 10 miles from Owatonna and 20 from Mankato.

Gail

My vote for the worst pizza? Its about a 10-way tie between every frozen grocery store pizza that I've ever had the misfortune to eat. The newer "rising crust" pizzas are somewhat better, but freezing any bread product does something to it that just can't be undone. It's the nearest pizza parlor for me!

Pizza Hut, Dominos and Chuck E. Cheese's all serve pizza that's far superior to that served at Pizza, Pizza, the largest chain in the Toronto area. Pizza, Pizza is so chintzy on the ingredients that I'm embarassed by the fact that it's Canadian based!

Any pizza served in office building or mall food courts is usually very bad. The standard trick that they use in food courts is to add yeast to the dough. This of course makes the pizza thick - but with beery tasting dough and not tasty ingredients like bacon, mushrooms, ham and onions!

Worst of all is any frozen supermarket pizza I've ever had the misfortune of sampling! Somehow they all acquire that particularly vile frozen pizza flavour.

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Originally posted by Hepcat

Pizza Hut, Dominos and Chuck E. Cheese's all serve pizza that's far superior to that served at Pizza, Pizza, the largest chain in the Toronto area. Pizza, Pizza is so chintzy on the ingredients that I'm embarassed by the fact that it's Canadian based!

I think that's the place where I got a "slice" (assuming it could be called a "slice") when I was in Toronto a coupla years ago. The one I "ate" in was on the Danforth. It was bad. That's an understatement.

Just last week while at Disney I ordered a pizza to be delivered to the hotel room (Port Orleans) from the on-site pizzeria called "The Sassagoula Pizza Co." THAT should of tipped me off right away The pizza was awful...the crust was like bread, the sauce too sweet, the "sausage" dismal! I'm used to NJ/NY pizza, the REAL deal Anyways, I ate half of it

Untill I ate At Pizza the Hutt ,I was unaware that grease was a topping.

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Originally posted by BigGlenn

All the National Chain Pizza joints have been slammed in this thread but..........they seem to stay in business. How can that be?

The answer is that it isn't the product that has led to the success of these and other chains, it's the systems that have been put in place to produce, market and distribute those products on a mass scale. Almost all of us can make a better burger than McDonald's or Burger King, and I think that most of us have found better pizzas at local, "mom and pop" operations, or even at home, than at national chains like Pizza Hut, Pappa John's or Domino's. But what these companies have done is create and implement systems that are sophisticated enough to earn billions of dollars and serve millions of customers, but that are simple enough to be essentially operated by high school students.

There have been plenty of instances in the restaurant and other industries where a company has had a better product than most or even all of its competitors, but has failed because adequate systems for marketing, handling money and product, and management oversight have not been in place. For example, right after the '70s mini-series "Roots," a fried chicken franchise operation called "Chicken George" was started. They had a number of restaurants here in the Washington D.C. area, although I don't know how many they had nationwide. Even though I, and many of my friends, thought that their chicken and side dishes were better than those found at KFC and Popeye's, they failed, I think because of management problems. Unfortunately, the quality of the food is not the most important determinant of whether a restaurant chain is successful.

The worst I ever ate was in - get this - London, UK. Um, they need to just stick to making fish and chips and crisps and beer.

The worst pizza that I remember eating,and in fact, eating time and time again was in my Junior High School cafeteria, talk about cardboard squares with no taste! uck!

I agree with all of the posts regarding frozen pizza, but have found if you purchase "Mama Celeste's" (I don't even know if it's still available) individual cheese pizza and "doctor" it with some olive oil, oregano, red pepper flakes & garlic and bake it in a toaster oven, that it's not half bad.

BTW - Ben & Jerry attended my Junior High School, I wonder if the dull pizza inspired them to be so creative with ice cream?

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BTW - Ben & Jerry attended my Junior High School, I wonder if the dull pizza inspired them to be so creative with ice cream?

Did you grow up in Merrick NY?

It's great to know that I came from such an infamous town which hailed Amy Fisher, Debbie (Deborah) Gibson and Ben and Jerry!

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BTW - Ben & Jerry attended my Junior High School, I wonder if the dull pizza inspired them to be so creative with ice cream?

Did you grow up in Merrick NY?

It's great to know that I came from such an infamous town which hailed Amy Fisher, Debbie (Deborah) Gibson and Ben and Jerry!

