Pizza Hut RIP

Stupid branding move of the decade alert.

Heaven needed plastic cheese

Heaven's gonna need a bigger hut.

Pizza Gaff

I'm confused the Times said it was only temporary and only affected some of its branchs?

To reinforce the point, 30 branches are to be renamed (temporarily) Pasta Hut. Customers will be able to dine on tomato and mozzarella mezzaluna and prawn and crayfish arrabiata - as well as the more familiar barbecue deluxe pizzas with cheese-filled crusts.

This surely makes more sense. Pasta Hut is a terrible name.

Gareth Southgate Pizza Hut advert not on Youtube :-(

Why on earth would anyone want to go to something called Pasta Hut? Do people really go out for pasta unless it's something ultra-swanky (or fake swanky like Bella Pasta)? I doubt it'll appeal to the kids either.

I have had pasta at Pizza Hut. Never again. Unless they have a diametrically improved method. And an apology would be nice.

Actually, if they have an advert featuring Roy Keane going "do you think Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's preparing for the game with a fucking takeaway pizza?!" before being led out by Niall Quinn to a new improved Pasta Hut, I will forgive them everything.

Dumb Englanders Fooled By Marketing Stunt SHOCK

Will be worth it if they get Murray Walker and professional George Harrison impersonator Damon Hill out of retirement for new commercials, through.

Pasta Hut? More like Pasta Bucket amirite?

Pasta out of the microwave 2 mins too early, I'd call it.

I doubt it'll appeal to the kids either

mind: does pizza hut?

mrs F and i went to a pizza hut in sheffield a couple of years back. it was laughably vile. every single thing (cheese, tomato, croutons, lettuce, beer ... er, not beer, but you get the picture) tasted the same: ie slightly sweetened, slightly sickly kid-friendly gloop. fine, we thought: we're not the target market here, we don't have kids ... perhaps it's great for a family, umm, "treat".

fucking PASTA HUT, though? oh, i can just hear the stampede of excited feet right now.

running as quickly as possible in the other direction.

Our Amber cannot get enough pasta. Alice likes a pizza more, but still loves pasta.

So, two.

(xxxxxxxpost) I think the idea is that they're going to serve the pasta hot this time. Instead of cold and slimy. So surely, instead of renaming some restaurants, this whole thing would be better accomplished by running an ad campaign that goes something like "New Pasta at Pizza Hut - we heat that shit up now, so it's no longer like eating tapeworms dipped in wallpaper paste"

Actually, if they have an advert featuring Roy Keane going "do you think Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's preparing for the game with a fucking takeaway pizza?!" before being led out by Niall Quinn to a new improved Pasta Hut, I will forgive them everything.

― Matt DC, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:03 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this.

So, this started as a April Fools joke in America...
http://sev.prnewswire.com/food-beverages/20080331/AQM047A31032008-1.html
...?

hah. that figures.

Pizzaland was way better than Pizza Hut and that went to the wall year ago.

"increased nutritional content" = "cheaper ingredients."

meat-feast pizza with four cheeses pasta with half a courgette through it, in olive oil.

yup.

Dudes, you haven't see the (US) commercials where Pizza Hut co-opts a restaurant and tricks hoity-toity patrons into sampling their "decadent" (ACTUAL WORD USED) company-function-catering pastas?!? Granted, we over here get mac & cheese with BACON instead of mozzarella mezzaluna, but still. Decadent.

something can be decadent and bad. most fast-food for instance.

doesn't decadence imply some sense of luxury?

^^^^

I ordered a Pizza Hut the other night for the first time in years, expecting it to be a guilty treat. It was just bland and stodgy.

"Oh Lucretia, these chicken fries are so decadent, but I can't help myself!"

doesn't decadence imply some sense of luxury?

no. if it did, it wouldn't be paired so often with "rich."

expecting it to be a guilty treat. It was just bland and stodgy

exactly. i mean, i love me some guilty treats sometimes, even mass-produced ones (whopper with cheese to thread). but for fuck's sake, they need to taste good, too (whopper with cheese to thre ... oh, FUCK, i really want a whopper with cheese now. rats' cocks).

xpost: my dictionary disagrees.

also: elitist

you guys dont have cici's pizza over there yet, do you? because you don't know how bad it can get until you've been to that place.

