Too Local: Pizza Party
I know many of you here are pizza snobs that wouldn’t touch a frozen pizza, but it is a staple of the American diet none the less; enjoyed by drunks and teenagers across the land. The world wide frozen pizza market was $19.6
BILLION in 2019*.
The popularity of pizza exploded in the United States after WWII. Being offered as most things at the time as a freshly cooked food from a restaurant or home made. In the early 1950s some pizzerias began to offer uncooked refrigerated pizza for sale, like the current take and bake trend. Shortly there after frozen pizzas began to be produced.
Our story concerns the founding of two companies that would go on to become two of biggest sellers of frozen pizza, Tombstone and Jack’s. In 2018 Tombstone sold $55.18 million worth of pizza, while Jack’s sold $55.54 million*. Today both are owned by Nestle, but have their origins in 1960s Wisconsin.
The roots of Tombstone Pizza start in Medford, a town northwest of Wausau. I bought a car once in Medford, that guy was a real dick so I made the down payment in quarters. But that has nothing to do with pizza. Brothers Pep and Ron Simek owned a bar across the street from a cemetery so naturally they named it The Tombstone Tavern. According to the tall tail on the Tombstone website, one night in 1962 Joe was dancing and broke his leg. While recuperating and unable to tend bar he worked in the kitchen and started making pizza. The pizza was a hit and the brothers began packing up their ’59 Cadillac with dry ice and frozen pizzas, selling their pizza across the state. In 1988 the pizza company was bought by Kraft and sold to Nestle in 2010. The Tombstone factory is still in Medford.
Jack’s Pizza has its roots southeast of Medford in the Appleton area, in a town called Little Chute. John (Jack) Toby Elrick and his wife Irene built a pizza kitchen in their garage in 1960 to make pizza for friends and neighbors. In 1962 Jack began delivering the pizzas in his ’49 Plymouth. In 1968 James Geerts bought Jack’s Pizza and in 1971 entered the frozen pizza market. Kraft purchased the business in 1992 and sold it to Nestle in the same 2010 deal as Tombstone. Jack’s Pizza is still produced in Little Chute.
If you’ve never heard of Medford, Wisconsin here are some facts:
- Claims to be the Mink capitol of the world
- Population on the 2020 Census 4,326
- The car I bought their sucked and died before I could pay off the loan
If you’ve never heard of Little Chute, Wisconsin here are some facts:
- The character of Mike Nelson on Mystery Science Theater was from Little Chute (The actor Michael J. Nelson who played him is from St. Charles, Illinois)
- The population was 10,449 at the 2010 census
- Has a full-scale authentic working Dutch windmill which serves as a museum and tourist attraction
*pizzaneed.com
Digiorno makes a good frozen pizza
Digiorno was developed by Kraft after it had purchased these two smaller companies. No small company story behind it.
Nope, just Say’n….
Stouffers French Bread is my favorite.
* starts twitching and feels phantom pain from shredded palate *
I miss their alfredo variety.
Their commercials make me laugh when they compare themselves to delivered pizza.
Nobody with access to a good pizza place would do frozen instead.
Or is that just me not liking frozen pizza?
Not just you.
Nope. I don’t eat any frozen except as noted above.
I mean if it’s midnight and the pizza place is closed….
wait, your pizza places aren’t open until 3am?
Nope. I live in the burbs now.
That’s a good way to get attacked by crazed MAGA supporters.
” John (Jack) Toby Elrick and his wife Irene built a pizza kitchen in their garage in 1960 to make pizza for friends and neighbors. ”
He couldn’t do that today.
Well, he could make pizza for friends and family, but no way he could sell it from that same kitchen.
Heggie’s in MN is the bomb.
Thanks, CPRM! I really like this feature!
There are still smaller pizza companies in the area, like Portesi
I love those stories. We’ve lost a lot over the last 50 years.
We’ve got Stouffer’s here. There’s also a Nestle/Minor’s facility near the city.
Sammy’s Pizza in Duloot is my favorite, although Pizza Luche comes close.
I have a vegan friend who has carved out a personal exemption for Sammy’s sausage pizza.
Sammy’s, Lucé, Punch
Lots of good pizza places in MN.
I have it very rarely, so I am very picky about the crust.
Some of the best pizza I had was in MN last summer. Can’t remember the place, but it was near the rink and a college. It was more fancy/gourmet. We tried three or four and they were all amazing. I’m going back this summer and that place is on my list.
Frozen carbs.
🙂
Out of curiosity, do you avoid carbs for therapeutic reasons?
Do you count staying thin and healthy as therapeutic?
Just wondering if you are treating autoimmune disease or something. I’ve been cycling back in a few carbs (mostly fruit, honey and corn tortillas) just to see if my workouts are better.
