Growing up I used to love going to Pizza Hut. The pizza was really really really good.

[Anonymous]

Except if you lived anywhere near New York. Then you knew it was gross, even as a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:It wasnt pizza Hut for us growin up, it was Little Cesear's. "Pizza pizza!"

Pan pan!

One of each!

[Anonymous]

Pizza Hut was a staple of my youth in the 80s. After every swim meet, the whole team went. I remember the pitchers of coke on the table. Nothing was more exciting than calling dad at work to have him pick up a pizza on his way home too! I do still like it, cause I like a really thin crust.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, does anyone have a suggestion for something in the DC area that is similar to the Pizza Hut some of us remember from our childhoods? I love Pete's and other high-end pizza joints, but sometimes you just want deep dish pizza, cold soda, and cozy booths instead of an industrial motif and artisanal ingredients.

Yes! Where in Bethesda or Rockville can I get deep dish? We tried Armand's and the crust tasted like paper.

Is Gepettos's still there?

I'm new to the area. There is a Gepetto's restaurant on Old Georgetown that has pizza, pasta, etc. Is this what your referring to?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, so the idea of going to Pizza Hut was horrifying. We viewed that as the place people who moved to NY from the midwest went, because they were too ignorant to know any better.

Once I was in Florida and a few girlfriends and I went to Pizza Hut. It was as disgusting as we thought it was.

Yep. Even here in DC, my parents never got Pizza Hut. It was always Ledo's or local companies. Maybe cause my mom is a New Yorker. The handful of times I had Pizza Hut growing up I thought it tasted like cardboard

If your mom is a New Yorker she cannot like Ledo's. It is nauseatingly awful. Like, school pizza bad. Only DC natives or pizza starved cretins appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Another New Yorker here. Pizza Hut? Never. Uno's? Absolutely!

[Anonymous]

As a child in the late 80s I thought PH was delicious and loved going there. I no longer think that. Did my tastes change or PH quality?

[Anonymous]

I used to love Shakey's Pizza back in the midwest. They had a pizza buffet that the soccer team would go to after Saturday games, and a bunch of video games in the back. Lots of seating and a wide area where the kids could watch pizza being made fresh. I used to love the cooks toss the pizza dough and make the crust.

I'd go to Pizza Hut from time to time, but mostly because a friend of mine worked there. When we'd have pizza for a family dinner there we'd get it from one or two mom and pop restaurants that had great pizza.

To be a kid again ...

[Anonymous]

It was good back then because you were not exposed to a lot of different food. Now, that you are older, you have been exposed to other variety of food and have adapted to the changes in spices. And when you go back to it, it will not taste the same.
The only food that has the tendency to tastes the same would be your mom's home cooking unless your mom was did not know how to cook.

[Anonymous]

Everything seems better when you are a kid...it's not just the pizza. But just so we're clear the pizza has not changed it has always had the same level of grossness, you just grew up while it remained stagnant.

[Anonymous]

Pizza Hut really should do some kind of nostalgia ad campaign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pizza Hut was a staple of my youth in the 80s. After every swim meet, the whole team went. I remember the pitchers of coke on the table. Nothing was more exciting than calling dad at work to have him pick up a pizza on his way home too! I do still like it, cause I like a really thin crust.

That was more memorable than the pizza after meets/games

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Most of the Pizza Hut restaurants I would go to as a youth are long gone and have been replaced by carry out locations.
When I order carryout from Pizza Hut more often than not I end up with a Pizza that looks like this.
I try to tell my wife & kids this is not what the Pizza looked like when I used to eat at Pizza Hut when I was growing up.

What has your experience been with carryout pizza from Pizza Hut?

There are still a few of the old school Pizza Huts around with the booths, buffet, juke box, and Pac Man table all the kids fight to sit at. But not telling anyone where they are, so don't ask. Want them to remain as they are and not get overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Most of the Pizza Hut restaurants I would go to as a youth are long gone and have been replaced by carry out locations.
When I order carryout from Pizza Hut more often than not I end up with a Pizza that looks like this.
I try to tell my wife & kids this is not what the Pizza looked like when I used to eat at Pizza Hut when I was growing up.

What has your experience been with carryout pizza from Pizza Hut?

There are still a few of the old school Pizza Huts around with the booths, buffet, juke box, and Pac Man table all the kids fight to sit at. But not telling anyone where they are, so don't ask. Want them to remain as they are and not get overcrowded.

womp womp: https://www.pizzahut.com/locator

[Anonymous]

Pizza Hut is owned by Yum Brands. Like KFC. And Yum Brands is mostly owned by BlackRock.

And BlackRock does not give a damn about your 90s nostalgia. They shall extract the value out of the company whether you like the food or not.