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Domino's pizza is so sweet

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Anyone find the sauce on their pizzas on the sweet side? I ordered a few times and the pizza is just OK but I find their sauce sweeter than most places.
 
Meh I have other options. Pappa Johns and several local places. For some reason Domino's is the only pizza she asks for seconds.

P.S. I hate Pappa Johns.
 
I'm not sure the last time I had Domino's pizza - probably 15-20 years ago. But where I grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania, sweet tomato sauce on pizza was very much the rule. In my home town, we had no Mexican restaurants, no Asian restaurants, very little of any kind of great food. But we probably had a pizza joint for every 500 people. There tended to be two types of local pizza: one had a thick crust with a sweet sauce and tons of cheese, and the other was a very thin, sweet cracker-like crust, with an even sweeter sauce.

Most places make anything larger that a small "bar" sized pizza in a rectangular pan. You usually don't order a "small" or "medium" or "large". You have "8 cut", "12 cut", "15 cut", etc.

The pizza below is the latter, thin cracker-like crust. People either love or hate this pizza, but some travel many miles for it.

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Read the title. Thought it had to be a troll thread. Came in and found the problem is unjustified expectations.
 
Sweeter than a quality local place? Yea. Sweeter than comparable chains - not in my opinion. Papa John's and Pizza Hut have always tasted way too sweet, and little caesars (undeserving of caps) is practically a cake.
 
I actually like Papa John's. It's pretty decent for a chain pizza. (not as good as some "mom & pop" joints...better than others.)

Domino's is one of the pizzas where the box usually tastes better than the pizza. We tried one of their "new and improved" pizzas a couple of years ago. I quickly remembered why we don't buy Domino's. Hell, Costco's $10 food court pizzas are a metric fuck-ton better than Domino's pizza.
 
BoomerD said:
I actually like Papa John's. It's pretty decent for a chain pizza. (not as good as some "mom & pop" joints...better than others.)

Domino's is one of the pizzas where the box usually tastes better than the pizza. We tried one of their "new and improved" pizzas a couple of years ago. I quickly remembered why we don't buy Domino's. Hell, Costco's $10 food court pizzas are a metric fuck-ton better than Domino's pizza.
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The box does not taste better. I gambled on that once.
 
Papa John's was the first "sweet" sauce that I remember. It's a strange thing, and I can only imagine that Domino's recent recipe overhaul and taste test that they have been advertising is a direct response to Papa John's success over the last 2 decades or so.

It's a dumb response and they really should have learned something from the disaster of New Coke as a response to Pepsi--there is a threshold of sweet that people can tolerate before they hate it (sipping on a taste test = winner; consuming and enjoying a full serving that is too sweet = fail).

fwiw, I think sugar in pizza sauce is stupid. At least, any more than what is necessary to soften the acid. I don't think it should ever taste notably sweet, regardless if it is in the recipe or not.
 
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fwiw, I think sugar in pizza sauce is stupid. At least, any more than what is necessary to soften the acid. I don't think it should ever taste notably sweet, regardless if it is in the recipe or not.
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If anything, I like it sharper and more bitter. Though, I enjoy stronger cheeses and spicy sauce as well.
 
Well I ordered my daughter a cheese pizza with extra cheese and I ordered myself a chicken and bacon with garlic parmesan sauce and that was pretty tasty. I can see myself ordering that again for myself in the future.
 
It has been years since I had Domino's, and hope it will be several more. I can't stand their pizza! Maybe their wings are good. We like Papa Johns (even if they do undercook their pizzas IMO) and Pizza Hut (sit down, not carry out locations), but our favorite is a local place, less than 5 minutes from the house. A good local will always beak a chain when it comes to pizza.
 
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I just glanced at their sauce ingredients. 1st most common ingredient - water. 2nd most: tomato puree. 3rd most: sugar.

Why is there sugar in their sauce? There's no need for sugar in pizza sauce. There shouldn't be sugar in pizza sauce. But hey - at least it's not HFCS. As far as I can tell, Papa Johns doesn't list their ingredients - so probably HFCS. Better HFCS though... lol.
 
Domino's is quickly becoming my fav pizza chain. Papa John's is poor in our area. Pizza Pizza is great, and has the best dipping sauce hands down, but domino's just has that greasy delicious pizza smell, look, and taste to it. Pizza Pizza doesn't have the same greasy-ness, which is both good and bad for obvious reasons.
 
To me, papa johns' sauce is sickeningly sweet. Tastes like they dumped a bottle of hfcs into it. I don't notice the sweetness in pizza hut and domino's sauces. Then again, I usually order the thin crust from those two, so I'm getting less sauce.
 
that's my consensus of them for the longest time. TOO much tomato sause on their pizzas. Granted, I havent eaten a Domino's pizza in about a decade...
 
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