63 Replies to “May 10, 2022: Reader Tips”

  2. Had pizza hut on Saturday. Quality was better than it has been. $8 for a large gets me three meals and not having to turn the oven on when it’s hot out is priceless.

    From chicago originally
    . ..Too many good pizza places to name.
    Most are out of business.

    As far as pizza hut type chains go, I miss rocky roccoco’s

    1. Pizza is not real food, it’s lard, flour and grease.
      Learn to cook, lose weight, be healthier and save some money.
      Other fast food isn’t real food either.
      Food that makes you unhealthy isn’t real food.
      FYI … If you are fat, you are not healthy nor attractive.

      Just a friendly health tip. Another is … don’t take the jab. It’s worse for you than pizza.

  3. Best Pizza I have had was at a place called Worthington Jones located at Bloor and Ashburn Dr. in Etobicoke, Toronto. Long since gone it was mine and many other’s go to place for Pizza in the late 1960s. It was run by two brits hence the uppity name. Great Pizzas though.

  4. I thought the best chain ever was Shakey’s. Pizza Inn was good too. They kinda died out in the 80s though. Godfather’s had $5 pizzas then and this broke mofo ate a ton of em. The boss wound up running for president.

  6. While I was an undergrad, back in the Jurassic Era, the best pizza within walking distance of the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton was the Boston Pizza along Whyte Avenue, just off 109th Street.

    There was a place several blocks closer called Avenue Pizza, 85th Avenue and 109th Street. I remember spending a lot of Friday and Saturday nights there. Ah, the memories…..

    1. Hey! My buddies and I often went to that Boston Pizza on Whyte Avenue back in the early to mid seventies while in high school. It was a very early Boston Pizza and we enjoyed the food. I clearly remember hearing ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon for the first time while in that place. We also drank under-age at the Hong Kong Lounge on the other side of Whyte in the same area. The good old days.

      1. I vaguely remember the Hong Kong Lounge from my undergrad U of A days.

        I haven’t been in that part of town for more than 20 years, so I probably wouldn’t recognize it any more. I’m sure that BP outlet’s still there, though.

        Good old days, indeed.

  7. Best pizza I had was in Rome. A small place, basically take out, not far from the Coliseum. I never thought potato on a pie would be good but oh my.
    Hog’s Back Restaurant in Ottawa makes a damn good pie. Family owned.

  8. Best pizza for me 40 years ago was Colossus in Glen Burnie MD. They are long out of business as far as I know. First pizza I had that was rectangular and square cut, and a large with everything weighed 15 lbs. If you could eat 3 squares you must have been pretty darn hungry.

  9. I remember our Family went to Pizza Hut once in the 1970’s. Terrible pizza, even my 3 pack a day Father said it all tasted stale. I think we were spoiled because we ate at Shakey’s Pizza a lot. Part of that was my oldest sister was dating the son of the Franchise Owner. I remember they made the pizzas right in front of you, and you saw the fresh ingredients.

    I tried Dominos again last week, and the pizza was dried out and scorched with no sauce and no cheese. I swear I could see through the dried out pepperoni slices. Now my choice is a higher quality frozen pizza. I cannot stand Freschetta, and Digiorno ruined their sauce. It could be worse, I swear the pizza crust on some of the mass market pizzas is made of foam.

  10. Best pizzas I have had have been in Queenstown, New Zealand. Neapolitan style in an authentic Italian pizza oven (first owners were Italian, imported the oven). 55 seconds to cook. Favourite style was “salsiccia e friarelli” (pizza bianca = white pizza, no tomato, mozzarella, sausagemeat and fresh greens – IIRC maybe broccoli leaves or spinach). A traditional Neapolitan style. In general I like pizze bianche. Wholemeal flour.

    I have been to Italy (including Naples), have not had better. Neapolitan style pizzas are thin crust, soggy in the middle, must be eaten straight out of the oven. If you want pizza that will reheat, Roman style pizza is better.

    1. Of all the things liberals SHOULD be apologizing for, this doesn’t exactly make the cut (oohhh… sorry! That was totally unintentional! ;P)

  12. Years ago I was going on a bit of a solo road trip adventure into Darkest Victoria (Aust) from my home state.
    As usual I had messed up my time budget and was hours behind where I had planned. Needing food I stopped at the ‘next town’ and found a pizza place and/or place that did pizza.
    AWESOME. Masses of topping.
    Tried to find it again on other road trips in years since but without luck. Either my memory is shot or it has changed owners/closed.

