1 H

2 Hola

3 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).

4 Back to the '80s, and we'll call it a deal.

5 Nooding

6 The local Pizza Hut was later turned into an A&W. It is now a Chinese restaurant.

7 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r

8 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

Her husband has bone cancer. A rare form evidently.

9 My state is not listed on the page.

But then my state is "Disarray."

10 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM

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Her husband is seriously ill with a rare cancer.

11 I really think I have gone to Pizza hut once

12 We do have an iconic-looking Pizza Hut in my town. The traditional building.

However, I don't know what it looks like inside since I haven't eaten there in decades.

13 Tulsi's got balls. I'd hate to see her go, but I'd totally understand it.

14 Her husband has bone cancer. A rare form evidently.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (l26NL)


My mother died of it (multiple myeloma).

15 What else would we like to see resurrected in our reconfiguration? I'm going back a ways, but mine is HUAC.

16 The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.

17 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (gtcuf)

I saw that, and figured that this, and AI fakes are going to be the death of the on-air hot-take expert.
It just proves from the beginning that everything is fake and ghey, and poorly generated.

18 Can Shag Carpet and Avocado Appliances be far behind?

19 Ace, were you going to do a movie thread? I have one to contribute.

20 It was kind of a big deal in Wichititti. They tried full on restaurants for a while with past dishes but it didn't catch on, and the atkins thing killed a lot of it too.

My girlfriend in college, (who I married), worked there and brought home free pizza. Also sometimes I'd get free nooners, (my slang for personal pan pizza, salad and drink at lunch time) when I went by where she worked. And she smelled like pizza when she got home, and I liked that.

21 No luck on a retro-Pizza Hut near me, alas.

Good news, though: I got a letter from the IRS amending my 2025 return. Seems I overpaid them! I miscalculated the taxable amount of my SS, thinking it was 85%, but it was more like 60%. I'm getting a good-sized refund. Better late than never, says I to myself, says I.

22 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

23 There's another in Ash Flat, Arkansas. Doesn't have the Pac-Man arcade, but dang near everything else.

When I worked in the area, I was so happy the first time I found it; I hadn't been inside a Pizza-Hut since way before Covid. I made a point of eating there as often as possible until I moved.

There are some with a similar exterior, but some of them look like crap on the inside, so definitely consult that list in the Twitter link.

24 Can Shag Carpet and Avocado Appliances be far behind?
Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (JEwe/)

If I can get a fridge and a washer-dryer set that will both do what I bought them to do and last me 30 years, I will cry to see Avocado, Harvest Gold, and Bronze.

25 They need to bring back ditto machines. I like the smell.

26 Let's roll the universe, America anyway, back to the Real Good Old Days. Say, 1962. People loved it on Mad Men, didn't they?

27 >>I really think I have gone to Pizza hut once


Back in the early 90s, the only place to eat in Green Valley, AZ was a Pizza Hut that was a throwback to the mid-80s Pizza Huts.

We'd go Mt Bike down there and hit the throwback Hut for dinner each time.

The only Pizza Hut experiences I ever had.

28 The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (2+BP2)
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That seems to be true of most national chains. The pizzas just aren't as good as I remember them.

Something about the crust, usually.

29 Can you ever go back to a pre-tranny Bud Light?

Is that possible?

30 We do have an iconic-looking Pizza Hut in my town. The traditional building.

However, I don't know what it looks like inside since I haven't eaten there in decades.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (gnNyN)


Perfessor, I went there and ate two weeks ago. It sucks.

As far as decor, that is. The service was fine.

31 I love it. Just guessing : the Left will hate it.

32 My state is not listed on the page.

But then my state is "Disarray."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026

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Teacher: "Calvin! What state do you live in?"

Calvin: "Denial."

33 I bring this up a lot, but one of the biggest reasons for enshitification is that the people we are being replaced with have no memory of what was, and no measure of quality.

"newcomers" don't care.

34 Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (rbvCR)

Putting the "faux" in FAUX News.

35 Perfessor, I went there and ate two weeks ago. It sucks.

As far as decor, that is. The service was fine.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (WAA9U)
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When I go out for pizza, I go to a local place downtown. Much better.

When I order it, I go with Domino's, as I prefer their crust to Papa John's.

Tonight I'm making it myself.

36 There is an apocryphal tale, that back in the 1980s under GH W. Bush, the CIA wanted to show off to the president a new disguise. Bush, being a (briefly) CIA guy, said come on over, let’s see what you got.

This guy gets ushered into the Oval office. George is expecting to see him carrying a briefcase, containing his wares. The guy says nope, and starts tearing off his mask. George is, the story goes, completely amazed. “Stop!” and gets in close to see this “mask”. It was that good, and this was 40 years ago. Think what they can do now.

The Secret Service and similar organizations used to use doubles for training, and for decoy purposes. It stands to reason over the decades that this practice, or offshoots or derivations thereof might have evolved to serious disguses, I suppose.

37 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.

38 The Matrix may have been right about '1999 being the peak of human civilization'.

I'm serious.

39 If the pizza is as "good" as it was.... I'm in.

There's one.... "not far away."

OPSEC

40 Pizza Hut used to have a thick , tangy Italian dressing will ch was awesome. Hope they have that at the salad bar , though the closest to me appears to be Fulton who ch it s about two hours away

41 Here's another one:

Marno McDermott, who is the son of the original owner of Chi-Chi's just bought back the rights and promises a comeback of the international chain.

You might recall that Chi-Chi's had a massive Hepatitus A outbreak thanks to some questionable spring onions sourced out of California. The filed Chapter 11 due to loss of revenue and self-insured retention payouts.

42 If I can get a fridge and a washer-dryer set that will both do what I bought them to do and last me 30 years, I will cry to see Avocado, Harvest Gold, and Bronze.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026

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Not so sure about the Avocado color, but Harvest Gold would be great. My mother bought a Bronze (well, sort of a dark metallic brown) refrigerator with frost-free freezer when I was in high school. It was like stepping into a new world after defrosting the old white model for so many years.

