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Pepperonchini’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Well folks… A friday afternoon lunch before the long weekend can only mean one thing.

Food Coma

Now, since nobody will be doing work from 2-5 and you can’t be intoxicated, you basically get so jacked up on greasy food that you go comatose at your desk until 5  (or you crap yourself and go home early- been there, done that, got the t-shirt!)

But I digress, We headed out to Pepperonchini’s in Framingham, MA which is a local bar/food spot. (www.hotpizzacoldbeer.com) They have a good menu of sandwiches, pizza and other assorted pub food.

Pro’s - They posses some pretty dynamite steak tips, 25 cent wings during all Boston sports games, and 5 dollar cheese pizzas on Sunday’s to go along with their NFL Sunday ticket. They are open late and like the site suggests, they have hot pizza and cold beer as well.

Con’s- Late at night its more of a Bar than a food place and get pretty crowded, when the wings aren’t 25 cents.

The specific buffalo based item we will be breaking down today is the buffalo chicken pizza because that’s how we roll.

You gotta dunk that Sh*t

You gotta dunk that Sh*t

First noteworthy remark is that it comes with a pepperonchini in the middle which is a nice trademark. The buffalo chicken chunks are of good size and sauce proportions. They don’t dominate the pizza but you certainly feel that you are getting your money’s worth.

The wrinkle in pep’s pizza is the carrots and celery. Now celery has been done before I am certain but the carrot’s are a novel and new way to do this pizza. They don’t add alot but they are memorable and get people talking.

One way to add fun and calories (calories usually add taste and awesomeness to anything buffalo) is to get a side dipping cup of blue cheese. Now, they may already put a little blue cheese on the pizza but you are gonna wan’t to be able to self medicate and dunk they living crap out of your slice. Its tremendous, don’t feel shy, just ask and thy shall receive.

Now, the “Osiris” of the buffalo za Colin O’neil, would like to point out the proper method of crushing this pizza.

“Rip from the wheel, fold the long way and aggressively dip into the blue cheese bucket, enjoy”

This man is a hungry softball player who has conqured this pizza multiple times, (a week) – he also pointed out that “buffalo chicken pizza is here forever”

He notes that with the floppyness of this slice, he has seen many weaker men pop a wrist tendon circa nomar in 2001.  I have always said you must fold this beast or it will be flopping around worse than … no need to go there)

Overall, peps delivers solid value and an nice change of pace in the buffalo world. We will review their 25 cent wings in the future and always recommend when a game is on heading down to take advantage of their special. The wings are meaty and the sauce while not better than 7/10 is cool and you can devour them.

Good stuff, see you out there (when I get out of this food coma)

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How Many Calories In A Buffalo Calzone?

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Buffalo Chicken Calzone is back and will be attempting to make more regular posts. Don’t worry we are still eating more calzones than is healthy, we just need to post more! Thanks.

The Worlds Greatest Question?

The Worlds Greatest Question?

Scholars have debated for centuries about just how many calories are in a buffalo chicken calzone. Now, when you think about just how big and delicious some of these items are, it makes you really wonder. Clearly buffalo calzones are more of a religious food and you shouldn’t be eating them if your worried about calories. Plus depending on just how big, or what type of chicken and cheese are used in the recipe can make all the difference.

Lets break down a large calzone from Georges Pizza in Natick.

Bread: The Shell that forms around all of the other calories, contains perhaps the most calories of the zone. The bread is that deliciously bad for you full of carbs kind and when lightly toasted creates the worlds most beautiful resting place for buffalo. Now, I would say on a small it is around 500-700 calories, But for a diesel large its gotta be 1500 just to be safe. Oh yeah, its COVERED IN CHEESE.

Bread – 1500 Cals , great start here

Chicken: Some restaurants have chosen to use white meat chicken in their calzones which is an absolute joke. If im gonna be eating 4 times my recommended daily caloric intake, it better be some chicken fingers in that bad boy.

Chicken: White – 1,000, Fingers 1,500 (Both are smothered in sodium anyway)

Cheese: Some on the outside, LOTS on the inside. I mean the whole things a cheese. I’ve even asked for extra cheese just to be a total asshole. Clearly, its dominant because the number one pick in our calzone draft always seems to be the one with a beautiful layer of cheese resting on top. This can’t be good.

