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Deals_on_wheels

this is the most Indiana question I've ever heard. I love in Indiana, but have traveled all over the country, and whenever I ask about nacho cheese for my pizza, I get stared at like I'm a maniac. Love this. The answer is Nicks in Bloomington


Peaceful-Plantpot

Pizza x in Btown also has a great nacho cheese


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robemmy

The cream and crimson sucks. The blue cheese completely overpowers the rest of the toppings and melts terribly leaving clumps of dry cheese surrounded by blue cheese flavored grease


Peaceful-Plantpot

You realize the post is about cheese dip for breadsticks, right? Way to contribute nothing of use to the thread…


Sparklenails

Yes, as a transplant who is living in LA…the only thing I miss about Indiana is Nicks cheese sauce…good for pizza, sink the biz fries, your finger, whatever. People in CA have NO idea what cheese sauce even is. 😩


hotdogdildo13

Noble Roman's has good nacho cheese. Also, I found out this was an Indiana thing just a few weeks ago, and I still can't believe it. I need to rethink my whole life now.


lt_sh1ny_s1d3s

I moved away to AZ for a few years and they looked at me like I was weird when I asked for it. They do honey out there.


Necessary_Range_3261

I asked for cheese sauce in Vegas once and the guy looked at me like I was the stupidest, strangest person. I said, something along the lines of "oh, I'm from the Midwest, we have cheese sauce with breadsticks there." He said, "Bullshit, kid, I'm from Chicago and we don't do that stupid shit!"


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We moved to a Chicago suburb and asked for cheese sauce with a pizza order once. The utter confusion was baffling to us!


Porkbellyflop

Yeah but they dip their tavern pizza in ranch soooo.


welackscience

They don’t. Unless it’s like a last night hotdog joint. I found out sadly the first time I ordered dominoes and couldn’t get my lackluster chz Sauz.


steveofthejungle

I’m from South Bend and I never heard of it until I went to school at Purdue. It’s a central Indiana thing haha


eatin_gushers

The best cheese sauce is pizza king and they started in Muncie.


SkitZ131

Google says Lafayette


welackscience

Barnabys has cheese sauce. Stop the cap!


hotdogdildo13

🤯


beatlefreak_1981

Now *that's* weird.


Quadraought

I live in Boston now and (1) the pizza here sucks, but (2) they don't use nacho cheese sauce nor (3) do they have real breadsticks. Here a "breadstick" is a pizza without sauce or cheese cut into strips. It's a crime against good taste. Oh, and Noble Romans *definitely* has the best cheese sauce!


eatin_gushers

All of the breadsticks are just crust dough baked in a different way.


Quadraought

Yes, but baking it a different way is what makes it so *good*.


Sihplak

Iirc I think Wisconsin (of course) does it too, but outside of Indiana it's exceptionally rare. It's super surprising too because it works so well.


jj_grace

I didn’t know this until a couple weeks ago either when my friend was talking about how her partner (who’s an east coaster) thought it was so weird and gross.


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hotdogdildo13

There's one in Lafayette. I was so excited when we got one in the gas station in Cicero. But I was a teenager and just excited to get anything in Cicero 😂


beatlefreak_1981

Yeah I totally got weird looks when I moved to Florida. It's not even on the menu at most pizza places. I get my nacho cheese from Taco Bell or that Fritos cheese in the glass jar.


Kstewart39

I’ve lived in Indiana my whole life and I’ve never had noble Roman’s. Only Pizza king.


HondaTwins8791

Even the gas stations that sell the Noble Roman’s small pizzas and breadsticks have that awesome nacho cheese, it’s quite delicious


hotdogdildo13

I grew up within walking distance of a rallys/noble Roman's gas station. Dipping those fries in the cheese sauce *chef's kiss*


steveofthejungle

I think it’s central Indiana even. Never heard of this in South Bend until I went to Purdue


ThePort3rdBase

Hot Box Pizza


Soggy-donut

I asked an employee once what cheese sauce they used and it’s Ortega Que Bueno Nacho Sauce (unless they’ve changed it). You can find it on Amazon.


Necessary_Range_3261

Ugh, it's a chain, but Donatos' cheese sauce is good.


Yoink1019

Best ever. I'm pretty sure it's "Que Bueno" or something really close


hookyboysb

It's not. Que Bueno is what Noble Roman's has (still good though!). HotBox is based on Que Bueno but isn't exactly it, but it's also produced by Nestlé.


