Posted on 04/01/2016 8:42:08 PM PDT by EveningStar
it beats picking up a pizza already baked and rushing home to eat it.....
they run a nice business with young people and better yet, at least the place we go gives a little military discount.
Digiorno is awful....
There is one down the road from us. They have been our goto pizza for several years now.
Fresh ingredients — you just cook it for 12 minutes at 425 and you are good to go.
My favorite is the Murphy’s Combo. Wife likes the thin crust Mediterranean.
There may be better tasting pies around if you look hard - but the convenience and the freshness + piping hotness makes all the difference.
Lotsa Motzza is the best frozen pizza around here (Raleigh, nc).
There was once a Pie Works here in town and they easily had the best pizza, selling take and bakes and in restaurant pizzas, with toppings which included alligator. Bella Italia is now the finest pizza in this area to my knowledge, with locations in Raleigh and wake forest. If you happen to be downtown, Piccola Italia is the finest pizza to be found.
I wonder if Papa Murphy makes the temp correction? Good for you that you do.
I don’t know if this is common everywhere, but most of the Mom & Pop Italian pizza places around here will sell “half-baked” pizzas to go. You just take them home and pop them in the oven to finish. I don’t usually do that because I make pizza from scratch often, but many of my friends do so.
If you don’t have a Papa Murphy’s (which is of marginal quality in my opinion) near you...might ask about that at your favorite local place.
It’s nothing to write home about. Boring sauce. Boring crust. Boring toppings. They probably win the number one spot in volume because they accept EBT. If it’s not cooked...
There is just something about a proper pizza in a pizzaria that bakes a pie in an oven with the spirits of pizzas past.
Papa Murphy’s makes the pizza and the buyer bakes the pizza off when they get home. They have them in the North Texas area, just not close to where I live. A friend has bought their pizzas and says they are really good. They are like a Subway, just only for pizza.
I’m not sure how they do it for shipping, but getting it at the store they are at refrigerated temperatures. They are way better than digornio or anything that I have ever bought at the store.
My daughter just started her first job ever - at a papa murpheys! So I’m guessing we’ll be eating more of it now. My kids really like it. I eat pretty much anything so....
We lived in NJ for quite awhile. It is quite a bit different than that stuff is. I’m not sure, but I’m guessing they use all fresh stuff for the toppings. The pizzas are made to order while you wait.
**One of the interesting things about Papa Murphy is that they don’t sell finished (prepared) food. In states like Texas where there is no tax on groceries or unprepared food, you don’t have to pay 8.25% tax on top of the cost of the pizza since you are baking it at home. **
I’ve never eaten Papa Murphy’s, but get flyers as there is one nearby.
I notice on their advertisements, you can use ebt/ food stamps to pay for their pizzas. I think other places, like some fast food places take ebt’s from what I’ve read.
Hey, post a pic of one of Marlene’s delicious pizzas over here. We will all head over to your house for one! I am so hungry for a homemade pizza after reading this thread.
Thx, now I am now starving for a pizza. The thought that she’s probably fixing you one right now...
Nah! 2 Johnsonville Cheese Smokies on sesame bun with Vlasic sweet relish and Gulden’s mustard. Waking with a Coke and follow by a Johnny Walker Red on ice!
Thx, for telling me what you’re eating. I will quit feeling sorry for myself now...plus it’s 5:15am here... too early to think about Johnny Walker for me.
I still have that Magic Cake Recipe from Marlene on one of my tabs. Hopefully, I will actually get around to making it one of these days.
Have never found a frozen pizza that I liked and I'm including the high end "artisan" pizzas you would buy at a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's. Just not the same eating pizza heated at home. You need to go to a real pizzeria where some old grizzled Italian guy with a white hat and a long wooden spatula is slipping pizzas into a really hot pizza oven - like in the picture below.
Best pizza I've had is the pizza made in coal-fired ovens and I especially like them topped with whole clams. Not just the clam strips but the whole clams, bellies and all. With plenty of garlic. Frank Pepe's in Connecticut is an example of a really good pizzeria but they are now opening up other outlets, including one at that Mohegan Sun casino, so I'm not sure if they are going to maintain that same high quality.
Ronald Reagan went to Frank Pepe's pizza when they only had that one location. Reagan seemed to like it very much.
I'm a "even bad pizza is good" type. Don't care for the crust on Digiorno but found the Walmart fresh, bake yourself, pizzas are decent. Special night tonight -the wife is engaging in a Ladies Night so I get to eat pizza for dinner. Got a Jacks Supreme that I'll add extra cheese, pepperoni, and salami to for my feast tonight.
Is it better than a Digiorno or a high quality frozen pizza?
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In my opinion...YES! There’s a Papa Murphy’s less than a mile from me (this thread just reminded me, because I haven’t been there in a couple of years).
Last time there I bought a medium deep dish pizza. The aluminum tray was about 3” high on the sides and rectangular. It was filled to the top with all fresh ingredients, as I watched. ......I was only able to eat about 1/2 over the afternoon and evening, so took the rest to my next door neighbor the next morning. Great pizza and economical.
Just go to walmart and buy a take and bake.. pretty much the same thing.
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You just reminded me that a couple of weeks ago my local WalMart bakery started putting out fresh baked large pizzas in the warming units like where they put the fresh baked French bread. It’s only from 4-7pm on week days and only costs $5. ....Fed me for 2 days and really good!
In our area, Pappa Murphy’s does real well because you can use your EBT (SNAP) card. If it ain’t cooked, it isn’t classified as “fast food”.
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