3 thoughts on “Lunar Pizza”

  1. It doesn’t matter, their product will still SUCK!!! And before the Dominos lovers attack me, let me ‘splain WHY I say they suck.

    A long time ago, in a pizza galaxy, far, far away…

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    I was a ‘Dominiod’. Back when that was a term of pride among us who bled hand made sauce for Tom. (that would be THE Tom, as in Monaghan) I’ve talked to some of my old Dominiod friends and that ‘Noid character on the commercials is typical of advertising people. They change stuff for their needs.

    But I digress.

    We made sauce in few gallon batches, we chopped veggies, we did dough in small batches. THAT product was as good as it gets outside of places like NYC or Philly or Boston. To many of us with roots or families in such places who KNEW good pizza, we loved the product and loved the job. It may sound stupid or trite, but working there ‘meant’ something.

    Now, they make dough in a batch suitable for transport in one of those trucks they use in a quarry. The sauce gets delivered in a super tanker and the veggies are sliced by the ton and shipped willy nilly in bags 5 lbs at a time or so.

    In short, it’s hard to take Grandma’s meat loaf recipe, and make it the size of the Pentagon, and have Grandma’s ‘loaf of meat’ as my grandkids call it. So they can build a Japanese Dominos Pizza on the moon. But they’ll ship the sauce, dough and cheese on Russian rockets, and it will suck at Mare Imbrium, just like it sucks on Main Street America, or on the Ginza.

    (If you want a pizza that is as good as Dominos used to be, find a Marco’s Pizza. They not only have the quality, they are doing it the way the Dominoids did, small batches. Hell, they’ve even got one of Monoghan’s old VPs in there. My old boss the original NC franchisee, Dave Black. Dave knows his pizza, and he taught us well.

    Dave, if you see this, you owe me a pizza, I’ll go by the Raleigh store to collect! The secret word is “anchovies”!)

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