I Am Boycotting Dominoes Pizza, And here is why........

[babsbunny]

This Is Too Creepy! 'Pizza Pope' builds A Catholic heaven. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2058771,00.htm

[jonnyblitz]

1. i know people who have been boycotting them since early 90's

due to Dominoe's Inc. (or whatever it is called) support and contributions to Operation Rescue, which has been widely known. Winona Ryder's character in the movie "Reality Bites" from 1994(co-starring Janeane Garafolo and Ethan Hawke) even mentions it.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

22. What is Operation Rescue?

[atommom]

24. Fundie group that wants all abortions banned. They're nuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rescue

[markbark]

54. I think you misspelled "fundie"

Shouldn't that read "terrorist"?
(What with the propensity of its members to bomb clinics and shoot doctors...)

--MAB

[jonnyblitz]

29. sorry i didn't get back to you quickly...

another DUer has answered your question though. Operation Rescue doesn't seem to be around as much as they were in the 80's and 90's or you don't hear about them. they were the ones who used to block Abortion CLinic entry and mess with people going in and out...

[CTyankee]

61. It's because of the FACES act that they are not around

FACES stands for Freedom of Access to Clinics Act. It was passed by Congress to impose stiff federal fines on protestors who are keeping women from accessing medical care. It was passed during the Clinton administration.

Yep, the "rescuers" stopped rescuing when it put their butts and all of their assets on the line with federal fines.

I actually witnessed one of these bullying rescues at our local Planned Parenthood back in the late 80s. I worked for another women's clinic and vowed that ours would not be next. When we did get word of a rescue, we lined up our own counterdemonstrators who joined hands around the clinic building, literally making themselves a human shield. We also had our Board president, who was a top ranking city official at the time, get two NH Police squad cars in our parking lot. Result was the rescuers didn't even get out of their cars when they showed up. They stopped briefly and then drove on. We were relieved a few years later when Congress passed the FACES act.

[JerseygirlCT]

82. Early 80s for me. nt

[mitchum]

84. That's when I statrted boycotting them, and for that reason...

and also because their pizza is garbage

[Hippo_Tron]

2. Honestly, if people are crazy enough to live there then good for them

And as I mentioned on a thread earlier, since porn won't be available the male population will be approximately 0. That will totally eliminate the need for abortion and birth control in the first place.

[DemBones DemBones]

11. Are you saying that Catholics who want to

live in a Catholic community are crazy?

If so, how do you feel about Jews who want to live in Jewish communities or Muslims who want to live in Muslim communities.

[Hippo_Tron]

15. Yes I think that people who want to live in a community...

that is governed by biblical law are crazy. I know it's just a personal preference, but I prefer not to be executed for working on the sabbath and eating shrimp.

And even if it were not this extreme, as a Jewish person I would never live in a community with just Jewish people. Granted, if you asked my grandmother she would tell you otherwise.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

23. I lived in a convent for a while.

Kind of nice.

[Iowa]

49. A few reasons why this "Catholic" community is a dumb idea...

Leaving aside the constitutional issues...

1) The entire idea of building a separate city for Catholics is just plain dumb in the sense that Catholics, by and large, don't live any differently than others (I'm Catholic). There are simply no practical reasons to live in a separate city. There's nothing that can be accomplished in isolation that can't be accomplished out in the world. I mean, c'mon - building a frickin city so Monaghan doesn't have to walk by dirty magazines at the Kum-&-Go, or see rubber display racks at the drugstore, is just plain goofy. If we were kids we'd take this guy out and give him a wedgie, and then run his pants up a flagpole. Besides, we Catholics like dirty movies as well as anyone.;-)

2) Splitting up into sects simply isn't a healthy way for a society to function.

3) This entire concept is built upon the assumption that the world is a sewer requiring an island of virtue to which a chosen few can escape. How arrogant, insulting, and condescending! Such thinking is a slap in the face to people like Mother Teresa and countless missionaries who go out into the world and live where the need is the greatest - and to all the rest of us who do what we can to make the world a better place. It also runs counter to Catholic thinking. It reminds me of the occasional pain-in-the-ass who kneels at the communion rail when everyone else stands; it's called false piety. Usually the priest tells them (privately) to knock it off.

4) When I think of all the good that could be done with $250,000,000... While children throughout the world die of starvation and easily treatable diseases, along with a thousand other desperate needs that aren't being met, this asshole decides to throw a quarter billion down a rat-hole to build a monument to himself.

This is ridiculous on so many fronts that it's hard to know where to begin.