Nope, no diseases.
Other than venereal.
*curses Winston’s mom*
We’ve made cauliflower crust pizza a few times – surprisingly delicious.
I like the frozen cauliflower crust from Trader Joe’s.
Meat crust pizza
Chicken skin crust pizza
Fathead low carb pizza crust
I’ve even had Papa Murphy’s crustless pizza (more of a casserole, not bad)
I haven’t checked any other news outlets, but Fox News is showing the death of Meat Loaf / Louie Anderson as 2 separate stories. Totally going along with his alter ego schtick. Maybe it’s a tribute or something.
The death of Meat Loaf is now two separate stories so they can trumpet that he had the ‘vid.
Subtle and succulent rhywun. Much applause for that.
enjoyed by drunks and teenagers across the land
Why does a Venn diagram immediately jump to mind?
And how exactly did Canadian bacon and pineapple become “Hawaiian”? Is that a Canucki plot?
According to Wikipedia, yes.
More:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2vftrd#:~:text=The%20origin%20of%20the%20Hawaiian&text=And%20despite%20the%20name%2C%20it,in%20the%20province%20of%20Ontario.
Fucking Canadians smearing the good Hawaiians.
Although my super controversial take is: Hawaiian pizza is okay. I would never order it if I am buying a pizza just for myself, but I’ll eat it if it’s available. It doesn’t deserve a lot of love nor hate.
I feel the same way.
I’ve had it once or twice. Yeah, it is ok, nothing I’d order myself.
What is wrong with you people? Hawaiian is the best basic pizza. I couldn’t stand pepperoni pizza when I was kid, now I’ll eat it if the other options are worse.
Pineapple, ham, and green chile.
I have no problem with Hawaiian “pizza”, per se. I just have a problem calling it pizza.
Sort of a corollary to my take on Chicago-style “pizza”.
Same way that Spam did?
Spam is from Austin, Minnesoda, which is like Canada, but different, don’t cha know.
One of my favorite jokes on MST3K was Gypsy was knitting a sweater for Joel, but then Mike took over. The sweater said JOIKE on the front.
The best pizza place is the one you have never heard of but I have. Same with music.
Usually ranked by some magazine where the staffers only nominate their local pizza hangouts. How one would rationally identify the “Best Pizza” in NYC or Chicago or Philly is unknown.
Blind taste test them all?
No frozen pizza in kinnath’s house. Boboli ready-made crust; Classico Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Spread; fresh cheese plus whatever toppings you like.
My wife makes the crust using a bread machine.
Come to think of it that is the only thing she uses the bread machine for. Worth every penny.
Boboli is for “fast pizza” taking the place of frozen pizza.
Home made crust is far better.
Been doing the same, with fancy olive oil pizza sauce. Crust is hard to find around me, though. Sometimes I have to substitute pitas. Sometimes I try the Pop ‘n’ Fresh crust but I can only eat half of it and the other half goes bad in the fridge within like an hour.
Mrs. Dean uses naan bread for the crust. Works a treat. Topped with some kind of spicy tomato sauce, mozzerella, sausage, pepperoni (sometimes), and roasted red peppers. Prolly some other stuff. Dunno, I’m not allowed in the kitchen when she cooks.
Oh, and cooked on a stone in the oven. As Allah intended.
This thread really makes me want to write the next episode in my Beer Wars series, we were just getting to the good part, when the war breaks out.
It is mostly going to be about the destruction of local breweries.
A brewpub I like in central PA decorated one of the bar areas with advertisements from PA breweries that didn’t survive Prohibition.
I will, its just hard. I have 3 more episodes in that series.
OT: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-federal-district-judge-blocks-bidens-last-vaccine-mandate-federal-employees/
Can’t find another source yet and given SCOTUS bitched outta the CMS ruling I don’t have high hopes.
Bloomberg and ABC also reporting it. So preliminary injunction on the FedGov worker mandate. This is gonna piss off a few of my employees. They are aiming for the congress angle on their argument. That the Executive cannot stipulate a vaccine mandate out of thin air as a condition of employment.
What about it will cause your employees consternation?
My on the fencers that bit the bullet and got the JJ just to not deal with potentially losing their jobs. They are all a peeved they did it now and with this news, they will be even moreso.
I see.
I’d be pissed too.
I’m just glad it wasn’t anyone wanting to force people to take shots.
#metoo
I’ve been irritated at myself for awhile for getting it.
This leaves the health care worker mandate intact, large employers safe, and both federal worker mandates (contractor/employee) under injunctions. I’m worried the Supreme Court won’t void both of the federal worker mandates based on the health care worker ruling.
