About ten years ago, when Pizza Hut had the brilliant idea of putting vinyl-like processed cheese inside the edge of the crust, and bundling in little tubs of “dipping sauce.”
Cheese-in-the-crust would have been a crap idea even if they used edible cheese.
Dipping sauce for pizza could work, I suppose, although it seems unnecessary. I still think of the ingredients listed on that horrible Pizza Hut sauce as the nadir of “fake.” A lot of crap, of course, but the one item that is lodged in my memory forever is: ARTIFICIAL MARGARINE FLAVOUR. What the blue hell?
I try to avoid chains in general, and Pizza Hut in particular, so their new Pizza Polyps Pie shouldn’t be too hard to escape.
Yeah, but they only show them eating the outside rim in the commercial.
They don’t show the awkward part after they’ve all eaten the poppables and someone goes, “shit, we just ate the handle. What do we do now?”
“Uh, get utensils?”
“What do you think this is, Russia?”
Lemme tell you a story. When my sister married a Frenchman and the whole damn famille came over, we made hamburgers on the barbeque. They all sat down, dissassembled them, and ate them with a fork and knife. If we let Mangetout keep up with his nonsense, pretty soon we’ll all be singing La Marseillaise and kissing Jack Sheerack’s big nose.
Resorting to utensils to finish off the pizza is to admit defeat, and it’s irresponsible of Pizza Hut to not fully disclose the dilemma this monstrosity will present.
Trunk I think the people in the ad would all start eating it at the same time, by bending over and eating it like pigs at a trough. They would then use their ardvark tounges to like the topping off their filty faces.
Have you seen the parody commercial on Saturday Night Live for a new food product that’s a combination of taco, pizza, burrito, and several other things, dripping with cheese, chocolate sauce, salsa, and several other sauces. It appears to weigh about ten pounds. The product described in the OP is typical of the sort of grotesque eat-with-your-hands food item that the commercial was satirizing. New food items have to be enormous messes stuffed with every possible flavor and ingredient apparently.
Just to reiterate, the question has already been answered in this thread. The Yum! corporation took over Pizza Hut and ruined it, along with all of the other previously beloved fast-food names they bought with their inexperience with restaurateuring. Taco Bell wasn’t always so bad, and the Colonel used to mean something…
That was Papajohns. I’m of many minds on this topic. I worked at a Pizza hut for a few years in the late 80’s. I really liked the food, and some of the things we’d make, that you couldn’t buy, were GREAT.
I dunno if the cheese in the stuffed crust has to be chemically different or what, or my body can’t eat what it used to…but ever since they went to that…well…Pizza Hut gives me gas. The fact I’d have to spend 20% MORE for the privelege is just icing on the cake.
nobody is holding a gun to your head to either a)eat this ‘food’ or b)watch this ad.
1a. If you do, and you like it, everything in moderation. When I was working out 90 minutes a shot, three times a week, I could put 3500-4000 calories away a day and have zero negative impact.
Jessica Simpson…hmmm. Well. Genetics can do a lot for people. So can working out with a personal trainer. So can surgery. If you want to devote the time she does to staying in shape (and the obsessing over it), you’ll be spending a quarter of every day doing it. I can work out 3 hours a week and stay in reasonably good shape, but I’ll still have the beer belly I inherited from my Dad.
The problem here is: girls with a poor body image who want to look like that, do so with no thought to the cards they’ve been dealt, and try to do so by STARVING, not by EXCERCIZING. And the excercize required is a HUGE time sink. So they’re screwed from a few fronts.
And yeah, this ‘pizza’ is a puzzler. If Papa Murphys take n bake weren’t approaching the max I want to spend on pizza, I’d eat more pizza. As it is, I don’t really miss it.