Food Website Names An Illinois-Made Frozen Pizza As The Very Best

When I was a kid, I didn’t even know that you could actually get a pizza from a restaurant. It’s not that I’d never had pizza, it’s just that the only kind I’d ever had seemed to magically appear out of our own oven, and only on occasional Sunday nights.

We generally only had a rotation of two different brands of frozen pizza at my childhood home; one was Gino’s pizza, and the other, made right here in Rockford, Illinois was Maria’s frozen pizza (yes, that Maria’s, over on Cunningham). I personally favored Maria’s.

Then, we moved when I was 12, and there was a wonderful pizza joint nearby in our new town that ended up being the place where I had my first non-frozen pizza (followed by several hundred more).

However, frozen pizza will always be a favorite of mine.

There Are So Many Different Brands And Types Of Frozen Pizza Available Today That It Would Take Far Too Long To Even Try To List Them

Plus, let’s be honest about this. A lot of them are just plain awful, so I’m not going to waste your time on a 400-entry list of frozen pizzas when I could just as easily give you some stats about the top frozen pizza brands in America (hat tip to Evidnt.co and PizzaNeed.com).

A few key brands dominate the frozen pizza market:

1. DiGiorno: 16% of market share
2. Red Baron: 14%
3. Totino’s Pizza Snacks: 9%
4. Hot Pockets Pizza Snacks: 8%
5. Freschetta: 8%
6. Tombstone: 6%

• The global frozen pizza market is valued at around $18 billion
• Around $6 billion in frozen pizzas is sold every year in the US
• DiGiorno sells about $1.2 billion worth of frozen pizza per year
• Around 203 million Americans ate frozen pizza last year
• Nearly 2 out of 3 American households say they eat frozen pizza regularly
• The average frozen pizza costs around $7

A Foodie Website Decided To Rank Frozen Pizzas Here In The US By Which Ones Taste The Most Like Delivery Pizzas–And An Illinois-Made Favorite Took The Number-One Spot

EatThis.com, also known as Eat This, Not That! in their piece, “The Best Frozen Pizzas That Taste Just Like Delivery” came out with a Top 5 list, and here’s who came in at number two through number five:

2. Motor City Pizza

3. Newman’s Own Uncured Pepperoni

4. DiGiorno Four Cheese Stuffed Crust

5. Tombstone Frozen Pizza

Coming in at number-one in EatThis’s rankings is…

EatThis.com:

The best frozen pizza is frankly a no-brainer: Chicago Home Run Pizza is a staple in our home for good reason. It’s not only huge but absolutely delicious (although if you don’t have a big freezer storing it can be a pain). “The most impressive thing to me about Home Run Inn frozen pizzas is that the parts of the pizza (sauce, cheese, dough, toppings) are basically just made with the ingredients it takes to make them.