CMS ruled the decisions were in the scope of the Secretary of HHS (I think) to make that rule. The FedGov/Con rules were issued by the president and didn’t direct individual Secretaries to make rules. At least how I see it. Since the president cannot find or create new U.S.C code, I can see this dropping the same as the OSHA ruling that it is Congress’ duty to amend U.S.C in terms of what it means to be able to be an employee or contractor for Feds
Hell. I can see them go either way, which is why I’m concerned. It should be a unanimous decision.
The good news is that it delays any mandate, and hopefully by the time it does get to the SC, it will be moot.
It felt like management does not want to do the work of reviewing all of the ME’s and RE’s submitted. Got an email that suggested no decisions until the end of Feb.
I think they all want it to just go away.
The rank and file middle management may just want it to all go away, but you just know there are some higher ups going to a frothing “respec ma authority!” fit over this.
We have 4 executive level management personnel announcements this past week of sudden retirement dates of end of Feb. Either they dislike that this is going all away and have levels of fear or they don’t like how it is going and saying Im outta here!
I expect SCOTUS will reverse.
But in the meantime, I’ll take the win.
agreed
They might be able to come in with data from across the agencies that show the slew of vaccinated personnel that are being put on COVID leave. The premise of the vaccine mandate was to protect the federal workforce AND the work they do. Well, that isn’t being accomplished on either level with the vaccines.
Science in a court of law?
I don’t want it in there no, but its gonna be there. Fight fire with fire.
Ridiculous! There’s no room for anything but politics!
Allow me to introduce the hell that is Japanese pizza.
Unique Japanese-Style Pizza Toppings and Variations That Will Blow Your Mind
Top hits include:
Corn
Mentaiko (Spicy Pollack Roe)
Natto (Fermented Soybeans)
Mayonnaise – available on just about everything there…
Bamboo Shoots
Pineapple – Naturally…
introduce?
Dave Barry covered this in “Dave Barry Does Japan” in 1993.
Jimbo has terrifying stories of Japanese pizza as well.
I think our very own straff posted a picture of a a pizza that a company brought in for his lunch.
It may have been decent, but it wasn’t pizza.
You forgot hot dogs. Every Japanese- and Chinese-gadget video I watch, they’re putting hot dogs in ramen.
In fairness, at least here in Ohio, we do allow terrible things to be put on hot dogs. If you stick with reasonable toppings, the place is good.
*sees fruit loops*
Fuck off, restaurant! /critical drinker voice
*clears throat*
Froot loops.
Michael Symon had it as one of the best places he ate at. IIRC, it was a hot dog that included peanut butter on it.
/critical drinker voice
It’s impressive how often he’s become the voice of my inner monologue.
Nah, it’ll be fine.
[technical difficulties]
Oh fuck off, film!
Inner?
Mine is usually pretty fucking loud.
There is also French pizza. I don’t remember what was on it – I would not have ordered anything unusual, knowing me, so it was probably standard toppings – but it was disgusting. Every ingredient was wrong in some way. Like they had some basic understanding of what “pizza” is and just reached for whatever was on hand.
I had a pizza in northern Poland that was one of the worst things I ever put in my mouth. It was French bread-style, its sauce was very ketchupy, and it was soaking wet, like it was just fetched out of a mop bucket. I was hungry, though.
I had pizza in Rota, Spain that was excellent.
It was probably closer to Italian pizza, I remember it was very light on tomato sauce.
Forgotten Weapons had a patrons’ only video showing Ian trying a taco at a French train station.
The taco was not like anything he had before and was not that good.
I’ve had Mexican food at two restaurants in Moscow in the 90s. This was shortly after moving to Iowa from Phoenix.
The food was edible, but strange to say the least.
One of the restaurants had a hispanic-looking guy busing tables. We were trying to figure out where he was from. He clearly didn’t walk across the boarder from Mexico. We were guessing Cuban.
Corn on pizza is delicious.
Totino’s party pizzas #FTW!
Jeno’s was originally a Duloot, MN company.
They changed the name to Totino’s when General Mills bought him out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_snack_rolls
*currently researching Duloot for my own Too Local write up.*
Duloot Pack.
I think the pizza rolls were ‘rolled into’ the product line, because according to the source I used for this article, pizzaneed.com:
I still eat the hell out of those things, 30 years after exiting college. Those pizza rolls are napalm pellets, though.
Yeah a good challenge is those and Hot Pockets and who can eat them straight outta the microwave with out melting the roof of your mouth.
Hot Pockets always seem like a good idea until after you eat one.
That was our goto for game nights…board games, computer games, whatever. Large bag of those minis, sodas and teenagers all caffineed up til all hours of the morning.
^^^
Haven’t bought frozen pizza in years, but when we did, it was Red Baron.
Not sure there’s a difference between any of the brands, that was just what my wife always got.
Red Baron is product developed by Schwann’s (out of Minnesoda) from a smaller company, but not independently created.
