Frozen Pizza Review - California Pizza Kitchen

Today I picked up the "Sicilian Recipe" thin crust pizza by California Pizza Kitchen. They were 2 for $11 and there was a $.75 coupon. I don't normally jump on anything with California in the title, but the coupon got me. I really hate California on many levels, but it has real street cred as a place of innovation. I'll give it that. Plus, getting pummeled into the earth by a salt water wave is both humbling and exhilarating. There's nothing quite like having salt water run out of your nose three hours after being at the beach. But I digress.
I followed the directions and let the oven get up to 400 degrees before putting the pie in. As with the Palermo's pizza, I was impressed with the vacuum packaging. There was a generous layer of large pepperoni slices, but the sausage was barely visible.

Some people don't like thin crust because they think the crust is too "cracker" like. I have to admit that I'm not only a cracker but that I also prefer "cracker" to goo. Giordano's is total goo in my book. After 18 minutes in the oven this CPK pizza was looking pretty good.

They did a good job of spicing it up with oregano and basil, but honestly I would never buy this pizza again. The crust didn't firm up enough. Who needs a soggy cracker?