    Honourable mention – Port Fairy, Victoria. Same general part of the road trip adventure but different year. There is a pizza shop there. The guy taking orders was about 13 and an absolute boss.

  13. It’s probably nothing. The Federal Reserve Bank warned yesterday of increasing liquidity problems in financial markets:
    http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fed-warns-of-worsening-financial-liquidity-in-stability-report-1.1763389

    “Liquidity problems” means buyers have difficulty in finding sellers to settle on a negotiated price: the bid/ask spread is so wide trades do not take place, and markets start freezing up. It’s difficult to get one’s head around this. One thing I remember during the 2007 crash was that, at one point, banks were refusing to lend money to big retail corporations, for day-to-day paper, simply to run normal inventory stock. Newspaper reports mentioned that normal daily commerce in the U.S. was in danger of being halted. Everybody was panicking, back then, trying to sell any type of asset to try to raise cash. Banks were holding onto money, to remain solvent.

    We haven’t reached this stage yet, but it probably coming. Read the last two paragraphs. A liquidity crisis is hitting stablecoin markets.

  14. There was once a Republican Presidential Candidate who colluded with the Russians…

    “The story of American corruption in Ukraine starts here. It starts in John McCain’s operation, not Trumps. (Meghan McCain), did you know that your dad was taken on Oleg Deripaska’s yacht in Montenegro for his 70th Birthday by his top aide? It was a McCain guy who represented the interests of the Russian Government in the Montenegro Independence referendum…”

    https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1523108447088128001

    Royal Pizza in Edmonton is great. Ask for Fred’s Special (pepperoni, mushroom, ham, pineapple)(YES, pineapple is EXCELLENT on pizza)

  15. Tony’s Pizza on Dundas Street near Quebec Street in London, Ontario. They let us order a couple of beers (under age) 45 years ago. Pizza and beer for the first time is hard to describe.

    1. Had Tony’s about ten years ago, wouldn’t mind going again but I fear leaving my car unattended for more than two minutes in that neighborhood.

  16. We must be nearing a bottom in the stock market because the business news is all about covid once again and not about business.

  17. best pizza was bonora’s on somerled ave in NDG!! also steak and pepperoni sub was to die for!

  18. Reader tip?

    Here’s one.

    If the liberals didn’t want to be seen as the fascist option on the Ontario ballot why did they pick a guy that’s a dead ringer for Mussolini?

  19. Dill pickle pizza at La Roque cafe in Wawanesa, MB and a can of Saskatchewan Champagne (pilsner beer).

  20. Derek Sloan has been cancelled: excerpt from his latest email

    “Big Tech is trying to steal this election!

    On Sunday afternoon Twitter suspended my account. 

    My Facebook account has also been suspended from running campaign ads.”

    As for pizza, I used to like Mother’s Pizza, mainly for the restaurant decor. These days I occasionally use Twice the Deal in Guelph, pizza is quite nice and it is the closest to home.

  22. Locally, years ago, my favorite pizza came from a place in Lethbridge called Harpo’s. They’ve been closed since the ’80’s. Currently, meh. In Calgary, I like Chicago Deep Dish. On the road, the pizza at Moose’s in Kalispell, MT is always decent, especially washed down with a couple pints of craft beer. One of the best pizza’s ever was a wood-fired number at this little roadside diner near Klamath, CA on the trip home from the 2010 Three Flags Rally.

    1. Last summer, our youngest & I hiked the Juan de Fuca trail on the Island. Hit this pizza joint in Sooke coming & going & had the best calzone I’ve ever had.

    2. …And the legacy media will yawn, and promptly bury the info so that anybody on the media teet will never know about it.

      They’ve done it so many times, it’s become an algorithm. First, deny, then discredit the source, and finally forget that anything happened at all. That carpet is getting awfully lumpy!

    1. That’s his base, after all. He needs them to hold on to his power.
      btw… I already know all I need to know about the Muslim faith, after having experienced a Muslim trying to convert me while I was a prisoner in his cab.

      1. I experienced those cabbies while on business in Minneapolis, only twice. They didn’t speak to me at all, just a grunt or two along with a glowering sneer.

  25. Top Steakhouse Lounge in Medicine Hat has one of the finest pizzas that I have eaten. It has been in business for many years and the family recipe is unchanged.

    2. When I lived in MH in the latter half of the 1980s, there weren’t too many decent pizza places in town. There was one that delivered, Roadrunner Pizza, and it was OK.