We used to get Schwann’s delivered when I was a kid. I seem to recall little mini pizzas from them.
So did we. I loved those.
I’ve seen one of their trucks around the neighborhood, had to look up who they were.
My 8 year old loves the mini Red Baron pizzas.
Just had a Marine Corps recruiter call me looking for XX (my fault—I signed her up for one of those college admissions clearinghouse sites using my email and phone #). As soon as I realized who he was, I hung up, just like I do all spam calls. He texted me, “Real mature for a grown woman.” I wanted to text back: “You want me to sacrifice my child on the altar of endless wars that benefit only the military industrial complex? Hard pass. /damned dirty hippie” but that was too much trouble. Now I’m just pissy about it and wanted to vent.
Real mature of a supposedly professional military recruiter to text that. That will surely give you warm fuzzies about talking to XX about a possible military career. It was probably truly a spam/scam call anyway.
Have some fun and text back “did you just assume my gender?”
That’s my thinking too.
It’s gotta be a shitty gig right now. Especially with Brandon at the helm.
Who doesn’t want to go serve with the risk of being embroiled in another forever war all for leaders who sincerely hate you and everything you believe in?
It does inspire a certain urge to kill in me, but not at who they say the enemy is.
CWAA
I say this as a retired Marine
Talking about him, not you Moj.
My father pulled a loaded pistol on a Marine recruiter that showed up at our house at 0-dark-30. There were many complaints against the guy. The school district banned him from campus and threatened to ban all Marine recruiters.
What the hell? Was he shanghaiing?
Pretty much. He was trying to take me to MEPS. I don’t know what he was thinking since I was underage so couldn’t enlist without parental approval.
Probably had those forms forged.
I signed her up for one of those college admissions clearinghouse sites
Have schools stopped supplying recruiters lists of seniors?
I should’ve said SCHOLARSHIP clearinghouse.
No. Not if they want to stay on the government tit.
Been in the NDAA for many years that refusing access to military recruiters can result in federal ed dollars being frozen.
HOLY MACKEREL! That is stupendously unprofessional behavior from an NCO, particularly one in a public facing position. I would be sorely tempted to call his 1st Sgt., and perhaps even Sgt. Major, and voice my displeasure.
Or your Congresscritter. Make ’em remember they’re your servant.
You should’ve texted that, or do what l0b0t suggested.
I don’t recall buying frozen pizzas as an adult, but mom always bought the Ellio’s when we were growing up.
OT:
I meant to link this yesterday, but then I got high.
Cody Wilson on with Malice
Excellent interview. Wilson is a really interesting dude.
I was going to respond to this, but then I got high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw
I didn’t click the link, cause I got high
I figured that’s the joke, cause I was high
I didn’t want to think it wasn’t cause it was woke, yeah man, cause I was high, cause I was high, cause I was high.
It’s been awhile since i watched that. I should have tagged it NSFW.
I saw Afro-Man in concert in 2002 in Las Vegas…but I don’t remember any of it because I got high…and drunk.
In honor of Meatloaf…
I’d do anything to First….but I won’t. DO. THAT.
You know…sometimes it works Bro…*quiet clap*
Nice.
I really like those one dollar totinos pizzas. I also eat ass. These facts may or may not be related.
You don’t need to make it a euphemism, just tell us you like pineapple on your pizza next time.
It’s rare that I eat frozen pizzas, but I did eat a lot of them when I was a kid. I guess it’s good genetics that kept me relatively healthy after the steady diet of pizza rolls, frozen burritos, Star Wars cookies, Hi-C and assorted other junk.
One thing that is universal is the tendency to eat frozen pizza while it’s still way too hot in a continuing cycle of waiting 30 seconds for it to cool and then burning your mouth, over and over.
I always found that frozen pizza was either too hot to eat and you have to do what you say, but there is a very tiny window where it is perfect temperature before it becomes extremely cold. Like 40 seconds.
Which is why it is most popular with drunks and teenagers, or, drunken teenagers.
Never seen Jack’s. Our frozen pizza when I was kid was Tony’s, which like Red Baron, is owned by Schwans. A Minnesota company, or was before the Koreans bought them, so close enough.
Frozen pizza is garbage. Which is why it’s often produced by Midwestern companies where people don’t know the first thing about making pizza to begin with.
I look to the Midwest for white trash casserole dishes. That about it.
On the convo in the dead thread about whether Omicron is actually an older variant:
If so, why did it run now, and not before OG COVID? Omicron is highly, highly infectious, after all. Seems like if it was around three years ago, it would have run three years ago, and not three months ago.
2nd lab leak? I think that was the theory thrown out.
Yep.
Seems far fetched.
Again, you are accepting the premise of TES. If his analysis is wrong on the genetic evolution, then everything that flows from that has a problem.
