A national Pizza chain* is offering a chilli rich pizza with the tagline 'Australias hottest gourmet Pizza - can you take the challenge?'. Obviously that sort of advertising is designed to appeal to gung-ho lads who feel they have something to prove, and obviously I fell for it hook line & sinker.
The pizza comes with some nice marketing - a warning logo and a 'survival bag' with an ice-cream and a bottle of water
The pizza itself looks pretty tasty - don't be scared of the chillis on top, they're not that hot and taste more like roast capsicum than hot chilli.
It's hot, there's no doubt about it, but it's not killer hot. It's also not that flavoursome - it tastes like a couple of 18 yr old lads have made a pizza and then decided to go crazy with a bottle of hot sweet chilli sauce. I had to peer at a chunk of meat to see if it was chicken or prawn. I prefer the 'chicken & chilli' pizza I used to get on Oxford Rd on the way back from the Ritz in Manchester, but to be fair that was generally at 2am after a few beers.
And no, I didn't finish it in one go. But that was because I was full (honest!), and the other two slices were a nice addition to dinner the next night.
*Which will remain nameless to prevent this getting picked up by their marketing 'net scans - you can figure it out from the picture
The pizza comes with some nice marketing - a warning logo and a 'survival bag' with an ice-cream and a bottle of water
It's hot, there's no doubt about it, but it's not killer hot. It's also not that flavoursome - it tastes like a couple of 18 yr old lads have made a pizza and then decided to go crazy with a bottle of hot sweet chilli sauce. I had to peer at a chunk of meat to see if it was chicken or prawn. I prefer the 'chicken & chilli' pizza I used to get on Oxford Rd on the way back from the Ritz in Manchester, but to be fair that was generally at 2am after a few beers.
And no, I didn't finish it in one go. But that was because I was full (honest!), and the other two slices were a nice addition to dinner the next night.
*Which will remain nameless to prevent this getting picked up by their marketing 'net scans - you can figure it out from the picture
You've sold me Mikey! It's on the menu for tomorrow night (Fat Friday).
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