I just ate at Cici's Pizza

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..for lunch. It was so great, I had 7 slices and a bowl of their spiral pasta/marinara stuff. Yum, that definitely got my pizza fix in for a long time. Less than $6 for all you can eat pizza? Sign me up.

Do you feel like you traveled through time after eating cici's?
 

dandruff

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once every month i take my construction crew to cici's or pizza street or a chinese buffett ... they like it a LOT ! and I have learnt to actually enjoy some of the pizza - esp. the spinach one and the smores pizza <<< which is simply amazing creation ...
 

evident

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Their Buffalo Pizza is awesome!

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i guess there's a reason why cici's rhymes with feces. this pizza looks horrible D:
 

guyver01

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i guess there's a reason why cici's rhymes with feces. this pizza looks horrible D:

lets see what pizza you make looks like, huh mr chef?


Why are posts like this allowed? If i went into VC&G, and someone posted a "I just got an nvidia card" thread, and i went lol nvidia is crap.. no wonder you suck... i'd be banned in 2 seconds.

why is this kinda crap allowed in OT?
 

HumblePie

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I've been to really, really, REALLY bad Cici's. I've been to OK ones. I've also been to ones that made me step outside and read the name on the sign again to make sure it was a Cici's I was eating at because it was actually damn good.

Cici's doesn't make the best, but depending upon the store can make decent pizza. I will also like to affirm that this is a mixed bag chain in my opinion. The one near me off Dezavala and IH10 in San Antonio is pretty decent. Rarely is it full of fatties. Actually most of the time it is skinny high school and college kids in there.
 

fatpat268

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i've come to the conclusion that alot of people on atot like to eat crap food because it's cheap and call the rest of us snobs for paying an extra buck to drink non-shitty beer or eat pizza from a local place.

OR....

You can enjoy cheap fast food for what it is, and still like the expensive stuff that's much higher in quality.

I find people on the upper end of the spectrum (the food snobs, if you will) to be generally more annoying, as they're the most vocal about how they would never eat fast food, takeout pizza tastes like cardboard, etc.

Same thing with alcohol in general. Most people who drink the cheap shit, knows it's cheap shit. I myself have no problem drinking Keystone Light or Coors Light for beer. I know it's shitty beer, but at the same time I'm not willing to always pay $2+ a bottle for the good stuff. I do occasionally though, and I do like the more expensive stuff over the stuff I normally drink.

Anyway:
I love cici's pizza. I haven't been there in YEARS. Last time I was there, their buffet was $3.99 in my area. As I kid, I used to go there all the time (one was nearby my house) and play in the arcade and eat a ton of pizza. Good times. I never told my parents when I went there, so there was quite a few times where I ate an additional dinner on top of the buffet just because I didn't want them to get suspicious.
 
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Spikesoldier

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lets see what pizza you make looks like, huh mr chef?


Why are posts like this allowed? If i went into VC&G, and someone posted a "I just got an nvidia card" thread, and i went lol nvidia is crap.. no wonder you suck... i'd be banned in 2 seconds.

why is this kinda crap allowed in OT?

bc this isnt vc&g you are allowed to post your opinion here.
 

fatpat268

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wah wah wah

id smash if that was presented in front of me.

Yep... looks good. It doesn't look perfect, but homemade pizzas aren't supposed to be. If your pizza looks like it came from a factory, then you're doing it wrong.
 

Fritzo

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you wanna call that slop pizza... go right ahead.

crust is too thick, topping distribution is garbage, knife cuts are crap...

I made it with my own hands, flour, and put cheese in the crust. It was highly awesome.
 

preslove

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CiCis is the worst pizza buffet I've ever been to. Local places > Pizza Hut > Godfather's > Hungry Howies > CiCis
 
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cardiac

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The Cici's by us is pretty decent. Have them make you a deep dish. That crust is good....Usually take my boys there for them to load up after soccer or basketball.....
 

marvdmartian

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..for lunch. It was so great, I had 7 slices and a bowl of their spiral pasta/marinara stuff. Yum, that definitely got my pizza fix in for a long time. Less than $6 for all you can eat pizza? Sign me up.

Uh....YUCK!!

Cici's pizza is about 1/2 step above the excuse for pizza that they serve at Chucky Cheese's......and about 4 steps below Little Caesar's tomato sauce and cheese covered cardboard. :rolleyes:
 

AznAnarchy99

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When are more places going to start using whole wheat dough? It tastes so much better. CPK is the only place I know of right now that does it.
 

stag3

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The best two I tried were the hot sauce chicken and some kind of chicken alfredo pizza. The chicken was all perfect cubes though, but whatever.

yea i tried that chicken alfredo, shit was good
i also liked the sausage pepperoni thin crust pizza
 

Arkaign

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Cici's can be okay. As previously noted, it's one of those chains with massive differences in quality from location to location. I notice a huge amount of improved quality when ordering take-out from them vs. the buffet stuff.

Funny story : back when my ex-wife and I were on Atkins, for some reason we ended up at Cici's (think a friend chose it). We proceeded to take out like 50 slices of pizza, each of which had about 1oz or less of toppings :D That diet was nuts, lost like 50lbs but felt like crap. At least the weight stayed off, got more active again after that.
 

evident

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you wanna call that slop pizza... go right ahead.

crust is too thick, topping distribution is garbage, knife cuts are crap...

of course a homemade pizza wont look perfect, but it looks damn tasty, and way more edible than feces pizza!