And here I thought I was challenging it, not accepting it.
Oh, gotcha – the why now and not earlier. Duh. Yeah, that does seem to require some hand-waving.
It already ran. That’s the whole point. It just didn’t have a name. The paper that was the original “zoonotic origin theory” in original form had already pointed out that there were TWO separate strains out of Wuhan. What we know as SARS-CoV2 is the one that got all the press. This older variant was identified as being already extant in WuHan at the time of the Feb 2020 paper. The problem is that would mean there were not one, but TWO separate “zoonotic leaps” of SARS and that’s even more incredible than the current pangolin-fucking-a-chimp claim or whatever the Cathedral has been trying to sell in order to avoid talking about Pete Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, and Tony Fauci funding all of it. So this “other” ancestor variant was already identified as a precursor to SARS-Cov2, but when the “peer review” was completed, the whole paper was altered to be a confusing mess. There are a number of other data points suggesting that there have been unusual IFLI spikes in the 2018-19 timeframe in a number of other countries, but back then (in the before Trump times), no one gave a flying fuck about a higher than usual flu season – that’s all it was and that was the end of it. But when you’re trying to weaponize a virus to change the election laws to allow massive vote-by-mail, and a pharma company that is the 33rd largest company on Earth sees an opportunity to finally get its failed mRNA technology across the line… well, here we are.
You tell me how legit it all is. And this isn’t TES – this paper is the one that was cited by the mainstream press as being the “proof” in support of the zoonotic origin theory. Someone found the version of the paper that was originally submitted and shared it around – and you can compare it to what it eventually became and see what changes were made. The significance is that in original form that paper identified an earlier variant that appears to be what the cathedral is calling omicron.
There have been many people shouting about lab leaks with this kind of shit, which happens more regularly that anyone wants to consider. The anthrax letter attacks came from weaponized Ames strain out of Fort Dietrich’s lab.
It already ran.
But nobody got immunity from it the first time around? Because the way its running now, it sure acts like a brand-new variant.
I kind of agree with you, RC.
But… there has been talk that the vax has been re-awakening latent viruses. I don’t know how true that is, but assuming it has some validity, it could explain why we’re seeing it now especially in the vaxed. People may have gotten such a mild case years ago that they fought it without knowing they even had it, but now the vax has reawakened it – and the vax also prevents them from fighting it as efficiently as their non-vaxed immune system did years ago.
Interesting. There is solid looking data out of Denmark that shows the vax has negative effectiveness after 60 – 90 days, making you more likely to pop positive.
I’ll move it more towards the “plausible” end of the scale.
in support of the zoonotic origin theory
Well, that settles it – since we know how credible THAT theory is.
We used to buy Connie’s uncured pepperoni pizza on a regular basis. I thought they were really good for a frozen pizza. Apparently no one else around here did, the store we shop at quit carrying them. Lately we have been buying a brand called Lena’s from Aldi. Pretty sure it’s locally made.
Connie’s is good stuff. Luckily, it sells around here.
We had/have several frozen and fresh pizza offerings locally. The favorite of the kids is one you have all probably had on pizza day in school, Nardone’s.
https://nardonebros.com/retail/
They sell their pizza fresh and frozen in most grocery stores here, but also to many schools and institutions. If you ever ate a square pizza slice at school with a thick Sicilian like crust they likely made it. It’s not great compared to most takeout joints around here, but it was in every care package when I was in college.
I’m not a fan of the bread slab crust. It’s a style I’d actually avoid eating.
It’s better than the cracker crust, but your right, it is really bready.
Fried Sicilian is another animal all together. Crunchy, followed by chewy, then a bready crust. Great in limited doses, due to the weight of it, but man it is good. I brought a 16 cut pizza to a party last weekend and it had to weigh close to 5 lbs.
When I was in school the lunch ladies made the pizza…it wasn’t good.
We only got Sloppy Joe’s. Be grateful you slouch
Extra sloppy?
Yeah, this look like the pizza at my elementary school, served in a little aluminum foil pan.
Our goto pizza place, when not getting cooked pizza is Papa Murhpy’s. Freshly made, not frozen but they are bake at home. I guess you could buy them and freeze them…
Their thin crust is quite good.
I’ve recently learned that one of our local pizza places (attached to a very good bar Edison’s in Tremont), has started providing take and bake pizzas to a couple of the local grocery stores. Fortunately for my waistline, those grocery stores are further away from me then Edison’s is.
The only local pizza joint in Manistee, Big Al’s,
Great Stromboli, pizza, meh
https://www.bigalspizza.net/
I used to crush the Stromboli from Broders’ Cucina Italiana
Highly recommended.
OT – the snow blower repair is going to cost a cotter pin for the wheel hub, so I got that going for me.