43 Growing up should be rolled back to the 60's, 70's even the 80's. Before paranoid helicopter parents and bike helmets ruined it.

44 Wichita kind of hates pizza hut now. They were real asses about things when they moved headquarters. I think they moved to a big city up NE. Very insulting. That didn't work for long and they were gobbled up by the yum foods zombie umbrella corporation and went back west, texas maybe.

45
Take out from Rice Wok tonight was superb.

Sorry to see all those people stuck in traffic going north.

Congressperson Hillary Scholten on the radio news tonight bewailing gas prices preventing people from going to their cabins this weekend.

I mean...

46 RETVRN

47 When I order it, I go with Domino's, as I prefer their crust to Papa John's.

Tonight I'm making it myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (gnNyN)


I used to prefer Papa John's, mainly because of the dipping sauce, I think. But I haven't had any in a while; I don't really remember why. I think I read that the CEO was forced to step down for being a Trump supporter, but it's been so long the details are fuzzy.

48 That seems to be true of most national chains. The pizzas just aren't as good as I remember them.

Something about the crust, usually.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:46 PM (gnNyN)

There is not much to pizza crust, so it is either inferior flour, not using olive oil, or they are using a dough conditioner like Potassium Bromate or some other preservative like ascorbic acid.
Flour, water, baking soda and yeast are pretty much the recipe, and add malt to speed up the process.

49 >>>
But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)


You can get that all on a single chip now.

50 The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM


Ten years ago pizza hut's thin and crispy meat lovers pizza was our go to, we would get that a couple of times a month. Sadly their quality has gone straight into the dumpster and we haven't bought one is over 5 years.

51 When I was a kid before 29 in Kansas the local Pizza Hut on Friday and Saturday night was the place to eat and look for hot girls to take to the beer party. It was my office on weekends.
Pizza hut is still there in original form on Hwy 54.

52 The roofline in that top pic is not the classic Pizza Hut one though. Nor the tapered windows. Looks like it was converted from something else.

53 How long would it take Windows to boot off punched cards?

Ain't nobody got time for dat shit.

54 Papa Murphy's is good, because they have fresh ingredients and I can cook it how I like it, which is a few minutes longer than most pizza places cook their pies.

Papa John's is ass.

55 No Texas?

56 We can't even have free soda refills today.

57 I want to see the "cheap" steakhouses come back to life. Golden Coral, Ponderosa, Sizzler.

"Wrapped in Bacon Wednesdays"!!!!

58 I think the first time I ever had pizza was in a Pizza Hut. You had to be careful when you took the first bite that the cheese wasn't so hot that you burned the ridge behind your front teeth.

Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.

59 7 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05

It is shadows and has been recreated with lighting. It does look weird, though!

60 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)


I'm going to need some explanation.

61 but one of the biggest reasons for enshitification is that the people we are being replaced with have no memory of what was
——

That’s true, but it’s not a cause per se, it’s a feature. Our “social planners” absolutely depend on it, though. Eventually, there isn’t anyone around who remembers how it “used to be.” They couldn’t get away with half of what they do without this phenomenon.

62 Donny sock begone.

63 While this feels neat, there is a reason they stopped doing this. It will get a bit of a nostalgia surge, but its not gonna last. Salad Bars are very hard to make money on for one thing.

64 It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.

It would be nice to return to a time when every restaurant didn't have 100 televisions.

65 "Nice" died with the arrival of the Clintons. I would like to see it come back.

66 I worked with a guy that new the pizza hut founders in high school. He thought they were just basic stoners that were going to drop out and live in their parent's basement. He couldn't believe what they managed to do.

67 SpaceX Starship 12 test flight launch from Boca Chica, TX is on-track for 6:30 PM Eastern Time.

live view: https://tinyurl.com/yrns6uxu

68 Priazzo. They took Priazzo from me.

Sons a bitches must pay.

https://tinyurl.com/3yy2ehjw


Whew. Now I can finally close that tab.

69 Now do Little Tavern. Serving sliders before it was cool.

70
I read the guy says no internet access. I salute him for that, but, oh no people will have to have real life conversations?


That ain't happening.

71 Pac-Man is okay I guess, but my Pizza Hut had Spy Hunter. A much better choice.

72 It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.
*
It would be nice to return to a time when every restaurant didn't have 100 televisions.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026

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+ 100 on both

73 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

74 Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)

I do that, until about halfway up the slice, then pick it up and fold it in half.

75 No Kansas either. I do eat at Pizza Hut for my fast food fix. Veggie Pizza with Italian Sausage added. It's five blocks away. I've never lived that close to a chain restaurant before.

76 I don't know the hut, but one of the biggest quality problems is that everything is premade and frozen now.

Do these new huts have a guy in the back making fresh dough every morning, and forming pies to order? or is he defrosting frozen dough and ingredients?

Back in the old days, McDonald's would have cows out back and the big locations would kill and butcher one every morning.

77 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)

I went to the wrong Pizza Huts, I guess.

78 Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 05:50

Let me take a wild guess. Hillary Scholten is a Democrat, correct?

79 I just hate how gauche the silhouette of Pizza Hut's roofline is.

80 My favorite place growing up was actually Godfathers Pizza. I love tomatoes on pizza and that was standard on theirs. My Wednesday night church youth group would go there a lot.

81 > The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.

Pizza Hut was always bad. Their sauce is super sweet. They were low to middle tier compared to other widespread pizza chains even in the 80s. Unless you lived in a town like Chicago, Boston, NYC or something like that, you didn't have much to compare it against.

Most people could only compare Pizza Hut against Domino's, Little Caesars, Godfather's, Shakey's, or maybe Chuck E Cheese. Sure, compared to those contenders Pizza Hut was alright. But then nicer places showed up and we found out what we were missing.

82 .

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (gtcuf)

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Meh. I'll say the same thing I say about every video now, which is: AI.

83 I say negatory to a reboot to 2000.

1) A return to Windows 98.
2) No Café.

84 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (CNl8/)

Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut

85 Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)
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Same here. To avoid the very problem of burning the roof of my mouth. Did that far too many times as a kid...

86 >> live view: https://tinyurl.com/yrns6uxu

The Mee-thane crew, I call NSF. I love these guys. Space nerds extraordinaire.

87
Pizza Hut serving pussy?

88 Omg, someone beat me to praising Shakey’s pizza!!!!!

89 The Pizza Hut near me only recently reopened their dining room, and re-started their lunch buffet. $11 for AYCE pizza, pasta and salad. It's a pretty good deal if you're hungry.

90 There's this lone Pizza Hut by the side of the 10 highway between Phoenix and Tucson that is the classic building. Nothing else really around it. I'll have to check if that one is getting revived.

91 60 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)


I'm going to need some explanation.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (WAA9U)

I need some addresses. If a place has delicious BBQ and pussy, I'll deal with the Tex Mex.

92 It's the digital culture that we have that has diminished social contentment. Turn all of that shit off, go analog.

Not everywhere, but there needs to be places to take a break.

93
No different from Chinese places serving cats.

94 But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

I went to the wrong Pizza Huts, I guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

That was 'Pizza Slut'.

95 I do miss the old Pizza Huts.
The pizza was 100% better back then, too.

I also miss Pizza Inn, which had the pizza buffet and dessert pizza. The last one of those around here closed 20 years ago.

96 Same here. To avoid the very problem of burning the roof of my mouth. Did that far too many times as a kid...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (gnNyN)


But didn't you love it when it started to peel?

97 I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza. Would you like to have a variety of moderately warm pizza slices that have been pawed and fingered by about a dozen grimy kids straight from the playground? Well do I have good news for you!

98 83 I say negatory to a reboot to 2000.

1) A return to Windows 98.
2) No Café.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

You can run Windows 2000.

Can't help you on the Cafe though. Most blogs weren't around in 1999

99 Shakey's Pizza Parlors

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

Spencer's Gifts

100 Sadly, I think Pizza Hut will need more than that. Like the chain burger market, the chain pizza market is heavy saturated and overbuilt. Consumer tastes are moving away. So the chains are chasing a declining market. A few will not survive.

101 I would either rollback to a before 9/11 world or barring that, 2009.

Everything started to go to hell when Obama was elected.

102 Yes to the old Puzza Huts, but yes, food must be good!!

103 I'm going to need some explanation.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM

Four words: Dallas. Henry Hines Boulevard.

104 Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026
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I do that, until about halfway up the slice, then pick it up and fold it in half.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026

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Yeah, at about halfway I can pick it up and just bite; the cheese is cool enough by then.

Come to think of it, ur usual Friday night dinner here is a pizza. I usually get one from Walmart, but sometimes one from Aldi. When I was working I'd sometimes call a local chain place, Reginelli's, order a Detroit-style pizza for pickup, and bring it home on Friday night.

105 Shakeys was better than Pizza Hut.

But Pizza Hut delivered. If you wanted Shakeys, you had to go get it yerself, or sit down in the restaurant. As I recall they were quite Large. Today’s “Large” or “XL” from the chains is about what “personal pan” used to be. It’s pathetic.

106 McDonald's French Fries. You know, fried in tallow. Because I've run out of crack cocaine.

107 Ok, ok, ok. You got me as a nostalgic Americana kind of guy.

But, who are these bubbly retards babbling in the story?

108 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

When I was a kid, we had a Shakey's that I remember as being pretty good but it could just be that "everything was better then" false nostalgia. I think the last place that I got genuinely superior pizza was Piz'za Chicago* in the SF bay area 15 or 20 years ago.

* I probably have the punctuation wrong. It's supposed to be a pun on "Piece of."

109 And apropos, I’m watching Animal House and drinking whiskey.

110 I mean, it's socialism by degree,

They import 3rd worlders
They give them benefits
Companies cater to the new market and now only produce shit.

So the migrants who are not of this country get state money to buy state regulated crap. And The Party members all get rich and live in enclaves.

How is this different from the Soviet?

111 Shakey's Pizza Parlors

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

Spencer's Gifts
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026

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The second two used to be in a lot of malls. Shakey's would usually be right nearby.

112 To be honest, any hole in the wall mom and pop pizza place in NJ is better than any chain.

113 Just thinking about the pizza aroma when opening the door and walking in a Pizza Hut takes me back to the 80s.

114 The wife and I do Pizza Fridays but she doesn't like Pizza Hut. Which sucks but I'm supposed to be on the South Beach Diet, so we make do with Tombstone frozen pizza.

They're cheap and relatively low carb without getting into weird crust territory. I put extra cheese on my half

115 There is not much to pizza crust, so it is either inferior flour, not using olive oil, or they are using a dough conditioner like Potassium Bromate or some other preservative like ascorbic acid.
Flour, water, baking soda and yeast are pretty much the recipe, and add malt to speed up the process.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (rbvCR)
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Yeah sure pizza crust isn't difficult from an ingredients perspective but making actual good pizza crust is a friggin' art. Let's not gloss over the fact that a lot of places make it from scratch and it still blows ass.

116 Mojos alone make Shakey's better than everybody else.

117 Iirc, way back in the day, ace had a kind of blue highlight type going on.

118 Shakey’s was the place you went to after a game, the whole team. It was always fun.

119 109 And apropos, I’m watching Animal House and drinking whiskey.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)

Well I won't argue against this.

120 >>> 1) A return to Windows 98.
2) No Café.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

You can run Windows 2000.

