Amy’s Kitchen Veggie Combo Pizza

May 10, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi

Amy's Kitchen Veggie Combo Pizza
Price: $6.99
Serving: 1/3 pizza, 5.33 oz.
Calories: 300
Fat: 22%, 13g
Cholesterol: 4%, 10mg
Sodium: 24%, 680mg
Protein: 10g
Carbs: 12%, 36g
Fiber: 4%, 1g

Amy’s Kitchen says: Here it is, in all its glory; the classic vegetarian combination with ‘the works’ - mushrooms, olives, artichoke hearts, onions and golden peppers along with Amy’s special pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese. This is one terrific pizza!

Abi says: As a child I only ate two types of pizza: cheese and pepperoni. Yes, I was a boring eater. My mom and dad loved combination-style pizza, topped with sausage and pepperoni and mushrooms and olives. Sadly, I found this melange disgusting. In fact, I still don’t like mushrooms or olives. I also detest anise-seasoned sausage (though star-anise is needed for pho - and I love pho). Why don’t I like mushrooms or olives? They have a texture best described as ‘rotting human flesh.’ Not that I’ve ever consumed rotting human flesh, but I understand the potential mouthfeel.

Fortunately, this pizza isn’t anything like rotting human flesh. In fact, it was delicious. A five star pizza! These are superlatives that post-rigor mortis skin cannot claim. The vegetables on Amy’s Veggie Combo Pizza were diced, a painstaking process essential for things like Black Bean Confetti Salad and a necessary step if one does not enjoy mushroom corpse-tissue. Thanks whoever at the Amy’s test kitchen decided that. Also, this pizza seemed to have more cheese than any other pizza we tested that night. It definitely had as much cheese as the cheese pizza, which is sort of disappointing if you figure that the only topping on a cheese pizza is cheese, so shouldn’t you get a lot of it?

With one exception, every single member of the tasting panel loved this pizza. Yes, there were the claims that the addition of sausage would catapult Amy’s Veggie Combo to the top of the charts, but this is a vegetarian pizza and thus we rate it in relation to other vegetarian pizzas.

The person who did not enjoy the pizza? Well, she claimed that it was not salty enough or olive-y enough. If lack of oliveyness doesn’t bother you (and quite frankly, if you’re not a flesh-eating-zombie, it shouldn’t), but you’re looking for a hearty veggie pizza, keep one of these in the freezer.

This pizza was provided to HeatEatReview.com by the PR folks at Amy’s Kitchen. Yes, it was free. Yay for free stuff! No, they probably didn’t expect us to use the term ‘rotting human flesh’ in the review.

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8 Responses to “Amy’s Kitchen Veggie Combo Pizza”

Sharon on May 10th, 2007

Where did your mom and dad get their pizza?
I never liked olives or mushrooms either! Now I know why!
Actually,if they are cut up very small I don`t mind them on pizza.
This one sounds delicious.
Andrew on May 11th, 2007

I, too, spurned the supreme-style pizzas as a youngster, but now I profess openly my love for mushrooms and olives of all kinds. I guess I was able to overcome the odd mouthfeel to enjoy the subtle and exquisite flavors of such toppings. Texture is kind of the last excuse of picky eaters, I find.

But you know, whatever floats your boat.
Abi Jones on May 11th, 2007

Sharon - My family went to Abby’s Pizza. No, it was not named after me.

Andrew - The sad part is that I love the flavor that mushrooms and olives impart in dishes and spreads. I just don’t like eating straight up chunks of either item. Oh, and I don’t like tapenade. Maybe that’s because all of my tapenade experiences involved a university cafeteria.
Colleen on May 11th, 2007

I’ll have to try that one. I bet its not as good as the roasted veggie pizza though. Or those flat bread pizzas by I don’t remember what brand. I can tell just by the picture I could eat that whole thing by myself for dinner if I was extra hungry.
Crow on May 11th, 2007

Peppers on a pizza? 0 stars.
tim on May 14th, 2007

lol, you deleted my first post on this thread. was it problematic? ewww, censorship, and the fact that i dig nicole’s posts? sheesh.
Starving in DC on May 14th, 2007

I’m loving the pizza reviews.
Amanda on May 14th, 2007

I ate this pizza yesterday afternoon. AND OH MY. My guy and I split it right down the middle- which I think means we actually had 1.5 servings each. This equated to two medium sized triangle slices each.

This really is a 5 star pizza. The crust is excellent, the veggies are fresh and crisp, the cheese is perfectly portioned and not too gooey or overpowering. We both commented on its deliciousness and are more than prepared to buy it again.

Also- you can’t beat the fact that it cooks in 12 minutes. That’s like, no time at all for tasty, close-to-homeade pizza. Yum.