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At first glance this match up didn't seem fair, either. Let's face it, frozen pizza is frozen pizza. There's a reason why pizza chains flourish in the face of the cheaper frozen option. Most of it tastes blech. But there are a few exceptions, and Delissio (Diogiorno in the U.S.) is one of them. So we stuffed both into to the oven at home and waited for the results.
Papa Murphy's makes their pizza right before your eyes. The ingredients are fresh and prepared that morning. The cheeses are also shredded that morning. There is something kind of exciting about seeing your pizza made before your very eyes. You can't say the same for frozen pizza. You take it home, slide it out of the cardboard box, think "meh", and shove it into the oven.
But the playing field is a little more even when they come out. Both look tasty. Both give off that mouth-watering aroma that makes you want to eat more than your share. And both are the size you want it to be.
The big surprise is that we actually preferred the taste of Delissio over Papa Murphy's. It could be the ingredients were more calorie-laden than the fresh-made, I don't know. I do know I preferred the crust over Papa Murphy's. The crust! The frozen variety tasted like pizza crust. Papa Murphy's tasted like bread sticks. I'm not sure why.
There is no high road with pizza. Fresh ingredients are no good if they don't result in a better-tasting pizza than frozen. I'll stick with my home-made pizza, which tastes better than any prepared, frozen or food chain, but in the meantime I have to say, I was disappointed in Papa Murphy's, which has apparently won awards.
Winner: Delissio Frozen Pizza
