The worst Pizza you ever ate!!

we were in crete and it wasn't an awful pizza, just an interesting experience. tried to gage the size to see if it was an individual size or not. all the waiter would say is "six pieces". is it the size of a plate? "six pieces" is it sized for one? "six pieces".

and it had pickles on it.

fortunately swmbo makes a mean grilled 'za.

The worst I've ever had (I didn't eat it) was in France. It had three sunny-side-up eggs on it, plus french fries and ketchup. I thought I was ordering a pepperoni pizza....

The worst pizza I've had so far was at the Gedunk, frozen crust right out of the box put sauce on the box and it might have tasted better. Why don't they call it Pizza Gravey just a thought.Chow Jim

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Originally posted by Route 11

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OCDREAMR: Wow! I'd forgotten all about that Chef Boyardee pizza mix.

Chef Boyardee mixes were indeed mediocre. But on the other hand, Kraft Pizza mixes were great! They had that herb packet that really made it taste great--the cheese pizza mix was better than the sausage.

Kraft Pizza Mixes disappeared in the late '80s from US supermarkets and I e-mailed Kraft Foods who confirmed they were no longer making them.

But what they didn't tell me was they are still being marketed in Canada! If you want a Kraft Piza Mix, go to Canadian Favourites website and you can order them. Trust me--they do taste as good as they did in the '60s!

I am glad to hear that the Canadian Kraft pizza is still the same. I loved that taste. That herb mix kicked it up a notch. I was recently disappointed with another 60's-70's favorite-Appian Way. The sauce is now orange and gel-like----as if there were corn starch in it.

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Originally posted by tfrielin

Originally posted by Route 11

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OCDREAMR: Wow! I'd forgotten all about that Chef Boyardee pizza mix.

Chef Boyardee mixes were indeed mediocre. But on the other hand, Kraft Pizza mixes were great! They had that herb packet that really made it taste great--the cheese pizza mix was better than the sausage.

Kraft Pizza Mixes disappeared in the late '80s from US supermarkets and I e-mailed Kraft Foods who confirmed they were no longer making them.

But what they didn't tell me was they are still being marketed in Canada! If you want a Kraft Piza Mix, go to Canadian Favourites website and you can order them. Trust me--they do taste as good as they did in the '60s!

I am glad to hear that the Canadian Kraft pizza is still the same. I loved that taste. That herb mix kicked it up a notch. I was recently disappointed with another 60's-70's favorite-Appian Way. The sauce is now orange and gel-like----as if there were corn starch in it.

Yes, Appian Way Pizza mixes were, and still are, at the bottom of the boxed pizza mix food chain. Taste and quality of ingredients were always questionable. What was in that mix?

Sad thing is, you can still get them, last time I checked, from the Home Town Favorites web site. Ahh, the wonders--and mysteries--of web shopping!

Buy one only for a '60s bad acid trip flashback type of experience.

For a good experience, stick to Kraft.

I was looking forward to trying "The Oven, Pizza y Vino" in the new Belmar "village-within-a-city" (Denver). After getting great reviews on the food as well as the lineage/experience of the owner, the idea of getting a good, thin-crust pizza had me salivating.

Alas, what I got instead was some sauce and cheese on what amounted to a burnt cracker. Thin? You bet -- including the crust, sauce, cheese it couldn't have been more than a quarter-inch tall. The raw basil leaf placed in top literally doubled the height.

I'm not sure what the draw here is, but somebody has got to get a handle on the ovens, the timing or both. Should have known better than to hope for quality thin pie while mile high.

Oh well, back the ridiculous "Mountain Pies" at Beau Jo's.

The worst pizza I ever had was in college, Fairfield, Iowa, late 1960s. It was at the Pizza Hut. The consistency and taste of the crust was somewhere between a soda cracker and white bread.

The sauce and cheese were to sauce and cheese what the soda cracker/white bread crust was to crust. I wondered if they were serious. It was kind of sad. Even sadder, it was better than our cafeteria food.

