Is Pizza Fast Food?

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
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  • 4homer
    4homer Posts: 457 Member
    TheVirgoddess wrote: »
    I really want pizza with a side of fries now.
    Add a chocolate shake and that would be heaven

  • pwisely
    pwisely Posts: 8
    runner475 wrote: »
    giannigreco83 wrote: »
    runner475 wrote: »
    Yes Pizza is a fast food.

    no it is not fast food.... I mean where do you get pizza, honestly?

    To you it is not. To me it is. You have problem with that.

    Just wondering where you're able to get pizza so fast that it's considered fast food. It takes at least 15 to 20 mins anywhere I go and thats doing carry out! Not even delivery.
  • Meglep24
    Meglep24 Posts: 270 Member
    well considering how fast I shove it down my piehole... get it pie hole... pizza pie.... okay ..ya.
  • _whatsherface
    _whatsherface Posts: 1,235 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    No, pizza is pizza...it is it's own thing...

    Also, Dominoes isn't pizza...don't know what it is, but it's not pizza....


    Dominos is amazing. It used to be crap but it's pretty good now =D LOL
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    _whatsherface wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    No, pizza is pizza...it is it's own thing...

    Also, Dominoes isn't pizza...don't know what it is, but it's not pizza....


    Dominos is amazing. It used to be crap but it's pretty good now =D LOL

    I'm very much a food snob...I've never had anything amazing at any chain restaurant...but like I said, I'm a total snob and I freely admit it.
  • jumboon
    jumboon Posts: 1 Member
    Hi, sure pizza is fast food! If you consider the Italian/Mediterranean meals and the time needed to arrange 'em. Please, also consider that home made pizza is a surrogate. High temperature ovens are needed (wodden fired oven are more suitable). A pizza is done in 5 mins, eaten in 10. Also, you don't wait for it at home. You move up and go to a pizzeria. Forget the cardboard taste, forget the spongy texture soaked in steam during transportation in cardboard boxes. Yes, pizza is fast food but pizza from fast food chains is not pizza! LOL
  • mkakids
    mkakids Posts: 1,913 Member
    IMO - if you can get it from a drive thru, its fast food.
  • JPW1990
    JPW1990 Posts: 2,424 Member
    I'm still back on page 4 and keep seeing Home Run Inn as "best frozen pizza." Are all the actual HRI's gone and only the frozen is left? Haven't been across the lake in a while, if they're all gone I'm going to be sad.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    giannigreco83 wrote: »
    runner475 wrote: »
    Yes Pizza is a fast food.

    no it is not fast food.... I mean where do you get pizza, honestly?

    It takes less time to make a neopolitan pizza from scratch than it does to work your way through a McDonalds drivethru.

  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    I see OP has never come back ….
  • vixtris
    vixtris Posts: 688 Member
    In my opinion, I would say yes it is fast food because, well I think they make it pretty darn fast for how well the pizza is made. Its pretty greasy like fast food is, too.
  • whitebalance
    whitebalance Posts: 1,654 Member
    deannaxsmithx wrote: »
    like dominos pizza for example. or pizza from your local pizza parlor. is that considered to be fast food?

    It's not so fast that I can't catch it when properly motivated. :p
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    vixtris wrote: »
    In my opinion, I would say yes it is fast food because, well I think they make it pretty darn fast for how well the pizza is made. Its pretty greasy like fast food is, too.

    that is a pretty broad generalization …dominos, pizza hut, etc greasy, yes….homemade or a local spot, not so much ...
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    vixtris wrote: »
    In my opinion, I would say yes it is fast food because, well I think they make it pretty darn fast for how well the pizza is made. Its pretty greasy like fast food is, too.

    You're not going to the right pizza joint if its that greasy
  • thelittlecharacter
    thelittlecharacter Posts: 69 Member
    Overeating pizza is just as bad as eating fast food.
  • Dragn77
    Dragn77 Posts: 810 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    vixtris wrote: »
    In my opinion, I would say yes it is fast food because, well I think they make it pretty darn fast for how well the pizza is made. Its pretty greasy like fast food is, too.

    that is a pretty broad generalization …dominos, pizza hut, etc greasy, yes….homemade or a local spot, not so much ...

