Pepperoni Pizza @ The Pizza Diary

If you’re like me, and try your best to only eat stuff that’s going to make you fat, bloated and regretful only once or twice a week, you’ll want to make sure you’re getting not only bang for your buck – but something that’s guaranteed to taste ‘totes amaze’.

Domino’s Pizza is always a safe bet for me. They deliver quickly, the pizza tastes damn good, and the cost – when you compare against other chains and consider the quality you’re getting – really isn’t too shabby at all.

Founded in 1960, Domino’s is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States and has over 9,000 stores in 60 countries. Fortunately, here in the UK, we are one such privileged country. Woohoo!

I’ve been a vegetarian for a few months now, and didn’t consider how much it would impact my life in pepperoni pizza terms before I decided to quit meat. Pepperoni pizza is my all-time favourite, and pig meat is probably the thing I miss the most – but it’s not fair to kill animals, and the poor animals are kept in terrible conditions, and blah blah bloody blah.

When I order from Domino’s, I therefore now tend to go for the margarita option: a classic. Or a boring and lifeless pizza, depending on how you look at it.

This pizza in particular tastes like a heart attack, but in the best possible way. The tomato and cheese juice seeps through to the bottom of the cardboard box just enough to remind you that you should probably go and have your blood pressure checked sometime after work next week, but the cheese to tomato ratio is always spot-on.

If you want to eat crap but pretend it won’t give you as much of a muffin top, go for a pizza with mushrooms and other vegetables on. Despite being a vegetarian, I never go for the ones with peppers and onions and all that jazz dotted around – simply because, out of principle, I refuse to eat a remotely healthy pizza. Having solely vegetable-topped pizza would be like eating a salad from McDonald’s– it just doesn’t make any sense.

The pizza itself is never under or overcooked, so you won’t end up with something burnt around the edges or soggy and lifeless. I got a burnt-edge pepperoni pizza in Pizza Hut a couple of years ago and ended up throwing it into the young, acne-covered waiter’s face. “Pizza face!” I cried out, realising how hilarious, ironic and coincidental the situation was.

If you aren’t already swayed, perhaps this will change your mind.

As a bonus, you get a free garlic dip for your pizza crust. I know, I couldn’t believe it either. Free food in a recession? All the more reason to run the risk of a coronary and chow down with a few Domino’s pizzas and beers with your nearest and dearest this Friday night.

You can buy three of these little gems in other flavours, too, for just £1; choosing from more garlic dip, barbecue, honey and mustard, hot sauce, and sweet chilli flavours.

Of course Domino’s also do chicken strips, cookies, ice cream, Coke and all those other precious foods and drinks our fat friends on the other side of Atlantic gave to us – but why buy that stuff from a pizza chain?

So, the next time you’ve had a tough day at the office, your girlfriend’s being a bitch or your local KFC is closed – grab yourself a Domino’s!  Or…you could always try the famous Pizza Diary’s famous and authenitc pepperoni pizza recipe!