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What do you think of this pizza, /ck/?

It's from Happy Joe's, an Upper Midwestern chain with its roots in my hometown of Davenport, Iowa.

>> No.10847869

>>10847860
Not bad. Not bad at all

>> No.10847878

>>10847860
Who puts cheddar cheese on pizza?

>> No.10847881

>>10847860
The sausage looks a little gross like that but I'd eat it, looks tasty

>> No.10847891

>>10847860
Not gonna lie that looks pretty yumskies.

>> No.10847893

>>10847860
looks like a greasy mess.

>> No.10847901

>>10847860
I like capers, but damn... Also, where are the anchovies?

>> No.10847908

>>10847860
Looks palatable if a bit plain. I prefer a slightly thinner, crisper crust; those slices look like they'll be floppy.

>> No.10847915

>>10847860
Looks undercooked...

>> No.10847916

>>10847901
That’s sausage morron

>> No.10847919

>>10847860
Looks good. Pizza can be entirely different from one place to another, and still be good at both places. There is bad pizza, sure, but there's no one form of "good" pizza, either.

If that crust is the right amount of crispy without being a cracker basically, then that's a damn fine pie for sure.

>> No.10847920

>>10847860
yeah you can tell the cook this is low grade dog food

>> No.10847928

It's baffling to me how many people from Davenport post on this board. I swear I see something from there at least once a week on /ck/

>> No.10847934

>>10847860
Does Davenport have Paul Revere's? I liked that chain when I went to school in Iowa.

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>>10847916
>sausage morron

Looks more like rabbit shit.

>> No.10847948

>>10847934
No, but we do have Harris, which is my favorite of any pizza place I've been to.

>> No.10847965

I'd literally rather eat Little Caesar's.

>> No.10848067

>>10847934
Paul Revere's is the best. We had it at concession stands at all sport events at my school.

>> No.10848081

>>10847860
I literally came my pants desu, that looks so good.

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>> No.10848082

looks perfect for your typical flyover boomer

>> No.10848094

Happy Joe's Matador is pretty gud. I don't order from them often because they're a little pricey for what it is.

>> No.10848109

>>10847878
>Who puts cheddar cheese on pizza?
It works well, providing it isn't some shit-tier brand of cheddar from Wisconsin.

>> No.10848135

>>10848109
what is up with them
their mozz is more salt than cheese

>> No.10848331

>>10848135
flyovers, man. flyovers.

>> No.10848342

>>10847860
It looks raw, under cooked and absolutely shocking. Quite frankly it's an embarrassment, and you should be ashamed of yourself. I mean honestly, I wouldn't even serve it to my dog. It's garbage, it's trash. It's fucking abysmal. Is that really the best you can do? Is that the kind of quality you're aiming for? Really? I don't know why you even post here. Why do you even bother. You might as well give up. Though based on this monstrosity, you've already given up, haven't you? What is it, are you depressed? Are you done? Just look at the pepperoni, it's not even cooked. The raw fucking onions. They're not even sliced properly. I mean come on, you know this. You know this isn't good. Yet here you are, posting this shit again. Have you even looked at the crust? Or the cheese? I mean, what is that? They're snow fucking white. The dough has barely been cooked. Did you even put it in the oven? Did you forget to turn it on? It's just sad. This isn't a fucking pizza, it's a travesty. An absolute shambles. I don't know what else to say. It's just not good enough. Throw it in the fucking bin, and just stop. You can't cook. You're useless. Utterly useless.

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>>10848342

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>>10848342
yeah, that untouched, rubbery, soggy-looking non-crispy meat was putting me off too. glad I'm not the only one

>> No.10848404

>midwest pizza
>rat turds scraped off the floor by tattooed fetanyl/meth addicts and branded as "sausage"
>thick crust created by a quick rise yeast with copious HFCS
I pray for your soul/10

>> No.10848410

>>10848404
Happy Joe's crust isn't thick

>> No.10848420

I'd eat it.

Although the top part looks like a bunch of rabbit turds.

>> No.10848432

>>10847860
>Davenport, Iowa
>Upper Midwest

You are in the Georgia of the midwest

>> No.10848433

>>10848432
What does that mean?

