Do American Italians ever eat or order Pizza Hut or Domino's?

I avoid it. But if pressed for one of the two options, Dominos is much better than the other vile option.

Nope. No way.

My elementary school and high school clubs had pizza parties fairly often, and living in a fairly non-Italian city, eating one of these options was fairly inevitable. Still, I am very anti-Pizza Hut.

Who cares what those smelly lowlifes eat?!

Not in Jersey !! Real Pizza places on almost every corner or in strip malls!

Dominos is serviceable if you are drunk and do it twice a year

The Hut is toxic waste

Pizza Hut has a film of orange slime underneath each slice that makes it inedible and, yes, toxic.

The Italian-Americans I grew up with in high school owned the local (still very popular) pizza chain,but they didn't at it. It was a business.

Maybe Italians living in flyover land where pizza options are few. Jersey Italians would rather slit their throats rather than set foot in either one.

Pretty much every town in the USA has a mom and pop option that is much better..

No. Same for Olive Garden (as if it needed to be said).

No thanks. Too many good options- Mozza in LA is heaven.

Detroit area Italians wouldn't eat that.

No. I don't even think we have them in my NYC suburb. Each town has no less than three pizzerias. However in the past 20 years the Albanians are taking over the pizzerias.

Pizza Hut and Dominos are garbage.

Nope, no waayyy.

Because this is Datalounge and this is anonymous, don't tell anyone, but I developed a fondness for Domino's Brooklyn style thin crust as a trashy snack in college. I mean I don't love it as anything authentic, but it's passable as stoner food. On the level of Cheetos or Pringles.

I guess I can turn in my Italian card now.

Have you ever had some of the pizza in Guidostan?* Frankly I’ll take Dominos.

*Brooklyn

Exactly the same as r17 - in college, everyone ordered from Papa John's (way before the homophobic stuff came out - this was the early 00s). I've had it a few times and it tastes exactly like it did then... it's so cheap too. Maybe half the price of local chains, especially if you pick it up and don't get charged the delivery fee and then also add to tip (which comes out to be more than a pizza).

It's good food for when I want to abuse my body. I don't feel comfortable cutting myself or pulling out hairs or whatever, but eating papa john's does something similar to what I've read from people who self-harm.

I thought the new Dominos was pretty bad. Pizza Hut is too, but everyone seems to think Dominos is better, but I don't. They're both bad.

Why get either when you can go fancy and get Little Caesar's?

All chain food sucks.

It's all about Sbarro baby.

Papa John's is the worst. He puts sugar in the sauce.

There’s plenty of suburban wonder bread wops eating at these places. Don’t let the “sophisticated” Dataloungers fool you.

R25 = Tony Soprano!!

Yeah...all you East Coast queens need to wake up. Most of the rest of the country isn't chock full of Italian-Americans like you. In many places, chain pizza is the ONLY option.

I love Sbarro. Flame away, I don’t care.

R27, they don't know what they are missing. The place around the corner from me hires college age, Italian, soccer jocks from Italy. OH. MY. GOD. Eye candy as well as great food.

Can't imagine ordering either when there are so many local options in NYC.

Artichoke is my favorite pizza to eat when drunk at 2am.

I can't imagine anywhere in the US that doesn't have at least one or two mom and pop pizza options that you don't have to subject yourself to chain pizza.

[quote] There’s plenty of suburban wonder bread wops eating at these places.

I blame those half-Irish , half-Italians. The Irish side infused them with shitty food tastes. 😜

I would rather make my own.

Boboli, R32?

[quote]up. Most of the rest of the country isn't chock full of Italian-Americans like you.

Most pizza places are run by Albanians anyway.

What Dominos and Pizza Hut are missing is the oil and sweat running off from some guido into the pizza dough that gives it that authentic, salty flavor.

Real Italians make our own pizza!

It's surprisingly simple to make. Flour, yeast, salt, water, olive oil for the dough. Whole peeled tomatoes, tomato paste, olive oil, garlic, basic, salt n pepper for the sauce. Mix and match your own toppings. Ta-da.

Can’t stand Pizza Hut but dominos is good once in a while.

Lots of people who prefer mom and pop pizza places are forced to order from ph or d’s because they’re open hours later (some till 2am)

Pizza Hut is the Taco Bell of pizza, which shouldn't be surprising considering they are owned and run by the same chain. Quite possibly the two worst fast food chains in America, along with McDonalds.

I grew up as an American child even though I am Italian descent. My mother worked and we ordered out pizza on occasion. In all sympathy, it is hard to ruin a cheese pizza. Not as good as my mom's but not anything she had to spend a few hours making either. Now if any chain started to make bracciole (the infamous brazhol) I'd have problems.

I get my pizzas from Costco. $9+ for a huge 16" pizza.

Even if you don't want to make the dough, a lot of groceries sell it- my Von's has it for $2. Better than delivery or frozen.

Oh bullcrap, r31. Half Italian and half Irish/German here and the only time I ate this shit was when I was a starving college student and Dominos was the only place that delivered.

Sbarro's white pizza is good though.