Can't help you on the Cafe though. Most blogs weren't around in 1999
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (xcxpd)


Technology peaked at Windows 3.11 and Mac OS 9. It's been down hill sense.

121 We do pizza Fridays, but it’s takeout from a restaurant around the corner and it’s delicious.

122
And here we go, the nerds are squeeing over the frost on the mee-thane tank.

123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.

124 Lousy-ana is not on the list for a restored PH.

125 > Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

I'd always heard that Canadair crash killed the business. Apparently not. The crash was in 1972 and their last location closed in 2019.

126 IIRC, something like 90% of all pizza chains use the exact same supplier for all their ingredients. So despite their sniping about who has better quality, the reality is they all have the same stuff.

127 Four words: Dallas. Henry Hines Boulevard.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)


That was not the part I needed explaining.

128 Fave memory of mine as an 18-year old* in the ‘70s was going to our small town Pizza Hut by myself and having a hot sub sandwich with a glass of Hamm’s dark beer. A peaceful big boy thing to do. Bring it back!

*Yes, the legal age was 18 back when America was great.

129 Spring of 1984. My first date where I drove. I was a sophomore, she was a senior. Movie was "Weekend Pass" (awful), preceded by dinner at Pizza Hut. All for less than $20. Yeah, she broke my heart. But married her classmate. So it worked out.

130 I worked at a Pizza Hut in Cour d'Alene in '94. It didn't have the old style tablecloths back then.

The Pan pizzas dough came in frozen slugs. You put oil in the pan, put the pizza dough in the oil and left it to thaw overnight.

I liked it. Still do. Some find it too greasy but it is satisfying.

Damn it, now I want Pizza Hut!

131 We never had a Shakey's down here.

We did have Godfather's (which I also really miss).

132 Everything started to go to hell when Obama was elected.
———

It was an open air asylum long before the JEF.

It did however, accelerate to bizarro-world velocity under that collection of regime twats, for sure.

Yes, Pizza Hut was always “bad”, but it was edible and did the trick. And they delivered. It’s hard to overemphasize that. Pizza is an impulse purchase, a lot of times.

133 129 Spring of 1984. My first date where I drove. I was a sophomore, she was a senior. Movie was "Weekend Pass" (awful), preceded by dinner at Pizza Hut. All for less than $20. Yeah, she broke my heart. But married her classmate. So it worked out.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (CyFyf)

Oh God...I know that movie...

134 Four words: Dallas. Henry Hines Boulevard.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)


That was not the part I needed explaining.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM

IYKYK. ;-)

135 We did have Godfather's (which I also really miss).

They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?

136 I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza.

You don't go to Cici's for the quality, you go for the quantity. Also for the variety if say one kid want's pepperoni and one wants cheese. There's a buffet chain called Pizza Ranch is supposedly decent but it's expensive for pizza. Haven't tried it because I know I won't get my $ worth without regretting it later.

137 Damn it, now I want Pizza Hut!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

Good luck.

Pizza Hut around here has sucked for 15 years or more.

138 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?

139 In GA there are a lot of hippy themed pizza places. The most prominent being Mellow Mushroom. But there are others, in the peace / love / drugs etc. theme.

I'm kind of on a calzone kick. It allows me to not order with other people and horde things for my self. No sane person asks to share a calzone.

140 Yeah sure pizza crust isn't difficult from an ingredients perspective but making actual good pizza crust is a friggin' art. Let's not gloss over the fact that a lot of places make it from scratch and it still blows ass.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (oqH4h)

Seek out America's Test Kitchen Pizza recipe. The crust is stupid simple.

Dough:
3 cups bread flour, plus more for work surface
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon fast rising yeast
1 1/3 cups ice water
1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more for work surface
1 1/2 teaspoons salt

They say not to proof the yeast, but I've had best luck at my altitude and water with 110F, with the sugar, using a whole packet of yeast.

The secret to good flavor is let it rise at least 24 hours.

141 Wasn't Gattys also a chain? You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a pizza place at a certain point.

142 Best pizza crust I've ever had came from a small mom and pop place in my old town. I don't know how they made it, everyone asked and they refused to divulge their secret, but it was fantastic.

Not all pizza dough is the same.

143 Village Inn Pizza in Billings MT was always my favorite. Light sauce, great crust, fresh ingredients. As a kid I loved it, and as a grown man I still loved it. They have their recipe set.

Gonna visit again after my Mom's celebration of life, the weekend following this one.

144 The only Shakey's I ever knew about was in the suburbs when I was in high school, and I hardly ever made it out there except on a bus route that went nowhere near the Shakey's. A bunch of my castmates in a play drove out there one night, and I used to see the restaurant some years later when I lived out there.

145 >>>
They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)


Fuh get a bout it....

146 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

Howard Johnson is right!

Rerruh!

147 >>>Yes to the old Puzza Huts, but yes, food must be good!!

Posted by: Lizzy

>They did something to their sauce that is upsetting and they'd do more business if they addressed that. Add sugar maybe? I don't need the reflux. Other than that, it's not a bad experience.

148 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.

149 FYI - since it is all but impossible to determine scale of the rocket from the videos, the total height of the Starship stack on the pad today is 408 feet.

Stack = Superheavy Booster + Starship space vehicle.

Taller than a Saturn V/Apollo stack (363 feet). Taller than the current configuration of NASA's SLS booster/second stage/Orion spacecraft stack (322 feet).

150 They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

I couldn't.

Then just disappeared except for little kiosk type sales at convenience stores. I don't know what happened to Godfather's, they had pretty good pizza compared to their competitors at the time.

151 I mean, it's socialism by degree ….How is this different from the Soviet?
———

Communists are just Socialists In A Hurry

152 22 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

Posted by: Orange Roof And All at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (oftw2)

oh man, never could figure out how they could fail! Every time we went to Florida (Mom worked for Delta) we always stayed at one....eat , swim, eat, sleep all within a block...