The independent pizzeria owner in town, which made a somewhat better product, for some reason or another cut his pie into diamond-shaped pieces.

Pizza Hut has changed considerably. In fact, I think they make a good pizza now.
The Bear

non frozen, is Pizza Hut on almost any given day.

Worst pizza I have every had. Easily the Pizza Tower in mason Ohio. tried it 3 times thinking it was a fluke first two times but def. the third time I realised the sauce tastes like someone wizzed in it. I dont no if they let it ferment or somethen , but the stuff is terrible. Hope that isnt to harsh figured wizz wasnt to bad lol.

Has anyone mentioned Chuck. E. Cheese's yet? (I didn't want to scan through all 9 pages of this thread). I was there last night because it was my son's 6th birthday and he wanted to go. The pizza looked and tasted awful. Way too salty, with a mushy crust. I took one bite and headed to the salad bar, which thankfully, was somewhat edible (if you like iceberg lettuce).

i have a new winner . . . the pizza bar on the cruise ship MSC Lirica . . . god-awful, and its an Italina boat

I thought I'd update. It's been almost five years since I relocated and to this day, haven't gone near a Pizza Hut. School cafeteria pizza was like drywall and Ragu and something that passed off as cheeze. That fast food jernt with the arches and their McPizza... McBLECCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I do like Donato's. Domino's had a pan pizza at one time which I liked. These two places are the only ones (to my knowledge of the chains) that offer anchovies. I've not tried any of the indies yet. There was a place in Warren, Ohio (long defunct). Leo's had great pizza. It was nice and greasy (that added flavor). The father retired and the son moved the business and made it like an upscale place. The original was like a stop and rob. You could get pizza, sandwiches (made on site to order), beer, lottery and smokes. It had a counter if you wanted to eat in.

As far as THE worst pizza... My late father picked up a frozen pizza at the Valu King (absorbed by the Giant Eagle monopoly in NE Ohio). It was literally a pizza in a cellophane wrapper, possibly made at the distributor. It made McPizza look good. He even hated it, but his heart was in the right place.

The pizza I just got the other night at Pat's Pizza in Yarmouth,ME.
I had a coupon for a freebie, and since I frequent the bar there, and eat other items, I thought I would give it a whirl.
Pizza crust had little holes in the bottom, like an oversized ritz cracker. According to their litenay on the menu, they supposedly make their own crust.I guess they have little elves wearing golf cleats running around back in the kitchen.

Blah, I will stick with the sandwiches. Steak and cheese and onion with hot pepper relish...
One thing though, they dont use fryers. FF, wings, etc are baked in the oven, and I do like their wings. Tiny little things though.

The worst pizza I ever ate?

I guess it would have to be a pizza from the local Dominos about a year ago. It didn't even look like pizza!

WHD

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Easy for me--Mario's in Berea, KY. Despite the Italian name. The sauce was KETCHUP.

Chains--Papa John's. Ironically (or perhaps not) also based in Kentucky.

Domino Pizza sucks....and I am in Ann Arbor where the national headquarters is. The fried egg thing on a pizza is a European thing. My family had pizza with fried egg in the former Yugoslavia...tasted good but looked weird. I had pizza in London...OMG...bad!

Seems to me if a pizzeria can't produce something better than frozen pizza, it should shut down.

DO YOU HEAR ME CHUCK E CHEESE ???????

Easy - worst pizza I've had recently is Mario's in Milford, CT (where Legend's used to be and next to Chili's). The sauce was gummy and the crust tasted like cardboard. What a disappointment!

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Originally posted by Marc4022

Seems to me if a pizzeria can't produce something better than frozen pizza, it should shut down.

DO YOU HEAR ME CHUCK E CHEESE ???????

No one ever called it a pizzeria.
Clue me in if that's changed.
I haven't even seen a ChECh is 15 yrs.
All I remember are the kid's parties.
Everyone had fun. A party place.
It was never about the pizza, but about the kids.
Are you saying it's now "pizzeria" ?
I have never heard of an amusement park called a pizzeria.