[laheina]

71. Yup. He's a fucktard.

"When I think of all the good that could be done with $250,000,000... While children throughout the world die of starvation and easily treatable diseases, along with a thousand other desperate needs that aren't being met, this asshole decides to throw a quarter billion down a rat-hole to build a monument to himself."

I agree; it's the height of hypocrisy. Why not minister to the needy, instead of insulating yourself and preaching to the choir? It doesn't make any sense.

[DemMother]

3. I've boycotted them for years...

This guy has always been a right-wing nutcase.

[MH1]

27. Me too.

Their pizza isn't that good, anyway.

[thatsrightimirish]

37. its worse then isn't that good

It's Horrible!

[Dr.Phool]

4. Link draws a blank

But I've boycotted Domino's since the 80's, once I found out what Monaghan was involved in. Fundy-Catholic reactionary.

[babsbunny]

7. Here's a better link

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/03/01/the_pizza_popes_utopia.html

[MADem]

5. He doesn't own it any more, but I don't buy that pizza because

it tastes like cardboard with cheap sauce on it. It is an offense to the word PIZZA to call that crap pizza!

[unblock]

14. right, he cashed out.

and yes, it's probably the worst pizza in the world.

but then again, mcdonald's probably has the worst burgers in the world and i still go there on the odd occassion....

[FrannyD]

17. It's all the same shit

corporate food. Boycott it ALL. Any chain owned by a corporation. EVERY single one. I'll eat peanut and butter and jelly everyday before consuming ANY of it. You'll be better for it.

[Scout1071]

39. Correct. Crazy fundie sold it years ago. But it still tastes like shit

and I won't order it because of it's shit background. I have boycotted since the late '80's.

[WePurrsevere]

6. Agree it's a bit much but I thought he sold the chain a few years ago.

If so why penalize the new owners or are they as bad?

[DemBones DemBones]

8. Tom Monaghan sold the chain years ago so your boycott

will only hurt your local franchisers and their employees.

[babsbunny]

13. Well, I love DU cause I learn so much!

I won't boycott them then.

[jonnyblitz]

32. I wasn't aware of that. nt

[Domitan]

50. Good to know that

I still dig Domino's Italian Sausage pizzas.

[Bozita]

63. Current Domino's CEO runs Dick (Amway) DeVos's campaign for MI governor

Need I say that money is not a problem for the guy from Amway and his campaign manager (CEO of Domino's)

http://www.eagleherald.com/ndev0117.asp

Domino's CEO Brandon to head DeVos campaign
Published Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:36:52 PM Central Time



LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Domino's Pizza Inc. CEO David Brandon will head Republican Dick DeVos' campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

Brandon, who lives in Ann Arbor and serves on several nonprofit boards in the Detroit area -- including Detroit Renaissance and The Parade Company, which produces Detroit's annual Thanksgiving Day parade -- said he wants to help the Kent County businessman improve his ties to the vote-heavy region.

"A great number of my friends and a network of friends are here in southeast Michigan," Brandon told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "What I hope to do is help him win."

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[Joanne98]

78. Amway is even worse. I thought the Amway cult hated Catholics?

Maybe they called a truce. I never eat Dominoes, their pizza sucks.

[CTyankee]

9. Pizza in New Haven is the best in the country

and we still have a Domino's. However, those who "know" about good pizza do not get Domino's. It is one of those phenomenoma: where you have good (whatever the food) you have popular (take out, frozen, etc). I don't know why that is the case, but it is.

That being said, we have no reason here to order Domino's. Downtown we have Pepe's and Modern. Here in Westville we have "Dayton Street".

I try to ignore Domino's at all costs!

[Hippo_Tron]

16. The thing about Domino's is that they can deliver in mass quantities

And sometimes with the deals that they have, it's cheaper.

That being said, there are some HIGHLY superior pizza places around here that everybody knows about and I don't understand why people still get dominos as much as they do.

[question everything]

20. I've always wanted to write my Democratic reps in Congress

when I lived in CA. There were always the reports that Domino's business was high when Congress was in session to the wee hours of the morning.

[The Onyx Key]

28. Whoa, Whoa, WHOA!!! The best in the country?? Sorry, but

living in Chi-town, I simply cannot believe that!!

:P

And frankly, I don't know why Domino's even exists here. Must be people new to town who order...

[CTyankee]

56. I'll prove it to you. Come to New Haven

and I'll treat you to the best pizza you have ever eaten (outside of Italy). What's your favorite? Mine is sliced tomato (a summer deal), also clam. Pizza here is often called "apizza" which is derived from Sicilian dialect that shortens "la pizza" by dropping the L. I had some excellent pizza in Catania, Sicily, but a Sicilian would be delighted by our best New Haven pizza, I am confident.

