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At the risk of sounding like an ad I’m kind of startled at how not-terrible Little Caesars is for the price. A lot of food and a completely reasonable tasting a

At the risk of sounding like an ad I’m kind of startled at how not-terrible Little Caesars is for the price. A lot of food and a completely reasonable tasting and baked pie for stupid cheap when compared to almost everything else.

alar44 4y ago
Little Caesars is objectively terrible, sorry.
- ttymck 4y ago
  The subjective nature of reality disagrees with you, sorry.
  - deleted 4y ago
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- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Seconded, cannot relate. They're worth the $6 or whatever but not a penny more. Better than most $6 frozen pizzas, I suppose. They have that going for them. They're also a good example of this, actually. They'd held their $5 price point for a long time but had gradually been cutting toppings until they were comically bare. Then they introduced a $6 "extra toppings" (or something, I don't recall the way they phrased it) pie that just had the same amount the normal ones used to. Post-Covid I'm pretty sure the sad-pie price is up to $6, and the actually-has-toppings edition is $7.
- alexjplant 4y ago
  I'd never defend Little Caesar's as amazing pizza but it does exactly what it's supposed to, i.e. hits the spot when you're looking for primal satisfaction of a craving for a greasy pile of dough and cheese. When I want "real" pizza I walk down the street for something Neapolitan or NY-style but if I'm hanging with a large group of friends and feel like pigging out then I see nothing wrong with going all-in for some Deep Deep Dish from LC.
- kevinsundar 4y ago
  In my metro area they increased prices to $7. However, quality has drastically improved. If you haven't tried em recently they are very different than the old thin, taste like nothing, Little Caesars pizzas.
  - Turing_Machine 4y ago
    Are they using real cheese nowadays (even bulk processed cheese)? If so, perhaps they have improved. The last time I had one (which was admittedly a long time ago) they were using some kind of "imitation cheese-flavored product" or something along those lines.
- RandallBrown 4y ago
  I genuinely feel bad for you. I really enjoy Little Caesar's (and most pizza.)
  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    The ideal place to be is knowing when pizza is bad, but still being able to enjoy bad pizza. That kinda goes for most things, really.
    - DonHopkins 4y ago
      I'm that way with my science fiction. I'm bistellar: I love both Star Wars and Star Trek. But I fully realize that Bladerunner is astronomically better than either of them. And none of those masterpiees keep me from fully enjoying smutty trash like Space Truckers, or even any of Philip K Dick's horrible random short stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOqLOErhZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOqLOErhZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Ifaeff0mA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Ifaeff0mA
      - jamiek88 4y ago
        Hey me too! I love Iain Banks, and geek out over some Stanislaw Lem but also enjoy the crappy book one of twelve kindle unlimited shitty space operas. Unedited tosh most of it but it does a job !
    - alar44 4y ago
      No, the ideal place is knowing when pizza is bad and not getting bad pizza.
- ncallaway 4y ago
  You don’t need to apologize to them. We should be saying sorry to you. Someone who gets enjoyment out of a $5 pizza is in an objectively better position than someone who can only get enjoyment out of a $10 pizza. Sorry!
  - LarryMullins 4y ago
    This is how I explain my refusal to learn anything about the varieties and nuances of "good coffee". If I learned to appreciate good coffee, would I still be able to enjoy common dinner coffee? I fear not.
    - yamtaddle 4y ago
      I'm fairly sure I have a well-above-average ability to appreciate actually-good coffee and actually-good pizza—but am also genuinely happy with the bad stuff, even though I'm entirely aware it's bad (within reason—I've had a couple gas station cups of coffee that weren't just bad, but wrong, and I wasn't able to finish them, and instant coffee usually gets a polite "no thanks" from me, but if Folger's or Kirkland Ground or whatever is what you've got, I'll be truly grateful to have it) I'm not that way with wine and beer. I don't like bad wine or beer at all. I will turn it down or just drink it to be polite, not enjoying it a bit. I think the difference is I never liked bad wine or beer, while I started out liking bad pizza and bad coffee before I learned what the good stuff tasted like. So, you might be safe. [EDIT] Reflecting