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Frozen pizzas are manky

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    #92
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    lawred2 wrote: »
    this is hardly groundbreaking

    pretty much every convenience food mass produced in a factory is manky - and bad for your health

    learn how to make your own pizzas

    Or buy one of the nice ones.


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    #93
    smartyfarts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭smartyfarts


    Dunnes Stores spicy chicken and pepper pizza is lovely. It's found in their fridge section. I love dunnes own food in the fresh pasta section.


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    #94
    hgfj
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭hgfj


    Clicked on the thread out of curiosity and now I'm starvin...


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    #95
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Wheety wrote: »
    We buy pizza bases, pizza sauce and mozzarella and add our own toppings.

    I did that the other week but it didn't taste that much better than a frozen pizza! You'd notice it was fresher though.

    Frozen Pizza doesn't really annoy me. It's not great.

    What does annoy me is that nearly every pizza takeaway has some problem with making decent side orders! Half baked wedges and chips, horrible weird breaded chicken things that taste awful etc.


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    #96
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    DS86DS wrote: »
    Does anyone else find frozen pizzas from the supermarkets to be horrible and bland? Personally feel the only decent pizza is from a takeaway or restaurant.

    Probably because your supposed to cook them.

    In all seriousness i wouldnt say they are manky but need a little extra to make really nice.

    I never leave a shop bought pizza as is. I will always add extra cheese (chedar, mozorella and if i have it some blue cheese), little salt & pepper, oregano, a little chilli powder and garlic powder.

    Makes a 3 quid pizza amazing.

    Also dont buy the frozen ones. Buy the fresh ones in the fridge. Much better.


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    #97
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Butterface wrote: »
    The best frozen pizza is the one you pick up at 3am from Spar on the way home from town, bung it in the oven, stay awake to take it out of the oven 5 minutes before it's ready, fold it in half and stuff it in yer face!

    I stopped doing that after a few charcoal creations.


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    #98
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I don't buy pizzas often but if buying a frozen one then pretty much any of the Dr Oetker ones i like especially the pizza pollo one but they're all nice even the vegetable one.


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    #99
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    _Brian wrote: »
    Make them at home, only job

    I got the Uuni pizza oven, pretty close to the real deal.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #100
    TerrorFirmer
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    I find them all pretty much fine but as someone else said you definitely have to adjust your expectations, obviously a €2 pizza isn't going to be the same as a fresh Domino's costing €10-15.

    I find Aldi do nice frozen pizzas, they've a Hoisin Duck one which is great, full of flavor and it's only €2. Also the Chicagotown Takeaway range are very decent, about €5 but worth it, still half or a third the cost of a takeaway.

    I usually have a bag of frozen peppers/onions in the freezer to add as needed.


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    #101
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Chicago Town is my only go-to frozen pizza, though at a massive 1500 calories or so, it's an occasional rather than weekly treat.

    I usually make my own sauce and toppings and put them on a Da Piero base. Vastly fewer calories and you can vary the toppings too.

    Saying all that, there's nothing like a proper wood fired pizza with a soft but crunchy base. I've never attempted to make my own bases but will some day.

    Man now I just want pizza tonight.


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    #102
    tuxy
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    eviltimeban wrote: »
    Chicago Town is my only go-to frozen pizza, though at a massive 1500 calories or so, it's an occasional rather than weekly treat.

    WTF? Do people generally eat that size of pizza alone? I'd be sick!


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    #103
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    tuxy wrote: »
    WTF? Do people generally eat that size of pizza alone? I'd be sick!

    Well... I do. In fairness it's a pretty regularly sized pizza. You'd get one that size or bigger if you were ordering one in Milano's or somewhere like that.


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    #104
    Gazzmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Gazzmonkey


    I hear ya, greasy generic flavour, fecking hate them


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    #105
    AhrSkidar
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭AhrSkidar


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    I enjoy the "Inferno" pizza €2 from Lidl. And it's seriously spicy! :p

    Beats the more prominent brands like Goodfellas and such any day.

    Do Lidl still stock these? Haven't seen them in ages.


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    #106
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    Well... I do. In fairness it's a pretty regularly sized pizza. You'd get one that size or bigger if you were ordering one in Milano's or somewhere like that.

