Pizza Review: Chubby’s
Pepperoni and Onion Pizza
Yesterday morning, a coworker mentioned pizza, and I was also reading a blog which led me to a website called Worst Pizza, which is a pizza review site of a guy based on the east coast of Florida. Reading the review site, it made me in the mood for some pizza. I decided to go back to my favorite pizza place south of New England (I haven’t tried that many places down here yet, to be honest).
This was my second trip to Chubby’s Super Subs and Pizza for a lunch break (it’s about 5-7 minutes from work). The first time I heard of Chubby’s, a coworker mentioned it. I happened to find their website after we ordered the food, and saw that the owners founded the place using a pizza style from Massachusetts. Being from up north myself, and absolutely LOVING the pizza made at small scale places in MA (like Espresso in Fitchburg, or the Gardner Ale House in Gardner). This certainly got me pumped for when my pizza showed up in the office.
I got a 10″ Pizza with Pepperoni and Onion both times. This helped for me to check for consistency for this review, though it wasn’t my intention.
The first time lived up to my desires, and blew me away. It was loaded with sauteed/cooked onions, the best kind of onions for pizza, in my opinion. Sauteing is definitely my favorite way to cook onions. It had just the right amount of cheese, and the pepperoni was scattered but fresh, and in every bite. The crust just the right amount of fluffiness, thin, and crispy. The pizza was otherworldly and I devoured it so quickly I guarantee you I probably set my gastrointestinal health down deeper than it ever has been… Heaven on Earth!
I’ll have to admit, the pizza I had yesterday was not as amazing as the first time. The onions looked a little over-sauteed, starting to caramelize. The first time they were just softened, but clear white. The sauce did seem to stick out a LOT more on this second trip out, as well, at first ruining my interest in the first slice, but quickly forgotten by the time I took a bite in my second. The crust was the same as the first time.
Overall, it is my favorite place for Pizza down here in Tampa, thus far. Due to the slight lack of consistency between both of my trips, I rated it a little bit lower, but it still remains freaking awesome!
****
This review is going to be submitted (slightly modified version) to Worst Pizza, and I’ll update this post if it ever gets posted on their site. I actually decided to put the review on Blackened Sun because why not have it on both sites, in case the other doesn’t actually post it? For it to go on Worst Pizza, I need to rate it on a scale of 1-8 slices… I’m giving it a 6. It’s amazing, but I feel that this pizza isn’t as good as some others I’ve had, and I do believe that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” score.
Well, that was fun.
Apologies for the past week everyone.
I still don’t quite know what happened. Somewhere along the way my template (among other things) went to hell. The domain was having trouble getting renewed so even though my blog went down and I tried my hardest to fix it before going on vacation, the domain went down too! So frustrating!
Thankfully, over the last week, the domain came back into my possession, and I finally have a chance to attempt to get everything back rolling. Working with a coworker I discovered that for some reason, my theme is broken. I will be attempting to fix that today, and hopefully I’ll have that up and running so everything looks fine again.
This really is frustrating. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. However, thankfully, I managed to keep it out of my mind during my vacation and I did have a very relaxing, enjoyable vacation and I can’t wait to go back to Canada again. Such a good time, there AND in Massachusetts.
Here’s hoping my “sexy” Blackened Sun theme is up and running again by the end of today.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Please Recycle
I have been trying more and more at being more responsible about waste and the size of my carbon footprint. It is rather appalling how little Florida has any decent recycling system in place. Quite a long time ago, I got my parents into the habit of recycling when we lived in Massachusetts, due to the curbside pickup of recyclables. We were one of the first ones in our city to jump into it as soon as they offered it in our neighborhood. Now we simply can’t imagine not being able to recycle and do our part to help the environment through it. Their neighborhood in Florida offers the same service as in MA, with pickups… However, the neighborhood that I lived in, here in Tampa, or neighborhoods that I have looked at to move to, don’t seem to have the option. Not even a place I can walk and drop stuff off in.
Therefore I find myself “forced” to throw away recyclables (primarily plastic bottles and cardboard boxes), as I have no known option. I winced every time I put a bottle in the trash.
It really was my own fault. It shows my laziness when it comes to recycling. I really only seemed to truly want to do it when it was a convenience for me. Storing all of the bottles and other recyclables in containers I’d have to buy myself, and have to research for a place to deliver the recyclables to, seemed to never come to my mind.
I keep all my plastic bags, and try to bring them to Publix (who have receptacles ONLY for plastic bags), but it’s hard to remember to grab the bags to put in the car before heading out to the store. I have kept all the brown paper bags that I have gotten from Whole Foods since I started shopping there. I have a few cardboard boxes still from deliveries to my house, that I would love to be able to recycle if possible rather than toss them into the trash. Perhaps even just using them as storage boxes for around my house.
I am trying to find some decent aluminum water bottles to use (such as SIGG, but it’s a bit expensive), instead of buying bottled water, as much as I despise FL tap water. I got a lunch box (well, it was a giveaway from one of the SXSW events) for my lunches instead of using paper lunch bags. I’m going to start using aluminum foil for my sandwiches instead of the plastic bags that I currently use.
I don’t even know where to begin if I wanted to get back into my recycling groove, however. I need (and will) to sit down and plan out what my options are, and also look into my new (well, not quite yet) neighborhood has any recycling capabilities built into it.
I have made the first steps of getting my work to be more eco-friendly by working with a coworker on our own recycling enforcement. We’ll purchase the bins, and bring the recyclables to a facility ourselves, just to make sure people are recycling. Currently at work, we throw away a LOT of soda cans and shredded paper, every day. We really want to change this.
I hope you’re taking care of your environment, and perhaps my initiative and post will convince you to take more actions to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle more aspects of your lives.