more on this, part of it may be that I regard bad coffee and bad pizza as pretty much totally different things from good varieties of the same—I just happen to like both. I don't really consider one a substitute for the other, I guess. Bad coffee is just coffee-flavored... but I like coffee flavor! Good coffee has all kinds of flavors going on. If you're interested in getting into that, I recommend finding a highly-regarded local roaster doing a tasting event—I personally find it much easier to get into a new flavor-related thing, such that I can start to understand it and pick out various notes, if I can do side-by-side tastings of various examples of the thing, all in a short span. It's similar with beer and wine, I just happen not to like "beer-flavored" or "wine-flavored", the way I do like coffee-flavored coffee or find greasy bread smeared with salty cheese and tomato sauce satisfying even if it's pretty awful—get me the nice stuff that has more going on and I'm in heaven, though.
- harrydehal 4y ago
  Even the late Anythony Bourdain could espouse on the greatness of an "objectively terrible" Wafflehouse meal. There's a time and place for everything, and even the snobbiest of us food snobs can appreciate the time and place for the likes of Little Ceasars, Costco Pizza, Wafflehouse, et al.
  - javajosh 4y ago
    I also love Waffle House's food despite, maybe even because, it's 'bad'. Their waffles are legit good; the rest is coffee shop slop of the highest order. Recommended. (Glad Bourdain had the guts to say this)
    - nobody9999 4y ago
      Waffle House is open late and the food has lots of carbs and fat. Which means it's good drunk food available when the drunks want to eat. I live 1,000 miles away from the nearest one, but I sure did love a late Saturday night at Waffle House when I lived in the south. Where I am now, a "109 spicy special,"[0] hot off the grill, a single serving bag of nacho cheese Doritos and Pepsi does the job too. [0] https://bwog.com/2007/01/how-spicy-is-your-special/ https://bwog.com/2007/01/how-spicy-is-your-special/
  - blastro 4y ago
    I read this in Bourdain's voice.
  - ethbr0 4y ago
    To be fair, Waffle House completely overhauled their menu ~2 years(?) ago. Gone is the 90s yellow a la carte one. Gone even is the replacement that at least kept the classics on the back. Now it's $8+ meals, with token hashbrown options at the bottom. Used to be, you could get a perfectly serviceable meal there for under-$6. E.g. double hashbrowns ($3) + single hamburger ($1) + drink ($1.5). Now the closest thing to the same meal is double the price. Double hashbrown $5. Single hamburger doesn't exist, and hamburgers start at $6.
  - geocrasher 4y ago
- canadianfella 4y ago
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- blurri 4y ago
  It's $5 man. Also, that's just like your opinion man.
mitchell_h 4y ago
it's $5 for a single toping, walk in and walk out with hot-ish pizza. Is it great? no. Does it have enough qualities that make it good? yes.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  As the meme goes: "$5, hot and ready." "Is it good?" "It's HOT and it's READY."
- izackp 4y ago
  They raised the price and added more pepperoni (less cheese). :(
- beowulfey 4y ago
  7-Eleven Pizza used to be similar. In grad school I loved grabbing two slices and an Arnold Palmer for like $3 or whatever it was.
pastor_bob 4y ago
Have you been to Cicis? Literally all you can eat + pasta. Dirt cheap. If you're the 'one-meal-a-day' type, is there a cheaper option?
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Costco's pizza works out pretty damn well on a just-get-some-calories-in-me-but-don't-make-me-cook basis, too, if you want something you can carry out. Two days of calories for $10.
  - DoneWithAllThat 4y ago
    Yeah for sure, also a really good point.
  - ethbr0 4y ago
    * Must live in part of town with a Costco ;)
- readonlybarbie 4y ago
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- jjeaff 4y ago
  I don't know what it is now, but Cici used to have $1.99 all you can eat pizza buffets on certain days of the week. This would have been in the mid 90s. Unbelievably (suspiciously?) cheap even for then.
  - splistud 4y ago
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coredog64 4y ago
Little Caesars used to be so much better. This was the time period when they were selling you two pizzas on a paper-wrapped flat for the price of one major chain pizza. Not sure when they switched to extreme value focus.
- bluedino 4y ago
  All of my teenage hacking was fueled by leftover Little Ceasers and Mt Dew
OkayPhysicist 4y ago
Costco pizzas fill that niche for me. Ton of food for $10, somewhat better than Little Caesers, and until cost cutting measures during the pandemic, a very passable combo pizza.