153 Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?
Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026

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The actor Tom Hulce, who played Mozart, was the young guy who meets up with the young checkout girl (who later proves to be underage).

154 @138

>> Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?

Yeah, but his career stalled after it.

There are some really fine actors in AH, some did a couple of movies, some where in tv shows, but only Kevin Bacon made it big.

155 Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?
Posted by: InZona

He was - Tom Hulce.

Tim Matheson (Otter) continues to work as did Bruce McGill (D-Day).

156 One of the best pizzas I ever had was the wrong order! I ate it anyway and it was perfect. I never could get the place to duplicate it again though. Then they moved.

157 137 Damn it, now I want Pizza Hut!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

Good luck.

Pizza Hut around here has sucked for 15 years or more.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (6ydKt)

There's one in Monroe. It's all right. I just can't go very often/ever.

158 78 Let me take a wild guess. Hillary Scholten is a Democrat, correct?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Correct. Gerrymandered into a West Michigan conservative area.

This his her way of reaching out to white rich lib wywmyn and their concerns.

159 > I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza.

Chuck E Cheese pizza is worse than lunch cafeteria pizza. I remember having some as a kid, and even to my very undiscerning taste at the time, it was bad.

160 Donald Sutherland also bangs the one dudes girlfriend.

161 150 They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

I couldn't.

Then just disappeared except for little kiosk type sales at convenience stores. I don't know what happened to Godfather's, they had pretty good pizza compared to their competitors at the time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

The got bought out IIRC

162 I also blame "America's Test Kitchen" and that whole "food scientist" mentality.

I was an early adapter to Harold Mcgee, so I am not against food science, but colleges started teaching everyone how to use chemicals to make food a mass market product. Look at ingredient lists nowadays and it is all chemicals because everything is premade, frozen, or fake.

To make a real pizza, they would have to go back to real cheese, real pepperoni or sausage, real dough,....

Can you even buy olive oil that is not adulterated crap today? In quantity?

I grew up in New Jersey and the pizza places (all red sauce joints) were supplied by Lisanti Foods (or else.) and they imported from Italy. It was the mob, but it was good quality. Now it is that other mob - the US private equity mob and the quality is shit. Chemicals and shit.

163 I think the suburbs here still have an old-style pizza parlor called Tower of Pizza. It's been there for at least fifty years, maybe longer.

This week, the pizza/Italian place just up the street from me had some drunken/high clown drive his car into the front of the restaurant -- smashed through the wall as if in a movie. Nobody was hurt, and the owners say they should be open again soon.

164 The thing that makes Animal House a standout is that the acting is really good.

165 136 I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza.

You don't go to Cici's for the quality, you go for the quantity. Also for the variety if say one kid want's pepperoni and one wants cheese. There's a buffet chain called Pizza Ranch is supposedly decent but it's expensive for pizza. Haven't tried it because I know I won't get my $ worth without regretting it later.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (vTZFs)


Yup, comparable to Little Ceasars.
Cheap, but two pizzas instead of one.

Pizza! Pizza!.

166 Chuck E Cheese was horrible pizza.

Having a rat as a mascot was on the nose.

167
The vapor clouds from all the venting at the tank farm is getting YUGE. That's a sanctified shit-ton of cold N2 vapor being vented.

The Raptors use subcooled liquid "mee-thane" and LOX. Rather than keeping them in the tanks at the boiling point, they chill them way down closer to the freezing point. This increases the density, but means they sit there too long with the tanks full before launch.

At any rate, they use LN2 to do the subcooling as they're filling the tanks, and just blow off that vaporized N2 from the heat exchanger output.

168 I'm kind of on a calzone kick. It allows me to not order with other people and horde things for my self. No sane person asks to share a calzone.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (3uBP9)

You know about the calzones?

169 There was a Shakey's Pizza in Billings, many years ago.

I was in my Dad's barbershop chorus/quartet group. One of the old timers, Billy, used to sing Barbershop quartet at the Shakey's.

My life has kind of straddled some generational timelines.

170 Chuck E Cheese pizza is worse than lunch cafeteria pizza. I remember having some as a kid, and even to my very undiscerning taste at the time, it was bad.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (mkw2N)


Preach.

171 My little town with TWO intersections with sets of stoplights has about 4 places you can buy pizza. I honestly don't know how these places stay open.

And we have two cannabis shops. Maybe three.

172 >of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
----

Boone's girlfriend became Marion Ravenwood.

173 The got bought out IIRC

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

Pizza is a pretty crowded market.
I suspect Godfather's lost ground because they didn't deliver, around here at least.

174 From now on, your name is Flounder.

175 Bread or Pizza, aged dough is far superior. You can make a Poolish is one way. Refrigerate dough balls for up to a week, say.

Even cookie dough is much improved final product by an overnight in the fridge. Good luck persuading little kids with this. “We’re gonna make Cookies!”

“Yay!!”

“We’ll bake them Tomorrow”

176 The thing that makes Animal House a standout is that the acting is really good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026

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Which is why I have this sneaking admiration for all the characters.

177
Those massive clouds of N2 can displace enough O2 from the air close by to be dangerous, I was reading. So they've got to be careful about people too close. I everybody is well out of the way when all that starts.

178 I have fond memories in college of Pizza Hut. They served booze there. Believe it or not, PH was the happening place there for the college scene. Yea, I went to a rural college.

I was from NYC and used to partying like a rock star at Manhattan clubs. When I got to college, I was like ‘where’s the happening scene with the hot chicks?’ I was told “Pizza Hut.’ I thought they were pulling my dick. ‘You gotta be fucking yanking my dick,’ I said. But they weren’t.

179 Husband and young sons once got food poisoning at a Pizza Hut on a vacation trip to see my family. We had to avoid the panhandle of FL due to a hurricane or flood & I think were in Meridian, MS.

