So I didn't make that "Darrell Hammond" tag (yet!) but the threat to my conception of reality caused me to self-protectively do a Google News search for "Darrell Hammond." Is he lurking in the current news stories, about to pop out and scare me? I'll catch him first.
I find "The decade in Domino’s/Once a joke, in the ’10s the company became the biggest pizza chain in the world":
Domino’s Pizza used to be a joke. Consider the 2005 Saturday Night Live sketch in which Donald Trump (portrayed by Darrell Hammond), wears a giant pizza slice around his neck as he shoots a Domino’s advertisement: “Personally, I think it’s the highest quality pizza of the low-quality pizzas.” Sure, good shitty pizza may be better than some, but the point is that it’s still shitty....All right then!
The world is bizarre, so much more bizarre than Sean Connery popping up twice in my morning's blogging. I feel safe and calm, knowing that I am not at the center of the vortex of bizarreness. That would be Donald Trump.
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Domino's is much better than it used to be. There's one located barely a half-mile from our house, and their website-ordering is very slick. About three clicks and I have my (pre-saved) favorite pizza ordered and paid for.
Concur on current Domino's.
Darrell Hammond is a white guy?
Is he lurking in the current news stories, about to pop out and scare me? I'll catch him first.
It’s like Inspector Clouseau and Cato!
It's a fine name.
You’ll need a tag for Darrell Hammond once you start watching his SNL impersonations of Bill Clinton, particularly the ones that include Monica Lewinsky.
As they say, pizza is like sex. When it's good it's very, very good. And when it's bad it's still pretty good.
All take-out pizza today is better than that from my college/grad school years (1984-1992). Even the frozen pizzas you buy at the supermarket today are better than the takeouts from those years.
That picture reminds me of the time Steve Allen got himself made into an ice-cream sundae.
It may have sucked, but you got two!
(I think. I never had on.)
That anonymous off-camera voice was one of the show's writers: Seth Meyers.
Domino's was always being trashed because the ex-head of company was a conservative. Yeah, its bad pizza but its no worse then Pizza Hut or the other standard brand.
AA: "I feel safe and calm, knowing that I am not at the center of the vortex of bizarreness."
Or at the center of a vortex of pizza, which could be very messy.
Keep in mind that the New York City perspective on pizza is badly skewed. The greasy wet stuff they eat there is disgusting.
Tcrosse: my old man said that when on shore leave, there's three levels of sex: Good. Better. Best
The pizza analogy is pretty good, thanks
"Keep in mind that the New York City perspective on pizza is badly skewed. The greasy wet stuff they eat there is disgusting."
There is certainly excellent pizza available in NYC, but the average New York slice is certainly mediocre and overrated. I prefer the Pizza Hut thin and crispy sausage pizza to most of the pizza available here. Unfortunately, I can't get a thin and crispy pizza at the few Pizza Huts in the city, which are Pizza Hut Expresses.
The Domino's one topping large for $6.99 is by far the best value in fast food today.
Carryout only, but still.
One of my biggest gripes about living in DC was that it was very hard to find good pizza there 25 years ago. There was no Italian neighborhood with good pizza joints and so people settled for crap from Domino's. And it was terrible pizza back then. I assume the pizza situation in DC has improved.
Milwaukee has some excellent pizza places. my personal favorite is Zaffiro's on the East Side, a no-frills place which has been around since the 1950's. Thin crust deliciousness. But I've found other good places. Because of that, I've never felt the need to go to Domino's or any other chain for pizza.
Here in Las Vegas pizza is available in all its regional variants: New York, Chicago, LA, etc. De gustibus.
You know, if you have a gas grill you can make your own pizza with any toppings you want. Cover half of the cooking surface with foil and turn the other side up full blast. Once it's at 550 F or so slide that sucker in and open the wine. It's the only time I bother to make my own bread. It's worth it.
I usually make a his and hers, she likes pepperoni and I like spinach. Good times.
You'll need a pizza peel from your local cooking store. That makes it a cinch to get them on and off.
My enginerd son uses a 1/4" plate Sterling the oven. Heats it up on high broil for a half hour or so, turns from broil to Max high bake and throws the pie in. He Lazer cut a large pizza spatula out of mahogany. The pies cook in 90 seconds. Best pizza ever.
Phidippus: thanks that sounds like an excellent way to make pizza on a car camping trip
Hammond is a very talented man. WITW ever happened to him?
In my neck of the woods, Domino's is the very low end of pizza. You could literally walk 15 minutes and find at least two - probably more - pizzerias with much better quality, albeit at a higher cost. Of course, the point of Domino's is it is (a) cheap and (b) tolerable, a niche which it fills well enough. However, at this point I am sufficiently snooty about pizza that I would never go to Domino's unless I was starving and there were no other options.
I've also been to areas where Domino's was better than average. Needless to say, I do not eat pizza when visiting there.
Hammond is a very talented man. WITW ever happened to him?
According to his Wikipedia entry, nothing very good happened to him. It's a pity.
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