I'd like to add on something new here to the twenty+ reviews here beyond what you've most likely already learned (Pokey Sticks are a must try for any UofI-an, greasy cheesy goodness, and pizza is just so-so) and tell you a little about this mostly unknown deal that they have called the Gumby's Giveaway. Basically, it's a deal offered 7 days a week that allows you to buy any size pizza or Pokey Sticks and get another pizza or Pokey Sticks of equal/lesser value free. So if you're going to buy from here, make sure you ask about this deal. However, in my experience, a lot of the time, the workers will deny having such a deal or spout some nonsense about it only being on Tuesdays either because they don't want to give it or they don't know about it. Whichever the case, there are coupons for it if you can find one, but the best place to get it at is campusfood.com since it's listed there as an order. Anyway, two for one, Gumby's sounds even better now, doesn't it?\n\nHowever, on the bad side, their pizza is often inconsistent, sometimes having very nice ingredient ratios and other times being too greasy or runny. Pokey's are usually pretty well-made but can be a bit on the doughy side at times. You'll almost definitely want marinara or some other sauce to go with the sticks as they are basically just pizzas with the sauce replaced by seasoning and cheese powder, and you'll need at least two ($0.39 ea) to last you the whole box. Also, Gumby's is notorious for being skimpy with cheese. Yet despite all this, I always find myself going back for more.\n\n---\n\nOkay, that's the end of my review. Now it's story time. Back when I was a freshman, a \"friend\" who had been at U of I for a while told me about these amazing things called Pokey sticks. So during the second week or so, I went out with a few other freshman friends on an epic quest for this place. Too bad we didn't realize at the time how ridiculously far out this place is. It took us at least twenty minutes to walk to this place, minus the time we spent in a random (and I think semi-illegal) pet shop filled with aquatic creatures and passing some XXX store (we didn't stop in...but we did make some calls...I won't go into details). Anyways, with sore feet and broken spirits, we trudged into the small, unsanitary place, pooled our random, beginning-of-the-year coupons together, and got two boxes of Pokey's, as well a sodas from their okay-priced vending machine. So we sit down outside (no chairs inside), open the box, and what did we get?? Two boxes of pizza minus the sauce! WTF?? Definitely not what we were expecting. Not to mention that after all that, there was the super long journey back. We didn't have the proper bus knowledge at the time to know which ones to ride back to our dorms, so an overwhelming fear of getting on a bus and ending up in Springfield made us take the same sad trip home, highly disappointed. Totally breaking the pacing of the story, we eventually learned to love the taste of Gumby's. Maybe it's something they put into the seasoning...
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