A pizza with no pizazz (Iceland Italian Style Cheese, Ham & Mushroom Pizza)

Member Name: Drewster_Rooster

Product:	Iceland Italian Style Cheese, Ham & Mushroom Pizza
Date:	28/10/09 (32 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: ummm....nope

Disadvantages: price, taste,texture, you name it - its a disadvantage

** This review is for the Iceland Deep Pan Ham & Mushroom Pizza **

Firstly, I dont know if there is a difference between the "Italian Style" and the "Deep pan" but as Dooyoo doesnt have the Deep Pan listed seperately I thought I would add this review here as the topping is the same and the place of purchase is too.

Fancying a quick and easy lunch today we decided to have a pizza and luckily in our freezer waiting to be eaten was the product for this review.

Contained in a garishly coloured bright red box, Iceland like to give us as much information as they possibly can. Along with the brand name and details of what it is we are told that this is "A deep pan pizza topped with tomato sauce, Mozzarella cheese, reformed smoke flavoured ham and sliced mushrooms. " In a huge yellow box the price is displayed - £1 and at the bottom we are informed that there are NO hydrogenated fats, NO artificial colours or flavours and NO GM ingredients.

Heating up a pizza isnt rocket science and faithfully we bunged the said product into the oven, set the temperature and waited the 25 minutes for the pizza to become piping hot as instructed.

First impressions as it came out of the oven were positive, there is certainly a lot of topping on the pizza and goes right up to the edge and visually it is impressive. What a pity therefore that I cant say the same for the taste.

Ive never eaten plastic before so cant say for definate that this is what it tasted like, but thats what this pizza reminded me of. I would have been impressed (if I wasnt looking forward to eating it) that Iceland can take cheese, tomato, ham AND mushrooms and make them taste like, well, plasticy nothingness...

So 0/5 for the topping and that was the good part...As the pizza had to be cooked for 25 minutes the base over that time-frame became a blackened, frazzled circle of charcoal. Im suprised I didnt break a tooth on the darned thing so 0/5 for the base. Oh dear...

As I stated earlier, heating a pizza up in on oven isnt rocket science. I have succesfully managed to do this task on many occasions in the past cooking both fresh and frozen pizzas. The only conclusion I can draw from this experience is that because the base of this Iceland pizza is *so" deep is why it needed 25 minutes in the oven to heat through ensuring the topping also got cooked.

If you decide that you would like to see if you have more luck than me with this pizza you may want to know the GDA information which is based on 1/3 of ovenbaked pizza:

322 kcals
12.7g protein
carbs 42.6g (!!)
of which 4.5g sugars
11.1g Fat
of which 6.1g saturates
3.7g fibre
0.4g sodium
1.1g salt

Actually, now that ive typed that out im quite pleased I didnt eat it with the amount of carbs it contained (!) and reading the back of the box i am fascinated with this statement "The cheese used in this product is made with Vegetarian Chymosin which is produced using gene technology. No Genetically Modified material is present in the finished product"...Doesnt that sound appertising? Yum!

In conclusion then: It only cost a pound and that was too much. Horrible thing now sitting in our bin, will stick to Pizza Express & Tescos own fresh ones from now on...

Got to give it 1 star as I cant leave a zero rating, so that star can be for the cheese sandwich I had for lunch instead of this pizza.

Summary: How can this be fit for human consumption?