A show of hands–how many of you will order pizza this weekend after overindulging on Thanksgiving fare?
japra | Nov 26, 2008 | Comments 21
I have been meaning to do a “local pizza delivery menu” post since I saw my first flier last year.
Even the pizza delivery companies offer an interesting mix of pies. For example, here is Domino’s most recent delivery menu. These pizzas are available in Personal (7”), Small (9.5”), medium (11.5”) and Large (13.5”) sizes.
Original Cheese and Tomato
Topped with 100% Mozzarella Cheese and Domino’s own Tomato Sauce
Onions, Green Peppers, Sweetcorn, Mushrooms, Tomatoes
Hot & Spicy
Onions, Ground Beef, Green Peppers, Jalapeño Peppers
Pepperoni Passion
Extra Pepperoni, Double Mozzarella Cheese
Veg-a-roma
Sundried Tomato & Garlic Sauce, Onions, Mushrooms, Green Peppers and Herbs
Hawaiian
Ham, Pineapple, Mushrooms
American Hot
Pepperoni, Jalapeño Peppers, Onion
Guest Pizza—Domino’s Premiere
Pepperoni, Steak, Chorizo, Pastrami
Domino’s Meateor
Meatballs, Ground Beef, Sausage, Pepperoni & Bacon on top of a ‘Light’ portion of BBQ Sauce
Dominos Mighty Meat
Onions, Mushrooms, Pepperoni, Ham, Ground Beef, Sausage
Domino’s Tandoori Hot
Tandoori Chicken, Onions, Mushrooms, Green Peppers, Jalapeño Peppers
Domino’s Texas BBQ
BBQ Sauce, Roast Chicken, Smoky Bacon, Onions, Green Pepper
The Sizzler
Sundried Tomatoes & Garlic Sauce, Pepperoni, Onions, Jalapeño Peppers, Tandoori Chicken, Herbs
Interesting, yes? Here’s another example menu. We usually order our pizzas from Perfect Pizza, because that’s what Roxi prefers. You can order a Regular (9”), Large (12”) and an X Large (15”) pizza.
Sweet & Sour Chinese Pizza
Sweet & sour sauce (no pizza sauce) chargrilled chicken, pineapple, red and green peppers
Cheese & Garlic
Suitable for vegetarians (no tomato sauce)
Hawaiian Dream
Ham & pineapple
Farmhouse Classic
Ham & mushrooms
Vegetarian Perfection
Mushrooms, mixed peppers, sweetcorn, onions, sliced tomatoes
Chicken BBQ Sizzler
Chargrilled chicken, onion, crispy bacon, BBQ sauce, no pizza sauce
Mexican Heatwave
‘Double’ spicy pork, onion, jalapeno peppers, red peppers, chilli powder
Coriander Chilli Chicken
Balti chicken, green chillies, garlic sauce, fresh coriander, red onion
Meat Feast
Spicy pork, ham, pepperoni, smoky sausage
Pepperoni Perfection
‘double’ pepperoni, mushrooms, onion
Smoky Barbeque
Barbeque chicken, smoky sausage, red onion, sweetcorn, barbeque sauce
Sheer Perfection
Pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, onion, sweetcorn, ham and spicy pork
In addition to the usual extra toppings, you can also add tuna, turkey ham, chili powder, sweet and sour sauce and “ocean prawns” to your pizza.
By the way, while we are on the subject of food in
As for now, I’ve Thanksgiving on my mind and am off to make cornbread for my “stuffing”!
PS If someone is willing to do a similar “pizza delivery menu” post, please send me an email or leave me a comment when it’s up. I’d love to link back to you. I think it would be interesting to learn what flavours of pizza are popular in different countries. [EDITED TO ADD: Chris from Prism Trail! kindly posted selections from her favourite pizza joint: Round Table Pizza
About the Author: JaPRA is an expat Texan living in England with her husband (Mr. DJ), their 17-year old daughter (Roxi), and their dog Trudy.
How nice to hear someone say good things about our food, you know people still think we all eat kippers for breakfast, boil vegetables to extinction and put custard on everything.
as for a good English recipe book, you could probably get one on ebay or Amazon. Our dishes have become fused with so many other influences over the years.
Make my own pizzaa if the kids are here.
One hand up for over indulging on Thanksgiving but not on pizza. The kids were delighted to discover Domino’s in Oxford – tasted the same only was smaller and cost twice as much!
I remember the first time I visited England over 20 years ago. I ordered pizza, and it came with chedder cheese and was disgusting. The pizza revolution in England is an improvement.
I think all restaurant have gotten better in England in the past 2 decades although Italian isn’t always so good. I did love Jamie’s Italian in Oxford. We’ve always eaten really well in London and in homes. The good local ingredients are key.
Henry recommends Delia Smith for traditional English recipes and if by traditional British you mean slathered in butter, in cream or deep fried, go with Nigella Lawson. Jamie Oliver is good too but his recipes can be labor intensive.
Happy Thanksgiving from across the sea!
We get Scooters Pizza and Debonairs Pizza in South Africa.
I miss Scooters’ pizza pies. Kind of like a lunch time pizza pie snack.
My very most favourite pizza place on Earth is Luigi’s. Stephen and I went to their now-closed Beyers Naude branch for our first date. They moved on to bigger and better premises and we followed them!