Next time I am in Chicago I will try the pizza. Where should I go for the best?

[djg21]

75. Which?

Sally's or Pepe's?

[CTyankee]

79. Either one in my opinion.

Cuz my favorite is Modern on State Street, altho I have had some great pizza from Whitneyville Market which is really in Hamden.

A great Sally's story: When Bill Clinton was President he made several trips back to New Haven and on one Sally's had put on a spread for him, which included calzones. Bill was observed quietly folding a calzone in a napkin and slipping it into the pocket of his jacket. Guess he wanted to have something to eat on Air Force One going back to Washington, but I couldn't help thinking what that jacket would look like and smell like after the olive oil from the calzone seeped out!

[mopinko]

30. hey, they have dominos here in chicago!

i will never figure that one out.

[bluestateguy]

10. How about because the pizza sucks and gives you heartburn

Cardboard taste and a crust that is way too doughy.

[question everything]

12. About time

I was boycotting it for over 10 years now, when the then owner was giving a lot of money to the anti-abortion crowd.

[Nite Owl]

18. Been boycotting them for

years now and beside the pizza is awful. It doesn't even look appealing in their ads.

[OneTwentyoNine]

19. I boycott them because their pizza SUCKS.....

Nothing political needed,its crap pizza. They came to Wichita years ago--LOL big mistake. This is where big time pizza started. Pizza Hut,Godfathers. They left pretty quick with their tail between their legs but I think they came back and opened again.

They'll be gone soon enough...

[Telly Savalas]

25. Indeed. Calling that substance they deliver in cardboard boxes "pizza"

is more reprehensible than any political activities of its ownership could ever be.

Their staying power is pretty impressive though, given the large amount of competitors who offer superior products.

[momster]

65. Of the two,

I'd rather eat the cardboard box! More roughage, for one thing, better taste , for another!

[wiley]

36. Missed that. You're right. It Sucks!

[file83]

83. LOL! That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!

:rofl:

[alfredo]

21. Papa John's and Donato's make a much better Pizza.

Even if there wasn't a reason to boycott them I still wouldn't eat their pizza's.

[Seeker30]

72. Papa Johns is about the worst

Not to mention they contribute heavily to the repuke cause.

[alfredo]

73. They still make a better pizza than Dominiono's

I don't eat any of the mentioned pizzas. I go with a local independent pizza place called LA Gourmet Pizza. They make a Greek Pizza that will blow you away.
They had a hard time after 9-11 because they are owned by Muslims, but seem to have won back customers.

[LSdemocrat]

26. That guy doesn't own the company anymore

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/02/catholic.town.ap/index.html

" "I believe all of history is just one big battle between good and evil. I don't want to be on the sidelines," Monaghan, who sold Domino's Pizza in 1998 to devote himself to doing good works, said in a recent Newsweek interview."

[mtnsnake]

31. Would anyone object if I have just 1 last Dominoes pizza tonight?

After all, the guy in post #8 said there's no reason to boycott them anymore because the bad guy is no longer with them, right?

And this thread has given me the bigtime munchies, and the only pizza place I can get pizza this late at night is Dominoes unless I get pizza from this one other place that really sucks and tastes like rubber with Ragu on it.

:shrug:

[NativeTexan]

33. I too am boycotting them, but I do it because....

....they have crappy pizza!!

[thinkingwoman]

34. I've been boycotting them for about 15 years

Operation Rescue did it for me.

[Scout1071]

40. Exactly. Late '80's for me. What a nutcase. nt

[Captain Hilts]

55. I boycotted since early 80s. He sold his interest in Dom's in 1998. nt

[wiley]

35. But their Pizza really SUCKS!

I've continued my boycott for at least ten years now

[BluegrassDem]

38. What about their Cinnastix??

I love their buffalo wings and Cinnastix. Their pizza kinda sucks, but they do got other food that's pretty good. I'm sorry guys, I live in a small town, so I have to go with what's here. :shrug:

[wiley]

41. Hey BluegrassDem!

WeLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLcome to DU!

I cook everything myself, so I guess it would be allright to have the Buffalo( that's Buffalo, NY!) wings and the Cinnastix.



Why, my gramps called my y'all know what a sinnerstick after he caught me with a young lady in the shed. (HarHarHar!)


IMPEACH
CORRUPT REPUBLICANS

[f-bush]

42. I've been boycotting Domino's since 1989 and here's why...

First of all Monaghan has been contributing huge sums of money not only to repuke candidates, but also to very narrow conservative initiatives and referendums but more importantly...