>> No.10848440
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Looks like a quality American Style pizza. The small bits of meat guarantee you get the flavor in each bite as opposed to massive pieces of sausage that come 4 pieces a slice. Cheese looks good, sauce is too red which means its straight from a can with little to no flavor addition.

10/10 would eat if pizza wasn't the most unhealthy and nutrition lacking cuisine in existence.

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>>10847860

>> No.10848447

>>10847878
Flyovers.

>> No.10848448

>>10848433
Clearly they're being manipulated by Russians.

>> No.10848450

>>10848342
Is this the union that results in La Creatura?

>>10847878
Poor people.
Which is to say me personally, and flyovers.

>> No.10848461

>>10847860
the first half looks like rat shit and the other half looks like diced dick heads

>> No.10848462

>>10847860
>an Upper Midwestern chain
lived in the upper midwest my entire life and never heard of it

>> No.10848473

>>10848462
Where?

>> No.10848474

>>10847860
My family used to go to Happy Joe's for anyone's birthday. We'd usually get a taco pizza. :)

>> No.10848475

>>10848474
They did invent it

>> No.10848488

>>10847860
>>10848462
pretty sure Iowa isn't upper midwest

>> No.10848491

>>10848488
It's only south of Minnesota. Davenport is close to the same latitude as Toronto, as I recall

>> No.10848492

>>10847860
Would love to eat. Aus fag here and the bottom half reminds me of a standalone pizza joint when growing up in my small hometown. Fuck I loved that pizza so much.

>> No.10848501

>>10848491
The Upper Midwest is Minnesota, Wisconsin, Chicago and the UP

>> No.10848503

>>10848501
Davenport and Chicago are literally the same latitude

>> No.10848508

>>10848503
yeah, and Seattle is further north, and also not the upper midwest.
Its a cultural and geographical thing. Iowa is more great plainsy than it is upper midwesty culturally, though Davenport is of course the most uppermidwesty part of Iowa

>> No.10848511

>>10848508
Davenport is in the middle of the state. Half the state is farther north. I think you've just underestimated how far north Iowa is.

>> No.10848527

>>10848511
Davenport is in the northern half, and more importantly is all of the way East. As you go further west in the midwest you enter the great plains, a different cultural area. Note both dakotas being north of Iowa and also being part of the great plains

>> No.10848531

>>10848527
So why is all of Minnesota upper midwest? Iowa and Minnesota share the same western border. Norther Iowa and southern Minnesota are basically interchangeable.

>> No.10848542

>>10848531
Yeah, you could definitely argue that western Minnesota isn't as much but that was more complicated than I cared to get

>> No.10848552

>>10848542
So I guess either we categorize entire states, in which case Iowa has all the credentials Minnesota does, or we split it up by area, in which case the relevant part of Iowa for this discussion is still part of the Upper Midwest

>> No.10848556

>>10847860
How much did they pay you to shill that shit or are you one of the owners?

>> No.10848562

>>10848531
>Norther Iowa and southern Minnesota are basically interchangeable.
Hahahah.

Southwestern Minnesota yes. But heading straight south down Minnesota you can almost instantly tell when you cross the border, even if there weren't any signs.

What's really blurred is the difference between Minnesota at border near Wisconsin among much of its border. Even heading near due-east of the Twin-Cities you can't tell when you've crossed over.

>> No.10848569

>>10848562
I've driven that route literally dozens of times, both I-35 and following the Mississippi up. I have family in both areas. They are completely interchangeable.

>> No.10848571

You people are comparing which load of shit is the least load of shit. Either way it's still middle america soccer mom level shit.

>> No.10848575

>>10848569
Is your family south of Albert Lee?

>> No.10848578

>>10848552
Most of Minnesota's population is culturally upper midwestern
Most of Iowa's is culturally of the Great Plains

>> No.10848579

>>10848575
Yeah, and the Iowa are a bit north of Waterloo

>> No.10848590

>>10848578
Sioux City maybe. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities, Iowa City? That's where all the population actually resides, and it's all upper midwest

>> No.10848603

>>10848590
nah, only Dubuque really counts, Davenport and Cedar Rapids marginally so

>> No.10848619

>>10848603
Almost every person I know personally in Des Moines moved there from the Minneapolis area. The two cities have tons of crossover, culturally.

