# I like Pizza Hut **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450 "2007-05-17T14:48:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/121 "2007-05-24T18:35:51Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Funny. One of my fast food weaknesses is the McDonald’s double cheeseburger. I don’t know what it is–a McDonald’s burger doesn’t taste like a hamburger should, but I keep coming back for that. The 99 cent price helps, too. [/QUOTE] The double quarter pounder with cheese does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/122 "2007-05-24T18:55:44Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Read all about it: [Provel cheese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provel_cheese). It is processed cheese, but is not a “processed cheese _product_” like Velveeta (which has less than 51% cheese); it is 100 cheese, with emulsifying salts. [/QUOTE] It’ all about texture. Provel has a cheese product tecture. Swiss and Provolone non-emulsified have real cheese qualities. Processed cheese is part of the Military Industrial complex. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/123 "2007-05-24T21:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Read all about it: [Provel cheese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provel_cheese). It is processed cheese, but is not a “processed cheese _product_” like Velveeta (which has less than 51% cheese); it is 100 cheese, with emulsifying salts. [/QUOTE] Ok, so it’s not Velveeta (processed cheese product), but Kraft Singles (processed cheese.) I’m not sure this is really helping. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/124 "2007-05-24T21:16:32Z")
Nope, not that either. Kraft Singles are “processed cheese **product** ”, with less than 51% cheese. Like I said, Provel is 100% cheese and emulsifying salts. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/125 "2007-05-24T21:58:51Z")
ummm… what are emulsifying salts? Are they a nitrtate, or are they NaCl? Derivative or real? ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/126 "2007-05-24T22:39:15Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] My only complaint about their regular pizza is their pepperoni has some sort of off taste to it, I can’t put my finger on it. [/QUOTE] It tastes like bandaids smell. Pizza Hut sauce tasted differently 20 years ago. I liked it better then. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/127 "2007-05-24T23:13:16Z")
Pizza Hut to me is the taste of takeout pizza, to which I compare others. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/128 "2007-05-25T03:25:17Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Nope, not that either. Kraft Singles are “processed cheese **product** ”, with less than 51% cheese. Like I said, Provel is 100% cheese and emulsifying salts. [/QUOTE] I see. I clicked on the “processed cheese” link on Wikipedia and saw Kraft listed as “processed cheese.” Way down in the article it makes the distinction between processed cheese and processed cheese product. Processed cheese would be Kraft Deli Deluxe American Cheese. A step up from Singles, no doubt, but not much. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/129 "2007-05-25T07:48:40Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] ummm… what are emulsifying salts? Are they a nitrtate, or are they NaCl? Derivative or real? [/QUOTE] Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > The emulsifiers, typically sodium phosphate, potassium phosphate, tartrate, or citrate, reduce the tendency for tiny fat globules in the cheese to coalesce and pool on the surface of the molten cheese. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/130 "2007-05-25T13:46:20Z")
Pizza Hut lost me as a customer pretty much permanently last night when I tried to order a pizza online. Papa John’s interface is quick, easy and doesn’t ask a bunch of personal questions. Pizza Hut wants everything but your grandmother’s maiden name before you can order anything, even if you are paying cash. Screw that! You just lost a customer for life, if not longer. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/131 "2007-05-27T20:12:13Z")
[QUOTE=Foxy40] To me, pizza is hand tossed and stretched by some old Italian guy and his son as they talk about the Yankee game and whether Vito is going to get in the union. It is called a “pie” and you order it as such. [/QUOTE] I have a weird and yet inexplicably strong negative reaction to the word “pie” being used for pizza. I know that it is technically accurate, but it irritates me to an irrational degree. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/132 "2007-05-27T21:50:39Z")
Pizza Hut around here isn’t too bad (Baltimore County) and the Pizza Hut in Yellowknife was pretty damned good. Now, I eat at Pizza Hut about once a year, in Livingston, Montana on our way through to Mom’s. ---