Dominos was a big advertizer of getting your pizza in 29 minutes or else it's free. Great, everybody loves a free, but...that pizza cost was taken out of the drivers $3-5 an hour. What's worse, many raced around so bad that they either killed and injured others or hurt themselves, just so that narrow minded, shetered asshole could get fat at the trough of misery!

[Greybnk48]

43. I haven't bought from Dominos since at least '92

They even did this on Seinfeld. Elaine won't let them order from THAT pizza place. This guys been fueling the anti-women's rights movement for a long, long time. Ladies. Don't give him your money. He uses it against you.

[Nutmegger]

44. Was that a direct reference to Dominos??? [nt]

[fujiyama]

46. Never thought of that

Maybe it was.

It was a funny episode though. Elain gets angry in the middle of the restaurant and others start getting up and leaving.

[Greybnk48]

58. It has always been my understanding that it was.

Dominos was in the news at the time of that episode for their anti-choice stance. That's the inference I originally drew from the comment.

[msgadget]

45. Good. Support local mom and pops,

they make better pies anyway. I'm glad he's enjoying the money from the sale but I'd have gone with a sports car and maybe a...a big pizza pimp hat instead! :bounce:

[fujiyama]

47. I haven't had pizza from therere

in years. When I get pizza locally, it's from Cottage Inn which is local to MI I think.

Otherwise, I try to avoid Pizza Hut and Domioes. Both have nasty tasting pizzas.

And Monagan's contrributions and whacked out beliefs are just another reeason never to get their crappy pizza. I generally have been good at not buying food and beverage products from known RW establishments and companies, though I still admit I drink Coke sometimes.

[TheModernTerrorist]

48. there's plenty of better reasons to boycott Domino's

but that's not a bad one :-)

seriously, boycott them anyways.

[Domitan]

51. Some at Gallaudet University boycotted Domino's over 10 years ago

due to an "urban legend" that one pizza got delivered with cum gop pasted over it. Whether it was true or not, the gross-out factor was just too much to investigate this rationally.

[longship]

52. Other than the fact that they make HORRIBLE food.

Tom Monaghan is a total freak. When he owned the Detroit Tigers he tried to ban beer at Tiger Stadium. Shit. That's like banning "Red Hots" there.

A Red Hot is a hot dog served with mustard and onion. There was a time when the Red Hot vendors would walk the stands throughout the game. If you asked them for ketchup, or--horrors!!!-- relish, they'd yell at you and inform you that that stuff is available only at the concession booth behind the stands. Back in the day, there was not a self-respecting Tiger fan who'd want to make the trip behind the stands just to get whimpy ketchup or relish. A hot dog is a hot dog, but a Red Hot... Now you're really talkin'. Wash it down with a cold Stroh's.

Monaghan probably eats his hot dogs with ketchup and relish.

[truthisfreedom]

53. i haven't ordered domino's in over 15 years. they taste like shit.

i said it. SHIT.

[mtnester]

57. Can I start my own country on my block too?..Oh, and the BIGGEST

reason to boycott Dominoes (which I have been doing for 23 years now....


Their pizza is shit!


Ava Marie just seals the deal. This is the United State, and their are rules and laws...if everyone can just open their own little city and disregard the rule of law, well, that would be...umm..what is the word I am looking for here..oh WAIT...anarchy?

If he gets to do it, so do we dammit!

[UrbScotty]

59. Once a baby is actually born, will he care? (nt)

[RagingInMiami]

60. I've boycotted Domino's Pizza years ago, and here's why ....

It's pizza tastes like rubber.

[noonwitch]

62. Their pizza is terrible

Monaghan fired Ernie Harwell as Tigers anouncer when he owned the team. After he sold the team to Mike Illitch (Little Ceasar's/Detroit Red Wings owner), Illitch immediately hired Ernie back, and he continued to be the announcer until he retired a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, Illitch hasn't done much for the actual team. Monaghan did own the team the last time they won the World Series, although I credit a lot of that win to Sparky Anderson.

[npincus]

64. cardboard with cheese on top tastes better

than their lousy pizza.

[juliana24]

70. LOL!! So true ! nt

[MrSlayer]

66. Chain pizza stores suck anyway.

I've never ordered from them. It would be a sacrilege in South Philly.

[question everything]

67. He is backtracking

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060303/ap_on_re_us/catholic_town

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, who is helping to bankroll the birth of a Florida town and university, backtracked Friday from comments that he'd like the community to be governed by strict Roman Catholic principles.