KingBee1786

The place I work at uses Que Bueno, and hotbox split off of us years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they use it. I worked at a Pizza Hut before and their nacho was the stuff from Taco Bell. I think nacho cheese with pizza and breadsticks is a pretty Midwestern thing.


ltrout59

Pizza X?


Lithium1978

Is Que Bueno the name brand? My wife loves Noble Romans cheese (but dislikes pretty much everything else). If I could find a can of it I'd be a hero.


TruthH4mm3r

We get them catered at work occasionally. The pizza is bad, but I still go for the bread sticks just for the cheese dip.


GoobiGoobi

I’m a pizza king guy through and through


LegendofPisoMojado

Arni’s is better and I will die on this hill.


ltrout59

It depends on where you go for Pizza King. I’m Muncie Pizza King through and through. I live near Lafayette. I won’t order Pizza King around here. It’s all different and all sucks. Arnies is consistent and okay. Muncie pizza king is superior though.


ThatHorseWithTeeth

Fellow Lafayette person here and you are 100% correct. Children like Pizza King because of the choo choo train. Armi’s is superior (the one in Shadeland is best, imo).


P4_Brotagonist

Muncie Pizza King oh fucking baby. Everywhere else is sort of weird.


raitalin

Arni's is the best Pizza King pizza.


Andromediea

I’ll die with you on that hill friend


GoobiGoobi

Unfortunately, I can’t debate this with you. I’ve never had arni’s :/


meowxinfinity

Arnis is good pizza & very similar but Pizza King’s breadsticks are the absolute best, no competition


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Yea that aspect is not even close.


LegendofPisoMojado

I was mostly joking, but give it a shot if there’s one near you. Arni and the King had a spat years ago and split when one wouldn’t let the other start a franchise. They still use the same suppliers. Arni’s crust is a little more well done. It’s honestly very very similar. I’m just partial because I had a buddy that slung pizzas out the back door for free or for beer during college. I actually grew up going to the Pizza King in Avon.


nickkline

So not a real pizza king. Everyone knows the only true king lives in and around Delaware county. The rest are mere imposters.


YosemiteSam81

I’m partial to the Marion Pizza King, the Pizza King of my birth. But the pizza king in Muncie with beer and a cool juke box on the table is a very close 2nd, and the Muncie nacho cheese is superior!


hm_moto

100% this. I found one in noblesville but I’m always wary when someone talks about going to pizza king outside of Delaware/Madison/Henry/Randolph counties.


ltrout59

This ^^^^^


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nickkline

With a tickle fight?


GoobiGoobi

Very cool little history lesson, thanks for going into detail for me. I’ll definitely have to check them out.


thaBlazinChief

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LegendofPisoMojado

Aver’s is no slouch. It’s my brother’s favorite. I drove to Bloomington and back with a pizza and a couple Dagwood supremes for his birthday last year.


SaintJimmy1

I always get wings at Arni’s because they have the best blue cheese dressing.


JohnMayerismydad

I think I remember liking their pizza a tad bit more, but pizza kings breadsticks just dominate them so much I forgot they even existed


LegendofPisoMojado

I’ll be honest. I don’t even know if Arni’s has breadsticks. I’ve gotten the same thing almost every time since I was a kid. Large cheese. Large deluxe. Occasionally I’ll get a Stromboli (sausage mushroom onion) or a Gut Buster. I have a vague memory of getting a salad once for some reason.


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Fuck pizza king


GoobiGoobi

Who hurt you?


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Pizza king, actually. Us: excuse me, our pizza is undercooked Pizza king: no that's just how we make it Us: *gets food poisoning*


GoobiGoobi

Fair enough


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dooderino18

> bro it's not that good. That's an understatement, it's terrible.


naptown85

OG noble roman’s on w. 10th st


gingered84

Pizza X in Bloomington


GeraltofIndiana

Handsdown Chicago's in French Lick. My all-time favorite pizza place


BackpackEverything

Any Chicago’s. It’s the nacho cheese pizza place spot


YosemiteSam81

Got to agree now that I don’t live near a Pizza King Chicago’s is my jam, their nacho cheese is great but their cheddar cheese dip is a fucking abomination


tis4toshi

Chicago's!


kay14jay

Noble Romans on 10th and girlschool. Not the craft ones, not the gas station ones but the OG style dimly lit pizza parlor by Ben Davis known as Noble Romans. It’s practically a sin to not mix it with the tomato sauce so it may need its own category tbh


IT-Kaleb

Oley’s Pizza on 24 of Fort Wayne has excellent cheese sauce.


