# My Hatred for Jewel is Raw and Unmatched **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010 "2010-03-02T17:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/21 "2010-03-03T04:34:23Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Now, now. Jewel does have the new brand–Culinary Circle-the pasta is fantastic! And the pizza, too. Yeah, I actually really like the Culinary Circle frozen pizza. It’s become my standard frozen pizza. Cheaper than DiGiornos and better, too, IMO. I won’t touch the “‘cheese product’ on a slab of cardboard” cheap pizza (Jack’s, Tombstone, etc.) But Culinary Circle has been a pleasant surprise. Not the best pizza in the world by a long shot, but a great value/price ratio. ---
**Author:** ![Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayesian_Empirimancer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/22 "2010-03-03T04:42:31Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > Yeah, I actually really like the Culinary Circle frozen pizza. It’s become my standard frozen pizza. Cheaper than DiGiornos and better, too, IMO. I won’t touch the “‘cheese product’ on a slab of cardboard” cheap pizza (Jack’s, Tombstone, etc.) But Culinary Circle has been a pleasant surprise. Not the best pizza in the world by a long shot, but a great value/price ratio. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cJ6BqQjj4uE/hqdefault.jpg "Fed Up") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ6BqQjj4uE) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/23 "2010-03-03T04:52:17Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > Yeah, I actually really like the Culinary Circle frozen pizza. It’s become my standard frozen pizza. Cheaper than DiGiornos and better, too, IMO. I won’t touch the “‘cheese product’ on a slab of cardboard” cheap pizza (Jack’s, Tombstone, etc.) But Culinary Circle has been a pleasant surprise. Not the best pizza in the world by a long shot, but a great value/price ratio. Try the pasta–delicious! I’ll never buy a cardboard pizza again–Culinary Circle all the way for me, too. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/24 "2010-03-03T05:09:08Z")
Though I also thought you meant the singer at first, I understand your pain. Hannaford sold the best chocolate croissants forever, but within the last six months they’ve stopped making them. I looked for them in vain for a couple of months, right until a kindly baker explained that they took a loss on them for too long and won’t be bringing them back. I’m still in mourning. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/25 "2010-03-03T20:33:03Z")
Per their customer service people, it is indeed discontinued. Rats. And I know that take and bakes are better than Pizza Slut; however, take and bakes shouldn’t be frozen, have to be cooked, and–in the case of Jewel–require entering a crazy-ass grocery store to be confounded by the multitudes. I mean, I probably wouldn’t get Pizza Slut. I’d probably get Jake’s or something. Still. And the sausage seems to be spiced; it looks orangeish, and I’m leery of spending $9 on it. The sausage on the discontinued ones looked–and tasted–kind of like the sausage that one would get at Lou Malnati’s. It wasn’t those icky rat turds that most frozen pizzas have. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/26 "2010-03-03T20:42:27Z")
I rarely buy my frozen pizza from snaggle-toothed singers. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/27 "2010-03-05T19:03:51Z")
You’re so eager to save money, but who will save your soul? ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/28 "2010-03-07T00:04:45Z")
> [@clarkstar](#): > > i was expecting this to be about the singer Same here 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/29 "2010-03-07T00:19:48Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Jewel is now owned by Safeway (has been for a few years), so blame Safeway for the changes. That’s Dominick’s. Jewel is owned by Supervalu (which also owns Albertsons, Acme, Shaw’s, and a few others). I do agree that Culinary Circle is good for frozen pizza, and cheaper than the likes of Palermo’s. They tend to be my go-to frozen pizza brand. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/30 "2010-03-07T18:42:40Z")
