Chicago Town Deep Pan Pepperoni Pizza's are produced by the Schwan Food Company, who have a preference for marketing frozen foods in the United States and Europe. Their brands, alongside Chicago Town, include Freschetta Pizza in Europe, and Red Baron and Asian Specialities in North America. ... Read review
Advantages: inexpensive, succulent and rich tasting pizza Disadvantages: High calories for a small product
Chicago Town Deep Pan Pepperoni Pizza's are produced by the Schwan Food Company, who have a preference for marketing frozen foods in the United States and Europe. Their brands, alongside Chicago Town, include Freschetta Pizza in Europe, and Red Baron and Asian Specialities in North America.
The Deep Pan Pepperoni Pizza's can be found in the frozen section of most popular supermarkets, alongside their other flavours - Triple Cheese, ... ...cooked version alongside the enlarged Chicago Town logo - relevant information such as cooking time, ingrediants and storage are also listed.
Each individual pizza is cellophane wrapped and placed on a microwaveable tray (not to be used when cooking via a conventional method) - the recommended method for cooking your pizza. If you do choose to microwave your pizza it will take approximately 3 minutes depending on the power supply of ... more
Chicago Town Deep Pan Pepperoni Pizza's are produced by the Schwan Food Company, who have a preference for marketing frozen foods in the United States and Europe. Their brands, alongside Chicago Town, include Freschetta Pizza in Europe, and Red Baron and Asian Specialities in North America.
The Deep Pan Pepperoni Pizza's can be found in the frozen section of most popular supermarkets, alongside their other flavours - Triple Cheese, Spicy Chicken etc, retailing for round £1.65 for a twin pack. These pizza's can often be found enjoying a little marketing of their own, being popular in the Buy One Get One Free (BOGOF), and 2 for £3.00 offers - these are an ideal time to stock up on these handy meals. Packaging resembles any normal frozen pizza selection with the casing displaying a cooked version alongside the enlarged Chicago Town logo - relevant information such as cooking time, ingrediants and storage are also listed.
Each individual pizza is cellophane wrapped and placed on a microwaveable tray (not to be used when cooking via a conventional method) - the recommended method for cooking your pizza. If you do choose to microwave your pizza it will take approximately 3 minutes depending on the power supply of your microwave, or oven cook in around 20-25 minutes. Each method has it's benefits, with speed being the most beneficial to microwave cooking. Personally I always cook mine in a conventional oven prefering the crisper base this method provides, rather than the softer style through microwaving. I also associate the slight browned surface of the pizza as being a product thats cooked, rather than zapped and looking pale and lifeless. Cooking via either method still provides an very hot pizza, and here you must exercise caution as the plentiful supply of slightly peppery tomato sauce (which is also mixed with oregano, basil and garlic), despite being thick and smooth to taste, is also very hot - in some instances easily hot enough to scald your tongue.
The tomato aroma emitting from the kitchen whilst the product is cooking certainly arouses the tastebuds. Especially when combined with the sweet pepperoni smell.
Chicago Town now use 100% real cheese on their pizza's, and whilst it's quite a mild mozzarella, there is more than enough - particuarly in the Triple Cheese Version - I sincerely hope you like cheese when choosing this option. The cheese is initially grated on the pizza, as this melts sufficiently to provide a slightly stringy texture, enough to need to twirl your fork a couple of times, and is interlaced with the pepperoni.
On the Pepperoni Pizza - (10% pepperoni, 16% mozarella cheese) they use small pepperoni chunks, (previous versions were slices) each cut and cubed and scattered across the top of the pizza. Unlike larger traditional pizza's the distribution of topping is fair and even, without the need for re-arranging the topping before cooking. Each pepperoni cube has a sharp pepper bite to it, with a hint of garlic adding to the bite.
Other notable ingrediants include sugar, preservatives, yeast, salt.
According to the instructions their are no artificial flavourings or colours in this particular pizza, although it is noted that Beta Carotene, a colourant is within the ingrediant listing. Other food sensitive information of a notable nature, is its containment of milk and gluten.
Those on a more health concious diet may wish to steer clear of Chicago Town Pizzas. The pepperoni contains 494 calories per pizza (a mere 5" in diameter), so when served with a portion of chips and mayonnaise (the best way to eat them - trust me!), isn't exactly the most diet friendly meal. Saturated fat is also very high per pizza, coming in at 11.5g per pizza (twice the recommended amount for a healthy meal), and salt is also high at 2.3g per pizza.
Chicago Town Pizza's are sold frozen, and must remain frozen until used. If they are allowed to defrost they must not be refrozen.
