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| Dark Lord |
If y'all ever come to my town...For an Elfball tournament or whatever we will be getting one of these
Just for reference that is a 40" pizza. Those are 10 or 12 inch dinner plates sitting there and my friend "Loopy" is a pretty big dude (like 6'3" or more and at least 250 lbs.) I can't believe how small he looks next to that pie. More importantly it's good dang pizza. If 2 people finish off a 40 incher they not only eat free but the get $500...and before you make your claims we are a group of 12-15 big Midwestern eaters and when we were stuffed to the rafters we still had about enough pizza left over to be considered a large elsewhere. Anyway, anybody else got any big food in their home towns? |
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| Thom |
No sir, we have no claims to anything that big out here. I have to say thats a mighty impressive pizza though! | ||||||||
| Igor Tahavanale |
So, do you order that? Or does it just land in the yard and abduct/probe the neighbours?  
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| Dark Lord |
No but if you look close you can see the metal loops where the crane hooks go.  (seriously look...)
...told ya. Okay they aren't the crane but they are for big handles |
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| Redfang |
I really can only wonder "Why?"... 
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| Erik Daner |
What is the pricetag on one of thoose? | ||||||||
| Darkson |
Add that to the 100-patty cheeseburger in the list of bad ideas. | ||||||||
| Thom |
I was once in a truck stop/touristy kinda place somewhere near Sioux City, Iowa (way back in the mid 70s) that served a 5 lbs hamburger. If you could eat it all along with the fries & sides it was free. Burger and bun were the diameter of a large dinner plate (Roughly 12" - 14") as best I recall, but the patty was way thick and with the bun it stood maybe 8" tall.
I didn't even get to try it! In 2004 I was back in that area on the way to GenCon and looked for the place without any success. As best I can recall it had a Wagon Train/Pine Cone/Frontier motif thing going on. Perhaps one of you Iowan's know of the place? |
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| SillySod |
mmmmmmmmm, pizza
This is the closest I'll get to a drool emote  pizza
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There you go! - brownrob |
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| brownrob |
is that close enough eh?!  
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| SillySod |
WOW, I love it!
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| brownrob |
It is pretty disgusting!!! | ||||||||
| Dark Lord |
Well when you really want some pizza. You could also say, why not? But really that was at out "game night" which has become more of a "movie night" There's about 15-20 people who all gather in one guy's garage where he has pretty much every game console in existence and 4 computers hooked up to a projector. The screen is a 15 footer. There's futons everywhere (and for some reason the joke is to buy him Hello Kitty stuff to decorate with) Anywho...we all gathered there and watch some really bad horror movie MST3K style (last time was Zombie Strippers), eat dinner and then play games...usually Guitar Hero, Rock Band or some classic fighter. Dinner responsibility rotates. My buddy, Josh, didn't feel like cooking so he bought pizza. Pizza for 20 fat gamers.
I think it was around $150. And like I said it stuffed everyone full with extra...and we didn't even have bread sticks! If he had gone somewhere else and bought enough pizza to feed everyone it probably would have been about the same...but without the funny. Oh and it has unlimited toppings too.
Woah! Really disagree! The 100 patty cheesburger can't really be eaten by 15 or 20 people in a big social way. This was just fun!
Nope, sorry. Soiux City is a bit out of my jurisdiction. Also I the furthest west I have ever been is Des Moines. Weird huh, I have never traveled in the USA in a Western direction, alsways East...don't know why. I think there's one of those in PA. Denny's Beer Barrel Pub but there's probably something like that out here too. |
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| brownrob |
No way DL!
Our local pizza place if you order say a 10" with 2-3 toppings its about £10stg How many 10" could you fit in that puppy?! Approx 17 by my bad maths
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| Dark Lord |
I'm sorry. Typo. $150. But like I said, 5 larges would cost that anyway. Unless you bought them Domin-oh-noes! Godfather's (which is a lesser but still good pizza) charges $20 for a Jumbo which is 18". You'd need 6 of those to equal the 40 incher. That's $120...but that's also only one topping each, and no cool giant pan, and seriously Pizza Machine pizza is great! There normal pies do it sort of Chicago style with the sauce on top...I love that.