Yes! In the area where Shore Drive meets Clubhouse Rd, so I didn't live close to Amy Fisher(Hewlett side), Deborah Gibson, Ricki Lake or Ben and Jerry(North Merrick or Merrick proper) .. lol .. attended MAJHS & JFK.

Since this is a pizza thread, I do miss Violetta's and know that they moved from Holiday Park to Sunrise Hwy and of course, D'Antonio's.

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Originally posted by flowercat

Yes! In the area where Shore Drive meets Clubhouse Rd, so I didn't live close to Amy Fisher(Hewlett side), Deborah Gibson, Ricki Lake or Ben and Jerry(North Merrick or Merrick proper) .. lol .. attended MAJHS & JFK.

Since this is a pizza thread, I do miss Violetta's and know that they moved from Holiday Park to Sunrise Hwy and of course, D'Antonio's.

I grew up on Lowell Lane. Had no idea Ricki Lake was from Merrick! I too went to MAJHS and JFK. What year did you graduate? I went to Violetta's back in August. Took two pies back to RI with me to take to the office the following day! Where was D'Antonio's? I dont' remember it.

Wanderingjew!

D'Antonio's was on the Southwest corner of Merrick Ave & Merrick Road and closed sometime in the late 80's and I believe became a Mexican Restaurant for a short time. It was in the same center as Waldbaum's and Colony Cards, or before The Gap moved in and Waldbaum's moved to Holiday Park.

I lived on Camden Lane and certainly know where Lowell is, I'm in touch with someone who lived on Covered Bridge Rd and kept informed on happenings in Merrick.

I found the JFK site on Classmates in 1999, before they began to charge to post and somehow, I was the one who started most of the flame wars with the remarks "You are putting the cart before the horse" and "You need to get your ducks in a row" ... oh well

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Wanderingjew!

D'Antonio's was on the Southwest corner of Merrick Ave & Merrick Road and closed sometime in the late 80's and I believe became a Mexican Restaurant for a short time. It was in the same center as Waldbaum's and Colony Cards, or before The Gap moved in and Waldbaum's moved to Holiday Park.

YesI know where Camden Lane is. I now remember D'Antonio's, but actually remember it under a different name, Rainone's. If I recall, they only served whole pies and not by the slice. They were really good. There was another Pizza Place on Merrick Road, closer to Mc Donald's called Brothers Pizza. They were really good. They were around from the early 80's and were still around in 1992 prior to my leaving NY for Seattle. They're gone now!

Dominos here is by far the worst as far as delivery pizzas go. Pizza Hut and Papa Johns are better though not top of the line. If you want top of the line you have to go to Nick and Gios a local pizzeria and Italian restauraunt. As for my dislike for Dominos I would actually like to taste a few of the toppings instead of just the crust. I am not crazy about frozen pizza but Orv's is acceptable.

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Originally posted by flowercat



BTW - Ben & Jerry attended my Junior High School, I wonder if the dull pizza inspired them to be so creative with ice cream?

Did you grow up in Merrick NY?

It's great to know that I came from such an infamous town which hailed Amy Fisher, Debbie (Deborah) Gibson and Ben and Jerry!

Yes! In the area where Shore Drive meets Clubhouse Rd, so I didn't live close to Amy Fisher(Hewlett side), Deborah Gibson, Ricki Lake or Ben and Jerry(North Merrick or Merrick proper) .. lol .. attended MAJHS & JFK.

Since this is a pizza thread, I do miss Violetta's and know that they moved from Holiday Park to Sunrise Hwy and of course, D'Antonio's.

I grew up on Leslie Lane, off Shore Drive. I went to Lakeside, MAJHS (I think it has a new name now) and Kennedy. My sister went to Calhoun, I think she was there when Ben & Jerry were. Of course now Merrick-Bellmore is gonna be infamous for Mepham Sodomy on top of everything else.

Didn't Shore Drive sort of morph into Clubhouse, and vice versa? Clubhouse went by the golf course, right? (Clubhouse, eh? )

I didn't know that there were actually any other human beings in Merrick (I didn't have a particularly happy or sociable childhood.)