Cheese – 500 (I hope)

Buffalo Sauce- Now franks red hot uses to its advantage a law that says less than 5ml serving size can contain no calories. So if you look at Franks and it has less than 5 calories per TINY serving, its listed as 0. DANGEROUS. Seeing as how I drank nearly a gallon in 2 months and I know that stuff has enough sodium to make the Dead Sea jealous. (But I guess no calories!)

Buffalo Sauce – 0! joking probably 100

Blue Cheese- The final monstrosity of the calzone is the blue cheese. A small comes with one dipping cup and a large with 2. Now blue cheese is insanely creamy and delicious however, its not exactly health food. While the mold helps me fight of disease and taste great its probably running at 500 calories per dipping cup. Eat a large and try not to use both, oh you did? Liar

Blue cheese – Somewhere between 500 and 1,000 depending on how hard your self medicating and hate yourself.

So lets take a tally at the numbers we have for a large calzone!

Bread – 1500

Cheese – 1,000

Chicken - 1,500

Sauce- 100 probably more like 250

Blue Chese 500 – 1,000

Total – 5,000 Depending on just how stuffed and delicious your calzone is, it probably packs in 5,000 calories. If your a chronic dipper, this can really add to your intake. One good thing is Georges in not open late which means you can avoid eating this meal while hammered and adding on to your 1,500 calories from drinking.

However this raises another question that scholars have debated for years and even got an egyptian pharoh killed back in the day.

Are Buffalo Chicken Calzones the worlds best hangover food/cure?

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Restaurant Review: Chicken Bone Saloon

Monday, July 20th, 2009

When looking to see whether or not a place is for real, you must judge them on their go to meal. If I reviewed a sub shop and docked them points for offering a poor slice of pizza that just wouldn’t be right.

The Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Mass is known for its wing flavors and multiple sauces. When you risk your reputation on chicken wings, tenders and beer you better be real careful, but the bone gets the job done.

Pro’s-The “Bone” has an all you can eat chicken wings. (Mon & Wed 8-10, $7) Although the hours have been shuffled to a later start and price has gone up a few bucks, they still do it right. They offer bone-in wings rather than the more typical boneless you often see with all you can eat.

The service can sometimes be a little slow on these nights but the portions are just right. They bring out around 12 wings for the first portion. Once you devour these bad boys and you will, they continually bring out 6-8 wings until you tap out or crap yourself.

One positive of this style is you get to try different flavors. Now, I almost always choose garlic hot for 3 of my 5 selections, but other people may want to switch up more often. They have many great flavors, some of the fan favorites are:

I refuse to rank them because some people don’t like buffalo as much as I do. These are people I refuse to be friends with, but its really a matter of preference.

Garlic Hot may be the most dominant flavor, they are they same as just plain hot but with little garlic specs which give them a delicous twang. Just plain mild is delicious on your 4th batch when your mouth is numb and you just want more meat.

They have solid flavors of BBQ, Honey Mustard and Teryaki but nothing out of this world. Roman always seems to be popular as the wings come tasting like delicous italian dressing. Always a solid 3rd or 5th round order depending on how much you weigh.

Beer- Its cold and bountiful.

Catering- They do a solid job for lunch parties and you can get a few different flavors to please the party. They have a vast menu and while you may want to stick to the safer wing waters, you never know if they have hidden jewels elsewhere on there.

Hours- They are open quite late and do deliver to a limited area.

Fries- They have waffle fries that are amazing. They also come with cheese if your over 200 lbs and gravy if your over 300 lbs.

Cons: Thermonuclear- I’m not scared of hot but when you have to sacrifice the true flavor of buffalo for heat and use a tabasco base then shame on you. If your gonna bring the heat, keep the flavor consistent.

Price- If you miss the all you can eat, then the wings can get a little pricey but overall still worth it for the quality. Beer is a little pricey (no great deals)

Loud- The bands are very good but its a little tight and the music is super loud. Im not gonna pretend about music reverberation or any b.s. but if your there and not drunk or with your grandma and the band is on, your ears will bleed. I just pull the batteries out of grandma’s hearing aids and eat wings until my ears start to ring, plus she always pays. God bless social security.

Overall- The bone offers solid wing sauces and has really grown on me over the past few years of all you can eat. While they have created a small wingopoly over framingham, the new “wings over framingham” should force them to remain on their game. As with all business, competition is a good thing and the more wings I get at a lower price the happier I am, until the next day of course.

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