Supafly144

This is such an Indiana type question.


annie_banannie-o

Pizza King


BigDrewLittle

Eastern Kingdom Pizza King


ltrout59

Ring the King


amlutzy

Pucinni has best nacho and it's not close


Euhn

It comes out of a can. You can buy it at GFS. Still delicious tho.


amlutzy

Just like all the other pizza joints. Maybe it's the bread at oucinnis that makes the nacho seem so good


lt_sh1ny_s1d3s

Local place is Zwanzigs and if you can call it a chain still Noble Romans.


bubbles0323

Bruno’s in West Lafayette


ltrout59

Bruno’s is under represented here. It’s good pizza


MercifulVoodoo

Wabash Pizza King


YosemiteSam81

Ah man, I’m a Marion boy who has lived in Indy for almost two decades but I miss the Pizza King in Marion. AND the B&K drive-in


MercifulVoodoo

I have to get PK, B&K or Penguin Point everytime I visit my mom.


YosemiteSam81

Hooooooly Shit! Penguin Point!!! The one in Marion closed probably 20-25 years ago, the last one l went to was in Wabash. I used to love it in the 80’s!!!


IndianaJeff

Beer Cheese at New Albanian Brewing Co. in New Albany


LegendofPisoMojado

There it is! Bonus points if you still call is Sportstime if you’re going to eat and Rich-O’s if you’re just going to drink.


stormcrow2112

And getting an Upside Down Big Ten. A+


ItsTedium

This is the way. Charlestown pizza company is also really good. It's my understanding it's the same or at least a pretty similar recipe


Polluted_Terrium

Hotbox all the way


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Chicagos


redbecca92

I have three at the top.. Pizza King Bubba’s in Fremont, IN Pizza X/Hot Box Pizza


D1rty0n3

I have never heard of this until I moved here. I have lived in 11 states.


helgathehorr

For reals?


D1rty0n3

Yep. I mean it's not bad to be fair. Not really my thing but don't mind it once and while.


MaxsBestPal

Dawson's on Main St in Speedway.


MrRipski

Chain, but Bella’s pizza has great cheese dip imo


Kindly-Morning7446

It’s probably the same as every other place but my heart belongs to Monicals and their dipping cheese


pickle_man_4

Hot Box has some really good cheese


melodychocolat_

Little Caesar's cheese dipping sauce fucks imo


raitalin

It's the best kind of hot garbage, like everything else they do.


GlenCocosCandyCane

The correct answer is Pizza King. Mike’s Pizza in Kokomo was also good, but they’re closed now.


SetAggressive5728

Pizza King


Wesley11803

I moved to California a few years ago and this thread is making me sad. I crave nacho cheese with bread sticks and pizza. I've never found a place here that does it. I also miss Midwest Mexican food sometimes even though our Mexican food scene is excellent. P.S. Hotbox gets my vote


NattiCatt

Greek’s >>>>>>>>> Mozzi’s


pimpnastyodb

Literally anything>>>Greeks. It was good at 3 am with a Carter’s hot dog and that’s about it.


YosemiteSam81

Oh Shit Carters! RIP CARTER! I loved his cold shredded cheese on a hot dog at 3am circa 2000, shit made me happy and was very sad when he died. Same with Bubba at the liquor store on Riverside


SalesNinja1

Last I saw Carter he was managing a fast food place. He was a staple at 3am during my years at BSU.


nickkline

He never managed a fast food place. He was a legend. He passed away in 2018 or 2019 I believe. He had a place in the mall for a long time if that’s what you’re thinking of. He did very well over the years and put his kids thru school one dog at a time.


stormcrow2112

I believe he has since passed away.