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Violetta's pizza in Holiday Park(?) shopping center on Merrick Road. Walked there from Lakeside (they let us go out for lunch in elementary school!) There was just about enough time to walk there, scarf down a coupla slices and walk back. I think it was 25 cents a slice when I first started going there, I think I remember the neon sign that said "Pizza 25¢" and then it started going up, I guess it went next to 30¢ but I don't remember.

Or am I just imagining the whole thing.?

Nah.

Edit: Now I remember that next to Violetta's was a Grant's (a 5 & 10 store, anybody remember them? ) Okay, so there were two appealing things about Grants. One was that they always had candy at a great price. I think it was 3 candy bars for 25¢ and everyone else charged 10¢ for a bar. The other great thing was that Grants had a small "pets" section and they had some turtles and fish and stuff. I think that the turtles were in open tanks and you could play with them.

So the deal was that if you had a dollar for lunch you could get two slices of pizza, a drink (a quarter or less) and 3 candy bars for a dollar! Geez now I'm wondering if there was change left over or if the drink cost 25¢?

Okay, this is the wrong place to post this, but the McDonald's on Merrick road was one of the original "Golden Arches" McDonald's before they remodeled it and ruined it. I don't remember much from my childhood but I absolutely remember that place. No inside seating. The outdoor seating built into the sides of the building, the white and red tiles. I'd swear I remember ketchup smeared on the tiles and how gross I thought it was (I'm talking about when I was maybe 4 or 5 or 6 here.) The arches.

I remember what a treat it was to go there. Back then it was a really big deal to go to a McDonald's, there weren't 5,000,000,000,000 outlets; and people, especially families just didn't eat out like they do now.

Years later a Burger King opened down the street with one of those awful, boring mansard roofs and indoor seating and I recall that it seemed so modern compared to the old-fashioned McDonalds. Then at some point McDonalds remodeled and was turned into another dreary fast-food joint. But I didn't appreciate the original back then. "Modern" always seemed better, I didn't realize how banal and homogenized it was.

Back OT, the worst pizza I ever ate were the awful grease pads they used to serve in my college student building (not the cafeteria but the grab and go cafe-type place). It was branded as Sbarro's but I could not beleive that even Sbarro's would put their name on that crud. Everything that makes pizza bad afflicted these sorry things: greasy, stringy "cheez", too sweet, gloppy sauce, spongy crust, Upton Sinclair's Jungle pepperoni . . . you name it.

You only ate it if you were really desperate and had exhausted all your other food options (i.e. everything else was closed).

BTW, I went to Fordham University in the Bronx, which is just steps away from the Bronx's Little Italy, home to some of planet Earth's finest pizza creations. I mention this because it's not as if they could claim ignorance about what good pizza was . . . it was right down the street.

Bad pizza? I guess the cafeteria back in the dorms <shudder> was the worst. I've had lots of generic pizza, but very few pies that were truly awful.

But then, I'm something of a true believer when it comes to pizza. I tend to believe that pizza is analagous to sex...even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

no, more like when it's bad, it's a big disappointment. or maybe that's just the female perspective....

i hate little ceasers and dominos...and pizza hut. and i worked at major magic's a looooooong time ago.....that pizza was pretty much awful.

eeewww...bad pizza can be really bad.

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Bad pizza? I guess the cafeteria back in the dorms <shudder> was the worst. I've had lots of generic pizza, but very few pies that were truly awful.

But then, I'm something of a true believer when it comes to pizza. I tend to believe that pizza is analagous to sex...even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

My wife says that bad sex and bad pizza are similar in that neither of them are worth having,and both sex and pizza are better when they're done with love!

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My wife says that bad sex and bad pizza are similar in that neither of them are worth having,and both sex and pizza are better when they're done with love!

Phew! I thought you were going to say something about hot pepperoni and pools of grease...

I've had some bad pizza, but the worst was probably in Barcelona, Spain, of all places. I'm from Chicago, so the friends I was visiting in Barcelona were eager to take me to this place - it was called something like Chicago Pizza Pie Co. or something. I can't remember what made it so bad, but trust me, it was terrible. What made it worse was knowing that all the locals thought that this junk was what we ate in Chicago. When my friend and his family visited me in Chicago the next year, I made sure that their first stop after the airport was Pizzeria Uno for some real Chicago pizza. So at least some people in Spain now know what Chicago-style pizza is supposed to taste like. I hope that awful place closed down.

