Because I’ve been working my ass off and am also chronically lazy, lethargic, and useless, M. and I found ourselves without anything in the house to eat for dinner last night. While we live near many restaurants and we do have a Hogar Pizza a block from our house, we were both so exhausted and the weather so chilly (68 degrees! Criminy!) that that measly block felt like a vast frozen tundra that neither of us had the courage to cross. We sat stupefied for about half an hour, starving, until eventually I faced the fact that my attempt at using the Jedi Mind Trick to make food materialize in our house wasn’t working.
Then, we suddenly got the bright idea to order a large half pepperoni/half sausage pizza from Domino’s because they deliver. Let the pizza man freeze on his little moped, who cares?! I just reminded myself of something funny (strange, not ha ha). Virtually no pizza joints or delivery restaurants in Playa will deliver food to you when it’s raining. They just say Nope, sorry. So they refuse to deliver during the times when you are MOST LIKELY to want delivery. Boggling. I’ve had pizza delivered in Chicago during a blizzard, for chrissakes.
Since my Spanish is better than M.’s (face it, sweetie, it is), I’m the Official Take Out Orderer in our household. I went through the typically painful process of straining to understand rapid-fire, garbled Spanish, carefully spelling my strange foreign name 6 times, and answering the laundry list of questions about my order and the exact location of the house: It’s on this street, in between this street and this street, Casa #3, it’s an orange house across the street from a condo building, there is a blue van parked in the driveway, my neighbor has a dog that will bark, there is an old car wash on the corner, etc. I’m not kidding, they INSIST that you give them multiple landmarks so that they can be sure to find your house, and yet STILL the delivery man will simply drive up and down your street honking his horn until you run out to flag him down.
The pizza arrived fairly quickly and we were pleasantly surprised until we heard the total. Are you ready for this?
230 pesos before tip. Two Hundred. And Thirty. Pesos! BEFORE TIP! Dudes, that is like 20 bucks for a crappy Domino’s pizza! We paid it, obviously, because we had ordered it, but that stupid pizza nearly got us into a blowout fight.
I will NEVER order Domino’s pizza here again. Never. And I swear, no matter how tired or cold I am, I’m going to the grocery store tonight.
Domino’s pizza is crappy anywhere you order it from. We get our pizza from a family run place just a few blocks from us and it is deeelicious.
By: Darla on November 21, 2008
at 1:58 pm
You got lucky my dear. What sucks is that after you spend 30 minutes giving your order, answering all sorts of questions and spelling your name 20 times, they go, oh I’m sorry, we don’t deliver there.
Ya couldn’t have told me that before you wasted my time?
By: My Guey on November 21, 2008
at 2:10 pm
Darla, you can’t really get good pizza like I’m used to here. We can get real Italian pizza, which is good, but they don’t deliver. And you can get crappy Domino’s or Domino’s style pizza. I prefer the really thin pizza cut in squares, but that can’t be found.
Did I ever tell you guys that many Mexicans squirt ketchup all over their pizza? Even Hawaiian pizza. *shudder*
By: heatherinparadise on November 21, 2008
at 2:10 pm
Heather, you haven’t become soft about the weather living there in beautiful and sunny Mexico for over 4 years have ya?
It’s 28 degrees outside here right now. At 3:50 p.m.!!!
Ketchup on a pizza?!
By: Jenny King on November 21, 2008
at 4:57 pm
I will MAKE you pizza anytime and travel across the frozen tundra to deliver it to you:)
By: Sara on November 21, 2008
at 5:25 pm
Jenny: I am a cream puff when it comes to weather now. My Chicagoan card has been revoked.
Sara: But can you deliver in 30 minutes or less?
By: heatherinparadise on November 21, 2008
at 5:35 pm
Absolutely! My specialty is Lime Serrano Chicken Pizza…..
By: Sara on November 21, 2008
at 6:14 pm
Heather: We call Da Gigi for pizza. We have even received delivery in the rain, well heavy mist. Service a Domicilio 984 879 33 87.
