Terry's Pizza Lives!
Submitted by Oculus on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 9:55pm.
This might be old news to you. But, I was in the Star Supermarket on Hwy 72 and for the first time saw a sign for Terry's pizza in the back. I thought they had gone out of business, but sure enough there was a fire oven and many Terry's pizza boxes laying around. Turns out Star Supermarked bought the rights and formula, and possibly the ovens. It was also posted in the December 22, 2006 Huntsville Times and here on al.com. I didn't eat there much when the restaurants were in business, and I'm not sure if the pizzas will taste the same, but the name lives on.
I ate at Terry's exactly once. After I experienced almost-mediocre pizza in a not-so-alluring atmosphere I decided that Terry's has a franchise built on name recognition and not quality.
The old Greenbrier in Madison is the same way. Everyone raves about it, but when I ate there I had mediocre, ultra-deep-fried food served on picnic tables. No thanks.
The new Greenbrier, however, is excellent.
Terry's Pizza was my favorite pizza. It was better than Donato's. I sat outside the Terry's parking lot for a good while the afternoon they shut their doors. I, however, haven't had the Terry's branded pizza from Star Market. I know several people who have and like them. Star Market is always just a little out of the way and so I don't know when I will get a Terry's Pizza. I'm sure I will eventually.
What's Terry's Pizza? I remember all the hubbub last year about them closing down, but what's so special about 'em? Is it like Midnight said, just a name?
It was one of the first pizza eateries in Alabama. It was the first in Huntsville. They had 3 locations in HSV.
IMHO Midnight is right about Terry's and wrong about Greenbrier... but I'm a sucker for hushpuppies.
+1
+1, gotta love that little grease pit in the middle of the cotton fields
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