I think you may be right. The Dominos’ establishments with which I’m familiar aren’t really that bad. I would say the crust is downright fluffy, certainly not cardboard.
That said, since some people were on the subject of Chicago’s pizza, I’ll chime in that when I was there I loooovvvved Bacino’s stuffed pizza. You can have them ship you a frozen half-bake, which I tried once but someone forgot the dry ice :eek: ! Ewwwwww. I’ve been thinking about trying it again, though.
Not to hijack my own thread but…you are SO right.
[hijack] Where we live, even though the electric co-ops and what not are de-regulated so we’re supposed to get a choice (Texas/NM over say…SBC or Reliant Energy, for example),we don’t because nobody will come put lines out here. We are STUCK with Texas/NM power because that’s the only person who ever put lines out here. We also cannot get DSL for the same reason. It simply ISN’T available. And up until recently (within the last year or so I believe) we had the SAME group in control of just about everything from power to gas to water and everything in between it seemed like.It’s like living in Nazi Germany…only without the evil looking German dudes.[/hijack]
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In Vermont, we have often seen the phenomenon of people moving from downcountry to rural Vermont “because it’s so unspoiled”. After a while, they notice that, because it is so unspoiled, they can’t get pizza or broadband Internet, and by the way the local school isn’t what we’d like to send our kids to, and isn’t there a good golf course around here? etc., etc.
Pretty soon, “unspoiled” starts to look a lot like “God-forsaken”. Shortly thereafter, a developer puts through a strip mall, a development, a golf course or two, and we start to look like suburban Jersey.
Urg.
Not that this has much to do with pizza.
Oh how I’ve missed the food snobbery…
oh no wait…that wasn’t me.
I spent more than three years working for Pizza Slut, and I would never eat anything that had been touched by anyone else. By the end, I wouldn’t even touch their 'za-- I stuck to spaghetti with my own custom sauce.
Although I see that the Slut has finally introduced a Calzone. I used to make 'em for the staff when we wanted something different to eat. Everyone loved 'em, including managers, but I’d get officially chastised for making them.
Domidildoes is worse: they ship their dough frozen from a central kitchen.
I with you brother. Nobody delivers to us. Not even the Post Office. :eek:
I was talking Asheville Pizza, which IMO rocks. Barley’s doesn’t really do it for me, although it’s still a damn sight better than Mellow Mushroom, which beats the hell out of the larger chains. But Asheville Pizza has great beer, and their spinach, feta and walnut pizza is damn good.
Marco’s? Never heard of it. Where is it, and do they deliver to downtown Asheville? If so, we might try something new at gaming tonight. Thanks for the tip!
Daniel
Marco’s is in the strip mall across the street from Asheville Pizza.
Asheville Pizza is not bad, and the beer certainly improves the dining experience. However, I’m part Italian and a Chicago transplant so I take my pizza seriously. Marco is an Italian, New York transplant who also takes his pizza seriously. The end result is that Marco’s has the best pizza in town.
Ah – yeah, I know where Marco’s is. 'Sokay, but I like Asheville Pizza better. De gustibus, don’tcha know.
Daniel
Ah. I’ll…I’ll just…runs
We had a similar problem when we moved in. We aren’t in the boonies by any means (a mile outside the St. Paul, Minnesota city limits), but the newer subdivisions hadn’t gotten added to the pizza delivery map. We could get Pizza Hut delivered, but instead chose to drive about a mile up the street for Green Mill (local deep dish place) or about three miles up the street for Savoy (local greasy pizzeria type pizza, you know, the kind you can either eat, or change the oil in your car with? disgustingly delicious).
Savoy still doesn’t deliver to us, but Green Mill has figured out that there are a bunch of houses a mile south of them.
BrotherCadfael point is well taken as well - we didn’t move to the boonies, but my parents did - and loved the boonies. There was no pizza delivery where I grew up. There wasn’t a gas station within five miles! And people moved there to “get away from the city, but still have a decent commute.” And now they live in the city. So, IDBB, there is a good chance that patience will eventually solve the problem. Doesn’t do much good for the near term.
I’m sure it will, Dangerosa. Since we moved in almost 2 years ago, we’ve adjusted to the erm…lack of decent ANYTHING in this town. Even the grocery store sucks ass and we never go there unless we are in dire need of [insert random food item here] and don’t have time to drive into town.
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Hell yes…I made the mistake getting a medium Dominoes a few month back.
Tell me, are they striving to make it the most fake tasting pizza? I swear to god I almost ate the cardboard box thinking it would have more flavor.
