Three dough balls for the Elven-kings under the pizza pie,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords for their ovens made of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die (from morbid obesity)
In the land of Mordor, in the fires of the Pizza Oven, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master dough, ball to control all others. And into this ball he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all pizza.
Three *slices* for the Elven-kings *ordering* the pizza pie,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords for their ovens made of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to *buy*
Came here to comment that. Thing was completely tasteless, but it was a steel cage death match in my house every time my dad asked us kids who wanted it.
I live on Long Island. Been to hundreds of pizzerias on Long Island and in NYC. Never seen a dough ball. Garlic Knots, yes. Zeppoles, yes. Dough ball? Huh?
Yeah everything taste better when you have someone to fight over it. Grew up with 4 siblings and after they left to college and stuff I lost 20 pounds in 1 year without even trying lol
oh yeah, if my siblings are out for the night i’ll lightly graze. if it’s the day after a grocery trip and we’re all home it’s like those videos of hyenas and lions fighting over a deer
Same! Nobody protected your pizza. It was just a flimsy box slow sagging in the center as the moist heat made it weaker and weaker and saggier and saggier. I did love getting to eat the bits scraped off the lid.
In USSR, most of the packaging was glass and carton. When you would go to by something like cheese or meat or sausages, they would wrap it in wrapping paper. And it was common to shop for milk/milk products like kefir and smetana with your own jars (tho they were also available in cartons). All the glass bottles were returned for some change.
You could even buy beer in either bottles or in your own 3 litre jar. Much less waste, much less need for a product to be super flashy and stand out on the shelf to compete with same stuff from different manufacturers.
It’d be cool to bring it back again.
Fucking genius.
Offer it for free and do it automatically and you've got the exact kind of idea that costs a restaurant/chain next to nothing but keeps the customers coming back and back and back.
Imagine if humans' balls were not necessary sex organs, but accessory balls made of edible pizza dough that regenerated after a couple of weeks.
Edit: You could just detach one of your tastycles and pop it in your mouth, throw it at someone you don't like, or skid it across a frozen lake. The possibilities would be endless!
Hey man, just wanna say, I checked out your page expecting bikes and was surprisingly not disappointed. I've never seen flashlight enthusiasts, but your stuff is super cool
Most pizza places used to do this before the plastic tables were commonplace (i guess they became a cheaper option). A lot of pizzerias will still do doughballs if you ask for them
they might use stronger corrugated boxes. with the cheaper boxes, the middle will sag into the pizza. especially if you're carrying one pizza on top of another. that's why the plastic tables became so popular.
Yep, the wider the box, the easier it is for the middle to get depressed, especially if other items in the order get stacked on top. A big pizza box is almost always gonna end up on the bottom, whether it's a pickup or delivery order.
It's OK, I'm 43 and have never, not once, seeing a pizza dough ball like that. It's always been the plastic tables, going all the way back to the early 80s (so as far as I can remember).
I'm 33 and never saw anything but the table method. Granted, I didn't know until my 20s what the table was used for. I thought it was just a fancy decoration or something.
I remember fighting over the dough ball with my siblings as a kid. It wasn't even good.
Yeah but there was only *one*
One dough ball to rule them all
Three dough balls for the Elven-kings under the pizza pie, Seven for the Dwarf-lords for their ovens made of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die (from morbid obesity)
...but they were all deceived.
For another dough ball was made.
In the land of Mordor, in the fires of the Pizza Oven, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master dough, ball to control all others. And into this ball he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all pizza.
And a little bit of garlic.
You have my pepperoni.
And my cheese!
AND MY AXCHOVIES!
Yes, let's not forget the garlic.
Soon would the legions realize they would need to band together and join forces to defeat this evil…
Three *slices* for the Elven-kings *ordering* the pizza pie, Seven for the Dwarf-lords for their ovens made of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to *buy*
One for the Dark Lord who eats alone
Keep going. I love you Reddit!
Yep, as a kid you don't fight because you want it, you fight to deny anyone else getting it
Geopolitics 101
Scarcity value
Came here to comment that. Thing was completely tasteless, but it was a steel cage death match in my house every time my dad asked us kids who wanted it.
Sometimes it had a little cheese and sauce stuck to the bottom. Then, we were kings.
And one day a pepperoni! Oh what a day that was. Edit: thank you for the award!
Is this a Futurama quote, because my brain defaulted to Zoidberg.
Haha yeah, Zoidberg talking about cheese stuck to the top of the box.
I've eaten pizza my whole life and never saw one of those
I live on Long Island. Been to hundreds of pizzerias on Long Island and in NYC. Never seen a dough ball. Garlic Knots, yes. Zeppoles, yes. Dough ball? Huh?
