A typical rowan university student coming home late at night after some partying is usually faced with a large obstacle. What to eat? Many choose to go for the classic munchies food we all know as pizza. However when ordering pizza, it can be a difficult decision, especially when you’re not from the area. You may know that pizza is a hit-or-miss food. It’s either up to par or exceptionally good, or tastes like cardboard with some cheese and sauce thrown on top. The point of this is to get to the bottom of these questions and to come up with a general consensus as to who has the best or most well-liked pizza in Glassboro. Typical favorites include Dominoes, Papa Johns, and pizza hut, among other chains, yet they are competing with some strong local favorites including Nick’s, Ciconte’s, and Gino’s. All of these places have pluses and minuses, whether it is value, thickness, zest, and more. Let’s see if we can’t get to the bottom of who’s got the best pizza in Glassboro?
The act of ordering a pizza may not be difficult, but picking which one to order sure can be. The first thing on many college students’ minds is usually price. Somehow chains – whose pizza is not always even fresh dough or other ingredients - feel the need to charge near ridiculous amounts for their large pies, which in reality are about the size of a medium from most local places. Yes I’m talking about you, Papa John’s. For some ungodly reason, you have decided that it is necessary to charge poor college students a near obscene fee for your not-so-large large pizza, which, despite being quite tasty, is not even freshly made. I suppose that can bring us to our first point of value. Certain things to consider for Glassboro’s finest pizza establishments include size of the standard large pie, amount of toppings used, thickness of dough and amount of slices you get out of the pie. Ciconte’s is similar to Papa John’s in respect to size of their large pie. They use thick dough, but the diameter is not as large as others, and it is almost a bit of a letdown when you open the box, especially if you’re from north jersey and you’re used to huge thin crust pizza. Nick’s pizza definitely has value down pat. For a mere $14.99, you get a medium pizza equivalent to a large from other places, 10 wings, AND a 2 liter bottle of soda. All that, and free delivery to boot! You simply can’t get a better value for your money than that.
Value may be one thing to strongly consider, but let’s talk about what really makes a good pizza, a good pizza. How does it taste? Is it filling? Do they use adequate ingredients? Most importantly, is it fresh? These are all things to consider in the area of taste. Sure, it’s great if it’s cheap, but you get what you pay for, and nobody likes cardboard pizza. As far as freshness is concerned keep in mind that places like Papa John’s and Dominoes may cook their pizzas fresh to order, but they are far from using fresh ingredients.
Based on observations made from the Mimosa entrance for even one hour on Thursday or Friday night here at Rowan, it is most common to see Papa John’s boxes of pizza rolling through the door. This is intriguing however because Papa John’s is the most expensive, and yet although filling, tends to be “extremely greasy” says Freshman Brad Rankin. But “nothing beats that garlic sauce on the crust”, he finishes, and I suppose that’s another thing that draws in some of the customer base. Oddly enough, people may think that cookie-cutter brand name pizzas are extremely fattening. To many people’s surprise, this is not the case- a typical slice of plain Domino’s pizza has only 240* calories, and the same goes for Papa John’s. At least students can snack without worrying their going to be eating their heart out, literally that is.
Since pizza is such a common food on campus, it might be a near impossible task to accurately gauge the best liked brand on campus. There are simply too many decisions to be made, and ironically it’s just over a round piece of dough with sauce and cheese on top. However, it is how those ingredients are placed on that carefully crafted piece of dough that makes it either stick out from the rest as the best, or the worst pizza near Rowan University.
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Caloric value information from Domino's and Papa Johns, Info taken from various menus.
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