For mass chains, Papa Johns is goos and Roundtable still pushes out some delicious speciality pizzas
I think there is a Roundtable in the Blockbuster in The Colony. I don’t know if they do delivery or not or if it’s even a real resteraunt. I think (since it’s INSIDE a Blockbuster’s) that they only serve either single slices or small ‘personal pan’ pizzas. We are without a Papa John’s, which I can at least halfway tolerate as good.
I still miss the Snappy Tomato we had in Ft. Worth for two years before it closed down due to lack of business.
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All the big business pizza places don’t deliver where we live either. But there is a local place that will. I won’t use them though and for good reason.
One night this poor delivery guy came up our drive to deliver pizza. We hadn’t ordered any and soon realized he missed our sister in-laws driveway and that is how he ended up at our door step. So hubby tells him he’s got the wrong house and away he goes down the drive. He got over to far in the yard and slid his car in a tree. Very minor except he wasn’t going anywhere. And instead of just realizing that he was stuck and he wasn’t going anywhere he’s giving it the gas and tearing up the yard to no end. Hubby goes out and sees the mess he made of the yard and is screaming at this poor kid that he was gonna pay for this yard and he didn’t care if he took it out of his ass with pizzas. The poor kid realized he was in alot of trouble and starts telling hubby he was going to loose his job. So hubby feeling sorry for him just backed off and called him a tow truck and let it go at that.
So the dude takes this cold ass pizza up to sister in-laws after he got pulled out with the tow truck. Sister in-law opens the door takes the pizza and opens it up and notices that all the toppings were stuck to the top of the box. So she says something to the delivery boy. So what bright idea does the kid get, but to take his hand and rake the toppings off the lid back on to the pizza.:smack:
She was so speechless and in disbelief she couldn’t say a word. Needless to say she didn’t eat that pizza and never ordered from them again.
Funny… I made my own pizza last night. Nothing fancy, just a Boboli thin crust, their sauce and a package of shredded 4-cheese mix and a can of black olives. Tasty, and a lot better than the frozen things at the supermarket. I looked at one, and if I ate the whole thing (which I’d do eventually - either tomorrow’s breakfast or lunch) I’d be greasing myself up with 210% of my daily RDA of saturated fat Ugh! My homemade clocked in at about 30% for the whole thing.
As for Chicago pizza… I’m a Chitown transplant and while it’s wonderful for the homesick, it’s nowhere near the same as being at the restaurant: Lou Malnatti has “Lou To Go” where you can order by web or phone for bake-at-home pizzas shipped by FedEx.
Hmm… getting a craving for real pizza… If I had more freezer space, I’d order a bunch.
Funny… I made my own pizza last night. Nothing fancy, just a Boboli thin crust, their sauce and a package of shredded 4-cheese mix and a can of black olives. Tasty, and a lot better than the frozen things at the supermarket. I looked at one, and if I ate the whole thing (which I’d do eventually - either tomorrow’s breakfast or lunch) I’d be greasing myself up with 210% of my daily RDA of saturated fat Ugh! My homemade clocked in at about 30% for the whole thing.
As for Chicago pizza… I’m a Chitown transplant and while it’s wonderful for the homesick, it’s nowhere near the same as being at the restaurant: Lou Malnatti has “Lou To Go” where you can order by web or phone for bake-at-home pizzas shipped by FedEx.
Hmm… getting a craving for real pizza… If I had more freezer space, I’d order a bunch.
I rest my case.
I lived in Joliet, IL for a while, and I was vastly underwhelmed by what they termed “Chicago-style” pizza. Now, granted, that stuff may have had as much to do with real Chicago pizza as a McRib has to do with real Southern BBQ, but I just couldn’t stand it. I’m assuming that one of the hallmarks of Chicago pizza is slicing it into small rectangles instead of triangles, because they did do that, but it was like a thick layer of dental wax on top of plywood. Blech. I’ll give Chicago the benefit of the doubt, but my stomach still clenches up whenever I hear the term “Chicago-style pizza”.
Added to which, the top-selling fropi in that community was Tombstone, which I also can’t stand, it styrofoam and very little else. So that’s when I got hooked on Domino’s; go ahead and flame me.
Rilchiam–Try the Digornio Deep-Dish Chicago-style fropi. I’ve never HAD real Chicago pizza (even though we passed by there last summer on vacation) but if real Chicago pizza is half as good as the Digornio fropi…it’s fan-bloody-tastic.
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