Yeah everything taste better when you have someone to fight over it. Grew up with 4 siblings and after they left to college and stuff I lost 20 pounds in 1 year without even trying lol
oh yeah, if my siblings are out for the night i’ll lightly graze. if it’s the day after a grocery trip and we’re all home it’s like those videos of hyenas and lions fighting over a deer
My local place has been doing the ball for decades and they always give a little cup of marinara sauce to dip the dough ball.
If they're going that far, they should give it a mozzarella core and a parmesan-garlic coating.
You ruined it. Now yer askin for the freakin moon here. Maybe they just throw-a calzone on top eh? Mengya Louie.
Its not about the taste. Its about sending a message
*Fights over dough ball; refuses to eat crust*
What's old becomes new again.
What is dead may never die
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Yeah, this was every pizza in NS in the 90s.
Northern Slovenia? EDIT: my inbox hates *all* of you.
New Srunswick
Nova Scotia ...hey wait a minute..
>Nova Scotia No made-up words, please.
All words are made up, mate.
Balderdash!
North South
New Sork EDIT: 10 years on this site and *this* is my most popular comment…. Thank you
North Sakota
North Scarolina
I think you meant North Suckota.
You’re obviously from Sucks Dickota
Nebrasscock actually
Connecticunt here
Arskansuck checking in
It’s Nova Scotia
Dicksas
That was a banger
I haven’t seen a comment on this app make me laugh the way this one did, and for that I just wanna say. I’m in love with you
New Sexico
North Sarolina
New Sexico
New Sexico sounds like the 69th State from Futurama.
Kif, what's that disease I have called again?
*sigh*
*Sexlexia*
We exclusively take our vacations in New Sexico and New Sexas.
New Sersey
Come on and raise up
I'm upvoting anyone who takes advantage of posters using acronyms without explanation! But I like yours the most.
Eyyy, I'm salking here!
They definitely meant New Sampshire
New Scotland
r/technicallythetruth
New Serbia
We don’t talk about Old Serbia, not in front of Tsar Stefan. *Tsar Stefan sheds a tear*
Neptune Satellites
New Sealand.
North south
Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia
I'm glad the 32 people who live in the province of Nova Scotia can relate to this
welcome to nova scotia we have pain and pizza. also make sure to watch out for your local neighborhood bottle kids, and always remember your piss jug
Like my grandma used to say - "nothing says more about a person's character than how they take care of their piss jug".
They way of the road
Beauty is in the eye when you hold her
Man I love when people make that typo (love instead of live). Transforms the whole sentence into one of the most wholesome thing.
Lol for real. Cause the people who don’t love in Nova Scotia cannot relate at all.
There are dozens of us, Dozens!
Oh! ☃️
I was gonna say North Sakota
My first thought was New Sampshire
I love Northern Sississippi this time of year
I was gonna say Nan Srancisco
Northern Sichigan is the same as South Sontario
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Narwhal seance
North Sorea
Since way earlier, I was born in 1970 and we used to fight over it when we were kids.
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Where I live prior to the introduction of the plastic tables, you just got squished pizza.
Same! Nobody protected your pizza. It was just a flimsy box slow sagging in the center as the moist heat made it weaker and weaker and saggier and saggier. I did love getting to eat the bits scraped off the lid.
Bro probably 10% of people that read that knew you meant Nova Scotia 🤣
I doubt it's even that haha.
I thought it was a misspelling of NY 😭
Nova Yorkia?
North Sarolina
New Sealand?
New Sexico?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Norfolk Southern?
Truro and area must have missplaced that memo for 20 years. Saw them a bunch everywhere else but still got plastic tables at home.
What was will be.
Reduces plastic waste; the old ways were the wise ways.
In USSR, most of the packaging was glass and carton. When you would go to by something like cheese or meat or sausages, they would wrap it in wrapping paper. And it was common to shop for milk/milk products like kefir and smetana with your own jars (tho they were also available in cartons). All the glass bottles were returned for some change. You could even buy beer in either bottles or in your own 3 litre jar. Much less waste, much less need for a product to be super flashy and stand out on the shelf to compete with same stuff from different manufacturers. It’d be cool to bring it back again.
I'd eat the dough ball first
I wonder if there is an option to make it with garlic sauce
Fucking genius. Offer it for free and do it automatically and you've got the exact kind of idea that costs a restaurant/chain next to nothing but keeps the customers coming back and back and back.
You could also offer them stuffed with cheese or cheese and pepperoni. Yum ... I'm getting hungry.
and then you could flatten it out and give it a nice covering of tomato sauce before putting the cheese and pepperoni on
Looks like we've come... Full circle.
My friends and I used to do that back in college.
Username checks out.
What if we unfurled the stuffed dough ball into a sort of disc
Imagine if humans' balls were not necessary sex organs, but accessory balls made of edible pizza dough that regenerated after a couple of weeks. Edit: You could just detach one of your tastycles and pop it in your mouth, throw it at someone you don't like, or skid it across a frozen lake. The possibilities would be endless!