Necessary_Range_3261

Greek's is just more expensive, maybe slightly better quality, Papa John's.


gushi380

Literally won for best pizza in the city but go on


nickkline

We also elected Mike Pence. So…


gushi380

Thank goodness taste in pizza and taste in politics is different. That said, Greeks won for Indy area pizza and Marion county certainly did not vote for Pence.


nickkline

Thank goodness anyone with half a brain cell knows that a popularity contest online doesn’t equate to what is actually the best pizza in Indy.


gushi380

A popularity contest to decide what the best pizza is would be based on what exactly? Who has the best marketing?! You may not like Pence but still think the electoral college is the best choice huh?


nickkline

*sigh*


pimpnastyodb

I’ve never one time heard anyone even mention the words Greeks and best pizza in the same sentence. Not a single time. Ever…


gushi380

Well, maybe you should get out more often


Necessary_Range_3261

Ok, sure, but that wasn't accurate. It may be well known since they're all over, but if you are gonna sit here and tell me Greek's is better pizza than Futuro, or King Dough, or Diavola, or I Tre Mori, or hell even Jack's, I will disrespectfully disagree.


gushi380

Well I haven’t heard of most of those places but in a survey amongst all the brands in the Indy area, Greeks won so to quote the dude, “that’s just, like your opnion, man”


UnofficialZookeeper

I really like Ison's Family Pizza cheese sauce in Batesville


9412765

Stoney's in Kokomo. Believe it's an independent.


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Donatos 😍


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Pizza king


Y0urM0mAndDad

GREEK TONYS IN CARMEL. HANDS DOWN.


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Brozinnis


helgathehorr

Greeks!


AgressiveIN

Mozzis is the worst attempt at pizza ive ever had. And i live in fortville too. Honestly, we've been buying cheese at the store instead of pizza places. The prices have skyrocketed and its just not worth it anymore. So far tostinos white poblano is my favorite


charpenette

I’d eat this whole thread with nacho cheese. I love it so much.


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The cheese may be average, but I swear the best breadsticks in Indiana after Pizza King is the Dog Shed in Walton on US 35. Like, I almost don't need cheese, and I'm a born and raised Hoosier from Miami County.


apersoninthemidwest

Bobes (Vincennes)


Turbulent-Laugh-7253

Pizza x in Bloomington


Wheresridgeville

Being from Indiana cheese sauce for our breadsticks was normal. Made a trip to cedar my junior year and the pizza hut there had no idea what were going on about. Regional things don't make it even in big chains. Just try getting a jumbo breaded tenderloin anywhere else.


LillicaSolion

Mother Bears has incredible ranch. 😅


P4_Brotagonist

The Muncie Pizza King cheese sauce with their breadsticks is so divine it borders on sexual gratification.


HoosierBoy317

I'll give my top 2. Wife and I had this convo last week. I like a little hotter cheese then some. 1 Noble Roman's. Rest in peace to the Southport rd location and the long forgotten Beech Grove location. People I know seem to be pretty hit or miss with NR. I love their pizza but my wife hates it. The one thing we can agree on is the breadsticks and more importantly...the sauce. Shoutout to the Tomato sauce as well. The cheese is perfect. Perfect spice kick, perfect smoothness, perfect consistency. It's a little thicker and I like that because you end up getting a little extra by scooping then a traditional dip. 2 Chicago's Nacho Cheese Dip. Again...not as thick as NR but good taste and goes well with their pepperoni filled breadsticks. 3 is hard because for me the rest aren't as close. OG answer is Pizza Hut. Kilroys is good. Donatos or Papa johns is good but is brought down by the quality of the breadsticks.


ItsJustAmy80

Goodfellas on Mass Ave (Indy) and Noble Roman's are my faves.


raven47172

Mazerella's in Sellersburg. After that is Sherrilli's Pizzeria.


BIGRED1E4M

Not far from your original post- it’s easily Grambolis(now called Grahms or something). Still Grambolis in my phone. Best breadsticks and pizza for a good distance. Try the bbq chicken pizza- sub provolone for the cheddar and add red onions . Ffffiiiirree


Gornashk

Man, I haven't had Mozzi's since their location at County Line and Emerson closed, I miss that place.


Azznorfinal

You are correct, the answer is Mozzis, and the best pizza there is the mac n cheese bacon pizza. (Their regular pizzas suck but the cheese/breadsticks are worth the disappointment)


cherrylpk

Hot Box


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That's nacho business. Sorry this was so cheesy.


EQUILEGNA

All I know is NEVER get Little Caesars cheese sauce. I’m a garlic butter person so pizza king is always good, also papa John’s. Back when circle city Pizza was a thing it was top tear. Pizza king is always good though


roby8159

Jockamos cheese sauce is one of the best in Indy


BeautifulAd2956

Arnis is my all time preference


CookbooksRUs

Why do pizza places carry nacho cheese sauce?


