ASDA Pizza

Superstores nationwide are scrapping their shitty cafés and turning them into diners. There you'll be able to buy 16" pizzas made to order and cooked there and then for you, all for a fiver.

Anyone in the know is aware that the 14" pizzas made to order to take home to cook are the tits and makes the idea of paying 390 quid for a dominos seem foolish at best, so the possibility of being able to walk round the store munching on one already cooked whilst you wait for your other pizza to be made is exciting.

Early reports suggest the quality is still amazing, but at the moment only a couple of stores in Coventry have it set up. So keep an eye open and report back with your findings lads.

Anyone had the calzone? I've not tried it yet. How do you get your 14" made? Will reveal mine later, got to start work now.

My only criticism of them is that they can be a bit big for normal ovens/trays etc - although this could be due to the fact that I usually have them cooked in a gas oven which is probably a bit of an anachronism.

I go Pepperoni, Peppers, Mushrooms, Red Onions, Garlic oil and probably on one of those thinner stonebaked bases.

The lack of an olive option is also a bit annoying.

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Originally Posted by Samadini

the 14" pizzas made to order to take home to cook

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Someone explain this to me? We don't have this concept in Sweden. Then again we have a funny pizza culture (to others).
It's like a pizza-place inside of a supermarket?

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Originally Posted by Mazuuurk

Someone explain this to me? We don't have this concept in Sweden. Then again we have a funny pizza culture (to others).
It's like a pizza-place inside of a supermarket?

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It's just basically the deli type counter where you you buy stuff like pies, cheese, ham, etc. They'll throw whatever stuff you want on a pizza base, cover it with cling film, and you whack it in the oven when you go home.

Yeah, pretty much. You turn up at a kind of deli thing and pick what you want on it then they make it up/wrap it and you take it home.

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Do they not do this in Sainsburys too? Feel like I've walked past the counter enough times.

There's quite a few doing them I think. Super Valu do them here and I'm sure I got them in a Co-Op and Sainsburys your end.

And it costs 5 quid? But is it any better than you know the frozen ones you can get for like 3 quid?

Also, is it worth not just going to a Pizza place and get a proper pizza for like 9 quid instead?

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Originally Posted by Mazuuurk

And it costs 5 quid? But is it any better than you know the frozen ones you can get for like 3 quid?

Also, is it worth not just going to a Pizza place and get a proper pizza for like 9 quid instead?

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I find them far nicer than either of those. Yeah there's the extra cost associated with cooking it, but it's worth it for me.

Best pizza I've had.

I hate Asda for everything other than the pizza counter, I go all garlic with it. Sainsbury's one is alright, but the pizza dough is about 300% your weekly bread allowance.

Sainsburys have cooked in store for years but their topping selection is shit.

ASDA are the pizza kings. Bit of sweet talking will get you both garlic and chilli oil drizzled on, too.

Pizza and FIFA sometime?

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Is the Tesco pizza counter any good? I usually just buy those frozen 'Sloppy Joe' pizzas we've talked about before if I'm in the mood for a pizza, but if their counter is up to scratch I think I'll get one tonight.

I bought a pizza last night from a normal takeaway pizza place. It was eight quid for a small (10") pizza with a few bits of salami, pepperoni, peppers and some chilli sauce. Rip-off. There must be such a ridiculous profit margin on pizza. Domino's is a ridiculously priced. It's not very nice either.

Domino's a massive bag of shit, there used to be a great local place for pizza but I drove past the other week and it was closed down. A real shame, as it was one of the rare places that wasn't expensive and the pizza box didn't have a massive grease stain once you lifted the pizza off it.

My local pizza take away is immense. 5 quid for 11 inch and no grease on the bottom of the box. I used to love the Asda ones but these guys have taken the crown for now.

I think Domino's pizzas are nice, but they are really expensive. I looked at their site on Tuesday, and even with the half-price deal it is still a rip-off.

Not ventured yet as the nearest Asda to me is a solid bus ride away, and for that, I truly can't be bothered as at the bottom of my street is a fantastic joint. Top quality pizza, no grease, no skipping on the toppings and cheese, comes with some lovely wedges and chicken strips. Unbelievable value.

That said, my takeaway craving has been taken over by the homemade burger place a few doors up.

I'd worry about anything that's being piloted in Coventry.

The calzone is a bit shit because it's literally just a folded-over base. Who wants a crispy calzone?

Speaking of pizza and supermarkets, I've just won a free Pizza at Pizza Express from a one I nabbed at Tesco. I mean, I like free stuff but don't rate their pizzas enough to sit down somewhere that isn't home to eat one.

Dominos is one of those things (like Burger King) that is clearly awful but must have something in it that lies dormant in my brain for months on end before triggering a craving that can only be satisfied by over something overpriced that's made mostly from bread and salt.

I have pineapple on it too, because I'm a monster.

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Originally Posted by Shindig

Speaking of pizza and supermarkets, I've just won a free Pizza at Pizza Express from a one I nabbed at Tesco. I mean, I like free stuff but don't rate their pizzas enough to sit down somewhere that isn't home to eat one.

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I don't know about the terms of your win but you can get takeaway from them too. Also, their pizzas are much nicer than the ones that are sold in supermarkets under their branding.

Pizza Express gets an undeservedly harsh rap on here, IMO.

Just stopped at Wembley to pick one up from ASDA. Added 40 minutes onto my journey home, given I had a good mooch around the shop, but worth it.

Wherever I move to needs to be close to an ASDA and an Aldi.

Going to watch League of Legends at Wembley arena on Sunday. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Samadini

Just stopped at Wembley to pick one up from ASDA. Added 40 minutes onto my journey home, given I had a good mooch around the shop, but worth it.

Wherever I move to needs to be close to an ASDA and an Aldi.

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Did they make you leave the order and toss off for twenty minutes? Norwich Asda used to do that, but the Hull ones just let you queue. It gets violent during Friday/Saturday rush hour, but it's much quicker and better normally.

I've grabbed a fourteen inch 'meat feast' pizza from Tesco for four quid. I couldn't be arsed waiting around to get one made up, but if this one is good I will do next time.

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Originally Posted by randomlegend

Pizza Express gets an undeservedly harsh rap on here, IMO.

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The one I've just had wasn't too bad. If I go for a takeaway, I'll grab a 12" from my local. Greasy as fuck but still nice.

Yeah. The actual place (as opposed to the supermarket ones) is pretty decent. Much nicer than shitty Domino's and still cheaper.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

Did they make you leave the order and toss off for twenty minutes? Norwich Asda used to do that, but the Hull ones just let you queue. It gets violent during Friday/Saturday rush hour, but it's much quicker and better normally.

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Yep, it's fucking bollocks as I've ended up buying a jar of 'sweet curry sauce' almost solely because it was reduced, they also had some dog treats down to 25p, so I bought them too. Going to have to post them to Frank.

Well, the voucher's only valid for dine in. I mean, its right by work but can't be arsed to sit in for an 11".

Asda pizzas, aren't they for common people? Not meant to sound rude, but I had one once when i was younger and the only good thing about it was the large size. The flavour was a bit off.

Surely, you'd go Tesco Finest if you wanted a nice pizza?

What a wanker.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

Asda pizzas, aren't they for common people? Not meant to sound rude, but I had one once when i was younger and the only good thing about it was the large size. The flavour was a bit off.

Surely, you'd go Tesco Finest if you wanted a nice pizza?

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Alright, Magic.

Marks and Spencer's eight quid ones are much better than Tesco Finest, so you're still getting the common option.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

Asda pizzas, aren't they for common people? Not meant to sound rude, but I had one once when i was younger and the only good thing about it was the large size. The flavour was a bit off.

Surely, you'd go Tesco Finest if you wanted a nice pizza?

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That's not comparing the same thing though. These Asda ones aren't in a freezer in a box, they make them up for you fresh to cook.

Dominos worst crime is that they don't do chips. The pizzas are grand.

Domino's is decent enough, but they would be taking the piss at half the price. Is it consistency that keeps it going (as in people not wanting to risk a local takeaway being awful and/or infected)?

@Lewis, Domino's pepperoni pizza tastes like sick after a few bites.

@John, Have not had an M&S pizza in years. Any good?

M&S sausage rolls with the bacon bits on top are delicious.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

Domino's is decent enough, but they would be taking the piss at half the price. Is it consistency that keeps it going (as in people not wanting to risk a local takeaway being awful and/or infected)?

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Marketing. Dominos is the thing to do for the ladbible lot.

They come and give all the freshers vouchers at the Unis (well, at UEA at least) which captures the student market pretty well I think.

I agree with those who think Dominos tastes good, but I just looked and I can buy 5 of the superior Asda pizzas for the price of one large mighty meaty from Dominos.

The best thing about Dominos is that they now do a massive pot of the garlic dip. The worst thing about the pizzas themselves is that you need a shower after eating one slice for all the fucking semolina left on you.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

@John, Have not had an M&S pizza in years. Any good?

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Obviously. Their toppings can be a bit wanky, I clocked one with butternut squash on it the other week, but stick to the proper toppings and they're great.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

Domino's is decent enough, but they would be taking the piss at half the price. Is it consistency that keeps it going (as in people not wanting to risk a local takeaway being awful and/or infected)?

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Good marketing will play a part in it, as it does for Budweiser, but I reckon they're staying afloat purely on that garlic and herb dip they do.

I've just inhaled the whole thing and gone blind.

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Originally Posted by randomlegend

They come and give all the freshers vouchers at the Unis (well, at UEA at least) which captures the student market pretty well I think.

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That Ukrainian dickhead I lived with used to get about four a week. One came at half-three in the morning once, and he wasn't back in time to collect it. I was absolutely seething.

Should have ate it or chucked it out and said fuck all.

I shut the door on the delivery twat after he said 'It's alright I'll give him a ring' having just bashed our door off its hinges.

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Originally Posted by randomlegend

They come and give all the freshers vouchers at the Unis (well, at UEA at least) which captures the student market pretty well I think.

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They came last year to Herts (halfway through the year for some job thing) and were giving out free slices.

Asda or Papa Johns.

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Originally Posted by John

Obviously. Their toppings can be a bit wanky, I clocked one with butternut squash on it the other week, but stick to the proper toppings and they're great.

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Sainsburys have one with butternut squash on, a few of which seem to be on the reduced shelf every time I go in and yet they're apparently persisting. It looks vile.

Making your own pizza is the real way forward. The dough can be a pain in the arse, but a decent bread machine sorts that. No need for any of that stone in the oven shite either, a conventional fan oven cranked up to 11 is more than hot enough to do a decent job.

You can pre-make the dough and freeze it, makes the prep much easier.

I've never had any success with frozen dough. It just ends up unimaginably sticky every time I have tried it.

This New Labour reunion is good.

I'm still not buying this ASDA pizza stuff. Google images suggest it's not much better than frozen pizza or Pizza Hut or crap like that.

Does someone have a decent picture of one?


I'm very picky with Pizza, mind you, and will only really enjoy either homemade or proper stone-oven baked pizzas from these sort of deli-like hipstery italian places that have high bar stools, lounge music and serve too little wine in too big glasses.

I think you've just described my hell.

Not saying all the places like that are necessarily nice. And they tend to charge a little too much (like, 13 quid?) for what is essentially still just a pizza. But, they do taste a lot better and after having had a few proper pizzas like that, you can't go back to any sort of greasy shit anymore.

It's the same with all these Gastro burger places. I wouldn't be able to touch a burger from McDonalds these days.

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Originally Posted by Mazuuurk

Not saying all the places like that are necessarily nice. And they tend to charge a little too much (like, 13 quid?) for what is essentially still just a pizza. But, they do taste a lot better and after having had a few proper pizzas like that, you can't go back to any sort of greasy shit anymore.

It's the same with all these Gastro burger places. I wouldn't be able to touch a burger from McDonalds these days.

