major chain pizzas

[Mako247]

okay what is your most and least favorite major chain pizza?

and no fair saying i only like mom and pop shop pizza

okay let loose

[windsors]

I like Pizza Hut the best, and that's not saying much.

I don't like Little caesars Pizza, don't like the sauce!!!!

[aaronxp]

I hate Pizza it makes me vomit.

But I can tolerate Pizza Hut a little bit better.

[GiancarloC]

They are all terrible. I don't really eat pizza anymore though. Papa Johns taste like they use ketchup as the sauce, dominos is gross and pizza hut is incredibly greasy. There is a place that's pretty good called "Z Pizza" but it's not common.

http://www.zpizza.com/organic-food-menu/healthy-pizza

Thin crust only please.

[Sha-Rok]

Round Table Pizza is my absolute favorite

Little Caesars is gross

[BlondeCanadian]

Pizza Hut is only good for dine in.. It doesnt deliver that well... Pizza Pizzas peperoni and dough are flavourless.
Dominoes is sort of meh.. I guess Pappa Johns is the best?

[looseliam]

Major chain favourite: Sarpinos
Local chain favourite: Giordanos or Gino's Eat - I'd be hard-pressed to decide which is #1. As for local-local, it's Gigio's in Evanston.

A lot of Chicagoans love Unos. I don't get it. The gravy is almost tasteless.

Major chain least-favourite: Little Ceasar's
Local chain least-favourite: every little fucking bar that thinks it can 'do' pizza.

Fuck, now I want some pie. Maybe a treat for the weekend. ^_^

[tombastep]

I honestly really don't like any major chain pizza. I guess Pizza Hut is the most tolerable to me and Domino's is the absolute worst. I have no idea how that place still makes Pizza.

[counterspade]

While no one else in my house likes them, Papa John's is my favorite. Of course, I'll go for anything to be honest. I love pizza too much to stick to just one brand!

[kevbo]

Toppers Pizza, baby!

[LatinTop75]

I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't like cheese at all. NO, I'm not lactose intolerant...I have never liked cheese, ever. Or milk...mom said I drank milk until about 2, then one day just completely stopped. So no pizza for me.

[GiancarloC]

A lot of Chicagoans love Unos. I don't get it. The gravy is almost tasteless.

One thing I could never understand is the Chicago deep dish thing... even when I visited Northern Italy it was always really thin crispy pizza.

Anybody like California Pizza Kitchen? It's alright... thin crust pizzas are decent... but they really screwed up my order last time I went there.

[gr82talk2]

Here in cali i like straw hat pizza. I dislike dominoes and little ceasars. 2nd fav is round table.

[looseliam]

One thing I could never understand is the Chicago deep dish thing... even when I visited Northern Italy it was always really thin crispy pizza.

Anybody like California Pizza Kitchen? It's alright... thin crust pizzas are decent... but they really screwed up my order last time I went there.

It's a Chicago thang

My problem with deep dish is that one slice is a meal. It also takes forever to reheat. But, in spite of those problems, I persevere.

[MoufOfKhaos]

I like Anthony's the best and despise Pizza Hut. Maybe it's better where some of you are at, but in GA, it's greasy as fuck and I can't take it UNLESS it's plain pepperoni and cheese, and even then it's like someone actually tops the pizza with leftover grease...

[GiancarloC]

It's a Chicago thang

My problem with deep dish is that one slice is a meal. It also takes forever to reheat. But, in spite of those problems, I persevere.

Yea... my stomach has a lot of issues handling so much cheese... I usually order light cheese on any pizza I order. Plus I'm not keen on thick crust pizza.

[ThreeCrows]

One thing I could never understand is the Chicago deep dish thing... even when I visited Northern Italy it was always really thin crispy pizza.

Anybody like California Pizza Kitchen? It's alright... thin crust pizzas are decent... but they really screwed up my order last time I went there.

GiancarloC - I really like California Pizza Kitchen I like the garlic and chicken option, and you can usually get it in the frozen food section of your grocery store.

[looseliam]

Yea... my stomach has a lot of issues handling so much cheese... I usually order light cheese on any pizza I order. Plus I'm not keen on thick crust pizza.

omg the cheese! On the rare occasion I have a half a pie, I'm stopped-up for days!

