Restaurant Review: Porno Pizza

In mid 2007, a new pizza place named Porno Pizza, came to the city of Winnipeg. Just the name alone makes eyebrows raise in disapproval, people pause in surprise and chuckles emerge, Porno Pizza. It seems like there are pizza places on every corner of the city. In fact there are so many, that is amazing they can stay in business. It almost seems they are more common than the corner stores which dot the city's older neighbourhoods. To stand out from all the other similar restaurants in that city, a pizza place would have to come up with something very different or unique. Of course we had to see what the fuss was about. We are adult after all.

Sex sells and so does pizza, but who would have thought they might sell together? One ingenious and daring entrepreneur decided to give it a try and created Porno Pizza. Now don't think it is the corner adult bookstore. When we called and asked where they were situated in the city, figuring we would take a photo
of the store front for the article, we were told they didn't have a store front like most pizza places. They have a website and a phone number. They deliver pizzas. The twist is what they deliver along with the pizza.

I have to admit I was a bit embarrassed even ordering from Porno Pizza. I kept thinking they would drive up in a car with the lit car roof sign like they show on their website. I could imagine the ensuing guffawing or sneering from neighbours when the Porno Pizza emblazoned car drove up to our building. I could always say it was for one of the other apartments in our complex. Curiosity and some frank awe of someone with the guts to try such a controversial business, got the better of me and we ordered a couple pizzas from them.

The wait was an over an hour. Apparently Porno Pizza is doing a roaring business. Finally they arrived. The car was just an ordinary car. Expecting a neighbourhood reaction, this plain everyday small car was somewhat anticlimactic. I wanted to include the reactions in this article and review. Maybe they only have a few cars with the car top sign, or maybe they have none. I never found out based on our Porno Pizza delivery. Maybe if they had known I was reviewing their product and service, we would have had the special car treatment and flashing lights and honking horns. Maybe I am glad they didn't. I haven't decided yet.

The driver got out, buzzed the front door and came up. She arrived at the door with two pizza boxes. We paid her and she left. Two very plain white pizza boxes, without even a company name or logo emblazoned across the top, sat on the table, awaiting our perusal. They reminded me of those magazines wrapped in plain paper that get sent to peoples homes, so no one will suspect what is inside. The problem with that is everyone knows, despite the attempts at privacy and modesty.

The pizza itself was average, but it did arrive still warm. The prices were competitive for the area. It was no better than any of the other dozen or so pizza places we had tried in Winnipeg. It was no worse. It was fine and filled our bellies, like pizza is supposed to do.

The porno part was under the pizza itself in the form of a definitely x rated photograph. There was a different one in each box. It is not for children . The drivers ask for I.D. to prove you are 18 or over before they give you the pizza.

Now with or without personal opinion as to whether or not I approve of it, I have to say the idea is totally ingenious. Entrepreneur Corey Wildeman came up with a brainstorm on this one. His website is quite funny and suggestive, listing pizzas under such names as The Missionary Position (Old Reliable), The Climax (Loaded), and the Hawaii 5 "ho" (Hawaiian), to name a few. It is actually quite clever in its humour. He must have had a lark creating it. Corey has name rights to the business. You can contact him from the website, if you are daring enough to want to open up your own franchise with the Porno Pizza name. If you know this city at all, somehow Winnipeg seems an appropriate place to launch this initial venture.

Check their website out if you want to read more, but do be aware, it and the Porno Pizza delivery service, is for adults only.