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I'd go for McDonalds ahead of the pretentious shite that most burger places here have turned into these days. Everything catered to hipster cunts. Luckily the local pub does a good one though and it's just a pub.

I do like the asda deli counter pizzas and their ilk, but they're enjoyable in a kind of dirty way. They're pretty average quality, and good just because there's shit loads of meat crammed onto it. Nowt wrong with that like, but nowt wrong with saying more expensive poncey stuff is, well, better. Reverse snobbery can be as irritating as the orthodox kind.

There's a little pizza place opened in Norwich which just does a few different types of pizza baked in a proper wood oven.

It's really, really good.

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Originally Posted by igor_balis

I do like the asda deli counter pizzas and their ilk, but they're enjoyable in a kind of dirty way. They're pretty average quality, and good just because there's shit loads of meat crammed onto it. Nowt wrong with that like, but nowt wrong with saying more expensive poncey stuff is, well, better. Reverse snobbery can be as irritating as the orthodox kind.

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It's more the fact that, while generally regarded as better, they're not 3x or 4x better as the price would suggest.
I still prefer the Asda ones personally though. All favcy restaurant ones tend to be the stone bsked type and I find them too dry and coveted in flour. Gives me cotton mouth.

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Well made pizzas and good service. Choice of toppings very limited. Tough if you you don't really want pizza. No fish option

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What a review that is, from Tripadvisor :D

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Originally Posted by Giggles

It's more the fact that, while generally regarded as better, they're not 3x or 4x better as the price would suggest.
I still prefer the Asda ones personally though. All favcy restaurant ones tend to be the stone bsked type and I find them too dry and coveted in flour. Gives me cotton mouth.

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3x or 4x more? Aren't the big deli pizzas about £4? Either supermarkets are actually charging over a tenner for pizzas, or you're talking about restaurants. In which case, well, I don't really need to explain the price differential.

Paying for some twat to be rude to you and rush you through your dinner so he can get the next cunt at your table? Worth it.

The vast majority of service staff I've ever come across have been perfectly nice.

I think it's you, mate.

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Originally Posted by randomlegend

The vast majority of service staff I've ever come across have been perfectly nice.

I think it's you, mate.

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I don't do anything to warrant it. Even if the food or service is bad I'd never complain or anything. I just don't go back if it is.

Most service staff hate their jobs and their performance reflects it.

Mate.

There's no reverse snobbery going on here. I've spent my TD lifespan discussing pizza, I genuinely prefer the Asda pizza to more expensive stuff. I didn't even get any meat at all on the one I bought last night, went for stonebaked base, BBQ sauce, mozzarella slices, chilli cheese, jalapenos and red onion, was banging.

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Originally Posted by Giggles

It's more the fact that, while generally regarded as better, they're not 3x or 4x better as the price would suggest.
I still prefer the Asda ones personally though. All favcy restaurant ones tend to be the stone bsked type and I find them too dry and coveted in flour. Gives me cotton mouth.

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Originally Posted by Giggles

Paying for some twat to be rude to you and rush you through your dinner so he can get the next cunt at your table? Worth it.

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What the fuck kind of restaurants do you go to to have that sort of experience?

Favcy ones.

No horrible and overpriced ones it seems.

Nothing wrong with fancy restaurants but Giggles must have gone to the worst possible restaurants.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

That Ukrainian dickhead I lived with used to get about four a week. One came at half-three in the morning once, and he wasn't back in time to collect it. I was absolutely seething.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

I shut the door on the delivery twat after he said 'It's alright I'll give him a ring' having just bashed our door off its hinges.

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What a tough chap you are.

Honest Burger is good.

Anyone been to one of them?

Pizzas are shite. Extremely limited, and there's not much difference between shop bought and restaurant. You'd have to be an utter fool to pay more than £7 for one. I checked Pizza Hut delivery as I had a voucher for money off and fucking lol'd at their prices. How are they in business?

Fwiw I'm not comparing Asda pizzas to fancy sit down places at all, this is a different kettle of fish. It's up against frozen or chilled supermarket pizzas or picking up from your Dominos and Pizza Huts, something to have at home for tea.

Decent sit down restaurant pizza can be had at Princi in London for around £11 which doesn't seem like too much, but going out in London is a fucking pain most of the time.

Surely there are better offerings? I always joke with whoever I'm dining with that we can spot the lower classes quite easily as they always opt for the Pizza.

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Originally Posted by Samadini

Fwiw I'm not comparing Asda pizzas to fancy sit down places at all, this is a different kettle of fish. It's up against frozen or chilled supermarket pizzas or picking up from your Dominos and Pizza Huts, something to have at home for tea.

Decent sit down restaurant pizza can be had at Princi in London for around £11 which doesn't seem like too much, but going out in London is a fucking pain most of the time.

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Fair enough, that makes more sense to me.

For £4 I doubt it.

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Originally Posted by Magic

Surely there are better offerings? I always joke with whoever I'm dining with that we can spot the lower classes quite easily as they always opt for the Pizza.

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Oh yeah the horrors of having to eat in the same establishments as average plebs. I bet you won't even bring your Monocle for fear of a good lynching. If only times were better.

A well-made pizza is great; unfortunately, very few places get it right.

Princi (and thus Sama) knows the score.

That Princi place does look quite nice from the images of the food.

I usually go to this place in Stockholm:
http://panevino.se/

Two interesting pizzas.

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/i...am-pizza-1.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2...b1ecf82bg1.jpg

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Originally Posted by Mazuuurk

That Princi place does look quite nice from the images of the food.

I usually go to this place in Stockholm:
http://panevino.se/

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For a chain restaurant, Vapiano actually does a pretty nice pizza. I went to the one in Gamla Stan opposite the T-bana.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaur...a_England.html

This is the one in Norwich.

Can't go wrong with a wood-fired pizza.

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Originally Posted by Luca

Favcy ones.

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Happens on a phone. A bit like birth/berth mixups, just can't be helped at times.

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Originally Posted by Mazuuurk

What the fuck kind of restaurants do you go to to have that sort of experience?

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I'm not sure what you mean by the top one, but I just don't like those stone baked Italian type pizza bases. The yanks can do pizza base but in this part of the world every restaurant feels the need to copy the stone baked kind and it's just not for me.

Dominos is tasty, but obviously expensive and I'm simply not buying that the deli counter at Asda is that good.

The pizzas from the Tesco one are bang average.

As are the Morrisons ones. Asda or nothing. Your loss if you won't try them.

Oh I'll give them a crack, but I'll do so whilst bracing myself for disappointment.

Make sure you do it right then, start with a stonebaked base, make mozzarella slices one of your toppings, get it beasted in oil, head to the cinema, grab a Tango Ice Blast, get home, turn off all the lights, get FM on the go and only move to piss, shit, or pick up a slice you dropped on the floor.

How long do they keep for? The nearest Asda is miles away from me so I'd have to pick 3 or 4 up for it to be worth the bother.

No idea to be honest, I've only resisted one staring at me in the fridge for a couple of days at most.

In relation to the issue of poncey burgers, I went to one of those Byron burger places today (in Chiswick). It tasted like Burger King.

I used to love the chicken topped stuffed crust asda pizza a few years ago. Came back from a year in Shetland and they'd changed it. It's now a waste of time.

I'm very much into those little pizza express pizzas you can get. I then buy a packet of 200g of cooked chicken breast and pile that (and some extra cheese) on top. Winner winner. Chicken dinner.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

In relation to the issue of poncey burgers, I went to one of those Byron burger places today (in Chiswick). It tasted like Burger King.

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I went to Almost Famous in Manchester, and it was one the worst burgers I've ever had. I thought Five Guys was piss poor as well.

Your hatred of "hipsters" is actually quite funny. The burgers being produced in these places are light years ahead of anything McDonald's does. Seems strange just to hate something different that tastes great for no reason.

@Giggles

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Originally Posted by Adamski

Your hatred of "hipsters" is actually quite funny. The burgers being produced in these places are light years ahead of anything McDonald's does. Seems strange just to hate something different that tastes great for no reason.

@Giggles

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I don't have to miss out though. Like I said above, my local does a great range of burgers without being full of insufferable cunts or the place being full of its own self importance.
It's out at the moment unfortunately as my day for going was Sunday and it's clashing every week with the 'Ireland' rugby games so it's packed with bandwagoners. They'll be out soon enough though hopefully.

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Originally Posted by Luca

For a chain restaurant, Vapiano actually does a pretty nice pizza. I went to the one in Gamla Stan opposite the T-bana.

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Yeah Vapiano isn't half bad. Although that place definitely is a bit more surface than substance, so to say. The olive trees and basil plants and lounge music and shit makes the ambiance quite nice, but the Pizzas are nice but a tad overpriced (much like the beer).

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Originally Posted by Giggles

I'm not sure what you mean by the top one, but I just don't like those stone baked Italian type pizza bases. The yanks can do pizza base but in this part of the world every restaurant feels the need to copy the stone baked kind and it's just not for me.

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If it's one food the Americans can NOT do well, it's Pizza :cab:

They chuck shitloads of bad-quality cheese and these disgusting "pepperoni" slices (of something that I doubt has very much pig in it) on a spongy, too-thick bottom.

I find it almost inconceivable that someone could taste a stone-baked/wood-fired pizza and prefer a typical American oven-cooked one. Genuinely baffling.

I find the base nicer on the American ones I had. You choose the toppings anyway so the base is the main factor for me. And I don't like the stone baked ones. How is that baffling? Do you want it in a different language or something?

Hindi.

It's quite honestly the first time I've heard anyone say that.

The stone bases are too dry and tend to be too floury for me. Nearly a stale consistency. The ones I had in Italy were marginally better than Italian restaurants here, especially when I got a non tomato sauced one. But I'd still have the crisp kind of base the yanks do.

Wait. I thought there was deep pan (shit, thick) or stonebased (thin, delicious).

Are you implying there's multiple types of thin base?!

Giggles I'm confused. I find the American kind of pizza to be thick, doughy, maybe even a tad soggy.

Whereas Stone-oven baked ones will generally be about as crispy as they come.

I got one thick doughy one in the States before in Chicago which was rank, but any other I had in southern states was about 5mm thick, minimal crust, and really light. The stone baked type seems more dry in a cotton-wool type way than dry in a crisp type way to me. I don't know if the doughs are different or if it's all down to the cooking.
The ones I had on Italy and Malta all had near 1½ inches of bare crust round the edge which is off putting enough.

Are these the ones we're talking about?

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webst...f/910000976843

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Got some cheeky Pizza Express ones for a total of £5 because one was reduced. Job done, fuck paying any more than that.

Takeaway pizzas are ridiculously expensive for what is essentially cheese on toast.

Two pound sixty? Absolute madness. That would set me back five or six quid over here.

The ones in Lidl cost 75p and they're just as nice as any standard frozen pizza.

Those ASDA ones aren't frozen.

Not that I've tried them, but there we are.

I know, but I'm not sure it really makes much difference.

Heathen.

I'm possibly with you on that one Hazza.

I'm certainly struggling to understand how those ASDA ones (which look run of the mill) can be so good.

They aren't, they taste like every other pizza.

Isn't it really just Samadini who has cardboard furniture and Lewis who just eats sausages championing them?

Sorry Sama :(

'just eats sausages'

:D

And crisps...

I shudder to think at the state of his bowel.

I just read "State" as "Taste" there and had a pretty horrible mental image.

My internal organs are fine. That could well be in spite of my lifestyle (like how I never got spots when I was younger and fatter), but I am definitely a physical beast.

We're not saying they're the best pizzas in the world ever. I've definitely had better pizzas in restaurants, and probably even from takeaways. The point is that you will struggle to find a better one for three quid (that is readily available, before Luca bores us about Sicilian street food).

On the subject of US pizza, Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge. :drool:

But that Pizza Uno Chicago deep dish stuff though? :nono:

Chicago thin crust is alright, though, in my experience (having had it once).

