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If this is the pizza for 36 $ I feel pitty for humanity.
Someone, who probably works a shitty job that pays mostly for their rent, comes home way too tired and depressed to cook. Orders a pizza that looks absolutely underwhelming. For money that is equivalent for a month of food in another country.
You’re forgetting the neutron star on the side
Like how I feel when someone puts the dollar sign after the number
Per DIN 5008 before and after the value is legitimate.
MVP
Modern problems, not sure if it’s the original tweet image or they used AI to autocomplete the image…
it is, i was infuriated by the cropping situation and took 2 minutes of my time to visit the evil site to save the original picture in the reply :)
Your sacrifice will be remembered…tracked, cookied, and geotagged.
Ok thanks for the effort then!.
Not sure why people downvoted my comment tough anyway doesn’t matter.
then dw bt it
What?
if you cant tell then dont worry about it
I’m in Canada, when I order pizza for my family of 3 it comes out to like $65+ with tax and delivery, it’s insane. Took them to burger king the other day, we got 3 meals and a couple of apple turnovers and it came out to $50+, shit is insane.
Tfw burger king costs same as sit down
Nah man, sit downs have doubled in price too. I took them to a sit down place a few months back and it came out to like $150
Bro 50€ a person is getting into michelin star territory over here
Damn dawg you must be real sitting
You gotta order online and use their apps and newsletters it can cut the price by half if not more. They are making their prices punitive for not using their apps now. Domino’s should be about $8 a pizza.
They’re giving you a discount via app because they’re collecting your data
Oh for sure, but the alternative is getting scammed. 😔
You’re still getting scammed it’s just less immediately obvious
What’s that 20$ per pizza. 3 pizzas? That’s pricy pizza. Is it good pizza at least?
Nah…
Maaan!! That’s crazy prices! Have you ever tried buying a frozen marg pizza and putting ur own toppings on. That’s what I do and it usually costs way less with minimal effort.
In Romania a pizza is $4-6 for a small one and for a large one $8-10
We (loc: krautland) totally stopped ordering take-out. It gets less and less, worse and worse, cheaper and cheaper, but also more and more expensive. It’s not worth it anymore. At all.
We may be just some cheap fucks (as many still do, even those with way less moneyz), but takeout is no viable alternative to cooking anymore.
The Chinese food place near me still sells lunch specials for <10$. It’s the only place I order out from anymore and it will probably close soon.
Yeah, we have one like that (just classic german) here too. The last fighting survivor…
Gustavo Gusto frozen pizza is better than at least 80% of delivery pizza anyway, so I just stock those.
Oh is it? Often seen, never tried. We will try next time!
Though the majority of delivery (or even fresh there) is not what a pizza should be and no real competition for self-made or frozen. Here in the Ruhrgebiet at least. They all just seem like money-laundering-stations with mediocre pizza 😩
I saw Home Alone on TV during Christmas and the cheese pizza Kevin orders from Little Nero’s was $12 or $13. I’m impressed and grateful that I can still get a pizza for that price sometimes like 35 years later. Cheaper if I go to Caesars and pick up
Their crazy bread is like crack to me I stg
It’s still a better price for what you are getting, but somehow a large Little Caesars pizza is only as filling as like three or four slices from anywhere else. I can easily finish it in one sitting. But you can’t complain about $5.55 for a whole pizza. And the “Hot-N-Ready!” signs have been making me giggle for 20 years.
…and they’re still asking for tips.
It all went downhill when they let the delivery people set the prices
…?
If you are culinary challenged like myself but would like to making pizza at home, here’s some suggestions:
Frozen grocery store cheese pizza but fancied up by adding whatever topping you are in the mood for. An “Italian seasoning” spice adds a lot of flavor.
Instead of a traditional pizza dough opt for something simpler like French bread or pitas. Slather on sauce, cheese, toppings. This was my introduction to “cooking” when I was broke.
Pre-made pizza crust like Boboli which is nice but ups the cost. You can also buy uncooked dough though I’ve never gone this route. I tried making my own dough back when bread machines were a thing but I could never get the hand of it.
Robin Hood pizza flour. I’m sure there are other brands but this is what our mom would use to make pizza most weekends. Now that I’m thinking about I’ll have to pick some up
I feel about the word “slather” the way a lot of people seem to feel about the word moist.
