Episode 86: Pie-ning for Pizza at Trader Joe's

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We often talk about traveling the world to find the most delicious products we can offer, so we can bring them to our customers at a great value. Decades ago, when we began our search for truly excellent frozen pizza, it occurred to us that maybe the best place to go was the birthplace of the stuff… Italy. Turns out we were right, and our frozen pizzas became the stuff of lore – they’re just that good. Our frozen pizza selection has evolved since those early days, yet some of our favorites still come from Italy. And perhaps even more striking, some of our favorites still come from the same supplier we serendipitously stumbled upon all those years ago. In this episode, we take you on a journey of pizza-rific proportions, visting this same Italian pizza producer and getting the inside scoop on how it all started, how they manage to make such delicious pies, and what the future may hold. Spoiler alert: the future is round, cheesy, and well-sauced.

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0:00.0	We have flown all the way from Southern California to Bologna, Italy.
0:07.0	And boy, are my arms tired.
0:09.0	Oh, wow.
0:10.0	If we translate that old joke into Italian, I wonder, will it be funny?
0:14.0	You know, I'm hoping so because it's absolutely not funny in English.
0:17.0	Sometimes Americans travel to trace their family roots.
0:24.8	We're in Italy to trace the roots of a whole bunch of pizzas in the Trader Joe's
0:26.7	freezer. Mamma
0:28.7	Mia, this is going to be a tasty
0:30.7	episode. Let's go
0:32.8	inside Trader Joe's.
0:45.3	Thank you. side Trader Joe's. I'm Tara Miller, Director of Words and Phrases and Clauses. And I'm Matt Sloan, the culture and innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
0:49.3	You know, speaking of culture, we are surrounded by it here in the Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna. I mean, we're at sort of the
0:58.0	top of Italy, the top of the booth. As they say here, manjabane redispesso amamoto, which holds
1:05.3	its meaning when translated into English, but doesn't sound nearly as romantic. Eat well, laugh often,
1:11.6	love much. We are going to eat and hopefully we will laugh
1:14.6	and we're going to have to figure out some place to grab a bite right here in Bologna.
1:18.6	No matter where we go, I have a feeling it's going to be delicious.
1:21.6	Well, let's start walking.
1:22.6	Wanna Santa? Good. Good.
1:30.3	We got here at the right time.
1:33.3	Oh yeah.
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