Freschetta Brick Oven Pepperoni Pizza

February 29, 2008 | Reviewer: Abi

Freschetta Brick Oven Pepperoni Pizza Price: $3.50
Serving: 1/4 pizza, 5.44oz.
Calories: 410
Fat: 31%, 20g
Cholesterol: 13%, 40mg
Sodium: 47%, 1120mg
Protein: 19g
Carbohydrates: 13%, 38g
Fiber: 10%, 3g
Sugar: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 9 Points

Freschetta says: Inspired by traditional family recipes handed down for generations, Freschetta Brick Oven has a classic square shape, a crispy fire-baked crust and is topped with only the finest ingredients.

Abi says: My unending love affair with Freschetta pizza concluded with my consumption of this item. It is 8am the next morning and I can still taste the disappointment.

I looked forward to this pizza. It was on sale at Safeway (I bought it while filming unused shopping card footage for the Kid Cuisine video review), so I purchased this meal with the abandon I usually reserve for known products. When I finally pulled it out for a dinner, I realized that the baking time was considerably shorter than most pizzas. This needed a bake time of just 12 minutes. Score one for the new pizza.

When I pulled the amazingly baked after just 12 minutes pizza from the oven, I placed it on a cutting board and realized the genius of the brick oven pizza.

It is a square item in a square box. This means that while the pizza is thinner than other pizzas, it actually fills the box that it comes in.
Cutting a square pizza into reasonable slices is easy. Seriously, this is genius. Cutting pizza is a total pain unless you have one of those special cutter guides that they use at Costco (and they do not wash them in between uses - ew). Or, you might be a pizza-cutting pro like the folks who work at Abby’s Pizza, a place my parents used to tell me was named after me - don’t ever do that to your kids, it will totally make them think that they own a pizza parlor.
If your oven bakes unevenly (mine does not, the oven is the best-working thing in this apartment) this pizza will be easy to rotate.

With little difficulty, I cut the pizza into eight somewhat even slices, plated up three and took the pizza downstairs to watch the news during dinner. Each of my slices was a lovely amalgam of bright red sauce, melted cheese and pepperoni. I took a bite as was greeted by an uncomfortable burning sensation. I figured that while the crust of the pizza had cooled, perhaps the sauce was piping hot and that’s what did me in.

So I sat back for a minute to let me pizza cool. While watching the news I realized that every commercial was for products that I hope I will never need:

Lotion marketed to women with menopause-caused dry skin
Cold medicine for people with high blood pressure
Fiber Supplements
Impotence Drugs

Television news is for old people. And people who eat this pizza and end up with high blood pressure because it is so amazingly salty. You see, the sauce wasn’t hot. The pizza was so freaking salty that it burned my mouth. I like spicy, salty, mouth-burning, vindalooesque foods, so this pizza confused the bejeezus out of me. I couldn’t handle the salt? Could that be true? This pizza was so salty that I couldn’t even taste the sauce or cheese or the I-don’t-want-to-know-what-it-is meatiness of the pepperoni.

I sincerely appreciate the Schwann corporation and their dedication to making Freschetta pizza, but I wonder if I got a bum pie. A salty bum pie. Time for another glass of water.

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8 Responses to “Freschetta Brick Oven Pepperoni Pizza”

Carlos on February 29th, 2008

I think it was a bum pie. I love these pizzas above all other frozen pizzas, and their deliciousness causes me to by them in bulk. Adding to my bulk.

Thinking of it though, it might have been salty…I salt pretty much all pizza I eat and this is one pie I do not have to salt. I fear for my blood pressure.
Sharon on February 29th, 2008

I just discovered these pizzas and I love them!
The best frozen pizza I’ve had.
I’m pretty sure you got a bum pizza.
bj on February 29th, 2008

I don’t even see the point of reviewing other pizzas, as pizzamore is the best frozen pizza to ever exist. Everything else is a let down.
rob on February 29th, 2008

I don’t like the triangular pieces of pepperoni. Pepperonis in their natural state are round … every other pizza in the world uses round slices of pepperoni … but the Brick Oven people choose to go triangular instead. What are they some kind of subversives? Anarchists? What kind of message are they sending by choosing to thumb their noses at round slices of pepperoni?
S on February 29th, 2008

Just last week, i bought a Freschetta Ultra Thin Crust pizza. I had never tried an Ultra Thin type but I have been a fan of the Brick Oven. I could not eat the whole Ultra Thin pizza, for the same reason as you with the Brick Oven. It was sooo salty! I don’t know if they are all like that or if I should try it again…
Crow on March 1st, 2008

Fiber supplements are a useful proactive. Helps to scour the digestive system of carcinogens. Eating microwave food all the time, unlikely you’re getting enough fiber.
Holla on March 1st, 2008

Had one tonight, looked at the box and it has approx. 1200 grams of sodium per slice (1/4 pizza). Yikes
Barb on May 1st, 2008

Hi…they say “Brick Oven” and it was a “ROYAL BRICK”! Not good for the dental work….I’m sorry I bought 2 on sale….yikes…I can foresee a trip to the dentist after the second pizza!