Mine was a $400/month alimony payment, consider yourself getting off light!
That sounds like it could have been much worse. That’s what I forked over to my ex for about a year in the mid-90’s. Not court ordered, just seemed like the thing to do. Of course, once she finally got her degree and I met Judi that was the end of that.
cotter pin – sounds cheap
On the shit wiping hand, property taxes are going up nearly 7% and they just informed us that our little piece of freehold is apparently worth twice what it should be. Inflation? You must be mad! Cuntes…
Ouch sorry.
Buy only a cotter pin to fix the snowblower is a good thing.
Heck, I could just bend a nail but yeah, whatever. I thought tire was jacked but it just came off the bead. Looks pristine to me.
So – after hiring a PR from DA Alvin Bragg has decided to walk things back a bit. Who could have thought this would be an issue?
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tries to clarify controversial policy memo, says it gave ‘wrong impression’
Funny thing is that I’m not reading about Asian on Black crime, however…
Like what? I mean, as stated its completely . . . meaningless? It all depends on what he is going to de-prioritize.
I suspect the drug and gang units will be zorched.
I know many of you here are pizza snobs that wouldn’t touch a frozen pizza
I <3 Totino's.
The car I bought their sucked – they’re
Literally.
“Much like this movie, there is a ticking clock,” the Inception star said. “I think there’s a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private sector, governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine-year window.”
“So, this movie is certainly not that far off as far as the urgency of the matter,” DiCaprio insisted.
Then enjoy it while it lasts.
I figuratively want to shove my fist down his throat.
also stop flying your eyebrow guy from australia
He looks like Jonah Golberg’s retarded step brother!
You should never make another film Leo – to protest the great indifference to climate. Just sit in a cave, by yourself, with no fire or other carbon-based energy.
How far off are we from environmentalists clashing with pro-maskers? Should have happened by now, but maybe soon since “experts” say reusable masks (cloth) don’t work.
Those fights will probably start back up in a couple months. The county I live in is moving ahead with their single use plastic bag ban after putting it on hold back in 2020.
We just need a dead turtle to wash ashore wearing an n95.
I knew that stupid movie was supposed to be an allegory for climate change when I saw the promos.
I got the feeling from the trailer that they all thought they were much more clever than they actually are.
If there is one thing we are good at, it is blowing something up.
That’s very brave. We all know how few people make fun of Trump, given how dangerous it is.
I think there’s a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private sector, governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine-year window.
Okay. Then how about we reduce our global carbon footprint by shutting down the movie and television industries? Maybe we could help cushion the blow to the help by imposing a tax on the entertainers who’ve made more than a million dollars for, say, the last five years.
“I don’t know anybody who
voted for Nixondoesn’t screech about the end of the world while tooling around in their yacht.”You have to wonder how much of this is just them being ashamed of their own success. They obviously don’t actually believe a word of it.
https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/05/16/doom-but-now-we-know-when/
More like 8 years and 9 months, but close enough. I will give him credit for not moving the goal post.
Jack’s and Tombstone are bad even by frozen pizza standards.
Celeste: not at all heavenly.
Jack’s is fine, for what it is….cheap.
on the US frozen pizza front I got nothin
You really aren’t missing a thing.
I think they were fantastic when I was 22 and drunk at 2 am.
Some can be quite good – but many are just hot, bulk calories.
I know many of you here are pizza snobs that wouldn’t touch a frozen pizza, but it is a staple of the American diet none the less; enjoyed by drunks and teenagers across the land.
When I was a kid, I ate many frozen pizzas.
While recuperating and unable to tend bar he worked in the kitchen and started making pizza. The pizza was a hit and the brothers began packing up their ’59 Cadillac with dry ice and frozen pizzas, selling their pizza across the state.
This story of making lemonade from lemons makes me smile.
Thanks CPRM!
Here’s my bit of Too-Local News: I went to the state liquor store to restock some stuff. I was one of two people not wearing masks. But worse than that: As I walked through the store, I wondered if I had stepped through time and space back to the 90s when I turned 21 and first shopped at a PA state store. Half the shelves were empty. I have never seen empty shelves at this liquor store. Prices for what was in stock were higher.
Oh dear.
Unpossible, Gropey Joe said there were no empty shelves.
Fuck Joe Biden.
Those photos of empty shelves were all from last year. So DEG was probably accessing a memory from last summer.
I just heard from NOLA friends today that the city is out of Jameson a week before Mardi Gras. Also, our bottleshops here in The Rockaways have been out of Wild Turkey for weeks.
I just heard from NOLA friends today that the city is out of Jameson a week before Mardi Gras.
That is beyond sad.
Yikes! We have plenty of Jameson…for now.
Probably a transportation issue, more than a shortage.
