My favorite food,but I ate too much chain pizza when I was married...
Let's Talk Pizza
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"Chicago style" pizza isn't pizza. As Jon Stewart pointed out, it's not pizza, it's a casserole.
You want good-quality pizza? Find a local pizzeria that uses fresh ingredients, quality flour and good cheese. Bonus points if they make their own tomato sauce. The real secret to good pizza is good ingredients.
As for Domino's, their pizza is best served to the starving feral kids being raised by your neighbors. For if you were to sprinkle some budget cheese and cheap pasta sauce on the box and then ate the box, it's be close enough to the stuff Domino's makes.
You want good-quality pizza? Find a local pizzeria that uses fresh ingredients, quality flour and good cheese. Bonus points if they make their own tomato sauce. The real secret to good pizza is good ingredients.
As for Domino's, their pizza is best served to the starving feral kids being raised by your neighbors. For if you were to sprinkle some budget cheese and cheap pasta sauce on the box and then ate the box, it's be close enough to the stuff Domino's makes.
ChattCat
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Chattanooga boys would say Lupi's is the best. The chains are prefab and throw on the toppings.
Jaysq
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I was in Cherokee about 3 or 4 years ago. Besides the casino, the best food we could find was a Pizza Hut. That one was horrible even by Pizza Hut standards.I think they use ketchup.
The hotel we stayed at(Marriot or Hilton, forgot which) was even worse, their buffet rivaled dog food.
I lost 5 lbs that week.
We just live in the next town over from Cherokee and I know what you are saying
. Other than Paul's in Cherokee and the casino, we never eat at any of the local restaurants. We are pretty hard pressed in our town to find good restaurants. We have a pretty good Mexican and a pizza restaurant 
and that's about all. 
We go to Asheville to find good restaurants. 
Ahh Domino's. Domino's = fake cheese on a piece of cardboard.
I refuse to eat the chain store pizzas. Might as well be cardboard with cheese on it.
The only exception is Papa Murphy's Take and Bake. That stuff is GOOD. You tell them what you want on it, they assemble it right in front of you, you take it home and bake it. The Cowboy is my favorite.
The best pizza I've ever had is Giordanos out of Chicago. Looks lie a pie. Just as thick, but the crust is very thin. It is FULL of toppings.
We have one privately owned pizza place in my home town. That's about the only place I buy pizza, never the big chains.
Dang it, I'm hungry now.
Jim
The only exception is Papa Murphy's Take and Bake. That stuff is GOOD. You tell them what you want on it, they assemble it right in front of you, you take it home and bake it. The Cowboy is my favorite.
The best pizza I've ever had is Giordanos out of Chicago. Looks lie a pie. Just as thick, but the crust is very thin. It is FULL of toppings.
We have one privately owned pizza place in my home town. That's about the only place I buy pizza, never the big chains.
Dang it, I'm hungry now.
Jim
doublesharp
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I know what's for lunch after reading this thread, Papa John's.
The original PJ's restaurant is about a mile from me and they have a pizza buffet every day from 11-1:30. All you can eat and it's pretty good and the store is still owned by John.
I've known PJ since he was a teenager, as his family lived 3 doors from my dad's house. John took over my place as gofer when I left home, helping dad with odd jobs and dad let John borrow his pickup for trips back and forth to Ball State.
He really did get his start in a broom closet in his dad's bar but quickly moved to a vacant unit adjacent to Mick's Lounge. Mick's was/is a classic neighborhood watering hole with 3 or 4 pool tables, many games, dartboards and cheap booze. Whenever John would get stood up on a pizza he'd bring it into the bar and sell it for $2 or 3 bucks. Back in his start up days of the 1980s I traded him Christmas Trees for pizza and he always did use fresh ingredients, even to the point of chopping his own onions, mushrooms and green peppers when pre-cut was available.
Louisville has several good independents that beat the chains all to pieces. My favorite is Comeback Inn but Bearnos, Impellizeri's, Rocky's are all good. Also Pizza King has a one of a kind flavor that is kinda like White Castle sliders, when you get the craving there is nothing else that will do.
The original PJ's restaurant is about a mile from me and they have a pizza buffet every day from 11-1:30. All you can eat and it's pretty good and the store is still owned by John.
I've known PJ since he was a teenager, as his family lived 3 doors from my dad's house. John took over my place as gofer when I left home, helping dad with odd jobs and dad let John borrow his pickup for trips back and forth to Ball State.