[G-Lexington]

I love Pizza Hut pizza. Not sure why. I even worked there as a kid and that didn't turn me off of them. Mind you, I find the pan pizza too greasy for my liking (and that's saying something). I'll either get the thin'n'cripsy or the hand-tossed. My favorite is tomato, green pepper and double red onion, but sometimes I'll have meat on it.

Don't like Domino's, and hate Papa John's.

There's a local place here that has excellent pizza and pasta - Nicolo's - so tgat's my place of choice. There's also a place called Famous Pizza nearby which is hideous. The F is perpetually burned out on the sign, so we call it A Mouse Pizza. Ate there twice...and saw cockroaches both times. Ick.

Lex

[youfiad]

I have had Sarpinos once and it was delicious. But the place I usually go to when I need an extra large pizza is papa john's.

[Carmine]

Anthony's pizza at the base, or for more civillian matters - Little Caesers or Pizza Hut (of course!)

[Ninja108]

I like Little Caesars and Papa John's.

[fetaby]

Great, now I'm hungry.

Anyway, Papa John's sucks ass... Pizza Hut is ok, but greassssssy! Domino's? Mazzio's is ok.

[eddielee]

I like Pizza Hut, but the best is at a local restaurant. I've not been out for pizza in a long time as I mostly cook my own at home.

[Sofa-King]

I like Godfather's

[chrisw87]

Pizza hutt... since I don't really eat chain pizza at all anymore unless someone provides it at work. I find it far too greasy and bleaccccccc. Saying that though, Pizza Hutt has their artsy fartsy upmarket pizza range now that might be ok.

I did find a good decade ago that the pizzas (especially meat lovers) was more sauce and less grease... these days it seems to be really greasy, yet really dry from lack of sauce... I just don't understand.

Considering this is my favorite pizza, its not a surprise that I don't like chain stores;
Light base with the usual tomato sauce
Toppings; baby spinach(though I will accept shredded spinach or silverbeet/kale), red onion, green capsicum, mushroom, cherry tomatoes (halved or 1/4).
Herbs; fresh ripped (not chopped) basil, oregano and a touch of thyme (personal preference)
Cheese; thin slices of bocconcini and some mozzarella/cheddar mix.

[AlmondMilk]

Favorite chain=Papa John's
Least favorite= Pizza Hut

[TheFallenAsexual]

I tend to stay away from major chains.

[Beachguyj]

Little Caesars $5 pepperoni pizza.

[chrisw87]

I tend to stay away from major chains.

If you own your house or get the chance to own one, buy a wood fired oven (brick and mortar). If you rent, buy a gas or wood fired pizza oven (metal).

While the stone is the best, the metal ones are ok (especially using wood).

You will never look back and you will mouthgasm every day. Even though it takes hours to prepare the oven, it is brilliant. Pizzas cook so quickly, I've cooked everything from whole fish to chickens to lemons in my wood fired oven with fantastic results once I got the heat right.

Pizzas have never been better, and things like fresh fish, with some lemon turn out like frickin' masterpieces.

[roadtripboy]

To be honest...I think Stouffer's froxen French Bread Pizza is better than the major chains.

(Stouffer's would be Nestle for those not in North America)

[G-Lexington]

Stouffer's FBP does kick major butt.

Lex

[RazorzEdge88]

Yeah, I can't really eat major chain pizza any more either. Most of it's godawful.

The deal-breaker, though, was when I found out that most of the big chains use some cheese that's basically made of trans fat. That means it's cancer pizza, which I don't have use for.

This is my favorite pizza place, as of now:

http://www.wethepizza.com/

[loki81]

by choice, I'd never call a major pizza chain (for pizza, at least).

but I don't always have a choice... my friends in college always wanted to call whichever pizza delivery was cheapest.

Papa John's is definitely my least favorite. when my friends would call there, I'd be ordering bread sticks.

but I found Dominos to be tolerable (specifically their thin or "Brooklyn"-style pies)

[FPNY]

I tend to stay away from major chains.

this...i make my own FPNYs famous chicken and broccoli rabe, or margarita..it's the bestest out of all of em....