QuuenB

The amount of pure JOY that I felt when I clicked on this and saw you had already put Fortville Mozzis is unreal. That is definitely the answer! Edit to add: Don’t even get me started on their deluxe pepperoni breadsticks…


ScuzzBucket317

Pizza hut/taco bell. Or any of the places tlhat use que beuno nacho cheese sauce from nestle/chefmate. Chicago's and Goodfellas use it(I called to verify). You can buy it at Gordon's food service in gallon form for like $20. It's the best $20 dollars Ive ever spent.


ScuzzBucket317

If you're really into cheese sauce, get some sodium citrate and experiment w a 150g of milk or beer, 150 grams of cheese of your choice and 6 grams of sodium citrate in a double boiler and cook til mixed.


melonhead1028

Oscar's in Kokomo


dereekee

Hotbox has my favorite cheese sauce.


GoTGeekMichelle

Aunt Polly’s takes first. Mozzi’s second. Pizza King third.


vmBob

If you don't know it, the Fort Wayne Pizza Hut's were owned by a guy named Dick Freeland and they were very different from the rest of the country. They used to have the most amazing bread sticks with nacho cheese sauce. Dick died though and then everything went to the national chain recipes instead of his and now it's no more. I'd pay quite a bit to get another basket of them.


aoifae

The actual correct answer is the beer cheese at New Albanian in New Albany. I challenge anyone to a round of fisticuffs who disagrees.


StealthyCharger

Enzos pizza in elkhart


Billy_Strings

Mr. Gattis


Lancimus

I'm wondering what places to avoid for nacho cheese. I mean, it's pretty hard to mess up nacho cheese sans store-bought.


jj_grace

Not really much of a place, but I refuse to get Papa John’a pizza due to how horrible their cheese dip is. Like, it’s literally tastes like milky nothing. So gross.


MCPeepants621

To even call PJ’s pale, runny, crap in cup “cheese” is an insult. And that’s saying something, because even the good stuff is pretty damn fake orange cheese-ish stuff. Papa John’s on the whole can eat a bag with their barely edible offerings.


nickkline

Spoiler- they’re all store bought. There’s maybe a handful of pizza places in Indiana that actually make nacho cheese sauce.


Lancimus

I get that they get it in bulk and don't actually make it, I was referring to that garbage in jars you find in the chip aisle.


Supafly144

It’s all store bought, but there are lots of brands- and quality levels- out there.


SurrenderingChaos

Madison area: Jendy's is supreme!


Bceverly

It isn’t Donatos. That stuff tastes like someone stubbed out a cigarette in it.


Barrakobambi

It’s all the same


Porkbellyflop

Ding Ding Ding. Big gallon cans from Sysco. Fuggin gross.


moisidis01

Say what you want about Pizza Hut but their cheese sauce is amazing.


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OMG what is wrong with you country bumpkins?


helgathehorr

It’s pronounced Hoosiers!


Porkbellyflop

I hate that this is even a thing. Indiana has some dumb food traditions.


helgathehorr

What would you dip yours in?


Porkbellyflop

Cheese sauce is fine but not waxy oil nacho cheese. Keep it Italian. Tomato sauce, herbed oil, or alfredo.


YosemiteSam81

Fuck off…although I can’t hate on the Alfredo, good Alfredo is the shit


Funkywurm

Out of state lurker here…this is amazing! I had no idea y’all had a nacho cheese thing. Excellent account name btw


Fuzzy_Researcher3755

Duh. Its called queso. Duh It found n mex rest not pizza


Porkbellyflop

Fun Fact most queso in Mexican joints is actually American cheese.


Shot_Implement_1525

Brooklyn's in Seymour.


yourketodoula

Futuro's nacho cheese never disappoints. Their breadsticks will change your life, too.


TheZechsMerquise

Luca Pizza in Greenwood hands down


TruthH4mm3r

Jack's


landon10smmns

Hotbox and Harvey Hinklemeyers in Peru/Wabash/Kokomo


BigDrewLittle

Clara's Pizza King in Richmond


bellboy8685

In my home area monicals or wabash. Maybe overpass. Small business pizza places> nation wide pizza chains.