defend the indefensible: SBARRO

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The only place here I've ever seen Sbarro is at the airport. All it seems to be is very overpriced, very poor quality "Italian" food about as nice looking as a reheated frozen pizza. Maybe it isnt the same thing here tho.

-- Trayce (spamspanke...), July 30th, 2005.

sbarro is horrid. how it is here is how you described it, trayce.

-- oops (don'temailmenicelad...), July 30th, 2005.

sbarro.
you will like it. or else.

-- donut debonair (do...), April 21st, 2005.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

this is the REAL reason why olive garden won't work in NYC -- if we want shitty italian, we already have sbarros!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

my mom made me eat there today and it made work very uncomfortable for me later

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

It was very exciting when Sbarro first came to East View Mall outside Rochester when I was in high school. I remember kids talking about how HUGE the slices were. I would always get one whenever I went there, and wash it down with an orange julius from the Orange Julius place. ... The funny thing is, it didn't feel pathetic at the time.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha i had it at the greece ridge mall.
that should have been my first warning sign that it was a bad idea.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Um, it's fucking great, actually. I prefer it to many new york pizzarias, though not all. Bravo is fucking great, too. Pizza Hut is uniquely good. Little Ceasar's sucks the wang. Papa John's looks SO much better than it tastes for some reason.

― Watch Man, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

this is the REAL reason why olive garden won't work in NYC -- if we want shitty italian, we already have sbarros!

Isn't there a big old Olive Garden right smack dab in the middle of Times Square that's always chock full?

― Watch Man, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

Isn't there a big old Olive Garden right smack dab in the middle of Times Square that's always chock full?

yeah, but that's for stupid tourists. so it doesn't count.

besides, if they didn't eat @ olive garden, they'd eat at some place even shittier -- like tad's steaks.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

Palestinian students walk under a replica of a Sbarro pizza restaurant sign, which reads "Kosher" in Hebrew, during the opening of an exhibition at Al Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus, Sunday, Sept. 23, 200. The Sbarro section of the exhibition is a replica of the Aug. 9 Sbarro suicide bombing which killed 15 Israelis and the bomber in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

and..

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was in Manila for a wedding five years ago and we spent most our time in the mall during the day because the heat was completely oppressive. And I ate at Sbarro every single day, because we were vegetarian and had a hard time finding anything else w/out meat. So Sbarro's cheese pizza kept me alive for five days.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha i had it at the greece ridge mall.

That's all modernized and spiffed up and everything now, right? And didn't it kind of sprawl over and absorb Greece Town Mall too? Last time I was there, like 12 years ago, those places were still sort of rundown and full of great wacky '70s "installations" and stuff. One of them had this like shag-carpeted relaxation pit.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

greece ridge is still ghetto.
marketview is garbage.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

I love my spelling errors. Sometimes I just sit back and marvel at them, wondering what that part of my brain was doing when I typed it.

― Watch Man, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

greece ridge is still ghetto.
marketview is garbage.

Poor Rochester. I guess it's hard with Kodak evaporating and all.

But you've still got Sbarro, I guess.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was really hoping this thread would be about sbarro, the bonkers/tasteless car designer and modifier!

― haitch to the izz-o (haitch), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 06:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

I had this shit exactly once, in a belgian railway station. I chose a slice of seafood pizza, it barely tasted like pizza at all. So memorably bad that I tore off the "sbarro" logo from the cardboard thingie under the slice, to remind myself of the worst pizza I've ever eaten. Just think of it, if I hadn't done that, I probably would've totally forgotten the name, and thus would never have posted on this thread! Heavy shit, man.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

i remember going to visit a friend in long island when i was in high school and he said 'let's get pizza, there's this great italian place i know...' and he took me to sbarro. i don't think he was kidding, and it wasn't just that he was cheap (we also ate tavern on the green several times), i think he genuinely thought it was great.

when i worked at the mall in college, sbarro was a quick easy meal that didn't cost too much, although i wouldn't eat there unless i was trapped at work for 7 or 8 hours at least.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

umm...I think I grabbed a pizza or two there once.

how 'icky' of me....

what other 'embarrassing' food have I eaten?

― mickey raft (mickeygraft), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

how bad can it be?!? its pizza!

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Good grief, I had forgotten about Sbarro. We had one in Woking for a while and it was teh hip. I think they must have put an end to UK ops because I haven't seen one for ages.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

yall are spoiled as hell, this shit is like fancy dining to me

― _, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 10:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

better pizza than you can get in the UK.

