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Marco's - Full Moon deal

All menu-priced items are 50% off today at Marco's, so we tried some specialty pizzas.

Photo of a margherita pizza, with lots of cheese, tomato slices, and basil, in a pizza box.

The Margherita Magnifico is the first one we tried. It's pretty good, though far from the best margherita pizza I've had. The cheese was quite thick and the crust was very thin, and felt like overall the wrong ratio of things for a margherita, but it's still a good pizza.

Photo of a pizza in a box, with multiple kinds and sizes of pepperoni.

Next is the Pepperoni Magnifico, which combines their standard pepperoni and Old World Pepperoni, with Romano and Parmesan cheeses added. It's a solid pizza, though it is quite greasy. Definitely a step up from a standard pepperoni, and while I don't think I'd typically pay the extra over their discounted 1-topping option, at 50% off it's great.

Photo of cheese bread on parchment paper in a cardboard box, with upside-down sauce cups.

Last is the CheezyBread. It's okay. I feel like there's a wide range of cheese breadsticks at pizza places, and most of them are just… fine. It's not bad but it's just some thick pizza dough with a little bit of cheese on top. They include ranch and pizza sauce with the bread, so yeah.

Overall, while Marco's is typically more expensive than I'd consider "worth it", at 50% off for all menu-priced items, it's a great deal on great pizza.

Little Caesars - Pretzel Crust with Cheese Sauce

Photo of a pepperoni pizza with a pretzel crust, with salt. A few slices are missing, and it's in a greazy cardboard pizza box.

I ordered this pizza by mistake and I consider it's existence a mistake.

When I first took a bite, I thought the cheese was rancid, and the crust was under cooked.

I was right and wrong. It didn't dawn on me that anyone would consider it a good idea to put nacho cheese sauce as opposed to marinara on a pizza.

Dipping this pizza in marinara sauce didn't help either.

Little ceasars shouldn't be doing this. Little ceasars shouldn't be selling this.

If you want a pretzel crust, make sure you get the marinara one.

Bettergoods - Pepperoni and Ricotta Ultra Thin Crust Pizza

Photo of a thin crust pizza with pepperoni and ricotta cheese.

Following up from trying the pepperoni and bacon bettergoods pizza in April, I tried another of their pizzas. This one has an ultra thin crust, and a good amount of ricotta cheese. It's pretty good, though I definitely prefer the last one I had over this one.

If you like a simple thin-crust pizza with good cheese and a bit of a crunch, this is worth a try.

Maverik Supreme

A slice of supreme pizza on a cardboard tray.

This is really good. At $3.89 a slice, it's not a great deal, but it's a very good pizza. Definitely my favorite of the Maverik pizzas.

With olives, green peppers, sausage, and pepperoni it's a solid lineup, with a great overall flavor combination.

Nico's Special - Nico's Pizza, Provo UT

Photo of a pizza with pepperoni, onions, mushrooms, and green peppers in a pizza box.

Tried a new pizza place today, it's really good! Got the Nico's Special, tomato sauce topped with pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, onions, and green peppers. They have a lot of different pizzas on their menu, and most of them looked really good, but I decided to go with something popular but still somewhat interesting. It's a solid pizza, great overall combination. I'm not usually one for mushrooms, but on this pizza they were great.

Highly recommend giving Nico's a try if you're in Provo!

My Unsplash Pizza Photo

A close-up photo of a pepperoni pizza

My most popular pizza photo on my Unsplash page has hit 250,000 downloads! It's also over 131 million views, across a lot of popular sites. It's used on lots of BuzzFeed articles, Medium articles, Notion and Trello boards, email newsletters, and lots of other stuff. This photo is one of my proudest accomplishments related to my pizza obsession.

The photo is of a Little Caesar's Stuffed Crust Extra-Most-Bestest Pepperoni pizza, first published to Unsplash in 2018. I love pizza, photography, and open licenses, so Unsplash was a perfect place to publish some of my better photos. I plan on adding more photos there soon, I have so many that aren't openly shared yet.

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