[palbert]

When in Bangor, Maine: Papa Gambinos. Unbeatable.

Otherwise, homemade. No "chain" pizza in years.

[JJ-Klein]

I think we only have 2 major pizza chains here....Dominos and Pizza Hut. I will never touch Dominos, its disgusting. I haven't been to Pizza Hut in 3 years but from what I remember, it was edible. Luckily we have the best local pizza takeaway that is just heavenly.

[Spiff]

I usually make my own pizza from scratch. But if I were to ever order one, it would be from Donato's, which are common in my region. I don't buy crappy pizza, so I can't name any.

[Thynight]

Papa Murphy’s (take and bake)

[GamerBear]

I go to my local pizza place which has better pizza than most of the famous Pizza chains in Southern California.

[counterspade]

Sbarro is really good, too. We have one in our mall, which has been there since I was a kid. It's definitely something I like going for to grab a slice.

In the way of small pizza places, there's one up in St. Augustine, which is about 90 minutes from my house, called Pizzalley's. It's. Fucking. AMAZING.

[Southwest85]

For generic, large, round, pepperoni pizza, I believe Little Caesars is the best value. No, it's not the best tasting, but it's decent pizza for less than half the price of the competition (whose product isn't much better, anyway).

Jet's Pizza, a large Midwestern chain, is my favorite. But if you don't like deep-dish pizza, you won't like Jet's.

Since pizza's heavily profitable (the actual cost of a large, one-topping pie is less than $2 boxed most places -- volume's key to offsetting fixed expenses), most local joints in lower-rent areas will almost always have better quality pizza for less.

[Tadaa]

Chain pizza is horrible. Might as well go to the supermarket for frozen.

[T-Rexx]

Best: Uno's

Worst: Little Caesar's

[RazorzEdge88]

I really wanted to like Little Caesar's, since the guy who owns them also owns one of my favorite baseball teams, but I went out of my way to try it and got one of their Hot n Ready pizzas a while back. Good GRIEF that was terrible.

As Kevin "Scrantonicity" Malone once said: "that pizza is like a circle of hot garbage."

[mikey3000]

Best: Pizza Nova
Worst: Lil' Caeser's

[bankside]

Looseliam I seriously thought that was fuckd up dipping a slice of pizza into a bowl of gravy. I mean we Canadians have poutine, but that is just weird. I thought that can't be right….so I googled it

If I'm not mistaken I turn 40 this year. And today I learned that Americans will call almost any sauce "gravy."

I read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravy

My entire life, I have never heard anyone call anything "gravy" except the sauce you make from the drippings of roast meats. So, I think the article is wrong - it says "gravy" can mean many things in north america. I don't think that is true for Canada.

Fascinating.

[looseliam]

Looseliam I seriously thought that was fuckd up dipping a slice of pizza into a bowl of gravy. I mean we Canadians have poutine, but that is just weird. I thought that can't be right….so I googled it

If I'm not mistaken I turn 40 this year. And today I learned that Americans will call almost any sauce "gravy."

I read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravy

My entire life, I have never heard anyone call anything "gravy" except the sauce you make from the drippings of roast meats. So, I think the article is wrong - it says "gravy" can mean many things in north america. I don't think that is true for Canada.

Fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_sauce#Tomato_gravy

I guess the same thing can be said for the Brits and 'pudding'. =]

[Carmine]

Back where I used to live there was a pizza restaurant called Peter Piper Pizza that was more or less like Chuck E. Cheese's minus the singing animals but with arcades and prizes none-the-less. Their pizza was pretty good iirc.

[RazorzEdge88]

Looseliam I seriously thought that was fuckd up dipping a slice of pizza into a bowl of gravy. I mean we Canadians have poutine, but that is just weird. I thought that can't be right….so I googled it

If I'm not mistaken I turn 40 this year. And today I learned that Americans will call almost any sauce "gravy."

I read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravy

My entire life, I have never heard anyone call anything "gravy" except the sauce you make from the drippings of roast meats. So, I think the article is wrong - it says "gravy" can mean many things in north america. I don't think that is true for Canada.

Fascinating.

lol, uhhhh, I'm American and I've never heard anyone refer to anything as gravy other than actual gravy.