Each pizza, either served on it's own, with chips, or with a healthy side salad, provides a satisfying meal. Although high in carbohydrates the crunchy crispy edge and softer base don't taste stodgy and lifeless, the rich peppery and garlic sauce is over a smooth thick consistency, and the plentiful toppings are more than sufficient in comparison to the size of the pizza. For £1.65 for a twin pack (i.e. 82.5p per Pizza - cheaper than a Big Mac!), I would recommend these to adults and children alike - although I suspect they are probably already a favourite with students on a more restrained financial budget!
Go buy one (well a twin pack is two!) and try it...you might like them!!
...other than a “ Chicago Town Pizza (with extra pepperoni)” What’s one of those I hear you ask. Well let me explain. Chicago Town Pizzas are the all new easy American way of eating. On its first impressions it looks good the packaging is bright and colourful and has a picture of a very tempting pizza on the box. Ok so now I’m opening the box and extracting the contents. Ohh frozen and oh how convenient they come on a little ... ...tried any of the other Chicago Town varieties but I hope to do so in the future.
I would recommend this to anybody who loves a good pizza. I hope that you have enjoyed reading my op about Chicago Town pepperoni pizzas please feel free to give any ratings and comments on the subject. ...
Rossnixdorf 19.11.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Chicago Town Pepperoni Deep Pan Pizzas
Advantages: Quick and easy to cook Disadvantages: Not as good as fresh pizzas
...a friend recommended the frozen Chicago Town Pizzas and then said that he actually cooked them in the microwave I was not convinced that they would be edible, but I decided to give them a try.
I usually go for the cheese and tomato variety with pineapple and/or sweetcorn, but this time I decided to try the Pepperoni variety for a change. They came in a box containing 2 x 170g pizzas costing £1.78. The other flavours available in this range and size ... ...and Pineapple and BBQ Chicken.
The Pepperoni variety contains decent pieces of Pepperoni – bet you’d never have guessed that then would you? – and a spicy tomato sauce, which is just spicy enough to compliment the other flavours.
These pizzas can be cooked in a conventional oven, which takes about 20 minutes or they can be cooked in the microwave, which is the way that I did it.
The pizza itself is about five inches in diameter and is the deep-dish ...
SusanLesley 31.01.2002
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...well you can with a Chicago Town Deep pan pizza.
They are available in a variety of flavors, Pepperoni, Ham and Pineapple, Triple cheese, BBQ Chicken, Ham and Mushroom and new Hot and spicy. This opinion will be about one flavor, my favorite, Pepperoni DROOL!
Here are my findings:
~~~~~~WHAT ARE THEY?~~~~~~
Chicago Town deep pan pizza’s are small pastry cups spread with a spicy tomato sauce, they are then topped generously with cheese and whatever ... ...far as frozen pizzas go, Chicago Town have hit the nail right on the head, not only do the pizzas taste great but they are versatile and cheap. They are brilliant served with a nice crisp salad or with a jacket spud or even chips. They are also quite filling as well although, if you are a total hogg like a certain 6ft 5 bloke that was born in the year 1976 and who’s name starts with D, I could mention, then you could easily polish off a whole box ...
deano_76 11.11.2002
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Advantages: Quite filling Disadvantages: not enough pepperoni
...I picked up this Chicago Town Deep Pan Pepperoni pizza from Sainsbury as they were having a two for one deal and it meant I could also get a plain cheese one for any surprise guests. Normally I prefer thin to deep pan but these were the only ones on sale and at £2.99 for one were a bit pricey and I would not have bought them at that price however with the deal £1.50 is a bit more reasonable.
Packaging
Solid cardboard box package with the logo on ... ...far so good as there was plenty of filling on top. The back of the box had some marketing blurb with half the box given over to nutritional information informing you that if you eat half the pizza you are consuming 592 calories (32 minutes on the cross trainer at the gym) and 7.6g of saturated fat and the more worrying 1g of sodium.
The Product
Once out of the packet I had my first disappointment. There was a large amount of topping which was good ...
atticusuk 02.11.2005
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Advantages: None Disadvantages: Bland, incorrect cooking instructions, in short its disgusting
...similar offer on for the Chicago Town pizza. So I bought 2 Chicago Town Pepperoni pizzas and 2 Goodfellas Loaded Cheese pizza (for her indoors) because I'm an adventerous chap and I'll try anything new ONCE.
Now the packaging for the Chicago Town pizza is nice. I mean really nice. Theres a huge picture of the pepperoni pizza all nice and succulent and just looking at the packaging makes your mouth water so I was really looking forward to eating ... ...first of my Chicago Town pizzas in my oven for 25-30 minutes at 190 degrees as instructed on the packaging. Now I've got a really fancy oven. When a product says that it requires 25-30 minutes I split the difference and set it for 27 minutes. So far this has worked fine. So that is precisely what I did for the pizza. 27 minutes later when I went to take the pizza out of the oven I found it was burnt. Not inedible but definitely on the burnt side. ...
Soundsexciting 22.11.2005
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