By Mike Thayer
What a mess for dinner!
Needing some dinner grub on a recent business trip, I decided to see if all the advertising hype surrounding Little Caesar’s Crazy Calzony was valid, or if the dreaded looks better than it tastes line would apply.
I got the latter. The Little Caesars Crazy Calzony is a marketing gimmick, and what you see in advertisement is NOT what you get in the box.
What IS a Little Caesars Crazy Calzony you ask?
Described as part-pizza and part-calzone, it features a pepperoni pizza in the center with four Calzone-like appendages filled with garlic sauce, mozzarella cheese and more pepperoni. It sounds like a good concept, too bad Little Caesars didn’t execute.
The Crazy Calzony was overbaked, leaving the top portions of crust dry and chewy and perhaps that’s why this thing appears to be laden in grease, because whoever baked it tried to ‘save’ it by putting WAY too much melted butter on it. Combined with the actual grease from the not top grade pepperoni, well that left the bottom portion of the crust sitting in a pool, which = SOGGY! After eating a bit, (mostly pepperoni and cheese) I couldn’t eat anymore it was that bad, I threw the bulk of this thing away, I had NO desire to refrigerate this thing for leftovers later, let alone have some for breakfast on the road. NO THANKS! The flavors were unremarkable, the tomato sauce was ‘eh’ and there was some salt overkill. I was hoping the creamy garlic sauce would have kicked things up a notch, but considering the too dry up top and soggy on the bottom of the crust – the foundation of a good pizza for crying out loud – well, there was no saving this pizza/calzone concoction.
I paid $8.49 for the Little Caesar’s Crazy Calzony and it was money poorly spent. I’m NOT a fan. I’m giving the Crazy Calzony 1 out of 5 Bachelor on the Cheap stars, it is NOT a repeat buy and Little Caesars will NOT get a repeat visit. This is the third time I’ve tried a Little Caesars product and the third time I’ve had a disappointing pizza experience.
Food Review: Little Caesars Crazy Calzony – Bachelor on the Cheap
By Mike Thayer
What a mess for dinner!
Needing some dinner grub on a recent business trip, I decided to see if all the advertising hype surrounding Little Caesar’s Crazy Calzony was valid, or if the dreaded looks better than it tastes line would apply.
I got the latter. The Little Caesars Crazy Calzony is a marketing gimmick, and what you see in advertisement is NOT what you get in the box.
What IS a Little Caesars Crazy Calzony you ask?
Described as part-pizza and part-calzone, it features a pepperoni pizza in the center with four Calzone-like appendages filled with garlic sauce, mozzarella cheese and more pepperoni. It sounds like a good concept, too bad Little Caesars didn’t execute.
The Crazy Calzony was overbaked, leaving the top portions of crust dry and chewy and perhaps that’s why this thing appears to be laden in grease, because whoever baked it tried to ‘save’ it by putting WAY too much melted butter on it. Combined with the actual grease from the not top grade pepperoni, well that left the bottom portion of the crust sitting in a pool, which = SOGGY! After eating a bit, (mostly pepperoni and cheese) I couldn’t eat anymore it was that bad, I threw the bulk of this thing away, I had NO desire to refrigerate this thing for leftovers later, let alone have some for breakfast on the road. NO THANKS! The flavors were unremarkable, the tomato sauce was ‘eh’ and there was some salt overkill. I was hoping the creamy garlic sauce would have kicked things up a notch, but considering the too dry up top and soggy on the bottom of the crust – the foundation of a good pizza for crying out loud – well, there was no saving this pizza/calzone concoction.
I paid $8.49 for the Little Caesar’s Crazy Calzony and it was money poorly spent. I’m NOT a fan. I’m giving the Crazy Calzony 1 out of 5 Bachelor on the Cheap stars, it is NOT a repeat buy and Little Caesars will NOT get a repeat visit. This is the third time I’ve tried a Little Caesars product and the third time I’ve had a disappointing pizza experience.