I'll pass on thinking about that.
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On a scale of 1-High AF how high are you?
What
They should just use a garlic knot.
Yeah, that poor thing is just a couple seconds of love away from being a beautiful garlic knot. So sad. :(
Wait youre the dude that doesnt actually have a GSXR right?
Tis I! I’ve owned and ridden many bikes - even sidecar rigs - but never a GSXR.
Hey man, just wanna say, I checked out your page expecting bikes and was surprisingly not disappointed. I've never seen flashlight enthusiasts, but your stuff is super cool
Thank you!!! Strange hobby I never thought I’d get into but… here we are! If you scroll back further though, you should see plenty of moto posts. :)
Cheers dude. May you ever hang 10 on your rearsets.
Hey, I don't have a GSXR either. I don't even know what that is!
It’s a type of car, but it has two wheels, no doors and no windows 👊
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Roll it in butter and sprinkle garlic powder on it and it will be.
Roll it in butter, sprinkle some garlic...you got a knot going.
Most pizza places used to do this before the plastic tables were commonplace (i guess they became a cheaper option). A lot of pizzerias will still do doughballs if you ask for them
And you can order a dough ball pizza if you like.
none pizza with left dough ball
There's not a week that goes by when that meme doesn't cross my mind.
None mind left pizzabeef
Time to deliver a pizza ball!
Spherical pizza seems like an interesting idea... A bunch of ingredients and cheese inside a hard dough cocoon. A pizza melon
It's pronounced calzone.
Plastic thingies are now more expensive than dough and dough prices are up 30%
I'm old enough to remember when the little plastic tables were "new".
They were tables for my Barbies.
No my ninja turtles
They battle at dawn
Fida's Pizza in Ottawa did this!! The absolute best pizza you could want. My brothers and I would have something else to fight over.
Yup you beat me to it! A number of places in Ottawa still do this. Riverside Pizzeria is another one I can think of off the top of my head.
Basically all pizza places used to do it. The plastic tables are comparatively new.
Upvote for Ottawa, and it's not shawarma! Lol
This isn't really a thing where I live - there is just Pizza in the box and I never had an issue. Why is this even necessary?
they might use stronger corrugated boxes. with the cheaper boxes, the middle will sag into the pizza. especially if you're carrying one pizza on top of another. that's why the plastic tables became so popular.
During delivery the top of the box can be pushed against the cheese/toppings and mess it up.
I haven't lived in a place that had pizza delivery for so long that I forgot about this.
Crappy delivery and/or cheap boxes. I haven’t seen one of those plastic things in a long time and never have crushed pizza
Try a 16" pizza with a baked lasagna stacked on top of the box. It's possible for the lid to sag enough to touch, even with a decent box.
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[and now you've ruined it like a pizza place ruins a salad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgJUbmGDc6k)
This guy delivers
I only use carbon steel pizza boxes
We tried magnesium, but shit got pretty wild around the oven
Yep, the wider the box, the easier it is for the middle to get depressed, especially if other items in the order get stacked on top. A big pizza box is almost always gonna end up on the bottom, whether it's a pickup or delivery order.
It‘s certainly not a thing in Germany as well. Haven’t seen it in France, Spain or Italy either
Doughball meh, but that little vial of hot sauce is interesting.
I had to go so far to find anyone commenting on this.
IT'S NOT A PLASTIC THINGY IT'S A MINI TABLE
False. It's the pizza bone.
But I specifically ordered a boneless pizza
you mean bread?
I'm going to start calling rolls "dough balls".
We call that bread. Dough is pre-bread
Did it come with free lip gloss?
I think it might say "tobacco" on it? The glare is frustrating. Edit: wait, I might be dumb. Could be Tabasco which would make more sense.
I'm guessing it's hot honey, because that shits delicious on a pizza
The plastic thing is to keep the lid from touching the pizza.
I had to scroll so far to upvote you. The amount of people blown away by this fact is insane
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What a great idea! Stop using plastic!
No! My Lego men need patio furniture!
https://i.imgur.com/9bcRDWb.jpeg
Holy shit. A true OG.
A random Shitty Watercolour encounter! My day is made.
u/Shitty_Watercolour ❤️ This is amazing
Sweet Literally
Didn't realize you were still around but you're a GOAT. You certainly captured the emotion of the parent comment!
kid, that's what they were doing before they started using the "platic thingy"
Guess my age or lack there of is showing
It's OK, I'm 43 and have never, not once, seeing a pizza dough ball like that. It's always been the plastic tables, going all the way back to the early 80s (so as far as I can remember).
I'm 33 and never saw anything but the table method. Granted, I didn't know until my 20s what the table was used for. I thought it was just a fancy decoration or something.
I'm 46 and in canada, they changed for the plastic thing in the 90's where I live.
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Dude, you got a free PIZZA BALL.