This is a very important question. Do you consider pizza to be a fast food along the line of McDonald's or Burger King?
Personally, I don't. I mean, come on, a pizza takes like 15 minutes to make... that's not fast.
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This is a very important question. Do you consider pizza to be a fast food along the line of McDonald's or Burger King?
Personally, I don't. I mean, come on, a pizza takes like 15 minutes to make... that's not fast.
7 min. to be accurate. Yes, I consider it fast food.
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.
Quicker than a restaurant or doing it yourself so YEP.
The way I was brought up I was always told that It was. It is, really, its already pre-made and you just put it in the oven/microwave for a few minutes. Thats fast food.
It takes, like, a half an hour. No, it's not fast food any more than chinese food is.
If it comes from somewhere like Pizza Hut, then yes, it's fast food.
Gourmet pizza from actual restaurants, not so fast food-ish.
Chinese food can be fast food, just depends on where you get it. Panda Express, Pick up Stix, China Wok, all fast food places that serve Chinese food.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roto13
Making pizza from scratch is one of the most time-intensive recipes one good engage in. When my dad makes pizza he's usually in the kitchen for a few hours, not to mention the three or four hours of just waiting for the dough to rise.
It's fast if you order it and it's not if you're making it by yourself...I'm doing both and they're fast so it should be fast food, like gyros!!!;)
Yes, as long as you aren't making it yourself.
It's also as artery clogging as most fast-foods, so yes, by all means.
I take a lot of time eating a pizza...i miss the day when fish and chips were fast food.
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miriel
Good chinese food then.Quote:
Originally Posted by MirielChinese food can be fast food, just depends on where you get it. Panda Express, Pick up Stix, China Wok, all fast food places that serve Chinese food.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roto13
It's not really fast food because just like what strider mentioned. Kepp in your minds aswell that the pizza boy / girl will have to drive or take a bike all the way to your place.Then you've got to find money,The prepare the plates to eat on. thats pretty much like a whole half an hour!
Miriel has it right. Gross Pizza Hut/Dominos places that people like my boyfriend like are fast food. Good places that make REAL PIZZA are not fast food. :]
i say no, it's not fast food...but it can be purchased as such, just like a hamburger isn't fast food, but can be purchased as such.
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.
"Quickly" is a relative term. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by The member, not the country
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.
Basically: Pizza from ASDA to heat up; yes. Pizza from an Italian restaurant, made fresh: nope.
Its like comparing a packaged cupcake and a black forest gateau. Well, not really, but you see what I mean.
I reckon it is
it seems to me that it gets mass produced in the vein of mcdonalds or burger king (thinking of big chains like pizza hut) so I voted yes.
Some pizzerias may be more along the lines of Whatta-burger here in Arkansas (not the national chain one!), which serves burgers that are definitely not fast-food.
Fast food to my thinking is food that is prepared as effortlessly and quickly as possible, and as cheaply, to the direct reduction of quality. But that's just me.
No, its not fast food unless the pizza shop has a drive through that you can go through in less than 5 min.
Pizza Hut makes it's dough fresh every morning. Thin crust pizza dough gets made at least twice a day. Once all the dough is made they set it aside and wait for the order. When the order comes down they take the dough, add the toppings, and then cook it. That's not fast food at all. It's homemade every time.
No way. Pizza usually takes at least 15-20 minutes.
It may not always be the fasted served food, but
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it's also as artery clogging as most fast-foods, so yes, by all means.
No, not from like a pizza place but french bread pizzas are fast :p
Basically, yep I do.
Pizza is greasy and usually pretty unhealthy, and thus I consider it to be fast food.
Domino's gives me the turds and mad gas.
in that it's vile and utterly bad for you...yes.
According to Wikipedia "Fast food is food cooked in bulk and in advance and kept warm, or reheated to order."
I kinda agree with that definition, so yes if pizza is prepared as above, no if not. Generally in my experience it isn't. I usually consider fast food to be food that is already cooked/cooking before you've even asked for it (or at least usually as lines do run out). You walk in, order food, they pick the food off a heated rack and give it to you - fast. I think some pizza places do work like that though.
Reheating to order might put more pizza outlets in the running, but I dunno, would really vary.
If you were to go into a Pizza shop, it's not exactly the fastest food to make. However, if you go to Pizza Hut, it is a junk food along the ranks of Burger King.
I always thought that fast food was food you can eat with your hands. :confused:
Anyway, yes, I think it's a kind of fast food.
I don't care what it is, what matters is that it is heavenly. And pizza is just that. :drool:
WE call that finger food here in America. Fast food is just food premade to the point that you can just whip it up and go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter_20
How does pizza pizza or pizza hut or whatever american company you know to serve good fast pizza do it?
If it takes hours to make a 'real' pizza, the delivery places must do things differently o.O
In that case, pizza is fast food SOMETIMES. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bipperWE call that finger food here in America. Fast food is just food premade to the point that you can just whip it up and go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter_20
The dough is commonly pre-made in the morning, and most likely, all the meat is sliced and separated, as are the vegetables. Really, everything is there in containers simply waiting to be applied to a freshly thrown pizza.
In most cases, the only thing fresh about pizza is that it is tossed then and there (which only takes five seconds if you are practiced in doing so).
What takes time is the actual cooking of the pizza, which can range from 10 - 25 minutes depending on the type and what other things you might be cooking in the oven at the moment.
(I once worked at a pizzeria)
It's fast food.
A lot of the pizza takeaway places I go to have the bases ready made, and then they bung on the toppings in front of you, so at least you know the toppings are fresh. Still, it is what I would consider junk food, not fast food, you have to wait at leas 5 mins (in the take-out place) for your pizza to be ready. Fast food to me is like 1-2 minutes, though sometimes they can slip up (like the last time I ordered a Filet-O-Fish I was waiting about 10 minutes because no-one has them. AND the burger bun was burnt! :mad2:)
I make my own pizzas but for my base I make a 'quick' base using butter and self-raising flower. It doesn't taste quite as authentic but at least you know what's gone in it! :)
I find that the pizza guy takes FOREVER to get to my house!
I dont think they are fast food, like i think of fast food as mcdonalds and kfc etc... pizzas you can have in restaurants, but can you imagine eating a big mac in a restaurant? ;)
Although then again on the door of my local mcdonalds it calls it a restaurant :mad:
i dont know what im talking about know but to get to the point no they arent.