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Slice Poll: How Often Do You Eat Pizza?
Hey Adam: some of the above comments about the price of pizza (and the inevitability of a price increase) reminded me that you had once talked about developing a pizza price per square inch measure. What ever became of that?
Slice Poll: How Often Do You Eat Pizza?
@attgig: Lest Slice become a forum for marital advice, I'll share my own married with pizza story: my wife grew up in Jersey City and probably had pizza a few times a week. Now, she would never have pizza out (she claims to love my homemade pies...I need to keep her away from Paulie Gee, however). Somehow, she begrudges me my little pleasures and agrees to go out for pizza with me and the kids provided she can get a cheese-less pie (she claims to have lactose intolerance). The lesson: marriage is truly a give-and-take thing. She gets her salmon, I get my pizza.
Slice Poll: How Often Do You Eat Pizza?
Like others who have commented so far, pizza is also a treat for myself and my family. We shun mass produced, delivery or frozen pizza. We look for pizzaioli who use fresh, quality ingredients. We usually like to have wine or beer matched to the pizza and not jug wine from a wicker-enclosed bottle. Maybe we're snobs, but I prefer to think that life is too short for bad pizza (or bad wine).
Thus, a trip to the pizzeria can set us back anywhere from $30-100. Much as I'd like to enjoy pizza more often, at those prices, it's impractical.
A personal anecdote related to the cost of pizza and in the spirit of nostalgia, I recall my mother giving me 50 cents every Wednesday, allowing me to leave school (PS 89 in the Bronx) for lunch, which consisted of a slice (15 cents), a coke (15 cents), a black-and-white cookie (5 cents) and a pack of baseball cards (5 cents). The remaining dime was mine: I could spend it or save it.
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@HeartofGlass:
Typical order for family of four at "artisanal" pizza joint:
--2 pies (one with toppings, other di nonna or similar)=$45
--1 bottle of wine or 2 glasses of wine and 2 beers=$30
--appetizer (say, mussels or calamari)=$12
--salad (or tomatoes/basil/mozz with balsamic and extra virgin)=$12
--dessert (for argument's sake, one dessert and four forks)=$6
--tax and tip
I think that's nearly a buck and a quarter right there.
Where I go for pizza (typically, Brooklyn, Staten Island or Jersey), we simply don't order by the slice. Like others who have commented, pizza has become a special meal. And, pizza is just part of the meal. Accordingly, the cost of a pizza dinner for two adults and two college-aged children is at least a hundred bucks.