Here in Columbus, OH there is a VERY popular joint known as "Plank's" (the one one Parsons, for you central Buckeyes). Oh god the HORROR! Cheap toppings and cheese on top of a sweetroll sweet crust. I have watched them make sauce, canned pizza sauce with a significant amount of sugar added.

Omigosh Ci-Cis pizza must be the worst on the planet. I have three pre-teen stepsons that can eat me out of house and home. They looove Ci-Cis. My husband and I went with them and were horrified at the dough balls with miniscule shreds of toppings that were presented as thick crust pizza! Please pass the water, I am choking!

I just remembered. The very worst one I ever tasted came from a local chain place in the Columbus, Ohio area. Massey's Pizza. We had some people visiting us from New Haven, and, after a long day of running around, we decided to order a pie. Massey's was the only place in the town where we live, some 30 years ago. What they delivered was the worst looking thing I'd ever seen, and, daring to taste this alleged apizza, I was unable to keep from spitting it out.

Somehow, this chain has grown locally. This is something I cannot understand.

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Omigosh Ci-Cis pizza must be the worst on the planet. I have three pre-teen stepsons that can eat me out of house and home. They looove Ci-Cis. My husband and I went with them and were horrified at the dough balls with miniscule shreds of toppings that were presented as thick crust pizza! Please pass the water, I am choking!

Just peeked in on this thread for the first time and was wondering if anyone ever got around to mentioning Ci-Cis. You are right. $2.99 for AYCE (or is it $3.99). That, of course, tells you all you need to know, but I had to try it because I'm cheap and the parking lots are always packed. Utterly laughable. The manager asked me if everything had been satisfactory as I was leaving and said he hoped to see me again soon; I just laughed my way out the door. Think watered-down tomato sauce misted on stale, unsalted saltines dusted with 1/32nd tsp of powdered parmesan -- but the places are packed.

Pizza Inn was a terrible chain, tho they seemed to do well in Hipanic-immigrant neighborhoods here. Never ordered Domino's myself but have had some and it truly amazes me that they have even survived, much less prospered.

Oh yes, CPK (I've eaten a lot of bad pizza, but this will be the final entry in this post). BBQ chicken or Teriyaki Chicken pizza, can't remember which - give me a break !!!! .

I had a cold this week and could not taste food. I had to be out on Wednesday so I went to Cici's pizza. It is a buffet for only $5. including unlimited soft drinks. It filled me up, and I did not have to taste their pizza.

I went to a Ci-Ci's a few days ago. It wasn't as bad as all....wait, yes it was.

An entertaining thread...I had forgotten about the Chef-Boy-Ardee pizza mix with parmesan cheese in a little silver can.

Oh and here's the secret to eating Ci-Ci's pizza: Take 3 slices of pizza. Remove toppings from 2 of the slices. Place each blob of toppings on the 3rd piece. Now you have a normal amount of toppings.

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http://www.roundtablepizza.com/RTP/HI/

Here it is. I remember it now. I was in Arcata California a few years ago when I took a bite of this crap. Actually, that is too elevated a description. I think it was the chicken roastadoro. No tomato flavor at all, the cheese was too stringy, and the toppings overwhelmed the pie. It might just be the way I like my pizza, with a more minimalistic approach, but the main ingridients, namely cheese and tomato, were lacking. I wonder if anyone else has heard of this chain.

Oh boy, did that ring a bell.....
I'm from the Philly area, and resided in San Fran for a bit.
At the time , I was in college and all the jobs on campus and around were booked, including waiting lists...so off I went to explore.

This was one of the places I applied at. Don't ask! I think I went and took an app, but never turned it in. Thank God.

Anyway, the worst pizza I ever had is anything that doesn't involve the real damn thing. Personally, if it isn't made by Italians, preferably ones who just came over from Italy and the like, I don't want it. Chains are gross, frozens are incredibly gross.
I'll agree with the comment about anything within a certain distance from the east coast isn't too good.
When I hear cheddar cheese is a normal cheese topping(like say for a regular pizza some places put mozz and cheddar). That is so damn wrong, on so many levels. The thought makes me ill
I was so disgusted, I actually saw a menu which included white pizza. On it they mentined their white pizza had mozz and white amer cheese. I almost barfed at such a sin

Having lived in Chicago for 28 years,I was a bit spoiled! We moved to Arkansas for 2 years and I tell you,every single place we ordered from was truly horrible! It all tasted like a piece of wet leather(not that I know what that taste like)! There was one place where you would buy one and get 2 free,it was so bad they were giving it away! I live in Wisconsin now,so I am really close to Chicago,I am happy now! On a side note,I also HATE Little Caesers,always have,and now I work at one! When people call up to order I always want to say "Please order from someplace good"!

