Too Much...

Several years ago, Domino's Pizza ran a promo where you could order pizzas online and pick as many toppings as you wanted. They might still do it. The truth is that I haven't eaten anything from Domino's since late 2007.

Naturally, I find these kinds of promotions difficult to resist. A friend and I decided to custom-order pizzas that had virtually every topping on the menu. Like 11-12 toppings per pizza. It seemed like a funny idea at the time. Kind of a sneaky way to get more value without actually spending more.

Things took a bad turn when we drove out to pick up the pizzas. The guy who actually prepared our pizzas was irate at our ridiculous topping selections. He complained that it's hard to properly cook such a pizza - that you need to bake it longer and therefore risk burning parts of it.

"You guys really didn't need to order every damn topping on the menu!"

I took some offense to that. We didn't order every topping on the menu, for one thing. Besides, isn't the customer always (or usually) right? Why give me the option to pick 12 toppings if you're just going to complain about it?

I don't think that guy smiled once. He totally deserved the negative review we gave him. As for the pizzas? They tasted okay. Lots of intermingling flavors, little bit of burning, but thankfully they didn't seem contaminated. Maximum value achieved.

If I remember correctly, we followed up those pizzas with a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts from the $3.99 Midnight Special at the Long Beach location. Good times.

My next post will be a tribute to Ben Monson.... sort of.