Like stupids they ate from the buffet. I dislike buffets and had something else and was fine.

They spent the entire vacation sick and moaning. After a visit with one son to the urgent care we got Phenergan suppositories for them. Then they had to listen to their Dad moan every time he exhaled, which he does with a high fever. Plus the GI stuff.

I would dose them up, provide Pedialyte and Gatorade and they'd hear me swimming laps and be angry. I can't help it if I'm not stupid and eat from a buffet with little children probably picking at food with booger fingers.

That's the last time we ate there.

I'm still getting weird texts from my brother about the strange toilet extender mother had put on the upstairs commode.Which needs to be removed before tomorrow.

I may need to be removed because I feel like I am being deported for a long weekend to CECOT with Somolians. I keep getting texts about stuff. Son in FL wants a grocery list, which is nice but he needs to check the gin supply first.

180 Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?

The music was mostly early rhythm and blues Influenced rock and roll and (very briefly) some folk music. There was no classical at all.

181
The flow rates for the mee-thane and LOX together are well over 10K GPM. Just imagine the flow rates of LN2 required to cool that down.

182 @172

>> Boone's girlfriend became Marion Ravenwood.

It’s a crime that Karen Allen didn’t have a bigger career.

183 They say not to proof the yeast, but I've had best luck at my altitude and water with 110F, with the sugar, using a whole packet of yeast.

The secret to good flavor is let it rise at least 24 hours.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

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"they" are always wrong on this. I use the SAF instant yeast, and it is so much better if you proof in warm water as you say. I have little mixer and mix yeast, water, salt, and sugars for all dough and it always works better.

184 You don't go to Cici's for the quality, you go for the quantity. Also for the variety if say one kid want's pepperoni and one wants cheese. There's a buffet chain called Pizza Ranch is supposedly decent but it's expensive for pizza. Haven't tried it because I know I won't get my $ worth without regretting it later.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026

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We had a couple of Cici's Pizza places in town. I think they're gone now. It was like eating in a cattle car.

185 The "Trolley Car" pizza joint in Wheaton, MD was.. the bomb.

They played silent moves. Cartoons. Etc. Bench seating.

186
Christy,

I hope y'all have a great time.

I'm looking forward to your stories from your trip.

187 If you can find a place that makes pastrami pizza try it. It is delicious. Best pizza I've ever had. Cheese pizza topped with pastrami, mustard, and pickles.

188 If making bad pizza was a sport then Pizza Hut would be an Olympic Champion.

189 We do pizza Fridays, but it’s takeout from a restaurant around the corner and it’s delicious.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (4KUe5)

When the wife and I have pizza, it's french bread pizza and I make the sauce and assemble everything myself.

190 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

Jim was the brother (Trading Places baggage handler)

John Belushi was Animal House (Senator Blutarsky). Also a lucky bastard peeping in on Mandy Pepperidge changing.

191 I grew up in WNY and they have some excellent pizza joints there. Buffalo-style pizza uses "char-cup" pepperoni which curls up and turns charred at the edges while the "cup" retains a smidgeon of oil. For true Buffalo-style, you dip the crust in bleu cheese dressing, which you already have because of course you ordered wings with your pizza.

My favorite pizza joint here in Colorado recently added char-cup to their menu, yay!

192 My college actually had a pretty good pizza place in the basement of the student center. And a bowling alley somewhere. Never saw the alley. But spent plenty of time getting pizza and beer there.

193
The local Pizza Hut survived by doing off-the-menu stuff and catering to their actual customers desires.

Employing your neighbor's kid was a huge bonus.

194 Oops. Time I took the cats' canned chow out of the fridge and ran some water in their bowls. Their dinner is to be at six pm.

195 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

You mean his brother, John Belushi.

196
They're going to push the limits on the boostback burn for the booster. All 33 Raptors are going to be firing, doing one hell of g-force boostback. Elon is going to stress that thing to the limit.

197 176 The thing that makes Animal House a standout is that the acting is really good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026

***
Which is why I have this sneaking admiration for all the characters.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

My reaction to the characters is....quite different.

But I don't want to rain on TB's Friday

198 I grew up in New Jersey and the pizza places (all red sauce joints) were supplied by Lisanti Foods (or else.) and they imported from Italy. It was the mob
———

There was a huge scandal at the time, that was pushed out of the news of November 22nd 1963

Called the “Great Salad Oil Swindle” involving huge tank farms in New Jersey, an elaborate system of pipes to transfer product to different tanks in the event of inspection, and tanks filled with water. Futures trading can be profitable, but this was a huge fraud operation.

199 > Cheese pizza topped with pastrami, mustard, and pickles.

Were you pregnant when you ate this?

200 I grew up in The Bronx where there is a pizza parlor on every corner.

Eating at Pizza Hut would have been considered sacrilegious.

201 A helluva lot of pizza joints in Boise. I am guessing most are mid.

I miss Beau-jo's. One of the few things I miss about Colorado.

Well, and the Mom and Pop Mexican restaurants in my former town. Have yet to find "The Place" regarding Mexican food here.

202 I grew up in New Jersey and the pizza places (all red sauce joints) were supplied by Lisanti Foods (or else.) and they imported from Italy. It was the mob, but it was good quality. Now it is that other mob - the US private equity mob and the quality is shit. Chemicals and shit.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22,

Italy insists on made in Italy and the flag on any olive oil from there, so look for that. We tend to get it from Tuscany, so it’s a little more peppery than scicilian olive oil. Dievole will use only one type of oil. If you want to get super fancy. Awesome to drizzle on bread.

203 @197

>> But I don't want to rain on TB's Friday

I’ve had two glasses of whiskey so far, nothing can rain on my Friday.

204 200 Eating at Pizza Hut would have been considered sacrilegious.

