Pizza!!!

[Chavster]

Thats it. I knew there was another name for it but I couldnt remember what it was I thought you might just call it Roquette, the way you sometimes call a shop a shoppe

[marshd1000]

I'm OK with the chain pizza places.  But I don't eat much pizza on my own as we frequently get free pizza bought for us by sales reps at the carpet store I work at.  They usualy buy it from two independents here in Seattle.  One is called Luciano's (can you go wrong with a name like that?).  The other is called Stellar Pizza.  They are both quite stellar!

[TheSlyBear]

There's a local mini-chain (12 stores) named Austin's Pizza that makes really good pizza. And they deliver!

[buddha]

I have always liked veggie pizzas. Since beginning a plant based diet a month or so ago they have become even better for me. The only downside, at this point, is the cheese but what the hell is a pizza without cheese?
Pizza is the perfect food, it has everything I need. Crust, sauce, cheese, and grease.....the 4 basic food groups.
Lately I've been getting the take and bakes from Papa Murphy's. They load them up with veggies (cheese, too). Cheaper than baked pizza and better than most. My second favorite is Domino's Brooklyn Cheese Pizza. They cut the slices big and it's baked for folding. Mmmmmmm!

[Chavster]

OMG, Im a cheese freak. If I couldnt have cheese on pizza, i wouldnt have the pizza

I like pepperoni on pizza too but I'm a little wary about eating it in the UK. Even more wary than I am anywhere else, and I'm always wary about eating anything like that.

I now want pizza for dinner tonight

[TheSlyBear]

Life without cheese just ain't worth livin'!

[Slynito]

My wife loved Pizza Hut for a long time. I kept telling her that in the US she will taste the best Pizza in the world (and ice cream, too) just wait...Since arriving she has gone nutz over Pizza buffets, Chinese buffets and our great ice cream...and also entertaining tv commercials.

[buddha]

Ok, I know this may be a corny topic

Not so much a corny topic as a cheesy one!

[BaldHDbiker]

I love pizza. I try to avoid the national chains and buy from small local shops. Recently I've been making my own  from scratch and it's awesome. I was using an aluminum pizza pan but switched to a pizza stone and there it's a world of difference with the crust.

I like plain, onions and mushroom, pepperoni, garlic, most any but no anchovies.

[Chavster]

I went to Pizza Hut for lunch today. It sucked.

I ordered garlic bread with mozzarella (which was ok), but the pizza itself was grotesque. The base was almost completely raw on the bottom, and the toppings were undercooked. I sent it back, the waitress (serveperson  ) brought me another one, and it was the same.

Eww.

And 2 pieces of garlic bread, the undercooked pizza and a diet pepsi (eww, I'm a coke man) cost me £22.00, which is like $30 of your greenback dollars.

I was hungry, and it was either Pizza Hut or somewhere called Quizno Subs which I'd never heard of before.

[buddha]

I agree.  The franchises keep making changes to "pizza" in order to increase sales.  Around here there are so many good pizza places that I can't understand how the chains survive.

Up here in the northwoods the chains score successes over the local joints simply because of price, IMO. At Papa Murphy's I can score a huge family size pizza for about half of what the locals charge for a pizza that is 2 or 3 inches smaller. Same with Domino's. Our local Pizza Hut was recently struck by "lightning" but I was never a fan even before that.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

I was hungry, and it was either Pizza Hut or somewhere called Quizno Subs which I'd never heard of before.

Don't you have any locally owned places rather than Franchise Food Joints?  They may charge a little more, but it's real food, made fresh and many times without strange ingredients with names that sound like industrial plastics. 

[Razor X]

I was hungry, and it was either Pizza Hut or somewhere called Quizno Subs which I'd never heard of before.

Don't you have any locally owned places rather than Franchise Food Joints?  They may charge a little more, but it's real food, made fresh and many times without strange ingredients with names that sound like industrial plastics. 

I don't think I've ever seen a non-franchise pizza place in the UK. Not saying that there aren't any, just that I haven't seen them.  The chains seem to have a griphold on the market.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

I don't think I've ever seen a non-franchise pizza place in the UK. Not saying that there aren't any, just that I haven't seen them.  The chains seem to have a griphold on the market.

When I've been to the UK the absolute last thing I'd look or ask for is pizza or hamburger.  It would also be the last thing in Italy for that matter--pizza, a la franchise, is truly an American food.  I've never seen pepperoni in Italy either, sopressata--yes, pepperoni--no, I think that's another American thing.

[Chavster]

There probably are a handful of non-franchise/chain places in the UK (to serve 65 million people...), although I've never seen one, but generally speaking, if you want pizza, you go to either Pizza Hut or Pizza Express.

Other than that, people buy frozen ones which you throw into the oven. Or worse, frozen ones you throw into the microwave oven.

*X man vomit smiley*

However - I must add that the only place in America I ate pizza and actually enjoyed it was in New York. When I lived in Omaha, there was a place called (I think) Romeos which served fairly decent pizza, but the only place that I found 'good' pizza was in NYC. Chicago pizza (which is like a thick frisbee) totally 100% SUCKS.