He really did get his start in a broom closet in his dad's bar but quickly moved to a vacant unit adjacent to Mick's Lounge. Mick's was/is a classic neighborhood watering hole with 3 or 4 pool tables, many games, dartboards and cheap booze. Whenever John would get stood up on a pizza he'd bring it into the bar and sell it for $2 or 3 bucks. Back in his start up days of the 1980s I traded him Christmas Trees for pizza and he always did use fresh ingredients, even to the point of chopping his own onions, mushrooms and green peppers when pre-cut was available.
Louisville has several good independents that beat the chains all to pieces. My favorite is Comeback Inn but Bearnos, Impellizeri's, Rocky's are all good. Also Pizza King has a one of a kind flavor that is kinda like White Castle sliders, when you get the craving there is nothing else that will do.
We don't have any chain places near me, being mostly a summer comunity they don't want to make most of there money in two months, the mom and pops have the best pizza anyway, I like a thin crust wood fired pizza , we did have a pizza hut in the next town, it only lasted about two years.
Brian41
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We have some local places here that make good pizza we usually order from. My wife likes Little Caesars though for some reason and we get it there sometimes too.
I lived in Italy a couple years and their wood fired ovens made the best pizza. One place here in town has a wood fired oven and does a good pizza too but sadly doesn't deliver.
I lived in Italy a couple years and their wood fired ovens made the best pizza. One place here in town has a wood fired oven and does a good pizza too but sadly doesn't deliver.
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As much as I hate living in NY because of all the restrictive legislation, taxes, over crowdedness, and traffic, I will say that here in NY the chain store Pizza joints like Papa Johns, Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza etc. are considered a sub standard laughing stock. If we have nothing else here in this State worth talking about, OUR PIZZA IS THE WORLD'S BEST! I have been all over and have NEVER had a better slice than right here in the People's Republik of NY!
Well, at least we're good for something!
Well, at least we're good for something!
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Rugskipper
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Papa Murphy's Take-n-Bake.
I like mine a little more brown & crispy, and my wife doesn't, so we can each have it the way we want it, and the ingredients are top-shelf.
The Hut was born in my hometown, and was pretty darn good in the sixties and seventies, but the Carney boys are now long gone. Since they have gone corporate, quality has steadily declined.
I like mine a little more brown & crispy, and my wife doesn't, so we can each have it the way we want it, and the ingredients are top-shelf.
The Hut was born in my hometown, and was pretty darn good in the sixties and seventies, but the Carney boys are now long gone. Since they have gone corporate, quality has steadily declined.
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Rugskipper
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Now this is a real Pizza, Stop by Savastanos if you are in the Tulsa area
Tums, anyone?
kozmic
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It's quite possible we have more pizza joints around here than lawyers....OK not THAT many, but close! Only 3 will deliver out to my house. But within a 15 minute drive there are another handful worthy of my cash.
It's hard for me to pick my favorite ma and pa place. All do certain pizzas the best. So, it depends on what we're looking for. One has a killer white pizza with artichoke hearts, garlic and black olives. One has a great chicken wing pizza. Another uses the "old" style pepperoni and always has a chicken wing special, etc....
Or, Wegmans, our local food market, sells pre-made dough balls and we will make our own. They are especially good on a big stone I have that fits nicely on my grill. That is perhaps my favorite of all.
It's hard for me to pick my favorite ma and pa place. All do certain pizzas the best. So, it depends on what we're looking for. One has a killer white pizza with artichoke hearts, garlic and black olives. One has a great chicken wing pizza. Another uses the "old" style pepperoni and always has a chicken wing special, etc....
Or, Wegmans, our local food market, sells pre-made dough balls and we will make our own. They are especially good on a big stone I have that fits nicely on my grill. That is perhaps my favorite of all.
Comrad
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If the cheese doesn't slide off in an endless string and burn the skin off your chin, it's not real pizza.
before I'd eat franchised so called pizza (Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Dominoes, etc.)...........I rather..."drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log".....
the independent pizza makers around here create unmistakably delicious pizzas.....I'm enjoying my favorite right now............green pepper, onion, tomato, olive, garlic, mushroom and double cheese.................
the independent pizza makers around here create unmistakably delicious pizzas.....I'm enjoying my favorite right now............green pepper, onion, tomato, olive, garlic, mushroom and double cheese.................
kozmic
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Now this is a real Pizza, Stop by Savastanos if you are in the Tulsa area
Did they have to deliberately have to deform that pizza to fit into an EZ Bake Oven or what?
Actually, I'd give that thing a try in a heart beat!
That hurts, where I used to work we had a Greek Pizza place not to far away, we used to go there for lunch once in a while and the cheese used to slide off like that and the grease used to drip down your arm, but it was good. Does anyone eat Pizza with a fork, my wife does, I keep telling her Pizza should be held in your hand.
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