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It seems years pizzas tasted better years ago or is it just me? Maybe my taste have changed over the years but maybe pizza places are using cheaper ingredients. But then there would be some that wouldn't use cheaper ingredients also. So maybe it's just me.
Nope, good pizza still tastes good (just made one 3 days ago), bad pizza still tastes bad. Might be that if you used to eat cheap pizza, and have started eating better quality food since that diet of cheap pizza, then your tastes have changed. I've noticed this since making most of my meals at home, I simply can't eat out and be happy anymore.
I assume we're talking eat out pizzas like Pizza Hut and not just pizza in general. I would say yes, they big name national pizza used to taste better. Cheese was better and actually made those wonderful strings when you raised a piece. Now they all taste like garbage and actually give me indigestion when I have one. Used to love Shakey's and Godfathers from the big chains but as far as I know they are all gone now. Unfortunately where I live we don't have a real home made pizza place around so it's been years since I've tasted a quality pizza. In some ways I think delivery killed pizza. Pizza takes time and you can't have 30 minutes or it's free with cutting a lot of corners.
We have a real home made pizza place near us and I notice it's not overwhelmed with cheap cheese. It has a reasonable amount of decent cheese and a nice crust and a fresh sauce in kind of equal amounts.
Now they all taste like garbage and actually give me indigestion when I have one. Used to love Shakey's and Godfathers from the big chains but as far as I know they are all gone now.
Godfather's is still around. There aren't as many as there used to be in some places but they do still exist.
All food tastes different to me now, and it is because of the many diverse dietary problems people now seem to have. I always say "no salt, no sugar, low fat, no taste." My co-worker and I were talking about it years ago, we are both "old school", wondering if our taste buds had changed as we had gotten older or if the food had changed, and then I actually read an article that food makers have changed their recipes to accommodate the new criteria for the new generation, and it actually gave 110, YES, 110, well-known recipes that were changed over this new way of making food demanded by the masses.
To me, "used to be" predates any chain. I had my first "pizza pie" in Milwaukee in about 1953, five years before the first Pizza Hut. It was in a square pan, I think with a rather thin crust, I recall with more spicy dark sauce and less cheese.
I would say not as good as now, but I think they were best in the early 60s. Around $1.50. In 1963, there was a lady in Montreal who made them in her kitchen and sol them out her living room door, they were the best. The best I've had in recent years were in little towns on the Ohio River.
Pizza in the Olympia area is the worst I’ve had. A few months ago, after trying yet another local pizza, I said never again. I didn’t expect to find New York pizza here, but this crap is not even close. A frozen pizza does taste better.
Getting a quality pizza depends on the area, using quality ingredients and how the staff is trained, but this stuff is sub standard. Guess there is no one from New York or Jersey up here who decided to open a shop.
IMO wheat itself has been industrialized similar to the way most produce has. Industrialization results in a mediocre product so it can be supplied nationally in the cheapest way possible. I'm sure the flour milled back in the day tasted very different than it does today. I'm 64 yo. There is good pizza to be found for sure. It's just the percentage of pizza shops serving a decent product has diminished.
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