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"Margin Of Error" (marginoferror) 11/25/2015 at 11:09 • Filed to: GASTRONOMY

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McDonald’s removed the McPizza form its menu.

Despite being one of the best pizza money can get, the logistical issues created by 11 minutes wait time eventually led McDonald’s (which was more interested to be known for its fast service rather than the quality of its food) to remove the item from its menu.

But wait, I have some good news for all McPizza afficionados :

As of January 2015, only two McDonald’s located in the US still offer pizza and in both family size and personal size: Pomeroy, Ohio and Spencer, West Virginia.

CalzoneGolem > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:15

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The McDonalds pizza is the pizza for you and me!

The McDonalds pizza is the pizza free del-i-very

The McDonalds pizza is the pizza very ta-as-ty

Ash78, voting early and often > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:16

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Meanwhile, Little Caesars changed its recipe and is now printing money with Hot & Ready.

Seriously, I’m sort of a pizza snob and I’m always down for a $5 pizza. Or $8 for the pretzel crust when its available. A week worth of sodium and fat? Sign me up.

GTI Sprinks > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:17

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Oppo’s mission, should they chose to accept it: travel to surviving McDonald’s pizza locations, purchase, consume, and report findings back to OPPO.

Chariotoflove > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:18

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I don't even remember this. Was it a regional thing?

BigBlock440 > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:18

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I didn’t know that was even a thing, and I still remember the $0.10 hamburgers.

CalzoneGolem > Ash78, voting early and often 11/25/2015 at 11:20

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Dat deep dish tho!

Margin Of Error > GTI Sprinks 11/25/2015 at 11:20

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I support that !

EL_ULY > Ash78, voting early and often 11/25/2015 at 11:20

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Those Hot and Ready pizzas hit the spot on a cold night. Especially if it’s straight out of the oven, fuckin mmmmmmmmmmm!

jariten1781 > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:21

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I don’t think our local ones ever had pizza, but they did have the worst tacos ever created in the late 80s.

Margin Of Error > Chariotoflove 11/25/2015 at 11:21

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A global thing.

They even commissioned Hobart (I thin) to engineer so kind of crazy ass 2000F oven to cook pizza quickly

Ash78, voting early and often > CalzoneGolem 11/25/2015 at 11:23

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Or as I call it, the Grease Sponge Pizza.

Yeah, I’m still down.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > GTI Sprinks 11/25/2015 at 11:23

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I was google mapping before I even saw the comment. I haven’t had an impromptu road trip in a while...

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:24

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I just had the best-worst idea. You know the McRushmore? McRib, McChicken, Filet-o-fish, and Quarter Pounder all one the same bun? What if we added that to a McPizza? I’m thinking of calling it the McPentagram - the unholy union of all food that is fast, cheap, and terrible.

ranwhenparked > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:25

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Yep, those ovens were really expensive, and after they got done making franchisees buy and install them, they dropped pizza from the menu.

Hot Takes Salesman > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:25

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McDonald’s Sins:

“Pizza you won’t believa!” is racist

*ding*

Margin Of Error > ranwhenparked 11/25/2015 at 11:28

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What a doggone shame

Your boy, BJR > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/25/2015 at 11:28

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You dice up the McRushmore and put it on the pizza?

CalzoneGolem > Ash78, voting early and often 11/25/2015 at 11:29

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Player 3 has entered the game.

JeepJeremy > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:30

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If I rememeber correctly.....McDonald’s pizza was really good. Am I wrong here?

T5Killer > Ash78, voting early and often 11/25/2015 at 11:32

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I love the hot and ready, those deep dish ones rock! I couldn’t stand the pretzel crust one but loved the bacon crust one.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Your boy, BJR 11/25/2015 at 11:32

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I was thinking I would substitute the Quarter-Pounder for a Double Quarter Pounder, then I can arrange the 5 meats around the perimeter of the pizza and connect them with strips of peppers and onions to form an actual pentagram.

Margin Of Error > JeepJeremy 11/25/2015 at 11:34

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You are correct, it was awesome

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ranwhenparked 11/25/2015 at 11:34

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I don’t think ever franchise got one, though. Where I grew up, there were probably 5 McDonalds in a 10 mile radius, and I can only remember 2 having the McPizza.

T5Killer > Chariotoflove 11/25/2015 at 11:38

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I don’t remember this as well. I wonder if any Albuquerque ones got it. I would have been all over it.

ranwhenparked > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/25/2015 at 11:40

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They were about $50,000 a piece though, the rest of the franchisees were lucky the company pulled the plug when they did. Another year or two and almost everyone would have had one.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ranwhenparked 11/25/2015 at 11:45

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According to the McDonalds Wikia, the pizza tests started in 1989 and by 1991 they had 500 restaurants with pizza on the menu, when they placed the program on hold.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Ash78, voting early and often 11/25/2015 at 11:49

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Hot n Ready is an awesome deal. It's unfortunate that I live in a city where all the Little Caesar's have been changed over to some other chain which is okay, but I enjoyed Little Caesar's while it was around.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:49

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I'm convinced it was not available here in the Northeast. I have never seen this, ever. And If it's even remotely related to Pizza, I think I would have tried it.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > GTI Sprinks 11/25/2015 at 11:51

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I actually took a look to see how long a drive would take - both places would take around 11 hours on a non-stop drive, not to mention a border crossing.

I've never had McDonald's pizza - I remember seeing them when I was really, really young but even then it didn't seem like it was around very long.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Ash78, voting early and often 11/25/2015 at 11:52

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They just opened a Little Caesars location about 3 minutes away from my house. Hard to beat a $5 pizza.

That being said, I liked their old pizza better. The ones that always came two per order, in that weird paper wrapper.

Chariotoflove > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:57

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Hmm, maybe that expensive oven is why not every McDs had it? Maybe it was widespread but spotty? Still, I don’t remember ads at all, and I used to eat at McD several times a week back then.

f86sabre > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 11:58

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They still have pizza at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s McDonnalds. It is pretty good. Kind of reminds me of Shakey’s pizza.

Chariotoflove > T5Killer 11/25/2015 at 11:58

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So would I. I was in Michigan at the time and I used to eat there a lot in grad school, but I don’t remember it.

Margin Of Error > f86sabre 11/25/2015 at 12:04

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Is it the same McPizza’s or they are selling a 3rd party Pizza ?

f86sabre > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 12:14

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After a further deep dive (Wikipedia), it appears it is a third party. I assumed Don atos was some kind of clever naming with Mc Don alds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatos_P…

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 13:03

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McDonalds did NOT offer the best pizza you can get.

Very VERY far from it.

And I say that as someone who tried it and has had genuinely great pizza from other pizza places.

shop-teacher > Margin Of Error 11/25/2015 at 22:20

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I had no idea McDonald’s ever made pizza. Bizzare. Now I wish I had tried it.