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Pizza. Getting pizza for the family shouldn't cost over $70. Hell, eating out and fast food are exorbitantly expensive.
And yet the workers are still making shit wages. It’s absurd.
Welcome to capitalism.
Maybe you should tip more. /s
I hate this comment so much 🥲
I now just buy the large ready-to-bake supreme pizza at Aldi and just enhance it by adding mozarella and other toppings at home. $8 plus maybe $2 worth of extra stuff I put on it. Just like sushi, I really can’t justify paying too much for it when eating out.
Costco pizza is legit too
You mean from their food court, or their Kirkland brand freezer ones? I have wanted to try the food court ones, but if I get it home and it's not good then I'm both frustrated and need to find something else to eat, so I always pass it up since I don't know if it's good or not...
The food court one. It’s $10. What have you got to lose other than $10?
For me, time, effort, and of course the $10. I'm disabled so take a standard costco run, make it take 4x as long and physically difficult. Add taking a gamble on dinner as I leave and it's a make-or-break decision.
I'll have to give it a go the next time I'm there. I've had their ice cream and it's very good, but that's not a meal :p
if you're worried about it, just buy a slice.
they're weird so they slice it into 6 but that makes it a huuuge slice. well well well worth the $2 imo, it's certainly a loss leader for them (meaning the cost for them to make it is more than they charge you for it)
legitimately the best pizza I had in the years I spent living in Georgia.
Ooh, I didn't know you could get it by the slice. Nice!
the food court is a loss leader to get people to shop in the store, it works.
yes this is true. I think the soda is probably a profit but less than standard restaurant markups and nowhere near enough to cover the cost of running the food court (making it functionally also a loss)
also I'd imagine the chicken bake is upcycling the rotisserie chickens into less loss than if they were sold as rotisserie (and certainly more than if they threw them out)
also I've said loss too many times to not also say ~~:.|:;~~
remember the combo supreme.
Just get a slice next time you go through. Its $2, and you get a snack + qa. Imo, better than a lot of dedicated pizza shops, and cheaper
I didn't know they sold individual slices, I only saw people with full pies or hot dogs. I'll definitely grab one next time :D
The Motor City Pizza (if they sell at your Costco) in the frozen aisle is good too if you like deep dish. It's too meaty for my taste, but will do the trick in a pinch.
Yeah, that's the only frozen pizza that I like. It takes up a good chunk of the freezer for me though.
Try the pizza while you're in the store? It's not amazing pizza, but it's better than it should be.
the freshly made one is so-so, not great but for its prices its pretty good.
Yet people will pay 10 times the cost of the ingredients to have food delivered to them cold and half-eaten.
I've paid $70 for the pleasure of driving and picking up myself. Shit's ridiculous.
Oh god for me it was frozen pizza. I fucking love frozen pizza as an easy dinner night and used to be able to find Dr Oetkers for $4 a pizza. That shit is $13 now.
It kills me cause I still love it but I won't buy it :(
try costco pizza. 9.99. costco loves you.
Pizza in my corner of the world is still a reasonable price. First, there's cheap but delicious Little Caesars -- that's a go-to that I'm not at all embarrassed to admit. Then my local pizza shop can get me a XL pie and cheesy bread sticks for less than $20 out the door. My family of three always has leftovers from that for lunch the next day for someone but not everyone.
Any of the bougy "wood fired" blah blah blah boutique pizza grift stills costs a fortune here. But my little local pizza shop is a good NYC style slice, with normal pizza shop ingredients.
This is how I know you are full of it
Dude, if you were honest with yourself and the world, you'd agree.
It's not BAD. I don't mind it for the price. I would never claim that it's "delicious" either though. I'm from Detroit too. The Little Caesar's pizza at Little Caesar's Arena hits different. Albeit it's $30 more.
I, too, am originally from the Metro Detroit area. My Metro Detroit area chain pizza takes: Hungry Howies used to be better, I think (or I'm suffering rose colored hindsight). Jet's Pizza is still pretty good. Dominoes was never really good and despite their commercials, they've not gotten much better.
Hot take: Buddy's Pizza is overrated greasy dog shit.
I now live out of state, but I visit my family in SE Michigan every other month or so. I have a preference for Coney's too.
Best Detroit Style: Cloverleaf with a close second being green lantern.
Best Non-Detroit Style: Supino's in Eastern Market.
Best Coney: Duly's, but honestly National Coney Island just feels right.
Wtf? That's so fricking much...
A lot of my grocery stores have pizza dough ready to go thats about $2.50 and can be frozen. So if you buy your ingredients and a pizza stone, you can have some REALLY good pizza any time.
I like to put the sauce on, then toast the crust for about 4-5mins before putting the rest on. Keeps the crust crispy.
Also, a dough ball isnt as hard to fit in the fridge.