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Comment by ahallock | Hacker News Reader

Dominos put more money into their ordering system bells and whistles than the actual food, if you can call it food. I couldn't even finish a slice it was so bad.

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It's not great pizza, but it's not as inedible as you and the other commenter claim

I have to wonder if HN has a higher population of “food snobs.”

Absolutely the same here and I am Scottish. I will eat pretty much anything, but even with a beer in Me, I can't handle Dominos.

Fake cheese, Fake chicken, Fake mushrooms (I was amazed at fake mushrooms) all put together onto a tasteless base.

Gives me the boke.

Fake as in "these aren't mushrooms" or "these used to be mushrooms"?

> Fake cheese, Fake chicken, Fake mushrooms

What exactly do you think is on their pizza?

In the UK?

Analog Cheese, Water Pumped Chicken, Ultra Hydrated mushrooms.

If I am paying 3 pound for a pizza, I expect it to be shit. If I am paying 10 pound, I expect it to be reasonable.

Cheese you don't like. Chicken you don't like. Mushrooms you don't like.

That doesn't make those things "fake."

It certainly isn't natural by any sense of the word.

Well at least it's not digital cheese.

More seriously, in America "cheese" is a term that's regulated. Cheez-wiz in a can is called something like "cheese product" because it can't legally be called "cheese". Surely this is the same in the UK too?

I actually worked at Dominos many moons ago, and while their ingredients aren't "fake", they are certainly not so fresh. The pre-made, pre-sized dough, sauce, cheese and toppings all arrive in gigantic refrigerated semi trucks from a centralized warehouse. They scale they deal with is beyond the size of most "restaurants" save maybe the other fast food giants, so it has to be this way. You will never get the freshness level that you would get from a mom and pop joint, but of course, that is not what you're expecting from Dominos.

> Fake cheese, Fake chicken, Fake mushrooms

What is fake chicken? Do you want a live, breathing chicken?

The youngest chicken possible, pumped full of saline and water so that when cooked and you cut it with a knife, the cross section looks like playdoh. It has no texture. There is no "grain" to the meat.

A chicken breast today (not fed on chemical feed) is £8-£10 each from a decent butcher or a farm.

You can get chicken breast from a cheap supermarket 10 for £2.99.

These aren't the same thing.

Those aren't the same thing, but that's not fake chicken either.

Chicken fed on chemical feed is not "fake" chicken either. I can understand it doesn't live up to your expectations though.

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