    Well...she did also say that shes talking pizza from Pilot, a gas station. Cant really fault her for thinking bad of it when thats all shes knows, cause I have no doubt it sucks.

    Its sort of like when I hear people call Taco Bell Mexican food...my eye twitches a bit, having lived in San Diego as a kid and getting the real deal LoL. But there are a lot of people who really dont know any better, because fast food "Mexican" or in this case, gas station pizza..is all they really know to exist because where they live, they havnt been able to experience a type of food not in fast food form.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited March 2015
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    I'm still back on page 4 and keep seeing Home Run Inn as "best frozen pizza." Are all the actual HRI's gone and only the frozen is left? Haven't been across the lake in a while, if they're all gone I'm going to be sad.

    There are still Home Run Inns around here. I've never actually been to one, though.

    My favorite pizza (that I rarely have, because millions of calories): http://pequodspizza.com/
  • JPW1990
    JPW1990 Posts: 2,424 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    I'm still back on page 4 and keep seeing Home Run Inn as "best frozen pizza." Are all the actual HRI's gone and only the frozen is left? Haven't been across the lake in a while, if they're all gone I'm going to be sad.

    There are still Home Run Inns around here. I've never actually been to one, though.

    My favorite pizza (that I rarely have, because millions of calories): http://pequodspizza.com/

    I don't know if it's still like what it used to be. It used to be tradition when my grandparents came home from Florida, we picked them up at Midway and went there for dinner.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I think of fast food as about the style of restaurant (order at the counter or drive in, ready immediately) plus the type of food (standardized chain inexpensive). Similar service, no drive through, slightly more expensive is called quick service or quick casual or some such (like Pret a Manger or many other such places--Potbelly's is another here). My understanding is that those are restaurant marketing categories, not sure if there's any reason to pay them attention.

    Pizza seems different from a marketing category perspective (which again is all these are), since it's either delivery or sit down and wait.

    Does this matter nutritionally? No, but it's not like everything at a fast food place is the same either.

    Oh, and from way back, delivery that you pick up is takeout. Unless you are in the UK, where it seems to be called takeaway.
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  • Dragn77
    Dragn77 Posts: 810 Member
    edited March 2015
    MrM27 wrote: »
    The important thing to learn is don't listen to anywhere Boston people tell you is good pizza. They think they know pizza. They are sadly confused. Let's just lump all of Massachusetts in there.

    LMFAO! I hate to say it, but I was SO excited the first time I went to Boston, and went to eat at the original Uno's. I took one bite, and felt horrible as I had to tell my boss I didnt want anymore. We were on a business trip there, and he doesnt even eat pizza, but came along with me cause I was so excited that he wanted to see what the fuss was about. It tasted like I bit into a very thick wet breadstick..just all...gooey bread. Not appetizing.

    We ended up at a Thai restaurant that was pretty amazing =D

    ETA - Wait..I think Im thinking of Chicago. Only place I went to in Boston was Cheers. The drinks there suck btw. That is all. LoL
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    The important thing to learn is don't listen to anywhere Boston people tell you is good pizza. They think they know pizza. They are sadly confused. Let's just lump all of Massachusetts in there.

    oh you new yorkers think you rule the world …

    My thesis is that it is an inferiority complex from living in the second best city in the Northeast…

    it must be a tough pill to swallow...
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Dragn77 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    The important thing to learn is don't listen to anywhere Boston people tell you is good pizza. They think they know pizza. They are sadly confused. Let's just lump all of Massachusetts in there.

    LMFAO! I hate to say it, but I was SO excited the first time I went to Boston, and went to eat at the original Uno's. I took one bite, and felt horrible as I had to tell my boss I didnt want anymore. We were on a business trip there, and he doesnt even eat pizza, but came along with me cause I was so excited that he wanted to see what the fuss was about. It tasted like I bit into a very thick wet breadstick..just all...gooey bread. Not appetizing.

