# When you want to eat pizza, how do you get it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622 "2011-05-20T21:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/1 "2011-05-20T21:16:18Z")
Poll coming. Me, I either make the frozen kind or have it delivered from a pizza place. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/2 "2011-05-20T21:19:25Z")
No delivery out where I live, so if I have pizza I usually pick it up on the way home from work. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/3 "2011-05-20T21:20:02Z")
I make it. Dough is easy (although you have to plan ahead a bit) and we can customize the cheese and toppings to our specs. Add a pizza stone to the oven and we’re gtg. Now that summer is here, I can do pizza on the grill as well. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/4 "2011-05-20T21:22:37Z")
Spinach, garlic, fresh tomato slices, onion, and goat cheese. Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/5 "2011-05-20T21:26:08Z")
No place delivers out here. I have to drive to a pizza place I’ll do frozen sometimes, but I don’t keep it in the house much. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/6 "2011-05-20T21:26:39Z")
You don’t have an option for “I don’t like pizza.” I’ll eat it if there’s nothing else. I’ll make it (from scratch, on the grill) if my husband asks me and I have all the stuff at hand. But I very rarely seek it out for myself. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/7 "2011-05-20T21:30:31Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > **You don’t have an option for “I don’t like pizza.”** I’ll eat it if there’s nothing else. I’ll make it (from scratch, on the grill) if my husband asks me and I have all the stuff at hand. But I very rarely seek it out for myself. True, sorry…although I guess I figured if someone didn’t like pizza, they wouldn’t have opened to thread to answer, haha. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/8 "2011-05-20T21:43:35Z")
Generally we order a pizza for delivery or pick up. I live in Chicago so there are plenty of options out there and yet Pizza Hut is often a default choice for us. We do make pizza at times. Trader Joes has a really good pizza crust and we have a stone. Using the stone in the oven or the grill makes some very good 'zza. Costco also makes a decent pizza and we’ve gotten fresh-made ones from the local Jewel, but those aren’t as good. We typically steer clear of the frozen pizzas. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/9 "2011-05-20T22:33:54Z")
This should have been a multiple choice poll. We generally get it from a pizza restaurant (one of several, depending on our mood), but we do sometimes get storebought frozen pizzas and also sometimes make it from scratch at home. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/10 "2011-05-20T22:36:50Z")
Some of all the first three, plus… I like to get several of the cheap medium pepperoni pies from the Little Caesar’s across the street, package it up in plastic bags with three or four slices per bag, and throw them in the freezer. So if I want pizza, I don’t even have to go across the street, just grab a bag. I’m down to my last three-pack at the moment, though. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/11 "2011-05-20T22:38:17Z")
I picked the first option, but I avoid chain pizza places. I always order from local Italian places (most of which also have extensive non-pizza menus). ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/12 "2011-05-20T22:38:56Z")
If a restaurant serves pizza, how can it be a “non-pizza place”? ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/13 "2011-05-20T22:45:05Z")
There are about 5 non chain pizza places within walking distance from my house, all of which (but one :mad:) make really good pizza. Since moving to this area doing anything else just doesn’t make sense. I do have an unnatural love for Stoffer’s French Bread pizza, though. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/14 "2011-05-20T22:47:30Z")
Mostly carry-out, but I make my own from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/15 "2011-05-20T22:49:46Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > If a restaurant serves pizza, how can it be a “non-pizza place”? There are restaurants that are primarily pizza places. Then there are restaurants that have a more varied menu where pizza is not the dish that most people are there for. I would have separated delivery from a pizza place and sit down and eat at the pizza place myself if I was making the poll, but no matter. I generally get pizza delivered because I am not in the mood to cook that night. I rarely go to a pizza place more often I will get pizza and a non-pizza place. I have also been known to make pizza from scratch when the mood strikes. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/16 "2011-05-20T22:51:53Z")
I live alone, so it’s not worth paying for delivery and tip. I always have one or two frozen personal-size pizzas in the freezer. I certainly don’t make it from scratch. To my eyes, the whole purpose of pizza is for those times when you come down and plop in the chair and don’t feel like actually making anything for supper. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/17 "2011-05-20T22:51:58Z")
I hardly ever get delivery pizza, but I often get pizza at places that sell an awful lot of pizza, but also have other things on the menu – Bertucci’s, California Pizza Kitchen, several local places. Which are these? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/18 "2011-05-20T22:56:37Z")
I get it from a _real_ pizza place. The iron rule of pizza restaurants is that the quality of the pizza is inversely proportional to the number of restaurants in the chain. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/19 "2011-05-20T23:01:08Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I get it from a _real_ pizza place. > > The iron rule of pizza restaurants is that the quality of the pizza is inversely proportional to the number of restaurants in the chain. Seconded. I chose the first option, but none of the places you listed have decent pizza, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622/20 "2011-05-20T23:04:10Z")
sometimes frozen unaltered, sometimes frozen altered, sometimes make on frozen crust with whatever on top, sometimes make dough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-want-to-eat-pizza-how-do-you-get-it/582622.md?page=2)