They’re gobbling down these slices.
Pino’s Pizza of Deer Park has something savory to be thankful for this Turkey Day — their viral Thanksgiving pizza pie, which is served with sliced roasted turkey breast, gravy, sausage and apple cornbread stuffing and topped off with cranberry sauce.
Customers trot from far and wide to get their hands on the $34.99 pie — and this month alone, they’ve already sold 300 and counting.
Joseph Barbieri, owner of Pino’s Pizza of Deer Park, got the idea for the Thanksgiving pie after he had too many leftover turkeys at his Italian market. Courtesy of Pinos Pizza
“People from Toms River, New Jersey came in to buy it,” owner Joseph Barbieri, aka Pino, told The Post.
“The biggest request I get is, ‘Can you ship it?’ But I haven’t figured out that one yet.”
The TDay pizza craze began last November, when Barbieri posted a video of him crafting the unconventional pie — spreading gravy on mozzarella-topped dough, then sprinkling the sausage and turkey and completing the creation by drizzling cranberry sauce over it.
In just two days, the clip had 5 million views on Instagram and over 3 million on TikTok.
“It just went insane. We probably sold over 500 pies,” he said.
A native of Calabria, Italy, Barbieri first came up with the idea when he thought outside the [pizza] box after making too many turkeys at one of the three locations of his Italian market, Salpino.
“Prior to Thanksgiving, I got a phone call from my son, and he said, ‘Dad, I think we screwed up, we oversold six meals and we don’t have the turkeys.’ So I made a couple of phone calls and was able to get 10 turkeys from our meat suppliers,” he recalled.
The Thanksgiving pie is made using a grandma pizza shell. Courtesy of Pinos Pizza
At 4 a.m. on the following Monday morning, Barbieri went to the pizzeria to use its oven to cook the newly arrived turkeys so as not to disturb the workflow at the store.
“By 11 o’clock, I get another phone call, ‘Dad you’re gonna kill me. I made a mistake. We didn’t oversell six, we have six more to go.’ … In the meantime, my social media guy calls and says he is going to post something for Thanksgiving, so I said, ‘Wait a second, can you come down there?’”
The rest goes down in the history of Pino’s, which opened in 2020 and is known for its over-the-top specialty pies like Hot Dog, French Onion Soup, Escarole and Beans and Mac and Cheese.
Pino’s also serves a Christmas pie made with whipped ricotta, sweet sliced ham, and topped with homemade pesto and cranberry sauce. Courtesy of Pinos Pizza
Barbieri has since expanded his Thanksgiving-themed offerings to include calzones, stromboli and empanadas — all stuffed with the same ingredients.
He also makes special pies for holidays such as Memorial Day and Valentine’s Day and is already gearing up for his Christmas creation — made with whipped ricotta, sweet sliced ham, and topped with homemade pesto and cranberry sauce.
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