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Here the local pizzarias and regional chains can't really compete with Domino's, Pizza Hut not having the same presence. Any kind of diversity with pizza is restricted to either the totally static menu of the national chains or $20-30 bourgeois pizzas with a local minimum wage of $15. There's no potential for New Jersey/New York's culture of a tiny pizzaria offering cheap slices of a peasant food. It's a dead cuisine that's entirely recuperated into terrible slop or something I'm alienated from.
Right-wingers are such boring people. Their dressing-up-for-Applebees-ass tastes are the exact same as a toddler who refuses to eat anything except chicken nuggets.
Funny you should bring this up because I only use the pizza place near me that offers a large for $11. Compare this to the boutique ass pizzeria up the road that starts at $19 and change for a large, the mom and pop place is so much better and cheaper too, they also offer by the slice.
The cheapest I can think of within a 20 minute~ drive:
Slice: $5 from a single location that I think is owned by a large investment group otherwise driving up the local rents. There are two other options I can think of which start at like $8/slice for pretentious dada pizza.
Carry-out large one topping pizza: $8 from Domino's, $9 from a pseudo-state level chain that's owned by a national company.
Domino's had a massive drop in food quality over the past two years in my country. I straight up can't eat it anymore without nearly throwing up. I only way pizzas from actual Pizzerias now.
That's how I've felt about Papa John's since 2007
The general restaurant scene anywhere outside of the NY tristate area (and maybe Chicago/Seattle) feels like the Great Depression
Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, every type of cuisine (including pizza) sucks except for BBQ. And you can get decent BBQ in the Northeast too
I'm lucky to have such variety, then. Granted, a combination of a college scene and former/current Mafia living here leaves me spoiled for choice on pizza.