Papa John's. We ordered a couple for the office, after one bite we all looked at each other and tossed them out. Terrible!

John

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Originally posted by vequinox

Mineo's is probably the best. They are located in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, they also have a branch out in the suburb of Mt Lebanon. -WanderingJew

Here is a link to your beloved
Mineo's http://www.mineospizza.com/
I am going to check it out again tonight
so which style of Pizza do they specialize in??
I will let you know how it goes!!

Just so you have it straight the Mineo's Pizza that is in Mt. Lebanon is only related in name to the Mineo's in Squirell Hill.

Pizza Hut in Selkirk, Manitoba without a doubt. I had it years ago and have NEVER eaten at a Pizza Hut since.

The worst pizza I ever had was in 1978 at Louis Pasteur's in Iowa City. My roommate Bruce and I decided to try the place for dinner. They were supposed to have great pizza, we were feeling daring.... we ordered the Shrimp Pizza.
It should have worked. I mean, we like shrimp, we like pizza, cocktail sause isn't that different from pizza sauce.
But what we got smelled odd. I kept thinking of aged prostitutes. We were stuck with it, though, and being two starving college kids, managed to get through the thing.
But Bruce was still razzing me about it years later.

When I was a high schooler and college freshman, I was enamored of the pizza slabs sold to school cafeterias-- a roughly 3"x7" soft crust topped with cheese substitute and soy sausage. I'd probably hate the things now.

During a bout of desperation, I worked at a Domino's in Cedar Rapids IA for a few months (until my car failed from the stresses of delivery). You can tell Domino's was a pizza chain owned by an Irishman. No seasonings. If you were brought blindfolded inot a Domino's you'd never know it becasue there was no trace of pizza in the air. How the hell do you make a pizza with no aroma???? AND WHY???????
(By the way, Domino's had the only employee instruction videos I've ever seen that ordered employees to lie when asked about their jobs or anything connected to it. And employees learned on their own to lie to their car insurers, because delivering for Domino's was a sure way to get your policy cancelled. Oh, and if you got robbed, you got fired.)

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Originally posted by DavidEMartin

The worst pizza I ever had was in 1978 at Louis Pasteur's in Iowa City. My roommate Bruce and I decided to try the place for dinner. They were supposed to have great pizza, we were feeling daring.... we ordered the Shrimp Pizza.
It should have worked. I mean, we like shrimp, we like pizza, cocktail sause isn't that different from pizza sauce.
But what we got smelled odd. I kept thinking of aged prostitutes. We were stuck with it, though, and being two starving college kids, managed to get through the thing.
But Bruce was still razzing me about it years later.

When I was a high schooler and college freshman, I was enamored of the pizza slabs sold to school cafeterias-- a roughly 3"x7" soft crust topped with cheese substitute and soy sausage. I'd probably hate the things now.

During a bout of desperation, I worked at a Domino's in Cedar Rapids IA for a few months (until my car failed from the stresses of delivery). You can tell Domino's was a pizza chain owned by an Irishman. No seasonings. If you were brought blindfolded inot a Domino's you'd never know it becasue there was no trace of pizza in the air. How the hell do you make a pizza with no aroma???? AND WHY???????
(By the way, Domino's had the only employee instruction videos I've ever seen that ordered employees to lie when asked about their jobs or anything connected to it. And employees learned on their own to lie to their car insurers, because delivering for Domino's was a sure way to get your policy cancelled. Oh, and if you got robbed, you got fired.)

I won't even ask you how you know what an aged prostitute smells like!

Tried a little joint in Flowery Branch, Georgia last night - Napoli's. Oordered 4 pies and a few calzones. Very disappointing. The toppings were fair, and that was to be as good as it gets. The sauce was tasteless and so watery, it soaked the crust. The crust, both from lack of proper cooking technique and the runny sauce was so soft, you could almost wring it out. Crisp crust stands straight out when pulled out from the pie. This stuff dropped straight down - what a mess and disappointment. The calzones weren't much better.

