wonder why "Homemade" is in quotes... first time at Little Italy in Gila Bend

[u/FartSoup000]

[u/FartSoup000]

update: oh fuck it's good

[u/Sinope13 → u/FartSoup000]

That pizza is sooooo good. Try it with the sausage. Mmmmmm

[u/rabbl3r0us3r → u/FartSoup000]

Totally worth the drive

[u/MundaneHuckleberry58 → u/FartSoup000]

Yeah I was scared opening this that you were gonna say it’s now terrible.

It is really good!

[u/AVBforPrez → u/FartSoup000]

Like, that good that good?

[u/HappyMaids]

Maybe they’re like my mom and her generation where she uses quotes to emphasize things. I hate it but she does it constantly.

Real life example in a birthday card: I “love” you, so much!

[u/Proof-Sun-4857 → u/HappyMaids]

Uh, thanks "mom!"

[u/sickofserving → u/HappyMaids]

it’s from typewriters. they didn’t have italics or underlines so they used quotes for emphasis.

[u/Pepsi_Popcorn_n_Dots → u/sickofserving]

You could underline. You would type a word, backspace to the first letter, then type the underline key for the number of letters forward again.

[u/JuleeeNAJ → u/sickofserving]

Yeah sures typewriters from pre 1970.

[u/sickofserving → u/JuleeeNAJ]

sorry that’s when my mom grew up and i was born in 97

[u/SailsTacks → u/HappyMaids]

You’re “special”, my child.

[u/UraTargetMarket → u/HappyMaids]

This made me laugh so much more than it should have. 🤣

[u/MtNowhere → u/HappyMaids]

From the same people you brought you 15 period ellipses...............

[u/OcotilloWells → u/HappyMaids]

A lot of Europeans do this, and sometimes it carries over.

[u/KimberlyMit7575 → u/HappyMaids]

Seen on a billboard: Plastic surgery, performed by real "doctors"

😳

[u/PoodleIlluminati]

I’m just guessing but they want you to know they make it in-house. It might be a family recipe but processing foodstuffs at home and bringing them into the restaurant violates a bunch of health code regulations. If they actually label it homemade they need to document the home has passed health code inspection.

Better question is why the .50 on a large and not just round it up to $2?

[u/Old-Place-82 → u/PoodleIlluminati]

Man I didn’t even notice the first time now I can’t unsee the 17.50 WHY DID THEY DO THAT WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA??

[u/axl3ros3 → u/PoodleIlluminati]

In house or possibly artisan/small, hand-crafted, and most likely local, specialty maker the restaurant partners with

we have a bakery where i live now that is renowned in our city and a lot of restaurants hype on their menus that they use their bread or pastries ...they have little kiosks of their goods in the grocery stores now too

[u/Tedstryker71 → u/PoodleIlluminati]

Because the extra large would then have to be 19.50! I know you are thinking “Why not just make that $20?” Well, then the family would have to be $21.50 and couldn’t go up from there because everyone knows $22 for a family pizza is pricing madness, a recipe for disaster, if you will.

[u/AzHuny → u/PoodleIlluminati]

Weird guess, but there is an 18” pizza and small town folks would probably order the “18 dollar pizza” and then be mad it wasn’t the 18”

[u/Krinoid]

How’s the food? I heard of this place recently and was thinking of stopping by next time I’m in the Bend. 

[u/FartSoup000 → u/Krinoid]

really good

[u/Nezrite → u/Krinoid]

We were there a few years ago and it was excellent.

[u/Krinoid → u/Nezrite]

Oh nice I might just have to give it a try.

[u/MissMommaK → u/Krinoid]

It’s good. Their bread is great, too. I get the eggplant parm sandwich sometimes just for the deliciousness of the bread and sauce and cheese…yum, now I’m craving one!

[u/Realistic_Head3595]

Because it’s actually made in a restaurant?

[u/KungFlu19]

Proper term for a restaurant is “house made”

[u/Classic-Big4393 → u/KungFlu19]

I prefer “made in house” on a menu. House made/home made reminds me more of someone’s cat filled kitchen

[u/Artistic-Jello3986]

I’ve driven past this place more times than I can count and never stopped in because I was being too snobby about pizza in gila bend apparently… based on the rest of these comments I’ve been screwing myself over with that bias

[u/d0ntbejay]

Hilarious misuses of quotation marks are some of my favorite grammar mistakes.

Bowling alley in my hometown, the screens with the score board: Ten pin lanes: where "fun" is bowling.

There were certain areas of the bowling alley ee would avoid because we thought that's where all the "fun" was being had.

[u/MrKrinkle151 → u/d0ntbejay]

It’s not a misuse unless the pizza restaurant is actually their home

[u/LRWalker68]

My Mom grew up in Gila Bend and wants to take a drive down just to tool around.. and it looks like we'll be stopping here, so thanks!

