Domino’s Launches Line of Bread Bowl Pastas
Carbophobes, stop reading. After a few months of testing the markets in Southern California, Domino’s has just rolled out its Bread Bowl Pastas nationwide—“So good,” the tagline goes, “you’ll devour the bowl.”
Unlike Pizza Hut’s recently launched Tuscani Pastas, delivered in enormous family-sized tubs, Domino’s versions are individually sized: single-meal portions of chicken alfredo, primavera, mac and cheese, Italian sausage marinara, and chicken carbonara pastas, baked into edible bowls.
And if none of these sound good, customers can build their own—starting with a penne base, you can top it with alfredo, three-cheese or marinara sauce, and add up to three meat or veggie toppings.
Prices range from $4.99 to $6.99, and ordering online knocks off a dollar. If all the starch sounds a teeny bit excessive, the pastas can also be ordered naked, sans bread bowl. Here’s hoping for no Oven Baked Sandwich-style surprises.
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41 Comments:
Thanks, Domino's, for further contributing to obesity in the U.S.
CanadianFoodieGirl at 3:07PM on 04/21/09
one word: YUCK
pooch at 3:14PM on 04/21/09
I always thought they had a secret agenda to clog American duodenums.
Red_Icculus at 3:16PM on 04/21/09
Yikes! Dunno.
Adam Kuban at 3:26PM on 04/21/09
I love my carbs, but looking at those promotional photos, I feel inclined to ask, "Want some pasta with your loaf?"
Wayward Daughter at 3:40PM on 04/21/09
I don't even typically eat bread with my pasta because I don't understand the whole doubling carbs at one meal thing... and this product exemplifies just how ridiculous an idea that can be. Jeez.
And it's gross... I mean, it's the same thing with Pizza Hut pasta - I can make my own at home, far better, far healthier, in the time it would take me to order from them and have it delivered. Whatever.
alosha7777 at 3:51PM on 04/21/09
Looks terrible. Pretty egregious, putting pasta in a bread bowl. Kind of terrifying.
maxcriden at 4:11PM on 04/21/09
Ew. I love carbs, but those look like poorly conceived dessert pizzas.
pookywookyster at 4:20PM on 04/21/09
This seems....wrong...
mollykate678 at 4:27PM on 04/21/09
I've eaten some fairly questionable dishes in my life, but this crosses a line. If it weren't 20 days late, I'd have thought it was an April Fool's Joke.
popcornfordinner at 4:34PM on 04/21/09
This just made me really sick to my stomach.. sad thing is, since it started out in a test market, doesn't this mean it was successful/popular enough to be launched nationwide?
Cupcake819 at 4:35PM on 04/21/09
Exactly what backward community bought enough of these to justify a nationwide release? This won't last.
lambowner at 4:40PM on 04/21/09
That cannot be good for you. I think there's a reason why that's never been done before.
runnereater at 4:49PM on 04/21/09
weirdly the calorie count isn't yet listed on their website...
mgnnn at 4:49PM on 04/21/09
This is the Food Of The Gods. I can't wait to order 5 of them.
redfish at 5:24PM on 04/21/09
That's like carbs to the 94th power.
sweethunibabi at 5:30PM on 04/21/09
@lambowner -- A community of stoners probably. I bet they sold a ton yesterday! Hahaha.
sweethunibabi at 5:30PM on 04/21/09
Is it possible to order them without boogers?
Cupajo at 5:43PM on 04/21/09
Well, I always bring up the ziti pizzas when stuff like this gets marketed--I have seen many good pizza places occasionally serve pasta on pizza, although I don't like pasta so I've never bought it!
HeartofGlass at 5:57PM on 04/21/09
This sounds like Dominos' answer to the wretched KFC Famous Bowl. I hope that Patton Oswalt does a takedown of this one too.
jvanhoy at 6:09PM on 04/21/09
This is horrifying. But I've never even had Dominos, so what do I know.
BrooklynBaker at 7:48PM on 04/21/09
Oh, come on -- have none of you ever eaten the student classic that is the spaghetti sandwich?
Granted, these look gross, but done properly, the bread-and-pasta can be awesome.
piccola at 8:58PM on 04/21/09
Beau Jo's in Colorado actually does something like this...a big bowl of pasta in their garlic bread bowl, and it's incredible. Menu is here: http://www.beaujos.com/pastas.cfm if you're interested (I do not work for Beau Jo's and am not trying to advertise, but there's a picture on the site which is why I linked to it). I'm sure the Domino's one isn't as good since their pizza isn't nearly as good at Beau Jo's, but the idea of pasta in a bread bowl delivered to my door still sounds appealing.
cycorider at 9:10PM on 04/21/09
There's a place in Alexandria, VA called Generous George's Positive Pizza Palace that's been heaping pasta on pizza for decades.
