The Advent of Evil: Domino’s Bread Bowl Pasta

Have you seen the ads for Domino’s “Bread Bowl Pasta”? It’s a big, healthy serving of chicken alfredo, Italian sausage marinara, or three-cheese mac-n-cheese in a bread bowl. Because why have just pasta or bread when you could have twice the carbs in one dish? And there’s nothing like a big chunk of yeasty bread to cut the starchiness of pasta.

Interestingly, Domino’s hasn’t released the nutrition information for the bread bowl pasta on their website yet. But they do have a handy calorie calculator that tells you that there are 265 calories in one slice (1/8 pie) of deep-dish “Deluxe Feast” pizza (pepperoni, savory Italian sausage, green peppers, mushrooms, onions and cheese). From this 12-inch pizza information we can deduce the approximate calories of the 10-inch bread bowl pasta:

Total calories in 12-inch pizza
265 x 8 = 2,120

Area = pR²
12-inch pizza:
3.14 x 6 x 6 = 113.04 in
10-inch bread bowl
3.14 x 5 x 5 = 78.5

Ratio of area to calories:
113.04/78.5 = 2,120/n
113.04n = 116,420
n = 1,472

Approximate calories in single serving bread bowl = 1,472

Thanks to ABC Channel 36 in Lexington, KY for this hilar behind-the-scenes news story – and free bread bowl pasta offer – at Domino’s.