**Author:** ![Miscue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Miscue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miscue)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/133 "2007-05-27T22:06:38Z")
I worked at Pizza Hut for six months or so in college, and if it seems greasy to you that’s because it is. The ‘original’ (or ‘hand tossed’) dough comes in frozen discs off a truck, and proof for two and a half days or so while sitting in pans full of roughly two fingers of vegetable oil. I’m a southern grease (read: vitamin G) lover, but prepping those discs put even put _me_ off to it. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/134 "2007-05-28T00:25:33Z")
[QUOTE=brendon\_small] Anyone notice that Donatos (however it is spelled) is one that screws up a lot of orders? They opened here about 4 weeks ago, and have not won many people over due to the fact that (out of people I know) 5 out of 8 orders were completely wrong. Maybe it is just because they are new, but the new sushi place doesn’t screw up that much…just saying… Brendon Small [/QUOTE] Only 5 of 8? We went to Donato’s here in NKY (not a new one) several times, and they have a perfect 100% incorrect order percentage. They have NEVER gotten our order correct. Since you are in Southern Ohio, have you ever tried Flying Pizza? Speaking as an ex-New Yorker, I can attest that it’s genuine NY pizza in every way. The only problem is the nearest one to me is in Mason. ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/135 "2007-05-28T00:37:41Z")
People who dump on Pizza Hut are generally the same kind of snobs that dump on Olive Garden. Neither is an example of the finest, most authentic cuisine there is. And neither really pretends to be. But they’re both damn tasty, even if the foodies don’t care to lower themselves that far. (And yes, I know OG tries to put forth an air of Old World authenticity, but they know full well they’re catering to mass-market appeal.) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/136 "2007-05-28T01:58:53Z")
I don’t have any great moral objections to Pizza Hut…I’m not going to say it’s not “real pizza” or anything like that. However, whenever I eat it, I wake up in the middle of the night with massive indigestion…it just makes me nauseous and bloated. Maybe it’s the grease, I don’t know, but I do know that I can’t eat it. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/137 "2007-05-28T02:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=Miscue] I worked at Pizza Hut for six months or so in college, and if it seems greasy to you that’s because it is. The ‘original’ (or ‘hand tossed’) dough comes in frozen discs off a truck, and proof for two and a half days or so while sitting in pans full of roughly two fingers of vegetable oil. I’m a southern grease (read: vitamin G) lover, but prepping those discs put even put _me_ off to it. [/QUOTE] Wow, when was that? When I worked at Pizza Hut (both times–1990 in Phoenix and 1991 in Tucson) all the dough was made in the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/138 "2007-05-28T04:17:49Z")
[QUOTE=aerodave] People who dump on Pizza Hut are generally the same kind of snobs that dump on Olive Garden. [/QUOTE] Guilty as charged. I wouldn’t call myself a “snob,” though. I just think Olive Garden tastes bland and would never spend my hard-earned money on food that I can make better at home. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/139 "2007-05-28T04:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!] Only 5 of 8? We went to Donato’s here in NKY (not a new one) several times, and they have a perfect 100% incorrect order percentage. They have NEVER gotten our order correct. Since you are in Southern Ohio, have you ever tried Flying Pizza? Speaking as an ex-New Yorker, I can attest that it’s genuine NY pizza in every way. The only problem is the nearest one to me is in Mason. [/QUOTE] Well, they are new, give them time to screw up more, I know they will. I’ve never heard of Flying Pizza, but I will try it if I can find it. I see you are in the Cincinnati area, which isn’t far from here. The other problem is I have never heard of Mason. Hmm, Kentucky? or Ohio? I have some friends that live south of Cincinnati in Kentucky (about 45 minutes or so away from the city) and they have never mentioned it, but we usually don’t discuss pizza - they order whatever is cheapest and open. Let me do a little research on finding somewhere to try it, and I’m off work on Thursday - I need an adventure… Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450/140 "2007-05-28T08:33:06Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Guilty as charged. I wouldn’t call myself a “snob,” though. I just think Olive Garden tastes bland and would never spend my hard-earned money on food that I can make better at home. [/QUOTE] Olive Garden is the type of place that makes a good choice when you have a large-ish group, or a group of people with different tastes. They have a big enough menu of mostly inoffensive foods that everyone can be happy. Moreso than a lot of places, anyway. It’s not “great Italian food” certainly, and for “meh… comfort food” it’s overpriced for my budget. My “meh… comfort food” is Taco Bell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-pizza-hut/404450.md?page=8)