I keep seeing this and forgetting that I sent it to myself.
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Charlie should not make pizza. By someone’s definition (Charlie’s) this is considered pizza. Who else has bad definitions of pizza?
I don’t know what one tastes like hot, but a cold domino’s pizza tastes like a bag of pizza combos pre-trans fat makeover. Which explains at last why the combos people think that tastes like pizza. According to legend, this pizza has bacon on it. i think an Egg McMuffin would have more bacon on it. I hesitate to add the clincher “and an egg mcmuffin has SAUSAGE on it” for I suspect even that may be hard to prove.
The process of explaining how I came into possession of this object incriminates some individuals who probably deserve better than to be incriminated over pizza.
Sometimes when you end up a with watery base, Eggo wafflish crust, almost pink tomato sauce, and a cheese layer that seems to be a single unit, you can make the excuse no this isn’t misguided chefmanship, it’s Greek style pizza. I no wonder why they’re always smashing plates. It would be fine if they used good ingredients, but they never will. I formed that hypothesis a few years before the Greek economy became an international liability and I won’t go so far as to blame a complex issue far older than our limited American awareness of it that is bringing suffering to millions of people whose governments increasingly punish their own citizens to maintain their own pointless wealth on bad pizza. Rather, it’s probably a combination of that and all the broken plates. But Domino’s doesn’t even have cultural differences to blame its inadequacy on; rather, it is perfectly matched with the culture that it offers service to, which is why it stays in business.
The only remotely ethnic restaurant I ever saw dominoes in was a pan-Asian establishment and it knew better than to serve pizza. The chefs there stick to what they know and preserve their dignity.
Yerp, pizza combos, pizza rolls, pizza pockets, pizza goldfish, pizza PRINGLES. None of these taste at all like pizza, but I bought them all, many times, even once I knew it. The goldfish just tasted like regular goldfish with random flavored salt on them, but the pringles were notably bad and chemical aftertaste-y. Yet I bought them again.
We just like things to have “pizza” in their names and we don’t hold them to any standard unless they ARE pizzas, and sometimes not even then. Even after swearing off Red Baron, Totino and Elio pizzas* I continued eating the lousy pringles. Pizza flavored non-pizzas seem to get a free pass. (*I never ate a Tony’s
To your amazement, no doubt. If I wasn’t enticed by smooth plastic fisher price playhouse pizza surely the creepy Drew Friedman airbrush kid would seal the meal)
It’s become a routine. We think we like pizza because we remember liking pizza, but clearly we’re bored with it. What if we could have pizza as potato chips?
Or what if we could eat it out of a starchy carbohydrate sock instead of slices? Slices are so HARD.
Shooting the ad with a green screen box to accommodate different regional sub brands without refilming the same great great scenes with the same great, great song where there’s no conspicuous lyrical void allowing for the insertion of “Ellio’s” as the situation demands has the additional benefit of making the product seem real and valid compared to the very fake looking packaging.
This at least solves my problem of not being able to take a bath because it interfered with my ability to eat pizza-derived products at all times.
More recently, I attempted a semi-local non-chain that was pledged to be “cheaper” than what I prefer. I had to conclude that it tasted like that kind of pizza I get when somebody who doesn’t really know me says “hey come over we’re getting pizza.” I’d wonder where the hamburglar did you FIND this? I’ve lived here for ten years and never had a pizza this bad. Why do you think this is GOOD? Pizza parties are the worst. I get two slices at most and then have to wait around not eating pizza or talking to people because I resent them for not buying enough bad pizza. How’s that fun? I can’t stand it. The pizza here was actually tolerable but it reminded me of that.
This does remind me, or it did before so many digressions and inserts that I no longer recall what actually reminded me: did you hear that the mcribs are “back?” I did, despite neither caring nor being aware that it had gone anywhere except directly into a toilet. Mcrib is the dumbest scam. “It” never goes away, but it’s always coming back, and then I’m always hearing that it’s coming back. It’s never national news that Chicken McNuggets are still here, even if we as living beings really ought to be outraged every day that they are. The official story is that mcribs were devised during a mcnugget shortage, in fat, but considering how simple a matter it is to fake a shortage of natural earth resources to push up their prices, imagine how much more easy it must be to fake a scarcity of something that’s not supposed to exist at all and very easily might not.