  26. Attending Malaspina College in Nanaimo in 81, it was Three Bears Pizza at the Harewood Inn Pub. It was cheap and had lots of ooey gooey cheese, for a student on a budget. But like all good things, both are long gone and now are memories.
    Nowadays, my preference is a local Victoria chain, Ali Baba’s, again, they’re good with the cheese, and toppings, but it’s the sauce that makes it.
    Sarpino’s pizza, honourable mention.

    1. Stephen Harper is on the committee of 300 advisers to the WEF. That is why we don’t want him back and why he told Putin to exit the Ukraine in 2014. While PP sounds good, I don’t trust that he is not mixed up with this gang as well.

  28. Here’s a tip.

    If you like hockey, DON’T watch the NHL playoffs!

    Just another organization owned by the Liberal/Left.

    More penalties than lies at a Liberal convention or in a CBC news broadcast.

    It is obvious that the Woke NHL believes that turning hockey into a non contact figure skating show will allow them to achieve their penultimate goal…….. chicks with sticks!

    To have girls in the NHL you need to turn it into non contact girly.

    They are.

    Just embarrassing.

    1. I’ve been active in sports pretty much all of my adult life, and yet, suddenly, I have no interest in watching the NHL playoffs. I don’t seem to care anymore. I wonder what happened?

      Same thing for baseball. Haven’t watched, or listened to a single blue-jay game this season, and I don’t seem to be missing it.

      I wonder what’s taking up all of my interest that I no longer have the time, nor the inclination to care about millionaire athletes playing children’s games. I seem to have more important fish to fry on my plate these days.

  29. Toarmina’s Pizza in Michigan, small chain. You can’t get a bad one in Western New York either.

  30. Further to the vid: We used to take out a fair amount of Pizza Hut. Got tired of being promised ready for pickup in x minutes & it not being ready for x plus 15 or 20 minutes. Called up western HQ a few years back & told ’em to get stuffed.

  31. Rodo’s on South Hill in Moose Jaw, Sask was mentioned earlier. I concur. It is an excellent choice.

    In Regina, Juliana’s is my top choice.

    When passing through Chicago, Lou Malnati’s is a treat.

    1. I remember going to a pizza outlet in Kensington with some mates of mine back in the late ’70s. We’d been to a movie at some artsy phartsy cinema in that part of Calgary and decided to check that place out. It might have been the one you mentioned.

  34. My favorite (in the whole world), was not far from my office, the “Mariposa” in Naples, Italy (Via Piedigrotta), looks like it has changed hands/name and is now “Pizzeria da Sofia”. It’s been fifteen years, but at the time, it was excellent, fast and affordable (5 Euros).

  37. The original Tony’s Master of Pizza, Pembina and Oakenwald in Winnipeg was excellent ‘za, especially the Tony’s Special.
    Big Tony tried running an upscale Italian restaurant, down Pembina at Crane Ave, I thought I was going to go swimming with the (other) fishes, when I told him the marinara sauce was too salty.

    My go to pizza now must have pepperoni, pineapple, and anchovies, yes, I eat my own.
    Oddly, few people want to share in my pizza choice.

    1. Oyster and Onion is a good choice as well , if you want the whole pizza your yourself.
      Greco,s on 17th ave and 36th st. SW. had that one on the menu.
      Back mid 70s that was our go to place after VB practice at Mount Royal College and a tray of 7oz. ALCB glasses at the Westgate.
      I swear our team paid for the new lounge they built.

  39. When the Pizza Hut back in SW Iowa was on their game, the pizza was amazing. But it was a family-owned business with lots of family members and their friends crammed back in the kitchen meaning their chaos frequently ended up on your pizza. Then Pizza Ranch opened a franchise not too far away so bye-bye Pizza Hut. Since moving to Florida, there’s not a single Pizza Hut in this town. I think it’s because of all the New Yawkers and New Jersians that colonized the area. The all eat the absolute worst pizza I’ve ever tried, New York style pizza. Good God, folks. Limp pizza with nothing on it. I get all pizzas now from Domino’s. The pizza is good, customized to me, they haven’t goofed an order yet, and they deliver!

  40. Although I do miss Shakey’s (that thin crust!), one of the very best in BC is Red Tomato Pies, in Williams Lake or Golden.

    (they couldn’t afford to operate in Vancouver, sadly)

    I’ve had them brought to me by car and by airplane, as well as picking them up myself when I’m in the neighborhood. Apparently they get a lot of out-of-town people stopping in on their way through Williams Lake.They are heavy pizzas with lots of toppings and a few different crusts to choose from.

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