OT: Little Caesars Hot n' Ready: Delicious pizza with great value? Or low class garbage?
On a whim tonight, I decided to pick up a Hot n Ready pizza. Not a frequent pizza eater, but was very hungry and wanted something tasty right away. I have to say, for the price it's actually pretty decent pizza. I used to make fun of it in the past, but in a world where you can't even get lunch for under $8, they've certainly converted me.
I thought I'd pose this question to the MGoBlogosphere. Is this good value pizza? Or just rubbish?
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It's complete dogshit.
But for $5 with the butter parm on the crust, I can chow
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I'm just picturing Frank Reynolds saying this and it's perfect.
You nailed it. It's decent when it's fresh, but it is the worst when it cools down.
I always preferred Little Sewers
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Trader Joe's has some decent frozen pies.
Garbage. Though i don't care for takeout pizza in general.
If you're going to Caesar, ask them to make you one well done. That way you get one that's right out of the oven ... and it's actually cooked sufficiently. Most of the hot and readys seem to be underdone.
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Just spend the extra $3 and get the deep dish. It's actually palatable.
I can't bring myself to do it.
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Have never even considered eating a $5 Hot & Ready.
I haven't considered Little Caesar's a food item in years. The cardboard likely is better than what they consider pizza. It is the worst of the worst. I live in NYC and occasionally see someone with one of those boxes and wonder why. Why would anybody eat that? Can it possibly satisfy anything?
No. Just no.
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I always assume it's East Coasters who have never had anything else. Give me Detroit or Chicago anytime over NY style. NY pizza is just a thin slice of grease
I agree. Also, NY style doesn't usually have a lot of sauce and is often charred. IMO, sauce is the best part and really makes a pizza great.
Sauce. THE most important ingredient.
I'm also a sauce guy, but good NY style (especially New Haven or Jersey Shore) tends to be my favorite. I'm non denominational though, and love a good Detroit or Chicago pizza, but for me the key is a tasty sauce and roughly a 1:1:1 ratio of sauce/crust/cheese. My biggest problem with pizza is either a bland sauce or not enough sauce.
Zap Paks
Ok pizza / $5 vs. Good pizza / $15
If I want decent pizza for cheap, Little Caesar's is great
If I want really good pizza, Little Caesar's ain't the place to go
At least it's not Dominos, amirite?
Hey now
Dominos got quite a bit better after DB left to come to Michigan.
Sense any pattern here?
Not only that, but they based their entire marketing campaign on how they were changing their ways with new management and focusing on actually making good pizza.
The entire marketing campaign seemed to be a huge F U to DB.
My guess is that they've gradually decreased quality to keep the price at $5 over that time. Now they are releasing the new deep dish items with higher margins to subsidise the $5 round.
Also, pizza is literally the highest margin commerical food product in world (after soft drinks).
Its right up there with movie theatre popcorn.