One of the Asdas near me now does fresh popcorn. Has anybody else spied that in their local branch? You serve it yourself from the machine, and it's two quid for a mega bucket of the stuff (here is a picture some knobhead put on Twitter), which is a quality price if you're sad enough to eat it at home.

That's pretty good.

That's good until you realise that, like Kebabs, there's a time and a place for some foodstuffs.

You don't want popcorn from a machine. You have no idea how often/who changes that shit. Just stick to the boxes you put in a microwave.

Yesterday I had a £9.95!!! pepperoni pizza from Pizza hut (sitting in) and I can absolutely confirm it was definitely not 3x better than an ASDA one, in fact it was exactly the fucking same. 6 small slices, £9.95!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111

I got a stonebaked with bacon, pepperoni, chillies, mushrooms, onions and chorizo with chilli oil for £4.50.

It was damn nice.

When I say I paid for the pizza it was actually expenses. :baz:

Just picked up an Asda Pizza, stone baked, chicken and meatballs on one half, chilli beef and pepperoni on the other, garlic oil.

The nonbelivers are missing out/made a shit pizza.

Might get one tomorrow.

The 'big Asda' in Hull (there are three proper ones and a couple of smaller ones) now has a McGees butcherist counter. Their website says they have them across Northern Irish shops, so maybe it's a trial thing. Whatever. It's pretty swish. They've also got a sign up saying you can pre-order your pizzas via text. I fail to see why anybody would bother, but is that available elsewhere too?

Asda. :cool:

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The 'big Asda' in Hull (there are three proper ones and a couple of smaller ones) now has a McGees butcherist counter. Their website says they have them across Northern Irish shops, so maybe it's a trial thing. Whatever. It's pretty swish. They've also got a sign up saying you can pre-order your pizzas via text. I fail to see why anybody would bother, but is that available elsewhere too?

Asda. :cool:

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Those McGees counters are brilliant. They've some brilliant stuff.

Unfortunately they've binned their deli counter to make way for it, so now if I want to buy haslet I have to buy it pre-packed at twice the price. :moop:

Have they stopped branding them Walmart ASDA or is that just the Birmingham one? That didn't go down well at all when they first put it up.

"Who do they think I am? Some fat American?" said my overweight Aunt.

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I've never seen them branded as 'Walmart Asda'.

The humongous one here had a sign like "ASDA A Walmart company" but now they've just the little Walmart star to the Asda logo instead by the looks of it.

Just noticed Oliver Adams in town are doing large hand-made ones for £3.60

I don't even know where my nearest Asda is. There's one in Feltham but I think ISIS have seized it.

If anyone wants a really poor value pizza, get the Pizza Express branded ones from a supermarket. They're like something Tony Blair conceived in the course of four wanks in an afternoon whilst Cherie was up the duff.

Those are great. I'd never buy them at full price but Tesco pretty often have them for about £2, which is good value.

I'm with Tobes. We always stock up whenever they're on sale. They're great for losing weight too, as they're only about 500 calories for a full one. One of those plus some salad is quite filling.

I'm fully converted to the asda deli pizzas now lads, I won't talk bollocks about mozzarella balls and sourdough ever again. Still think the pizza express supermarket pizzas are shite though, the sauce is properly bitter and cheap tasting.

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I don't even know where my nearest Asda is. There's one in Feltham but I think ISIS have seized it.

If anyone wants a really poor value pizza, get the Pizza Express branded ones from a supermarket. They're like something Tony Blair conceived in the course of four wanks in an afternoon whilst Cherie was up the duff.

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There's one around Clapham Junction I think, or there used to be. London used to be a real wasteland on the ASDA front, I think there were about 3 inside the M25.

I've got one lads.

14" stonebaked with [non-spicy] chicken, ham, red onion, sweetcorn, a bit of extra cheese sprinkled over the top, and garlic oil. :drool: Looking forward to it.

Disappointed by the lack of sausage and/or olives in the selections though. £3.50 though, shouldn't moan.

Just had the Dr Oetker pizza my mate left at mine, it was less shit than I remembered them being. 6/10

There's nothing to those Dr Oetker pizzas. They taste alright for one fifty or whatever they cost but you could eat about six of them and never feel full.

I've wondered about those as, as you say, they always seem to be dirt cheap.

Yeah, pretty sure they've got a tracing paper base.

You've got to ask yourself: what kind of doctor makes pizza?

I decided to pay the extra quid and get six toppings, but it just ruins it. What a disappointment.

A disappointing pizza is one of the most upsetting things there is.

I've just bought 2 Pizza Express pizzas, one is £4.50. On that basis I expected them to be bigger than my fucking fingernail. What an absolute joke. Never again.

Why would you buy them if you thought they were too small for the price, you spazz?

It's the first time I bought them, and it's also hard to tell when it's a thumbnail on online shopping.

The only solace I take is the fact you're probably going to be dying from a migraine shortly.

Oh I've never done online shopping so it didn't cross my mind. Fair enough.

You are a spazz though :wub:

I was going to get some giant deep pan ones but bottled it (because it was two of these pieces of shit for £6 :harold:).

Oh how I am ruing that decision now.

Deep pan pizzas are an abomination.

You're about the eighth person to slag off those Pizza Express pizzas in this thread, but it's your own fault for paying full price given how often they're on offer.

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I've just bought 2 Pizza Express pizzas, one is £4.50. On that basis I expected them to be bigger than my fucking fingernail. What an absolute joke. Never again.

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I was going to get some giant deep pan ones but bottled it (because it was two of these pieces of shit for £6 :harold:).

Oh how I am ruing that decision now.

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Oh hi.

Whinging about the full price of something you've got on offer. He's right to call you a spazz, you know.

That's not the point. The point is at £4.50 individually they should be a whole lot fucking bigger.

They're more than big enough for one person to eat. And I say that as a greedy fucker.

:sick:

Do you want me to upload a photo?

I eat a couple per week, I know how big they are.

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It is. You paid £3 for them, so stop judging them as if they're £4.50.

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It is. You paid £3 for them, so stop judging them as if they're £4.50.

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Are you ill, mate? It isn't about the offer.

They're nice, but they're a bit like those Dr Oetker ones in that the base is like tracing paper. If you're worried about the size just get the Tesco's Finest ones for an extra fifty pence.

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Are you ill, mate? It isn't about the offer.

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I wouldn't pay full price for them, and nor did you, but for £3 each they're perfectly good value.

They're perpetually on offer so the 'full price' is a bit of a lie in the first place. I guess it's lol at you for making any value judgement based upon it.

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Then they should be priced accordingly.

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Then they should be priced accordingly.

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You're basically upset that you've been schooled by Tesco's pricing. You have to be a real pleb to look at how much off the original price something is when judging the value of an offer. It's either worth what you pay or it isn't.

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No I'm upset that a tiny pizza that's shite is priced at £4.50.

They're on offer so much finding them at full price is almost a bad luck promotion.

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It's two for £6 mate. You bought two of them.

They're almost permanently on offer at Tesco. They're either half price (£2.25) or the bigger ones are £3.50 (which are about twice the size). Failing that, they'll be 2 for £6.

Better than any Harold discussion, this.

Fucking hell, can we have Harold back please?

EDIT: Beaten to it.

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It's little wonder his finances are in such a dire state if this is his approach to special offers, so the point needs drilling through.

I've resorted to eating it with a fork and knife to make it last longer. Can see me devouring a large bag of crisps tonight.

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Fucking hell, can we have Harold back please?

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The moment of realisation that with Harold gone you're the biggest div on the board. Savour it.

Magic seems to have broken since Toby mentioned he was the most improved.

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The moment you realise you're dicing with Poster of the Year/Most Improved, as voted for by the people. Fear it.

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It's all Boyd's fault. Since he floated the idea I've fallen to pieces. The potential glory went to my head.

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You'd be taking the title from 7om, and from a starting point of second worst poster, so it's probably best not to gloat too much.

Toby's a main protagonist in pretty much every single one of these discussions. He's the real villain.

Lets vote him worst poster again so he chimps out again.

The size of pizza express pizzas does feel like you're being cheated, but I think pizza is one of those things where the sensible, healthy portion size doesn't really match up with what seems right instinctively.

SvN is probably sponsored by those pizzas. He's like their Subway paedophile bloke.

Hm, SvN has the brand engagement but Magic has the lifestyle. Guess they could pool their talents.

Low calorie, filling, tasty and only £2.25 at Tesco right now.

I often have mine with a salad on the side - why not give it a try?

I got a goodfellas one from the garage and it has 40% of your daily saturated fats in just a quarter of it. They're fucking tiny as well.

He probably has aid(e)s too.

There's a Tesco spinach & ricotta one that is lovely, but I only ever buy it on offer at £1.87, which is pretty good value. The Finest ones are pretty dece(nt) as well.

I think (I will investigate further) that Morrisons might have better create-yer-own pizza. :|

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Sainsburys doesnt. Had one tonight. Shit.

Yeah Sainsburys is the pits.

You get hardly any options and they all taste like cardboard.

Yep, shitty cardboard.

Pizza express ones are ok though.

Went to a place called MOD pizza the other week. It's set prices and basically the SUBWAY of pizza. Not sure if it's a chain but it was pretty dam nice. Didn't sell chips though.

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I wasn't convinced by the one I had. That doesn't tempt me to try asda's own then.

Those pizza express thin pizzas are so far superior to any others that I just don't bother with anything else any more.

Pizza Express pizzas are nice but they're far from the best available. I haven't bought one in a while, does the box still boast about their little cubes of cheese?

I bought one of the hand made Tesco jobs recently.

Quite nice, fucking massive and only two fifty.

Its astounding that a thread about a department store pizza has 4 pages on this forum

Praying Lewis updates us soon. I had a Morrison's pizza a long while back and didn't rate it, but will definitely try it again if the reports are positive, I work right next to the big one in Norwich.

I used to go there for Soreen toasting loaf before Asda started selling it.

UPDATE: Has anyone has the Asda equivalent 'Finest' pizzas? They're a delight.

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Not a fan of stone baked but that top one looks rather good.

Are you having some sort of breakdown Quince?

What makes you say that?

Let's hope it's a breakdown. If not he suffers from truly appalling chat.

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But it's not a breakdown. So....

Is 'chat' a thing?

Is asking whether chat is a word a thing?

Everything's a thing.

Chat sounds like something that happens during a FIFA game and ends up on ladbible though. Lots of innits and boiiiis included of course.

Yes then.

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I have come to the conclusion that Morrisons shade it by being more generous with the tomato sauce. That has become a bit of an issue with my Asda, who seem to spend longer and longer covering the base with less and less, but it may well differ from shop to shop. Either way, we can at least be grateful for a viable alternative - something which the Sainsbury's ones are definitely not. They leave about two inches of crust around the topping, and they cost four quid. lol no thanks dickheads.

Tesco are very generous with the toppings but their base is a genuine disgrace. It's somehow both too crunchy and too chewy, and even on the one that purports not to be 'deep pan' it's about an inch thick.

These are four quid now. Wankers.

Picked up a 14" meat feast in there today :drool:

4 sterling is still good considering a Dominos is about 300 quid.

£10 for 12" in my local takeaway. I'll be grabbing a couple later in the week, probably.

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Picked up a 14" meat feast in there today :drool:

4 sterling is still good considering a Dominos is about 300 quid.

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They're better than Dominos too.

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By far.

:drool:

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I'll be having a Chicago Town takeaway pepperoni soon, buzzing. Might bang some garlic bread and chips in too

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Picked up a 14" meat feast in there today :drool:

4 sterling is still good considering a Dominos is about 300 quid.

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Are Dominos really expensive there too? £18 a pizza here is an abomination.

They're like £7 for the same pizza in Australia. Fucking nuts.

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Are Dominos really expensive there too? £18 a pizza here is an abomination.

They're like £7 for the same pizza in Australia. Fucking nuts.

