{"id":9020,"date":"2013-05-03T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2013-05-03T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:39:25","slug":"palermos-classic-frozen-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9020","title":{"rendered":"Palermo’s Classic Frozen Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130502_220211-002\"<\/a>If the frozen pizza industry has \u201cclass\u201d or \u201csegment\u201d descriptions (like \u2018value line\u2019, \u2018premium line\u2019, \u2018gourmet\u2019), I\u2019m not aware of it.\u00a0 Of course there are all manners of self-descriptive phrases used for marketing, whether it\u2019s \u201cpizzeria style\u201d or \u201crising crust\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cClassic\u201d has come to mean, by and large, I believe, the look, shape, feel, and taste of a company\u2019s original product line (i.e., \u201cClassic Coke\u201d, which of course, is now \u201cregular\u201d Coke, but not labeled as such, as \u201cNew Coke\u201d vanished shortly after its introduction.<\/p>\n

I digress.<\/p>\n

Today we are talking about \u201cClassic\u201d frozen pizza from Palermo\u2019s,<\/a> a Milwaukee-based manufacturer which was spawned out of an eatery and bakery \u00a0started by Italian immigrants Gaspare “Jack” and Zina Fallucca in 1964.\u00a0 They sold the restaurant in 1979 to focus their business acumen on the frozen pizza business, and now sell millions of frozen pies from a 250,000 sf manufacturing facility in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

According to a Milwaukee Journal article<\/a>, the company cranks out frozen pies utilizing over 300 recipes, and generating revenue in excess of $150 million annually.\u00a0 In addition to product under its own brand name, the majority of those recipes are utilized by Palermo to make private label pizzas; that is, pies manufactured, branded, and sold by grocery companies. Other articles seem to indicate Palermo invented the self-rising crust style of frozen pizza.<\/p>\n

If the designations I started talking about in the beginning of the article existed, Palermo\u2019s \u201cClassics\u201d would fall into the \u2018value\u2019 segment, or the very low end of the price scale.\u00a0\u00a0 Competitors, in my opinion, would be brands like Totino\u2019s, Jeno\u2019s, and generics of the same ilk.\u00a0\u00a0 Frozen pizzas the you can get for less than $2 each make up this category.<\/p>\n

The Palermo\u2019s in this tasting round were on sale \u00a0at six for $10, averaged 12.5 ounces, resulting in a per ounce price of around 12 cents.\u00a0 That\u2019s very inexpensive.\u00a0\u00a0 The pies in this line come in a variety of configurations,\u00a0 plain cheese, pepperoni, sausage, combination, deluxe, sausage\/mushroom, supreme, and bacon cheeseburger.<\/p>\n

The latter style, I\u2019ve never partaken of in any form or fashion, so that\u2019s the first one I opened.\u00a0 Instructions call for 9-11 minutes at 450, and I found that time range to be more than adequate, for these pies are sporting a very thin crust.<\/p>\n

The ingredient list is fairly straight forward, and one finds the usual ingredients (and their additives) listed on the package, with one curious note:\u00a0\u00a0 one ingredient is dried potatoes, which clocks in after the \u2018cooked beef hamburger topping\u2019 and before the corn and soy proteins on the list.\u00a0\u00a0 Another curiosity?\u00a0 \u201cGrill Flavor\u201d, which is listed before the bacon topping in the ingredient order, so that must mean that the bacon is merely a whisper of an ingredient.<\/p>\n

Last on the list is \u201cmay contain smoke flavoring\u201d as a component of the bacon topping, and to me, that\u2019s no surprise, as to my palate, the smoke flavor was the most prominent feature of the Bacon Cheeseburger pizza.<\/p>\n

Of course, at this price point, the amount of toppings and cheese are scant.\u00a0 \u00a0Would I buy them again?\u00a0 At this price, probably, but I\u2019d be more inclined to use them as a \u201cbase\u201d and load them up with my own toppings and cheese.<\/p>\n

And although they can\u2019t be microwaved, they would provide an expensive, quick hot snack for your kids, providing you also served them healthier options from time to time.<\/p>\n

Locator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If the frozen pizza industry has \u201cclass\u201d or \u201csegment\u201d descriptions (like \u2018value line\u2019, \u2018premium line\u2019, \u2018gourmet\u2019), I\u2019m not aware of it.\u00a0 Of course there are all manners of self-descriptive phrases used for marketing, whether it\u2019s \u201cpizzeria style\u201d or \u201crising crust\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cClassic\u201d has come to mean, by and large, I believe, the look, shape, feel, and… Continue reading Palermo’s Classic Frozen Pizza<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,26],"tags":[1500,1761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020"}],"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=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}