Isn’t Mardi Gras at the end of February?
Depends on when Ash Wednesday is. This year, Ash Wednesday falls on 3/2, last year it was 2/17, and in 2024 it’ll be on 2/14 (which will suck for a lot of Catholics).
in 2024 it’ll be on 2/14 (which will suck for a lot of Catholics)
If they’re lucky, anyway.
Welp, Google has forced my hand:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/
I’ve been holding off moving the custom domain off Google since getting Mom over to ProtonMail will be… fraught but if I’m going to pay someone it sure won’t be Google. It’ll be cheaper, too.
I found the hardest part of moving was getting the old provider to let go. They put up all sorts of roadblocks and traps like “Just change any setting to restore your account” and resume billing me when I was committed to moving.
(For the record this was with GoDaddy when I finally got around to giving them the boot)
Now I’m on Hover and ProtonMail, but it’s actually cheaper and less of a hassle.
Don’t know about google, but I’m not going to pay them to harvest data from my communications for their own purposes.
I’ve got full control of my domain, outside of Google, so I’m not worried about the mechanics of moving (I do DNS stuff for a living).
It’s getting Mom (and sister and brother and nephew and nieces) over to ProtonMail that may be trying.
Fortunately, you are unlikely to be in a position to email anyone in Russia. Emails sent from ProtonMail never reach Russia.
My brother and I were just discussing this. What a fucking hassle.
Shit. Thanks.
“The guy was a real dick so I made my down payment in quarters” should be festooned on the Glibertarian banner!
Never change NYT…
Court Battle Over a Ventilator Takes a Patient From Minnesota to Texas
The whole unvaccinated COVID issue is a red herring here. The issue is if he has no chance of recovery.
What’s interesting to me is that the Texas hospital took him and I’m also not inclined to want to go to Mercy Hospital given the way they dealt with his wife.
I’ve tried several different crust recipes, all of them pretty good. However, our local pizzeria is happy to sell portions of their delicious dough for less than it would cost me to make it from scratch.
When it comes to toppings, let 1000 flowers bloom. I would love to try some of those Asian creations. I make a breakfast pie that is not too shabby – garlic butter cream sauce or vodka sauce, bacon, sausage, and eggs dropped on right at the end of the cooking process so the yolks are nice and runny.
…runny yolk?
*vomits*
I remember a pizza from a place in central PA.
Duck confit, greens, duck egg, and goat cheese.
Excellent.
Gay.
I , too, am a pizza <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnism#:~:text=Omnism%20is%20the%20recognition%20and,their%20gods%20or%20lack%20thereof."omnist.
I used to throw all sorts of things on pizza
What a dick.
A proposed California bill would allow children ages 12 and above to be vaccinated without parental consent.
California Democratic State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced the bill late Thursday in Sacramento.
“Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health,” Wiener said, according to an Associated Press report.
“It’s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site,” he added.
At some point it has got to be time for pitch forks.
Lamp posts, but yes.
I’m assuming they will be able to smoke, drink and get married too?
And also file lawsuits?
Sorry, they are minors, they don’t have standing.
No, but I’m sure they can get abortions.
And get guns.
More CA ridiculousness. If only Comrade Newsom knew.
Newsom calls littered LA rail tracks ‘unacceptable,’ brings along cleanup crew
And the Democrat, dressed in a T-shirt, baseball cap and coronavirus mask, pitched in himself, joining crew members from the state Department of Transportation in grabbing handfuls of debris and placing the trash in bags or in a dumpster.
You know, Gav, the problem is the criminals you don’t prosecute. Lean on your AG if you’re not just playing pretend.
“coronavirus mask”…..fuck off and die.
If it actually was made out of coronaviruses, he just might.
I really don’t have an issue with treating people like that as you would someone who was trying to kidnap your kid or sell them drugs.
Violence will be required to rectify this in the long term. They simply do not understand any other language even though they never employ it directly and always use someone else as their jackboot.
Big Mike’s (good herb packet)
Newman’s Own
Target’s thin-crust Italian
Screamin’ Sicilian
Red Baron (preferably not nuked)
Those Detroit pizzas look good.
Had a Chicago pizza recently; apparently too much cheese is possible.
Also Kroger’s imported ones (one with marmalade!, which strangely wasn’t bad). Anyone’s anything imported from Italy, FTM.
American Flatbread
I hear Home Run Inn is good, but they look enormous.
Home Run was my nickname in college IYKWIM
Because you would touch them all?
Home Run Inn is really very good – they can be large, but they are not too thick.
Never nuke a frozen pizza
Yeah, why waste a nuke on a pizza. There are much better targets.
The German chancellor declined to meet with the President of the United States regarding concerns about Ukraine, and Marron doesn’t want the United States involved in negotiations with Russia, but at least Biden isn’t getting glares from a teenage media prop moppet.
