there are a few foods more iconic to new york city than the dollar slice but dude hey what's
up what's up i know you you see my channel yeah oh cool thank you food's more iconic to new york
city than the dollar slice but due to rising costs these bastions of cheap eats goodness are
going away today in honor of this endangered food species we are going to eat nothing but dollar
pizza the entire day but i'm missing one thing a co-host hey ben you hungry let's see am i hungry
always all right we have not dedicated a video to the channel on dollar pizza
in so many years this is long overdue two slices that's a pretty sturdy slice
they just turn around their customers so quickly you're in and out like two minutes
let's take a bite i'm starving i've been fasting for this video
you know if i was super hungry and in a rush this works
it's nothing fancy for a buck let's be honest a lot of cheese not a ton of sauce
i would say that might be my issue with this slice it's cold outside warm in here this is
a warm slice more could you ask for a buck you eat a lot of dollar pizza ben i do eat a lot of
dollar pizza you know going to film school in new york this kind of saved me in those college days
i like the bite a lot they're really thin it's exactly what i want a dollar pizza to be
still can't believe this is still a dollar it might not be for much longer we're going
to talk more about that later things are changing in the city here's what
we're doing all day eating dollar pizza i could think of far worse fates for a menu
two yeah that's it we're walking down the street to eat our mutant size dollar pizza i don't know
a mutant size it's actually pretty big to quote forest gump life is like a dollar pizza slice
you never know what you're gonna get you got some stringy cheese on top i don't know if i've ever
seen that before you definitely a lot cheesier and a lot chunkier looking crust is really doughy
like not at all what i'm used to for your typical slice but we're gonna go with this
i kind of like this one it has flavor that like actually jumps out at you a little bit and i think
that flavor comes from the dough because i'm i'm tasting a bit of some garlicky flavor into it yeah
but i got a question for you we should do an experiment what if you walked into a 99 cent
pizza spot and actually just dropped 99 pennies in there because usually you give them a dollar and
you don't get changed do you think they would take 99 cents i think they'll just kick you out we're
not expecting parmigiano-reggiano cheese on these slices i don't know where this cheese is from
the cheese might be cheap but i feel like they put some work into this bread
yeah and i think that's what's giving us the edge to complete the different unique experience
difference maker here this reminds me of school lunch pizza this is exactly what this reminds
me of it's been almost 20 years yeah definitely like i think it's like is that like a universal
thing like high school across america i think so i think that's why i feel so nostalgic for a slice
i didn't know anything about yeah the way that the bread is soft the way the cheese is but so
we're about to do something a little bit crazy which has never been done before on the channel
we're eating at a chain pizza spot i walked by and i saw papa john's has a 99 cent slice
curiosity has gotten the best of me guys so i apologize in advance we're adding it to the video
so i get two of the 99 slices
that's it do all papa john's do with this or just this one
i don't know if i ever even had papa john's in my life be honest with you the new york
pizza snob in me doesn't want to make those kind of concessions looks okay for a buck
there's a lot of cheese i think i love about new york is everyone is in everyone's business and
it's beautiful it's a beautiful thing this isn't really new york style pizza like you can barely
fold this this is probably the same papa john's you get anywhere does
dollar papa john's pizza exists where you're watching from tell me you know do tell me tries
it tastes like what i imagine papa john's pizza would taste like super cheesy doesn't really
have much character though i feel like if i just closed my eyes i could be in nebraska eating this
that being said i do see the value in it but not crunchy at all it takes me back to
my days eating pizza hut as a kid even though north jersey where i grew up had great pizza
every once in a while my parents would take me to pizza hut this is what this reminds me of
all right ben you grew up with papa john's what'd you grow up with no i grew up with actually pizza
hut but they don't have it here but other than that i grew up with dominoes back in virginia
ah tastes like a bowling alley pizza it's like you take a bite out of this you feel like you're
in a dorm room you got late night finals get a study priming for a test i never did any of that
but if i did that's that's why i would be what was your average test score in the school
let's not discuss that let the john bar always on the go
this is john barr thinking of pizza how far would you travel for a good slice of pizza to the ends
of the earth we've been watching your videos for like the past week dude happy to help you out
take care i looked like you saw a ghost you're the new york dude
i go by many nicknames that's one of them i put the wrong 99 cent pizza place
still quite a few in new york you can make this mistake wait it's it's it's this way oh
there's always got to be some gps issues uh it's part of the experience yep we always get lost
two slices
i want to give a shout out to chicago's best youtuber louis gusto we actually filmed on
his channel a pizza video and we went to this spot as the dollar pizza representative and
i remember it was good like that's why i put it in this video this already looks more like
a new york slice to me this is your school lunch style this isn't your bowling alley pizza this
isn't your papa john's this is a classic new york dollar slice all right here we go
it's good but i think it's been sitting for a while that's a problem with like
any slice spot where the pizza's been sitting for a long time
it loses a certain something a certain freshness but you know it's got a nice chew
okay cheese to sauce ratio you know i think for this part of manhattan this is solid i agree the
flavor was almost there but it's the fact that it's like just doesn't taste as fresh that's what
we've had yeah we should have asked them to heat it up it's a dollar we don't complain i won't make
any real complaints about it unless it's ice cold and it's not yeah and the flavor is there you can
definitely taste some effort put in this slice it just so happened that we got it at the wrong time
my inspiration for today you stand out like a cone back in the village old stomping grounds
now imagine the barber shop sold the 99 cent pizza while you got your haircut
million dollar idea two slices
thank you
we've got two plates nice round paper plates eco-friendly right we're setting up our own
outdoor dining spot for like five minutes hope the restaurant doesn't get too pissed
you know in five years this might not even exist anymore that's a sad fact that dollar pizza
is going away going away with something extinct what's something extinct dodo
bird the dinosaur anything more clever than that fidget spinner while planking
oh yeah it's a little crunchy tomato sauce actually has a little zesty flavor to it
all of a sudden this slice just made you realize what a dollar pizza actually could be
and why it's so special in new york and that's also why we don't want it to go away imagine
dollar pizza places already are running at razor thin margins the cost of food is going up in
general everywhere in the u.s so a lot of famous dollar pizza places are raising your prices two
bros is now a dollar fifty my all-time favorite percy's is now two dollars a 99-cent pizza sign
in new york city is the equivalent of driving in small town america and seeing the golden arches
like you know pretty much exactly what you're gonna get or golden corral or golden corral yeah
i smell that john oh i smell it washington square park you know what they say
the grass is greener here
so there's three things you need to know about dollar pizzas and he'll do like a zoom in zoom out
what's your secret recipe
are a lot of the dollar pizza is owned by people from bangladesh yeah i didn't know
that all right i mean france jackson heights oh thank you so much this looks good i'm gonna save
you the trouble you can leave the comment he's eating six slices of pizza and drinking diet coke
for me dollar pizza was always either i'm walking by and i just want a snack
or it's late night you drank a lot you want a little something before you go to bed here we go
crunchy pretty good cheese sauce ratio on it nice size slice nothing to complain about i
think of all the places we've had today if i had to take it out of town or in
and just to give you the prototypical dollar pizza experience like this is it right here this slice
right here i would go to bed content ready to fight my hangover the next day if this was my last
slice of the night a slice a day keeps the doctor away probably not true probably not true but
check out our cheap eats playlist here and tell me in the comments have you ever had
dollar pizza before i'm curious guys thank you so much for watching as always until next time