There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
raw pie and put it in your oven.

I just don't get it. Either make your own, or order a cooked one, or
buy some frozen thing. What is this?

The place has been there for over a year; something must be working.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people with more dollars than
sense, and ripe for plucking. Good luck to the Entree Vous
entrepeneurs. You are capitalist predators, but your prey are idiots.
Chop their carrots and take as much of their money as you can.

bulka

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:38:07 -0600, bulka wrote:

> There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
> where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
> raw pie and put it in your oven.
>
> I just don't get it. Either make your own, or order a cooked one, or
> buy some frozen thing. What is this?
>
> The place has been there for over a year; something must be working.
>
> On the other hand, there are a lot of people with more dollars than
> sense, and ripe for plucking. Good luck to the Entree Vous
> entrepeneurs. You are capitalist predators, but your prey are idiots.
> Chop their carrots and take as much of their money as you can.
>
Sad as it may seem.... someone is buying or else they wouldn't be in
business.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

bulka > wrote:
> There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
> where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
> raw pie and put it in your oven.

There was one of those here for a while, maybe about a year.
I tried it once, but the quality was about what I would expect
from a grocery store frozen pizza, so why bother?

> I just don't get it. Either make your own, or order a cooked one, or
> buy some frozen thing. What is this?

A marketing gimmick.

> The place has been there for over a year; something must be working.

The one here didn't make it more than a year, and the oygen bar located
in the same plaza didn't last long either. No joke, an oxygen bar where
you could go and breath oxygen out of a tank. They supposedly added
fruit essence to the O2 for extra money. I never figured out what
the heck that was supposed to do for anyone.

The current, inexplicable, trendy place in town is a hooka bar
and cafe. Go hang out where people are smoking hookas and
eating. Eh?

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

sf wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:38:07 -0600, bulka wrote:
>
> > There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
> > where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
> > raw pie and put it in your oven.
> >
> > I just don't get it. Either make your own, or order a cooked one, or
> > buy some frozen thing. What is this? [snip]
> >
> Sad as it may seem.... someone is buying or else they wouldn't be in
> business.

This doesn't seem nearly as sad to me as the business described in the
original entree vous thread. I could be a customer if there were such
a raw pizza place near me.

I don't want to make my own because making dough is not something I'm
good at.

I don't order a cooked one for delivery because they are always steamed
soft by the time they get here, whereas I like crispy thin crust.

I won't buy a frozen thing because I've tried all the brands available
and don't like any of them.

So as it stands, pizza is something I go out for (to Casa Bianca, if
there are any Eagle Rock lurkers out there). If they would make the
dough and give me my choice of toppings and let me cook it at home I
definitely would try it. -aem

In article >,
RoR > wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:41:27 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
>
> >bulka > wrote:
> >> There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
> >> where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
> >> raw pie and put it in your oven.


> >> I just don't get it. Either make your own, or order a cooked one, or
> >> buy some frozen thing. What is this?
> >
> >A marketing gimmick.

Have you ever tried one of these? I would suggest trying one, and then
commenting. These are very popular around here.


> Pick up the phone and order it when leaving work, movies, sports game, etc.
> and it's ready
> when you get there. Take it home, cook it and 15 minutes later - just about
> the time to
> change clothes, pet the dog, grab a soda (or whatever drink you prefer) and
> viola

I used to play the cello. Does that count?

:-)


> Much cheaper than the cooked chain pizzas from: Pizza Hut, Dominos, Little
> Ceasar's,
> Godfathers, etc. Much tastier than the chain ready cook pizzas, too.

Last time I got a pizza from Round Table it was US$25.00. That's a lot
of money for a pizza.


http://www.papamurphys.com/public/menu_papasPizzas.cfm

--
Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA

Dan Abel > wrote:

> > >A marketing gimmick.

> Have you ever tried one of these? I would suggest trying one, and then
> commenting. These are very popular around here.

Since that marketing gimmick comment was mine I'll say yes,
I have tried one, which I mentioned in my earlier post.
The one I tried was about on par with frozen grocery store pizzas.
Not horrible, but nothing special. I wish it had been good, I
kind of like the concept, but if it's no better than a DiGiorno
or Freschetta or whatever why bother?

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

RoR wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:41:27 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
>
> >bulka > wrote:
> >> There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
> >> where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
> >> raw pie and put it in your oven.

> Much cheaper than the cooked chain pizzas from: Pizza Hut, Dominos, Little Ceasar's,
> Godfathers, etc. Much tastier than the chain ready cook pizzas, too.
>

Not here - they only offer 1 size, 18 inch, and it's $16.95. I could
get cheapy chain pizza for $9.99 easily. For $16.95, I can get my
favorite 'gourmet' pizzas delivered - $15.95 for the eggplant parm
pizza, and $16.95 for white with spinach, tomato, and artichokes. And
that, they bring to me. If it's not hot enough, I heat it on a pizza
stone in the oven. Much easier, and same price.

"bulka" > wrote in message ...
> There is a place in my yuppified neighborhood (Wicker Park, Chicago),
> where you can buy a raw pizza. You pick the ingredients, pick up the
> raw pie and put it in your oven.
>
> I just don't get it. Either make your own, or order a cooked one, or
> buy some frozen thing. What is this?
>
> The place has been there for over a year; something must be working.
>
> On the other hand, there are a lot of people with more dollars than
> sense, and ripe for plucking. Good luck to the Entree Vous
> entrepeneurs. You are capitalist predators, but your prey are idiots.
> Chop their carrots and take as much of their money as you can.
>
> bulka

There were two different pizza take 'n bake chain stores here. One went bust
pretty quickly, the other has been here for at least 6-7 years. I've been
meaning to give them another try one of these days since they've just added
a super-thin crust to their offerings.

I suppose the take 'n bake places would be popular with people who want to
add extras to the pizza that the local joints might not have, or for people
who want to rearrange a pizza to satisfy picky people in the house. Or if
the local places that will deliver to you aren't that good.

It might also be convenient if you want to pick up the pizza a little early
and pop it in the oven and have it ready in 15 minutes when you decide it's
time. Around here, there's only one place I'd order pizza from, and it's
normally 45 minutes to an hour for delivery.

Donna