Today is a quick, unplanned post in the Atlanta Pizza Days, from an unexpected location – pizza from the cafeteria area at Costco. While not a common pizza destination, in talking to a few people recently, I’ve discovered that Costco is actually a spot that a fair number of people hit up for lunch during the work day.
And why not? Besides being the most convenient location to pickup enough toilet paper to last me one year for $20, Costco has some good food deals, it’s a convenient location for those who work in the Cobb and Dunwoody areas, and it’s a quick lunch. I’ve actually eaten the chicken bake and the polish sausage, but had yet to try the pizza. So on this day, after my shopping and while my perishables were sweating out the welcome warm Atlanta weather, I quickly offered up $1.99 and picked up a slice of pepperoni to see how it measured up.
They had a fairly new pepperoni pie sitting out behind the counter , and I could see them running more pizzas through one of those conveyer ovens, ala Quiznos. Not a good sign for great pie.
The slice was big, doughy, had lots of gooey browned cheese, and it had plenty of pepperoni slices.
$1.99 isn’t an amazingly cheap price, but one of these large hunks of pie should often be enough for most people.
Being the dough snob that I am, you may have guessed my biggest turnoff with this pie – the endcrust. It was way to cake-like, doughy, mushy, and otherwise inedible. There was good color, some bubbles, but the consistency of the dough in the endcrust was just too much for me. I could have eaten it, but my stomach would have hurt later.
Pros:
- Tons of super stringy cheesy, flavorful, greasy
- Fair price for a really large slice
- Convenient, quick meal
Cons:
- Mushy dough, inedible endcrust
- “Dough Blow”
- No sauce to speak of – heck, I can’t even remember eating any sauce
I’m visiting a couple of pizza spots today, so look for some more “real” posts coming up this week!