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[โ€“] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Those Big City pizzas taste like cardboard anyway.

[โ€“] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Came here to suggest an alternative: Crosta & Mollica

As far as I can tell they're even from Italy.

We kinda get the best of both worlds: we just get the bases and make what we want so the speed of a ready made pizza, but the flavours of home made.

But still, NO PINEAPPLE !!

[โ€“] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

But still, NO PINEAPPLE !!

You're one of those sociopaths that puts kiwi on your pizza aren't you?!

[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online -5 points 3 hours ago

I mean you this won't fix the fact that it's a fucking Hawaiian pizza. Y'all are philistines.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 70 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Dr Oetker is european; and it isn't Nestlรจ

so that's two points it has over Wagner :)

[โ€“] staz2@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago) (1 children)

Dr Oerker was founded by a nazi. Probably still controlled and owned by nazis. Check Wikipedia for their family history.

Edit: not all German companies, this one specifically, check my answer below for details. Also some companies supported and profited from the nazi regime but aren't affiliated anymore. They changed ownership, renounced their past and the ideology and eventually made reparations. I don't believe this is the case with Dr Oetker but I would be happy to be proven wrong.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Everything german is Nazi from the early 1900 got it.

Sod off.

[โ€“] staz2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Definitely not, lot of good German companies. on my phone so didn't make a detailed essay, which is why I encouraged you to read Wikipedia.

For those who can't be bothered:

During the 1930s and 1940s, Rudolf-August Oetker was an active member of the Waffen-SS of the Third Reich. The company supported the war effort by providing pudding mixes and munitions to German troops. The business used slave labour in some of its facilities. A bronze bust of Richard Kaselowsky still sits within the company headquarters in Bielefeld. Kaselowsky was killed during an air raid on Bielefeld in 1944.[2] The Oetker Family is among those German families, who have profited most from their close relations to the Nazi regime.[3]

I have to correct the original founder might not be a nazi. His grand son defined was.

The company is still privately held by the same family, and controlled

Richard Oetker, August Oetker's brother, took over as CEO in 2010.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Oetke

Edit: before someone try to paint me as some anti German strawman. I like Germany, and went there multiple time, for works, vacation and the ccc congresses and camps And it actually pained me to learn the company history because I actually liked their pizza.

[โ€“] Hubi@feddit.org 55 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Wagner also committed war crimes in Ukraine. Or so I've heard.

[โ€“] calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago

Angry upvote

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 32 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

No, you're thinking of the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organisation.

This is Wagner, the antisemitic 19th century German composer.

[โ€“] el_bhm@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Can he just go back to music? Ukraine and pizza is a bit too much for my liking.

[โ€“] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No no, this is Wagner, the private liberal arts college on Staten Island. Those damn liberals with their New York based Hawaiian pizza.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I believe that's a different Wagner Group. Well I hope...

[โ€“] rikudou 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

After they tried to do a coup, they had to diversify. Making pizzas is less likely to cause falling from a window or mistake novichok for sugar.

or mistake novichok for sugar

yeah, but if they do, it's so much worse.

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[โ€“] Owlboi@lemm.ee 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

as an avid frozen pizza enjoyer, both of these suck, taste wise

[โ€“] crawancon@lemm.ee 30 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

which ones don't suck, MR frozen pizza connoisseur?

...

ok I admit I had to look up how to spell connoisseur so these forthcoming pizzas better be the bees knees.

[โ€“] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Grandiosa has the best frozen pizzas.

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

This one sucks the least.

Of course nothing beats the absolute cheapest pizza you can find at the discounter when you're having a LAN party.

[โ€“] Crikeste@lemm.ee 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This being called Salami Pizza reminds me of a time I ordered pepperoni pizza in Venice. I did not get what I was thinking I would, but it was still awesome. (They put actual peppers instead of โ€˜pepperoniโ€™)

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah. A friend told me of his folly of ordering "salami" pizza in the US and getting some disgusting sausages.

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[โ€“] Owlboi@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

well, even the best frozen pizza is still just a frozen pizza, but i prefer Die Ofenfrische. cheap and delicious

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[โ€“] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 15 hours ago

Dr.Oetker is the shit anyway iykyk

[โ€“] rikudou 6 points 16 hours ago

I love the Ristorante line of their pizzas. Sadly the store I usually buy stuff from no longer sells my favourite one.

[โ€“] Wrongdoer1@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

We were feeling more united than ever is this community but you decided to start a fight with our Italian friends? Why???

[โ€“] Novocirab@feddit.org 8 points 18 hours ago
[โ€“] HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Dr Oetker Tradizionale or Suprema are my Pizza of choice.

The Ristorante, not so much.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 18 hours ago

Dr Oetker Tradizionale

schmeck ich, especially this one:

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

At least pick the Casa di Mama line from Dr Oetker

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[โ€“] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

I don't think I've ever even seen the top one.

[โ€“] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (3 children)
[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

nope, but Hawaii pizza isn't Hawaiian as well.

[โ€“] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah it was invented in Ontario which is famous for their pineapples.

[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Invented in Ontario by someone born in Greece, who was inspired by Chinese food to put a fruit from South America on an Italian dish, and named it "Hawaii".

[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Truly an international dish.

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Pineapples were cultivated in Europe before Hawaii.

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