By: John on November 21, 2008
at 6:51 pm
Didn’t we once order from that sub shop that was only like a block away once in Chicago? Anyway…yeah Domino’s is icky to me. I prefer Pizza Hut for delivery (although they don’t deliver to my house…they stop a block away). I just remembered the giant New York pizza we ordered and it was so big that the box wouldn’t even fit in the fridge.
And I agree…68 is freezing! I’ve been wearing a coat to class in the mornings and it’s been about 68 here. Although by noon it’s up to around 74 and like perfect.
By: teetle on November 21, 2008
at 7:29 pm
We ordered Dominos the other day too. I always ask what the specials are.I asked for a menu and the guy didn’t have one to give us. We got a medium pepperoni pizza for $145 pesos which is just insane. They drive up to the house and just beep-beep their horn here too. I think we are sticking to cheese quesadillas instead from now on!
If it rains here the taxis all disappear too. When you are most likely to need a taxi there are none available. It’s a weird business model for sure.
regards,
Theresa
By: Theresa in Mèrida on November 22, 2008
at 9:28 am
Maybe because we live on such a small island, but we never have a problem with delivery, pizza, chinese or whatever. I start to tell them where I live and they go “I know. The house with the red Pointer.” It constantly amazes me that people I have never seen or met know where I live!
I solved the never can get a good pizza dilemna a few years ago. I have people bring me packages of Pizza Crust Mix and make my own.
By: islagringo on November 22, 2008
at 9:42 am
To the best of my recollection I have only eaten Dominos Pizza twice in my life. The first times was with a BIL in the birthing suite at the hospital while waiting for my sister‘s baby to be born. It was the middle of the night and the only place we could find to deliver. The second was out of desperation the week I tore the ligaments in my knee. Dominos seemed quick and easy. It was but I was disappointed in the pizza.
By: Jackie on November 22, 2008
at 1:31 pm
Domino´s is a gross greasy “something” that the owners call pizza. I plenty recomend Sara´s pizza, that is the best one on town, never had better than that. And ketchp is good on pizza as well, you guys should try it!,jajaja! (obvously, im the mexican). See you latter guapa!
By: DrJorge on November 22, 2008
at 3:21 pm
Yuck! I don’t like domino’s either. And crystal, pizza hut mkes me, well, um, sick. way to greasy. Unfortunatley I live in little italy wisconsin and have access to the best pizza in town, twenty times over. I hate this. I actaully havent ordered pizza in months.
By: Amy on November 23, 2008
at 10:49 am
My ultra special bound-to-me-for-life sig other is VERY talented in the kitchen and makes Pizza dough every couple of weeks and freezes the balls (of dough, girls) so when we are plumb out of eats..into the oven goes the pizza stone, closely followed by what do we have with which to top said pizza. And presto, out comes a thin-crispily-delicious-can’t-wait-to-eat-it-so-it-burns-the-roof-of-your-mouth pie. Glorious! Heather, if you ever had one with us..we would happily cut it in squares instead of slices for you! Oh yes, spoiled brat that I am, I do remember to thank my lucky stars on a regular basis!
By: Lisa on November 24, 2008
at 11:11 am
Hogar Pizza delivers and their pizza is only 190 pesos for pepperoni. Tue, Thur and Sat are 2-for-1. Besides, the Domino’s pizza in Mexico is nasty.
Either way, 190 pesos or 230 pesos is way-too-f**king-much for pizza. Wtf?!
By: JohnB on November 26, 2008
at 5:00 pm
John, I know all about Hogar Pizza, we do order it often. We were just too ashamed to ask them to deliver it a block away. Stupid gringos. But you’re right, pizza is WAY too expensive here. I do miss the Papa Johns, the pizza was passable, but the garlic butter sauce put it over the edge.
By: heatherinparadise on November 26, 2008
at 5:42 pm
You seriously make me laugh out loud.
By: PuertoVallartaGirl on December 9, 2008
at 11:57 pm