Safeway Select Garlic Chicken Ultra Thin Crust Pizza

November 16, 2009 | Reviewer: Abi

Price: $3.49
Serving:1/3 pizza, 5.36oz.
Calories: 320 per serving
Calories from Fat: 110
Fat: 18%, 12g
Saturated Fat: 25%, 5g
Trans Fat: 0g
Cholesterol: 35%, 12mg
Sodium: 19%, 460mg
Protein: 20g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 31g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 7 POINTS

Safeway Select says: Safeway Select Ultra Thin Crust Pizzas have been expertly created with exciting flavor combinations, using premium ingredients that will delight you and your family with full pizza flavor on a delicate, cracker-thin crust that won’t weigh you down.

Add pizazz to your next pizza night with Garlic Chicken with grilled chicken, onions, plenty of garlic and a butter Bordelaise sauce.

Abi says: Bordelaise? Border? Mayonnaise? What? Raise your hand if you know what a Bordelaise sauce is. I’ve read Jacque Pepin’s autobiography and I didn’t have a clue what it was (thank you, Wikipedia) until just now. Bordelaise is a classic French sauce named after the Bordeaux region of France. It contains wine. And meatiness. The New Orleans version is more about garlic, butter and parsley than about red wine and bone marrow.

So, FYI, no bone marrow in this pizza.

But oh dear Lord, the garlic. I am a professed lover of garlic. Garlic and I are chums, pals, BFF’s, but perhaps after this pizza we are frenemies. When I told my husband (we celebrated our first wedding anniversary yesterday) that I was going to write about this pizza he asked if I would tell all of you how bad it was.

So here I am telling you that while you might think that this pizza is scattered with the strangest looking pieces of chicken, those are in fact nearly raw garlic pieces. And the 10-12 minutes they’ll spend in your oven is not enough time to bring them anywhere near edibility. Unless you like old, semi-baked garlic, I recommend staying far, far away from this pizza.

“But wait!” You must be thinking, “aren’t there other redeeming elements? Isn’t there chicken?” Sure, there is chicken, cut into alarmingly small (1/2 centimeter, what kind of chicken is this anyways, did I just combing a fraction and metric measurements?) cubes. And yes, there’s some cheese, all covering up an absurdly buttery sauce. Take a gander at the ingredients…

I don’t think it was an accident that when transcribing the “add pizazz to your next pizza night” text from the box I typed “add pizass to your next pizza night”.

Ingredients: Crust (wheat flour, soybean oil, yeast, sugar, salt, calcium propionate (preservative), soy lecithin (processing aid)), cheeses (whole milk mozzarella cheese [whole milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese [part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes]), chicken (white chicken with rib meat, water, seasoning [salt, modified tapioca starch, garlic powder, onion powder, chicken powder [chicken broth, chicken fat, maltodextrin, natural flavor], dextrose, spices, maltrodextrin, grill flavor [from partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil], natural smoke flavor, natural flavor], sodium phosphate), sauce (water, modified food starch, sugar, natural flavors [including butter and wine], salt, butter powder [cream, salt], , nonfat dry milk, BHA, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolized corn protein, garlic powder, onion powder, xanthan gum, spices, extractive of turmeric), butter oil (soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, artificial flavor, artificial color, citric acid), parsley, roasted garlic, onions.

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9 Responses to “Safeway Select Garlic Chicken Ultra Thin Crust Pizza”

Tracy on November 17th, 2009

I haven’t been a big frozen pizza fan and this one sound terribly gross. I might have tried it because garlic and chicken pizza sounds interesting so thanks for the review. Last week I tried Dr. Oetker because of a great sale and coupon and can’t believe how good it was. I never thought I would crave frozen pizza.
Debbi on November 17th, 2009

Happy 1st Anniversary to you and Mr. Abi ~ many more years together!

Hmmm … and they listed roasted garlic 2nd last on the ingredients list! Wow. Just wow.
Abi Jones on November 17th, 2009

Tracy I’m glad I saved you the pain and wasted money that would have been involved in you buying this pizza. I’ve seen/consumed Dr. Oetker desserts, but didn’t realize there was a pizza!

Debbi I have a feeling there’s no minimum roasting time to qualify that garlic as ‘roasted’.
Maywither Dragon on November 17th, 2009

haha, pizzass sounds delicious
Kelley on November 18th, 2009

Thanks for the info, I’ve had some tasty frozen items from Safeway Select in the past so I’m surprised this one was so bad. Pointing out that those chunks in the picture are garlic and not chicken was a good move; I really though that was the chicken, and knowing it was raw garlic was the real turnoff for me. I’m a big fan of garlic, but I don’t want to be biting into giant, raw chunks of it on my pizza.
Leslie on November 18th, 2009

I’ve been reading forever but never posted. here goes—HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! and welcome back. I missed you
christine on November 18th, 2009

Thanks for the review, I like to try out of the ordinary pizzas and might have fallen for this one.
Nate on November 19th, 2009

Sorry to hear this pizza is so lousy as I’ve thought about picking it up a few times. I urge you to try the Safeway Select Supreme thick crust pizza. By far the best frozen pizza on the market (in terms of quality and price). Loads of toppings and delicious. I’m rather fond of the sauce in particular – it’s not as acidic as other frozen pizza sauces and has a nice savory flavor.
Korilla on January 1st, 2010

retard. this pizza is delicious