>> No.10848639

>>10848492
t. Bogan

>> No.10848641

>>10847881
read what you wrote

>> No.10848662

>>10848109
>it's the 'wisconsin cheese is shitty!' poster again
give it a rest, man. Based wisco cheese never did anything to you.

>> No.10848664

>>10848619
>>10848578
>>10848569
>>10848562
>>10848552
Never expected to see such an in-depth breakdown of my home state on 4chan. As a CRfag I'd say the culture here is definitely midwest, though truth is I don't really know what the fuck "great plains" culture even is?

>> No.10848678

>>10848664
I assume he's talking about the barren waste perception of the dakotas, nebraska, and kansas, which are indeed a very different culture. Probably a couple states more to the west that I don't drive through as often.

>> No.10848701

>>10848664
I would break the broader midwest into 3 main sections. The Upper midwest, lower midwest and great plains

The line between upper and lower is about an hour or two south of the lowest extent of the Great Lakes, below which people become significantly less civilized and begin having southern accents. The border between the plains and the rest of the midwest has to do with how the populations become so much less dense and more rural. I would anything more than a few hours west of a line between Madison, La Crosse and the twin cities starts meeting this threshold

Also, Missouri is the south

>> No.10848707

>>10848701
The lower midwest and the south are really similar. Missouri, southern Illinois and Indiana are all really like Kentucky and Arkansas, culturally. Not Deep South, but southernish.

>> No.10848715

>>10847916
>moron.

>> No.10848738

>>10847860
New yorker here, honestly doesn't look that bad. I'd throw it in the oven for a little bit longer to crisp up more but otherwise looks like it'd be good with some beers while watching hockey or something.

>> No.10848760

>>10847860
I would eat it with ranch and wash it down with beer and ice cream

>> No.10848777

Why go to happy joes if you aint getting the taco pizza. At least thats the only thing I can remember rather fondly from there. Saw davenport for the first time this week. Very cool river view and the bridge building was impressive.

>>10848664
hello fellow CR fag.

>> No.10848814

>>10848639
Our town won 'tidy town or the year' for our state twice while I was growing up there.
Only trailer park was for seasonal workers for the fruit and vege farms in the region.
t. We only have five states, two territories and Tazzie.
Sorry you grew up around so many bogans to immediately assume that.

>> No.10848857

>>10847860
Far too rich m8

>> No.10848863

>>10848662
WI has some good cheese but none of it is cheddar or mozzarella

>> No.10848867

>>10848562
Except for crossing a huge fucking river?

>> No.10848930

>>10848342
If Ramseyposting of this quality becomes widespread /ck/ might just become my favourite board again.

>> No.10848937

>>10848867
Subtlety isn't your thing is it?

>> No.10848970
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10848970

>>10848863
Good cheddar is super easy to find in Wisconsin, Wisconsin also makes most cheap tier cheddar but that doesn't make the good stuff any less good

>> No.10848987

>>10848970
I'm going to look for this and call you a fag after it tastes like I'm eating an aged pile of emulsified salt

>> No.10849041

>>10848987
Hooks is awesome. The 15 year is pretty expensive but the 5 year is pretty reasonably priced and worth a buy.

Plus their "Ewe Calf to be Kidding Me" mixed milk blue cheese is really tasty

>> No.10849061

>>10847860
>cheddar cheese

a pizza place near my house used to do this... it was fucking terrible
otherwise good

>> No.10849075

>>10849061
all cheddar pizza is shit, but a little bit of it with mozzarella is good

>> No.10849090

>>10849075
they did the 50/50 thing and it was fucking gross

but maybe they used super shitty cheese too.
They went out of business

>> No.10849113

>>10847860
Looks good 2 me

>> No.10849115

>>10847860
looks bretty good OP

>>10848970
is good cheddar still expensive in wisconsin? up in canadaland it's so fucking expensive for anything decent

>> No.10849130

>>10849115
definitely a lot more expensive than cheap cheddar, but not out of reach

>> No.10849133

>>10849090
they're supposed to do like 20/80 at most

>> No.10850348

>>10847860
Looks like greasy piece of shit.

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>>10847934
Aww man I went to the University of Iowa for college, and I remember Paul Revere's. I got their "wedges" more often than their actual pizza though.

Also have fond memories of Gumby's, but really more for their Pokey Stix than their pizza.

