Not being a food snob, There used to be several frozen pizzas that I used to like; making allowances for what they are, some were pretty decent, even some of the cheap ones.
But in the last 6 months or so, I’ve tried several of the ones I used to like, and every one, the crust was horrible... Like they replaced half the flour with finely powdered drywall or something. The sauce tastes ‘chemically’, there is a paucity of cheese, and a scarcity of toppings on them.
Same with the Walmart “Take and bake’ pizzas. They went from pretty darn good, to pretty darn horrible.
I’d rather have smaller pizzas or higher prices than secretly hiding inflation by lowering quality and skimping on ingredients.
An friend of mine got treated in a Seventh-Day Adventist hospital, where all the food is vegetarian, and his ordinary, meat-eating son made the tactical error of trying a vegetarian "hot dog" while waiting for surgery to be over. He recoiled after one bite.
"It's not a bad taste," I said. "It just doesn't taste like a hot dog. Try to taste it for what it is, and not expect it to be what it pretends to look like."