My vote for the absolute WORST pizza in the world was one I had when I was 14 years old from a now forgotten pizza place in my hometown of Rome, NY. It was a large cheese pizza that my mom and I had ordered. I bit into it and "something crunched". I pulled it out of my mouth and it was someone's PRESS-ON NAIL that must have fallen off of their finger when they were making the pizza. It was a blue background with a moon and stars on it. I am haunted to this very day!

Oh, and my runner-up is the shrimp and arugula pizza I ordered not 6 months ago from a place in NYC called the Amish Market. They delivered it, and something looked off with the arugula. They hadn't washed it! It had large grains of sand still on it. I called them and said someone had to come back and return my money because I wasn't in the habit of eating "dirty pizza". They gave my my money back and the delivery guy tried to return the tip, but I gave him a few extra (not his fault he had to go out of his way). Please, wash your produce!! No telling where its been before it got to you.

The worst pizza I ever had was at Mister's Moo's in South Bend Indiana in 1978. Above eight guys that I worked with went went bar hopping and then out for pizza to say goodbye to a long time c0-worker. One of the persons in our party said "I know qa place that a woman I went to school with, years ago, that suoppose to have great pizza.

We got to the place, it was busy but We had no problem getting a table for nine. Just as We got started eating the pizza, the lady owner that went to school stopped by tabel, We hadn't had time yet to comment to each other how bad the pizza was. The lady commented to her former classmate, We are told by many of our customers that We have the best pizza in South Bend up at her and said if this is the best I sure don't want to taste the worst pizza in Sotuh Bend!

The sauce had a very funny taste to it, almost like it had turned sour, the crust was thin but very, very chewy, very little cheese and meat on it,and onionsand peppers on it were raw!

Back in the early 90s my son and I were camping on Manitoulin Is., ON. He was a pizza fanatic and about 10 yrs old at the time. We heard that there was a restaurant in Providence Bay that made pizza, so one evening we took off across the island. It probably wasn't as bad as a chefboyardee form the box, but the pepperoni was sliced summer sausage type of thing, the crust was biscuit mix and the sauce was like mashed tomatos.
We were hungry and ate it and I believe we enjoyed it ok, so it wasn't inedible. . . but then again, it was probably wasn't as good as some of the pies the previous posters here have called "inedible" such as Dominos, Pizza Hut or Papa John's.
I understand that a lot of people are very persnikity about what they eat (not me though, I'll eat anything that won't hurt me) but really, are all you people that taste sensitive or are you just trying to be dramatic?

An easy one. Noble Roman's Pizza in Indianapolis. (I note the city in case it was just that outlet, not the chain, that deserves the blame.) This was the only pizza, including amusement parks, street vendors, convenience stores with a microwave, gas stations, bait stores, etc., etc., that I simply could not eat. Its flavour was predominantly that of badly burnt canned tomato sauce, with heavy overtones of diesel fuel and mutton fat, served on a crust that seemed to be made of melted cornstarch packing peanuts, with a lingering finish reminiscent of my cat's litter box.

This was many years ago, and perhaps things have changed since then. I, however, will not be the one going back to check.

Pizza Hut is the worst pizza I've ever tasted. They don't have that pazazz in the ingredients. It's just plain and nasty, like Little Caesar. By the way, buying pizza from Mike Ilitch is just making him richer(Little Caesars).

Pizza Hut, Blackpool, England. They couldn't do anything right, but the pizza my ex-wife craved (Canadian bacon, pineapple, broccoli) was the devil's own spawn.

Of course, Blackpool as a town was a celebration of everything that made people hate English food-- soggy fish and chips, week-old pre-wrapped sandwiches, chip butties, mushy peas.

Israel. Israel is also the place I had turkey wiener schnitzel and goat lungs in gravy. I don't recommend the wine either, but the beers, Gold Star and Maccabbee are great.