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Yeah it's brutal. There's usually a deal on but it's always on stuff you don't want anyway.

I remember the Mrs saying the same thing about it in Australia too. Her and her mates couldn't believe how cheap it was there in comparison.

Yeah there often is a deal but its still north of £20 for a pizza and the good sides. Pizza and pakora from the Indian is about half the price for the same quantity.

A Dominos is $8 over here, which is as much as they can possibly be worth.

Just to let the foreigners/wankers know, what Giggles has posted is a particularly - almost uniquely - poor example of what we've been talking about. How he's managed that is beyond me.

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Next time I'm in the UK shopping in getting a few of them and freezing them. If the drawers are big enough.

I spent £18 on a Domino's today. Worth.

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Just to let the foreigners/wankers know, what Giggles has posted is a particularly - almost uniquely - poor example of what we've been talking about. How he's managed that is beyond me.

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Was the only 14" meat feast in the shop.

Even if there's normally more stuff on them, the base still makes it epic.

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All bets are off during a hangover to be fair.

It looks a bit tragic, I have to say.

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D'you have my Snapchat? :D

Mexican Fiesta is niceeeeeeeeee

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D'you have my Snapchat? :D

Mexican Fiesta is niceeeeeeeeee

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He's neither female, 12, or a blogger so I sincerely hope he doesn't.

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D'you have my Snapchat? :D

Mexican Fiesta is niceeeeeeeeee

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No but it's Sunday and you're about 18. Hangover.

Fuck how that pizza looks, I bet it tasted amazing.

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Haha, fair one. Not long until Two for Tuesday :drool:

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Absolutely. Hipster wankers.

https://www.ocado.com/productImages/...8b4f3a79357c49

I even love these bad boys.

So much better than those shit Italian type ones that blowhards love telling us are the only proper pizzas.

Those bases :sick:

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I prefer those Italian type bases to that ASDA sort but each to their own.

Those Italian Stone-baked ones are better I think as well, though I don't mind those frozen pizzas now and then either, just so long as you don't eat any ones that come with meat (because fuck knows what sort of meat that is).

That said, I do appreciate that the bases can sometimes get a little too thick and chewy on those. Quite a lot of places here that attempt it don't seem to pull it off properly. Pizza's supposed to be a bit sort of crispy, IMO.

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Absolutely. Hipster wankers.

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I even love these bad boys.

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Those are brilliant as a midnight snack.

Oh yes, now we're talking.

That's a Pie though, no? Not a pizza.

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Those are brilliant as a midnight snack.

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Sod having that on your stomach at 1am. I once delved into cheddar and red Leicester at 1am. Mentalist. Anyway, the outcome was stomach pains galore for the next hour.

Back to pizzas, the last doninoes i had eas very good. Limited grease, maximum flavour. Better than a Tesco own.

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Sod having that on your stomach at 1am. I once delved into cheddar and red Leicester at 1am. Mentalist. Anyway, the outcome was stomach pains galore for the next hour.

Back to pizzas, the last doninoes i had eas very good. Limited grease, maximum flavour. Better than a Tesco own.

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I've done 2 at 4am once and didn't bat an eyelid.

Red Leicester is perhaps the best thing to come out of the UK ever, by the way.

That with a bit of Branston Pickle on a slice of bread :drool:

Dominoes is better than a ASDA pizza, of course it is. There just fucking expensive so a cost to quality comparison don't add up. If you could pick a Dominoes for 4 quid everyone would pick one up over a fucking ASDA pizza, everyone.

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I've done 2 at 4am once and didn't bat an eyelid.

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Put that as your Tinder profile. :cool:

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Red Leicester is perhaps the best thing to come out of the UK ever, by the way.

That with a bit of Branston Pickle on a slice of bread :drool:

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My friend had a proper hissy fit because that's the only cheese I had In the fridge.

It's so much better than cheddar.

Orange cheese > yellow cheese. That's just common knowedge.

I don't really know any other orange cheeses, so so long as it's Red Leicester, that seems true.

That's not to say Cheddar isn't a piece of glorious food either, though.

White crumbly ftw.

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Agreed. Also, Red Leicester in a burger is pretty good as well.

@leedsrevolution - yep, true dat. Hard to justify the cost.

Not to sound like that guy, but my favourite pizzas are the ones i make from scratch.

Yeah, I googled that. You fucking pervert.

@leedsrevolution

Double Gloucester is also fantastic maz.

Only when melted though. All cheese is shit until it's melted.

I tried a steak and stilton pasty the other day. Tasted like feet. Fucking wrank.

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Only when melted though. All cheese is shit until it's melted.

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Oh yeah think I've tried that actually :thbup:

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Does sound a bit shit.

If you're going to melt cheese, always always...always go up at least one level in the strength scale. Otherwise it tastes of a nothingy goo.

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Get to fuck.

Melted camembert with a french baguette. :drool:

Raclette beats Camembert, just.

Only heathens and children eat unmelted cheese.

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I like how Foe is so wrong regarding so many things.

A bit of brie in a sandwich is great.

Yeah, melted brie.

Only eating melted cheese sounds very much like the sort of thing a child would do.

Isn't orange cheese just white cheese with dye in it?

The Cheeseburger pizza from the Co op is glorious :drool:

I can't imagine what that would even look like.

I want to know.

It's the one with the crusts or the other type? They're both fucking disgusting btw.

My work colleague got an Asda deli pizza today, I'm very jealous. Gonna get one for my dinner tomorrow.

Papa John's. :drool:

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Papa John's. :drool:

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word up. i started trying them out because they're much better value than dominoes (quite easy to get vouchers for £10ish any size pizzas and their XL ones are ridiculous), and i think i just about prefer them now. "the works" is my fave.

Pizza Hut for me.

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I want to know.

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Imagine you have a McDonald's cheeseburger and a pizza base with tomato sauce, you take bites of the burger without swallowing and spew the chewed remains upon the pizza.


It's just mince, gherkins and cheese. It basically tastes like burger relish but for 1.90 it's phenomenonal.

That description :sick:

Gherkins on pizza should get you put on some sort of sex offender list.

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Lads, it's too big for the chopping board.

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...15&oe=5C1FF447

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Frig.

Looks a bit overdone.

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Looks a bit overdone.

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Wash out your whore mouth.

Gas ovens are wank for cooking pizzas. You necessarily have to incinerate at least a bit of it, especially big ones. Looks well within tolerance though.

A bit of brown on the cheese is an absolute necessity for the pizza experience! Giggles, your loyalty is recognised and will be remembered.

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That crust would be too hard for my liking.

I had 2 thirds of it yesterday and didn't need to eat anything else all day except for some toast at 11pm. Pretty sure the chili oil and spicy beef gave me a mild case of the shits, but that didn't stop me from having the other third for my very early lunch just now. I'm "trying to be healthy", and I'm justifying it by telling myself that most weekends I'd have eaten just as much shit by now, but I'd have had about 15 pints as well.

You've made one meal last two days, that's calorie control right there.

You need to clean that cooker top lad.

last night i tried the king prawn and garlic pizza from tesco's finest range. might be because i was about 4 cans down and starving but i thought it was quality. good amount of prawns. 8/10

Not quite what this thread is for, but I made the dirtiest fucking garlic bread you've ever seen last night. Legitimately dripping in butter. Incredible.

Me and my friend once asked the pizza counter at Asda to make us a cheesy garlic bread with about three lots of cheese on. It took about ten feet of kitchen roll to get the grease off it, but it was alright.

14'' with spicy beef, spicy chicken, chili cheese and chili oil for dinner yesterday along with 6 cans of grolsch. Still surprised I didn't shit myself at work.

Have you had a shit yet? That's gonna burn.

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14'' with spicy beef, spicy chicken, chili cheese and chili oil for dinner yesterday along with 6 cans of grolsch. Still surprised I didn't shit myself at work.

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Surprised you didn't shit a hole straight through your bed.

There's a place near me that does a 'chilli special' pizza which is spiced mince, spiced chicken, spiced lamb, jalapenos, chilli flakes, and red onion. It's fantastic, but every shit is an emergency for a day afterwards and any more than about one a month would send you to the doctor.

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Have you had a shit yet? That's gonna burn.

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i think about 80% went straight through me last night, and i was tipsy enough to not really notice. this mornings afterbirth was quite forgiving.

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Surprised you didn't shit a hole straight through your bed.

There's a place near me that does a 'chilli special' pizza which is spiced mince, spiced chicken, spiced lamb, jalapenos, chilli flakes, and red onion. It's fantastic, but every shit is an emergency for a day afterwards and any more than about one a month would send you to the doctor.

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That pizza sounds incredible.

My mate has given up midweek curry. He had a daily 45 minute commute from Chester to Liverpool on a creaky Merseyrail train without a toilet. He had a very hot curry and a few beers, and he had to get off at fucking Port Sunlight or something cus he was so desperate for a shit. No toilet on platform so had to wait for Liverpool anyway, with the extra 10 minute wait for the next train. Bleak.

I live on the wrong side of the city, so haven't been able to have an ASDA pizza for ages. I saw somewhere online that they now do 16" ones that you can sit in and eat for £6. They really are the kings.

Take pictures next time you get one igor.

That's nuts. I wish I lived near an ASDA to capitalise. I'm stuck with these 10-inch Tesco / Pizza Express things.

I'm going to get a Dominos, which should I get?

I can't decide.

Meat feast, or whatever they call their closest thing to a meat feast.

Or, better yet, a Pizza Hut.

I think I can get them to deliver to me as well.

Same recommendation?

Although I do find the meat feast just has too much meat on it.

Ask them for a meat feast pizza, but without the meat.

Mega meaty with a cheesy stuffed crust (I get the hotdog stuffed but I think I'm the only person in the world likes hotdogs).

Now (I'm only going by here) there's nothing wrong with a good Dominoes but I've found a huge difference in how soaking the box is with grease in the two of them, plus they don't do stuffed crusts.

Texan BBQ if not wanting as much meat.

If it has to be a menu choice just go with the pepperoni one off Hut.

Most of those other meats have no place on a pizza.

I like the fact that Pizza Hut bill their menu as "The Legendary Pizza Hut Menu".

:D

I could probably get on board with a hotdog crust though, depending on the consistency of the dog. It essentially becomes two meals at that point though.

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If it has to be a menu choice just go with the pepperoni one of Hut.

Most of those other meats have no place on a pizza.

I like the fact that Pizza Hut bill their menu as "The Legendary Pizza Hut Menu".

:D

I could probably get on board with a hotdog crust though, depending on the consistency of the dog. It essentially become two meals at that point though.

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The best consistency, the very same as the ones you get in a jar.

Needs to be firmer than sludgy, but I'm sure we've had this before.

If it's like the little bits of what appear to be hotdog type meat they put on pizzas then that would be fine.

I had a dominos tonight. First in about a year easy. Half mighty meaty half Catalan chicken. Garlic bread, chicken strippers and wedges.

Went for the Catalan Chicken & Chorizo in the end. We'll see how good it is.

Who orders a pizza at 9pm?

Why wouldn't you?

I've done that after a late shift.

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Someone who hasn't eaten dinner before 9pm.

Don't buy that pizza. It's all grand apart from the sauce, which is shit and very sickly and kinda negates all the goodness of the rest of it to give you something bang average.

Texas BBQ would've been the right answer.

Love them. Enjoy the garlic dip. Life changing.

Anything with BBQ sauce should instantly be binned along with pineapple ofc.

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Anything with BBQ sauce should instantly be binned along with pineapple ofc.

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Why bin the superior sauce?

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Originally Posted by Giggles

Why bin the superior sauce?

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BBQ is horrible (as is ketchup), it's far too sweet.

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Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry

Anything with BBQ sauce should instantly be binned along with pineapple ofc.

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+1

I much prefer Dominos over Pizza Hut, although I don't know if they are the same here as they are over there.