There's also a 60" I forgot to mention and apparently when you order it in house they do bring it to your table on a crane. There's a special van for delivering the 60" too.
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| duttydave |
That is one Hell of a Pizza
I can only imagine that the delivery driver has to have a Monster Truck to drive about town delivering them. |
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| Dark Lord |
For ours they drove a minivan, but I know for the 60" they have a big old cargo van or some kind of truck they use. You pay a deposit for the pan and then call them to pick it up or return it yourself.
By the way if anyone likes sushi and can make to any of the tournaments I am dreaming of running there is a oh-so-heavenly sushi bar down the road from me. Oh it's soooooo good! It's all you can eat for $16 with a $1 surcharge for all uneaten sushi. And their house roll is amazing! Mmmn mnnn mmmmnn! I can taste it by just writing about it. |
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| Norse |
Sushi? On my way to Illinois right now.. 
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| Dark Lord |
House roll is eel, avocado, and something else with rice and seaweed of course and dipped in some sort of thin rice flour batter and fried just enough to crisp it.
I need a drool icon 
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| bound for glory |
and thats why americans are getting fatter its funny, but its pigish. in my town, theres a place called joes steak shop, and theys have a cheese steak 18" long. its so filled it makes you sick just looking at it. i'm a big guy(6'2, 220ish), but i can't hog stuff like that into my body...looks like a fine tasting pie, darklord.
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| Lakrillo |
Fried Sushi? Sushi is supposed to be raw.... |
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| Dark Lord |
Common mistake.
Sushi is the rice. Sashimi is the raw fish. Sushi can contain any number of ingredients both cooked and uncooked. Shrimp Tempura sushi is a popular kind of sushi (and one of my favs) and it has deep fried shrimp. And BFG, I don't think that pizza or the giant burgers are the culprit for fatty Americans. I think it's the more common food that is oversized...like Whoppers and Big macs...and then that combined with our car obsession. I mean it's not like 2 of us eat that giant pizza once a week or anything. There was at least 15 people there!
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| Lakrillo |
I know some ingredients in sushi can be fried. One of my favorite pieces is deep fried tofu nigiri...
But that are deepfried and then kept cool. I have never heard that you fry makis (the rolls) It sounded so american to me. :P And that pizza is huge... We had a place in my hometown where they deliver big pizza. It was at standard price and wasn't any spectacular taste-wise. But the size of them... They used standard size pizza boxes, and it filled all the way out to the corners of the box. The pizza was folded up against the wall of the box, and a little bit at the top to... You could easily split one of them on two persons and get satisfied from it. |
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| Dark Lord |
Yeah up to now I had only ever had fried ingredients (like the shrimp) and like I said, it was only dipped in the fryer just enough to crisp the batter, it wasn't like a french fry or anything. And maybe the reason I love it so much is because it's so American? But a good chef knows his audience!
The best thing about The Springfield Pizza Machine is that it is really good pizza. When I first moved here from my home town I was getting annoyed because every pizza place had the same style pizza. I was laughing at my in-laws because they would talk about these places like they were completely different and as far as I could tell they weren't...that and they considered Godfather's to be deep dish...or what they called "thick crust." All the local joints do this crispy thin crust thing that they cut into squares. It's okay...but I come from the city where the taco pizza was invented! We have tons of different styles of pizza, including our style. It's been a hard adjustment.  I also think they eat their pizza so thin and crispy as a rebellion to Chicago...everyone in Springfield hates Chicago.
I'm a midwesterner...I need my sausage and beer. Heck back home we mix fine ground sausage right into the pizza sauce whether you want a sausage pizza or not!
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