    We ended up at a Thai restaurant that was pretty amazing =D

    ETA - Wait..I think Im thinking of Chicago. Only place I went to in Boston was Cheers. The drinks there suck btw. That is all. LoL

    Uno is horrible….

    Bertuccis is good…as is anywhere in the north end..
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Dragn77 wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    vixtris wrote: »
    In my opinion, I would say yes it is fast food because, well I think they make it pretty darn fast for how well the pizza is made. Its pretty greasy like fast food is, too.

    that is a pretty broad generalization …dominos, pizza hut, etc greasy, yes….homemade or a local spot, not so much ...

    Well...she did also say that shes talking pizza from Pilot, a gas station. Cant really fault her for thinking bad of it when thats all shes knows, cause I have no doubt it sucks.

    Its sort of like when I hear people call Taco Bell Mexican food...my eye twitches a bit, having lived in San Diego as a kid and getting the real deal LoL. But there are a lot of people who really dont know any better, because fast food "Mexican" or in this case, gas station pizza..is all they really know to exist because where they live, they havnt been able to experience a type of food not in fast food form.

    Reminds me of three stories ('cause I'm chatty today).

    First, I used to work in the Sears Tower, and it had a serious shortage of decent restaurants or anything open around it on a Sunday, so I would on occasion eat in the Sbarro in the basement (not sure if it's still there). The main other people there would be tourists who were there to do the Skydeck. One day, when I was already in a bad mood from being at work on a Sunday and eating lunch in Sbarro I overheard one tourist saying to another "I thought Chicago pizza was supposed to be good, but this is nothing special." Argh.

    Second, I know a guy who does zoning work for chain restaurants throughout Ohio. He told a story about jumping through hoops to get a Chi-Chi's approved by the town council in some small town and after it finally was the mayor said "well, you can have your Chi-Chi's, but I doubt it will do well, because there aren't many Mexicans here."

    Finally, my sister had a good friend who came to visit us in Chicago years ago (she and my sister were in their early 20s). We took her to one of our local favorite Italian places, only for her to start telling us how in Portland (where she was then living) they had this amazing Italian place called Olive Garden that she would bring us to if we ever visited.
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    To me some pizza can be considered fast food and some really isn't. Your big chains like Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc. to me are fast food. I like the big chains (just had a Dominos the other day because at like 10:30 at night we decided we had to have pizza and they are fast and cheap) after at least 10 years and I would eat it again. But to me those pizzas are to homemade or pizzeria pizza the same as taco bell is to Mexican food - I like them, I eat them, but they are so far from authentic they really should have a different name.

    But good pizza from a local place or when it is homemade is awesome - I love to make it in the summer on the grill. I would love to try some of that floppy New York style (it looks so yummy) but I am in the Chicago 'burbs - thin crust here just doesn't look like it is the same, and for some reason everyone cuts it into those stupid tiny squares. Deep dish is good too but thin is my fave.

    And everyone who said that in frozen Home Run Inn is the way to go - yep I am in total agreement. I used to work 2 doors down from the warehouse where they made them - they would give us awesome discounts because we were neighbors. I miss those days.

    And pizza can be a totally healthy meal if you get the correct toppings (not that I do but I know people who have).
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  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Dragn77 wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    vixtris wrote: »
    In my opinion, I would say yes it is fast food because, well I think they make it pretty darn fast for how well the pizza is made. Its pretty greasy like fast food is, too.

    that is a pretty broad generalization …dominos, pizza hut, etc greasy, yes….homemade or a local spot, not so much ...

    Well...she did also say that shes talking pizza from Pilot, a gas station. Cant really fault her for thinking bad of it when thats all shes knows, cause I have no doubt it sucks.

