{"id":17655,"date":"2018-02-04T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T23:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=17655"},"modified":"2018-02-04T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T23:21:42","slug":"red-baron-deep-dish-singles-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17655","title":{"rendered":"Red Baron Deep Dish Singles Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red<\/a>I like to check in with the mainstream frozen pizza choices once a year or so.\u00a0 See if they’ve improved, changed at all.<\/p>\n

For the most part, I don’t care for any of them, with the exception of hyperlocal brands like Vito and Nicks<\/a> in Chicago (absolute #1 favorite), and for the pies at Trader Joes<\/a> that are made in Italy and France and actually taste like they came from a pizzeria.<\/p>\n

Why can’t US\u00a0manufacturers do that?<\/p>\n

So I saw Red Baron Deep Dish Singles<\/a> the other day at a dollar store.\u00a0 For a dollar. Thought I’d give one a whirl. Red Baron is a brand of Minnesota’s Schwan Food Enterprises<\/a> and was introduced in 1975. It’s made in a plant in Marshall, MN (pictured below).<\/p>\n

I am dubious about almost any food that says it can be cooked in EITHER a microwave or conventional oven, and 99.9 % of the time I’d opt for the oven.\u00a0 But since they market these as microwaveable, thoughtt I’d give that a shot.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert:\u00a0 it was horrid. In appearance, taste, and texture.\u00a0 I suppose they’re acceptable for kids for a quick after school snack (except for the nutritional value part), and especially for a buck.\u00a0 But if I was looking for a quick snack for a buck at the dollar store, I’d rather have White Castle burgers, which actually DO microwave well and are done in one minute.<\/p>\n

That’s all\u00a0 I learned that Red Baron frozen pizzas are every bit as awful as the last 5-10x I tried them. I see no need to try again.\u00a0 (Right now, I’m eating a Screamin’ Sicilian All Meat Pie, and they aren’t so bad).\u00a0 One of a half dozen brands from Palermo, in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

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I like to check in with the mainstream frozen pizza choices once a year or so.\u00a0 See if they’ve improved, changed at all. For the most part, I don’t care for any of them, with the exception of hyperlocal brands like Vito and Nicks in Chicago (absolute #1 favorite), and for the pies at Trader… Continue reading Red Baron Deep Dish Singles 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":[13,14,16,22],"tags":[250,1500,3146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655"}],"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=17655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}