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in my neck of the woods both brands have gone seriously downhill in quality.

These days I'd rather make a long drive up to Costco and get their pizza. Tastes good and reasonably priced.
 
Anyone tried the take and bakes from Walmart? My wife snagged one tonight and it wasn't to bad.
 
Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. Two crap pizza chains seeing who can out do each other as the cheapest pizza dump. I hope Dominos joins the fun for the perfect trifecta of hot garbage.
 
This development seems to have driven Little Caesar's to advertise their quality. No dried cheese topping only quality tomatoes. I've seen two Little Caesars ads with the same theme.
Strange I have only had one LC pizza in the past 20 years but I remember it as party food, get a bunch of pocket change together and you could feed 12 people.
 
Fritzo said:
You notice how sweet their sauce is too? It's kind of shocking the first time you try it. Not a fan.
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Yeah, too sweet & too much sauce.

I got my brother a Presto pizza oven for Christmas because he lives off frozen pizza. I'm borrowing it today to see if it will work with my fresh dough recipes; he mentioned the manual specifically calls out cooking time for fresh, not just frozen pizza, so I'm curious if it would actually work or not:

http://www.amazon.com/Presto-03430-Pizzazz-Plus-Rotating/dp/B00005IBXJ
 
QueBert said:
Nope, 2 14" pizza from Little Caesars at the same price is a far better deal. Both pizzas suck big time, but I'd give the nod to LC simply because they don't have astronomically large lines that take forever. I can be in and out of a LC and have consumed 4 slices in the time I'd be waiting in line just to order at Costco. The Pizza Hut deal's also better, and while it's not great pizza it smashes Costco. Especially if you get the Pretzel crust imho.
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Plus, little caesars is simple. Sometimes its cardboard, sometimes its cardboard with extra sauce, and sometimes it resembles pizza dough, but its simple and to the point. Sure, its not all top ingredients, but it tastes ok and the price is right. Just have to eat it warm. Cold, no way, reheated, no way.. it has to be fresh and hot/warm or no go.
 
If the pizza place uses a chain feed oven, just walk away. The cooking time is fixed no matter what you order so if you order more topping either they cut the amount of each topping so it cooks properly or the pizza comes out under cooked.
 
I kinda like Domino's now. Not their red sauce sweet crap but the garlic parmesan sauce with chicken and bacon is da bomb. For 15 I can get a pie for my daughter and a pie for myself that lasts a few meals.

LC bacon wrapped crust was also pretty dam excellent.
 
Linux23 said:
That is so wrong on so many levels. I'm disgusted with American corporations and their eternal quest for maximum profits, the hell with anyone's health.
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Not to excuse their actions but the eating public is also responsible for what they put in their mouths. That a large pizza for a few bucks might not be on the up and up ingredient wise should cross peoples minds now and again.
 
K1052 said:
Not to excuse their actions but the eating public is also responsible for what they put in their mouths. That a large pizza for a few bucks might not be on the up and up ingredient wise should cross peoples minds now and again.
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That is why I refuse to eat chain pizza. We have a local pizza place that makes a great thin crust pizza along with other Italian food (lasagna, pasta, submarine sandwiches, etc). I sometimes order a large pizza with two toppings and it costs around $20 but one bite and you realize why you spend the extra money. It is worth it. They also have some of the best cannolis I've ever had. :wub:

We had them cater a Christmas party we threw two years ago and everyone raved about how good the food was. We had tortellini with pesto sauce, a huge tray of lasagna, salad with Italian dressing (they make it themselves and it is really good) and one other dish I can't recall at the moment. It cost us $250 but it was worth it. I would use them again for catering.
 
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JulesMaximus said:
That is why I refuse to eat chain pizza. We have a local pizza place that makes a great thin crust pizza along with other Italian food (lasagna, pasta, submarine sandwiches, etc). I sometimes order a large pizza with two toppings and it costs around $20 but one bite and you realize why you spend the extra money. It is worth it. They also have some of the best cannolis I've ever had. :wub:

We had them cater a Christmas party we threw two years ago and everyone raved about how good the food was. We had tortellini with pesto sauce, a huge tray of lasagna, salad with Italian dressing (they make it themselves and it is really good) and one other dish I can't recall at the moment. It cost us $250 but it was worth it. I would use them again for catering.
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this.

you want good pizza go to a pizza shop.

all the chains offer is ketchup on dough with some sub par toppings.
 
