Remove ads

Scaling Up

Reader mode
@Kinsfire Here in the UK Domino's pizza is actually decent. I wouldn't call it great but it's certainly not bad. Papa John's is just kind of bleh tbh. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want actual quality food here in the UK find a nice little hole in the wall Sports Bar or Pub where food is made to order by a decent, actual, chef rather than a Fast Food joint where the poor shlub making the food is given about five minutes training before being tossed in the deep end.
 
Kinsfire said:
I am a heretic. The wife and I have a pizza at our local pizza place that has ham, pineapple, bacon, and uses barbeque sauce as the pizza sauce. Absolutely delicious!

Yes, we actually found a place that understands what a pizza is here in Arkansas, where they think that Domino's and Papa John's are the epitome of amazing pizza. Worst pizza I've ever had was at a place literally in walking distance from our apartment, at a place that is SPECIFICALLY a pizzeria! (Shotgun Dan's Pizza). Most tasteless thing I have ever eaten, and I've eaten Domino's and Tombstone pizzas. (Tombstone was very well named - I wanted to die the next day after eating that thing...)
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Meh, I've had bad pizzas... but the worst thing was a donair at the old Johnny Ks. Fucking hell, that nearly goddamn killed me.
 
I used to like Pizza Hut but I haven't since they changed their recipe of how they made their sauce, of course these days I make my own pizza at home, which is admittedly fairly plain, just pepperoni with oregano from the garden.

Wouldn't want to make a pizza for a dragon though, it would likely be very expensive and where would one get an oven big enough.
 
Alane1 said:
I used to like Pizza Hut but I haven't since they changed their recipe of how they made their sauce, of course these days I make my own pizza at home, which is admittedly fairly plain, just pepperoni with oregano from the garden.

Wouldn't want to make a pizza for a dragon though, it would likely be very expensive and where would one get an oven big enough.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Pizza hut killed themselves in our area with very poor customer service. Seriously. I had to wait 45 minutes for my appetizers, because my waitress thought talking to her boyfriend was more important. The manager solved that issue (frog marched her out the door), and comped my meal, but I've never been back. A couple of local places aren't too bad, but I prefer to make my own. Having worked in an Italian Deli and three different pizza places, I can make a pizza from absolute scratch, if I have to.

As for cooking a Naurelin sized pizza? Get Vista to help. She may have to hold the space in the oven for a while, so treat her nicely.
 
Kryslin said:
Pizza hut killed themselves in our area with very poor customer service. Seriously. I had to wait 45 minutes for my appetizers, because my waitress thought talking to her boyfriend was more important. The manager solved that issue (frog marched her out the door), and comped my meal, but I've never been back. A couple of local places aren't too bad, but I prefer to make my own. Having worked in an Italian Deli and three different pizza places, I can make a pizza from absolute scratch, if I have to.

As for cooking a Naurelin sized pizza? Get Vista to help. She may have to hold the space in the oven for a while, so treat her nicely.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

The last time I actually was inside a Pizza Hut location (instead of ordering delivery) was 2012, I think. There was nobody else in the place besides me and the employees since it was 3pm on a Tuesday. And yet it took 20 minutes for me to be seated, another half an hour before someone came over to take my order, and an hour of my trying to get someone to give me my bill once I was done eating.

That said, ever since I discovered the joy of cheesy white sauce I've gotten that as the pizza sauce every time I place an order. Much better then the tomato sauce these days.
 
As the grandson of Sicilian immigrants, let me just say a properly made Garlic Pizza is a simple thing, but it is a thing of joy none the less. (Crust, garlic infused olive oil, cheese and nothing else. Pure joy right there.)
 
Last edited:
jmcdavid said:
Tsundere pizza has the standard pepperoni, Italian sausage, and onion...but you have to get past a spicy top of jalapeño to taste that sweetness!

Just like your stereotypical Tsundere, brave the spicy exterior, and you can enjoy the sweet interior.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Harry? Did that pizza precede or inspire the Napalm Bomber? (Said pizza of infamy courtesy of a Taylor Hebert who ran a pizzeria business without getting FNAFed... somehow and getting input on a new one from Bakuda...)
 
I love garlic fingers, but that much garlic tends to tear my gut up. i've had to go plain crust on my pizzas even, (used to get garlic butter crust on my Hungry Howies Pizzas)

the best pizza i've ever had was local to Pensacola, unfortunately the place shut down because it was a family business and the third generation didn't want to take up the mantle, but there was something about their marinara that was just perfection. Since then, its kind of a toss up between two other local joints, and both are out of my way to get, so they are a rarity for me to eat, worst part of it is that they are across the street from each other. One does just normal pies, but they are NY style, which i'm not particularly a fan of, but they do have an absolutely marvelous alfredo sauce that they will use for barbeque chicken pizza. The other only uses marinara, but offers gyro meat as a topping and you can get thick or thin crust
 
Well, on a completely different note - i find myself wondering if there are spelljammer (or indeed any other kind of dimensional sea vessel) docks at Sigil - no particular reason... (because rereading the last few pages keeps making me hungry and I'm trying to distract myself from it.)

I'm also wondering if the puma twins have ever had to do THAT dance during their time in sigil?
 
Last edited:
Jadesteele said:
Well, on a completely different note - i find myself wondering if there are spelljammer (or indeed any other kind of dimensional sea vessel) docks at Sigil - no particular reason... (because rereading the last few pages keeps making me hungry and I'm trying to distract myself from it.)
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Nope. The ring of Sigil can not be reached by mundane modes of travel. The central spire in the Outlands, which the ring floats above, has an infinite height.
 
This is true, for the most part. You can reach Sigil indirectly through mundane means... through walking/swimming/sailing/flying through a portal to Sigil.

So yes, a spelljammer could make a port call in Sigil, but She'd have to allow it. The large body of water on the ring is large enough that some shipping can occur, largest ship that could be handled would be Liberty / Victory class sized. It's how Sigil gets some of its more common imported goods, and some of its more exotic goods.

The worst punishment one can face in Sigil is Erasure. You are erased from existence. You are portalled to the center of the ring in free space. Because of how the spire works, all magic on you stops working, you stop breathing, all chemical reactions in your body cease, and your atoms break down into quarks, which break down further, until nothing remains. And, because you can't reach the Astral Plane from there, the same thing happens to your soul.

Desperate souls who try to beat infernal deals by doing something so Heinous in Sigil to merit this punishment are usually claimed by an Inevitable (who are tough SOBs), and delivered bodily to their final destination as Punishment.
 
The Puma twins dance... oh boy, that brings back memories though for comedy's sake I will assume they tried that on a local version of Leona Ozaki and it backfired explosively on them.
 
Whitewings said:
Which dance is that?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
FaerieKnight79 said:
I am going to assume, for humor value, that it's the Safety Dance.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Not quite - the puma twins come from the series 'Tank police' by masamune shirow - in ep 1&2 of the anime (they're packaged together), the pair - when confronted by a sizable unit of SWAT outside the lab hospital they are attacking - perform a false striptease (they're actually wearing leotards so nothing actually gets revealed) to throw them off before unleashing hot fury via guns. It's pretty iconic for them.

link is

here

- if the mods disapprove i'll take it down, but i don't think it breaks the rules...
 
Last edited:
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top