{"id":10578,"date":"2013-11-22T18:28:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2013-11-22T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T02:28:34","slug":"ginos-east-frozen-pizza-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=10578","title":{"rendered":"Ginos East Frozen Pizza Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart, the witty host of TV&#8217;s &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; took off on Chicago deep dish pizza last week, as a postscript to a story about the new World Trade Center being named the tallest building in America. \u00a0Seems Mr. Stewart&#8217;s opinion of the 2nd city is less than favorable, and his pizza rant took up quite a long segment. If you missed it, I&#8217;ve included it here.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8IKxbOpt0E\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Now I&#8217;m not all that crazy about Chicago deep dish, but it certainly didn&#8217;t deserve the slam Mr. Stewart laid on it; Chicago responded quickly, with the Mayor sending a pie to the show, and a family member from Lou Malnati&#8217;s, one of the city&#8217;s more successful chains known for Chicago deep dish, visiting the show with one of his pies. Stewart begrudgingly said the pizza was &#8220;good&#8221; and declared a truce.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I don&#8217;t <strong>DIS<\/strong>like deep dish (Chicago style), it&#8217;s just I prefer pizza for the toppings and cheese, and less for a heavy crust.<\/p>\n<p>Gino&#8217;s East is one of the more renown deep dish makers in the city, with about a dozen locations, and like many successful pizza restaurants, they have a frozen line that closely parallels the restaurant pizza.<\/p>\n<p>They are widely available in grocery stores, weigh in at two full pounds, and cost considerably less than at the restaurant, of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ginos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-10587\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ginos-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gino's East Frozen Pizza Review\" width=\"197\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>The Gino&#8217;s East version of the Chicago pie starts with a thick butter flavored crust in a two inch pie pan, followed by a layer of cheese, a layer of sausage, more cheese, and thick and chunky tomato sauce on the top. (That order was part of the source of Stewart&#8217;s consternation &#8211; &#8220;sauce on the top!&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>While it takes nearly forty minutes to bake at home, the result is worth it, a flavorful pie, with quality ingredients. If I was in charge, I would make a few small changes, I&#8217;d go with a single patty of sausage spanning the pie (as some places do), and more cheese. \u00a0Gino&#8217;s East \u00a0frozen uses sausage crumbles. \u00a0I can imagine that these are pre-cooked, resulting in a less greasy pie, which is understandable and a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>The pies are made by a contract manufacturer in the tiny town of Waupaca, Wisconsin; \u00a0Chef Fresh is the name of the outfit, and I found an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstreet-marketplace.com\/pages\/2008Feb08\/Businesses\/Chef%20Fresh01.htm\"> old news story<\/a> about them.<\/p>\n<p>Find Gino&#8217;s East Frozen Pizza <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginoseastpizza.net\/find-pizza.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at these stores, <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/peterstromqui-20\/detail\/B002IFO1DM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order online<\/a>. \u00a0When you&#8217;re in Chicago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginoseast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit up the restaurant <\/a>for the &#8216;real deal&#8217; and be sure to write your name and message on the restaurant walls!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10584\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122_192439_resized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10584 \" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122_192439_resized-1024x914.jpg\" alt=\"Gino's East Frozen Pizza Review\" width=\"430\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hot from the oven!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10586\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122_192952_resized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10586 \" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122_192952_resized-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"Gino's East Frozen Pizza Review\" width=\"430\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hot thick slice!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ginos East Frozen Pizza Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart, the witty host of TV&#8217;s &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; took off on Chicago deep dish pizza last week, as a postscript to a story about the new World Trade Center being named the tallest building in America. \u00a0Seems Mr. Stewart&#8217;s opinion of the 2nd city is less than favorable, and his pizza rant took&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=10578\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ginos East Frozen Pizza Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,22,26],"tags":[948,964,1500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}