This is carbs on carbs, and it's Domino's. Pass.
chanterelle at 9:57PM on 04/21/09
FAIL. no, Domino's. no no no.
graficionada at 11:24PM on 04/21/09
you remember that pizza that had little niblets of cheese baked in the crust, and you could tear them off and eat them? they should make the bread bowl like that, like a garlic cheese bread thing, that you could tear off and eat as you're eating your pasta. cuz if this is just a plain breadbowl, i dont really see the point. pasta and cheesy garlic bread, now thats a worthy invention. but anyways, i think they should just try to improve their pizza instead. like, how about using all that R&D $$ to roll out some new pizzas with better ingredients? i think that would go over much better right now.
redzerostar at 3:03AM on 04/22/09
Would you like some carbs with your carbs?
Stufsocker at 11:20AM on 04/22/09
Talk about a carb overload!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 3:54PM on 04/22/09
What the... who THINKS of this?
jo_jo_ba at 8:54PM on 04/22/09
We went to a 4 star restaurant in Italy and replaced their delicious authentic dishes with our new bread bowl pastas and the barf o rama ensued.
Offalwinfrey at 3:21PM on 04/23/09
I just had this today. Ain't that bad. More like one of those pizzas with ziti on it that you find in NY.
chinolam at 9:29PM on 04/23/09
NO WAY
ReneeRobinson at 9:28PM on 04/27/09
THIS KIND OF REMINDS ME OF PAULA DEAN TAKING MAC AND CHEESE, WRAPPING IN BACON AND DEEP FRYING IT. ---- RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS TO COOK. THIS "IDEA" IS EVERY BIT AS BAD. BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT WILL EAT IT.
old chef at 8:37AM on 04/28/09
yum!
Shelleyanne at 8:49AM on 04/28/09
GROSS
HelloChris at 11:07AM on 04/28/09
People, people, people!! SOMEONE is eating this stuff! Apparently, ALOT of someones, or the company would cease to exist. I guess it's just not folks who follow this site. And why is it ok to pair spaghetti with garlic bread? Is it not the same thing?
muzzlet at 11:57AM on 04/28/09
What is with this post atkins obsession with carbs.
Carbs are not FARKING bad for you.
These pasta bowls... yep, they're unhealthy. Because they're loaded with carbs? No.
Because they are high processed loaded in saturated fat and lots of empty calories.
Carbs = Energy. In the same way that protein works, there's good and bad varieties.
If you eat what you need and you excercise as any person should, then you do not gain weight.
Calories and excess = weight gain.
These dishes are not unhealthy because of carbs.
vardman at 7:07PM on 04/28/09
Hey guys..Im all about couting calories, and follow through with a 1,600 calorie limit a day diet. (which is measured out appropriately for my weight.) apparently, in my point of veiw, the bread bowl isnt too bad calorie wise. i researched that one serving is ranged to be 335-370 calories, and theres 2 servings in one bowl. considering how like packed with carbs the bowls look, id spoil my cravings of pasta and bread for approx. 400 calarioes.
jess perry at 5:42PM on 05/03/09
I ate one of these fool things. Domino's was giving them away for free last week. I had the sausage/marinara version. It actually tasted pretty good, but it was more like breadsticks with some dipping sauce dumped on top, and about 5 pieces of penne and an ounce of cheese. So yeah, mostly just breadstick-y. Definitely not worth $5.99, and not so amazing or delicious that I'd order it again. But it was a decent free lunch.
Kerosena at 1:38PM on 05/05/09
You people really need to get a f-ing life. I tried one today and it was pretty good. quit running your mouths about shit you don't know about.
rick1725 at 10:52PM on 05/20/09
Oh my, let's complain about carbs every day for the rest of our lives, but eat all the fatty meats and cheeses we can, because I don't want to live past the age of 50. Carbohydrates are energy, it's simple. What can you do without energy? If you say ANYTHING in response, you're uneducated. Every single person that I have EVER heard complaining about carbohydrates does not hold a degree in Biology (or Physiology for that matter). I digress; ultimately you do whatever you want, and enjoy your myocardial infarction and, probably, death.
One more thing, about people who are obese, quit blaming it on hypothyroidism. In fact, about 7.0% of the world population actually has it.
Have a great day.
balkylepal at 6:39PM on 08/04/09