{"id":14716,"date":"2015-07-16T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2015-07-16T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:34:05","slug":"iltaco-pizza-puff-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=14716","title":{"rendered":"Iltaco Pizza Puff Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iltaco<\/a>A family-owned Chicago food manufacturer founded in 1927, Iltaco (originally Illinois Tamale Company) makes frozen snack foods for retail, food service, and c-stores. \u00a0They have two frozen pizza labels, “Big,” and “Bella,” sell frozen tamales and burritos, but probably their biggest presence is in the niche category of “Pizza Puffs ™.”<\/p>\n

A pizza puff is savory ingredients surrounded by a soft flour tortilla and baked til ready to eat. \u00a0Flavors include:\u00a0\u00a0gyro, pulled pork, buffalo chicken, reuben, original, pepperoni, taco, deluxe,ham & cheese, 4 cheese, and beef.<\/p>\n

The products are manufactured at Iltaco’s plant on Hubbard, about a mile west of the Loop (pictured below). \u00a0Frozen puffs can be baked, microwaved, or deep-fried. \u00a0 I went with the bake method, the results shown below. (20 minutes, 425). \u00a0I like these. \u00a0The crust is flaky\/crispy, the sauce and cheese flavors are very pleasant, as is the pepperoni. \u00a0I think the cost was less than $1.50. \u00a0Be good to have some in the freezer to ease a sudden pizza craving.<\/p>\n

Good for an after school snack, too.<\/p>\n

Obviously these guys were way ahead of the “Hot Pockets” people, which didn’t hit the grocery stores until the mid 1980s.<\/p>\n

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Frozen, from Packaging<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hot from the Oven<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sauce, cheese, meat!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chicago Factory<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A family-owned Chicago food manufacturer founded in 1927, Iltaco (originally Illinois Tamale Company) makes frozen snack foods for retail, food service, and c-stores. \u00a0They have two frozen pizza labels, “Big,” and “Bella,” sell frozen tamales and burritos, but probably their biggest presence is in the niche category of “Pizza Puffs ™.” A pizza puff is… Continue reading Iltaco Pizza Puff 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":[8,13,16,22,25],"tags":[351,1722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716"}],"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=14716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}