#14: Bad Pizza After 2AM

While Notre Dame Students are in vocal opposition to the institution of parietals, they are unanimously in favor of what happens after parietals, and that is bad pizza.  It doesn’t matter whether the student goes to Reckers or Sbarro because either choice is a poor one.  At Sbarro, the student will almost certainly get to mingle with his entire North Quad posse and experience late nights at LaFortune, but they will also have to deal with a pizza that they could drink the grease off of.  More than likely the pizza will have to be heated when it is ordered, as it has been sitting out all night, and the ingredients will be subpar at best.

Many students prefer the hip newer eatery known as Reckers.  This joint is known for its tremendously long line, old and angry women at the cash register, students yelling at each other drunk, and cheese falling off the pizza as you try and cut it.  While the Pizza at Reckers is made to order, it is not well made to order, and South and West quaders leave Reckers with much more desired. 

Some students attempt to buck the trend of paying for bad pizza by starting their own pizza shops in the dorms.  Do not be fooled; this pizza is no upgrade.  Cardboard crust, stale ingredients, and a lack of crazy people wandering around make this overcooked pizza an incredibly undercooked option.

However, the obsession with bad pizza does not end when the students leave campus.  Off-Campus residents will never deny the opportunity to recreate their on-campus years with a post-Fever trip to Vesuvio’s.  While this pizza tastes significantly better than the on-campus options, their distribution system fails on all accounts.  Not only does this eatery have a miserable delivery system, but their in-house order taking mechanisms just do not match up.  Vesuvio's is only a good option if students want to be up until 4 AM and beyond. 

For those off-campus students who want to quench their pizza fix without the thrill of wondering how long they have to wait at Vesuvio’s, many Notre Dame students go back to their homes and fire up the oven for some frozen pizza.  DiGiorno has the ingredients, but not a desirable price.  Tombstone has the price, but the cardboard crust like the dorm shops.  Home Run Inn as mediocre on all fronts, while Jack’s is the Zack Hillesland of frozen pizza’s (it brings nothing to the table).  Frozen pizzas are great because they not only fix the need to soak up alcohol in the stomach, but they allow the party to continue late into the night because even if Notre Dame Students aren’t done partying, they are always ready for bad pizza at 2 AM.