free pizza!

@nadroj

@MEHcus i just figured you could branch out a bit. it'd look good on a resume. "Coordinated company wide initiative to deliver free cars AND pizzas to valued customers as a promotional effort. Sales of speaker docks grew by 32% and customers believed we cared about them. Suckers."

@carl669 Who said anything about being 'valued'?

@MEHcus 'valued' is in, this customer's good for 30 bucks, this other one's good for 75 bucks, etc.

@carl669 These 75 Bucks?

@MEHcus low valued? Just like when we're told those Vermont American tools are "quality" products. "Low" is understood, no need to actually state it.

@Thumperchick Hey, I didn't notice. Cool. And I was going to lament the absence of a deep-dish option for us gluten-free freaks. Thanks! And yay! :-)

@joelmw my wife actually got me 2 of these (frozen) last year for my birthday. they're pretty awesome.

@carl669 I just shared with my wife. Since my birthday was just a few weeks ago, I'm hoping for sooner.

We go to Picasso's, BJ's and Mellow Mushroom for pizza. At all three the crust, though different, is very thin (though not awful). At Picasso's it's kinda cracker like and while she suffers with me at BJ's and Mellow Mushroom, at Picasso's she always gets a small deep-dish. I don't have cravings and it's not horrible to watch her eat it (and my bacon, avocado and tomato gf is great), but it always does give me a bit of a longing for a gf deep dish. This looks amazing.

@joelmw while it's not deep dish, we enjoy this low carb/gluten-free crust quite a bit: http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2013/06/30/weekend-bonus-the-older-brothers-oldest-sons-faux-carb-pizza/

@carl669 I fucking love you for that pizza recipe. In like a totally non-sexual way.

@carl669 How can I say "no" to a pizza crust that consists at least partly of cheese?

@Pavlov admit it. you were a little aroused by the cheese crust. it's ok. we won't judge you.

@carl669 Well, as long as you won't judge me, yeah, okay - just a little.

@carl669 @Pavlov Yeah, I totally wasn't buying the whole non-sexual thing. Because food and sex.

@joelmw is that your pic next to the "Holy cow..." comment at the @carl669 loumalnatis link?

@RedOak Eek, I'm discovered! ;-) Yep, that's me with my utterly adorable wife. And in fact that's me in a hoodie that she's totally taken over (I kinda miss it but she looks so damn cute in a hoodie, I'm willing to give it up).

And that's my intermittent blog too--where you can learn far more than you'd ever possibly want to know about what's going on in my head. Which is not to say that it captures a fraction of a percentage of my rambling thought (or even that I still believe what I did then), just that it's more than you'd want to know. I keep telling myself that I need to inflict more of my verbosity on an indifferent world. Some day. Arguably my comments on FB and here are so long because I'm a frustrated writer/failed blogger.

@duodec sweet! i'll have to give this a try. the "crust" from malnati's seems like it doesn't have much fat. i'm thinking they may use a lean sausage. or, maybe grind up some pork tenderloin and use that. though, i like the idea of using italian sausage better.

@duodec made it last night. absolutely delicious! and, incredibly filling, so we have a ton of leftovers.

@carl669 Glad to hear it! We make it every few weeks and its good for two or three meals. I still miss real crusts but this really is an excellent pizza.

@poppaearl totino's has to be the absolute worst pizza ever. i'm not sure they should even be able to legally call it pizza.

@carl669 @poppaearl I've had worse. And if I could, I'd still eat it now and then. It's not great, but for what it is . . . okay, for what it is, it's not great, but it has it's slutty charms.

@poppaearl even cheaper than two bucks locally for us - seems to be permanently "on sale" in the $1.00 - $1.33 range. Tempting food for a cheapskate even it isn't great.

@joelmw There was a level of sincerity in my message. Growing up poor in the Midwest meant Totinos was a treat. Then in the first blurry years of adulthood, you could always find one way waaay back in the freezer. Pizza night! Totinis and Pfieffer made me the man I am today. If you would excuse me, I have to get back to The Congress House.

@Mehrocco_Mole have you tried this recipe? if so, how did it come out? the link i posted above is the closest we've come to tasting and behaving like real crust.

@Mehrocco_Mole I keep trying to explain to Chicagoans: It isn't pizza if you can't fold it. Their pot pie-casserole hybrid is very nice, had it this week myself, but... sigh. That is a great picture of a glorious creation.

@editorkid take a piece of bread, put sauce, meat and cheese on it and fold it. if you can fold it, it's a sandwich, not pizza.

@carl669 But how do you fold this

or this

or this

or this

or this

or this

or this

? I'm afraid I have to argue that having components in common doesn't mean two different things are one samey thing.

@carl669 P.S. -- Sincere apologies if that notification email was a really shitty thing to do to you. My ISP filters images and I forget a lot of people see 'em.

@editorkid While I don't agree at all with your personal pizza preferences, I'm way more upset that you picked pictures of such sorry-looking sandwiches.

@editorkid i can forgive you for the notification email, but that potato chip, ketchup sandwich picture was downright nasty.

@JonT The Internet is not always a beautiful thing, my friend. Anyway, I'd bet we could find lots of common pizza ground, whatever we end up calling it.

@carl669 I guess I was stretching the definition of "sauce" on that one...

@DRCrank3n Special Edition $39.99 Wolfgang Puck Kitchen untensil sets coming our way for $8?

@gommiebears I'm not a fan either. I've lived in the Chicago area all my life, so I've had my share of deep dish/stuffed pizza. I don't like Malnati's because it's like one big wheel of sausage on their pizza. That seems to appeal to many, but not to me. I much prefer Edwardo's or Giordano's.

@pitamuffin That's Gino's East with the magic wheel of sausage. Not Lou's.