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Having lived in Chicago for 28 years,I was a bit spoiled! We moved to Arkansas for 2 years and I tell you,every single place we ordered from was truly horrible! It all tasted like a piece of wet leather(not that I know what that taste like)! There was one place where you would buy one and get 2 free,it was so bad they were giving it away! I live in Wisconsin now,so I am really close to Chicago,I am happy now! On a side note,I also HATE Little Caesers,always have,and now I work at one! When people call up to order I always want to say "Please order from someplace good"!

Why do you work there if you hate the place with a passion?

Why do you work there if you hate the place with a passion?

Well,it's better then nothing!

I think I was a young adult before I ate pizza that wasn't of Chef Boyardee origin. My first genuine pizza must have been when I traveled to NYC as an 18 year old on spring break. My older brother and wife picked me up at the Newark airport. On the way there they picked up a large pie from a Jersey mom and pop pizzeria. It was still warm when we reached the car.

My brother, always encouraging me to try new things, had ordered an anchovy pie. I was initially undone, but was liking it by the second slice. Maybe being a bit hungry helps one be more accepting of something different.

The worst pizza I ever had was in Grand Rapids, Michigan many years ago. They topped their pizza with tunafish salad! They also did not cut the pie into slices but rather into tiny little squares about the size of a cracker. They did top the hot tuna with green olives, which was delicious.

Irish corn pizza

Until fairly recently, every little Parisian boulangerie sold what they called pizza--a little round of puff pastry topped with what tasts like pure tomato paste, some grated gruyère, and a couple of anchovies. Perfectly fine raw ingredients I suppose, but the end result was pretty damn nasty. Especially if you ate it cold.

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Originally posted by tamandmik

http://www.roundtablepizza.com/RTP/HI/

Here it is. I remember it now. I was in Arcata California a few years ago when I took a bite of this crap. Actually, that is too elevated a description. I think it was the chicken roastadoro. No tomato flavor at all, the cheese was too stringy, and the toppings overwhelmed the pie. It might just be the way I like my pizza, with a more minimalistic approach, but the main ingridients, namely cheese and tomato, were lacking. I wonder if anyone else has heard of this chain.

Oh boy, did that ring a bell.....
I'm from the Philly area, and resided in San Fran for a bit.
At the time , I was in college and all the jobs on campus and around were booked, including waiting lists...so off I went to explore.

This was one of the places I applied at. Don't ask! I think I went and took an app, but never turned it in. Thank God.

Anyway, the worst pizza I ever had is anything that doesn't involve the real damn thing. Personally, if it isn't made by Italians, preferably ones who just came over from Italy and the like, I don't want it. Chains are gross, frozens are incredibly gross.
I'll agree with the comment about anything within a certain distance from the east coast isn't too good.
When I hear cheddar cheese is a normal cheese topping(like say for a regular pizza some places put mozz and cheddar). That is so damn wrong, on so many levels. The thought makes me ill
I was so disgusted, I actually saw a menu which included white pizza. On it they mentined their white pizza had mozz and white amer cheese. I almost barfed at such a sin

I agree about the best pizzas being made by experienced Italians, having had the best ever pizzas from small independent shops in Italy during my backpacking days.

However, I might venture to observe that pizza can be seen as one of the most flexible foods around, lending itself to innovation and experimentation. It doesn't make an excuse for bad pizza but it does leave room for culinary imagination and genius. Therefore I argue that it's not what's on the pizza but:

a) the quality of the ingredients
b) the mixture of toppings

that make all the difference.

Having said that, your diatribe does make you sound like one of those snooty gourmets who wouldn't touch anything less than classical cooking in any cuisine. It's a wonder you'd eat any roadfood as there are so many geographical and regional variations, all good in their own way.