DiGiorno frozen pizza is the worst pizza I have ever eaten. They are quite expensive relative to the other choices, and I was misled by it's heft when I picked it up in the store. Interpreting the heft as coming from toppings when it is in fact from the dough. Upon eating it, the cheese was so sparse, it may as well not had any. The pepperoni was a fair quantity, not enough for me, but the bare minimum to get by without complaint. Mainly, it tasted like eating a loaf of bread. Just a real bread based meal. Certainly not worth $7. A $1 totino's pizza is much better.

A chain called "Hungry Howie's".... from 4-5 pm whatever time you get there is what the price of your large pizza is... and they have "flavored" crusts... if there is any flavor anywhere on these pizzas, I'd like to know where it is! Another baddie is from a place that makes the greatest calzones I've ever tasted... now explain that one...how do you make great calzones and crappy pizza at the same time????

Have to disagree with the 200 mile rule also. LaRocco's in San Clemente, CA is the favorite of East Coasters living in Southern California. Thin, fold-able and oily. Perfect!

I've thought long and hard about this one, and I'm sure there must be some repressed childhood memories that I'm not willing to face , but I have to say the worst pizza I can remember was at a Cici's in Stuart, FL. Crust not sufficiently raised and undercooked to a chewy, pasty consistency and a raw biscuit flavor. Sugary red sauce; rubbery, oily cheese-like substance; and flavorless toppings except for "pepperoni" which tasted like artificial bacon sprinkles. Sufficiently greasy to clear out the system, though. Won't be going back to any Cici's, no matter how cheap it is.

Well,the worst we had was a Pizza Hut Pizza,It had NO SAUCE! My brother called them and had them take it back(was delivered) and we got a new one which was carefully inspected before we accepted it.
Been long time customers of the place,since Pizza Inn was gone. There was a little mom and pop place that made good pizza,but the lady who ran it retired.
Best pizza I have eaten was in New York,when visiting my sister. We had been out running around all day
and she ordered delivery to the condo.It was a place near Piermont where she lives.I don't recall the name,but the stuff was good cold the next day.Crust was good,nice sauce and ingredients.Will have to ask her who it was.

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The worst pizza I can remember was from Oddo's on Peterson Ave. in Chicago. We used to joke that you had to balance it carefully since it was so greasy it may slide off the plate.

When we moved to Lincolnwood in 1955, Oddo's on Peterson was the closest place for pizza, besides Alberti's in Skokie. As a kid, I absolutely loved Oddo's. The greasier, the better. No wonder I had severe acne from middle school through high school. Thank you Oddo's.

CSD

Vocelli's--a delivery chain in my town.

Serious acid reflux after eating their pizza. I must be in the minority because I have friends who love Vocelli.

I have two-Pizza Hut, and Figaros.The latter literally had NO taste at all.And expensive.Pizza Hut has just never agreed with my husband or myself-gives us a gut ache every time.

This thread seems to mostly mention the names of the places that make bad pizza. The worst pizza I ever had was because I decided to let a co-worker order the toppings on a pizza we had for lunch one day.

About four of us went to a restaurant that was a local wood fired brick oven place that had been around for many years. My friend could not get anyone to go in on an anchovy and hot pepper pizza with him. Figuring that I could eat about anything, I said that I would share the pizza with him.

Have you ever had a wood fired brick oven anchovy and hot pepper pizza? The crust was great - perfectly almost charred. The sauce and cheese were just right. Unfortunately I could not stand the balance that the anchovies and hot peppers provided. I think I ate one slice and begged the others to let me have some of their pizza.

Akavar

The worst I ever had was in some small town in Michigan. The sign said "Geniune Italian Pizza!". Guess what? It was Red Baron's! No joke. They served up a Red Barons pie. That was just nasty.

