{"id":17718,"date":"2018-02-09T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=17718"},"modified":"2018-02-09T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:45:44","slug":"mama-cozzis-french-bread-pizza-review-an-aldi-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17718","title":{"rendered":"Mama Cozzi&#8217;s French Bread Pizza Review &#8211; An Aldi Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-20170622_102808.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17722\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17722\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-20170622_102808-150x145.jpg\" alt=\"Mama Cozzi's French Bread Pizza Review\" width=\"150\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>Another Aldi product this week, actually did this one some time back, didn&#8217;t write it up. Mama Cozzi&#8217;s is the brand name the Aldi grocery chain has cooked up for their frozen and fresh (take and bake) pizzas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve tried a lot of them, including the one I wrote about directly below, and a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2014\/12\/mama-cozzis-mega-meat-thin-crust-pizza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mega Meat&#8221; thin crust<\/a> previously. All of these are a terrific value, price wise and are mostly pretty good product.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aldi contracts out all of their manufacturing, and this product is made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterbaked.com\/index.php\/our-brands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Better Baked Foods<\/a>, out of North East, Pennsylvania, a burg parked between Cleveland and Buffalo.\u00a0 They started in 1970 and have since built a large operation, which in addition to private label manufacturing, also has some of their own brands which was recently acquired by <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?s=Schwan&amp;search=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota pizza giant Schwans<\/a> (Red Baron, Freschetta, Tonys). (Better Baked plant pictures below).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The French bread pizza comes in a two pack, different varieties, I chose pepperoni this time, and it&#8217;s not a microwave product. Given a choice with junk that gives you either option, I&#8217;m gonna pick a conventional oven every time, anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bread was crispy, the sauce benign, I liked the pepperoni, wished for more cheese, but overall, I was happy with it compared to &#8220;national brands.&#8221; It holds its own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like all Aldi products, it is value priced.\u00a0 Aldi is currently on a tear in the US to have more fresh products in the store, remove product from cartons, and nicer lighting. The German chain currently has 10,000 stores worldwide.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/aldi.us\/stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There&#8217;s probably one or more near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17723\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-20170622_102846.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17723\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17723\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-20170622_102846-400x341.jpg\" alt=\"Mama Cozzi's French Bread Pizza Review\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Out of the box<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17724\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3-20170622_105414.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17724\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17724\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3-20170622_105414-400x394.jpg\" alt=\"Mama Cozzi's French Bread Pizza Review\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Out of the oven<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17725\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/4-plant2-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17725\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17725\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/4-plant2-1-400x220.jpg\" alt=\"Mama Cozzi's French Bread Pizza Review\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Pennsylvania Factory<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mama Cozzi&#8217;s French Bread Pizza Review<\/p>\n<p>Mama Cozzi&#8217;s French Bread Pizza Review<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Aldi product this week, actually did this one some time back, didn&#8217;t write it up. Mama Cozzi&#8217;s is the brand name the Aldi grocery chain has cooked up for their frozen and fresh (take and bake) pizzas. I&#8217;ve tried a lot of them, including the one I wrote about directly below, and a &#8220;Mega&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17718\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mama Cozzi&#8217;s French Bread Pizza Review &#8211; An Aldi Product<\/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],"tags":[47,1500,1722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718"}],"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=17718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}