The 10 WORST pizza places in the USA
Nov 2, 2010, 12:46 am
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LAUSD: Los Angeles Unified School District pizza.
Cardboard, served in cardboard. Cheese with a skin-like texture. Sauce like ketchup, if ketchup was made with dried rotten tomatoes.
Cardboard, served in cardboard. Cheese with a skin-like texture. Sauce like ketchup, if ketchup was made with dried rotten tomatoes.
Nov 2, 2010, 1:27 am
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Remembering NY Board of Ed pizza from the 1980s, and then imagining 25 years of budget cuts on top of that plus the general lack of taste in pizza here in California... well, I'm pretty horrified, and we may have a winner here.
Nov 2, 2010, 4:12 am
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Since it has been a couple years, let me once again nominate St. Louis style pizza. And yes I have had Dominos and Papa John and AA frozen microwaved pizza. All are vastly above the horror by the Arch. I haven't tried Cicis though and never will after reading this tread.
Since it has been a couple years, let me once again nominate St. Louis style pizza. And yes I have had Dominos and Papa John and AA frozen microwaved pizza. All are vastly above the horror by the Arch. I haven't tried Cicis though and never will after reading this tread.
Nov 2, 2010, 4:50 am
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The defunct Showbiz Pizza chain, now called Chuck E Cheese was pretty gross.
Perhaps some others can chime in to let me know if things improved when Chuck E Cheese took over the Showbiz Pizza Chain?
As a young kid, my parents hated the pizza at Showbiz so much, that they would allow me only to celebrate my birthday there under one condition: they would be able to bring in pizza from a local pizzeria there, but still purchase Showbiz's party pack [game tokens, soft drinks, party favors, and Showbiz's awful excuse for a birthday cake] Surprisingly, the local Showbiz looked the other way when my parents brought in the pizza, as the 'rents had paid for the other "goodies."
Perhaps the desire of earning tickets redeemable for prizes at Showbiz/Chuck E Cheese translated into my mileage hounding at a later age.
Coming in at a close 2nd in my book for awful pizza: Shakey's Pizza. Shakey's makes Cici's look gourmet. I'm shocked to see that Shakey's is still in business.
Perhaps some others can chime in to let me know if things improved when Chuck E Cheese took over the Showbiz Pizza Chain?
As a young kid, my parents hated the pizza at Showbiz so much, that they would allow me only to celebrate my birthday there under one condition: they would be able to bring in pizza from a local pizzeria there, but still purchase Showbiz's party pack [game tokens, soft drinks, party favors, and Showbiz's awful excuse for a birthday cake] Surprisingly, the local Showbiz looked the other way when my parents brought in the pizza, as the 'rents had paid for the other "goodies."
Perhaps the desire of earning tickets redeemable for prizes at Showbiz/Chuck E Cheese translated into my mileage hounding at a later age.
Coming in at a close 2nd in my book for awful pizza: Shakey's Pizza. Shakey's makes Cici's look gourmet. I'm shocked to see that Shakey's is still in business.
Nov 2, 2010, 9:10 am
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Coming in at a close 2nd in my book for awful pizza: Shakey's Pizza. Shakey's makes Cici's look gourmet. I'm shocked to see that Shakey's is still in business.
Nov 2, 2010, 4:23 pm
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I can't believe it took this many posts for somebody to bring up the abomination that is "St. Louis style" pizza. In addition to the provel cheese (in case the horrible taste wasn't enough, the cheese is a garish orange color, melts into runny goo, and sticks to your teeth), it also features crispy-cracker crust cut into little squares, and super-sugary tomato sauce ... ugh. The absolute worst.
This... food like substance... is sugary red sauce over a piece of cardboard, topped with something called provel, which is a similar color to cheese but does not really... umm... melt.. the way cheese does. It more, err... decomposes. Thus, Imos is not pizza. There is no such thing as St. Louis style pizza. It is not pizza.