r/frozenpizzareviews

Their Supreme pizza has been our go to pizza for over 20 years. We even stopped getting takeout pizza because we loved DiGiorno's more. It was a saucy, flavorful pizza. Crust so good I'd saved the ends for last to savor because I loved their bread.

Maybe about 6-7 years ago they changed. Whenever they went from the easy open plastic to the fully sealed plastic wrapping. The pizza got a little smaller. The cheese got thinner. Pizza got drier with hardly any sauce. The crust is now very bland and tastes completely different from the old crust. I throw my ends in the trash.

I am currently eating my last ever in life slice of DiGiorno's because it is so bad I will never buy it again. It was bad before but this current Pizza I'm eating is horrific. It is the last straw. I enjoy the pizzas I make with some sauce on naan bread better than this. I'm going to try some of the pizza dough from Trader Joe's and see what I come up with

Why are companies ruining their pizzas? That is rhetorical question because obviously they're doing it to cut corners because as always, it's money over quality. But how expensive is some tomato sauce? And some seasonings.

Analyzed top five lists from Claude, Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT into one master.
Rank Pizza. Strength
1
Motor City Pizza Co. Best overall
2
Screamin’ Sicilian. Best loaded/traditional
3
Roberta’s. Best gourmet
4
Freschetta Rising Crust. Best mainstream
5
Newman’s Own Thin & Crispy. Best thin crust/value

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Rao’s — Probably the best sauce of any frozen pizza. Extremely strong recent reviews. Rising fast.
Amy’s — Best organic/vegetarian option. Cleaner ingredients, lighter feel.
Trader Joe’s — Cult-following pizzas, especially the wood-fired and Detroit-style varieties.
Red Baron — Budget king. Cheap, reliable, weirdly beloved.
Home Run Inn — Midwest favorite with strong tavern-style credibility.

Roll the clock back 10 years and Gino’s East frozen pizza was easily my go-to. I couldn’t get enough of it. Best frozen pizza I've ever had. I ate A LOT of it-- bought it nearly every time I went to the local grocery store.

But something changed over the last 4-5 years. Every time I give it “one last chance,” hoping it’ll taste like I remember, I end up disappointed. It just isn’t the same product anymore.

There seems to be some significant inconsistency from pizza to pizza. I’ve bought multiple pizzas within a few days and the sauce and sausage taste noticeably different from one to the next. The cheese isn’t as good, the sauce is off, and the sausage is just… mid. The crust and pepperoni are the only components that still feel pretty much unchanged to me.

What happened? Did they change the recipe, the suppliers, or something else? Anyone else think these have really gone downhill?