No sauce is better than anything but fuck having something wishy washy over bbq.

BBQ sauce is fucking rank.

I wouldn't say I like it but I tolerate it.

I think whereas even cheap shitty ketchup is still decent, you need to be avoiding the equivalent barbecue sauce and going for a good one.

Ketchup is rank these days. Maybe it always was but it tastes like 90% sugar now. The cheap shitty stuff is especially awful. Take the tomato flavour away and you could put it on cereal.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

I think whereas even cheap shitty ketchup is still decent, you need to be avoiding the equivalent barbecue sauce and going for a good one.

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Yeah I was referring to dominos/mcdonalds/generic cheap BBQ sauce. Good BBQ sauce is like an entirely different thing.

Why would anyone be buying the shit ones?

Suggestions then? I've tried various BBQ sauces and found all of them to be too sweet.

Smokey BBQ? Not that you should be considering any, it's all rank on a pizza.

In Mexico you could get spicy BBQ. :drool:

A couple of BBQ places in St Louis were good too.

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In Mexico you could get spicy BBQ. :drool:

A couple of BBQ places in St Louis were good too.

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The vinegary ones are great but I don't know the region. I make my own mostly but there's a few good ones out there to buy.

I just don't get why sugar needs to be involved.

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I just don't get why sugar needs to be involved.

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You need a small bit for a bit of balance or, better yet, an alternative sweetness instead of sugar but yeah I like them when your eyes water from the tang off it.

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Why would anyone be buying the shit ones?

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Well we were originally talking about dominos BBQ sauce.

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Originally Posted by randomlegend

Well we were originally talking about dominos BBQ sauce.

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And the tomato sauce that's on a Dominoes is top notch stuff?

Brown sauce is king.

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Originally Posted by Baz

Brown sauce is king.

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Fuck off.

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Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry

Suggestions then? I've tried various BBQ sauces and found all of them to be too sweet.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odTIZ3pyqVM

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Originally Posted by Giggles

And the tomato sauce that's on a Dominoes is top notch stuff?

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Jaysus, the point being made was:

Cheap tomato-based sauces - perfectly passable, obviously nice ones are better.
Cheap BBQ sauces - fucking disgusting, nice ones are like a totally different thing.

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Jaysus, the point being made was:

Cheap tomato-based sauces - perfectly passable, obviously nice ones are better.
Cheap BBQ sauces - fucking disgusting, nice ones are like a totally different thing.

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They're not perfectly passable though. No more than a bad BBQ sauce, or most other sauces for that matter.

I've binned 2am pizzas before full of drink too, when I'd eat a dog's arse, because of the sauce.

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They're not perfectly passable though.

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That's fine, agree to disagree.

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Originally Posted by Shindig

That's nuts. I wish I lived near an ASDA to capitalise. I'm stuck with these 10-inch Tesco / Pizza Express things.

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The posh tesco ones are decent. I think I prefer the asda deli grossouts but the 4.50 ponce range are a decent backup

I moved onto Asda pizzas from Dominos but the latter’s Catalan Chicken (jalapeño added instead of onion) is the greatest pizza I’ve ever had. They’ve reeled me back in.

GAMEDIS1 for 25% off if fancy getting moist with me

I bought one of these the other day because it was reduced, and it was seriously good for something out the fridge. Probably worth the full price.

Yeah the one I had didn't have those toppings but it was really decent.

Sainsburys do similar ones for about the same price that are also good.

Tesco's effort is alright. I wish they'd get back into the chicken and bacon ones, though.

Co-op are very good at bready stuff. They've actually come a long way in ten years in all aspects. Sainsbury's doesn't excel in anything and needs to end.

Sainsbury's do a white farmhouse loaf that if you get them to thick slice it is quality for a couple of days. Their individual little ones are shit, and they seem to have fallen into the sourdough wanker trap with their baguettes and that; but they don it on the sweet side of the bakery. Their donuts are the best, and so are their cookies, so let's not write them off.

Asda are the absolute pits on the bakery side of things. Their fresh bread is all crap (their baguettes are almost perfect cylinders and full of air), and all of their biscuits and buns are bollocks as well. Co-op are good, especially their baguettes and that four for a quid bread offer they have; but their donuts have nothing in them and the rest of the range is a bit iffy. Lidl make shit bread but their buns are quality. Big Tescos do some very good ponce loaves, like the cheese ones and whatever, but the rest of their selection is Asda-level crap.

Morrisons might be the best all-rounder, and they do all sausage rolls and pies and that which would win it if you want to include them.

Tesco do decent cookies.

If anything from Dominos is the best you've ever had then you haven't had enough. Aside from their garlic dip they don't do anything that's better than a 7/10.

Naw, it’s the best takeaway pizza there is. Trust.

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Tesco do decent cookies.

If anything from Dominos is the best you've ever had then you haven't had enough. Aside from their garlic dip they don't do anything that's better than a 7/10.

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This. The dip is so good it’s the only thing makes their existence worthwhile.

I wish they'd sell the dip in supermarkets the way Nando's does with their sauces.

I can't imagine what a sheltered life you'd need to live to believe that Domino's is the best pizza out there.

'Sorry? Five-hundred calories *per slice*?'

Sainsbury's does have a decent bakery, Lew, you're right. Those cookies were lethal. Also, @Boydy, Sainsbury's did a garlic and herb dip that was pretty good. I haven't had Domino's for a long time, but I was pretty happy with it.

HOWEVER, when it comes to onion and garlic dip, by far the best dip, Co-op has the best and if you're going to buy a pizza you might as well just buy that onion and garlic dip and live like a king.

Them white chocolate and raspberry ones. You could do a bag of them a day if you let yourself slide.

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I bought one of these the other day because it was reduced, and it was seriously good for something out the fridge. Probably worth the full price.

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That's not my favourite but that range of pizzas is excellent.

Usually wait for the ones going out of date that day for half the price of course.

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Originally Posted by SvN

I can't imagine what a sheltered life you'd need to live to believe that Domino's is the best pizza out there.

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He orders Milk at a Pub.

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Originally Posted by phonics

He orders Milk at a Pub.

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It was Waff that said Domino's is the best pizza.

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Originally Posted by SvN

I can't imagine what a sheltered life you'd need to live to believe that Domino's is the best pizza out there.

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Don’t bother with these heathens, SvN

I’d forgotten about Sainsbury’s donuts. So good.

Morrison’s do some great chocolate and honeycombe cookies. I always liked Asda’s barely cooked white chocolate cookies though, the others were rough.

Morrison’s spicy chicken thin pizza. £2 and great.

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I can't imagine what a sheltered life you'd need to live to believe that Domino's is the best pizza out there.

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Apache is miles better. There’s even about four in Aldi are better.

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Originally Posted by Luca

Don’t bother with these heathens, SvN

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In fairness it’s still better than a bad ciabatta with fuck all on it.

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Originally Posted by SvN

I can't imagine what a sheltered life you'd need to live to believe that Domino's is the best pizza out there.

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Well it’s better than Pizza Hut and shop bought stuff. What else would you deem as takeaway?

I wasn’t including abroad or in a restaurant in the original statement.

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In fairness it’s still better than a bad ciabatta with fuck all on it.

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Lolled at that NGL.

You're still a pleb though.

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Originally Posted by Foe

I’d forgotten about Sainsbury’s donuts. So good.

Morrison’s do some great chocolate and honeycombe cookies. I always liked Asda’s barely cooked white chocolate cookies though, the others were rough.

Morrison’s spicy chicken thin pizza. £2 and great.

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The Co-op in Norwich station used to put the cookies on top of the heated sausage roll/sandwich cabinet, which melted them all up perfectly for your train ride. I think the reason I said the rest of their range is a 'bit iffy' is that buying them from anywhere else feels like a disappointment.

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lolled at that ngl.

You're still a pleb though.

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ngl?

Not Gonna Lie

Ah. Kids these days.

Ok boomer.

Alright Boydy.

Take your L.

Anyone know if the pizza bit in Asda is open as normal?

All the supermarket 'deli counters' are closed, I believe.

Fuck sake. That’s tonight RUINED.

I've seen them open here and in Hull. Believe.

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I've seen them open here and in Hull. Believe.

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was open. Cheers!

Had a Pizza Hut 'the meaty one' today. It was absolutely horrendous. Bland, tasteless and not worth the money.

Stereotypical takeaway pizza is generally dogshit.

Need to switch it to bbq sauce and get hot dog crust.

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Originally Posted by Giggles

Need to switch it to bbq sauce and get hot dog crust.

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That's an interesting point because I did think the tomato base was contributing to the overall shitness of it all.

Not sure about a lips and arseholes crust though.

Hot Dog crusts are an abomination.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

That's an interesting point because I did think the tomato base was contributing to the overall shitness of it all.

Not sure about a lips and arseholes crust though.

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That’s what’ll be in the pepperoni anyway so might as well go all-in.

I mean, the pepper makes a world of difference.

Surely a cheese stuff crust pizza is the way to go. I rate this one from the co-op.

https://appyshop.co.uk/product-image...0128581059.jpg

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

Hot Dog crusts are an abomination.

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As is BBQ base pizzas.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

Surely a cheese stuff crust pizza is the way to go. I rate this one from the co-op.

https://appyshop.co.uk/product-image...0128581059.jpg

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I was going to say that’s the other option, which is also good.

Ignore Mahow.

Sorry to be that guy, but an authentic homemade pizza easily surpasses a take away pizza.

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Originally Posted by Giggles

Need to switch it to bbq sauce and get hot dog crust.

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This explains a lot.

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

Hot Dog crusts are an abomination.

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I thought this, but then had one from Iceland on one of their frozen jobs (I think it was a bit of an odd new york thing with mustard on the actual pizza) but the crust was top tier. Really thought it was going to be awful mush but no.

BBQ base is a big no no, mind.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

Sorry to be that guy, but an authentic homemade pizza easily surpasses a take away pizza.

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Make away, so long as it’s not italian style. Dry floury muck.

Barbecue sauce on pizza sounds horrible. I can understand other forms of pizza-based innovation (thicker crusts, all manner of shit cheese, chicken, beef), but this one always struck me as odd. A cheesy pizza dough with processed chicken just...doesn't seem like a good vessel for barbecue sauce?

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Originally Posted by Giggles

Make away, so long as it’s not italian style. Dry floury muck.

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I'm going to need some clarification here. What's the difference with Italian style homemade as appose to a standard homemade?

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Originally Posted by niko_cee

I thought this, but then had one from Iceland on one of their frozen jobs (I think it was a bit of an odd new york thing with mustard on the actual pizza) but the crust was top tier. Really thought it was going to be awful mush but no.

BBQ base is a big no no, mind.

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Iceland is top drawer. Proper decent, patriotic, hard-working supermarket.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

I'm going to need some clarification here. What's the difference with Italian style homemade as appose to a standard homemade?

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Don’t make a rubbery base, don’t dose it in flour, and don’t stop the sauce 2 inches from the edge.

My wife has started making pizza at home. First one was good but not great, but last night we had the third iteration and it was so good. :drool:

All of this caused by our pizza guy going on vacation. Supposed to be back mid-July, but he is nowhere to be seen.

This is what happens when you let the staff take holidays, Pep.

You're too benevolent an overloard.

Your pizza guy?

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Originally Posted by Pepe

My wife has started making pizza at home. First one was good but not great, but last night we had the third iteration and it was so good. :drool:

All of this caused by our pizza guy going on vacation. Supposed to be back mid-July, but he is nowhere to be seen.

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He's deaded.

What is this world coming to when a Mexican can afford a "pizza guy"?

Build the wall.

Growing up there was a pop man and a tea man. I'd imagine this is just that except it's the same guy from Dominos.

The lad that owns the best pizza shop in town. Everyone hates him because he is rude as hell, but he makes crazy good pizza. Charges $30 for it, but it is totally worth it. After he went on holiday I ordered from one of the other places and it was simply atrocious. Never again.

