{"id":856,"date":"2010-02-09T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T08:51:08","slug":"belafino-pepperoni-pizza-grocery-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2010\/02\/belafino-pepperoni-pizza-grocery-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Belafino Pepperoni Pizza @ Grocery Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t have anything to make for dinner, so when I chanced upon frozen\/refrigerated boxes of Belafino Take and Bake Pepperoni Pizza<\/b> at Grocery Outlet, I thought I’d give it a try. Probably I won’t do it again.<\/p>\n

The 2lb, 16″ pizzas seemed good enough in the box. They are made with 100% real mozzarella cheese, and at $3 each they looked like a good bargain. They seemed to have a fair amount of cheese and pepperoni – though once I took them out of the box, the pepperoni seemed rather scant. Still, what ultimately matters is the flavor, and these pizzas taste only of sauce.<\/p>\n

There was no cheese flavor \/at all\/, and while the mild pepperoni was nice in itself, it couldn’t stand up to the sauce. I found the sauce to have an unhappy combination of a predominant too-sweet taste, with hints of annoying bitterness. I just didn’t like it.<\/p>\n

The crust was OK, though it had a slight refrigerator taste that I didn’t really appreciate, still it was masked by the sauce.<\/p>\n

All of this said, the kids *loved* it. I can’t imagine why, but kids are funny.<\/p>\n

I did a bit of googling about this pizza and it seems it’s a relatively recent brand from Schwan<\/a>, the makers of Freschetta, Red Baron and Tony’s frozen pizzas. Belafino is supposed to be a “gourmet” offering, one to be sold on the deli section of the supermarket – giving the impression that it’s fresh (though the box does note that it’s been previously frozen). Supermarkets are supposed to defrost them, put a “sell by” date of 10 days after the pizza was defrosted, and place it in the deli. I find that kind of scary, because nothing on the box says when the pizza was made (it has a 6-month freezer life). It also seems sort of deceptive.<\/p>\n

In any case, the pizza doesn’t taste good and that’s what really counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t have anything to make for dinner, so when I chanced upon frozen\/refrigerated boxes of Belafino Take and Bake Pepperoni Pizza at Grocery Outlet, I thought I’d give it a try. Probably I won’t do it again. The 2lb, 16″ pizzas seemed good enough in the box. They are made with 100% real mozzarella […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","category-grocery-outlet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}