Friday, December 12, 2008

Veg In: Slice

Look closer and you can spot the vegan cheese

Cracker-thin crust does not come much slimmer than the discs at South Philly's Slice.

Think of pie you find on every corner far, far, FAR from the City of Pizza. Those doughy, low-qual pizzeria fronts are still charming with their greasy, so-so productions. They do in a pinch. They are how families get fed for days.

Then you have Slice, where they aim to elevate the simple pizza with crust that actually has snap to it. I did not warm to Slice at first. I wanted gooey cheesy pie from the Mexican pizzeria that also makes tacos. Slice just does not swoop in to take care of that craving.

They will, however, consider your request for vegan cheese and whole wheat crust on their veggie pie. If only they could do it right. At $15 for a small (closer to medium) pizza, I expected a generous amount of vegan mozzarella stretched over my giant cracker. As you can see from the pie chart, there are perhaps six tiny blobs of cheese on there, with 60% onion.

It's like they could tell that I'm not vegan and were mocking me for ordering a Health Pizza. Or a Veggie Blogger Pizza. The Skinny White.

I had to dismantle half of it to have enough energy for this post.

Slice, 10th & Federal

1 comments:

kmudrick said...

While it is cool that it is relatively close to my house... that pizza looks terrible.

Any idea what "cheese" they are using there?

For $15 I could get almost 3 tomato pies from La Rosa (Broad & Snyder) and chuck my own onions and (what looks like) a few slivers of tofu on there..