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Original poster

To be so annoyed at pizza express.

39 replies

Pickles77 · 02/01/2013 15:26

I just rang to order the folks a takeaway for their friends (to pick up later) They want 4 Calzone.
Pizza express will not do calzone to take away.
Why? They haven't the right boxes.
They are cross, that's almost 45 pounds of food!!

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SPsFanjoHasSatelliteNavigation · 02/01/2013 15:27

Just order pizzas and gold them in half your self?

Sorry I only use local greasy take away so don't have this problem

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Pickles77 · 02/01/2013 15:30

Well that's what I said but they laughed at me Confused

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SPsFanjoHasSatelliteNavigation · 02/01/2013 15:31

But it makes sense. How do they not have the right boxes? A calzone would fit in a normal pizza box

GwendolineMaryLacey · 02/01/2013 15:37

Why can't it rattle around in a normal box for the duration of the journey? Seems a bit mad to me.

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Pickles77 · 02/01/2013 15:50

Apparently the box will 'make it go saggy' and they wouldn't accept my 25% off voucher as it was a take away.

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ResolutelyCheeky · 02/01/2013 16:07

I have to agree with them. A perfect Calzone rises when cooked and has a lovely burnt top, filled with hot steamy filling that shouldn't be flat enough to fit in a pizza box

maddening · 02/01/2013 16:15

Could they have taken thr lid off the pizza box and covered in foil?

LadyMaryChristmas · 02/01/2013 16:17

Go and collect them yourself, take some plastic tubs with you (and ask them for a further discount for this trouble). Or try Zizzi.

Tee2072 · 02/01/2013 16:19

I don't see why they can't just wrap the calzone in foil. That's what they do in the US.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 02/01/2013 16:20

I'd eat a saggy calzone if someone brought me one. I'm not fussy

bulletwithbutterflywings · 02/01/2013 16:34

Mmmm I want a saggy calzone.

Original poster
Pickles77 · 02/01/2013 16:39

We all want saggy calzone

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bulletwithbutterflywings · 02/01/2013 17:07
Grin
HecatePropolos · 02/01/2013 17:13

I had to google calzone. Never heard of it. It looks like a pasty with a pizza filling.

It's a pizza folded in half then? Can you not do that yourself when it arrives? Grin

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Pickles77 · 02/01/2013 17:14

It is a pizza folded in half, I don't get it really I was only the pick up driver. Seems they are allowed it now, and I've been armed with tinfoil and Tupperware Wink

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CajaDeLaMemoria · 02/01/2013 17:16

They used to deliver them, but they'd always be unedible. They'd explode all over the box, and you'd be left with scraps.

They stopped a while ago, and told us when we ordered that they wouldn't be delivering them anymore as they can't offer the same quality from the take-away side. The calzone is cooked on hotter for less time for take-away orders, and the quality is rubbish. They found they were offering too many refunds and getting too many complaints.

They might allow you to go and pick them up, if you want, but they won't offer a refund if they explode while you are transporting them.

JustAHolyFool · 02/01/2013 17:16

Saggy Calzone sounds like a shit mafia boss.

PickledInAPearTree · 02/01/2013 17:27

Fuck good luck pickles. This sounds dangerous saggy calezone could explode on you at any moment! Grin

ResolutelyCheeky · 02/01/2013 17:32

Love it holyfool Grin
"Saggy Calzone, you come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding?"

SPsFanjoHasSatelliteNavigation · 02/01/2013 17:36

Has she been 'Calzoned' by the Saggy Mafia? She has a certain amount of time to get it from Pizza Express to home before it explodes

Tee2072 · 02/01/2013 17:38

Imagine finding a calzone head in your bed...

RightsaidFreud · 02/01/2013 17:40

YABU-pizza express is just awful awful awful, order from somewhere else, anywhere!

I've not had a good experience in any of the pizza expresses ive been to, and now i just refuse to give them my money.

SPsFanjoHasSatelliteNavigation · 02/01/2013 17:41

Tee or worse. An exploding calzone. That would put the fear of god into many Grin

'Saggy take this calzone to Pickles. I trust you yo do a good job, if not you will be garlic bread'

PickledInAPearTree · 02/01/2013 17:42

I put calzone heeeads
In people's beeeds

SirSugar · 02/01/2013 17:43

I never accept Pizza prices from any of the delivery ones and always ask for further discount and always get at least another £5 off