That is too much for pizza.

So he's basically the soup guy from Seinfeld.

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Originally Posted by Ian

That is too much for pizza.

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It is, but it is pretty much the only place around here that does good food, so I suck it up and pay up.

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Originally Posted by Disco

So he's basically the soup guy from Seinfeld.

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Pretty much. Friend of ours once called to order a pizza, but dared asking if they could make x pizza without y ingredient. His answer was a swift no followed by hanging up the phone.

I have to have this pizza.

Picture next time you get one Pepe?

I feel like that angry Scottish pizza guy from years ago might have relocated.

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Originally Posted by Pepe

Pretty much. Friend of ours once called to order a pizza, but dared asking if they could make x pizza without y ingredient. His answer was a swift no followed by hanging up the phone.

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:harold: What a pretentious cunt.

Look, there's a menu for a reason.

Is he Italian?

Pizzas over here are often bigger than a large dominos for example which probably accounts for some of the cost. Remember we have to tip here too, I never tipped in the UK for pizza.

Spoilt for choice for pizza in NY but this bad boy is my favourite. Roni cups and hot honey which is also over $30 with tip but it's comfortably feeding 4 people.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Aq8X...ce_Shop_23.jpg

I vaguely remember Dominoes doing a tabasco crust which was immense but blew my arse out for hours after.

Had a pizza from a place near my mother in law's the other night which was confusing as, despite it being nice enough, they had a weird fluffy bread base instead of the standard doughy ones - and they were using what appeared to be bargain hotdogs as toppings.

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Picture next time you get one Pepe?

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Sure, if he ever comes back.

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Originally Posted by Boydy

Is he Italian?

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Nah, an All-American classic. Well, he might claim to be Italian, like half of Americans do. I don't know.

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Originally Posted by Josh

Pizzas over here are often bigger than a large dominos for example which probably accounts for some of the cost.

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Good point. My wife and I order one pizza and mozarella sticks and get two dinners out of it.

Oh yes, he also burns the crust quite often (it's still good, but yeah, definitely burnt), but he has signs all over the place saying "we cook our pizzas well done" and gets into internet flame wars with customers over it. :harold:

Have a night in. Grab some Asda pizza. Watch Villa :rave:

I’m back in the US for a month. Time for some Dominosssss

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Originally Posted by Luca

Barbecue sauce on pizza sounds horrible. I can understand other forms of pizza-based innovation (thicker crusts, all manner of shit cheese, chicken, beef), but this one always struck me as odd. A cheesy pizza dough with processed chicken just...doesn't seem like a good vessel for barbecue sauce?

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Sure enough, I was at my girlfriend's parents' house for dinner and they ordered pizza with barbecue sauce drizzled on top (and chicken :nono:). It was predictably bad.

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Originally Posted by Pepe

Oh yes, he also burns the crust quite often (it's still good, but yeah, definitely burnt), but he has signs all over the place saying "we cook our pizzas well done" and gets into internet flame wars with customers over it. :harold:

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Over priced, burnt pizza from a pretentious cunt. I can see why you go there.

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Originally Posted by Luca

Sure enough, I was at my girlfriend's parents' house for dinner and they ordered pizza with barbecue sauce drizzled on top (and chicken :nono:). It was predictably bad.

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Chicken does not belong on pizza. As for barbecue sauce, I don't even know what to say. Horrendous combination.

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

Over priced, burnt pizza from a pretentious cunt. I can see why you go there.

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:D

It is delicious pizza. You'll have to trust me on this one. Also, the lad is really nice to me. He even gives me "buddy price".

Chicken doesn’t belong on pizza?

New lows, even for tth :face:

I'd extend that to pasta as well.

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Originally Posted by niko_cee

I'd extend that to pasta as well.

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I think the Italians may disagree with you on that one.

No, they don't.

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Originally Posted by Kikó

No, they don't.

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Pollo Milanese.

True, although veal is better and I wouldn't consider that a chicken pasta dish per se, it's breaded item with pasta on the side.

Just cause Franco and Alessi have it doesn't make your conduct acceptable, you disgusting meat-eating creatures.

Animals taste nicer than their food.

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Originally Posted by Don

Just cause Franco and Alessi have it doesn't make your conduct acceptable, you disgusting meat-eating creatures.

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Are you veggie? vegan?

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Originally Posted by niko_cee

True, although veal is better and I wouldn't consider that a chicken pasta dish per se, it's breaded item with pasta on the side.

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Yep. It's not chicken pieces with pasta. It's an accompaniment.

Beef/lamb in a ragu is the way.

Course not, I'm not a dickhead mate. Once, maybe twice a week. Certainly not on a pizza though, you heathens.

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Originally Posted by Don

Course not, I'm not a dickhead mate. Once, maybe twice a week. Certainly not on a pizza though, you heathens.

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So you're not a dickhead if the meat touches the plate, but you are a dickhead if the meat touches cooked flatbread. Understood.

Cured pork products are the only really acceptable meats on a pizza, so I can see where Taz's ire is coming from, being denied such godly options.

I'll be fucked if I'm wasting my quota of carcinogens on dirty pig meat.

They love the swine life

I know I had you all down as fairly odd but the last few days are next level. I expect declarations of social norms from the likes of kiko but everyone else have a good long think about yourselves.

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Originally Posted by niko_cee

Cured pork products are the only really acceptable meats on a pizza, so I can see where Taz's ire is coming from, being denied such godly options.

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Struggling to think of an exception to this. Each to their own and all but putting chicken (or beef for that matter) on a pizza is the worst way of using it.

You sound like the sort of nonces who won't eat certain things in the morning because they aren't 'breakfast food'. Chicken is nice. It is nice on pizza. Fuck the Italians and their poverty meats.

Blue cheese, chicken tikka and a segment of Terry's chocolate orange (softened, but not melted). That will send Italy back into lockdown.

Lewis has it right and I don't understand the "no chicken on pizza" thing. It's not what I tend to go for but if it's there then fine.

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Originally Posted by Giggles

I know I had you all down as fairly odd but the last few days are next level. I expect declarations of social norms from the likes of kiko but everyone else have a good long think about yourselves.

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The question was whether Italians eat chicken in pasta. They don't.

And you've got some fucking cheek with your hotdogs and bbq sauce on pizza. Absolute dogshit.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

You sound like the sort of nonces who won't eat certain things in the morning because they aren't 'breakfast food'. Chicken is nice. It is nice on pizza. Fuck the Italians and their poverty meats.

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prosciutto > bernard matthews turkey bits.

Depends on the context.

Not sure either are that great on pizza.

Sausage is the king of foods.

It somehow manages to excel itself when on a piza.

I love how wanky Italians are about their food. You're chucking tomato sauce on pasta and dough lads. Calm down.

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Originally Posted by Baz

Sausage is the king of foods.

It somehow manages to excel itself when on a pizza.

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Especially when paired with chicken.

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Originally Posted by Kikó

The question was whether Italians eat chicken in pasta. They don't.

And you've got some fucking cheek with your hotdogs and bbq sauce on pizza. Absolute dogshit.

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It’s nice, I like it. Someone else may like it too. I’m not proclaiming it necessary.

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I know I had you all down as fairly odd but the last few days are next level. I expect declarations of social norms from the likes of kiko but everyone else have a good long think about yourselves.

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Do you still think the only reason people eat spaghetti is to show off?

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Do you still think the only reason people eat spaghetti is to show off?

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Change the record or go back and try that again.

My point back then is exactly the same as my point now.
“Oh you simply can only have spaghetti with bolognese”.
Not you can have whatever the fuck you like with it, fuck off.

And I mean exactly the same point. Some of you are such weirdos with this ‘correct foods’ thing.



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Originally Posted by Giggles

Change the record or go back and try that again.

My point back then is exactly the same as my point now.
“Oh you simply can only have spaghetti with bolognese”.
Not you can have whatever the fuck you like with it, fuck off.

And I mean exactly the same point. Some of you are such weirdos with this ‘correct foods’ thing.



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Nope, it's close to the opposite point. You said only a show off would eat 'long pasta' when less messy options are available.

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Nope, it's close to the opposite point. You said only a show off would eat 'long pasta' when less messy options are available.

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Exactly the same point wee pippins.

I know, because I made both of them.

Actually, spaghetti is a bad choice to pair with bolognese, and there’s a more-or-less non-wank reason for it. Something longer and flatter (like tagliatelle or fettuccine) or with ridges (like penne rigate) helps the sauce stick better so you get more sauce per bite and aren’t left with a load of it at the bottom after.

Listen, I'll have it out with any of you cunts if you want to go some what with my superior energy levels and harder erections.

TTH's Hardest Erection needs making.

Small objects are usually more rigid.

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Actually, spaghetti is a bad choice to pair with bolognese, and there’s a more-or-less non-wank reason for it. Something longer and flatter (like tagliatelle or fettuccine) or with ridges (like penne rigate) helps the sauce stick better so you get more sauce per bite and aren’t left with a load of it at the bottom after.

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:D

Knew someone would chime in with this as soon as is saw Giggles post.

Preferably something easier managed for me seeing as they all taste the same anyway. The big shell ones pick up loads and can be stabbed with a fork.

Chicken pasta is awesome. Chicken on pizza is fine but usually the chicken gets dried out that way

I once had a cheeseburger pizza in the U S of A. It was alright.

I think the most versatile food is a chicken dipper and I'd happily eat that on a pizza.

One of my previous homemade attempts using the Ooni.

https://i.ibb.co/2PRr7pB/20200517-172107.jpg

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Originally Posted by Kikó

prosciutto > bernard matthews turkey bits.

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Yes but British (including Ireland) pork products > dago pork products. So you can see why their moody fat ham isn't a massive enticement.

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Originally Posted by Dquincy

One of my previous homemade attempts using the Ooni.

https://i.ibb.co/2PRr7pB/20200517-172107.jpg

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That looks great.

Is that pineapple? :harold:

I was waiting for that :D

Cannot go unsaid.

Yellow pepper no?

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Originally Posted by niko_cee

Yellow pepper no?

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Looks like it to me yeah.

Looks like yellow bell pepper, yes. Nothing like pineapple.

I thought yellow pepper. If it is pineapple then I retract my original statement.

Autism levels in this thread are frightening.

Pineapple on a pizza is fine.

I need to try pineapple on Pizza. I’m not sure I’ve ever had it but it can’t be that offensive is it?

It’s perfectly fine if there’s nothing else on offer, good in fact.

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Originally Posted by Lewis

Yes but British (including Ireland) pork products > dago pork products. So you can see why their moody fat ham isn't a massive enticement.

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Agree with the first bit. 👍

It's horseshit and doesn't belong.

Pineapple is great on pizza. I've had banana on pizza which was a bit much but to each their own

Fuck off with that.

I think Spain do the worst pork products. Which is pretty funny when it's all they have.

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

I think Spain do the worst pork products. Which is pretty funny when it's all they have.

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What exactly is this grand British ham that's gripped everyone in this thread? The best pork products I can think of are prosciutto, chorizo and black forest ham (in that order), none of which are British and all of which have been seemingly denounced by people with no taste

Chorizo is salty, gristley shite.

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That looks great.

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Thanks. I recommend the Ooni, makes a decent pizza.

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Is that pineapple? :harold:

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Hell no. It's a yellow bell pepper with caramelised red onion, mozzarella and pepperoni (or salami).

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

Chorizo is salty, gristley shite.

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I like it if you cook the bollocks out of it and melt all the gristle out of it. Crispy chorizo :drool:

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Originally Posted by Giggles

I like it if you cook the bollocks out of it and melt all the gristle out of it. Crispy chorizo :drool:

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I can stomach it, but it's still too salty for me. It doesn't help that I'm not a massive fan of Paprika.

Chorizo is a top tier pork product for me.

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

I can stomach it, but it's still too salty for me. It doesn't help that I'm not a massive fan of Paprika.

