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.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

I don't get down with all those exotic pizzas, but I'd rather have a sloth whisper a Deberg thread in my ear than eat another Aldi cheese pizza.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Clinton, MO? I'm rolling through there tomorrow as I'm working in KC this week. I'll have to order some lunch for pickup. What's the best?

Oh man... I think their thin crust is what everyone raves about, but I can't get enough of their deep dish. I'm pretty simple - their sausage is outstanding. Honestly, when I lived in Warrensburg, my order was a thin sausage and a thick hamburger, both with extra cheese.

If you like thick pan pizza, do that.

EDIT: They don't take credit cards. Cash or check.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

Oh man... I think their thin crust is what everyone raves about, but I can't get enough of their deep dish. I'm pretty simple - their sausage is outstanding. Honestly, when I lived in Warrensburg, my order was a thin sausage and a thick hamburger, both with extra cheese.

If you like thick pan pizza, do that.

EDIT: They don't take credit cards. Cash or check.

I like pan and thin. Those are the only kinds I'll eat. Not into handtossed or just normal crust. Unless it's Casey's. Casey's is by far my favorite poverty pizza.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Thanks for the tip by the way. Taking the wife with me this week so that is a great plan for lunch.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

I like pan and thin. Those are the only kinds I'll eat. Not into handtossed or just normal crust. Unless it's Casey's. Casey's is by far my favorite poverty pizza.

Go for the thick then, IMO.

Casey's is strange to me... I don't often want it, but when I have a hankering for Casey's pizza, no other pizza will do.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

Ugh. Those Lean Cuisine and Swanson French bread pizzas are the. worst.

I actually like buying some French bread, slicing it, and applying some sauce, cheese, and some kind of meat. Those are fast, easy, and good.

Hahaha I do this all the time! Contadina squeezable pizza sauce. Sliced pepperoni, can mushroom pieces, Cheese and Roma Italian or french bread. Toaster oven till cheeze is melted and yummy. If I have a green pepper hanging around I dice that.

I have done this with Garlic Texas Toast the frozen in box. Its ok but prefer the other method.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Totino > Digorno and it's not even reallly close

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

I like pan and thin. Those are the only kinds I'll eat. Not into handtossed or just normal crust. Unless it's Casey's. Casey's is by far my favorite poverty pizza.

I have sat out in my worktruck and ate Casey's by the slice and was happy as a lark.

Someone asked about Taco Pizza Casey,s makes one of the best IMHO.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

I have never had a Casey's

[Hootie]

Casey's is ok until you try and reheat it...or eat it cold.

In terms of frozen pizza, I don't eat a lot of it (anymore). All the pizza shops around me like Papa John's offer large 1 toppings for $5. Even Pizza Hut I can get a medium 3 topping for $6. I have a pretty hard time justifying spending $5-$8 on a DiGornio because of this.

I will say, however...the people trying to say Totino's is better than DiGornio are ... wrong.

[Bufkin]

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball

Totino > Digorno and it's not even reallly close

One tastes like restaurant pizza, the other tastes like school pizza leftovers. Totinos should stick with pizza rolls.

[Hootie]

not to mention Papa Del's here in Champaign...

probably the best deep dish pizza ... ever.

so good

[srvy]

These were the best pizza roll's. Go square to hell Totinos.


We actually did this but was hard to not burn and the cheese inside would expand and squeeze out.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

Go for the thick then, IMO.

Casey's is strange to me... I don't often want it, but when I have a hankering for Casey's pizza, no other pizza will do.

Casey's Taco Pizza is outstanding.

[Bufkin]

Originally Posted by srvy

These were the best pizza roll's. Go square to hell Totinos.


We actually did this but was hard to not burn and the cheese inside would expand and squeeze out.

That advertisement looks like it was straight out of a slave catalog during the 1850's.