Frozen Pizza and Life

[Rain Man]

I went to the grocery store tonight to hunt dinner, and decided that a frozen pizza was the way to go. The village cheered when I brought it home, and we used every part of it as part of our pact with The Great Creator in the Sky.

But anyway, back to the point.

Our grocery store arranges the frozen pizzas by price. On the far left, you've got the Totinos and other stuff that's food in name only. Then you move to the right with Tony's and then Red Baron and Home Run (blech) in the middle. As you move further right you get to the highest-priced stuff like DiGiorno and the overpriced California pizza kitchen.

As I stared at the pizza freezers making my decision, I had an epiphany about life. I thought back to my high school days when I was more or less a third worlder, and in those days there was no option but Totino's. I ate it and I liked it because it was a treat. I didn't get it very often.

Then I got into college and actually did okay on money, and I graduated to Tony's where possible, going the Totino's route only when money got tight. After graduation, when I got a real job, it was Tony's all the way for years.

Then I got married. Dual income, no kids, and frankly it wasn't an issue to pay more for a frozen pizza. I stood at the freezers tonight and grabbed a DiGiorno for $8.49, an act that would have been unthinkable for the first half of my life.

I'm in my prime earning years right now, making reasonable money with few financial worries. If I want to eat out of the right side of the pizza case, I can do it. No problem.

But a time will come when I can't eat out of the right side. I'll retire and I'll have to watch my money and my savings will dwindle, and at some point I'll start eating Tony's again. But this time I'll eat Tony's with the memory of once having DiGiorno. That might make my pizza night melancholy.

And the end of the story is inevitable. I'll be an old man sitting in my house watching TV, and I'll heat up my Totino's pizza and I'll consider it a treat because I don't get to have it very often. Eventually the police will do a welfare check because I'm not paying my property taxes, and they'll find my mummified body in a chair, holding a piece of mummified Totino's.

I wish they would rearrange that pizza freezer.

[Stanley Nickels]

Even though The Dish closed their restaurant in Liberty, I'm glad you can still buy their frozen pizzas. That's about the only decent brand I've had.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

I don't like frozen. Too many options that are more cost effective. The lone exception is when I get baked I'll eat a Totino's about twice a decade. I'm not opposed too poverty food but buying frozen pizza makes no sense too me when I can get fresh for less or real close to the same price.

[BeeHo]

red baron, mfker!

[CoMoChief]

Totinos party pizzas 4 for $4 at Price Chopper

[CoMoChief]

I had a Shakespeare's frozen pizza....tasted nothing like the real thing and tasted like ass.

[TrebMaxx]

I live in CoMo and just don't understand the love for Shakespeare's pizza. It sucks IMHO.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Totinos party pizzas 4 for $4 at Price Chopper

Isn't frozen pizza already a dollar each?

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by TrebMaxx

I live in CoMo and just don't understand the love for Shakespeare's pizza. It sucks IMHO.

The slices at the campus location are wonderful, IMO. I spent a lot of lunches there during grad school, so a part of it is likely nostalgia, with the atmosphere playing a role. It's why I never visit the other locations.

A veggie slice, a pepperoni, and an iced tea for $5 was just about perfect.

[Sannyasi]

I find that Red Baron makes a lot of sense at its particular price point. Totinos is probably the one I purchase the most though because I am usually eating a frozen pizza by myself and I feel fat eating an entire Red Baron pizza.

[brucey_72]

Red Baron Supreme pizzas are pretty good for a frozen pizza. Add on some cheese and it passes for a cheap quick meal when you are busy. $3 to feed me, my wife and my 3 year old? Not bad

[-King-]

I like Red Baron the best. Never had Tonys.

To gay it up... Lean Cuisine three meat deep dish pizza is actually pretty good.

[eDave]

Slightly off topic; Anyone in Phoenix know where to get a good taco pizza, or equivalent?

I'll be damned if I can find one. In Phoenix...

[Sassy Squatch]

Tombstone.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Tombstone was awesome when I was a kid but they don't taste as good as they used to imo.

I've been thinking the same thing but your taste changes as you get older.

Has it changed?

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

I had a Shakespeare's frozen pizza....tasted nothing like the real thing and tasted like ass.

Yeah I tried that shit too...nothing like the real thing.