Torontoist reader Charles claims to have received a used tube of Vaseline with his bagged slice of vegetarian pizza. He wrote:
Yes, this is how the slice came: a used and soiled “Convenience Size” bottle of Vaseline moisturizer, as found in a Pizza Pizza, bagged slice of pizza; purchased in-store at 8:30PM (EST) 23 February 2008, Yonge St near Bloor St (Toronto, Canada).
Charles and his two friends thought the tube was a prank—our first reaction, too—and called Pizza Pizza to complain. They were promptly offered a free small pizza and an investigation.
How could that even happen? A hair, fine, whatever. A fake eyebrow, ok, it’s getting late. But a whole !@#$ tube of Vaseline? Seriously, how do you not notice that? Gross.
Dame Mas Vaselina [Torontoist]
(Photo: Charles DH Crosbie)
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If he used a credit card he could of made a charge back.
Oh give me a break. You get a free prize with your Cocoa Pebbles and you’re all excited. You get a free price with your pizza and suddenly its ‘gross!’
ok, how is the bottle “soiled” in this case? Sounds like the guy is writing to make it sound as bad as he could. A NORMAL way of writing it would be “There was an opened bottle of vasaline in the package.”
Porn + Pizza = ???
I thought that was how canadians generally eat their pizza.
now im confused.
@discounteggroll:
Milhouse likes vaseline on toast..
@discounteggroll: That IS how Canadians eat thier pizza. I should know I am Canadian!!!
Is this guy who wrote in a foreigner?
In the US places like McDonalds give you ketchup packets, how is this any different?
Pizza Pizza (winner of the least creative store name, ever) pizza tastes like cardboard, I guess the Vasoline was to soften it up a bit.
If it wasn’t for white trash and drunk douchebags Pizza Pizza would’ve gone out of business long ago. Next time at least go to Big Slice.
Isn’t Pizza Pizza the slogan for Little Caesars? At least it was in TV ads about 10 years ago.
That’s damn sight better than some of the stuff I saw people put on the pizzas when I worked at a delivery joint in highschool. Tip: Never send a delivered pizza back because something was wrong with it.
Oh wow! Is this some kind of nonsubtle warning that someone added “special sauce” to your food?
I dont understand how this accidentally could have happened. Doesnt make sense.
@forgottenpassword: OH, man… that is just sooooo wrong. In soooo many ways!
Thanks for the laugh 
@SarcasticDwarf: Hi, these are my pics and it was my friend who bought the slice. I stupidly used the word “soiled” to try and describe that it was covered in grime, pizza grease and the like.
the pizza still looks good
video’s here:
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@timmus: Pizza Pizza’s been around since ’67, and Little Caesars started using “Pizza! Pizza!” in 1979. I wonder if our close proximity (the Ilitch’s are from SE Michichan) to Canada had anything to do with the slogan, as it’s not unusual to receive Canadian television here. I grew up with Canadian television not realizing at the time that there was a difference. (Things like “homo milk” aren’t funny to me.)
I guess if an employee had the tube on the same counter that the pizza was bagged in? But why the heck would you be putting on lotion if you work with food?
Suspicious, but ookey all the same. Blech.
@riverstyxxx:
Step 1: Porn
Step 2: Pizza
Step 3: Profit
Finally, we know what step 2 is in the process!
That’s pretty disgusting.
credit cards are evil… unrelated
@savager: He used Interac
stop whining! its called a “free gift with purchase”. clinique and lancome have been doing it for years.
@riverstyxxx: He don’t use jelly, he don’t use jam. He uses vaseline.
I’ve got Lemon without my request, I’ve got hair (from the head) on my food. How come I’ve never get strange things when I order something? BTW It is gross! They should had given him a large pizza instead a small one.
If this was Johnny Rockets, they would have charged extra for the vaseline.
Cue “It is obviously the customer’s fault” comments in 5…4…3…2…1
It is obviously the customers fault.