    Yes similar circumference but very different pizzas.
    Chicago Town are actually 1700 calories per pizza and Milano's are about 1000 because of the thin base.


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    #107
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Great handy home made pizza is making them on wraps. The normal ones or even the slightly thicker Mediterranean ones. Stick the wrap on a hot pan on the hob, put the pizza sauce and some slices of mozerella on it and whatever else you fancy, then under the grill for another 5 minutes.
    glasso wrote: »
    Lidl "deluxe" (!) Gustosa Stonebaked

    not bad for a frozen pizza imo.

    Good emergency food to have in the freezer
    I normally prefer Lidl to Aldi, but the Aldi equivalent is great. Black box, sort of oval shaped and just in the fridge, not frozen.


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    #108
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    tuxy wrote: »
    Yes similar circumference but very different pizzas.
    Chicago Town are actually 1700 calories per pizza and Milano's are about 1000 because of the thin base.

    You don't take a trip to Chicago Town and worry about calories... :)

    Like I said, it would be occasional. Esp if I hadn't eaten a big lunch or if I was at the gym and could offset it by burning a tonne of calories.


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    #109
    [Deleted User]
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    “Goodfellas takeaway” are a nice pizza either meat feast or chicken. The bog standard original goodfellas pizza isn’t too bad either.

    Aldi have a very nice pizza range in the fridge (so not frozen pizza), they have a chicken one and a salami one.

    Amazingly a number of Italians I know have the dr oatker ones as their favorite frozen pizzas and they would be big into their proper pizzas.

    Chicagotown are not nice imo, hate stuffed crust.


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    #110
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Those oetker pizzas are absolutely disgusting. As well as those ristorante ones, thin crust is so bad


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    #111
    friendlyfun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭friendlyfun


    I likes the Goodfellas Pizzas. Because I feel like Ray Liotta in the 90s movie Goodfellas.


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    #112
    Ipso
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    friendlyfun wrote: »
    I likes the Goodfellas Pizzas. Because I feel like Ray Liotta in the 90s movie Goodfellas.

    Do you also like noodles and ketchup?


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    #113
    charlietheminxx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    The Aldi specially selected chilled ones are nicer than any frozen pizza I've ever had. That's said, I still prefer to buy pizza bases and do my own sauce and toppings - slightly less calories and I can tweak the flavour to suit exactly that I want.


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    #114
    Balanadan
    Site Banned Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Balanadan


    The pizza express ones are alright, you can buy them and freeze them.


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    #115
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Happy4all wrote: »
    Hard a Pizza in Milanos today for €18. Not sure if it was nine times better than some frozen ones.

    I like Milano but there's no way I would pay full price in there, they always have an offer on

    www.milanooffers.ie

    Milanos also sell fresh pizzas in Tesco, their Sloppy Guiseppe is pretty decent and it is normally 50% off for €2.70


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    #116
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,822 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Just waiting for my Aldi Carlos stuffed crust barbecue Pizza to come out of the oven. €2.40 of yummyness :pac:

    Gradually more of my shopping is done in Aldi. Nicer food & way cheaper.


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    #117
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭Cordell


    I wish Goodfellas would start making those jalapeno and tortilla chip ones again. They were the nicest pizzas they ever made but for some reason they decided to make them a 'limited edition
    Probably somehow they ended up by mistake with a load of tortilla chips, which they had to get rid of. Hence the limited edition. Because no one in their right mind will go for nachos on pizza, not more than once anyway.


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    #118
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,822 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    The Goodfellas Pulled Pork was epic but now gone.


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    #119
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Chicken on pizza is just wrong.

    But at the moment I am liking the Romano by goodfellas calabrese salami and spicy nduja sausage with chili and black pepper flake.

    It needs a snappier name though.


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    #120
    [Deleted User]
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    :rolleyes: @ all the people saying frozen pizzas are horrible. 20 years ago they were probably thrilled to get one eighth of a Green Isle Gigantic pizza on a Sunday night, even though it burned the roof of their mouth!

    The above does apply to me I will admit - I am not a huge fan of frozen pizzas but I used to love them. Goodfellas Diavolo is pretty good though.


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    #121
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The above does apply to me I will admit - I am not a huge fan of frozen pizzas but I used to love them. Apache would be my favourite.

    If you had access to a genuine Italian style pizza(I know we don't all live in cities) would you choose it over apache?


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