alar44 4y ago

Little Caesars is objectively terrible, sorry.

ttymck 4y ago
The subjective nature of reality disagrees with you, sorry.
- deleted 4y ago
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yamtaddle 4y ago
Seconded, cannot relate. They're worth the $6 or whatever but not a penny more. Better than most $6 frozen pizzas, I suppose. They have that going for them. They're also a good example of this, actually. They'd held their $5 price point for a long time but had gradually been cutting toppings until they were comically bare. Then they introduced a $6 "extra toppings" (or something, I don't recall the way they phrased it) pie that just had the same amount the normal ones used to. Post-Covid I'm pretty sure the sad-pie price is up to $6, and the actually-has-toppings edition is $7.
alexjplant 4y ago
I'd never defend Little Caesar's as amazing pizza but it does exactly what it's supposed to, i.e. hits the spot when you're looking for primal satisfaction of a craving for a greasy pile of dough and cheese. When I want "real" pizza I walk down the street for something Neapolitan or NY-style but if I'm hanging with a large group of friends and feel like pigging out then I see nothing wrong with going all-in for some Deep Deep Dish from LC.
kevinsundar 4y ago
In my metro area they increased prices to $7. However, quality has drastically improved. If you haven't tried em recently they are very different than the old thin, taste like nothing, Little Caesars pizzas.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago
  Are they using real cheese nowadays (even bulk processed cheese)? If so, perhaps they have improved. The last time I had one (which was admittedly a long time ago) they were using some kind of "imitation cheese-flavored product" or something along those lines.
RandallBrown 4y ago
I genuinely feel bad for you. I really enjoy Little Caesar's (and most pizza.)
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  The ideal place to be is knowing when pizza is bad, but still being able to enjoy bad pizza. That kinda goes for most things, really.
  - DonHopkins 4y ago
    I'm that way with my science fiction. I'm bistellar: I love both Star Wars and Star Trek. But I fully realize that Bladerunner is astronomically better than either of them. And none of those masterpiees keep me from fully enjoying smutty trash like Space Truckers, or even any of Philip K Dick's horrible random short stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOqLOErhZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOqLOErhZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Ifaeff0mA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Ifaeff0mA
    - jamiek88 4y ago
      Hey me too! I love Iain Banks, and geek out over some Stanislaw Lem but also enjoy the crappy book one of twelve kindle unlimited shitty space operas. Unedited tosh most of it but it does a job !
  - alar44 4y ago
    No, the ideal place is knowing when pizza is bad and not getting bad pizza.
ncallaway 4y ago
You don’t need to apologize to them. We should be saying sorry to you. Someone who gets enjoyment out of a $5 pizza is in an objectively better position than someone who can only get enjoyment out of a $10 pizza. Sorry!
- LarryMullins 4y ago
  This is how I explain my refusal to learn anything about the varieties and nuances of "good coffee". If I learned to appreciate good coffee, would I still be able to enjoy common dinner coffee? I fear not.
  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    I'm fairly sure I have a well-above-average ability to appreciate actually-good coffee and actually-good pizza—but am also genuinely happy with the bad stuff, even though I'm entirely aware it's bad (within reason—I've had a couple gas station cups of coffee that weren't just bad, but wrong, and I wasn't able to finish them, and instant coffee usually gets a polite "no thanks" from me, but if Folger's or Kirkland Ground or whatever is what you've got, I'll be truly grateful to have it) I'm not that way with wine and beer. I don't like bad wine or beer at all. I will turn it down or just drink it to be polite, not enjoying it a bit. I think the difference is I never liked bad wine or beer, while I started out liking bad pizza and bad coffee before I learned what the good stuff tasted like. So, you might be safe. [EDIT] Reflecting more on this, part of it may be that I regard bad coffee and bad pizza as pretty much totally different things from good varieties of the same—I just happen to like both. I don't really consider one a substitute for the other, I guess. Bad coffee is just coffee-flavored... but I like coffee flavor! Good coffee has all kinds of flavors going on. If you're interested in getting into that, I recommend finding a highly-regarded local roaster doing a tasting event—I personally find it much easier to get into a new flavor-related thing, such that I can start to understand it and pick out various notes, if I can do side-by-side tastings of various examples of the thing, all in a short span. It's similar with beer and wine, I just happen not to like "beer-flavored" or "wine-flavored", the way I do like coffee-flavored coffee or find greasy bread smeared with salty cheese and tomato sauce satisfying even if it's pretty awful—get me the nice stuff that has more going on and I'm in heaven, though.
harrydehal 4y ago
Even the late Anythony Bourdain could espouse on the greatness of an "objectively terrible" Wafflehouse meal. There's a time and place for everything, and even the snobbiest of us food snobs can appreciate the time and place for the likes of Little Ceasars, Costco Pizza, Wafflehouse, et al.
- javajosh 4y ago
  I also love Waffle House's food despite, maybe even because, it's 'bad'. Their waffles are legit good; the rest is coffee shop slop of the highest order. Recommended. (Glad Bourdain had the guts to say this)
  - nobody9999 4y ago
    Waffle House is open late and the food has lots of carbs and fat. Which means it's good drunk food available when the drunks want to eat. I live 1,000 miles away from the nearest one, but I sure did love a late Saturday night at Waffle House when I lived in the south. Where I am now, a "109 spicy special,"[0] hot off the grill, a single serving bag of nacho cheese Doritos and Pepsi does the job too. [0] https://bwog.com/2007/01/how-spicy-is-your-special/ https://bwog.com/2007/01/how-spicy-is-your-special/
- blastro 4y ago
  I read this in Bourdain's voice.
- ethbr0 4y ago
  To be fair, Waffle House completely overhauled their menu ~2 years(?) ago. Gone is the 90s yellow a la carte one. Gone even is the replacement that at least kept the classics on the back. Now it's $8+ meals, with token hashbrown options at the bottom. Used to be, you could get a perfectly serviceable meal there for under-$6. E.g. double hashbrowns ($3) + single hamburger ($1) + drink ($1.5). Now the closest thing to the same meal is double the price. Double hashbrown $5. Single hamburger doesn't exist, and hamburgers start at $6.
- geocrasher 4y ago
canadianfella 4y ago
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blurri 4y ago
It's $5 man. Also, that's just like your opinion man.

