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look upon my works ye mighty and despair (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Takeshidude@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 116 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Reading the comments tells me that most people here do not appreciate exactly how far Pizza Hut fell. For many Gen-X's 1980's Pizza Hut was peak dining. The pizza was buttery deliciousness with full table service like a fancy restaurant, complimentary salad bar for my mom, fancy booths or tables, mood lighting for the folks on a date, and a video game arcade. Going to Pizza Hut was an event. I tried Pizza Hut again in the 2010's and vowed to never attempt to soil my memories like that ever again.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Remember the book-it pizza thing?

Oh man that was the best

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never tasted a more delicious pizza than the personal pan pepperoni I earned from absolutely crushing the Book-It program. That big holographic button, covered in achievement stars. The pizza. Pure bliss.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

mine only had 4 pepperoni slices and never enough cheese so i had to spread it around more evenly to enjoy it and it was still 99% bread. lol

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

The only Pizza Hut “near” me growing up was the one by my grandmas house so when we saw her it was basically a given we were gonna turn my book-it in.

100% the only pizza I even liked growing up.

[–] Dohnuthut@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They still do this actually. Not quite as cool as when we were kids, but my son brought home a coupon last year for his pizza!

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[–] Blackmist 13 points 2 months ago

Pretty much any big name pizza place is the same story. A cycle of "make it smaller", "make it out of cheaper ingredients", "put less on it" and "make it cost more" has left most of them barely recognisable as pizza.

The best pizza near any of us is probably from a local family run pizza place.

The best value pizza is probably Costco.

I don't know why everybody else continues to exist. A mountain of brand recognition heading towards oblivion.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 11 points 2 months ago

Whereas nowadays if you want to have the modern Pizza Hut experience you can order pizza from anywhere... then just eat the box. 😬

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pizza Hut buffet was a good deal for the price and quality, if you wanted to go have a lunch of real pizza.

Our local one is still here but they sold the big red roof building and moved into a strip mall. No inside dining, carry out only. I miss the drive-through though - used to be able to just order online or call and not have to get out of my car to get it. Now I have to park and walk inside and my precious convenience is reduced. But I still refuse to pay for Doordash type bullshit.

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[–] degen@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

THE DESSERT PIZZAS

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

pizza hut in the small town i grew up in stayed like that until the 2018 when the sole owner died and his inheritors outsourced its management rather than returning to bfe to run it (i don't blame them) and i feel like that's how most older establishments enshittify.

there was no way he was making money, but he CLEARLY loved pizza & people and was happy doing it.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 44 points 2 months ago

Really around here they have made a come back

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Could someone elaborate which empire this used to be, for the non-US users? 🙂

[–] haulyard@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think this was Pizza Hut?

edit: yup

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I assumed this is a Pizza Hut based on the roof but they still exist so I'm not sure it fits?

I like the version of this meme that's a picture of a building with an outline of a former Sears logo on the front

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They still exist, but the Pizza Hut chain and it's remain restaraunts are shadows of what they used to be. Pizza Hut was awesome in the 80's. Now the old one near my house is a church.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same for Olive Garden. Enshittification and placating shareholders came for them both.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...it's mind-boggling from today's perspective just how good the olive garden was in the eighties: we reserved a table for my graduation and it was a properly respectable dinner...

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[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Our Lady of Unlimited Salad Bar

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[–] TuEstUnePommeDeTerre@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

It used to be a pizza hut.

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

An extinct civilisation called Heetzah Putt, rumoured to be near the lost city of Atlantis.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago

This belongs in a museum!!

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This pizza Hut needs to be turned into a pizza HOME

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[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know at least one in our town that's turned into a cannabis dispensary. Seems to me a smart business man would figure out how to combine the two...

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cheba Hut comes close and is a real place, but they don't sell weed...yet

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Guess they got out-pizza'd after all

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

With that logo and those buildings, they were clearly supposed to be named Pizza Hat until they changed it at the last minute.

More's the pity, since "hut" never made sense for pizza and Pizza Hat sounds like the ultimate slacker Halloween costume 😁

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

In Germany it was always confusing but fun because "hut" just means hat

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hut always made sense to me. Making pizza in a hut... sort of a quaint name when thought of that way

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[–] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fancy it up and the red still bleeds

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a Chinese buffet to me

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

That would be 3 different Chinese buffets over a 5 year period!

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago

I can still smell the smoking section

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Ours moved in to a strip mall and went pick up or delivery only. The old location is a really over priced shitty coffee house now.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Apparently Yum! Foods Inc (the owners of Taco Bell, KFC, A&W, Long John Silvers, and of course Pizza Hut), has been going around buying back a bunch of the old Red Roof stores (as they're known internally, they're actually a different district than a "regular" store right down the street, too) with plans to reopen them, salad bars and all.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So they didn't end up winning the restaurant wars after all.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They only won that in the non US version. Here in the US it was Taco Bell

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Guys guys relax

Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are both owned by the same corporate conglomerate that owns Pepsi, KFC, and every other fast food chain that only serves Pepsi.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The reference is to a old action movie called Demolition Man. In the movie there was only one restaurant that survived the franchise wars. In the US it was Taco Bell and in Europe it was Pizza hut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film)#Filming

You can also read up on the Three Seashells.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't know how to use the three shells, admit it

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No that was Taco Bell.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love seeing places that were clearly something else. Plenty of places in old Pizza Huts. But I really wanna see the Wienerschnitzel in my city that operates out of a giant hot dog go out of business and then have, like, a cigarette store open up inside the giant hot dog.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

A lot of the best taquerias in my area are in the old taco bell Spanish style buildings

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No one out-pizzas The Hut.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago

Aren't they growing back into Pizza Huts again?

[–] Manzas@lemdro.id 3 points 2 months ago

1000008965 Eternity for Lemmy just does this for some reason.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I think I've seen at least one that has returned to Pizza Hut after leaving the folks for a while.

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