# Why do you hate Dominoes Pizza?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 27, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649 "2010-06-27T00:35:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/1 "2010-06-27T00:35:04Z")
With the recent Tv commercials about how they’re trying to improve their product, I went out to taste their “new improved” recipe. What I found out is that Dominoes is nearly gone in my state. The two closest stores to me are over 20 miles away from each other, and there are less than 10 stores left in my state.
It didn’t seem any different than when I worked there in the '90’s. I never really thought of their pizza as horrible, but it certainly was/is inferior to other major competitors. When I was working there, they started the whole “fresh eating” or something campaign, and the toppings and taste increased in quality.
Why do you dislike Dominoes pizza?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/2 "2010-06-27T00:40:40Z")
Both times I tried the Domino’s Pizza at my freeway exit, the pepperoni tasted like dirty dishwater.
I don’t like Domino’s pizza because it doesn’t taste good.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/3 "2010-06-27T00:42:18Z")
I haven’t really thought much past “vile, inedible crap in a pizza box.”
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/4 "2010-06-27T00:50:23Z")
Looks like pizza, smells like pizza, tastes like cardboard. IIRC, they got a big foothold early because they set up in college towns and offered the “30 minutes or it’s free” thing. Their product has always tasted like crap.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/5 "2010-06-27T00:52:00Z")
Wow, interesting. 🙂
When I was young, the standard for bad pizza was the Tombstone brand of frozen pizza with the diced mystery meat on it, soggy cracker crust, and ketchup for sauce. It was kind of like how you would imagine pizza would be on Bizzarro world.
Dominoes though was infinitely better than that.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/6 "2010-06-27T00:55:46Z")
I don’t hate Dominos Pizza. I mean, there are some other pizza places I like better, but I usually order from Dominos, between the fact that they’re open late, you can order online, and they deliver fast.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/7 "2010-06-27T00:57:16Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
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> When I was young, the standard for bad pizza was the Tombstone brand of frozen pizza with the diced mystery meat on it
I always liked Tombstone because the pepperoni was spicy.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/8 "2010-06-27T00:58:03Z")
I think we’ve got recent threads about this.
I always declined to eat Domino’s in the 1990-2008 period because it WAS crap.
Evidently, in the last year, they’ve come around to the world as it is today, and improved their pizza to at least OK.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/9 "2010-06-27T00:59:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I always liked Tombstone because the pepperoni was spicy.
How did you know it was pepperoni? I thought they diced it because it was actually hotdogs.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/10 "2010-06-27T01:00:00Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
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> Wow, interesting. 🙂
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> When I was young, the standard for bad pizza was the Tombstone brand of frozen pizza with the diced mystery meat on it, soggy cracker crust, and ketchup for sauce. It was kind of like how you would imagine pizza would be on Bizzarro world.
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> Dominoes though was infinitely better than that.
See, this is like saying you quit hitting your head against the wall and now you feel better.
I have turned down FREE Dominoe’s multiple times in the last 20 years.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/11 "2010-06-27T01:02:05Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
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> How did you know it was pepperoni? I thought they diced it because it was actually hotdogs.
It had rounds of pepperoni, and the diced stuff tasted the same as the sliced.
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### Author:  [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/12 "2010-06-27T01:15:30Z")
As long as Pizza Hut is still in existence, I can’t hate Domino’s.
It’s funny that you mention pizza…that’s what we had for supper. I picked it up from Big Time Pizza ([Big-Time-Pizza in Winnipeg MB | YellowPages.ca™](http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Manitoba/Winnipeg/Big-Time-Pizza/6145929.html)) a local chain.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/13 "2010-06-27T01:18:39Z")
I don’t, and prefer it to Papa John’s and Pizza Hut for chain delivery pizza.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/14 "2010-06-27T01:29:06Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
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> Wow, interesting. 🙂
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> When I was young, the standard for bad pizza was the Tombstone brand of frozen pizza with the diced mystery meat on it, soggy cracker crust, and ketchup for sauce. It was kind of like how you would imagine pizza would be on Bizzarro world.
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> Dominoes though was infinitely better than that.