Believe me, in South Texas, you’re grateful for Dominos and Pizza Hut. There are like 3 other chains that make Papa Johns look like Mario Batali. As a NY-er, we get so spoiled. But in flyover country/Deep South, be grateful for what you can get

Relax, r43. I was half-kidding. Although I did know an Italian-Irish family where the mom (Irish) used Prego sauce for her spaghetti and meatballs recipe! 😱

I ate one slice of Costco pizza. At least it was cheap.

I do not get the appeal of Costco pizza.

r45 No worries brother I wasn't really offended. My partner is Irish/English American and has bought Ragu before, he says he can't tell the difference between jarred and homemade. Come to think of it he also likes Pizza Hut.

It's tme food like this was taxed and carried warnings. It's okay to have occasionally but a lot of people eat it all the time, don't exercise and are fat enough that their health care issues will significantly shorten their lives. Before that happens they will breed, pass on their bad habits to a new generation, and tie up health system resources unnecessarily. Food like this is as addictive and as dangerous as tobacco.

I love pizza. I cannot, however, imagine anyone's becoming addicted to Domino's or Pizza Hut.

R50, a lot of the people who eat it once or twice weekly also tend to eat Burger King, McDonalds, KFC, Wendy's et al...once or twice weekly. It adds up to a lot of fat, salt, sugar and white flour. I know a pair of hefties, that when the wife 'cooks', it always involves cans of soup and packets of other prepackaged horseshit. They're as addicted to food as some people are to drugs and smoking. The wife has already had gastric banding but gained back all the weight she did manage to lose. Cheap food like Domino's in every mall helps nobody.

Love how the New Yorkers / Jerseyites twisted the thread to serve their " We're better than you narrative." The OP wanted to know about American Italians, not you specifically. And to R9, who put down anyone from not where he is....................... you live in Jersey; enough said.

I'm Italian-American, I live in a suburb of NYC that once had a large Italian population, and the pizzerias near me are owned by a Greek family, a Mexican family, and an Albanian. I tend never to eat at any of them...not because of who owns them, but because they all charge around $15.00 for a large cheese pizza. This bitch is on a budget! It's Little Caesar's Hot and Ready for me!

Yeah I don’t know what’s so special about these “pizza joints” when not a single one of them is actually owned by Italians.

I haven't lived in NY or NJ since 1977, and I fear pizza isn't what I remember from childhood, as R54 and r53 intimate.

[quote]The OP wanted to know about American Italians, not you specifically. And to R9, who put down anyone from not where he is....................... you live in Jersey; enough said.

While I haven't posted earlier, I wouldn't want to speak for Italian Americans outside NY/NJ because I don't live there. So telling you how people around here feel about chain pizza places does partly answer the question, just as people who live in flyover country are answering it from their perspective. (And in spite of what R53 & R54 post, all of the local pizza places that I'm familiar with - or at least the one that friends and family order from - are owned by Italian families. You just have to know where to go.)

And for the record, yes I for one WOULD rather live in New Jersey than in many other places in the country. For one thing, great pizza isn't the only thing that's hard to find out in Hooterville. Good luck finding decent Indian, Turkish, Portuguese, Uzbek, Brazilian, Cuban, Greek and Polish restaurants (to name a few examples) all no more than a relatively short drive away from where you live.

I live in a suburban county and we have a fair number of locally owned pizza places. I agree with those saying Pizza Hut is vile.

I only ate Pizza Hut pizza once. It was that bad.

About ten years ago we had some lovely neighbors from Italy. The husband was sent here to NYC for work. The wife was a beautiful, charming chic woman who made the best espresso I’d ever tasted. Their children were gorgeous.

Anyway, one night they invited us for dinner, and I was really excited about it. I’d run into her at Citarella and she was always buying beautiful fish and special pastas.

So we get there and the husband says we are going to order in because one of the kids had been sick and she hadn’t gotten to the market. But not to worry, because it was their favorite pizza in NYC. Disappointed but still optimistic, because surely they’d have found some authentic pizza place (even though we thought we knew every place within delivery area). The father loved this pizza!

Yeah, the Papa John’s pizza sucked. I was barely aware that they even existed in Manhattan.

[quote] Yeah I don’t know what’s so special about these “pizza joints” when not a single one of them is actually owned by Italians

It doesn't matter who is cooking the damn pizza as long as they know how to replicate the recipe and steps.

I'm not even Italian and I won't eat that crap when there are enough real pizzerias around.

R48 I worked for the company that made Ragu we made several brands of pasta sauces. We all considered Ragu to be the lowest quality white trash sauce.

[quote] It doesn't matter who is cooking the damn pizza as long as they know how to replicate the recipe and steps.

This is wrong. You definitely need a young guido named Vinny in a wifebeater twirling the pizza and sweating into the dough to capture that authentic flavor.

My former local favorite mom and pop pizza charged $25 for a family-size large.. but it's huge, filling, and feeds an army. Pick up only. That said, I can see why poor families trying to feed a bunch of kids on a budget end up using some ghastly Domino's 2 for 1 delivery special or whatever.

And yeah, I consider D and PH kid/teen party food. It's not kids have the most discerning palates any way...

Oh ya, well we may not be good or authentic pizza, but we are making a killing today on Super Bowl Sunday!

Jealous, bitches?