That's one thing that's true all across NY state!

205 Shakeys was some kind of paradise for kids. It had everything, EVERYTHING!

206 No pizzas I have eaten were/are as good as the 3-4 very small chains in my hometown.

The Pizza Oven
Italo's
Kraus's

BUT, I may be remembering the nostalgia they loaded them up on. That is a tough ingredient to top.

207 I tried the local Pizza Hut delivery for the first time in many years a few months ago, hoping it had improved, and I'd get a decent pizza.

Nope.
It arrived almost cold and was actually worse than I remembered.


So I went back to ordering from Marcos when I want a pizza or calzone.

208 Roll it back. Roll it all back.

Reverse, reboot, and restore.

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"Kill The Cheerleaders, Save The World!"

209 I think I played my first arcade game at Shakey's.

210 201 I miss Beau-jo's. One of the few things I miss about Colorado

Beau-Jo's in Fort Collins? I'm a fan of Mama Roni's, and Pizza Casbah for NY-style.

211
Not a fan of pizza. Put the toppings on pasta and I'm good to go.

212 Cheese pizza topped with pastrami, mustard, and pickles.

That sounds like the kind of thing you'd see on Pizza day at the Great British Bakeoff

213 Wasn't Gattys also a chain?

Still is, although it's Gatti's. Mr. Gatti's, to be precise.

214 All this pizza talk made me hungry so I went ahead and made my pizza and put it in the oven just now...

215 Separately, I'm not hungry. The dog Ralphy ate, I carried him downstairs here with me and he's sleeping on the quilt in the computer room.

The cat Snowflake ate earlier and she's upstairs on my bed on top of a towel I have there - I do buy and give her flea medication. She usually comes here with us.

I'm just getting my stuff done but this is a nice quiet scene.

Alabama's greatest hits on the CD player too.

Not too bad....

216 I think the idea is cool as hell but I hate public places these days and prefer my wife’s homemade pizza.
Wife had surgery this morning to repair her broken leg. She is getting much needed sleep right now. All prayers for successful recovery will be deeply appreciated.
It’s actually Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas. Not quite as bad as it used to be. Seems most of the hookers are trannies these days. I did weekend work at the new psych hospital. The city is filthy.

217 We had a couple of Cici's Pizza places in town. I think they're gone now. It was like eating in a cattle car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM


One time we pulled into Hong Kong for liberty back in the 80s. My buddy convinced me to go to the spaghetti warehouse to eat because he said it was great.


It was a buffet line set up with all you could eat and you sat at row upon row of picnic tables that were bolted to the floor. It was crowded, smelly and worse than eating in the galley onboard the carrier and the spaghetti tasted like chef boy ar dee from a can. I never went back.

218 Still is, although it's Gatti's. Mr. Gatti's, to be precise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks. For some reason I always thought of then as seedy. May have been the neighborhood they were in.

219 @211

>> Not a fan of pizza.

This series of words makes no sense.

220 Does the roll back include our ages?

221 . Dievole will use only one type of oil

That is one type of olive.

222 Beau-Jo's in Fort Collins? I'm a fan of Mama Roni's, and Pizza Casbah for NY-style.
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (gtcuf)

Yup. They moved locations. I liked the old location in the old bank building.

223 > Italy insists on made in Italy and the flag on any olive oil from there, so look for that.

The mob in Italy imports olive oil from Africa and labels it made in Italy.

224 Shakey’s was the place you went to after a game, the whole team. It was always fun.

Yes, so many times. And you had just burned off the calories you needed to make room for the pizza and beer. Those were the days.

225 Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods.
.....

I am proud to say I never got sucked into a Smart Phone. Stuck it out with my flip phones and I survived. Just phone calls and text.

226 Marcos has a new "NY Deli Style Xtra Large" pizza that's pretty good.

It's close to the typical thin, greasy, huge/foldable, slice with giant pepperoni on it that you'd get up in NYC.

It's very close but not quite on the same level as the grease-trap pizza you get by the slice.

227 "they" are always wrong on this. I use the SAF instant yeast, and it is so much better if you proof in warm water as you say. I have little mixer and mix yeast, water, salt, and sugars for all dough and it always works better.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (N0IE5)

I've had better luck proofing it when making a french bread loaf, too. Red Star Rapid Rise is what I use for the pizza dough.

228 @186...hopefully: "Great trip! I didn't kill anyone!It rained the entire time and we all felt the love of the Walton's and played board games and cards."

I know what I'm having is gin on Sunday, my first of the summer. Especially if we are rained in or dodging tornadoes. Mother does have a generator now, which won't help a lot in misery. The power goes out A LOT on the farm.

Last year it was all fine (from what I can remember) and no one got bit by snakes at the lake or attacked by fire ants.

I did take a photo of a tranny as we boarded the plane from NOLA to home.

No fire alarms in our NOLA hotel at 3am (it's happened). No bums accosted us unless you count the one by the river and Cafe du Monde who wants money if he guesses which state you are from (he's done this for 2yrs).

229
"Kill The Cheerleaders, Save The World!"
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026

***
"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

230 It’s a crime that Karen Allen didn’t have a bigger career.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (XV/Pl)

She chose not to. She left Hollywood some time ago.

231 There was a great local pizza place when I was in college during the mid-80s in Palo Alto (the poor kids called it "Shallow Alto") -- I'd stop there on my way home from work (on my bicycle, I didn't own a car until I was 26) to treat myself most evenings -- called Mountain Mike's.

232
123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

Tim Matheson maybe wasn’t big, but he had a very good career. Doug Kennedy (cowriter) tragically fell off a cliff and died a few months after it came out. And you know all about Belushi.

233 It’s actually Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas. Not quite as bad as it used to be. Seems most of the hookers are trannies these days.

Is Rick Fairless' Strokers* still there?

* Motorcycles, you pervs! What did you think?

