Sainsburys – Take Away Pizza

To be clear, this is a review of the take away pizza service that this Sainsburys offer i.e. you order instore and then wander out with it when it’s done. With that in mind:
Ugh. Yuk. Was that pizza I just ate, or a chewy, sickening mountain of molten cheese? It’s not the worst pizza I’ve ever eaten — that honour goes to a memory-​scarring shock of processed cheese on a biscuit base I took a innocent bite of while on a stag do in Newquay — but it certainly bags the number 2 slot with aplomb. What’s more tragic is that it could have all been so different: it’s cooked in a wood-​fired oven and the base, tomato sauce and fresh toppings are actually reasonable. Not gushing 5 star reasonable, but probably solid 3 star quality. The problem is that the Sainsburys staff take the surefire way of ruining any pizza: by smothering the protests of the base and sauce under a wheel of cheese. I shudder simply thinking about it.
Sainsburys also lose points for their lack of flexibility, insisting that each pizza must have three toppings on it regardless of customer wishes. I saw an American tourist explain that he wanted a margerita pizza, only to be told that he had to have three toppings on it, so he found himself being forced to order three toppings of extra cheese. God knows that tasted like.