JulesMaximus said:
That is why I refuse to eat chain pizza. We have a local pizza place that makes a great thin crust pizza along with other Italian food (lasagna, pasta, submarine sandwiches, etc). I sometimes order a large pizza with two toppings and it costs around $20 but one bite and you realize why you spend the extra money. It is worth it. They also have some of the best cannolis I've ever had. :wub:

We had them cater a Christmas party we threw two years ago and everyone raved about how good the food was. We had tortellini with pesto sauce, a huge tray of lasagna, salad with Italian dressing (they make it themselves and it is really good) and one other dish I can't recall at the moment. It cost us $250 but it was worth it. I would use them again for catering.
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San Diego has a remarkable amount of good Italian food, at least that I've enjoyed on my trips there. I am disappointed that none if it really seems to have migrated up the coast to SF. Everything around here is mediocre, overpriced, or both.
 
master_shake_ said:
this.

you want good pizza go to a pizza shop.

all the chains offer is ketchup on dough with some sub par toppings.
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I remember when papa millionaires first opened near my house. We ordered a pizza from them delivered because we had just moved in and didn't want to cook. What we got tasted like a warm piece of cardboard with ketchup and some plastic goup that kind of resembled cheese.

That was probably 15 years ago and I have NEVER ordered a pizza from them again. I am rabid anti-papa millionaires and will not give them a cent of my money ever again.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
This development seems to have driven Little Caesar's to advertise their quality. No dried cheese topping only quality tomatoes. I've seen two Little Caesars ads with the same theme.
Strange I have only had one LC pizza in the past 20 years but I remember it as party food, get a bunch of pocket change together and you could feed 12 people.
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I actually stopped and grabbed a Little Caesars pizza a few weeks ago because I just needed something cheap and easy to feed some kids and had no time to make dinner. It actually wasn't terrible. Even a year ago I remember it being basically chewy cardboard with blah sauce and toppings. This one recently was like a different chain made it. They do seem to have stepped up the quality a bit.
 
K1052 said:
Not to excuse their actions but the eating public is also responsible for what they put in their mouths.
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Pretty much this. Yes, they're jerks for selling you crap, but no one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to eat a Big Mac. The laws were passed a long time ago requiring the nutritional information to be visibly posted for consumers, so it's no one's fault but the consumers if they don't read the ingredients & calorie etc. numbers. What's even crazier is all of the people trying to sue places like McDonalds for "making them fat":

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/09/21/fat-teens-sue-mcdonald.html

If you dig into nutritional studies, it gets even crazier. For example, the USDA says that a moderately-active 26 to 30-year-old adult male should be consuming 2,600 calories a day:

http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usda_food_patterns/EstimatedCalorieNeedsPerDayTable.pdf

If you eat 3 meals a day, that's about 867 calories you should be consuming at each meal. The first article about the overweight teenagers stated that a quarter-pounder with cheese has 530 calories; that chart also says that a sendentary 13-year-old requires 2,000 calories a day, or an average of 667 calories per meal, so you could get a quarter-pound with a coke for each meal & still be fine calorie-wise. As we've learned from the infamous Twinkie diet, among numerous other studies, if you eat sufficient, or fewer, calories than you burn in a day, you will induce weight loss & eventually achieve your ideal weight:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/

So...it all boils down to personal responsibility. You have to exercise self-control, learn how to read labels, look at a chart to see what your calorie intake should be at, etc. McDonalds posts their ingredients & nutritional numbers all over the place...papers & posters in the store, on their website, in health apps like MyFitnessPal...it's not like it's a big secret or anything.
 
The last Pizza Hut pizza I ordered looked like the cheese was painted on with a paint gun. I was amazed at their ability to get such a thin layer of cheese on the pizza.

There is a good pizza place close to me, but it's like $30 for a large supreme pizza. I'm on a low carb diet right now, so I don't have to worry about pizza right now.
 
Love Papa Johns and this is good news for me! I probably eat there about twice a month, eating left overs then next day. So 4 times a month? So good!
 
Ackmed said:
Love Papa Johns and this is good news for me! I probably eat there about twice a month, eating left overs then next day. So 4 times a month? So good!
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First person i've ever heard who say they 'love' PJ's... at best i'd describe it as 'tolerable' lol.
 
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