I really miss RES. I would tag people like you so I could always use the word slather whenever I saw you again.
Best possible use of RES, lol.
I would slather that tag next to your name.
Doesn’t Lemmy have a built-in tag thingy? Or did I install some script that I’m forgetting about…
Not that I ever noticed. Right now I’m on my phone and I use connect. I’ll look next time I’m at my computer
Let’s wish someone is working on a Lemmy Enhancement Suite to give us that functionality again.
Or better: someone seeing missing RES functionality and turning it into feature requests, which get rolled out to everyone as Lemmy updates.
I hope whatever they are slathering is moist.
Should I change it to “spread”? because I’m sure that will make somebody uncomfortable
No, “spread” doesn’t carry the same enthusiasm, vigor and volume of sauce that “slather” does…
You can make tortilla pizza.
Yes! We use mission low carb wraps (they seem to crisp up better) and spread tomato puree on top, then season it with garlic salt and Italian herbs, add clumps of grated cheese, and then toppings.
The trick is to preheat the oven to 400 with a cast iron in, and then spray with oil when you take it out ready to cook on (use gloves, it’ll be hot). Carefully transfer the pizza to the hot pan, return to oven, and cook for 10 mins. Depending on the toppings, and if you like it a little more top crispy, switch the oven to broil at the 8 min mark for the last two mins.
My new obsession is a little smidge of grated brussel sprouts (don’t knock it til you try it) with an oil spritz.
I’m probably going to try this, thanks for the write up.
Just yesterday I looked at the calorie count for my favorite frozen pizzas (Detroit Supreme, ~2400) and realized I need to cut it out entirely. This might soften the blow.
Yeah most pizzas run 300-400 cals a slice. If I really try to go easy on the cheese I can make a tortilla pizza for 500 cals.
I also make a wicked delicious lasagna without pasta sheets (sub for zucchini and kale layers). We designed it to fit our keto macros and I’ve kept it on rotation even though we’re only moderate low carb now.
Is it as fun to make as it is to say?
For years I’ve improved frozen pizzas by just adding more mozzarella.
You know if you order pizza from a place that’s actually good, which is to say not Dominos or Pizza Hut, then that’s actually a fair price. That’s how much I pay including tip and delivery. In Chicagoland.
I remember when you could get a large pizza at Little Caesar’s for $5.
I remember when Little Cesar’s didn’t suck, but that didn’t last either.
I haven’t had it in years, but I used to think their crazy bread was the shit. Sorry to hear it’s gotten awful like everything else.
There are a bunch near me but only two of them don’t suck. Prices are still super competitive too, can get two large pizzas a crazy combo and some sauces for under $20
Making your own stuff is more fun than ordering delivery and watching TV while you wait for it to get there
Maybe it’s where I live but most people don’t have pizza stoves or pizza ovens at home
Pretty sure you can get by with an oven
A pizza oven hits 900F and space above to create a jet stream which cooks the toppings. You can get by with a regular oven but it wont be like a pizza from a pizza oven
I figured a regular oven wouldn’t be as good as a pizza oven, just hate to see someone “roadblock” themselves. FWIW I used to finish my pizzas by putting them under the broiler for a minute.
If you don’t have a cast iron pan, you should get one. A basic Lodge does the job as good as any (it’s just a hunk of iron). It’s super easy to use a cast iron pan to make pizza.
Really? I was considering a pizza stone for our oven.
If you can afford the space or whatever, and want one, get a pizza stone. I have never used one, so I can’t comment on it. I have used my 12" cast iron to make a lot of pizzas and there are many “cast iron pizza” recipes out there. It’s super easy and it’s one of the very few things that I can say I’ve yet to totally screw up cooking.
Guess what kind of oven you have after you put a pizza in it
Likely still a conventional oven that doesn’t have the temperature or airflow that a pizza oven does.
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Make pizza at home. Stop falling into poverty traps.
I understand wanting to give people the tools to help themselves but it’s also important to keep in mind that this sort of logic has been used to punish the poor and victim blame for any excess pleasure expenditure.
Poverty is a symptom of a failing system and does not fall solely on the individual to escape.
Pizza is an exception in my book because I can never make it as good at home as they do in a restaurant kitchen.
