Is the Cheesy Bites just our normal Cheese crust? That’s with the crust stuffed with cheese. In the Cheezy Lava crust, it’s actually oozing out of cuts in the side like lava , or so the picture in the window showed.
Well, the Cheese Bites is different than regular stuffed crust. The crust is cut into little (2" long) sections at a slant all the way around, then very lightly attached to the rest of the pizza. You rip off the crust by little sections - and the cheese does ooze out. The biggest downside is ripping off all the cheese filled sections and then not wanting the pizza.
Brendon Small
Of Papa John’s, Domino’s, Little Caesar, and Pizza Hut, I think Pizza Hut is the least offensive. For me, the most important part of the pizza is the crust. I like a light, airy, slightly charred on the edges, flavorful crust. All four fail miserably on this count. Heck, most Chicago pizzas fail on this front. Second, the sauce either has to be “clean” tasting (as in, just plain, naturally sweet, rip tomatoes–no fancy herbs or spicy necessary) or interesting, but not with that sickly sweet tomato pastiness to it. All four places have pretty bad sauce, but Pizza Hut’s is at least tolerable. Third, quality toppings. Again, the cheese at most of these places feels like rubber and tastes just about as good.
Pizza Hut is last resort pizza for me, but it is a resort. I would never ever order Domino’s for myself (but I would eat it without complaint at somebody’s house.) Domino’s and Taco Bell are, for me and my tastes, the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to fast food.
The picture of the Cheesy Lava looks a little different than what you’ve described. It seems to have cuts along the outer rim, so that it oozes out without having to be touched. We’ll investigate this in-depth next month.
I may have described that badly - there are cuts on the outside, it is formed that way. The idea is to rip it easily along the cuts to get the cheesy goodness and have a little crust to go with it, but it does ooze out (causing a slight problem for my wife, who complains that the pizza’s like this never get “really done” but I don’t understand why)
I will try to find a picture online, I know they have them, but the menu on the website seemed a little dated and not like the one in our store. (Of course, I could be wrong, it could not be common here yet - I know Fazoli’s changed the menu in 30-some stores to “try it out” before going nationwide with it…so yeah, I could be way off base)
ETA: I found this that is what I was trying to describe. It’s not the Pizza Hut site, and you need flash, but it shows what I mean…
Brendon Small
Ah, I see now. No, this isn’t it. We do have this, too, but I forget what it’s called here (maybe “Cheesy Bites”?). No, the “Cheesy Lava” crust looks like the regular stuffed crust, but with a notch sliced into it at intervals. The picture makes it look really like lava oozing out, but who knows the reality? We’re flying out of here tomorrow morning, but I plan to have some when we return next month. Will give you an update.
Thankyou for being the sole voice of reason in this thread.
Well damn…All the time I was at work I was thinking about pizza, and it was the wrong one. I’ll be looking forward to the update (Maybe I can talk our Pizza Hut into making them so I can try it)…
Brendon Small
I recognize each word but together they make no sense. 
Anyone who thinks that Pizza Hut’s pizza is gross needs to have their tongue looked at by a doctor. You may seriously have something wrong with you. I’m genuinly concerned. Thin crust, thick crust, I love it all. I love the texture of their cheese as well. But I did just burnt the roof of my mouth on a Totino’s party Pizza last night and loved that as well. So maybe, my opinion wouldn’t count to a Pizza snob but boy is my life richer with all of these delicious pizza options.
It’s been many moons since I’ve had Pizza Hut, so a buddy and I got some a few days ago. I don’t remember disliking it, but I now do dislike it.
It had a…taste to it (it was just a regular pizza, nothing special in the way of crusts, and it was just pepperoni). My buddy remarked that the pizza tasted “sweet”. I looked at the pizza for a minute and said that I had tasted something in the pizza and wasn’t sure what it was. I presume he was tasting the same thing I was, and, apparently, it was “sweet”.
Am I a pizza snob? No. Am I a pizza slut? Most certainly. I love me some pizza and eat it a lot. Pizza Hut, because of this taste, is the worst pizza I’ve had. If it didn’t have that taste to it, then yeah, it’s not worse than the cardboard-with-some-cheese-and-sauce freezer pizzas.
I’m not a pizza snob. I just like pizza that tastes like real food. Believe me, if I could convince myself to really like Pizza Hut, I would and save myself the money.
I don’t think Pizza Hut is all that bad. I ain’t a snob, but I’m a junk food connoisseur and if I’m in Chicago, NYC, or Naples, I’ll seek out the consensus best pizza.
I always thought that there was no such thing as a bad pizza until I had one in my very own town’s Uncle Rocco’s N.Y. Pizza. That joke about pizza crust tasting like cardboard? They got the real thing here. Even at 2AM after the bars close, I can still tell that this pizza sucks.
Exactly. Chain pizzas taste sweetened. Sweeter pasta sauce seems to be popular in the Midwest; even non-chain restaurants, those that aren’t Italian restaurants but stock a few pasta options, tend to have sweeter sauce than I enjoy. I don’t care for sugar added to tomato sauces.
I never eat Dominos, and we don’t have Little Caesar’s, but Papa John’s and Pizza Hut both have slightly sweet sauces. When Pizza Hut debuted the “New Yorker”, I was pumped, but their sauce was EVEN SWEETER. Ugh. Frankly, they use so little sauce and so much cheese that it’s seldom an issue for occasional consumption, but, I like the taste of the tomato sauce on the pizza.
I actually like fried ravioli, but I hate the meat filling they use. I think I’d love it if they used some kind of cheese filling, though. Heh, ravioli meat. Does it come from local MO ravioli farms?
I’m with you on the Imo’s hate though. I like thin-crust pizza, but the cheese is just awful. It tastes like they opened up some of those plastic cheese slices & melted them all over the pizza. It’s sticky, goopy cheese.
And I don’t like Pizza Hut pizza either - too greasy. That doesn’t make me a snob, it’s just a preference.
Mmmm…Cicero’s. I think I’m overdue for a visit there. I love their pizza.
Regarding the suggestion that one is a “pizza snob” for disliking Pizza Hut pizza, would you say that someone who didn’t like McDonald’s hamburgers was a “hamburger snob”? I think not, and that’s because most of us (certainly most of the non-vegetarians) have had much better burgers than McDonald’s serves. Of course what McDonald’s serves is a hamburger, in that it’s got a beef patty in a bun, but many restaurants (and many home cooks) make better ones, usually involving a bigger and better patty. Similarly, many restaurants make much better pizza than Pizza Hut. Simply recognizing that fact does not make one a pizza snob.
I simply can’t go past the fact that the only pizza place near me that has gone broke in the last 6 years was the Pizza Hut situated across the road from a high school. Richly deserved too. I had eaten their desiccated objects on painted cardboard pizza look-a-likes.
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.
Speaking of Imo’s in St. Louis, I was a bit pumped a few months ago to visit St. Louis and try some of this St. Louis style pizza. From all accounts, it looked just like a thin, Chicago style cracker crust (there are two indigenous pizza styles in Chicago), even down to the square cut. I didn’t know what the hell Provel cheese was, though, and that’s the main difference between St. Louis and Chicago cracker crust.
The pizza wasn’t awful, but the Provel completely ruined it for me. Now, I like my expensive cheeses, but I will find use for “process cheese product.” I like it in grilled cheese. I like it in homemade mac & cheese as a binder, etc. However, on pizza…yuck.
Read all about it: 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.