Chuck E. Cheese is a restaurant that’s all about the experience. Whether it’s a good experience (video games! skee ball! giant singing rats!) or an adult nightmare (screaming kids! sensory overload! giant singing rats!), probably the least memorable thing about Chuck E. Cheese is its food.
Available for your next child party, you’ll find snack foods like wings and mozzarella sticks, Dippin’ Dots, chicken nuggets, subs, wraps, and even a salad bar. But there’s really only one one main dish worth mentioning, that one, of course, being pizza. But wait. Isn’t Chuck E. Cheese pizza supposed to be…you know…bad?
The intrepid staffers of MEL Magazine set out to test the hypothesis that Chuck E. Cheese pizza is the absolute worst of the worst, ordering pizza for delivery so they could sample it free of the distractions inherent to Chuck E. Cheese’s carnival atmosphere. Of the seven staffers involved in taste-testing, five found it to be more or less mediocre, giving faint endorsements like:
“Chuck E. Cheese pizza isn’t even close to the worst pizza I’ve ever had.”
Two reviewers waxed nostalgic, one calling the pizza the taste of his lost youth, and the other enthusing over the “glorious” goodie bag he received as a freebie despite the pizza tasting of, quote, “cardboard and chemical cheese.” A senior editor, however, said that as a Brit he knew bad pizza, but found Chuck E.’s to hit new lows.
If you haven’t had Chuck E. Cheese pizza since childhood, you might be surprised to find that it tastes a little different now. This isn’t just a trick of memory, though – they actually have tweaked the recipe a few times. In 2011 they abandoned frozen dough and pre-shredded cheese for crusts baked and cheese shredded fresh on site. Serious Eats went to check out the new “cheesier and crispier” pizza, and their reviewer found he, quote, “quite enjoyed the pie.” He compared it to Pizza Hut’s pizza – not favorably or unfavorably – just remarking on the similarities. Keep watching the video to see the untold truth of Chuck E. Cheese pizza!
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