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The worst pizza I ever had was in Grand Rapids, Michigan many years ago. They topped their pizza with tunafish salad! They also did not cut the pie into slices but rather into tiny little squares about the size of a cracker. They did top the hot tuna with green olives, which was delicious.

Well LizzieR, I live in Grand Rapids... Atleast you had some exciting crap pizza! Rest of the stuff here is just plain boring crap. There was a good place once upon a time, but the owners retired and now it's like the rest. There's also a local chain around here called Vitales.. They used to make pizza to die for, but today I wouldnt give them a nickle of my hard earned money... Especially their store in Ada!

Jellybeans, my opinion on pizza is one that doesn't cross over, so to speak.
I've had tons of wonderful food, from many different regions and preparations. However, with pizza, I'm firm on my belief. It's one of the very few foods I don't accept anything other than the best in forms of what I believe is superior.

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Jellybeans, my opinion on pizza is one that doesn't cross over, so to speak.
I've had tons of wonderful food, from many different regions and preparations. However, with pizza, I'm firm on my belief. It's one of the very few foods I don't accept anything other than the best in forms of what I believe is superior.

May I recommend Peter Reinhart's American Pie. It's a fascinating read, with recipes for different types of dough that will make your present pizza baking even better.

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Jellybeans, my opinion on pizza is one that doesn't cross over, so to speak.
I've had tons of wonderful food, from many different regions and preparations. However, with pizza, I'm firm on my belief. It's one of the very few foods I don't accept anything other than the best in forms of what I believe is superior.

May I recommend Peter Reinhart's American Pie. It's a fascinating read, with recipes for different types of dough that will make your present pizza baking even better.

Sure, I'm always up for a good read. If I can find it, I'll check it out.
I don't make my own pizza, but sounds like an interesting read:)

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Jellybeans, my opinion on pizza is one that doesn't cross over, so to speak.
I've had tons of wonderful food, from many different regions and preparations. However, with pizza, I'm firm on my belief. It's one of the very few foods I don't accept anything other than the best in forms of what I believe is superior.

May I recommend Peter Reinhart's American Pie. It's a fascinating read, with recipes for different types of dough that will make your present pizza baking even better.

Sure, I'm always up for a good read. If I can find it, I'll check it out.
I don't make my own pizza, but sounds like an interesting read:)

It just came out last month, and it really is something of the quest for the Holy Grail.

Thanks for the info Grampy, sounds interesting nontheless.

You can always count on really terrible pizza at the slopeside restaurant of the Midwestern "ski" resort of your choice.

This is a tough one. There is so much bad pizza out there. I think I'll have to go with Papa John's (you know it's bad pizza when they include some kind of garlic laced chemical dipping sauce as a way to choke down the remaining two inches of plain crust when the slice is gone) with Sbarro deep dish being a close second. I'd take a frozen Tombstone over either one of those any day.

The Chef Boy-ar-dee comments remind me of a frined of mine who used to make those with cheddar cheese and the meatballs he fished out of a can of spaghetti-oh's as added toppings. I never tried one, but I'm guessing it was pretty bad.

Hey Mr. Hoffman, when you tried Massey's in Columbus what kind did you get? I had a couple pieces of a peperoni pie from there once and I didn't think it was too bad.

I've had some of the worst pizza in my life at various amusement parks over the years. Thankfully, the memory of which was the absolute worst has faded.

For national franchise pizza, I have to say that Pizza Hut is one I detest. Always greasy and nothing like the good pizza available from the local private shops. Unfortunately, we end up having to order it for my younger son and a few of his friends.

Lately, when we have several friends over and order pizza, we order Pizza Hut for the kids, then get a great pie from Pizzaria America (formerly known as John's Pizza - not to be confused with Poppa John's) on Long Pond Rd. My favorite is to get the basic cheese pizza, and add choped tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese. Our friends all love this pie.

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My favorite is to get the basic cheese pizza, and add choped tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese. Our friends all love this pie.

Oh boy, does that sound incredibly good

Back in the early sixties -- when I had never had real pizza, my grade school made "pizza" by taking a hamburger bun, covering it with catsup and putting a slice of American cheese on it. It was very popular with the little kids. Of course, the alternative was generally the tuna noodle casserole.

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My favorite is to get the basic cheese pizza, and add choped tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese. Our friends all love this pie.

