And if there’s one thing I always look for in a pizza, it’s … ‘prepared in a gas station.’
Portland Pie – 14" pie, I recommend the Harbor Master. Delivered for $20, including tip (if you’re cheap).
The Papa John’s $11 dollar any pizza deal allows you to get double toppings, but not triple,and they are pretty generous, at least at my local place. They do have a topping limit of around 7 I believe, although they do not count extra sauce as a topping (which some places do).
I would strongly advise avoiding Hungry Howie’s $5 pizza if you have any taste buds at all. The only time I tried one was in Orlando when I was in Navy training, right out of boot camp. A pie got brought back to the barracks and it was so bad nobody could finish a piece. And this was at a point in my life where I could eat a whole large pie, with stuffed crust. The general consensus around base seemed to be to only try and eat their pizza after you were completely drunk. Why waste good pizza if you were only going to throw it up later?
The only pizza that ever came close in grotesqueness was some kosher pizza I was served at work in Israel. That stuff tasted like frozen biscuit dough with Spaghetti-o sauce and Velveeta cheese on top. Oh, and the only toppings were green olives and tuna fish.
$30 for a pizza? That’s nothing.
In a fit of what has to be temporary insanity my husband brought home Dominos for dinner last night. That’s not pizza. That’s ketchup flavored cardboard. He has promised never to do that again. The best local place around here – with the fresh mozzerella, NJ tomatoes and perfectly crisped crust – charges $16 for a full pie with half sausage. I generally give the delivery guy a twenty. I have no idea how Domino’s stays in business when far better alternatives are available.
Sounds like a letter is due to the Pizza Hut corporate office. That’s what we’ve always done (at other places), and it resulted in an apology and a coupon for whatever we wanted to eat as well as an apology. They’re a chain and if it’s in a paper (or whatever else you cut it out of), they HAVE to honor it.
Quasi
Well in all fairness, a pizza that is over a foot deep has a lot of ingredients and probably takes a long time to bake.
Just checked and the base cost of my preferred pizza within 5 miles of my house (out in the Bay Area suburbs; the Trentino, minus pancetta, at Amici’s) is $25.95 for a large.
So I guess $30+ (after tax and tip, don’t know if they charge for delivery) is pretty normal for me. And by chain pizza standards, their large is not all that large…
Actually, a 17" Godfather is $28.99.
I’ve been going there since the late 70’s. It started out as a little hole in the wall place out towards the airport. A 17" Godfather was about $13 then.
“Trentino? That’s game!”
-Rufus T. Firefly
“17” Godfather" sounds like the title of a porn movie.
Damn - prices really have gone up in just a few years. Before I moved over here in 2006, I was delivering pies for Domino’s, and people usually gave me a $20 bill for a large pizza (14") with two toppings. It was around $17 or $18, and most people just said “keep the change”. Looks like I’ll have to budget more for my favorite spinach-feta-bacon Greek-style pizza when I visit in February.
Over here, despite Ireland having one of the higher costs of living in all Europe, pizza is actually surprisingly cheap. I can get a "10 pie, loaded with however many toppings I want (including fresh tomatoes), for 5 bucks (about $6.50) at my local petrol station. It’s the same quality (or better) as what I’ve had in local restaurants for twice (or more) the price.
Pizza-lovers visiting Ireland - take note!
I have often wondered the same thing. As well as with Hungry Howies and Papa Johns. When I first moved to Central Florida, good NY pizza was few and far between but now there are great mom and pop pizza joints within five miles of everywhere. The pizza place a mile from my work has a large pizza with one topping for ten bucks every day. I wouldn’t pay half that for a dominos pizza. Ick!
The only pizza around here that costs $30 bucks is one of those monster 36" pizzas at (it used to be A&K then Fratenilli’s…now I think it’s a Bambino’s), and it’s probably worth $30 bucks, considering it won’t even fit in a regular sized car and the slices are about the size of a small dog.
-XT
Holy Jeebus! $30 for a pizza? How big is it? How many toppings does it have? Is it made of gold? I live in the suburbs of Boston which, while not the most expensive place to live, is still fairly pricey, and I pay about $16 for a 16 inch two topping pizza. If I had it delivered (which I never do) it would run me about twenty bucks with a tip. Again… Holy Jeebus! I haven’t eaten a pizza from a chain (Domino’s, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut) since the twentieth century and I don’t intend to start now, so I may be out of touch with current price plans, but still…That’s a lot to pay for a pizza. I would have done the same thing, told the pizza people to fuck off! I only order from small local places that (mostly) sell small 10 inch bar pizzas for around $8 (or $10-$11 from the really good, really expensive place), but I’m a happy bachelor and that’s all I need. Delivery is superfluous because I live 3/4 of a mile from a great pizza place. Half the time I make my own pizza at home. FWIW, I too, love the Chef Boyardee pizza kits (great childhood memories!) and they average out to $5-$7 for a 12 inch 1-3 topping pie ( I had one with peppers, onions, and chourico for dinner tonight).
If all I had to choose from were the three aforementioned national chains…I would rarely eat pizza, which is unfortunate because it’s my favorite food. Papa John’s is ok (at best), and Domino’s is subpar. Thank Jeebus I’m not management anymore and I don’t have to suffer through weekly meetings featuring Domino’s pizza. Pizza Hut pizza is tasty, but it always made me sick. Always. As for Hungry Howie’s it is just BAD. Really, it’s like torture to the human taste bud. I had it once in Florida when I was in college and I only managed two slices, and I will eat almost any pizza. I ate Domino’s back then (mid 1990’s) because it was the cheapest option that I could stomach. They had a ******* College deal #1: a medium, one topping pizza and two cans of Coke for $5.99 ($6.35 with tax). I feel thankful that I have better options now.
To the OP: I’m sorry for your lack of good, affordable, deliverable pizza, and I hope you get a great mom & pop place near you soon that will deliver a steaming hot, tasty pie to your door. Bad and or overpriced pizza is a crime against humanity. I kinda hate to do it, but I’m going to paraphase one of the Baldwin brothers in the movie ‘Threesome’:…“it’s like pizza. Even if it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.”
Twice? :ragey:
I believe that it’s a sign from God to make our own pizza than depending on these. I haven’t tried pizza since a year. I was on a weight loss regime so it was a strict no to have any burger/pizza. Today when I too checked out the prices, there is nothing less than $24. Are these guys out of their mind?
Apache currently have any size pizza for €9.99. So yeah!