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Domino’s Isn’t Pizza. It’s Something Else Entirely.
Yahoo News! ^ | Fri, May 20, 2022 | Chris Hatler

Posted on 05/20/2022 3:37:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Is Domino’s pizza? If you furrow your brow in confusion at this inquiry, tilting your head and replying with some variation on “of course it is,” I have news for you.

To clarify, I’m not a New Yorker, Chicagoan, or Detroiter required to uphold the strict pizza laws of my home city. I grew up in northern New Jersey, where the prevalence of Italian families and our proximity to the Big Apple meant you could find a slice any given moment at any of the two dozen joints in a 10-mile radius.

So, if I’m no purist, why am I questioning Domino’s like this? What I want to clarify is that while Domino’s is always technically pizza, it is not always functionally pizza. In case your furrowed brow has deepened and your head has tilted another 10 degrees, let me explain.

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1 posted on 05/20/2022 3:37:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
If you want real pizza, go to Pepe's in New Haven, Connecticut and order the white clam.


2 posted on 05/20/2022 3:40:11 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (2,973,528 active users on Truth Social)
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Best pizza I ever had was in NYC. BY the slice. Swear on the Bible. 1980 or so.


3 posted on 05/20/2022 3:42:52 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: waterhill

Also had my first chipwich. Damnittohell.


4 posted on 05/20/2022 3:46:22 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: nickcarraway

Delivered Domino’s in college in a Domino’s AMC Gremlin. Worst car and pizza ever.


5 posted on 05/20/2022 3:49:59 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: waterhill

It was like a buck a slice back then.


6 posted on 05/20/2022 3:53:35 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: waterhill

I delivered pizza for a pizzeria in a Chicago suburb during summer break from college in 1960. All mafia made ingredients. Got a free one whenever I wanted. Best I ever had.


7 posted on 05/20/2022 3:54:43 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I can eat it and have done Ok with it.

But there was a comedian:

“Did you hear? Domino’s can fax you a pizza now. And it still tastes like cardboard! How DO they do it!!!???”


8 posted on 05/20/2022 3:56:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, I am a Detroiter, and grew up with Dominos as one of many choices. It’s tasty and convenient. Some folks in the area used to call it
“Catholic Pizza”, because the original owner, Tom Monaghan often donated to local Catholic schools and was against abortion.

Other wise, I think the writer could have used a good editor. In his second paragraph, he describes when someone made pizza, saying the dough was “LATHERED in garlic oil”.
The term he probably meant was SLATHERED.


9 posted on 05/20/2022 3:58:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: waterhill

There is a place in Deep Ellum that sells NY style for 6 bucks a slice. Does not taste the same at all.


10 posted on 05/20/2022 3:59:02 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: waterhill

Ditto NYC, but in the late 50s & early 60s - 84th St something like that, where it seemed like every other shop was either a pizza place or a pastrami sandwich shop.


11 posted on 05/20/2022 3:59:02 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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I worked for Domino's, off and on, I won't say how long. Never again.

When one's fellow employees, including management, are bigger idiots than the customers, it's time to move on.

12 posted on 05/20/2022 4:00:03 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: lee martell

Maybe they put soap in the garlic oil?


13 posted on 05/20/2022 4:01:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Rennes Templar

I delivered pizza in college in the owner’s Chevy Vega. It was a good pizza and rattle trap POS car.


14 posted on 05/20/2022 4:02:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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Dominos is a sure step above Little Caesars, Costco, Sams, and many others. It has changed drastically over the years. I'll still eat it if it is only choice.

Currently my go-to is Blaze pizza and I get to pick what I want on it. Best solution.

15 posted on 05/20/2022 4:02:18 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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I don’t like Dominos very much. My folks like it though, and order delivery probably once a week. If they’re happy, I’m happy.


16 posted on 05/20/2022 4:02:25 PM PDT by FLNittany
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Heck yea. Though I’m more of a Sally’s kind of gal.

My ex-husband’s family also had a pizza place on Wooster street years ago. Maiorino’s


17 posted on 05/20/2022 4:02:37 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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To: nickcarraway

In my 52 years in USA as an adult, and after living in 5 states and traveling through all 49 except Hawaii, the best pizza I ever had was at Uno’s in Chicago downtown area back in 1960’s and through early 1980’s.

What was so good about it? It was served in a thick cast iron skillet in which the pizza was baked. It was thicker crust but not full of soggy tomato paste which is hallmark of deep dish pizza’s. The crust was never soggy or dry. Uno’s used imported Italian sausage and very good quality Mozzarella cheese and sun dried tomatoes, not tomato paste. Coriander seeds were visible the garlic flavor filled the nostrils.

This restaurant was very popular, and on weekend evenings, there were 100+ people waiting to get a table, all crammed inside the waiting room. Thank God covid was unheard of.


18 posted on 05/20/2022 4:03:10 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: nickcarraway

And BTW, I’ve always been disappointed in pizza around NYC. Who wants to eat a stale pizza, which seems to be the norm?


19 posted on 05/20/2022 4:03:50 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: SamAdams76
Pepe’s expanded opening a few more spots in CT. The one in the Mohegan Sun Casino is good. The spot they opened in Waterbury was terrible. I never went back. There are a few good pizza places in Waterbury. Dominic and Pia is good and Domenic And Vinny’s is too.
20 posted on 05/20/2022 4:04:25 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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