Being Thailand, you get a few odd pizza flavors along with the regular fare, like “tom yam kung” pizza.
Where you been? Chef Boyardee pizza kits have been in grocery stores for over forty years. The dry mix for the dough comes in an envelope, the sauce comes in a can, and the powdered cheese also comes in an envelope. Having made several over the years, I can give you the verdict: thumbs down.
But they have their place. They really aren’t too bad as a base with the addition of mozzarella and your favorite fresh toppings. Admittedly not the best, but cheaper and slightly better as a homemade pizza over a frozen pizza.
I’ve never had Pizza Hut pizza in the US, but their pizza in Japan is actually pretty good, almost as good as what I used to get in the little family-owned pizzerias in Boston.
Considering that a 16-inch pizza here costs around $30, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn they were putting more effort into quality.
I like Pizza Hut. I don’t think it’s anything special but as far as price, quality, service, they’ve been consistently very good for me. (Never order pizza without a coupon)
I like Papa Johns, but the coupons are not nearly as competitive I’ve found. I’m looking about $5 more than Pizza Hut.
Two more “gourmet” pizza places have gone in around here. The pizza tastes FANTASTIC (one had a salmon, cream cheese, basil pizza that was incredible), but I can’t justify paying $26 every time I want a pie. Also one of these places in particular has F-ed up my order two of the three times I’ve ordered from them.
Papa Murphey’s has a pretty good carry out/bake at home pizza. I’ll go to a Pizza Hut depending on location per the elmwood observation.
Yeah, one of my co-workers has the same problem with Pizza Hut making him want to MOVE his stuff. Apparently all the grease lubricates his bowels, so shortly after we have a pizza lunch, he’s got to GO.
That sounds fricken’ awesome! (Although I usually order kai, not kung, when I have the soup.)
It ain’t “light,” or at least wasn’t when I worked there. The pan pizza dough basically floats on a puddle of oil. One of our prep duties was “oiling pans”— pumping them full of oil from a big plastic bottle with a pump squirter. It used to splatter and get everywhere (on your clothes, on the table, on the floor— one unfortunate guy had a misfired squirt go into his mouth, and I think we all know how awkward that can be).
It did impart more flavor to the dough than the hand-tossed or thin crusts had, but the sheer volume of oil involved grossed me out, and I swore off eating pan crust pretty quickly after I started working there. The crust pretty much fries itself while baking, soaking up all the oil as it does.
I can remember eating pan crust Supreme pizza at night and waking up the next morning to find my face glistening with exuded oil and grease stains on my pillowcase. That’s some well-lubricated food right there.
(And I’m not oil-phobic by any means; just last night I enjoyed some baguette dipped in olive oil, and I didn’t wake up today looking like Vaseline Face*.)
** Lamest Dick Tracy villain ever.*
What am I missing here? This sounds like you’re describing a problem easily taken care of by use of a napkin.
Or are you saying you literally sweat oil afterwards or something?
-FrL-
If it’s kai (chicken), then it’s probably not tom yum. It’s what’s called tom kha kai, especially if the broth is coconut milk. I believe there was another thread about that. Not seen a tom kha kai-flavored pizza yet, but I’ve no doubt they’re working on it.
Their latest offering here is French pizza. I don’t remember what’s on it, but it looks a bit too odd for me to order.
I like pizza made at home with toppings like goat cheese, sliced tomatoes, asparagus, salmon, etc. After one of those, Pizza Slut (what my kids call it) doesn’t have appeal other than convenience.
Really? When I worked there, it was one pump per pan, really not that much.
I have a soft spot for Pizza Hut because I worked there for freakin’ ever when I was in college. (Well, a little over two years total, as I do the math, but it felt like forever then.) At one time or another, I was a shift-supervisor, host, waitress, cook, phone-answerer, and driver.
I always thought PH had decent pizza. Much, much better than Dominos or Little Caesars. But I think the acceptability of the pizza is directly related to what your other choices are. I grew up in Montana. Pizza Hut was good pizza there. There weren’t any Vito’s New York Pizza or Gianni’s Chicago Pizza. Then I moved to Seattle where there were lots of pizza places, and Pizza Hut definitely was not good pizza – there were any number of local joints are smaller chains making a better product.
Now I’m in North Carolina. Pizza Hut is pretty good pizza again, now that there’s not a lot of other options and what other options there are, ain’t all that good.
One pump for a small pan, two for a medium, three for a large. Enough to generously coat the bottom of the pan for sure, but hardly “pumped full of oil”. And you pump it out, with like a big hand-lotion pump, not a sprayer, so I really can’t imagine how you could misfire and squirt it into your mouth, anymore than you could accidentally squirt hand lotion into your mouth out of a pump.
That said, it’s a lot of oil, no question. It’s pizza: there’s oil in the pans, oil in the meat, oil in the cheese. I used to come home wearing a fine sheen of oil (and sauce down my front and burns on my arms from slamming pans into the oven and greasy hair smooshed down by a visor – I was a dream, lemme tell ya). But I don’t think it was any more of a greasy job than working at Mickey D’s or Taco Bell. It’s craptastic semi-fast food. It’s greasy and it’s not good for you.
I don’t know if their terminology is “weird” or not, but all the Thai restaurants I’ve been to on the north side of Chicago offer “Tom Yum” soup with tofu, chicken or shrimp. Sometimes it’s written “Tom Yum Kai”, with the option of shrimp for a dollar more. “Tom Kha” is the coconuty soup, with I think (not sure) more galangal and less pepper. Or maybe they just dump coconut milk into the Tom Yum for us Yanks. 
Possibly better: I was a fry-cook at Taco Hell one summer. Standing over the deep fryer in the vapor bleached my hair below where the (mandatory) visor covered. Probably didn’t do my lungs any good, either. I’d’ve preferred extra lube from pizza to the particolored hair from taco salad shells.
When I worked at Pizza Hut my favorite food was making my self sandwiches. Do they still have those on the menu? You put the bun and cheese through the oven (halfway) then added the cold veggie toppings. It was way better than Quiznos
Hold on, you’re not supposed to slather your face in the gloriousness that is pizza?
I dunno, I’ve grown up outside of a small city, so we’ve never had those fancy local places. I’m not a food snob at all, and we buy store brand cheddar here - not even Kraft. It embarrasses me to say that I enjoy the taste of McDonalds. There’s just something about the cheeseburgers, fries and their greasy goodness that makes me crave it.
Of course, I’ve never had curry, dragonfruit, falafel or a lot of other common foreign foods, so what do I know? Give me perogies and I’ll be happy though.