Well, it's not actually a pizza but an ingredient. There's a place near my sainted mother's house in Newport NH that uses some weird frozen then deep fried breaded chicken on it's pizza. I like chicken on pizza but this stuff is just plain wrong on so many levels. Fred

Close to the worst pizza I ever ate was from a place in Sangertown Mall in New Hartford, NY (not far from Voss' BBQ). It was called Sicilian Delight. The good part of this story is that they had (I think they still have) at Valentine's Day, a 1.5" thick heart-shaped pizza that says "I Love You" in pepperoni. I got one for my girlfriend one year and we tried to eat it, but it was inedible. The dough tasted undone, it was buried under mountains of sauce and cheese, but she loved that I made the gesture.

pizza is like sex.............even when it's bad....... it's still pretty good

pizza hut, ledo's, Fair (like State Fair) pizza, domino's, papa john's

^in that order^

There's so many. How do you begin? Let's just say, any pizza made with a cracker or a Bisquick crust.

Billyboy, I've eaten slices at Sicilian Delight and I thought they were fine. A hand tossed ny style crust with a nice balance of sauce and toppings. I've never tried their Valantine shaped pie's or even ordered a whole pizza to go. I no longer live in c.n.y. but sometimes I'll order pizza from O'scugnizzo's and sent here to the dallas area. Which pizzaria do you like best? These people have no idea how lucky you are for the selection of italian specialities available to you. Italian greens, Florentine's rum cake, tomato pie, pusties, just to name a few.

THE Worst---Any pizza from Domino's anywhere!

You get what you pay for. Anything microwaved or frozen usually sucks. However I did like the Wolfgang Puck frozen pizza that appeared for a while in stores. But is was expensive frozen pizza and people didn't buy it so it folded. I guess there are a lot of people that enjoy frozen pizza. Go figure.

ynotryme, I've had some good slices at Sicilian Delight, but I think the valentines deal was a gimmick more for the aesthetic than the actual taste. Have heard of O'scugnizzo's but never went there. Love the greens, Hemstrought's, Voss' BBQ, Cavallo's for Monday night spaghetti for $1.99, pusites, and could never get enough cold tomato pie, no matter how many times someone's mom brought it to a birthday party. Rome has some good pizza too (Tony's, La Roma, the now defunct Losurdos, and the garlic pizza bread at The Plaza Restaurant). Have you ever tried turkey joints?

Billyboy, sure I have my family send Nora's turkyjoints here during the holidays.And I use to eat at Candyland for lunch when I worked at Oliver's Office Equipment as a teenager. That's where Turkyjoints originated. If you ever ate at Joe's in Whitesboro or Pasquale's on Varick street then you know what O'Scugnizzo's taste like. An upside down pizza with the sauce added after the pie is cooked. When Losurdo's Pizza Villa was open, it was really the only place I went. Tho, The Plaza for a sausage and pepper pizza. I grew up in Rome, worked at C.N.Y.P.C. (Marcy Hospital) til I retired in 98. Have you tried the Florentine's rum cake? It's what I always had for my birthday cake. Have you ever went to the cnyeats website? It's like this site except just CNY's food.I've been reading your review of the Franklyn Hotel. You should do one of Symeon's on Commercial Drive in New Hartford.

Pizza Hut and Papa John's are the worst chain pizza!

For me it was a place I think was called Pizza Wheel near Upper Marlboro, MD. Thin crust (which I don't like on any pizza) and just plain ole nasty.

1950's; junior high school cafeteria; split hamburger bun, ketchup and shredded cheddar cheese, slightly warmed under the malfunctioning broiler.
Truly was enough to gag a maggot.

Pizza does not exist west of Philadelphia nor south of New Jersey.
You will only find an artificial processed pizza food product.

The worst Pizza ever? Tough call. The worst Pizza in New York City? Two blocks from on W100th and Broadway - Cheesy Pizza. Their sandwiches are okay, but the Pizza is awful. Fortunately Sal & Carmines is practically across the street.

Last night I had what has to be the worst pizza ever made. After one bite, I would have tortured puppies to exchange it for Domino's or Pizza Hut. I was in Tupelo, Ms., and made the grave error of having Pizza Doctor deliver to my motel room. Do you remember how bad pizzas used to be at the drive-in circa 1968? This was worse.