(sorry, ideagirl made me say it)
so i guess there’s some “special sauce” on the pizza, if you know what i mean…hahaa
it was open, it is clearly he fault of management, the guy in the back was wanking off instead off making pizzas, then boss came around and the freaked throwing the vaseline in the bag with his “soiled hands,” but “THIS IS ONLY A TASTE OF things to COME”
Delicious. It was obviously the customers fault for not telling them to hold the vaseline! I always be sure to when ordering a pizza to “hold the lubricants and various body fluids/parts/hair.”
He should’ve just been happy that he got a free bottle of vaseline with his order, thats like a 5 dollar value!
They’re not going to do anything. I had a pizza pizza driver screaming f*ck you at me while walking through my building, and never heard a thing about it after complaining to corporate. They have no control over their franchises.
I guess if more of us REALLY thought about it, when we eat out we never really know, unless we were to go into the kitchen and check it out personally, what kind of people are preparing our food or in what condition or how clean the kitchen is. Or even if the people back ther might be sick with God knows what.
It really is something to think about.
What, Canadians never heard of putting Vaseline on their slice? Makes it go down easier. Also putting the Vaseline on first makes the garlic power stick better.
At pizza pizza you watch them pick the slice, put it in the oven, take it out, cut it and put it in the bag. Why wasn’t he paying attention? Half the time they do they fish the wrong kind out of the oven and you have to point it out to them anyway.
At least the yonge and bloor location has fewer crazies than Church and Wellesley :S
Time to go to work,
Work all day,
We need porn and pizza hey!
We won’t stop until we have vaseline!
Yum tum yummy tum tay!
Time to go to work,
Work all night,
Search for porno yay!
We won’t stop until we have vaseline!
Yum tum yummy tum tay!
EEW
From my last visit to southern Ontario (and Niagara Falls), I must say that I love Canadians. Generally a warm and friendly bunch.
I think Pizza Pizza added that tube of Vaseline as a courtesy to benefit those who desire an even greasier pizza. Apply liberally!
@k8supergrover: I agree with everything you said.
I smell the work of a competitor.
As the first sentence says “claims”.
file this under the syringe in the coke can level of credibility.
Is he sure that’s not just a tube of a new creamy garlic sauce?! Pizza Pizza references ftw!
ok. Working and living in Toronto, and having the unfortunate experience of eating at Pizza Pizza before, I call shenanigans on this one, and here’s why:
At most Pizza Pizza locations in the city (all the outlets I’ve been to) you see the pizza slices in front of you. You choose your flavour, they heat it in the oven, then cut and bag it. This entire process occurs in front of the customer. At no time have I ever seen any employee take a slice away to cut and bag.
That is the only nice thing about Pizza Pizza; their process is out in the open for you to freely watch.
This joker most likely put the vaseline on himself.
There’s all kind of wrongs in this…
I ordered a pizza at a local place once, me and the wife were eating it in the car at night. Felt what was like hair on a slice. I turned on the dome light and there were pubes in the pizza. The wife puked, i wanted to but couldnt.
When I went back to the store I showed them the pubes (trust me they were not head hairs). They said they would only give me back the money for about 1/2 the pizza that was left in the box. They told me to be quiet, so I started to walk around showing the pube infested slice to people eating there.
I dont know what happened when I left, but everyone I showed it to agreed they were pubes and sat there stareing at their pizza they were eating.
/I got a full refund
//should have sued them
@dualityshift: Because at no time in the transaction, reheating and bagging does a person look away. You could look at other people, a tv, a noise outside, grab a soda from the fridge, use the bathroom, or call ahead for carryout.
thank you for that suggestion, I will remember that in the future when I order food…seriously thanks for the good laugh@magnus150:
@cde:
First off: In the open, transparent operational concept at Pizza Pizza encourages you to keep an eye on your order. Frankly, anyone who doesn’t watch their food in this type of restaurant get what they deserve.
Second: Most Drink fridges are behind the counter at Pizza Pizza. Not to say all, but more often than not.
People who call in for carryout pizza slices are morons.
I still say this guy set this up himself to see what he could get from Pizza Pizza.