Also it’s the McRib, rather than the McRibs, or some McRib sandwiches. There’s just one riboid that returns year after year, because like other menu items it never decomposes and nobody wants to eat it. There’s nothing special in McRibs that should cause them to be scarce. We already went over this. Pay attention. It’s the same stuff that’s in the hamburgers pressed in a different mold and painted a different color and sprayed with a different flavor. They could make it out of broccoli and have it taste exactly the same and be eep times healthier but they don’t because people have some kind of weird pride about eating meat, even when it’s several stages removed and reformulated several times. One of the claims made to discredit Mr. Obama when he sought presidential space was that he ate arugula. Hey, he eats VEGETABLES. He CAN’T be American. Do you remember the big “story” that taco bell’s meat didn’t meat ah the legal meat requirement? Nobody cared to observe that the substitution was actually vegetable matter which we’d be better off replacing the entire contents with. They only wanted to say “ha ha, unnatural! Oh ho ho, fast food! Tee hee, verbs! OMG coffee”
Yet Kentucky Why Chicken famously mistreats and misprepares real animals and the end product is not any more holy. The only identifiable difference is that a piece of chicken costs twice as much as a taco, and they don’t even take the bones out for you.
I saw that written bit partway through my own writing. Although it does suggest the McRibs only exist at all because at one point in time McNuggets indeed were not present, which made me alter my own base remark, the coward, that has never been the case since. The article also does not suggest that the sole reason for the product’s absences is McDonalds’ self-assurance that it can get massive free publicity merely making the slightest deviation from routine, and that “McRib” is perfect for that by having a stupidly memorable name, so it can become something like a running gag. ANY product could be randomly removed, or not removed at all but suddenly said to have been unremoved, but it’s funnier and more consistent/efficient if the same one gets the moot every time. So the breach of routine itself has become routine!
Ha ha! I’ve figured it out! But what will happen to me now?
Ah, truly? I must say I hadn’t expected this!
Oh fah uhl I figured you wouldn’t tell me!
Rod Blagojevich knows where’s the party at. No doubt he will be funding it with his Jeopardy winnings. I expect only highest quality and plentiful part-like fare.
Awwwwwwwwwwwnawwwwwwwwwwwwww… I don’t even remember why he’s going to jail next month so it’s probably this.
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Pell's Equation sez:
This totally and completely made my night. Laughing so hard at the orange/fortune cookie remark.
Jumbi sez:
The pizza with all the tomatoes didn’t look so bad! Unless that’s all some kind of mutant giant pepperoni. Then that’s kind of terrifying.
You’re right, Americans do have some kind of weird pride about meat. I get weird looks every time I express excitement over tofu. What’s wrong with tofu? It’s just kind of spongy. Like chicken mcnuggets without all the salt.
Where do you get all these pictures from……..
PurpleSpace sez:
Pizza parties are bad and someone invariably wants to order only cheese pizzas. I have cheese and bread at home I could eat if I so desired…
Anyway, I have a thirst that needs quenching and it’s shaped like most of a pizza; therefore it’s time to play PacMan, or rather not as the last few times I went to a pizza place I ordered baked pasta instead of pizza.
The official pizza of Nascar sez:
Wait wait wait, is that The Cage in the pizza-based watercraft image? I don’t recall you ever procuring an image of that. In fact, I seem to recall one forgoing a reference to it because I assumed you wouldn’t remember it. Oh, but my world is all a lie.
Uvprimlurx sez:
Quatey:
Thank you for liking it! I was worried I’d forgotten how to do this. I’d also been trying to unload that orange picture for years so it is good news.
Jumbey:
The pizza wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as good as we can get from our prime pizza location. I also get the impression that the place’s strength may be its more complex specialty pizzas, though generally if I can’t eat a pizza without toppings it’s probably not a good pizza.
I bear no ideological eh beef with tofu, though in the past I have found the sensation of biting into it discomforting. There are probably other ways of preparing it which I have not attempted.
The pictures, I constantly collect them, wherever they appear, often on the internet. The Tony’s Pizza image was an advertisement from some mid 90s Archie-branded comic I cannot justify my having a CBR of. I will, however, identify the final image as being from “Super Mario Adventures,” which was published in Nintendo Power magazine during the period when I had a subscription. A surprisingly high quality product, considering the source.
I easily lose track of the items in my hoard, so they often have long filenames composed of words I think I might search for later when I go to look for them. The system could be improved. All the digital camera images I took myself.
Uvprimlurx sez:
Purpey:
Cheese pizza has its uses but indeed I don’t trust it when someone else is choosing where it comes from. It’s a lot easier to mess up pizza as a whole than the little trinkets we can cover it with.
I sometimes want pasta, but when I have the choice of getting pizza instead I always get pizza. If the pizza is no good I simply do not go. Alas mine is a tragic existence.
Pizzey:
I did that part so long ago I had quite forgotten where I pulled the picture out of. I assumed it was a local sidewalk but now that you bring it to my attention I recall, and have looked to make sure, yes indeed that is in Pittsburgh. I don’t have a shot of the label, but it is near SMOKE WIZARD and the troll-faced establishment.