I can stand Pizza Hut. Thin crust only, and if I don’t have to pay for it. I likes me some grease sometimes.
I’m an Imo’s lover - worked there on and off for the last 5 years so I make all the pizzas I consume myself. Provel “cheese” is my weakness. But I still have to doctor it with parm and red pepper, and often ranch dressing too.
My friends and I prefer Cicero’s in St. Louis, and this hole in the wall near our house called Angelo’s. The inside is small and filled with ugly furniture that looks like it came from a garage sale, and an old Italian lady is always sitting at a table glaring at us rolling silverware. It’s awesome St. Louis style (rectangular, thin crust) pizza.
Yeah, that’s probably right. If it’s not coconut milk and it does have all of those inedible flavoring items, then it would be tom yum all right. Maybe it’s just a Wesern adaptation over there, but I’m not sure I’ve seen tom yum served with anything other than shrimp over here.
Is it a question of better-quality alternatives making it pale in comparison? Or again could it simply be a matter of the quality in individual branches. Pizza Hut is well entrenched over here, with many branches, and in some the pizza is very bad. In others, it’s great.
I have never seen tom yum with anything but shrimp here in the States. I might just only go to good places though.
But back to pizza. I have never have a pan pizza from anywhere BJ’s, Pizza hut, Unos’s that did not have what I thought of as an oily crust.
It is a shame you can’t get good green chile on pizza’s outside of New Mexico. Pizza Hut’s in New Mexico had green chile on the menu when I lived there. Heck some Macdonald’s would put green chile on the cheese burgers.
I think some of it is a matter of your individual franchise. But yeah, I remember eating a lot of greasy pan pizza at Pizza Hut in high school. Too much bread, too much grease. There’s a reason I favor thin crusts now.
Tony’s Pizza with Ham and green chile Totally the best. A lot better than pizza hut. Must of had that at least every other week once I got my drivers license and did not have to eat lousy school cafeteria food. I don’t think I went to pizza hut often for lunch during school. 1 they took to long and 2 I don’t think they sold by the slice back then.
I was driving out from New Mexico to California my sophomore year in college and stopped off in Arizona for lunch and ordered a chili cheese burger. It was not at all what I expected. It was a cheese burger smothered in meet and bean style chili like a chili dog. It was good just not at all what I thought I ordered. A few hundred miles from the Rio Grande makes all the difference.
I’m not quite sure how it happened either, but it involved two delivery drivers (neither of whom were me) who were having an “oil fight” by trying to squirt each other with the pumps, by slamming down on the pump handles or something. (I didn’t actually witness the event, but I was nearby and heard the unfortunate oilee begin yelling that oil had gone into his mouth.) I worked with some pretty rowdy, and not entirely brilliant, people.
And I don’t know about you, but I’ve squirted myself with hand lotion a few times, when it crusts up in the nozzle and sprays out sideways when pumped— I could just be very unlucky. Never got it into my mouth, but maybe one day.
Don’t know if they still have it (haven’t had Pizza Hut in more than four years) but they once had a reasonably priced, very tasty, and fresh Salad Bar and Pizza Buffet. They had a good baked Ziti and all the pizza you could eat- fresh fruit and pudding at the salad bar.
(I also love their breadsticks/cheezybread. They’re actually crunchy, well seasoned, and have some real texture as compared to all those pillows of whitebread covered in gobs of cheese.)
I can’t stop thinking about Pizza Hut since I ate lunch there and read this thread - so I ordered some tonight at work. The breadsticks were good, and they threw in some extra sauce and a few extra sticks at no charge - since they were getting ready to close and I know a few of the workers decently well. Nicest delivery guy I’ve seen out here at work in a while…
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…
Thanks. Doesn’t seem to be that common, though. Shrimp (kung) is what is almost always used.
We walked past Pizza Hut in Siam Square today and noticed they’re promoting “Cheesy Lava” crust. That seems to be the regular cheese crust (I assume you have that in the US now), but with the cheese oozing out of cuts in the side. Looks good. I think we’ll try that when we return home here next month.
Did we really have to get to the second page to find people (besides myself) who worked at Pizza Slut?
Man. I was there for 3 and a half years-- Dough Master, Head Cook, eventually giving it up to do Maintenance shifts because that paid more. I turned down offers of being Assistant Manager about once a month (because that paid less than minimum wage, duh!)
I stopped eating pizza during my second year of employment there – which says something. When I couldn’t stand to eat my own cooking, yeeesh.
The main reason: the grease. At my joints it was metered with an electric pump. Slap the pan on the dispenser, and out it came, measured to the size of the pan. Of course, if the pan had water in it, the damn 'za wouldn’t come out after going through the oven.
But that hefty dollop of oil on the bottom wasn’t all. We also sprayed oil on the crust just before it went into the oven, just to make sure it was properly browned.
Years later I make my own thin whole wheat crust with a very different recipe and accolades all around. Gotta make sure it’s cooked and cut on cornmeal too. Toppings: just cheese baby. Maybe some fresh basil if the plant on the counter is doing well.
That kind is pretty good, it’s called “Cheesy Bites Pizza” or something here. I can’t find it on the online menu, but I know I’ve gotten it a couple times from a Pizza Hut near here. It’s especially good if you are like me, and don’t like crust that much but will eat a ton of breadsticks. You rip off the cheese filled crust “bites” and then eat the pizza like normal.