inkdick: january 24 2009 pizza pizza
Little Caesars played a HUGE role in my childhood in Willow Grove, PA. Once a week our family had pizza nite at Little Caesars. I still remember the shopping plaza that we used to go to to pick up the pizza. It’s weird that one food item can sum up the first ten and a half years of my life.
In 1996 we moved away to Pittsburgh and that was the end of eating at Little Caesars (there WAS a Little Caesars in the K-Mart where we were in Pittsburgh, but it wasn’t really the same). When we moved to D.C. there were no Little Caesars in the area, so I just assumed that they were long out of business. Imagine my surprise when I found out they still existed and a franchise just opened up in Savannah.
My fear was that it wouldn’t be as good as I remembered, which is something I have experienced a lot when revisiting things from my youth (old cartoons, toys, movies, etc). The pizza wasn’t the same (they used to have square pizzas back in the day), but god damn the Crazy Bread was the same and it was fucking fantastic! In a rush all the good things from my first ten years came back to me.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Where is this new Little Caesar’s in Savannah? I assumed they were out of business too.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:03 am
Its out in the shopping center where Media play USED to be….
I was so happy to find out it was there….I just wish they had the bigfoot pizza though…i miss my square pizza…
January 26th, 2009 at 7:58 am
The food that I relate to my youthful days is Buffalo Chicken (hot and spicey)wings served with bleu cheese and celery stalks and Friday nite fish fries. When you lived in Pittsburgh did you ever have a Primanti Bros sandwich located at the “Strip”? Then again, when you lived near Philly didn’t you have a Pat’s Philly Steak. Boy, I am getting hungry at 7:00AM!
January 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Oh man!! Ima have to go there. Its the same way con mi, Lil Ceasars was childhood, form Cherry Creek Plaza(where there was no creek or cherries….)
January 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
The food I relate to most in regards to my childhood is those made by my mother… The rice balls, the spaghettis, the cous-cous… Growing up in North Africa, food was mostly hand made… That said, I do have a few memories of youth foods outside of home… Unfortunately, they were usually not at chain restaurants… I won’t be able to test them out again I guess. I do experience the “gap” in memory by changing countries, and getting used the local standard, and losing the longing for the food abroad (now local). Not exactly a gap but more of the power of becoming accustomed to something, and the exaggerating stimulus of being away.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
We used to have a number of of Little Caesars in Rockville and the Beltsville area when I was growing up. When they all started to close around the same time, I just assumed the chain was closing, since we also had a lot of Jerry’s in the area and they were kind of better and did a lot more business. Do you still get two pizzas?
January 26th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
GREAT!
When Little Ceasar’s first came to Willow Grove,
they had BIG, tasty pizzas @ a lower price than other pizzaria’s,
AND it was ALWAYS FRESH and TASTY!!!
It was a GREAT bargain,
but then…
their pies grew smaller….
and prises rose!… :-(
Next time I’m in Savannah, make sure we go to Little Ceasar’s!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
:”>…. (sp!) = prices
January 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I remember going to daycare and they used to have pizza nights where we’d all get to bring our PJs and stay up ’super late’ (9:00pm) and eat Little Caesars pizza. I hated everything about pizza night, ‘cept the pizza.
Now after living in NY for a few months… I can’t even eat the stuff chains pull off as ‘pizza’ now. With the exception of Ynot pizza here in Virginia Beach. If you ever find yourself down here… go there. They’re awesome.
http://www.ynotpizza.com/
Local secret: Chicho’s pizza is fantastic as well. Only if you like spicy food though. http://chichospizza.com/
January 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
This just happened to me one week ago!
January 26th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
This, coupled with seeing “Little Caesar’s” trash lying around town, confirms my beliefs.
There IS a Little Caesar’s somewhere in town (anditmayormaynotbetherealgod).
January 28th, 2009 at 2:23 am
no, you don’t get two pizzas anymore. BUT you can get a large peperoni or cheese pizza for only five bucks.
I so miss the square pizza.