Is pizza a fast food?

No, see, pizza is good. McDonald's and Burger King are not.

No Pizza is not fast food if you're making it at home! :( It takes the same time as a normal food! If you're going to Pizza Hut is different :drool:

Proper pizza isn't fast food. Frozen pizza is.

Real pizza ftw. One of my favourite restaurants is a place called Macchiato and they specialise in pizza and pasta dishes. This kind of pizza is by no means fast food.

Not that I'm criticising places like Pizza Hut and Dominos. Compared to other fast food places, it's quite a bit pricier. The pizza is nice, although, super-mega-cheesy. The fact is that it is made fresh when you order so its not as bad as places like McDonalds and KFC which just shove burgers/chicken/whatever into a heating bin, letting 'em get old and soggy. My final verdict is that places like Pizza Hut are like the top-tier of fast food chains.

any food can be fast food
*throws steak out the window*
See!

lawl

on a more... serious note
what defines fast food is the place serving it, not the actual thing being served, the true answer is both, for any food

THE JACKEL

I think that it is a different variety of fast food.

I'll jump onto the Miriel bandwagon.

Ya, I ate it up pretty fast. So I guess it is a fast food. :drool:

I think pizza is fast food. Foods that are pre-made and only require heat are indeed fast food. When you make a meal from scratch (even if a couple of the ingredients are slightly or fully pre-made) it takes anywhere from 45mins to a couple of hours.

[q=oddler or whatever]Edit: fast food
–noun food, as hamburgers, pizza, or fried chicken, that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method and can be dispensed quickly at inexpensive restaurants for eating there or elsewhere.[/q]

I can go to a sit-down restaurant and get food that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method inexpensively for eating there or elsewhere. The key factor is time. Any time you order a pizza from any pizza place, it's prepared fresh, and thus will take at least ten, usually closer to fifteen minutes to cook and become ready for eating. However, at a place such as Burger King, food is constantly being made, and is received by the customer within a couple minutes typically. Hence, pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut can take up to 10 times longer to receive (even more for real pizza restaurants) than a bacondoublecheeseburgerholdthepickles from Burger King.

As for frozen pizzas, the term "fast food" refers not to food cooked at home (would you call toast "fast food"?), but to that cooked in restaurants and purchased for personal consumption after cooking. So frozen pizzas are microwaved foods, not fast food.

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Originally Posted by The member, not the country

[q=oddler or whatever]Edit: fast food
–noun food, as hamburgers, pizza, or fried chicken, that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method and can be dispensed quickly at inexpensive restaurants for eating there or elsewhere.[/q]

I can go to a sit-down restaurant and get food that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method inexpensively for eating there or elsewhere. The key factor is time. Any time you order a pizza from any pizza place, it's prepared fresh, and thus will take at least ten, usually closer to fifteen minutes to cook and become ready for eating. However, at a place such as Burger King, food is constantly being made, and is received by the customer within a couple minutes typically. Hence, pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut can take up to 10 times longer to receive (even more for real pizza restaurants) than a bacondoublecheeseburgerholdthepickles from Burger King.

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"Quickly" is a relative term. :)

No it takes me ages to make.

Making the dough, then rolling, then putting everything on, then cooking. Cooking is fast. Only a 10 minute job there. But the rest takes donkey's years.

I never have seen it run.

When I want fast food, I want it NOW, not 15 minutes in the future. :)

Nope.