You won't be missing much.

Who knew?

Shocked I tell ya.

Support your local pizza joints that make a pie worth eating.

All in moderation, of course!

Who eats it as a snack?

Not everything has to be healthy!

and on and on and on... all local outfits in the Portland area. No way am I boycotting them.

In Philly we have real pizza.

favorite pizza ever.

I'm not actually in Philly, but I'm right outside in Norristown, and there are lots of great little mom and pop pizza parlors around here. Via Veneto's makes what may be the best sicillian in the world.

The chains have to continually come up with gimmicks in order to maintain sales, things like stuffed crust or bacon wrapped, while the local parlors have thrived on the same menus for decades. That says a lot.

Lou Malnati's........OMG!

although I am not sure of the contributions of the places I go to.

I could never give up pizza. So good! I am having it for dinner tonight!

James works for one of the "Big 3" in pizza.

Although the last time I went, it wasn't very good.

Good for James!

We used to go a lot during high school/college late night.

We had this waitress, Sandra, and she was always like "I can't wait to get off my shift and have my funny cigarette". She would show us her cigarette pack and, YUP, a joint was inside! She was real cool.

Have you ever been to NY?

CT > NY

transplant from Boston and if you can tell me where in CT they have pizza comparable with Santarpios in East Boston I'll pay for your pizza and a beer

Have you checked out any of the places in New Haven? Pepe's? Sally's? Modern? BAR?

but I live in the NW Hills of CT and can't find anything including Italian food comparable to where I came from.
If I do find myself in that area I will try one of those places

thanks

and you never heard of Santarpio's, my goodness

just never been.

I suggested those places in New Haven because I feel it's similar to Santarpio's.

There's a decent place in Waterbury, south of Torrington, called Mario's.

I've got your name and will late you know. My next time out that is where I will go

and I make bitchin good pizza.

Easy enough. It's always far better than the chain pizza joints.

than any other large franchise business. They rely on favorable tax policies and other provisions to run their pyramid schemes. These happen to be based on the sale of formulaic pizza like substances. They love the republicans because they help create the conditions where these cash cows thrive-and the republican party gets its share of the milk. For the life of me, I can't figure out why anyone who lives in NJ or NY or any other large metropolitan area would ever eat this crap. I live in a rural area of NJ and there are at least 20 independent Pizza shops within a 15 minute drive-all far superior to any of these chains. The only thing more disgusting than the food is the guys like "Pappa John" who just rake in the cash from the franchisees.

they even have an Olive Garden in Times Square, a family owned joint couldn't afford the rent there

featuring fabulously wealthy super bowl winning quarterbacks.

beside Papa John.

It isn't the best ever, but it is convenient and the price is right. I think their campaign contribution "pie chart" might look a little different than these

My father, like me, has discriminating taste in food. Like me, he always turned his nose up at chain food, preferring local "mom & pop" choices unless there is no other alternative.

Unlike me, he is a hard-core conservative and self labeled tea party republican. He always was conservative but he went HARD right after 2008. Now he's always singing the praises of what I'll call "Big Food". He now convinces himself that he likes chain pizza, or restaurants better now. If he gets to a position to where he admits local food is better, he's always quick to defend chains because they are such big money makers.

First time I've ever seen someone change their personal tastes based on politics.

Bizarre. Or at least I think so.

I go where I want and buy what I want. I just can't keep up with the myriad of plases I am not supposed to go and there are tons. You can drive yourself crazy especially if you factor in individual products too. Nope if I feel like PaPa Johns I get it especially since they are the only place that delivers in my area. I don't have a problem with others trying to keep up with all the boycotts but I won't do it. Just being honest.

I have a local pizza place that I prefer, but they don't deliver. If I'm going out for pizza or feel like picking up, I go there. If I don't feel like leaving the house, I order Pizza Hut.

your name says you are sick of the one percent.....

I'm not permitted to buy from large corporations or chain stores?

It wasn't a boycott vs no boycott issue. This is a case of a person who changed his "tastes" based on politics, with the purpose of being deliberately pro "Big Food".

I used to like Pizza Hut a lot, but they changed something in the sauce they use and I find it inedible. The change happened a couple of years ago. I have never been able to abide Papa John's, Domino's, or Little Caesar's at all.

not that Dominos or Pizza Hit male anything remotely like a decent pizza in the first place

I'm pretty sure that the boycott is not worth the effort... Hillary can make up that difference with 2 speeches to Goldman Sachs

is a breeze.

Give me a local Mom and Pop pizza (especially in NY), or I will make my own. Yes, I do make my own but only in the WINTERS in Florida. Too hot otherwise for a 500 degree oven.

Can't oblige.

saturated with real mom and pop real pizza. Our best "chains" are maybe 5-6 local places that are real pizzerias. We can't have enough tourists to keep Pizza Hut in business, can we?

nt

[font color=teal]I will be keeping my Pizza tyvm.[/font]

Convenience over one's convictions is an easy thing to rationalize.

And it's far superior to any of the shit excuses for good pizza listed above.

never give up that with a great bottle of red wine!

I live in Brooklyn so I rarely eat at the pizza chain places but sometimes I do get Little Ceasars at times.

Thanks for the info.

And pretty sure they are not funding the GOP....

there are two local places that we get it from...no place else. Otherwise we make our own.

refusing to boycott corporations with 88% of their political donations going to Republicans.

Shall we boycott all gas stations? Banks? Grocery stores? I think the only safe Democratic places may be education, unions and Hollywood or a good chunk of it.

San Francisco has a lot of small businesses that make pizza. Its more than likely they are not donating money to a political party but trying to use it to expand their businesses. I support the local merchants, including all the Asian food Restaurants in the area. They keep the community going and have some tasty treats for all of us, at reasonable prices.

Always before, I've stopped utilizing the businesses for other reasons before the boycott came around.

We've still been eating Pizza Hutt every once in a while, though, so I can finally cut the cord and get the bonus of having a politics-related reason for doing so.

when I'm back home and my family gets Caesar's. My family likes to go there because it's cheap, and we can't afford to go to the smaller chains. I prefer Papa Murphy's, Domino's, and Round Table over Caesar's, but Caesar's tastes alright.
When I'm in Humboldt, I either get Red Baron (frozen) or Westside Pizza. I'm too much of a pizza fanatic to boycott it altogether. As far as how the article talks about the unhealthiness of pizza, it's not a problem for me because I work out every day and I don't eat it every day or week. I don't like calorie counting.

Shit, man, that's couch change. If only we could get our political landscape down to where $750k per election per industry was significant...

It's cheaper, healthier and tastier.

nt

Their customers might well fall mostly into the youth demographic that votes D anyway.

Substitute "pizza" for any number of products and you'll probably get the same results.

There are of course exceptions to the rule, but big business is going to flock to Republicans, whether it's pizza, hardware or toilet paper they're selling.

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Politicians are mostly whores who will sell themselves for pennies per taxpayer dollar.


I wonder if the influence Papa John's and Domino's receives is worth the lifetime of financial loss they get?


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Not only do I not buy from them, but virtually my whole extended family is dissuaded from purchasing now.


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Our one household of 5 used to spend $50-60 a week, between these two, on pizza, wings, soda, etc.

Now, they get NOTHING! And, we're healthier for it!


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The $2,800 we annually spend sure eats into their combined $160K donation levels.

And this is just ONE household!