    Its sort of like when I hear people call Taco Bell Mexican food...my eye twitches a bit, having lived in San Diego as a kid and getting the real deal LoL. But there are a lot of people who really dont know any better, because fast food "Mexican" or in this case, gas station pizza..is all they really know to exist because where they live, they havnt been able to experience a type of food not in fast food form.

    Reminds me of three stories ('cause I'm chatty today).

    First, I used to work in the Sears Tower, and it had a serious shortage of decent restaurants or anything open around it on a Sunday, so I would on occasion eat in the Sbarro in the basement (not sure if it's still there). The main other people there would be tourists who were there to do the Skydeck. One day, when I was already in a bad mood from being at work on a Sunday and eating lunch in Sbarro I overheard one tourist saying to another "I thought Chicago pizza was supposed to be good, but this is nothing special." Argh.

    Second, I know a guy who does zoning work for chain restaurants throughout Ohio. He told a story about jumping through hoops to get a Chi-Chi's approved by the town council in some small town and after it finally was the mayor said "well, you can have your Chi-Chi's, but I doubt it will do well, because there aren't many Mexicans here."

    Finally, my sister had a good friend who came to visit us in Chicago years ago (she and my sister were in their early 20s). We took her to one of our local favorite Italian places, only for her to start telling us how in Portland (where she was then living) they had this amazing Italian place called Olive Garden that she would bring us to if we ever visited.

    oh hell no on Olive Garden…!!!!!!!!!!!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    edited March 2015
    MrM27 wrote: »
    Dragn77 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    The important thing to learn is don't listen to anywhere Boston people tell you is good pizza. They think they know pizza. They are sadly confused. Let's just lump all of Massachusetts in there.

    LMFAO! I hate to say it, but I was SO excited the first time I went to Boston, and went to eat at the original Uno's. I took one bite, and felt horrible as I had to tell my boss I didnt want anymore. We were on a business trip there, and he doesnt even eat pizza, but came along with me cause I was so excited that he wanted to see what the fuss was about. It tasted like I bit into a very thick wet breadstick..just all...gooey bread. Not appetizing.

    We ended up at a Thai restaurant that was pretty amazing =D

    ETA - Wait..I think Im thinking of Chicago. Only place I went to in Boston was Cheers. The drinks there suck btw. That is all. LoL

    I was not impressed with Chicago Pizza at all. I had a pie flown out to me and we were all excited to try it. The 2 of us sat down to eat it and were so underwhelmed. I could not believe that Pizzeria Uno had the same exact taste.
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    The important thing to learn is don't listen to anywhere Boston people tell you is good pizza. They think they know pizza. They are sadly confused. Let's just lump all of Massachusetts in there.

    oh you new yorkers think you rule the world …

    My thesis is that it is an inferiority complex from living in the second best city in the Northeast…

    it must be a tough pill to swallow...

    Here I'll let you make my arguement for me Mr. Florida. When was the last time you heard of a Pizzeria from down there getting water shipped from NYC? Now, when the last time you heard them doing that from Boston?

    honestly, I have never heard of either….
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    Dragn77 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    The important thing to learn is don't listen to anywhere Boston people tell you is good pizza. They think they know pizza. They are sadly confused. Let's just lump all of Massachusetts in there.

    LMFAO! I hate to say it, but I was SO excited the first time I went to Boston, and went to eat at the original Uno's. I took one bite, and felt horrible as I had to tell my boss I didnt want anymore. We were on a business trip there, and he doesnt even eat pizza, but came along with me cause I was so excited that he wanted to see what the fuss was about. It tasted like I bit into a very thick wet breadstick..just all...gooey bread. Not appetizing.

    We ended up at a Thai restaurant that was pretty amazing =D

    ETA - Wait..I think Im thinking of Chicago. Only place I went to in Boston was Cheers. The drinks there suck btw. That is all. LoL

    Uno has always been a disappointment to me - there are many better deep dish in Chicago. I am a big fan of Lou Malnati's so if you ever come back here I would say to try that one. Not like wet gooey bread at all (I totally know what you mean about that with Uno and I totally agree).
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