Panzerotto & Pizza 2 For 1

Chicken pizza and a pop for 5 bucks. Not a bad deal at all. The panzer otto’s in the display looked kinda gross. If you’re in the area, its not a bad choice but consider looking around before you settle for this stuff.

Ah. the ever-​elusive perfect panzerotti. I have yet to find you outside of Windsor.
Let me give you a brief background of my panzerotti affair. When I went to University (of Windsor. please withold your judgements haha), I was a busy bee working 6 days a week. My day off was Sunday, and by then I was always pooped. So I’d stay in bed, order a panzerotti to be delivered, and watch tv all day. My «Panzerotti Sundays» were sponsered by Pizza Plus. Man. BEST panzerotti ever. thick dough, perfectly deep-​fried, perfect ratio of sauce-​to-​cheese-​to-​crunch-​to-​chewiness. I was in love. I left Windsor to hang out in Banff for a while, where, to my shock and horror, a Panzerotti is completely unheard of! They have «calzones» which some will tell you is exactly the same. No, no they are not. They are a weak little brother to the mighty panzerotti.
But I digress.
I moved back to Ontario a couple of months ago, my panzerotti cravings completely washed away and forgotten. I’ve been on this vegan-​raw kick lately and honestly a deep-​fried folded pizza hasn’t even crossed my mind.
Enter the massive hangover.
I’d noticed «Panzerotto» in my neighborhood and when I was ready to die from alcohol withdrawl symptoms the tagline «The original Panzerotto» played like a broken record inside my head. So I forgot about vegan/​raw/​any sort of health and called the hotline number and ordered me an «Original Panzerotto» (which was in itself a weird experience, because I called the number 222‑2221, was sent to an operator, placed my order, and was then called back from the Yonge-​Alexander location confirming my order. why couldn’t we have skipped the first step?).
Anyways. I go to pick it up and noticed a few things right away
1– they had pre-​made panzerottis sitting in that little heated pizza-​display case. Weird, no?
2– my panzo came in. a bag? I didn’t like seeing grease stains. I KNOW what I’m about to do to my body and I don’t need a see-​through paper bag to make me any more aware of it. Not to mention the fact that anyone who saw me got the clear impression I don’t give a shit about my health. Which I do. So I would have appreciated a more discreet option, like a pizza box, and then I could at least pretend it was a pizza that I was taking home to share with others.
Anyway.
So I get home, a little put-​off but still super stoked for my first panzo in well over a year.
Imagine my disappointment. First, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t pizza dough, but some other panzerotti-​specific dough. Which kinda let me down. Second. I dunno actually. It was just really disappointing. Not that cheesy, not that crispy, not that doughy… I was actually kinda mad at myself for wasting my junk food day on it.
I will however give them kudos for price. It came to $ 6, I think. I had mushrooms, pineapple, and onion in it. Not bad. Definitely not great. I’ll continue my hunt for a good panzerotti… next time I’m super hung.
Also: the diff between panzerotti/​panzerotto? no idea. quality I suppose! stick with the ‘i’.
There may be no ‘I’ in ‘team’, but there must always be one in Panzerotti!!!