Barstool review of Casey's pizza

[Farnsworth]

This will be one of those things that greatly disappoint you. Even if you think it's good (it's okay at best) it won't ever live up to the hype.

I'm not in love with it like some, but it's a good quick option when in a hurry. Also great when you are hungover.

I think it can be great when you get a truly great slice though. Most the time it's loaded with too much of the egg/cheese sauce and eggs for my liking, and skimpy on the cheese.

 

[Playboi Carti]

It's true though.

It’s really not. I’ve had frozen breakfast pizza that’s better than Casey’s

 

[urb1]

It’s really not. I’ve had frozen breakfast pizza that’s better than Casey’s

Try Pasquali's.

 

[Mr Janny]

Try Pasquali's.

Pasquali's makes a damned fine frozen pizza. Their breakfast variety isn't bad either.

 

[KnappShack]

If we all want to be honest we would admit the only breakfast fusion meal we need is the breakfast burrito.

A breakfast pizza doesn't taste as good and isn't in the ultimate package for eats.

Viva breakfast burrito!

 

[Mr Janny]

If we all want to be honest we would admit the only breakfast fusion meal we need is the breakfast burrito.

A breakfast pizza doesn't taste as good and isn't in the ultimate package for eats.

Viva breakfast burrito!

breakfast burritos are good... but only when they're good. The problem with a breakfast burrito is that it's enclosed. A burrito could contain some beautifully scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, tangy salsa, etc, and be delicious. It could also contain some nasty, rubbery egg product, sad, leathery bacon, chunky ketchup, etc, and taste awful. And you might never know based on outward appearance. At least with pizza, you can make a visual assessment.

 

[Bret44]

I live in a town of 750 and have 5 options other than Casey's for pizza within 10 minutes. Three of them aren't chains. Enjoy your Papa John's though.

I live in a town of 300 people, 3 Pizza Joints. Godfathers at a Loves, and 2 local non chains. Plus all the Totinos in my deep freeze as I want.

 

[Angie]

My son is 3 1/2 years old, and his favorite thing on the planet is Casey's sausage breakfast pizza. He's a little guy, below 50th percentile in both height and weight, but put him in front of a Casey's breakfast pizza, and he'll eat 4-5 pieces in one sitting, easily. "Egg Pizza! Egg Pizza!" Doesn't matter what time of day it is, that will be his response if you ask him what he'd like to eat. The kid is bananas for it. We don't even get their regular pizza anymore, because if he saw the Casey's box and it didn't have "Egg Pizza" in it, he'd be furious.

We legit have to get a large pizza because he'll eat 4 or 5, the girl second grader will eat between two and four, and then Janny and I each maaaaaybe have 1 or 2 (depending on how they're cut). You put some Chili Lime Cholula on that ****, and you can easily forget that it's made at a gas station.

Casey's pizza, while greasy as hell, has a really great crust chewiness ratio. On pizza in general, I generally prefer either a cracker-thin or true deep dish pizza, and shy away from the hand-tossed thicknesses. But with Casey's, the chewiness and flavor makes up for the middling thickness. I also am really picky about sauces - for example, I think Papa John's sauce is terrible, it's too sweet. But Casey's nails that, too.

 

[KnappShack]

breakfast burritos are good... but only when they're good. The problem with a breakfast burrito is that it's enclosed. A burrito could contain some beautifully scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, tangy salsa, etc, and be delicious. It could also contain some nasty, rubbery egg product, sad, leathery bacon, chunky ketchup, etc, and taste awful. And you might never know based on outward appearance. At least with pizza, you can make a visual assessment.

I have never had a bad breakfast burrito. I don't even understand the concept of a bad breakfast burrito.

 

[Mr Janny]

I have never had a bad breakfast burrito. I don't even understand the concept of a bad breakfast burrito.

Consider your existence charmed then. They're out there, lurking.

 

[fsanford]

Casey's pizza is so overrated, It's decent at best.

People from small towns like it so much because it's their only option for pizza.

live in cally where there are no Casey's. When I come back to Iowa on a visit I make sure I always get a slice or 2 of Casey's pizza. Its really good

 

[Macloney]

Whar Casey's Hot Sausage Sandwich love?

 

[Cybyassociation]

It’s really not. I’ve had frozen breakfast pizza that’s better than Casey’s

No, I was agreeing with you. Growing up in Cedar Rapids without Casey's. The only time I'd ever see one was when I'd be driving through smaller towns. Small town folk really have an elevated opinion of the quality of Casey's pizza.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

No, I was agreeing with you. Growing up in Cedar Rapids without Casey's. The only time I'd ever see one was when I'd be driving through smaller towns. Small town folk really have an elevated opinion of the quality of Casey's pizza.

I've lived in towns of 300 people and metros up to 160,000. Casey's tastes the same in either place IMO...really, really good.

 

[Playboi Carti]

No, I was agreeing with you. Growing up in Cedar Rapids without Casey's. The only time I'd ever see one was when I'd be driving through smaller towns. Small town folk really have an elevated opinion of the quality of Casey's pizza.

Exactly, it clearly made small town people upset when I said it.

Also another bad thing about Casey's pizza is amount of grease. It reminds me of the pizza they would serve in Middle School.

 

[IASTATE07]

Exactly, it clearly made small town people upset when I said it.

Also another bad thing about Casey's pizza is amount of grease. It reminds me of the pizza they would serve in Middle School.

Did it upset us because you dissed Casey's or because you said we only have one option for pizza?

 

[Angie]

Exactly, it clearly made small town people upset when I said it.

Also another bad thing about Casey's pizza is amount of grease. It reminds me of the pizza they would serve in Middle School.

But, I mean, presumably anyone posting about growing up with Casey's is likely from Iowa or the rural areas in surrounding states. Even Iowans from Des Moines are "small town people" relative to literally anywhere else besides, like, Idaho.

Casey's is nostalgic and was one of those things that you got at high school parties, at youth group retreats, that your parents got you for breakfast on Sunday mornings as a treat. It was cheap and involved, like, no effort to just run into the gas station and get it along with six 2-liters and a bag of chips. The fact that it's pretty tasty combined with nostalgia to make it something Iowans seek out - "big city" or "small town" alike. I don't think anyone is pretending that it's Michelin-star quality food, just that it tastes like Iowa feels.

 

[Cybyassociation]

Exactly, it clearly made small town people upset when I said it.

Also another bad thing about Casey's pizza is amount of grease. It reminds me of the pizza they would serve in Middle School.

Another thing, I'm not sure if it's a small town thing or not, but my wife will refuse to go to any other gas station other than Casey's. When I ask her why, she says, "Because I like Casey's". I really don't give too much of a damn where I fill my tank, but to strategically plan out your road trips to make sure there's at least one Casey's along the way? C'mon now.

 

[Farnsworth]

Another thing, I'm not sure if it's a small town thing or not, but my wife will refuse to go to any other gas station other than Casey's. When I ask her why, she says, "Because I like Casey's". I really don't give too much of a damn where I fill my tank, but to strategically plan out your road trips to make sure there's at least one Casey's along the way? C'mon now.

People can be brand loyal for all sorts of things. I really only get gas from Casey's because of fuel saver, but before that I stuck with Casey's (to get Pizza as well) or Kum in Go in a pinch. Back in the day I had a certain brand of sunflower seeds I liked so I only stopped at chains I knew carried them.

 

[VTXCyRyD]

Kum & Go stores have really one-upped Casey's in the last few years.