France and Germany were slow-rolling the US sponsored coup in the Ukraine back in 2014 which prompted the infamous outburst from Victoria Nuland of “Fuck the EU.” I guarantee they haven’t forgotten that incident. Particularly since the current makeup of State is all the same characters from the Obama administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM
Their unwillingness to cooperate now may help keep us out of a war.
Believe me, I don’t want Biden involved in those conversations any more than they do, but it’s funny how restoring America’s respect on the world stage looks a lot like exactly the opposite.
The neocons are firmly in charge over at State again. They had to give on Afghanistan, you just know they’re champing at their bits to stick our collective dick into another mess on Russia’s border.
Adding to the story — Schwan’s Ice Cream bought out Tony’s Pizza (Salina, KS) and both Tony’s and Tombstone began competing for the same market. Originally, the market was selling to neighborhood bars and gas stations.
If you signed up, they’d give you a pizza oven and deliver pizzas every two weeks. After a year or two, the market expanded to super-market sales.
Tombstone was significanty better than Tony’s, but also more expensive. Tony’s developed Red Baron as an answer to combat Tombstone’s quality.
My Dad was a district manager for Schwan’s back then, and I used to spend a lot of my summers riding Schwan’s or Tony’s routes when we were out of school.
https://www.rt.com/news/546788-metaverse-rave-party-flops/
That’s their new “big thing”?
ROFL.
Something relevant popped up in local news: Looking for good pizza? Here are 15 top-rated restaurants to get a slice in the Richmond area
Have only tried a few of those. Pupatella blows. Bottoms Up gets a thumbs down. CPK and MM are so-so.
Homemade pizza is good. I can’t get excited about anything else.
So no baked-bean pizza for limey; duly noted.
I haven’t seen Dr. Oetker’s in a while.
The “Yes It’s Pizza” range looks interesting. Maybe slightly more keto-friendly than regular bases?
Meh.
Lest the septics think I’m joking:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ca/d7/12/cad712453f4e769199583bd9c2ce3fa6.jpg
I’d try that.
Frozen pizzas can be yummy, but are completely unsatiating. So I’d wind up eating 3500 calories and still be hungry. I don’t buy them anymore.
I only get a few (real) pizzas a year, so when I do get one (like last week) they’re amazingly delicious.
Can’t have ’em because I’m low-carbing, but I do love those things.
Eh, just eat the toppings, or have sausage or chicken crust.
It’s disrespectful to expect the Chancellor of Germany to speak with someone other than a head of state.
The town was consistently stricter than the neighbors at imposing brain-dead restrictions.
Somerville health panel rejects indoor business vaccine mandate
How unprogressive of them.
/sniffs haughtily from NYC
A rare bit of good news – I’ve been repeatedly checking the city’s site since the health department meeting yesterday.
Get a load of this shit-lord:
“Dr. Brian Green, chair of the health board, [said] … because what we know about Omicron is that this is not going to have any effect of decreasing transmissibility in the restaurants and gyms.”
but he would have been cool with it for Delta.
Still, I’ll take the minor win.
Don’t ask me how I didn’t see that you quoted the exact thing I just did.
I need more caffeine.
Exactly. He was willing to ignore the science prior that those were not major vectors cause he felt he had the backing of hidden SCIENCE! Now, hard to hide that SCIENCE! and might as well ride the Omicron wave out.
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I love Twitter because it goes against exactly how I try to live my life when I speak…which is why open your mouth and make it known you are an idiot when you can remain silent and be thought of as one.
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Federal employees are and have been required to take part in the flu vaccine as a requirement of work. This is not different.
Absolutely false. Maybe some, like, healthcare workers under CMS, but I have never been made to engage in any medical procedure as part of my employment.
“Take the Jab” OBE, it’s for the best……..
say it with me……
Well, it will get fast tracked to SCOTUS now. Religious Tests and Medical Affirmations are due Feb 3. The injunction will push that timeline back most likely and anyone that may already be under progressive discipline will be given some relief at this point.
Never had Tombstone. My nearest memory is putting “Sausage and olives” on the tombstone in The Oregon Trail when I died.
I did not realize until just now when I looked in the freezer, that Totino’s only has one “N” in it. (Tontino’s) My whole life is a lie.
Now I want pizza.
I always do: QED.
This is fine.
I think everyone knows by now that anything that comes out of China has “deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party”. They just don’t care.
I did not realize until just now when I looked in the freezer, that Totino’s only has one “N” in it. (Tontino’s) My whole life is a lie.
“Tontino’s Pizza- last man standing gets to eat it.”
Bravo!
Toasted slice of Wonder bread slathered in ketchup and topped with chunks of pimento loaf.