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Several books are needed to cover every aspect of that which is pizza. Since I am way too lazy to research and write that much, I will skim the topic and toss out a tiny portion of that which is pizza.
Follow the link below for a very brief history of pizza:
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Celebrate National Pizza Day With Great Pizza History
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Curious as to where the best pizza can be found? Well, considering that tastes differ and there are a multitude of variables as to what is the best of anything, the fellow that devoted lots of time to find the best may be worth looking into:
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“At three volumes and almost 1,700 pages, it includes the history of pizza, more than 1,000 recipes, pizza-making techniques and tools plus tips on where to get the best pie – in exquisite detail and with stunning photos.”
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Follow the link to view this offering: What’s the best pizza city in the USA?
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Check your town, city, burgh, hamlet, village, metropolis, municipality, borough, suburb or whatever your living area is labeled to find any local deals for pizza in recognition of National Pizza Day. You can also make your own pizza inside your shack, tent, RV, mansion, house, apartment, wherever you do your living.
The Web is swarming with pizza recipes so start looking for what works for you. To ease your search, you may consider this Website with a video and lots of text and pictures that guides you from the start with making the dough to pulling the pan out of the oven. The linked-to page has lots of content on the site so poke around and possibly find helpful and useful content.
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A pan pizza recipe for those who love a thick and crispy crust that’s golden on the bottom, but puffy and soft under the layers of sauce and mozzarella.
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Another method to make your own pizza in your shack (if you live in my type of humble abode, shack is a proper term) is grab a kit off the grocery store shelf. Walmart is everywhere and their Website is useful for gathering product information. I have not tried this product so no endorsement from me. This is just a reminder that this is another method to get a yummy pizza into your ravenous cavernous maw.
At the page bottom, Walmart has the review area where the huddled masses yearning to eat a tasty pizza and other things can share with others their opinion(s) about the product at hand. When reading reviews always remember that there is the average person and that half are better than average and half are worse than average. The parameters that can be considered regarding this area could fill a far bigger book than the one covering the multitude of details about all that is pizza. I toss the proverbial ball into your court, kids. View the reviews and consider the sources and make your own decision. Remember, YOU can add to reviews and toss your 50-cents into the written fray at commenting sites.
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Chef Boyardee Cheese Pizza Homemade Pizza Kit
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Making your own pizza at home using freshly-made dough or buying pre-made packaged crusts at the store to avoid making your own dough and oh-so many variations of the process that it is easier for all of us for you to scroll through the YouTube Offerings and watch and learn and do what it takes to sate your pizza lust.
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Getting hungry? Here atop the mighty massif of the Ozark Plateau where nary an In-and-Out or Jack-in-the-Box burger joint can be found there are Dominos and Pizza Hut and other pizza outlets eager to take your order and if your shack is close enough to the outlet you may be able to get your pizza delivered. The ultimate in laziness!!!
Some folks are ready for their pizza joint order with additional goodies to place upon it. You can have cheese and other toppings ready in your abode to add to the pizza that just entered the shack. Have your oven warmed and ready to melt added cheese or heat added already-cooked hamburger chunks or sliced pepperoni, or maybe you are adding mushrooms because you love mushrooms and the more, the better.
Olives, chopped onions, peppers, anything and almost everything can be added to your pre-made pre-cooked pizza. Be creative. A microwave can be used to quickly heat and melt added cheese or pepperoni or whatever you do. Practice will teach you what methods work best for your situation. The chain pizza places tend to be a bit skimpy with the toppings so be prepared to make a decent, acceptable pizza into a work of art that sates your pizza lust.
Another option when sating your hunger-driven pizza lust is the Take and bake pizzeria. You may or may not have one of these sources in your area. If not and the population is large enough this may be a chance for you to enter the pizza creation world and at an expense less than a dine-in or hot to-go pizza place you can start sating pizza lusts in your area and maybe you will become wealthier that your wildest dreams ever imagined. Or, you go broke, suffer migraines and ulcers, your wife divorces you and the dog bites you and your daughter becomes a drug addicted-prostitute and who knows where your son disappeared to. Sure, that’s a worst case scenario but be prepared for anything in this crazy world.
Papa Murphy’s is a well-known take-and-bake outlet. The Wikipedia article linked-to above states that take-and-bake pizzas are available at some grocery stores. I assume that take-and-bake in this instance refers to refrigerated pizzas with a shorter shelf-life than frozen pizzas. Ahhhh . . . the ubiquitous frozen pizza. That grocery store offering has exploded over the years.
***UPDATE***
(Hey, Herd, just got an email reply from Papa John’s take and bake corporate headquarters that verifies that all of their outlets are take and bake only with none of them having their own ovens to cook the critter)
***END UPDATE***
Us old fogies recall when the frozen pizza space in the grocery stores was but a few offerings and all the pizzas were similar. Now, in the new-improved US with wide-open borders and millions of invaders flooding in and rampant inflation forcing living costs ever higher and housing becoming evermore expensive that I fear the working-poor folks may be forced into living in tents or their cars and in a worst-case scenario forced to pillage dumpsters seeking edibles to fend off starvation.
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Forced to live in a 1975 Honda Civic (a tiny car) back in the 1980s when yet another recession pummeled us and rents were soaring and wages stagnant and firms were laying off more than hiring the part-time work I struggled to find and keep kept me in food, but there was no way I could afford rent, even if I shared housing. That experience led to the creation years later of a blog to assist those confronted with the horrors of homelessness:
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Over the years the frozen pizza section at grocery stores has grown along with USA income disparities and trillions of our tax dollars shipped overseas to prop up the elites of foreign countries and hundreds-of-billions of dollars to take very good care of our uninvited guests pouring in by the millions and . . . and . . . damn; here’s another subject that could fill dozens of books. Back to pizza.
Tastes vary immensely. If folks did not like frozen pizza baked at home, the stores would not be filled with the damn things. Personally, I will take a Dominos hand-tossed pepperoni pizza instead of anything frozen from the grocery store. To each his own. Since videos are cool and are great space fillers here is a video frozen pizza review. It is but one of a horde of pizza reviews so feel free to roam YouTube and find your own video to watch>
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If I was more energetic, I could keep digging into the many nuances of that which is pizza. Maybe I will return in the future and add to this post. Perhaps I will start a new post about pizzas. Maybe I will have a hankerin’ to write about something else. You will have to wait and see what happens.
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Happy eating!!!!!
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