Frozen Pizza

I consider myself somewhat of an aficionado on pizza.  It is, after all, my favorite food.  I can tell you where to get the best type of pie in either St. Louis or Chicago, and I am working on Ft. Myers Beach the next time I go there.  I mean, where else can you get all 4 food groups in one bite (except maybe a cheeseburger)??

So I was watching TV this morning and I saw a commercial for DiGirono... you know, that pizza that's not delivery but it tastes so good that it fools everyone and in the commercial something tragic happens to the person offering the DiGiorno because the recipient thinks that they spent all this money on delivery... that's the one!  A couple things were interesting to me in this commercial.  First off, there was a guy pretending to be a pizza delivery boy so he could get into this awesome house party.  Of course he wasn't gonna spend the bucks on real delivery, so he arrives with an already piping hot DiGiorno.  The huge black guy that answers the door says something like, "So, you're the delivery guy?" and the little white pip-squeak kid says something emphatically like, "Yep!"  Well of course the kid is immediately invited in to join the party - considering he delivered this super-awesome pizza.  A few things I have a problem with here...  First, who is fooled by this?  The kid had on some generic outfit with "PIZZA" written on it, reminiscent of an old TMNT cartoon - don't you remember what pizza joint you called, fella?  I would have told the guy to fuck off and wait for the real pizza... and what happens when the real pizza arrives?  The skinny kid gets his ass beat by the 300 huge black dudes at the party.  Second, this party was jumping!  Who wants to slow down in the middle of all that moving and shaking to eat a pizza?  Who has that kind of a party anyway?  Actors in pizza commercials, that's who!  Lastly, the kid showed up with one pizza....  wtf!?  Who orders one pizza for 300 people!  Anyway, enough about this commercial, you now realize how stupid it is.

So DiGiorno, despite its dumb advertising, is a good frozen pizza.  I prefer Jack's because of the harmonious balance of value to tastiness.  Freschetta is good too, but too damn expensive for frozen pizza... might as well get delivery.  I felt like my ability to select good frozen pizza was validated in Tahoe.  When we were on our group shopping trip, someone said we should get Totino's and I immediately through the fucking brakes on that plan.  Totino's is cheap, but it is horrible!  We settled for an off-brand that closely resembles Jack's and Mama Lucia's, which is a local delicacy in the world of frozen pizza.  Everyone devoured these pizzas with grins from ear to ear.

Although this article is titled "Frozen Pizza", I am not solely committed to eating only pizza from my own oven.  I love all pizza and I have two favorites in two cities known for their pizza.  Imo's in St. Louis and Giordano's in Chicago.  The former is thin crust squares and the latter is deep dish (stuffed, actually) in the more traditional triangular slices.  I am looking forward to visiting New York and trying one of their famous monster slices - maybe I'll try the real original Ray's...