Anyone ever had a rectangular pizza?

[bcla]

I guess with the pizza threads, I was wondering if anyone had anything like the title describes. I remember this place from my childhood that had all these specials. There would be a regular coupon mailing (like Valpak) with specials. Their extra-large was this monstrously sized pizza that was in a rectangle maybe 18x12". They would slice them into rectangles.

I haven't really seen anything quite like that in a while. There is a local place that has "Sicilian" thick crust that's baked into rectangles, but that's not a traditional thin-crust. I remember in the Miami area I tried one at a place called Sir Pizza that had a round pizza cut into rectangular pieces.

 

[antmaril]

I live in the Detroit area. Our deep dish pizzas are all rectangular in shape.

 

[Kitty 34]

King's Pizza in River Forest, IL was always rectangular and one of the best pizzas I've ever eaten!

 

[KidaniZen]

I guess with the pizza threads, I was wondering if anyone had anything like the title describes. I remember this place from my childhood that had all these specials. There would be a regular couple mailing (like Valpak) with specials. Their extra-large was this monstrously sized pizza that was in a rectangle maybe 18x12". They would slice them into rectangles.

I haven't really seen anything quite like that in a while. There is a local place that has "Sicilian" thick crust that's baked into rectangles, but that's not a traditional thin-crust. I remember in the Miami area I tried one at a place called Sir Pizza that had a round pizza cut into rectangular pieces.

Are you thinking of the little caesar's pizzas they had back in the 80s/90s? Those were really large, we used to get coupons in valpak and coupon clippers, and the pizzas were just as you described.

ETA: It was called Little Caesars "Pizza By the Foot"

 

[bcla]

Are you thinking of the little caesar's pizzas they had back in the 80s/90s? Those were really large, we used to get coupons in valpak and coupon clippers, and the pizzas were just as you described.

I think that was their deep-dish, and there was one in my hometown. However, I remember a specific (more or less) independent place from the 70's.

 

[RedAngie]

Sure. It's known as Sicilian pizza in this area. I remember having rectangular pizza even as a kid.

 

[BillSears]

Ledo's pizzas are rectangular. They started in College Park MD but are all over the place around here now.

 

[North of Mouse]

Yes - no different tasting than round ones, LOL.

 

[CarolAnn856]

Ledo's pizzas are rectangular. They started in College Park MD but are all over the place around here now.

I was just going to say Ledo's. Love their pizza!

 

[wenrob]

Yes - no different tasting than round ones, LOL.

The non Sicilian/non Deep Dish ones that I’ve had the crust is thinner and the sauce more marinara like than pizza sauce like and the mozzarella tends to be slices vs. shredded. So a little different. I prefer them that way, they don’t feel as heavy.

OP are you talking more like what I described above? Usually I find them in more Mom & Pop type places than commercial ones. The Family Size pizza at Naples in Downtown Disney (in Anaheim) is like this. Bring a crowd though, that sucker is HUGE. They also have two serving pizzas like this in the take and bake section of all places, Walmart. They’re actually quite good. When I order thin crust pizza they cut a round pizza into rectangles.

 

[Hikergirl]

Yes, there was a place we would go when I was a kid that only had rectangle pizzas. They weren't Sicilian, they were regular thin ones just rectangular.
The place we get pizza from here does their specialty pizzas (margherita, chicken bacon ranch, white pizza etc) in a rectangle. Traditional pizzas are all round though.

 

[goofyernmost]

DiGiorno currently has a pan pizza that's rectangle, and it is really good, I might add.

 

[dotfurio]

The Pizza Hut dinner box pizzas are rectangular.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Pillsbury pop n' fresh pizza dough comes in a rectangle. If you don't die or lose an eye popping the can open, you spread it on a cookie sheet.

 

[LAB81018]

Sure. Every Thursday at school.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I live in the Detroit area. Our deep dish pizzas are all rectangular in shape.

There was a place in STL that sold pizza in a 13X9. From what I’ve since learned of Detroit style, I think that might have been what they were trying to emulate.

Little Cesar’s deep dish style “kind of” emulates this, but it’s nowhere near as good.

 

[gillep]

Grew up in Buffalo, NY and many of the local pizza places and a few regional chains had rectangular pizza, I know one of the chains had a large one that everyone used to get for birthday parties, I think it was call the dinosaur or something similar. All of the pizza we get there now is round though, so I don't know if it is something that has changed over time, or if we are just getting pizza from different places now.

When we lived in VA I practically lived on Ledo pizza (mentioned above). I am going back to MD for a bachelorette party in September, and I will not be letting the other ladies know that I am in the area until I have had my Ledo lunch!!!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Grew up in Buffalo, NY and many of the local pizza places and a few regional chains had rectangular pizza, I know one of the chains had a large one that everyone used to get for birthday parties, I think it was call the dinosaur or something similar. All of the pizza we get there now is round though, so I don't know if it is something that has changed over time, or if we are just getting pizza from different places now.

When we lived in VA I practically lived on Ledo pizza (mentioned above). I am going back to MD for a bachelorette party in September, and I will not be letting the other ladies know that I am in the area until I have had my Ledo lunch!!!

I was coming to post that most of the places around here (NY Capitol District) have rectangular pizzas, but they also have the option for round. Like the menu will say, "4 cut, 8 cut, 12 cut etc... or 12 in round, 16 in round etc.)
*** We have only gotten pizza from a handful of places around here so I'm not saying that all of he places around here are like that.

 

[tvguy]

Sure. Every Thursday at school.

Exactly. Growing up in the 1960's and 1970's school lunch pizza, made on rectangular cookie sheets, was the only pizza we had. Pizza place prices were just too high for us to buy pizza out. Remember, the early 1970's were the era of wage and price freezes because inflation was so bad. Once in a while my mom would buy the Chef Boyardee pizza kits, and she used a rectangular cookie sheet for that too. I don't think my mom even bought a round pizza pan until my kids were born and she was baby sitting them. She would buy a frozen pizza and load it up with more cheese and meat for the kids lunch.

 

[DIS_MIKE]

The rectangular style is definitely not as popular in my neck of the woods but we do have them and they're considered Sicilian. Occasionally I'll order a rectangle but I tend to go for the traditional circle pie so I can fold my slices like a champ.



Who remembers this beast from the 90s?


It was only $10.99 and came with 3 toppings.

I feel old now.