― a, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

I've never had it be bad, just not great. At least its not bready and cheese-poor, that is the worst. It might be worse overseas.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think it's among the greasiest pizza I've had. Not that that's always a bad thing, but it's not always welcome, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's a Sbarro in Euston Station...

How is it pronounced? What does it mean?

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Spar-oh is close enough. Is it somebody's name?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://www.sbarro.com/welcome/history.cfm

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

As far as mall food court places go, there are worse. As a standalone restaurant, this place has to suck. Fazoli's might beat it, easily, although I can't remember if they serve pizza.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

The pizza at Fazoli's is dire. Worse than Sbarro because they try to make it with a thicker crust.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ew ew EW. I used to always pass through the WTC concourse when I was hungry (some kind of space-time continuum warp, I'm sure) and the Sbarros always smelled so yummy and tomato-saucy and all those good things. And then I'd be SUCKERED into a slice which would have turned to SILICONE PUTTY under the heat lamps and would nevertheless cost me, like, five bucks. And then something insidious in the waxy cheese would go to my brain and ZIP wipe out the memory of exactly how bad it was, SO I'D DO IT AGAIN NEXT TIME.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

the summer between i my freshman and sophomore years of college i worked at a bank, where i was employed aside the heiress to the sbarro fortune -- her parents thought that if she had a job, she'd develop some business acumen. too bad she was as dumb as a post, and as a bonus, totally condescending to, racist regarding, and suspicious of her maid. also she spoke in such a way that it was pretty much impossible to understand her, which was a problem since we all worked as bank tellers and had to deal with the public every day.

this did not stop her from being kicked into the management track midway through the summer though.

also, the cheese they use on their pizza is nasty. put that shit on a comics page and it'll copy every drawing upside-down.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, it's chain pizza, but it's really not that bad. I like the "stuffed" slices where there is a thin layer of crust on top.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

put that shit on a comics page and it'll copy every drawing upside-down.

Wow, pretty cool! I'm going to have to remember to try this the next time I find myself there.

Actually I always thought their pizza was passable (not great), if over-priced.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

i got food poisoning from a sbarro's once. but yeah, there are worse places.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is Fazoli's the place where someone walks around with a basket and tongs giving you an endless supply of free chewy breadsticks? If so, no contest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

TONG FAN

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

ihttp://www.matsonfilms.com/img/1Sheet.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Me and Sisqo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's pretty delicious and it's only in the mall at a stand. They also have caffeine free Mr. Pibb.

I used to know this completely stupid girl who called it "sharpo." I tried to explain it to her, have her sound it out, but no go.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

HOW MANY SBARROS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY TERRORISM? 2 AT LEAST!

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is Fazoli's the place where someone walks around with a basket and tongs giving you an endless supply of free chewy breadsticks?

It is! I used to go there all the time when we lived in Ohio!

― Mun K.E. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

The pasta is AWFUL though.

― Mun K.E. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have gotten sick 3x after eating at Fazoli's. Never again.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

pizaa ONLY at Sbarro's, dude

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

The pizza is mediocre. One thing I will say though - some of them have this by-the-pound food bar which is not bad. You can get some chicken, pasta, and even vegetables at rest stops where your only other options is KFC or Burger King.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

they have pasta at sbarro's?!

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

you'd need a hazmat suit for that shit

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah. avoid.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

i remember the WTC sbarro -- i was also "tricked" into eating there a few times. the food was the very definition of "meh."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

The worst is when you're really hungry and get a ton of food from a semi crappy place... like Sbarro. After your first slice you make like 3 bites on the second and have no more desire to eat it.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

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man maybe that was the right place for that picture, i would go to sbarro if it was staffed by baby wookies or whatever that thing is

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 03:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

13 year olds who haven't discovered hanging out in denny's

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 03:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

I was trying to find a pic of a Sbarro hat to put on that wookie dog, but GIS has failed me.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 03:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

also, Support Eric Murphy. Buy Sbarro Sauce

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 03:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

i cant hate on sbarro too much. they introduced me to a baked ziti dish which i have been addicted to ever since.

― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 10:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

"HEY! GIVE SBARRO A CHANCE! JUST FUCKIN TRY IT, A'RIGHT?"

― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 17:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

yearly sbarro thread revival ... YAY

― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Monday, 19 October 2009 04:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Monday, 19 October 2009 04:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Monday, 19 October 2009 04:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

Why has no one pointed out that S'barro is fast food speak for 'it's burro' (as in meat source)?

― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 19 October 2009 04:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

if sbarro goes out of business then I can put them back on my resume

― hatchet, axe and saw supervisor (CaptainLorax), Monday, 19 October 2009 05:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

and i think that i ate at that sbarro in euston station when i was last in the UK!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, October 20, 2006 2:56 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That sbarro is now gone! (The only place I would eat at euston station)
― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, October 20, 2006 3:10 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

SBARRO.

― richard melville hell (crüt), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

SBARRO!

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better?!? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

SBARRO?

― polymath & psychics club (Lamp), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

My friend was a manager of Sbarro for a week. He told me the secret seasoning for their jojo potatoes is paprika. Try not to abuse this Sbarro secret!

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

If I have my way, this secret will die with me, or even sooner.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

i've always said that a little paprika goes a LONG way ...

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better?!? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's the WMD of the spice world.

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better?!? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

YUP (re Michael Scott)

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better?!? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 08:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

SUGGESTBARRO

― Aerosol, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

when i knew no better i loved their ziti. in fact i prob would still like it.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

ha! was just going to say that their ziti is sort of great in a "I'm at the airport and this is the best shitty food I'm going to get so why the hell not" sort of way.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 14:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

3rded about their ziti and lasagna ... it's at least edible (if never great), and i'd eat Sbarro ziti and lasagna before i'd eat same from Olive Garden or certain non-chain pizza joints.

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better?!? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

I've never been to Olive Garden and I kind of want to change that.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

their breadsticks are delicious

― akm, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

and never ending

― akm, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

I have heard this rumor.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

BANGKRUPTCY.
NABKIN DISPENDER.

― andrew m., Friday, 1 April 2011 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

― LISTEN SHITBIRD (rip van wanko), Saturday, 2 April 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

No one will miss Sbarro. But expecting it to be "Italian" is like expecting German food at a hot dog stand. Stick with the pizza, fake marinara is the worst thing on earth!

― don't smurf (u s steel), Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

SBARRO. NOT PIZZA PROBLEM. CHANE STOREFRODS IN MALLS, IS DOUBLE WHAMY. TRAFFIC DOWN. CONSUBERS PUT AWAY WALITS. CAN'T BOOST REVANUE. CAN'T ADD BREKFESET OR LATE MENU. NOT LIKE OTHER CHANE. COMPEDIDORS LIKE DOMANO AND PIZZUT NO DEBT. STRONG CASH FLOW. INTENISY PRESSURE ON SBARRO AS KEY DET PAYMENTS COME DUE IN 2009.

― mumps (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:01 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

beaten to the punch ... i hope the Sbarro thread can live on though!

― a regular Brick City Britney, she is. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

worst fukn food

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

seems like it would burn

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

i didn't know t✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ had a finance degree!

― j., Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

http://www.slate.com/id/2293006/pagenum/all/#p2

slate officially half a decade behind ilx

― goole, Thursday, 5 May 2011 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

I swear so many journalists crib their ideas from ilx

― dayo, Thursday, 5 May 2011 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

I laughed out loud reading most of this; a shame he didn't visit Sbarro locations at interstate rest stops.

― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2011 01:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

Pizza Hut is emphasizing its "WingStreet" brand

― Audrey Tuomason (dayo), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

I swear so many journalists crib their ideas from ilx

― dayo, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 8:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ditto

― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

we should sue!

― Dziękuję bardzo panie robocie (Eisbaer), Thursday, 5 May 2011 03:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

Blair Chancey, editor of fast-food trade journal QSR magazine, told me that Sbarro's target demographic is "young, hungry males," and this might be so. But it also seems as though Sbarro courts the indifferent eater—tourists, children, people who just want a slice and a place to sit while they talk about the amazing pants they saw on sale at The Limited.

like we suspected ... sbarro targeted hungry bros and Michael Scott.

― Dziękuję bardzo panie robocie (Eisbaer), Thursday, 5 May 2011 03:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

the dispender demo

― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Thursday, 5 May 2011 03:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

I swear so many journalists crib their ideas from ilx

― dayo, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 8:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ditto

― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 7:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

rolling thread?

― dblake (symsymsym), Thursday, 5 May 2011 07:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

Aww, Sbarro…

― naus, Thursday, 5 May 2011 13:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

NAPKIN DISPENDER.

― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:56 (9 months ago) Permalink

I swear Little Caesar's is infinitely better. But all they have are 2-second pizzas and yummy breadsticks.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Civil Rights Day at the Fucking Ballpar (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:55 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

My brother-in-law just gave me this as a wedding gift at the groom's dinner:

― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

u read my mind eric h. i knew it was time for the yearly revival of this thread.

also lol @ that t-shirt.

― spicy bacon, bitch! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 20 October 2012 04:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

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