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Still wouldn’t be a patch on proper pork/ham stuff like Lewis said but I do like paprika so it’s worth a go the odd time.

Crisping up any of those mainly fat/gristle southern european meats elevates them.

I'm struggling to think of a pork product that I don't like.

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Taz’s pork sword.

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Can't say I've tried it, I'd imagine it wouldn't be very filling or satisfying though.

For a start we're the only countries that don't eat shit bacon cuts as standard.

And we don't fry it until it snaps.

I prefer crispy streaky bacon tbh.

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Good man.

American bacon is a war crime.

Anyone trying to do a "British" (and bottom Ireland) breakfast in a hotel commits war crimes.

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Hang on a second here.

Their belota or paleta or whatever it is called is god level stuff.

Some cunt married a Spanish rich gyal who had laid out some jamon iberico (? Basically a leg of ham that some poor sod was cutting into wafer thin slices) at the wedding. Let me tell you, for that one hour you wouldn't know I was a superior human being to you all, the way I went back for more and more :drool:

Jamon serrano is legit. Mexican chorizo shits all over any other type of chorizo.

Wait, yeah, I'm with mokkers here. While British pigs are glorious, what British pork products are superior to what they do on the continent? British bacon is...fine? Breakfast sausages are...fine? Everyone and their mum has done a version of black pudding from time immemorial...I'm struggling here.

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Some cunt married a Spanish rich gyal who had laid out some jamon iberico (? Basically a leg of ham that some poor sod was cutting into wafer thin slices) at the wedding. Let me tell you, for that one hour you wouldn't know I was a superior human being to you all, the way I went back for more and more :drool:

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Astagfirallah. But the infidel's temptation is strong and it is sweet (er...salty).

Our sausages are superior because we don't hang them in a shed for a month. That said, Ireland does the best Sausages.

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Pollo Milanese.

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Coming back to this, this is never actually served with pasta on the side in Italy. Fries or a salad maybe, but never pasta. Cotoletta alla milanese (which is usually pork but sometimes done with chicken) is a secondo and pasta is a primo - you rarely serve those together.

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One of my previous homemade attempts using the Ooni.

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This looks wonderful. I've been thinking of the Ooni for a while now - do you need loads of space?

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Astagfirallah. But the infidel's temptation is strong and it is sweet (er...salty).

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Just watching a piece on the news about Brits and their obesity. These people have got to be the most clueless, tasteless, impoverished people in the world when it comes to topic of food. Let them have their sausages :face:

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Just watching a piece on the news about Brits and their obesity. These people have got to be the most clueless, tasteless, impoverished people in the world when it comes to topic of food. Let them have their sausages :face:

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Oh, Taz. I had a Joojeh/Koobideh combo plate the other day that I would give up all of my deeply-held Western values for. Where do I sign to join the Axis of Evil?

Sez that lot, who had to start wiping their arses with their hands to give their sand curry a bit of flavour.

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They're really good. The heat output is probably marginally less than a traditional brick built oven, which my bro has. But it's negligible and the brick ovens take a good hour to get up to the required temp, where as the Ooni takes about 15 minutes. Plus the Ooni is fairly compact - photo below - and the feet fold away, etc so you could take it on holiday with you if you were going camping.

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I want to see what Taz eats in a typical week.

I feel like a normal oven could cook that.

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It's always been a bit of a tribal affair since I've had to fend for myself but particularly now with the COVID effects on my senses pushing me ever further away from acceptable social norms.

1pm - Don's Trademark Greek Yoghurt Special Bowl (see previous conversations for details)

8pm - Enough pasta to feed a family of 4.

9pm - Fruit plate equivalent to what must be about 10 fruit portions.

Ultimately, the fundamental theory is simple; keep it natural. Anything with an ingredient a child can't identify can be regarded as toxic. I think my chilli sauces with their Xanthan Gums and what not are the only notable exception but even they're being phased out. Lemon juice and herbs for flavouring.

It's less cultured than a stag-do in Benidorm and I'm fully aware the world isn't ready for it yet but let me tell you, I'm OD-ing off the endorphin hit like it's a Big Mac meal and the energy and after-effects of it all is not up for debate. L337 bodyhacking.

Got a work colleague who shipped a pizza oven from Italy along with regular shipments of flour. Man is really at the forefront of hipster innovation so jump on now before it becomes the new fondue.

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A normal oven cannot get to the high temperatures (circa 450c) that a pizza oven will. Plus you don't get the woodfire flavour.

I have done them in the oven before and they're ok, but nowhere near as good.

I'm sure they're good and all, but those pizza ovens always look a right faff to me. Small pizzas, having them probably stick to the peel as you try to put them in, one at a time cooking even if it's rapid. No thanks. A conventional oven dialled up to 11 still makes a good pizza and can be done indoors.

Yeah, I won't lie, it is a bit of a faff. But I like it.

Build your own.

That slating of Spanish pork products on the last page is NOT acceptable. They are far better than our shite.

Sorry Jimmy Corbyn.

Jimmy's in the pocket of Big Spanish Sausage.

This is no time for gay jokes.

Follow the money.

God forbid that one's pork should taste of something rather than just having the name of a non-first-class county shoved in front of it and be dipped in baked bean sauce.

Well I don't want to steam in with my radical ideas here but I actually like pork products from more than one country.

Traitor.

My issue is more with cured meats in general, than Spains attempts at it. It's just that they compound the issue by adding Paprika to it.

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I'm sure they're good and all, but those pizza ovens always look a right faff to me. Small pizzas, having them probably stick to the peel as you try to put them in, one at a time cooking even if it's rapid. No thanks. A conventional oven dialled up to 11 still makes a good pizza and can be done indoors.

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We make pizzas in the home oven quite a bit. Mate has just bought a pizza oven second hand off one of the companies that does pizzas at food festivals and stuff. We went round for one the other night and there's really no contest, they are so much better.

Once the wedding is done and I actually have some money again I'll get one I think.

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This is why you lost to me in the final. You need to hate things and you need to hate them for arbitrary reasons.

*Takes notes*

Is "Because it's not the thing I like!" reason enough?

There's no such thing as an opinion, only facts, and too often other people get their facts wrong. Make sure you remember that and be as aggressive as possible when reinforcing it, especially when it comes to important topics like ham and sausages.

You should start a cult Jimmy. I believe 20% of income is the accepted norm for cult membership.

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There's no such thing as an opinion, only facts, and too often other people get their facts wrong. Make sure you remember that and be as aggressive as possible when reinforcing it, especially when it comes to important topics like ham and sausages.

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We make pizzas in the home oven quite a bit. Mate has just bought a pizza oven second hand off one of the companies that does pizzas at food festivals and stuff. We went round for one the other night and there's really no contest, they are so much better.

Once the wedding is done and I actually have some money again I'll get one I think.

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I don't doubt it but where is this commercial oven living, how easy/affordable is it to run and, if it's outside, what do you do when you want a pizza during the 11 months of the year it's cold and raining?

Sure, build your house around one if you get the chance, but fuck having to build a(nother) kitchen outside.

Just 1 month where it's acceptable to cook outside? :saywhat: Madness.

It takes about 60 seconds to cook a pizza once the pizza oven is upto temperature. No great hardship really.

He lives on some French island in the shadow of Jersey. They don't see the sun.

Don't get me started on Jers-'the sunniest place in the british isles'-ey with their fucking measuring chicanery.

But yeah, whatever, I still want to eat pizza between October and March, I don't want to have to go outside to do it.

I must admit, I'd need some convincing on the merits of spending hundreds of pounds on a pizza oven to sit outside in the English rain for most of the year while I have a perfectly functioning oven in the kitchen already.

You could say the same for Barbecues.

How does the price compare? I can buy a disposable barbecue for a fiver or get a kettle for about €35.

Cooking pizza at 450-500c makes a world of difference vs. a conventional oven. Where I’m waffling a bit is along the lines of the first part of Yev’s post. Am I going to want to eat enough pizza to justify the price, given Canada’s allotment of 3 weeks of summer?

Ah, fuck, the answer is probably yes.

@Dquincy is the opening big enough to fit a pan or cast-iron skillet? If it’s multi-purpose I could be further tempted.

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My Dad built a housing for his barbecue so we could have them any time of the year. It was glorious.

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My wife has an Aussie uncle and he's done the same. Well, it's more like the little beach bars you get in the Caribbean. Or a fuck off shed with 2 giant open windows.

Anyway, It's a brilliant set up. He has a grill like you see in Kebab shops, a smoker, 2 fridges full of beer and optics on the wall.

Covid ruining our annual Summer Barbecue round there is one of the great tragedies of our time.

He needs a few kegs.

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My wife has an Aussie uncle and he's done the same. Well, it's more like the little beach bars you get in the Caribbean. Or a fuck off shed with 2 giant open windows.

Anyway, It's a brilliant set up. He has a grill like you see in Kebab shops, a smoker, 2 fridges full of beer and optics on the wall.

Covid ruining our annual Summer Barbecue round there is one of the great tragedies of our time.

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My dream is to build a timber frame pool (table) room in my garden, complete with fuck off tv and bar.

Anyway pizza snobs, talk to me about sauce. I find it hard to get it to the right consistency without just cooking it for ages, which seems like it might not necessarily be the best idea.

Use BBQ.

Disgusting.

BBQ's fine with chicken.

I just use tomato puree.

Ketchup would work.

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Anyway pizza snobs, talk to me about sauce. I find it hard to get it to the right consistency without just cooking it for ages, which seems like it might not necessarily be the best idea.

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Cooking it is the wrong approach. Fresh, skinless, crushed tomatoes from a jar/can is the right approach.

Tried that, watery as fuck. What process do you have to put them through to remove the excess moisture? I want a smooth, thick(ish) sauce. Even draining them of what they are in and mushing them up doesn't really seem to work (and often the run off ends up being about the same consistency as the mushed stuff :cab: ).

These are the tomatoes I have been using (I'll spoiler it as the image is bigger than the can):

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Can't you strain the tomatoes?

They’re plum aren’t they?

Either way though, blitz them.

Yeah, if they're the pelati (full tomatoes in liquid), blitzing them should be good. You also might be overestimating the amount of sauce you need as well - a half cup is plenty for a normal sized pizza.

If you truly want a thicker sauce, cook the blitzed mixture down over medium-low heat for 30m-1h - this will remove some of the moisture.

Tomato. Puree.

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Cooking pizza at 450-500c makes a world of difference vs. a conventional oven. Where I’m waffling a bit is along the lines of the first part of Yev’s post. Am I going to want to eat enough pizza to justify the price, given Canada’s allotment of 3 weeks of summer?

Ah, fuck, the answer is probably yes.

@Dquincy is the opening big enough to fit a pan or cast-iron skillet? If it’s multi-purpose I could be further tempted.

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You could fit a pan in it, just not a large one. But there are plenty of non-pizza recipes which the Ooni can do such, such as lamb cutlets, steaks, etc. But anything that needs cooking time over say 10 mins, I'd recommend getting the gas appliance.

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Yeah, Niko, the Mutti Passata is a good option if you don't want to go through the effort described above.

A different name for everything and making sure to use it :lol:

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I mean, I’m just referencing the brand he’s familiar with and what it’s likely to say on the tin.

I feel using pre-made passata is defeatist.

Or would that be more authentic? :henn0rz:

Nah, authentically the sauce is never cooked, but in a pinch passata works just fine and gets at the consistency you’re after.

But like I said, with crushed tomatoes you probably just want to use less than you think you need. Doesn’t need to be overflowing. 100-120g (half a cup) should do. If you’re blitzing the pelati I’d put the whole tomatoes in and about 1/3 of the liquid, then use the rest of the liquid to adjust the consistency vs. blitzing the whole thing at once.

I bought a big tin of San Marzano tomatoes in juice, blited the whole tin with some salt and basil and froze it into portions. It's great.

