Tony’s Pizza is Delicious With Ranch Dressing

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

Today I found out that Tony’s Pizza is freaking delicious with ranch dressing. Now I know this isn’t like my normal posts that tend to be based in universal fact and not opinion.  However, because pizza and Dr. Pepper are pretty much the two biggest staples in my oh-so-computer nerdy diet and I was offered the chance to have my website here be sponsored with a ton of free pizza and some mullah if I made my pizza eating/loving ways known to fans of my website, I went ahead and bit at the chance. And for the record, I’m allowed to say positive or negative things about my sponsor and their product in this post and I get paid either way. I wouldn’t have taken the sponsorship else-wise, on principle. And don’t worry, there are some interesting Factoids included in this post as well, also on principle and because that’s what you come here for and that’s what I enjoy about writing these articles.

I used to just love pizza for pizza’s sake and how great it went with Dr. Pepper, my personal drink of choice (note: not sponsored by Dr. Pepper.  But seriously if anyone from Dr. Pepper is reading this, any free soda you want to send my way would not be rejected and frankly, don’t you think you owe me for this unsponsored article?)

My personal favorite pizzas are Little Caesars, for their cheapness/good taste sake, and Tony’s, for the extreme cheapness/reasonably good taste.  Most of my life, I just ate it directly as it was served to me. However, along comes my brilliant wife who notices my love of ranch dressing, particularly heart attack causing buttermilk ranch, and she mentions to me that, even though she normally doesn’t like ranch dressing, it’s delicious on pizza, particularly frozen pizza, and WOW was she right. (Personally, I think that this may be a plot by her to get my life insurance early as I now tend to smother my pizza in ridiculously fattening buttermilk ranch.  Well played wife.  Well played)  Ranch particularly takes Tony’s pizza, which is reasonably tasting enough for the price, and makes it great tasting. I will say that this isn’t true of all pizza brands. I recently found out that it makes Pizza Hutt’s personal pan pizza’s, which normally also taste awesome and used to be one of my favorites despite the price, taste gross.

In any event, that’s my little tip-o-the day for those of you who’ve never tried it. Now for the Factoids!

Bonus Factoids:

• The first known pizzeria was opened in Naples, Italy, in 1738 and was named “Antica Pizzeria”.
• The first pizzeria in the United States was opened by Gennaro Lombardi in 1895 in New York City.
• New York City currently has over 9000 pizzerias.
• More pizza is consumed during the week of the Super Bowl than any other time of the year.
• 93% of Americans eat pizza at least once a month.
• Approximately four billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. every year, three billion from pizzerias and one billion frozen style.
• About 36% of all pizzas contain pepperoni, making it the most popular topping in the United States.
• According to San Jose’s Mercury News (1/11/95), men who order pepperoni pizza’s are three times more likely to be wearing muscles shirts than when ordering any other kind of pizza.
• Two of the more popular toppings in Japan are squid and Mayo Jaga, which is mayonnaise, potato, and bacon… one out of three isn’t bad I guess…
• In India some favorite toppings are pickled ginger, minced mutton, and tofu.
• Brasilians prefer green peas as their topping of choice.
• Russians like pizza covered in mockba, which is a mix of sardines, tuna, mackeral, salmon, and onions…  seriously Russia?
• Practically every edible topping imaginable has been tried on pizza.  Some of the more unsuccessful lines that have been tried are pizza topped with: peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs (that actually could be tasty), and mashed potatoes.
• The Schwan Food Company, that owns Red Baron and Tony’s Pizza, along with a variety of other food related brands, was started in 1952 by Marvin Schwan who home delivered ice cream to rural Western Minnesota.  Schwans quickly expanding and today has over 18,000 employees worldwide.
• The record for the world’s largest circular pizza was set at Norwood Hypermarket in South Africa in 1990.  This pizza measured 122 feet and 8 inches across, weighing in at 26,883 pounds with an astounding 9,920 pounds of flower, 3,968 pounds of oh-so-delicious cheese, and 1,984 pounds of sauce.  No word on what ingredients made up the rest of this pie.
• In 2005 a Pizza restaurant owner, Bill Bahr, and a team of 200 helpers made the world’s largest rectangular pizza in Iowa Falls, Iowa (imagine that, Iowa Falls is in Iowa).  This pie was 129 feet by 98.6 feet and contained 4000 pounds of cheese and 700 pounds of sauce; again, no word on the rest of the ingredients.  This pie was then eaten by the town’s 5200 residents, each getting 10 slices.
• Children ages 3-11 prefer pizza over all other foods according to a recent Gallup Poll

Sources:

• Tony’s Pizza
• TLC Cooking: 12 Facts About Pizza
• Schwan Food Company
• Pizza Facts