Pizza-in-a-cone: good idea or great idea?

[Gifted Gourmet]

KonoPizza

This is supposed to be the coolest way to do carry out .. or take away ... for pizza afficianados... check out their menu on the website ...

This is my favorite The Palette,

An alternative to the usual dinner, or an easy party?

Nothing is better than a konopizza to seduce your friends with a konopizza Palette

Any reaction?

[fou de Bassan]

My first reaction was Blecch! But then I'm not a food trend forecaster so what do I know. The idea of getting a dispropotionate amount of cheese first and then crust still doesn't appeal to me. And having orange oil on the tip of my nose isn't a big lure either. Pizza is all about getting the cheese and crust together.

Definitely not dinner party fare but a 5 year old might like it.

[SuzySushi]

Shrug! As a born & bred New Yorker, pizza already is carryout food to me... you take a triangular slice, fold it into a narrower triangle (crust-side out, of course), and eat it neatly starting from the tip. No problem; no cone necessary.

[canucklehead]

This is my favorite The Palette,

Any reaction? 

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God Almighty - are those fries that they are serving with the pizza cones? This is something that even the demons at Pizza Hut have not unleashed upon us.

How are you supposed to eat this stupid thing - suck out the filling first or deep throat the thing so that you can have a clean bite without having hot cheese run down our your arm (woah... this sounds like a porno-script).

I can just see the brainstorming session on this... let's take a good thing (uh hello - calzone?) cut it open and make it really hard to eat. And then.... let's serve fries with it. Brilliant!!! Is Sandra Lee somehow involved with this?

edited to add - the website touts something called a "Kommunity" - is this creepy or just me (with the spelling - it sounds like some sort of fascist gated community). Also - did you check out were the locations were? All in Europe with a huge in Italy! WTF? I am so so so confused.

Edited August 30, 2005 by canucklehead (log)

[chef koo]

it looks like if you take a bite you'll have an explosion of cheese and sauce running down your chin. then i'd sue them because it was too hot.

not a bad idea though really. just strange. there are some odd pople out there

[Fat Guy]

In The Jerk there are several references to pizza in a cup, e.g., "this is the best pizza in a cup ever. This guy is unbelievable. He ran the old Cup 'o Pizza guy out of business. People come from all over to eat this."

[Juanito]

I think this is a really, really bad idea.

[Jason Perlow]

What's amazing is that most of their locations are in ITALY.

[Gifted Gourmet]

What's amazing is that most of their locations are in ITALY.

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Irony or just damned smart marketing? You decide!

[marlena spieler]

What's amazing is that most of their locations are in ITALY.

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yeah, but they're in the NORTH, Jason, what do they know about pizza in the north?!

x m :

Edited August 30, 2005 by marlena spieler (log)

[Jason Perlow]

There was some press coverage on this during April of last year:

Cold comfort for hot dogs as Italy unveils pizza in a cone

[Gifted Gourmet]

There was some press coverage on this during April of last year:

Cold comfort for hot dogs as Italy unveils pizza in a cone

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a challenge to US gastronomic hegemony

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Thanks for the article, Jason!

Kono currently runs 5 restaurants in Italy (Rome, Milan, Verona, Udine, Salerno), and is actively looking for franchisees.

It has already sold the concept to entrepreneurs in Spain (Madrid), Germany (Kassel), Kuwait and Indonesia (Jakarta), and has apparently also installed its first oven in Harrods, London. That leaves another 185 or so fast-food obsessed nations hungry for the next hot thing in snacking and obesity.

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[munchymom]

Calvin Trillin wrote more than once about his friend Fats Goldberg's idea for a pizza cone. From Alice, Let's Eat:

"In fact, I at least mentioned to Fats that a better name for Goldberg's Pizza Cone might be Goldberg's Pizza Cohen, before telling him that it was, by whatever name, one of the truly dreadful ideas of the decade."

Looking at the photos on the company website, I can only agree.

[*Deborah*]

To me, it looks like a pizza trying to be a souvlaki pita. Without the foil.

I'd rename it the "Shirt-Wrecker Pizza Cone"

Bleah.

[lala]

Ow! Ow! Ow! Volcanic cheese too deep to eat!

[Ninjai Fanatic]

I'd say, great idea!

[Jinmyo]

Insane.

[TPO]

My first thought? Minnesota State Fair food! Those midwesterners love anything they can walk around with at a fair.

[Gifted Gourmet]

This thread sates back quite a long way but I happened to see this on the Slice website today and I remembered the Pizza Cone discussion:

the photographic evidence: new, unretouched, actual photos of the Pizza-in-a-Cone

[Tweety69bird]

My goodness, that looks like it would be great! Need lots of napkins though. Cheese overload!

[Toasted]

I may be crazy but I think it looks good. I'd like to see some pictures of people eating it first before I make up my mind. Mess factor may be an issue although kids would love it.

[Jason Perlow]

It does look like a tasty snack.

[Toliver]

I once had a dream about a taco cone (not to be confused with the Tacone Franchise. I also thought about nachos in a tortilla cone, or just melted cheese sauce in the cone that you dip chips into...portable nachos!

Then one day I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a taco cone on it from some place in Texas. There went my million dollar idea.

To go back on topic, that pizza cone does look good in a greasy fast food sort of way.

Hmmm...the possibilities seem endless...how about lasagna in a cone-nolli?