>> No.10850381

Looks terrible, I love it

>> No.10850393

>>10847860
That looks absolutely horrible.

>> No.10851051

>>10850361
Why so many Paul Revere posters? Isn't U of I the other campus that has a Mesa Pizza? That's where we went all the time at Minnesota. Nothing tastes better than grabbing a slice of pizza at 1 in the morning while it's minus zero outside on your way back to your apartment

>> No.10851069

Looks kind of gross. I like Brooklyn pizza and that's basically the opposite as far as I can tell

>> No.10851142
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>>10850361
>wedgies

>> No.10851347

>>10851051
Revere's is more unique, there are other better places than Mesa if you're in the TC. I've lived here a decade and only been there once, there are so many other better options nearby.

>> No.10851369

>>10851347
Sure, but not if you're on campus and just looking to grab a slice

>> No.10851407

>>10851369
Well I went to school in Iowa and not Minneapolis, and am almost never on campus, so there you go.

>> No.10851443

>>10850361
>>10851142
do they actually call them fucking wedgies

>> No.10851478

>>10847860
Looks undercooked and a prime example of why flyovers suck at food. More=\=better.

>> No.10851482

>>10851478
Why do you say it looks undercooked?

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>>10851482
There's no black on it.

The problem with flyover pizza is that it's laden with too much/many toppings. Because of this it cannot be cooked in a proper pizza oven otherwise the outside would burn before the inside was cooked. The more toppings people insist on piling on the worse it becomes--the crust never gets crisp because of the thick soggy mess on top.

Good pizza looks like pic related.

>> No.10851545

>>10851519
Oh, I see, you just like the italian shit. To each their own, I guess, but I think that's a terrible kind of pizza. Its crust is always too chewy or cracker-like. A good crust is in the middle.

>> No.10851563

>>10851545
>A good crust is in the middle.
Agreed, though I find the problem with shitty crusts to be more prevalent with delivery style, especially the "too chewy" part. But yeah, I agree that a cracker-like crust sucks.

Regardless of what kind of crust you prefer I really like those cooked in a super-hot oven because the little bits of char on the toppings really adds to the flavor. You don't get that with delivery style.

>> No.10851579

>>10847860
Is that dry catfood on the one side?

>> No.10851724

>>10851579
It's rabbit shit.

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>>10850361
>>10851142
>>10851443
They're called PUFFIOS here.

>> No.10852465

>>10851051
What a Mesa Pizza? I went to U of I 98-02 so if it's not old school I don't know of it (and it probably sucks).

>> No.10852469

>>10852465
It's a pizza place that mostly does weird toppings. My favorite was the southern gentleman, which had mashed potatoes and bacon on it.

>> No.10852836

>>10852469
I think they had that at pizza ranch

>> No.10852852
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10852852

we have this shit all over iowa. its overpriced and tastes like absolute shit yet everyone says this is the pinnacle of pizza around here. eat falbo brothers instead

>> No.10852861

>>10847878
I don't like it all the time, but a local place puts a little cheddar on and it can be pretty good

>> No.10852917

>>10847860
looks like American pizza hence garbage

>> No.10852929

>>10847860
looks pretty good desu

>> No.10853023

>>10852917
Pizza is an inherently American thing

>> No.10853249

>>10852852
Falbos is garbage. I'd rather eat Casey's

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10853311

>>10852852
More like eat at Glass Nickel.

>> No.10855041

>>10847860
Looks like a take away pizza
Give me a beer and a few friends and I'd eat it happily

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>>10853249
Casey's breakfast pizza is GOAT

>> No.10855846

>>10847860
That is the most American pizza I have ever seen.

>> No.10855853

>>10855060
Yeah, actually it's pretty great

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10857819

>>10847860
>ham

>> No.10857841

>>10847878
Boomers

>> No.10858052

>>10847860
Happy Joe's pizza is pretty fkin good. This is the final say on the matter.

>> No.10858055

>>10857819
"Canadian bacon"

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10858220

>>10847901
>I like capers, but damn..

>> No.10858253

>>10847860
Looks pretty good

I fucked with toppers pizza when I worked in Wisconsin

>> No.10858268

>>10848404
Shut the fuck up coastie

>> No.10858277

>>10847860
love happy joes but damn they're expensive
>silvis dude