Answer (please note, we are not answering the question “is Domino’s Pizza good“): not really, minus one.
Domino’s Pizza carries 4 different crust options: Brooklyn, Deep Dish Crust and Hand Tossed Crust all have whey. The only vegan-friendly crust is the Thin Crust. This does not contain whey or other nasty dough conditioners. You can view the Ingredients Listing to verify. The pizza sauce is vegan-friendly. The crust preparation may involve non-vegan items like the Garlic Oil Blend — contains whey — or the Phase Oil (butter flavored oil) — contains “natural flavors.”
If you can convince and trust your local Domino’s to meet all your needs, you may have a thin chance of getting a vegan-friendly pizza. Before eating anything from this chain, I would suggest contacting your local pizzeria. Even better, go hit up your local vegan pizza spot. I can’t say enough good things about my local spots: Peace O Pie and Veggie Planet. Check em out!
Also youll need to make some creamy soy cheese. See the link for and follow the recipe.Lay out your pre-made crust. There are several kinds at your local health food storepick according to your preference.Rub 1 tablespoon of olive oil evenly over the surface of the crust and sprinkle with granulated garlic.Pick your tomato sauceAs you see I am using Trader Joes Tomato Basil Marinara which is actually quite good on its own. I have become a tomato sauce snob over the years and usually prefer to make my own. However for this monstrosity of a meal we will keep the sauce simple.Slather some sauce aroundlight or heavyyou decide this recipe is interactive.Now let the adventure begin!!Add the nuggets covering 1 3 of the pizza. NextAdd your assembled Boca burgers to another third of the pizza. I am using 3 however smaller sized crusts may only need 2. Are you drooling or shaking your head in disgust! Im partial.Now the fries to the last third. Yes Im speechless too.A tantalizing view from above.Add your creamy soy cheese liberally to the Vegan McAwesomeness.All cheesed up and ready to go into your 425 degree preheated oven for 15 minutes.A little pre-cooked cheesy close up.McWhaaaaatt! Fresh out of the oven!Wowlook at those McMountains of Vegan McFabulousness!!!Only one thing left to doSlice and Eat!! Your little ole pizza cutter wont get though this terrain so use a good sized kitchen knife.
Haha, I thought this was a joke! Why would any vegan eat at Dominos?
Your guess is as good as mine. But if they wanted to, they could.
Why wouldn’t a vegan eat at Domino’s? We live in the same world you do and we also like pizza. Personally, I don’t care about traces of whey in the crust – I pretty much just order veggie pizza with no cheese and don’t concern myself with minor ingredients. Life’s too short to worry about such small matters and I don’t think that little bit of whey really makes a difference. My kitchen is 100% vegan, but when I eat out, I focus on enjoying myself rather than obsessing over every ingredient.
That said, I’m happy to know that the thin crust and also the gluten-free crust are both vegan. Given that too much gluten makes my skin break out, I’ll probably order gluten-free crust most of the time and I’ll have the comfort of knowing that such a pizza is 100% vegan
A vegan would eat at Domino’s because, if you are stuck in the Houston Airport Marriott, like I am right now, with a cancelled flight and no other options but some place that delivers, your choices are Papa John’s or Domino’s.
Agreed! Just because you are vegan does not mean you will never eat ‘junk’ food.
Some ppl might be vegan for health reasons, but a lot of ppl are vegan because of
animal cruelty. Plus, it is not easy to be vegan and fast food free, when you are not
a home body, travel a lot or work long hours and are exhausted to cook or hunt all
over town some nights for vegan food!
I have to disagree with the notion that Dominoes pizza is potentially vegan. My experience of dominoes is that they use the same cooking implements, knives, chopping boards and surfaces for all their food making it entirely likely that meat or animal products will make it into your pizza. My local Dominoes store puts a disclaimer on it’s vegetarian pizza that they can’t guarantee there will be no meat on it. So I wouldn’t trust them an inch.
Also, cheap fast food joints typically use the worst, cheapest quality meats and dairy products (read: made in cruel over crowded conditions). Even if you aren’t eating their meat you are still giving them your money and thus endorsing what they do. That is why I am amazed that any vegan (esp. ones that are vegan because of animal cruelty, Ana) would support Dominoes.
“Even if you aren’t eating their meat you are still giving them your money and thus endorsing what they do.”
Okay K-bobo, but you have to look at the bigger picture here… Dominos is a huge pizza chain that is not going to suffer from losing the business of America’s relatively minuscule vegan population. On the other hand, using your money to endorse vegan options at chains like Dominos will show major companies that there is a market for cruelty-free products– and the more chains begin to offer vegan options, the easier it will be for the average American to eat vegan at least some of the time. Sparing the lives of millions of animals by making veganism more accessible is a much more reasonable and attainable goal than bringing down every major pizza chain by boycotting their business because someone’s pepperoni touched your pizza… Don’tcha think?
THANK YOU!
Oh jesus christ this is why people laugh at vegans. Im vegan and I will eat a vegan meal from anywhere if I want to. Stop being all high and mighty because your vegans. No one cares. Trust me. Take the sticks out of your behind and relax a little bit it won’t hurt you I promise. Supporting any veggie options from anywhere matters. People eating less meat in a week matters. Not everyone has to be the same as you. Im vegan because I care about animal rights and I think that every single thing people do to cut out animal products in their life matters. Stop being closed minded and rude. The more accessible veggie options are for people the more they will choose those options. Its about the cause not judging other vegans.
I find some of the comments refreshing (such as yours) because I was recently forced to leave a vegan fb page because I could not stand the up tight, close minded, ill informed behavior that makes all vegans seem completely insane.
I should have proofread this before submitting. My apologies.
Thanks, Chunk. We try not to sound to aggro when making the world a better place.
Amen to all these soul-livin’ vegans spreading the love, and not the judge.
It really smells when you just start a vegan diet, look for advice and just find a bunch of self worshipping, pretentious jerks. Kind of makes me reconsider even calling myself vegan if thats the group of people I am going to be lumped into.
I find that making the right choices and sharing these options with otherwise nonvegans opens the door to more people to see that there are easily accessible and very tasty options at any restaurant. I can not save every animal but I can educate others by showing them the way they can eat meat and dairy free anywhere and still be satisfied .