As far as value propositions go, you really can’t do much better than a $5 (or $5.55) Little Caesars Hot-N-Ready pizza. For a fiver, you can get a hot and satisfying meal for two.

The problem with offering a pizza for $5 is that everything else on the menu looks so expensive by comparison. That pizza cost me just $5, but Crazy Bread costs $4, and the Crazy Sauce is an extra 85¢?! Might be a good deal, but it doesn’t look like one next to that $5 pizza.

And so we come to the wings. $6 for an order of wings is probably one of the cheapest every day prices reviewed on this site, but next to that $5 pizza, it’s a tougher sell. When I came home from work this week and there was a pepperoni pizza and an order of hot buffalo wings warming in the oven though, I wasn’t complaining.

Little Caesars offers their wings in quite the variety of flavors: Mild, Hot, BBQ, Spicy BBQ, Oven Roasted (I think that means un-sauced.), Garlic Parmesan, Bacon Honey Mustard, Lemon Pepper, and Teriyaki. All the titles also have the word “Caesar” in their, which is a confusing way to describe a sauce that doesn’t actually involve Caesar dressing, but… branding, I guess.

Lydia was the one who actually went and got the wings, and she asked the employee about his favorite flavors. He said Garlic Parmesan and Hot BBQ. She went and ordered the Hot (non-bbq edition) anyway because she’s the best.

I was also told that to prepare the wings, the employee opens the lid of the plastic container that contains the regular oven roasted wings, squirts a lot of sauce on them, closes the lid, and then shakes the container to coat them in the sauce. You don’t get prices this low without that kind of efficiency.

By the time I got to the wings, they had been sitting in a plastic box in an oven set to warm for awhile. I also am always suspicious of wings from fast food pizza places. So, they had a lot of things going against them.

But who cares. Gotta go into these things with an open mind, and I have to say that these wings were pretty darn good. The saucing amount was generous, and the saucing method was effective. All the wings were evenly coated in sauce, and there was plenty left at the bottom of the container.

These wings weren’t crispy (How could they be, under the circumstances?), but the chicken was moist and juicy. There is a big kick of black pepper, which probably comes from the regular Oven Roasted seasoning, and not too much from the sauce. The sauce itself had a good amount of spice to it. While these wings are pretty mild for a hottest offering on a large menu of wing sauces, they certainly had an acceptable amount of heat.

So while $6 wings may seem like a lot next to a $5 pizza, I’ve gotta tell you that these wings were worth it. Even more surprising to me is that I’m interested to see what the other flavors are like. Congrats, Little Caesars. You have beaten my expectations yet again.

p.s. added bonus is that you can pour the sauce on your pizza, and be a real champion of flavor town: