Location
You're never going to believe this, but one of the best pizzas I have had is at the Wolfgang Pizza Express station in the B terminal of O'hare international airport in Chicago. I had a 35 minute layover and desperately needed some food. I stopped and was happy to find a BBQ chicken pizza on the overhead menu. The precooked pizzas are flash fired in a woodfire oven and then slid into a to go box before your credit card receipt pops out. Needless to say, I was a little leery. I was also starving.
The Pizza
...was delicious. The crust was fantastic and the cheese was actually pretty high quality. It was a small pizza, but pretty impressive for fast food. It had chicken, sauce, onions, another ingredient I'm forgetting and cilantro. More on that in a minute.
The Chicken
The meat on this pizza was chunk chicken, probably from frozen. However, it was not chewy or squishy, so I was satisfied.
The Sauce and the Taste
The sauce was really delicious and I was just annoyed that there wasn't more of it on the pizza. The taste overall, I have to say, was brilliant. The cilantro is a move that no other pizza place has tried and it was a smashing success. The cilantro complimented the barbecue sauce and the onions and made it aromatic. Seriously, the secret to good bbq chicken pizza is cilantro. Who would have guessed?
Overall
Delicious. Even more so considering it was cooked by a minimum wage goon at a food court. I mean, the cilantro must have been Wolfgang's decision, but still. I was really satisfied. I ate the whole thing with 5 minutes to spare before boarding.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Domino's (C+)
The Location
People like to trash on Domino's pizza. I do, too. The stuff is vile. At the same time, it's one of two things that I can get delivered to my door at 10PM. Also, if you get the right toppings it can be pretty tasty.
The Pizza
I ordered two pizzas, this time, for two reasons. First, I want to have some alternate pizzas to compare the BBQ chicken to. Second, they sucker you into it with an online coupon. It was just cheaper to get two mediums than one large. Anyway, I ate some of the other pizza (which had pepperoni and sausage) and found it to be pretty nasty. I do like the seasoned crust that Domino's started using a year or two ago. However, overall, piss poor showing. On the other hand, the BBQ chicken pizza (which I ordered with onions) turned out to be fairly tasty. So I will say that our delivery-inventing friends at Domino's lose points in the overall pizza quality...but that's only one part of the BBQ chicken evaluation process.
The Chicken
It's white meat and recognizable, which is a step above some places. It's frozen, though, and was obviously sliced in some kind of industrial process. It's factory chicken. It wasn't chewy, though, I will give it that.
The Sauce and the Taste
The sauce was used as the base of the pizza, which I will admit that I like. Unfortunately, it has a chemically sort of taste that gets in your nostrils. That's not...necessarily a bad thing. I think a lot of barbecue sauces taste like chemicals. Hell, they ARE chemicals. At the same time, Domino's is impressing no one with their sauce.
At the same time, I will say that something about this pizza really worked. I think it was the combination of the chemically sweet sauce, the naturally sweet onions and the garlic salt on the crust. For some reason, all those flavors worked really well together.
Overall
I can't tell you that this was a good pizza. You wouldn't believe me and I wouldn't believe myself. However, I also can't stand here and tell you I didn't enjoy eating this mass produced monstrosity. I did enjoy it. I fucking enjoyed it. There was something satisfying about my gooey, salty-sweet mess of protein and sugar. I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed that it arrived at my door. I give Domino's a C+.
People like to trash on Domino's pizza. I do, too. The stuff is vile. At the same time, it's one of two things that I can get delivered to my door at 10PM. Also, if you get the right toppings it can be pretty tasty.
The Pizza
I ordered two pizzas, this time, for two reasons. First, I want to have some alternate pizzas to compare the BBQ chicken to. Second, they sucker you into it with an online coupon. It was just cheaper to get two mediums than one large. Anyway, I ate some of the other pizza (which had pepperoni and sausage) and found it to be pretty nasty. I do like the seasoned crust that Domino's started using a year or two ago. However, overall, piss poor showing. On the other hand, the BBQ chicken pizza (which I ordered with onions) turned out to be fairly tasty. So I will say that our delivery-inventing friends at Domino's lose points in the overall pizza quality...but that's only one part of the BBQ chicken evaluation process.
The Chicken
It's white meat and recognizable, which is a step above some places. It's frozen, though, and was obviously sliced in some kind of industrial process. It's factory chicken. It wasn't chewy, though, I will give it that.
The Sauce and the Taste
The sauce was used as the base of the pizza, which I will admit that I like. Unfortunately, it has a chemically sort of taste that gets in your nostrils. That's not...necessarily a bad thing. I think a lot of barbecue sauces taste like chemicals. Hell, they ARE chemicals. At the same time, Domino's is impressing no one with their sauce.
At the same time, I will say that something about this pizza really worked. I think it was the combination of the chemically sweet sauce, the naturally sweet onions and the garlic salt on the crust. For some reason, all those flavors worked really well together.
Overall
I can't tell you that this was a good pizza. You wouldn't believe me and I wouldn't believe myself. However, I also can't stand here and tell you I didn't enjoy eating this mass produced monstrosity. I did enjoy it. I fucking enjoyed it. There was something satisfying about my gooey, salty-sweet mess of protein and sugar. I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed that it arrived at my door. I give Domino's a C+.
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