oreo pizza: WTF

You should make one, Kelsey!

I am turning 30 this year!

As is my best friend . . . I think she'd kill me if I made that for her though!

And, I would totally have to go the "two shades of poop" route instead of the tootsie roll poop route.

Ha, Chaki, YES, that is the Oreo sandwich I was talking about! The Oreos in that have somehow exaggerated the sort of grahamy / oaty taste that's so submerged in regular Oreos. Extremely good.

The beauty of the ChocoTaco is that it's taken a classy ice-cream treat -- a waffle bowl filled with ice cream and topped with chocolate -- and folded it up into a self-contained imitation Mexican food. It's the best thing since the GelatoEnchilada.

The FroYoBurro

Actually every other "dessert version of Mexican food" I can imagine just winds up looking like a cannoli.

Waffledillas

Push-Pop Tamales

OTOH: fried ice cream

http://www.christianziebarth.com/images/eltorito3.jpg

I want a sopapilla SO BAD right now

erotic flan

there's a salvadorean place down the street that makes 'em with buñuelo batter, i think imma have to go after this thread

remy have you ever been to ALEGRIA in silver lake?

they do a chocolate chimichanga--almond hershey's bar wrapped in a tortilla, deep fried and covered with chocolate syrup & hand-whipped cream

SOOO GOOD

^^^^
WANT

Relating a bit to what nabisco said upthread, I feel "wtf" about chain pizza places' food offerings in general. When I was a kid, I remember Pizza Hut ended up having three varieties of pizza at one point, and that seemed like a big deal at the time. (original pan, thin & crispy, and, uh, "hand-tossed"). Thing is, they were all pretty decent.

But, somewhere along the way, Pizza Hut and Domino's started introducing a different variety seemingly every few months, and each time it was as if they were trying to up the ante on the disgusting factor. At this point I think they are up to quadruple stuffed-crust cheese 'n' buffalo wings meat lover's dipping nugggets, or something like that. It does seem to really be heading in the direction of Japanese-style "pizza". I'm half-expecting next month's offering to include chopped-up frankfurters and mayo on top of a tuna, bacon, and cheese-whiz-stuffed cinnamon-tortilla crust.

i haven't, max -- but i've heard about it a lot. maybe i'll check it out this weekend?

stuffed crust is not by itself something I have any negative feelings about.

Yeah but why can't they stuff the crust with just regular pizza cheese? Why this cream-cheese-textured abomination? I mean, don't get me wrong--more cheese on a pizza is A++, but does it have to be that shit?

"hazlenut meatballs"

remy whenever you go make sure u get the dessert

guys this looks delicious

I think the issue is that pizza chains are working with materials that aren't even 10% as sophisticated as a Taco Bell: they just have endless freezer/vat supplies of dough/sauce/cheese and a few vacuum bags of toppings, and then they run them through a conveyor-belt oven. Anything else they want to serve you has to be crappy enough to fit into a system with no real kitchen and no real ingredients -- it pretty much has to come straight out of a bag. Half the time it doesn't even come out, and you get a sealed plastic packet at home. These people just aren't in any position to pretend to be able to make anything other than cheap pizza.

Now, see, a McDonald's, at least they've got a deep-fryer, and a bunch of microwaves, and stuff! They've got the tools to actually pretend to do stuff, now and then!

this thread otm what hath man wrought! can't wait til pizza technology achieves sentience and forcefeeds us all the cheese jizz enemas we so clearly desire. dassa spicy meatball! LOL

Yeah but why can't they stuff the crust with just regular pizza cheese?

otm x 1000

the stuffing is the problem. stop being gross

Is the stuffing supposed to be ricotta-ish?

Yeah, sort of, except it's obviously not ricotta--it's like they took a fast food approach (make everything greasier, tastier) to making something that's a bit of classier and ended up in no man's land.

I like what you were thinking, Pizza Hut; I too have dreamt about having melted cheese ooze out of everything into which I bite. But it can't be just any melted cheese, oh no. IF YOU'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING, DO IT RIGHT.

should read: "it's like they took a fast food approach (make everything greasier, tastier) to imitating something that's a bit classier"

OLIVE GARDEN TAKE NOTE

Oreos are terrible already, on a pizza with that goo they look frightening.

Its funny though, an old pizza restaurant from my hometown thats been around since the early 70s used to have a dessert pizza on its menu. It was a thin crust and it had cream cheese, sultanas and cinammon/icing sugar. Kind of morroccan or something I guess.

I never tried one though.

i misspoke, the act of stuffing things into the crawlspaces of the pizza is the problem. do people not know they can buy cheese all by itself, in big solid blocks? totally legal, have at it! let poor pizza hut concentrate on getting actual pizza right.

Just out of curiosity, how unpalatable is Olive Garden's food? The worst restaurant of that ilk that I've ever eaten at was Applebee's.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Olive Garden is perfectly fine. So is Applebee's, really, if they don't screw anything up.

I just got xposted by a MACHINE

Also, am I totally off in remembering Pizza Hut's food as being pretty good up through, say, the early '90's? I have a feeling that they took a serious dive south in the last dozen years or so. But maybe a distorted memory plus my then-youthful and inexperienced young palate make for a loss of credibility points in asserting this to be the case.

BAN TREMENDOID

Well, I've had one meal in my life at Applebee's and it was pretty wretched, and basically seemed like the kind of thing that couldn't be screwed up (it was fish and chips-- so I assume that it's the kind of thing that they just dig out of the vacuum-sealed bag and throw into a fryer...

xxp The beginning of the end was that huge 'monster' pizza they started selling, the cheese on that was inedible. I don't think they went wholesale to that type of cheese(they wouldn't still be in business) but a bunch of changes were made to the cheese and consistency of the pizzas, to the point that now their default pizza is all sloppy like a hot pocket turned inside out. not my thing.

I think, also, that they stopped putting beer in the cheese.

then-youthful and inexperienced young palate

durr. Hunger-induced tautology.

Thanks, tremedoid. That would make sense; the lower-quality cheese thing and probably adjustments to the crust recipe and stuff. I had a couple of slices at a friend's place earlier in the year, and it was not what I remembered it once being.

Hot pocket turned inside-out, ack!

I can't help but wonder what GARU G would have to say about the "kitty litter cake" pic upthread.

hmm.

http://inlinethumb54.webshots.com/17909/2126521250068014149S425x425Q85.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/525t4i0.jpg

^^ scene from Domino's test kitchen