His ideas about barring pornography and birth control, he said, apply only to the Catholic university.

[momster]

81. In other news, applications

to attend Monaghan's Catholic University reaches record lows.

One of the best things about going away to college is the chance to try new things and ideas away from the parental controls of childhood. This has been the case ever since some Athenian youths started sitting at the feet of Socrates (hoo boy, was it ever!) Unless Monaghan's planning a seminary, I doubt this is gonna fly. Even Regent University up in DC (their ads all feature graduates who are now working for the Heritage Foundation, Dobson, or some other righty-tighty organ) doesn't try to restrict the private life of their students to this extent. I'm sure they are all too busy worrying the students are going to find out about their own peccadillos to try that.

[Czolgosz]

68. Catholics Should Understand The Need for Separation of Church and State

More than any other group, we Catholics should be thankful for the separation of church and state enshrined in the First Amendment. Unfortunately, many Anti-Choice Catholics have not learned their history in this regard.

Except in Rhode Island, most early European settlement in New England was predominantly Puritan. These Puritans were notoriously intolerant of other religious views, and they had expelled both Catholics and Quakers. Rhode Island was founded as a refuge for those who could not endure the religious intolerance of Massachusetts. Pennsylvania and Delaware were founded as sanctuaries for Quakers.

Colonial Virginia (and, to a lesser degree, Maryland and Georgia) had laws establishing the Church of England as the state religion, and it had banned Puritans, Catholics, Quakers, Baptists, and Presbyterians from preaching their faiths. While Georgia had laws establishing the Church of England as the state religion, it was somewhat more tolerant that Virgina and there was even a sizable Jewish community in colonial Savannah, but even Georgia expelled Catholics. Maryland was founded as an early haven for Catholics until the Church of England was established as the state religion, and Catholics were not even welcome in Maryland.

New York and New Jersey were religiously tolerant and diverse, and laws nominally establishing the Anglican Church as the state religion (a vestigial artifact from their religious-haven origins) were not generally enforced. Among the Anglicans, Protestants, Quakers, and Jews lived in relative harmony.

Carolina was founded on the principles of religious toleration, but ultimately even colonial North and South Carolina abandoned these principles and established the Church of England as the state religion.

Anti-Catholicism was flagrant in pre-Revolutionary America.

How, you may ask, could these various states join into a union as one nation? All you have to do is read the very first words of the Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

To the extent that the desire to outlaw women's sovereignty over their own wombs is based on religion, it is a desire we Catholics must oppose under the First Amendment. Catholics, above all other, must understand this because of our history. Remember, it is not just the state that wishes to be free of the church; the church also wants to be free from the state. It was Jesus who said "render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." (Matthew, 22:19-21).

To the extent that the desire to outlaw women's sovereignty over their own wombs is based on public health policy, we must understand that outlawing abortion is an ineffective means of lowering the abortion rate.

In countries with liberal abortions laws (most European countries, for example), the abortion rates are generally very low; and countries where abortion is completely illegal (most South American countries, for example), the abortion rates are very high. In America, Pro-Choice Clinton presided over a falling abortion rate while anti-Choice Bush presides over a plateauing or slightly rising rate.

In short, the means to effectively reduce the abortion rate is by reducing the economic pressure on pregnant women and not by outlawing abortion. Anyone like me who wants to lower the number of abortions in America should also stand with me in the fight to eliminate the root causes of poverty for pregnant women.

[farmbo]

69. Since their pizzas' SUCK..it won't be much of a sacrifice!

:eyes:

[djg21]

74. Whjy would you eat that crap anyways?

It's not even pizza.

[NiteOwll]

76. I'm glad there's none in my area for me to boycott

The last time I had Domino's pizza, it was so spicy it made me sick. I'd rather buy from the mom & pop pizza places than the big chains anyway.

[Acebass]

77. I'm Catholic but have to agree with you...

It's called mass hysteria, and this can be a very frightening time.

[northzax]

80. but that's just silly

Tom Monaghan sold 93% of the company in 1998. He doesn't own it, doens't work there, and hasn't bought or sold a share of Dominos stock since 2000. What you're hurting, if you actually 'boycott' them is the local franchisee.

[doni_georgia]

85. We've been boycotting them for years!

Dominoes has always suported Operation Rescue and other right-wingnut causes. Hell, we pretty much boycott all food chains. When we eat out, we go to mom & pop restaurants - food is always better anyway.

[catmother]

86. i've never even had dominoes pizza. i want real pizza from a

real italian restaurant or pizzeria. :eyes: