A pizza flavored Hot Pocket is just a calzone…
“Hot Pockets are the American empanada.”
— Wendy Watson“We should sell Hot Pockets”
– Wendy’s
A warm Hot Pocket is a prison fifi you can eat after.
Based on the cube rule every hot pocket is a calzone
A calzone is just a folded pizza.
Yep, that’s why don’t have to call it “pizza flavoured”.
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Calzones aren’t supposed to have sauce inside though
Every calzone I’ve ever eaten has had sauce. And I only buy the really high quality authentic ones from Sbarro.
And I only buy the really high quality authentic ones from Sbarro
The food court kings.
Sometimes I crave a true, authentic, Italian dish with the right cheeses, traditional sauces, and love cooked right into the pasta. Other times, I go to the Olive Garden
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Wait, really? My world is shaken
Lol it’s regional and always fun to stir shit up and make people argue their locally-adjusted version of an imported recipe is correct. Most places do not put sauce inside though and many don’t even serve the sauce
Wait what
You’re probably thinking of a stromboli.
You’re thinking of a pizza roll
Probably.
Honestly it’s so weird. I’ve been all over and have seen a lot of calzones with sauce inside, and I’ve seen most strombolis without sauce but with ricotta. But it’s still a gamble unless their menu specifically says how they make it.
I prefer the sauce on the side, so I usually get a stromboli, ask for a container of sauce, and roll the dice unless it’s a place I know.
Like all exported recipes, it’s regional. It’s like how American pizza is quite different from Italy. But true pizza isn’t the #1 food in the world, now is it? I mean American pizza probably isn’t either when other cuisines win by shear population by who’s counting
Please start a battle with Wikipedia editors over the tomato sauce calzone in this article.
… Did you read your own link or no? It says “some places put sauce on top right before serving” which is what’s pictured
I’m referring to the picture, which has sauce. Which I thought was funny.
Fair, it is a very saucy calzone that definitely looks like some sauce is inside, though it may just be diced tomato under a sauce glop
Except it tastes like shit because it’s a hot pocket
You don’t eat a Hot Pocket for the taste.
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And definitely not for nutrition.
Stromboli actually. Strombolis have pizza sauce like the pockets, calzones require ricotta and no sauce (you dip em in marinara).
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A calzone doesn’t have tomatoe sauce in it. Also this is a terrible insult to calzones everywhere.
Wikipedia wants to fight you over that statement
This looks like it has sauce ON it. Like a calzone.
If it is the same as a calzone, but has sauce IN it, then its not a calzone, its a stromboli.
I’ve never has a Calzone without red sauce and cheese.
A great combination, but if the red sauce was inside the calzone, that means you’ve never had a calzone. You have had strombolis.
Maybe you haven’t had a Calzone in the US…
I live in the US.
I have had Calzones in the US. I have had Strombolis in the US.
I have made Calzones myself. I have made Strombolis myself.
I will say though, when someone serves me a Stromboli and calls it a Calzone, it is almost always a shit Stromboli.
To add: calzone necessitates ricotta.
My “from scratch” cooking journey started with hand mixed pizza dough, whole milk transmuted into ricotta, fresh veg… store bought mozzarella and a marinara made from canned tomatoes and dried seasonings.
Made calzones/strombolis once a week for months.
Highly recommend it.
High levels of “from scratch” pride, overall simple, super interesting and educating, and mid-low difficulty level, once you have a pizza stone and know how to use corn meal correctly.