1dec·a·dent
Pronunciation:
\ˈde-kə-dənt also di-ˈkā-\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
back-formation from decadence
Date:
1837
1 : marked by decay or decline
2 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the decadents
3 : characterized by or appealing to self-indulgence <decadent pleasures>

Next you're going to tell me that describing Chicken McNuggets as "sumptuous" is par for the course.

(xpost I'm totally hungry for bullshit food now too DAMN YOU PIZZA HUT)

or,

1 characterized by moral or cultural decline. 2 luxuriously self-indulgent.

i would say the 'luxuriously' is definitely part of the regular modern usage.

xp

Waiting for Pizza Hut to install vomitoriums.

I love Pizza Hut pizza and breadsticks, it's one of my sorrows that they don't have enough branches in NYC to get any kind of regular fix. My mother won't eat there, though, because the tomato sauce on the pizza is too spicy and burns her mouth. We're Midwesterners.

I have no comments about their pasta, last time I was at a PH the most forward-thinking option was the salad bar with iceberg lettuce.

Waiting for Pizza Hut to install vomitoriums bidets.

Ah, but a vomitorium was actually a room where people exit from a largere room, i.e. a lobby in a theatre, or indeed a restaurant, from the latin "vomi" meaning evacuate.

from the QI edition of the Idler magazine, yesterday.

Yeah, I know. "vomitorium" not actually a room for vomiting in. But then they call it "Pizza" Hut.

Promised free pizza today. Went back there and it was Pizza Hut. Took one slice even though I was hungry for more and already, my face feels like I've been bobbing for Crisco.

The crust tasted like a doughnut. At least I successfully avoided the spiel from the insurance saleswoman.

A long time ago I went to a Pizza Hut, and the mozzarella shakers they had at the tables to put on your pizza were filled with FLIES and the place in general was just disgustingly filthy. Any mention of Pizza Hut makes me shudder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTnpT9EXDNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dK4mNYiges

Alternately, you RIP after you eat this:

http://gawker.com/5946006/pizza-huts-latest-caloric-monstrosity-is-a-pizza-with-a-crust-made-of-pizza-cones

http://www.brandeating.com/2012/09/around-world-pizza-hut-middle-east-cone.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnfcBOHbRG4

As I said on the other thread, this looks great.

Seriously, if I had one of those pizzas here right now, I'd eat the whole thing by myself.

I had my 13th birthday party at pizza hut

Meatlover's Pizza was my idea of heaven. oh Pizza hut, how you've changed.

So glad I live near a Vocellis.

https://i.imgur.com/i6cxkKd.jpg

^that looks much more inviting than most of the Subway locations I've seen, which usually look like converted H&R Block offices when viewed from the street.

We made the mistake of Pizza Hut the other week. Fucking so much worse than I remembered

Are you in the U.S.? Last couple of times I had it, it was much better than I remembered, even if it beats little resemblance to true pizze napoletane or w/e

the subway logo looks better when it's blurry

you're not just eating at a subway, you're on the subway

https://i.imgur.com/6yTCO96.jpg

blurred logo recognition score should be a real logo design metric

maybe that explains the awful newish Best Western logos -- they had high blurred logo recognition scores

https://i.imgur.com/RVtqKWw.jpg

rip

they moved out of the old hut building where i went as a kid and moved into a regular storefront across the street :(

So, I've always wanted a Pizza Hut lamp. The problem is that when they show up on eBay, they cost thousands of dollars. I needed to think outside the pizza box on this one. pic.twitter.com/hU8HJeI2rX

— Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) September 11, 2022

great, now i know, after needlessly wasting $26K on pizza hut lamps

absolutely bizarre, they actually do sell at those prices according to EBay sold listings

it’s cool but also i find this so weird
like i get nostalgia but why the fuck would you want a lampshade that says PIZZA HUT

like mmm yes i also want a brass Sizzler buffet table and one of McDonalds swivel chairs that are bolted to the floor

cmon

If I had money to burn this is exactly the kind of dumb shit I would buy

lol

seems to me that there is a big open position for someone to become a middleperson between the $49/sample factory scam and the $2000 to rich people with a pizza heart

we find a time machine, and while you are killing baby Hitler or stopping 9/11, I'm at one of those shows where Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees

i would be visiting the person who made the time machine, saying "now who is the time master, you fool?!"

Someone suggested a side hustle flipping Pizza Hut lamps in that twitter thread - I'd be tempted to put it on a credit card and say what the hell but I don't know if Pizza Hut's lawyers would crack down after the third sale.

that's the ugly side of the new american dream of figuring out how to make money by doing absolutely no good at all -- by the time you think of it, a million other people definitely did and they're on it

you ready to do a nickel for trying to outpizza the Hut?

an old friend of mine was desperately trying to make money, a few months ago, by using autogenerated AI shit to make "music", and then selling that to people as an "asset" via Unity

it's like wow, if that works, i mean, i already am ready to die, but just fucking kill me

Picturing an American Pickers ep where meet a guy with a garage full of Pizza Hut "Retirement Lamps".

I imagine most of these got trashed whenever the old Pizza Huts got remodeled into payday loan offices & such.

That's why I'm surprised you can get new production lamps - are Pizza Hut buffets making a comeback somewhere? I can't remember the last time I even drove past a Hut, it's all Domino's and Pizza Patron.

Almost never went to Pizza Hut as a kid but there was a time in the 70s where chain restaurants really leaned into the fake Tiffany lamp turn of the century aesthetic.

The last time I went in for city jury duty, things got slightly drawn out and they sprang for a Pizza Hut lunch.

pizza hut for me in the 80’s as a kid was the only place i wanted for all my birthday meals. plus all you can eat dessert, i mean.

Was pizza hut good at one time and then it started to suck, or was it always gross? I remember loving it but I was a no-nothing kid.

i have to think it was always pretty average?
i mean it’s not like i knew from good pizza when i was ten
and my hometown for sure had nothing resembling great pizza. but also there was no such thing? pizza was just whatever. like the pizza place was where everyone went after the pub closed bc it was the only thing open

once when I was eating at pizza hut a very hot metal part of one of the spotlights just pinged out of the fitting and bounced off my plate with a clang, only narrowly missing my head. That's what you call luck. My local Iraqi pizza place does a better Mexicano for a third of the price.

Pizza Hut used to be better than it is now, like 25 years ago. The ingredients are different.

The crust at all the delivery places seems sweet now, can't remember if that was the case when I was a kid.

at least in my town, in my ten year old opinion, pizza hut was the very best option by far. but i was a pizza hut kid. i grew up there, watching genesis "we can't dance". great tunes, great pizza

so i believe that it really was better 25 years ago. that was prime era pizza hut

I remember the pan pizzas were delicious. The crust had a lotta little bubbles in it or something.

These things were the shit when I was a kid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwbES0MLxo

^^Watch til the end for vintage Marvel post-credits content!

They used to do what they called Sicilian Style sometimes which was like a square Pan pizza soaked in garlic butter with herbs baked into the crust. It destroyed my insides but I could not resist it.

basically what this ad describes except it's talking about your bowels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmm_VlAIWLQ

Man, that ad goes hard...

I cannot handle it. That ad makes eating pizza seem like the most important thing you will (attempt to) do this week, possibly this entire month

This is opening a gift from the Pyrotechnic Society.

if Bonestorm was a pizza

yeah Pizza Hut was well through the '90s the best bog standard chain pizzeria. Good jukeboxes too.

remember these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDl9jiLJpo

would be visiting the person who made the time machine, saying "now who is the time master, you fool?!"

Pizza Hut RIP Hunter