That is some exotic pizza! I actually miss certain food in England, especially the cheese! :-(
Moannie–I love homemade pizzas best! They’re fun to make with kids and best of all, you know exactly what you’re putting in them :-) I think you are right about local cuisines fusing with so many others. It’s like that in America too–which makes it hard to know what is truly local.
Sarah–The Delia Smith books look perfect. Please tell Henry I said thank you for the suggestion. And isn’t that the truth about the price/size of pizza here? We learned to make our own pizza because it got to be too expensive to order it as often as we wanted to eat it. However, every now and then, it’s good to have fast food pizza–especially if Roxi has American friends over and all I have to eat is a slice or two.
Emm–Pizza with peri-peri, ribs, and chakalaka (what is that?)! What kind is your favourite?
Alyson–I know what you mean about the cheese. Vermont cheddar is a pretty good substitute, though. BTW, I think of you every time I eat crumpets with melted cheese. I had some this morning, as a matter of fact :-)
*blush* I knew you’d ask. Margarita with fresh tomato. :0) Plain as can be.
Chakalaka is like an onion and tomato spicy sauce. Very spicy.
Lazy links:
http://www.recipezaar.com/South-African-Chakalaka-149455
http://www.southafrica.com/recipes/
Emm–Sometimes plain is better, especially if the ingredients are fresh! Thanks for the chakalaka links. I’m going to check them out. BTW, I like the word “chakalaka”–it’s fun to say :-)
:0) It is probably Zulu. There are lots of cool Zulu words.
Are you really Mrs Giovanni Domino just a plane ride away from Naples ?
THE English cookery book of all time is “Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management “-a weighty tome but contains everything from how to roast a swan to how to blacklead the grate,how to fold napkins into water lilies and how to deal with a sheep’s head.
wow, thanks for sharing…so many different kinds of pizza, and these are just everyday choices. Wonderful. We have like Mediterranean, hawaiian, chicken with peppers, that kind of thing. and we usually get pepperoni and cheese and a deluxe type with meat and veg.
The subject of this post cracks me up. What a novel way to tackle the looming holiday! My family has always laughed about how all of the “ethnic” restaurants seem to do a booming business after T’giving . . . as if everyone is just so sick to death of turkey.
(Confessions: We have NEVER ordered pizza in England. I had no idea they had southwestern options, although the Indian theme doesn’t surprise me.)
As for the quintessential English cookbook, my nomination is Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course. You will find all of the English classics in that one.
Hi. Came via Multitude. Great post. Even tho’ I was brought with that kind of variety, the hot pineapple-on-a-pizza still makes me gag!
Emm–Well, “Zulu” itself is a cool sounding word!
Barbara–Ah, you found me out! I really am Signora Domino–hahaha! Thanks for telling me about Mrs. Beeton. It sounds like perfect winter reading. Not sure I’ll be doing anything with sheep heads or blackening grates any time soon, but I would LOVE to read about it :-)
Christine–Isn’t it interesting to learn how pizza is made around the world? What is on the Mediterranean pizza?
Bee–You know I’ll be back to Tex-Mex by Sunday! You’ve never, ever ordered a pizza in England? I am impressed! Though I have to say we’ve only ordered pizza a handful of times here. I still love my pizza oven best.
Expat Mum–Welcome! I am with you on hot pineapple on pizza. Hot fruit on a tomato base just doesn’t do it for me.I I have tried “apple pie dessert pizza” (basically apple pie filling on pizza crust) and it isn’t that bad. BTW, I just did a lookup on Hawaiian pizza. According to Wikipedia, it is a German invention or “a German modification of Italian cuisine”. Hm.
Jpra, the mediterranean has feta cheese, garlic, onions, Italian sausage on a thin crust.
I’m also going to get Barbara’s Mrs Beeton’s book, it sounds intriguing.
JAPRA… Hawaiian pizza rocks.
My pizza story is that my uber-picky nephew came to stay with me and was really game about eating the strange Welsh boarding school (faggots and mushy peas anyone?). So as a consolation, I took him to the Pizza Hut in Cardiff. He hated it.
An open mind makes everything better. Those pizzas sound amazing!
Sweetcorn on pizza. Yum.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!! From both of us!
Christine–That sounds yummy or “scrummy” as Barbara says… I wonder if savory things can be “scrummy” too. We must ask!
Pigtown-Design–That is a funny story! When we were living in London our first two months in England, Roxi had the homesick blues one night. The next day we went to Pizza Hut with her cousin and it really hit the spot!
Laurie–It’s true about the open mind. I would have to say that and a sense of humour will get you far.
Pamela and Edward–Thank you both! :-)
We had pizza on Tuesday night before Thanksgiving Thursday. I was already too geared up for Thanksgiving preparations to think about what to serve that night! We ordered the ZZZ special from Collina’s. mmmMimsy
mmmMimsy–I can’t believe I almost forgot about Colina’s! guess I’ve been away too long. We had pizza the day before our feast as well. Same reason–haha!
I’m going to do a pizza delivery post. Sounds fun!
I would get the cheese and garlic! Yes, there is a real desire to get away from the Turkey-related menu, but it certainly was good. I don’t like to give Domino’s my business but I do have to say they make a good pizza and their service is primo. However, your perfect pizza menu looks fab! Do you get thick crust or thin?