> [@BorgHunter](#): > > That’s Dominick’s. Jewel is owned by Supervalu (which also owns Albertsons, Acme, Shaw’s, and a few others). > > I do agree that Culinary Circle is good for frozen pizza, and cheaper than the likes of Palermo’s. They tend to be my go-to frozen pizza brand. :smack: Albertson’s, Safeway–why do they seem the same to me? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/31 "2010-03-07T19:04:40Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > I’ll bet those take-n-bake pizzas beat the pants off of Pizza Hut or Dominoes. I get Pappa Murphy’s all the time, and it’s some of the best pizza to be had. I know they are more expensive than the Chef’s kitchen ones, so it’s not a replacement, but you said if you had to pay that much you would go to Pizza Hut. You might want to rethink that. It sounds like they use pretty good sausage too, because that stuff you get from most chains or frozen pizzas is pure crap. Proper sausage should be raw and unfrozen when you put it the pizza in the oven. The Take-n-bake’s are nasty. I bought one when it was on sale and threw half away. Bad plasticky dough, anemic “sauce” weirdly melting cheese, and sausage that should be a crime in this, the Mecca of Italian sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/32 "2010-03-08T00:14:29Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Because that’s our little Chicagoan quirk. We like to put possessives at the end of a number of business names that don’t have them. Not just Chicagoans; down here in the ATL, people always call it “Kroger’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/33 "2010-03-08T00:25:17Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > Stupid pizza-killing bastards. The OP is struggling in vain, given their mission statement: “My hands are small I know But they’re not yours, they are my own But they’re not yours, they are my own And I am never broken” ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/34 "2010-03-08T03:16:10Z")
Man, tha OP brings back memories. When I moved back up here after college and had to do my own grocery shopping, I went to [del]Jewel’s[/del] Jewel because I had also opened a bank account at TCF, and they have branches _right there_! in the store. Then I got clued in to the fact that other stores were cheaper. Cubs, Aldi, and the mecca of cheapness, Food for Less/Kroger’s. I haven’t been to Jewel in a looong time. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/35 "2010-03-08T23:16:23Z")
I haven’t seen a Kroger here. . .um, ever. Hilander in Rockford is a Kroger-type store, but. . .you know, that’s in Rockford. Screw Rockford. I called and emailed and whined at corporate. Somehow, I doubt that they care. And the sausage on the take and bakes looks freakin’ orange. What the hell? I don’t even like my _oranges_ to be orange. . . ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/36 "2010-03-08T23:37:00Z")
If the problem is Jewel being raw, shouldn’t you be pitting Ty Murray? ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/37 "2010-03-09T14:55:22Z")
When I was a wee kid, Jewel had a truck delivery service. The Jewel man would come to our house, take my mom’s order and deliver the stuff the next week. When the truck would pull in front of the house and my little sister and I would run into the house yelling “The Jewel Man is here!” This would have been about 1971 in Kansas City. This was later changed to mail order and delivery by UPS, which changed our yelling to “The UPS (pronounced ups, not U-P-S) Man is here!” ---
**Author:** ![Clare\_de\_Loone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/clare_de_loone/32/3407_2.png) [@Clare\_de\_Loone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clare_de_Loone)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/38 "2010-03-09T15:36:42Z")
I also intensely disliked the Take & Bake pizza. The crust is too fluffy. I’ll suffer through Jack’s/Tombstone before I buy one of those again. (I know I raved in a previous thread how much I love the Chef’s Kitchen frozen pizzas). The Take & Bakes are shipped frozen to the stores and are put out in the refrigerated deli sections for sale. If you must taste one, do it on a Friday; Jewel’s been running Friday-only discounts on them. I’ve tried one of the Culinary Circle frozen pizzas; it was ok. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/39 "2010-03-09T17:35:12Z")
They stopped carrying President’s Choice Mac & Cheese??? That stuff was the best. Way better than Kraft, IMHO. I think Jewel is run by the same company as Albertson’s out west, right? I usually shop at Dominicks (same parent company as Safeway). Dominicks is slightly more expensive, it seems, but it’s closer to my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010/40 "2010-03-21T02:28:42Z")
Update–they totally have them now. Despite the fact that the home office told me they were discontinued. Hmm. I stocked up a bit. But. . .the beast is sated. They may carry on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hatred-for-jewel-is-raw-and-unmatched/531010.md?page=3)