mitchell_h 4y ago

it's $5 for a single toping, walk in and walk out with hot-ish pizza. Is it great? no. Does it have enough qualities that make it good? yes.

yamtaddle 4y ago
As the meme goes: "$5, hot and ready." "Is it good?" "It's HOT and it's READY."
izackp 4y ago
They raised the price and added more pepperoni (less cheese). :(
beowulfey 4y ago
7-Eleven Pizza used to be similar. In grad school I loved grabbing two slices and an Arnold Palmer for like $3 or whatever it was.

pastor_bob 4y ago

Have you been to Cicis? Literally all you can eat + pasta. Dirt cheap. If you're the 'one-meal-a-day' type, is there a cheaper option?

yamtaddle 4y ago
Costco's pizza works out pretty damn well on a just-get-some-calories-in-me-but-don't-make-me-cook basis, too, if you want something you can carry out. Two days of calories for $10.
- DoneWithAllThat 4y ago
  Yeah for sure, also a really good point.
- ethbr0 4y ago
  * Must live in part of town with a Costco ;)
readonlybarbie 4y ago
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jjeaff 4y ago
I don't know what it is now, but Cici used to have $1.99 all you can eat pizza buffets on certain days of the week. This would have been in the mid 90s. Unbelievably (suspiciously?) cheap even for then.
- splistud 4y ago
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coredog64 4y ago

Little Caesars used to be so much better. This was the time period when they were selling you two pizzas on a paper-wrapped flat for the price of one major chain pizza. Not sure when they switched to extreme value focus.

bluedino 4y ago
All of my teenage hacking was fueled by leftover Little Ceasers and Mt Dew

OkayPhysicist 4y ago

Costco pizzas fill that niche for me. Ton of food for $10, somewhat better than Little Caesers, and until cost cutting measures during the pandemic, a very passable combo pizza.