I want a sopapilla SO BAD right now
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 September 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
erotic flan
― chaki, Thursday, 13 September 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a salvadorean place down the street that makes 'em with buñuelo batter, i think imma have to go after this thread
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 September 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
remy have you ever been to ALEGRIA in silver lake?
― max, Thursday, 13 September 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
they do a chocolate chimichanga--almond hershey's bar wrapped in a tortilla, deep fried and covered with chocolate syrup & hand-whipped cream
― max, Thursday, 13 September 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
SOOO GOOD
^^^^ WANT
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't, max -- but i've heard about it a lot. maybe i'll check it out this weekend?
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
stuffed crust is not by itself something I have any negative feelings about.
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"hazlenut meatballs"
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
remy whenever you go make sure u get the dessert
― max, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
guys this looks delicious
― Curt1s is coming to Zwinktopia !, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― tremendoid, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah but why can't they stuff the crust with just regular pizza cheese?
otm x 1000
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the stuffing is the problem. stop being gross
― tremendoid, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Is the stuffing supposed to be ricotta-ish?
― Laurel, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Trayce, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Olive Garden is perfectly fine. So is Applebee's, really, if they don't screw anything up.
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
BAN TREMENDOID
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I think, also, that they stopped putting beer in the cheese.
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
then-youthful and inexperienced young palate
durr. Hunger-induced tautology.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't help but wonder what GARU G would have to say about the "kitty litter cake" pic upthread.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm.
http://inlinethumb54.webshots.com/17909/2126521250068014149S425x425Q85.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i3.tinypic.com/525t4i0.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ scene from Domino's test kitchen
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
lol looks like a still from Cronenberg's Shivers
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i love oreos and oreo flavored things but this is just nasty
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cookiemadness.net/ddloreos%20007.jpg
^^^^^ ¿Dondé comprar?
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd hit it.
― G00blar, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
cakesters: y or n?
― jeff, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
It can't be that bad.
― Jeff, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ok this half-assed oreo pizza thing is gross and dumb but srsly - people don't like oreos??? i haven't had any in years (!) so maybe it's a childhood nostalgia thing but oreos are good! oh but also i remember american friends/aquaintances always saying that canadian oreos were like 345234 times better than american oreos. i don't think i've ever tried american oreos. wld do this taste test though.
― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
siding with american, however, i do want to try a chocotaco one of these days and i don't think they exist here. oreo ice cream and ice cream sandwiches do though, and they are goood.
― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oreo milkshakes or oreos in ice cream are good
― latebloomer, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
chocotacos are down by law, u have to get them with the shells properly stale and chewy = delight. oreos are alright i guess, i don't bother with them.
― tremendoid, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
God the ad for this stuff is so fucking disgusting. Sorry I'm late to the party.
― 31g, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link