I, too, far prefer Tombstone to Domino’s. It’s only soggy if you don’t prepare it correctly. The Tombstones we’d get at one of the local bars were always as crisp as a cracker crust should be. When I make them myself, I don’t follow the instructions. Pretty much all frozen pizzas tell you not to thaw them. I thaw it, and I cook it in a 450-500F oven. No problems with soggy crusts. I don’t know if that’s how the bar did it, but that’s how I do it, and it works for me.
The main thing I hate about almost all chain pizza is their crusts suck. Limp and flavorless. Granted, Tombstone isn’t much better in this department, but at least I can get it to how I like it for this style of pizza.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/15 "2010-06-27T01:36:15Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> When I make them myself, I don’t follow the instructions. Pretty much all frozen pizzas tell you not to thaw them. I thaw it, and I cook it in a 450-500F oven. No problems with soggy crusts. I don’t know if that’s how the bar did it, but that’s how I do it, and it works for me.
> .
While I don’t care for Tombstone Pizza, I also think that in general, by letting a frozen pizza thaw, then cooking it at high heat directly on the oven rack is the way to go for the best possible crispy crust…
I usually get Red Baron, but it seems to work with about any brand I have ever tried.
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/16 "2010-06-27T01:48:47Z")
> [@samclem](#):
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> Evidently, in the last year, they’ve come around to the world as it is today, and improved their pizza to at least OK.
Well that’s debatable, I guess. What they did was make their sauce sweeter and less spicy. To me that’s a downgrade, but I guess the additional sugar works for some.
I actually liked Domino’s before and have always been puzzled by the anti-Domino’s chorus so often seen on this message board. Somehow it became “cool” to hate Domino’s (along with Ben Affleck and Julia Roberts of course). Not just to _dislike_ Domino’s, mind you. No, you must _loathe_ Domino’s.
I am disappointed that Domino’s is blander now. That was always my objection to Pizza Hut. Bland and lifeless.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/17 "2010-06-27T02:03:42Z")
This is the dope. Where the only fun people to talk to are at Mensa meetings, Applebee’s makes any right thinking person vomit out their entire gastrointestinal system, and Domino’s is The Worst Pizza In The World If One Could Call That Abortion Of Crust, Sauce, And Cheese A Pizza.
Domino’s tastes like chain pizza to me. Not bad, not great but worth it when I’m drunk and craving something greasy and fatty.
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/18 "2010-06-27T02:14:16Z")
To quote myself from the [pizza chain poll thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567573):
> [@](#):
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> Dominos’ efforts to decrease its previously-formidable sucktitude are admirable, but they’re still on the bottom of my list at least until they stop coating the bottoms of their pizzas with sand. Hey, Domino’s overlords — eating sand is like eating sand, in that no one wants to do it, and so you shouldn’t put it on the bottom of your fucking pizzas. True story. (And don’t start in about “cornmeal”. A, if I wanted my pizza to involve corn I’d be eating it in Japan, and B, if it looks like sand, feels like sand, and tastes like sand, it’s sand. Knock it off already.)
I have no pretensions about pizza; I like the other chains just fine. Hell, some weeks, Kroger $0.50 microwave pizzas comprise half my diet…but then, Kroger doesn’t put sand on them. That, I’d have a gripe with.
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### Author:  [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/19 "2010-06-27T02:22:31Z")
I never had it before they “new and improved” it. My family tried it recently, and NONE of us liked it. Three out of three people (not picky eaters in the least) thought it tasted terrible. I can’t even remember why, I just remember trying it and being surprise that there are people who actually exist that like it. I remember the cheese tasting like plastic, the crust tasting gross, and the sauce tasting wayyyy too sweet. Ugh, garbage.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-hate-dominoes-pizza/544649/20 "2010-06-27T02:27:46Z")
I rarely eat upscale pizza. Last time I did (Serious Pie, in Seattle) someone else was buying. And that was a couple of years ago. It’s true I like Thai pizza and BBQ chicken pizza, but I can’t remember the last time I had any. No; for me, it’s chain pizza. And Domino’s definitely is bad. See my dirty dishwater-tasting pepperoni comment.
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had Domino’s so maybe, as mentioned by others, they’ve improved. But trust me: I’m not being a pizza snob when I say it was awful.
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