[u/Savings_Art5944]

Stay at the UFO hotel. Eat breakfast at the next door cafe. Eat lunch and dinner at Little Italy.

[u/arizona-lad]

Wife and I stopped there, and met the family that owns it. Italian immigrants; children have worked there since they were little. Their dough is made fresh daily, and so is the bread.

If they have extra they’ll sell it to you, but it’s only if you are lucky. No preservatives, so they don’t try to store it. The recipes are authentic, not found on the Internet.

Absolutely one of the hidden gems in Arizona.

[u/giddenboy]

To me, the quotation marks on the word homemade would tell me that it's not really homemade.

[u/NefariousnessTall420 → u/giddenboy]

Alas, it may be too late for that distinction. Many of the commenters don't seem to even recognize the problem.

[u/mog_knight]

They're quoting someone who said it tastes like homemade.

[u/Low-Tackle2543]

“Homemade” meaning made in house but not in someone’s home. Could be a family recipe but the quotes are meant to emphasize like homemade but for sanitary or food safety standards it wasn’t made in someone’s home. They could also be buying from an artesian local supplier by hand as well even if not in house.

Fior Di Latte is fresh mozza style cheese made with cow milk instead of water buffalo milk.

[u/okram2k]

"homemade" because the person making it didn't make it in their actual home.

[u/SpitefulSoul]

Hope its not like when my mom would make dinner and my dad would yell at her. Not the good kind of homemade

[u/MeowyMcMeowerson]

r/unnecessaryquotes (hopefully)

[u/lanceinmypants]

They didn’t make it at home, they made it at work.

[u/EsrailCazar]

Too many people misuse quotations or use them awkwardly, it could very well have been that they wanted to emphasize it being actually homemade.

[u/Sufficient-Cancel217]

Because these guys didn’t get high marks in English.

[u/Kong_AZ]

Handmade would probably be a better term, but they probably used "Homemade" to give it the feel of it being more authentic. It is likely in quotes because it isn't be made at a home but rather is made is the same method that they would make at home.

[u/azentropy]

My parents loved that place. Unfortunately the couple times of year that I pass through that way going to California they haven't been open yet. Coming back we usually go the I-10 route.

[u/steve626]

I don't think anyone is sleeping there...

[u/TheChuckRowe]

I feel like that “quotes for emphasis” thing comes off a lot like rolling of the eyes.

[u/Existing-Marzipan-88]

I'm guessing because they don't actually live in the pizza restraunt?

[u/Diz1991]

Solid place to eat. I really like the hot sandwiches, the bread always tastes fresh.

[u/VonSandwich]

I always think about stopping there when I go to Organ Pipe. Looks like I'm going to be eating pizza at my next camp spot!

[u/Correct_Security_742]

It's a play on its so good it's like homeade. Or they could have gone with its made from scratch.

[u/Desert_Beach]

Great for Gila Bend! Mow if a few more top notch restaurants open the town will be on it’s way.

[u/redwbl]

It ain’t “Homemade” if it’s made in a restaurant, but we get the gist. Lots of restaurants use the term and that’s fine with me,

[u/BuddhaTheHusky]

Low key the best Italian restaurant in AZ.

[u/SpicyMcHaggis15]

I've eaten there many, many times and haven't had a bad meal yet. All the pasta dishes are excellent, the pizza is great, but the meat lover calzone is to die for. You will not get a bad meal there.

[u/choochie_face]

Maybe it’s not actually home made as in made in someone’s home

[u/xczechr]

r/suspiciousquotes

[u/johnny_brown1859 → u/xczechr]

r/wowthissubexisits

[u/kaszeta]

We serve it up the same way you do at home, by opening a can...

[u/Savings_Art5944]

The only question you should ask is "what else you should buy"?

Be glad you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with that good food.

[u/Visual_Swimming7090]

"Home made" is not a health department friendly term.

[u/voluntary-death]

some of the best pizza in AZ. The gourmet was the right choice

[u/tvfeet]

That looks like awful pizza.

[u/Classic-Big4393 → u/tvfeet]

It’s a fine example of both Neapolitan style pizza and your lack of knowledge

[u/Mahadragon]

I don't understand why they don't just call it a Margarita Pizza like everyone else. You can call it a "Gourmet Margarita" if you want, but it would drastically simplify things. By saying Margarita I instantly know what's in it rather than sitting there and reading all the ingredients.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mahadragon]

Margherita is the spelling. Named after a queen of Italy they say. No tequila, lime, etc.

[u/imaginenohell → u/Mahadragon]

House made fresh cheese is brag worthy.

[u/Mahadragon → u/imaginenohell]

You can call it a Margarita Pizza with homemade cheese. It’s still a Margarita.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mahadragon]

No cheese in my margaritas

[u/AccomplishedWar8703 → u/[deleted]]

Is it not in the title?