Passata is different from puree, no?

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Yes, tomato puree is MUCH more concentrated.

Mine is. Puree is concentrated tomato sauce, Passata is plain tomato sauce.

Yeah so puree as a pizza sauce is mental and Giggles is wrong about "a different word for everything".

It's fine. You just use a light covering. In most recipes I've seen they just mix it with olive oil.

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Eh, it depends on where you are. Usually they're interchangeable, but some people call tomato paste (highly concentrated) "puree," and that's obviously a different thing.

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Yeah so puree as a pizza sauce is mental and Giggles is wrong about "a different word for everything".

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Anyway. Passata is passata, purée is purée, paste is purée.

Just buy the Morrison’s spicy chicken pizza for £2 and be done with it. Dip it in ketchup for extra points.

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Ranch, my man. You people are in the stone age

Ranch is just creamy vomit.

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Garlic sauce.

Dipping pizza in sauce :nono:

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That's the one. I've said it before but I'll say it again - Domino's should sell bottles of their garlic and herb dip in shops.

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That's the one. I've said it before but I'll say it again - Domino's should sell bottles of their garlic and herb dip in shops.

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That’s the exact one I’m thinking of indeed. There would be times that the sauce would be the reason I’d order Dominoes even though the pizza is always worse than Pizza Hut. Out of my local two anyway.

Nearly 700kcal/100g :drool:

That's what chilli oil is for.

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Ideally a little bit charred and smoky, and definitely not dipped in salad dressing.

Pizza places in Poland used to put mayo and ketchup all over pizzas if you ordered a takeaway.

Thankfully they realised it's shit and only a small number of mentalists will request it.

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Hellmann's do a very serviceable version.

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Passata all the way for me.

Ketchup for me. Straight from the bottle into my throat.

Bet you deepthroat the bottle you deviant.

Made a meat feast pizza tonight in homage to all the miscreants on here. Chicken was a bit dry tbh. Not sure it's really a winning combo.

These are really good. It was four quid in Sainsbury's, but I think that was with a quid off.

:nodd:

They also used to do a folded smaller pepperoni pizza which was great but I think they only do them as margheritas now.

Aldi do one just like that for about £1.50.

Tried The Vegan Works from PJ's last week. Top tier.

You're a wrong 'un.

I’ve been getting Asda’s Sizzler pizza but I can’t not try that new Spicy Donner pizza dominos have

We've got a vegetarian supreme in the fridge. Nearly picked up some vegan monstrosity with Jackfruit on it. Tears would have been shed.

Not as much as the tears your dependants shed when you die from a cancer/they drown from rising sea levels.

Definitely ordering pizza later now but from this place: https://www.ubereats.com/gb/london/f...Q3aIcU6KKWVMnQ

Kind of place Giggles hates but the pizza is the bollocks.

I'd hate them too at those prices.

I've got a place near me that does ones which look similar those but for about half the price.

Hi, this is London, nice to meet you.

Pizza is by far the most overpriced takeaway. A basic dough mix with a bit of cheese and tomato sauce for 15 quid. :happycry:

You're far enough north that you don't need to be paying those prices. If you can't get 12 wings for under £2.50 within ten minutes then you've really fucked up.

I was told by somebody who runs one that restaurants want to sell you stuff for three times what it costs them to make, so pizza must be a real winner for them unless the ovens burn through a fortune.

I've never worked out how any restaurant is even slightly profitable, the amount of money they must churn through in overheads. I guess that's why they need to mistreat waiters.

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I know but £16? Is that the cheapest you can get a decent pizza for?

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I know but £16? Is that the cheapest you can get a decent pizza for?

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This is a good pizza but I'd go £8-10 is probably standard for decent.

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I know but £16? Is that the cheapest you can get a decent pizza for?

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Imagine paying it for that shit.

:D x

I couldn’t disappoint. I was also hoping it would make John come back to remind me about the spaghetti thing again.

People who live outside the south east need to stop flaunting their price privilege, it affects my mental health. This is meant to be a safe space.

You can get three decent 12 inchers of any combination delivered for £15 here and when pissed I have pushed the button on it :drool:

Dominoes is scandalous. Considering getting a costco special in next time I do a supply run, though they are so big they don't fit in our fridge properly.

Birmingham was king for this. Nothing like a cheeky Caspian on the way home from a night out. £4 odd for a 6 inch pizza, chips and a drink. (Prices correct as of 2010)

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You can get three decent 12 inchers of any combination delivered for £15 here and when pissed I have pushed the button on it :drool:

Dominoes is scandalous. Considering getting a costco special in next time I do a supply run, though they are so big they don't fit in our fridge properly.

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Those fuck off massive square ones? I have to put it in the fridge at an angle on the top.

They're quality though.

Yeah, proper yank gluttony.

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Birmingham was king for this. Nothing like a cheeky Caspian on the way home from a night out. £4 odd for a 6 inch pizza, chips and a drink. (Prices correct as of 2010)

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Lucianos in Selly Oak was amazing. They used to do 7 inch pizzas with 3 toppings for £1. 5 please :drool:

Ended up with this one - https://www.ilbacioexpress.uk/special-menus/

Porcini e Bresaola£10.95
Buffalo mozzarella, porcini mushrooms, ricotta, bresaola cured beef. :pards:

Reasonable pricr that falls in line with MK's top top gaff:

https://www.just-eat.co.uk/restauran...0aAkzCEALw_wcB

Reading talk of chicken shop pizzas and Costco really does cut me deep.

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I’ve got one of those to have tonight. :uhoh:

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Pick the jackfruit off QuickTime. It's grim.

Just had a coop stuffed crust. Very nice.

I stick with Morrison’s spicy chicken pizza.

£2 and it’s great. Recently discovered if you add a bit of chorizo to the top of it, you’ve evolved into charizard and smash the elite 4.

Had a large deep pan ASDA one with the 6 most spicy toppings and chilli oil to finish the other night. Flew a bit too close to the sun with that and rode the ring of fire for a good 12 hours after.

We're trying to give the take aways a bit of a break at the moment, but also trying to keep the weekends interesting. Charles Bigham's ready meals are top quality. We had his Tikka Masala last week and his Thai Curry tonight. The Masala was better (Take away quality) but the Thai was pretty great too. I think we're going to work our way through them all.

I found a slimming world tikka masala sauce in a tub in the back of the freezer the other day. I’d say it’s there years, would have came from Iceland I think, but it was surprisingly nice.

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We're trying to give the take aways a bit of a break at the moment, but also trying to keep the weekends interesting. Charles Bigham's ready meals are top quality. We had his Tikka Masala last week and his Thai Curry tonight. The Masala was better (Take away quality) but the Thai was pretty great too. I think we're going to work our way through them all.

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They're great, especially the Tikka Masala which is seriously creamy.

M&S pizzas are truly pathetic. No wonder they're throwing all manner of sides in the deal.

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They used to do dirty fries with them that saved the day, but they've decided to chuck a tomato sauce all over them now which kills any hope of crispy chip, bacon or cheese. The dickheads.

The main problem we had with the pizza it's self is the crust : pizza ratio is an absolute mess. It's not a crust if it's half the pizza.

I'm getting angry just thinking about it. Shaking.

Still a regular ASDA pizza fan, even though my local doesn't do it so I have to drive to Chorley. I can't believe people pick the pre-made stuff instead of getting one made up fresh.

Are you doing an impression of a lonely 70 year old man replying to a post on the Asda Facebook page? It's really good if you are.

:D

I only just realised that Lofty bumped the thread that hadn't had a post in 4 months in it with that post. :D

Hello is this thing on? I hate this bloody thing.

I just feel passionately that going to the pizza counter only to pick a pre-made up instead of getting one made is mentalist behaviour :D

For a while I forgot that Lofty has moved somewhere else now, so I was picturing him driving down from Barrow to Chorley just to get an ASDA pizza.

It's the life of a pensionable widow Jim. He likes to keep busy.

The Barrow ASDA has a pizza counter, my ex girlfriend worked there many moons ago. Now it is ran by a miserable old crone who rebukes anyone daring to order pizza, by all accounts.

Lofty replies to those FB things where it's like

5 * 10 + 7 ÷ 4 = ?????
ONLY GENIUS KNOW

And he gets them wrong

:D

Crosta & Mollica is a must.

Stopped off to get some petrol in the Shoebury Asda this afternoon. Wonderful place, Shoebury. Wonderful place.

https://i.ibb.co/ySFG4z0/Screenshot-...-Whats-App.jpg

I bet he's got a record.

Certainly a conversation starter that…

I used to work in that ASDA. Heady days.

They look like a Fruit Salad.

I was in Shoebury last weekend. Sadly I didn't see him.

Shoebury doesn't even sound like a real place.

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Christ, what did you do to deserve that? I had to go through the dump for petrol and it sapped the life out of me.

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Shoeburyness to give it it's full name. Famous for the ASDA, MOD waste land and now Big Bobby Marley.

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Christ, what did you do to deserve that? I had to go through the dump for petrol and it sapped the life out of me.



Shoeburyness to give it it's full name. Famous for the ASDA, MOD waste land and now Big Bobby Marley.

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We know someone there and we go for their daughter's birthday every year to a shit restaurant (this year was Toby Carvery, usually it's Harvester).

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There must be a good reason you've not ostracised them, but you should probably do it anyway. As if going to Shoebury wasn't bad enough without throwing overcooked beef and undercooked potatoes into the mix.

Mahow doesn't mind traveling if the menu looks good.

Had a Morrisons pizza tonight and it was disgusting.

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More details please

Was it from their own counter?

They do a stone baked spicy chicken pizza for £2.50 and it is magnificent.

Had a counter one the other week, it was alright but ASDA still the king.

Aldi deep pan meat feast.

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So after the 13 pages, the conclusion to the best oven pizza brand is Asda?

I had one of the new Franco Manca supermarket pizzas, and it wasn't particularly great for £4.50. And that was with the Tesco Clubcard. They wanted £5.70 otherwise and lol mate no. My only previous experience of the company was in Brighton the day the Chinese first got everything shut down, so I had to eat it in the street out of the box like a cretin, and that was better.

It seems like nearly all supermarket pizzas are at least £4 these days.

Asda does some wacky two for six quid plus a drink plus a cinema ticket/Sky voucher deal which must be costing everybody involved money.

Just picked up a Franco Manca effort from Tesco. Both looked and tasted like I'd made it myself.

No context with which to interpret that.

I'm going with shit.

The pictures look fairly inoffensive on the website. Although this is as good a time as any to bring up that chilli-honey - the current on-trend pizza topping - is shit.

Has any on trend thing ever been good? It's like the equivalent of 'challenging' but for Love Island folk (rather thank star wankers).

Picked up a couple of Asda ones when up on the dark side the other week. They’re still the best one out there.

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Has any on trend thing ever been good? It's like the equivalent of 'challenging' but for Love Island folk (rather thank star wankers).

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At risk of being a bit of a basic bitch, salted caramel was an on trend thing which is actually good and has cemented it's place in the world IMO.

I've had some excellent pizzas with "hot honey" on.

By far and away my favourite pizza currently is the Aldi Carlos flatbread Calabrese Salami. It's rectangular anf fucking delicious :drool:

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By far and away my favourite pizza currently is the Aldi Carlos flatbread Calabrese Salami. It's rectangular anf fucking delicious :drool:

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"A stonebaked pizza base, topped with crème fraîche and barbecue flavour sauces"

I'll pass.

Thanks for sharing. What an input.

Aldis Carlos range has become our go-to as well. Yet to try what is essentially their knock off of Dominos Meteor, but all the rest have been grand.

That sounds savage.

I had ducks tongue for the first time this evening.

Shit, would not recommend.

Fried octopus on the other hand :drool:

Duck tongue pizza?

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Duck tongue pizza?

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Couldn't find a general food thread. Is there one?

Likely the one marked 'food thread'.

Rumbled.