Oh boy, does that sound incredibly good

Feta isn't Italian...

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My favorite is to get the basic cheese pizza, and add choped tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese. Our friends all love this pie.

Oh boy, does that sound incredibly good

Feta isn't Italian...

Never said it was *rolls eyes*

Do us all a favor and get off your ego trip already.

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My favorite is to get the basic cheese pizza, and add choped tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese. Our friends all love this pie.

Oh boy, does that sound incredibly good

Feta isn't Italian...

Never said it was *rolls eyes*

Do us all a favor and get off your ego trip already.

mmmmmm... non italian cheese on a pie made in america...
Guess Im bad cause I use Mozzarella made in Wisconson! ha ha...

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Originally posted by berndog

My favorite is to get the basic cheese pizza, and add choped tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese. Our friends all love this pie.

Oh boy, does that sound incredibly good

Feta isn't Italian...

Never said it was *rolls eyes*

Do us all a favor and get off your ego trip already.

mmmmmm... non italian cheese on a pie made in america...
Guess Im bad cause I use Mozzarella made in Wisconson! ha ha...

Thanks for lightening things up and giving us a giggle, Uncle Vic

And DanaJ honey: I was just pointing out that feta isn't Italian because you had stipulated before that you wouldn't touch anything but the best and in your opinion, most authentic, i.e. made by someone Italian or has an Italian surname). As you said in an earlier post:

"Anyway, the worst pizza I ever had is anything that doesn't involve the real damn thing. Personally, if it isn't made by Italians, preferably ones who just came over from Italy and the like, I don't want it. Chains are gross, frozens are incredibly gross."

So I was surprised that you would countenance something like feta and spinach which is a crossover combination when you said that your "opinion on pizza is one that doesn't cross over, so to speak." Hence me remarking that feta isn't Italian. Based on your opinions on pizza thus far, it seems a logical conclusion: the surprise that you'd like something that didn't involve "the real damn thing" when strictly speaking, "the real damn thing" would be classic Italian topping combinations made by Italians or Italian American establishments.

So you don't have to be rude, DanaJ.

It has to be the first Domino’s Pizza I ever ate – rather ordered. I think I know how they applied the cheese. They took about a half a cup of shredded Mozzarella, tossed it high into the air, and whatever cheese landed on the pizza was all you got. I swear you could have counted each individual shred of cheese! I wouldn’t eat it.

That was back in 1985, and I didn’t order another Domino’s Pizza until just last month. It wasn’t bad, but then it wasn’t good, either.

Grotto Pizza, in Rehobeth Beach and Lewes and Dewey Beach and surrounding (in Deleware). It's one of those pizza places where the garlic powder and oregano shaker jars have more flavor than the pizza. And it's right on the Atlantic -- an exception to the west of the East Coast rule.

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Originally posted by danimal15

You can always count on really terrible pizza at the slopeside restaurant of the Midwestern "ski" resort of your choice.

That is sooooooo true! However, such isn't restricted to one region but MOST U.S. ski slopes. I'm taking the family today through Wednesday skiing in West Virginia and will likely only reconfirm as much. Conversely, even the worst reheated french fries can taste like the nectar of the Gods after being on the slopes for four hours.

CHEF BOYARDEE PIZZA is really not all that bad. If you follow the directions and allow the dough to rise for 20 minutes, you get a very decent crust- MUCH better than ANY frozen pizza or pre-made crust like "Boboli". The sauce mix that comes with the box set is very nicely flavored- it is different from the CHEF BOYARDEE sauce sold separately in the can. Forget about "Appian Way" pizza box mix or "Jiffy" pizza crust mix- they are terrible. If you haven't given good, old CHEF BOY-AR-DEE a try in a while, I challenge you to give it another chance. If you like making pizza at home, it'll do when you don't have the time to allow for a proper crust rise. (I'm in California and can't find CHEF BOYARDEE in my local stores and have to order it over the internet)

Dearfolk,
Once when I was really, really drunk (I was a younger man then), someone pulled a prank on me. They pulled out the round cardboard thing in the bottom of the pizza box, spread tomato sauce on it, added some pepperoni for topping, baked it for a minute, cut it into slices, and mentioned to me that "Pizza's on."
I was halfway through the third slice when I realized