My coworker ordered pizza for lunch today and offered me a slice. Score. However...
I don't know if it's because I already ate or because I had Little Caesar's when in Michigan, but hot damn! Domino's sucks!
When I lived the dorm life, Domino's was the only way to go - with tax, a large pizza cost $7.41 and arrived in fifteen minutes (and it goes without saying that the delivery guy got a whopping 59 cent tip. Sorry about that, guy. I mean, the Lady would send me "pizza money" every so often, but I spent it on booze. I mean, books. Books and copy cards). Maybe we were just used to the mediocrity, or maybe we were too cheap to shell out for Papa John's, I DON'T KNOW. But honestly, it wasn't that bad. I guess that the fact it was founded just a city away might have upped the stomachability quotient.
Even though it was complete crap, I do recall that ordering Domino's at a sleepover made the host unbelievably cool. We would eat our grease bombs while playing Mall Madness, Girl Talk, and Dream Phone. I may have had a Saved By the Bell game as well, but I totally don't remember. (But OMG if you picked the right card, ZACK was your date!) Some of those games, as well as covers of some of The Babysitter's Club books, prominently featured Domino's. It was a massive mind fuck, really. Though I guess that could be said of much of the early 90s after all...
(Okay, that link to the SBTB game is amazing. The author kills me: "They threw in a driver's ed spot too, but as any fan knows, these kids crash through houses after one beer.")
Right, so in conclusion: Domino's sucks, Little Caesar's rules, and Pressman Toy Corp. warped our fragile little adolescent minds into thinking that Zack Morris was a dreamboat when it should have been clear that he was a spoiled hornball who probably harbored numerous diseases and would break our hearts if something better (Kelly Kapowski) appeared after breaking up with Jeff from The Max.
Although he did turn down pot from Johnny Dakota. D.A.R.E.!
Whatever. I'm going to go take some caffeine pills now. "I'm so excited!"
3 comments:
A) Girl Talk was my favorite game. Perfect for sleepovers.
B) I totally had a crush on Zack Morris. But looking back, he was kind of skeezy.
Oh, agreed, dominos sucks. Blech.
And I miss Little Caeser's commercials! They were the best.
waayers - Zack was a stone cold fox. Everyone loved him. A few loved Slater, but they were stupid.
jlr - Those commercials were awesome and then stupid domino's came up with the Noid thing. Dumb!
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