234 Use bread dough. Any decent brand is fine. Gold Medal, KA, whatever.

Make a Poolish or let the whole shootin’ match, let it ferment at least 24 hours in a WARM place. You will start to smell this amazing tangy aroma. When it bakes it seems to color up better, and has a much more complex, exotic flavor and aroma. All purpose flour doesn’t react the same, no matter how you push it, it just smells like Wonder Bread.

Make those Yeasties work for a living, is the idea.

235 Pizza Hut nearby, gets a reasonable business. What’s shut down all around here is KFC. Just gone.

236 Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (dK+Kv)

UPDATE:

Straw Hat/Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut

237 3 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know


Husband has a rare form of cancer, so I understand her resigning. Prayers for both of them. I fully expect the usual suspects to go full retard with various conspiracies.

238 I watched the video interview of Sparks (easily found on YouTube)

I think the most important point he made was, apart from the retro-nostalgia, that people are actually putting down their phones, talking to each other and having conversations over a meal once again.

More than anything else, I think this would help to bring our culture back toward what it once was.

239 Just don't open one up in DC.

240 "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

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Heh.

241 Still is, although it's Gatti's. Mr. Gatti's, to be precise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks. For some reason I always thought of then as seedy. May have been the neighborhood they were in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

As far as chains go, the wife prefers Gatti's because the sauce is sour rather than sweet but absolutely everything else about their pizzas is crap.

242 I can't help it if I'm not stupid and eat from a buffet with little children probably picking at food with booger fingers.
......

and sneezing in the gravy.

243 I did take a photo of a tranny as we boarded the plane from NOLA to home.

No fire alarms in our NOLA hotel at 3am (it's happened). No bums accosted us unless you count the one by the river and Cafe du Monde who wants money if he guesses which state you are from (he's done this for 2yrs).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026

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Did anybody say he could tell you where you got your shoes?

What hotel did you stay in, and what areas did you visit?

244 232
123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)


Tom Hulce Did pretty good....

245 240 "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (FISzD)

Around here, she almost certainly does. Everyone does.

246 Hideaway Pizza in the OKC area is pretty good.

247
Near 1 minute to go.

248 Oh man, I would love for KFC to taste like it did when I was young.

249 Actually, there is a good pizza place here in TN. In Sparta (go figure):

Marioochi's. Good stuff but not cheap. The same owners opened an Italian cheese shop just around the corner - Formaggi. Great cheeses, sauce, gellatos and sammiches. Doing a hell of a business with all the transplanted Italians.

250 It's a danged shame that Lisa Bauer (Shelly Dubinsky) didn't get more screen time.

251 Beau Joes pizza in Idaho Springs is the best!!!!!

252 The Magaddino (alleged) crime family owns the excellent La Nova in Buffalo. There's no pizza like Mob pizza. Same in New Jersey. It's been years, so maybe it's changed, but back in the day when you went to a Sabres game or a concert at The Aud, La Nova had a monopoly on the pushcart biz. For obvious reasons LOL. I had a girlfriend whose cousin worked at La Nova. She had some tales to tell!

253 I'm a fan of Long John Silvers, but the local one was part of a KFC hybrid and went out of business.

Nearest place now is a couple hours south down in Phoenix ...

254 It's on!

255 Tim Matheson maybe wasn’t big, but he had a very good career. Doug Kennedy (cowriter) tragically fell off a cliff and died a few months after it came out. And you know all about Belushi.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026

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Matheson, if I recall aright, was the voice of the original Jonny Quest. And I think he starred with Kurt Russell later in a Western TV series called The Quest (??).

256 I've had better luck proofing it when making a french bread loaf, too. Red Star Rapid Rise is what I use for the pizza dough.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


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I use SAF for everything, and in Japan the kitchens are unheated so I had trouble with things like cinamon rolls in winter in past without proofing.

(And by "little mixer" above I meant one of those battery powered things used for frothing milk or mixing hot cocoa)

257 >>>
That sounds like the kind of thing you'd see on Pizza day at the Great British Bakeoff
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (5yqx7)

LMAO!!

258 When you are a little tyke, and you have your first slice of pizza, it is wonderful because it is all new. It is literally the best pizza you have ever had because it’s the only pizza you have ever had! Comparisons come later.

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Tucker Carlson Is Spiraling and Sperging Over The Crushing Loss of His Nazi Pal

John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC

May 20

Massie's biggest mistake was likely believing that social media is real life, that people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones had managed to wrest enough influence from Trump that seeking their good opinion was the only constituency he needed to win over.

Well, he and they lost by ten points.

'Influencers,' eh?

As a great man once said, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

Sean Davis
@seanmdav

Why did Massie lose tonight?

Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border.

Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020--calling him a "disaster" for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely--but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can't say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly.

Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters.

We'll never know what caused the apparent personality change--maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy's ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress--but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky.

Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don't care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later.

Massie's voters didn't really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.

Taqiyya Qatarlson rejects these explanations. For him, the failure of his Nazi agenda means that the Republican Party is dead, MAGA is dead, and America is a conquered nation controlled by evil Jews in Israel.

Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra

Tucker Carlson says the Republican Party is officially dead after it colluded with a foreign country to buy Thomas Massie's seat.

He says it is immoral to support the current Republican Party because it supports the killing of children and is now against free speech.

"It's the end of the Republican Party we had."

Video here.

Because the faggot that this faggot supported lost, that means that "democracy is fake."

Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_

Tucker Carlson: "This is the saddest moment in a long time. It’s not just the death of Thomas Massie's immediate political career. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. but it’s also of course the end of the Republican party. Nobody supports this"

This is what all the NeverTrumpers said as they flounced in 2015-2016.

Taqiyya Qatarlson also claims the election was stolen by "mail in" ballots. He says he has no evidence of this, but invites the Nazi losers who watch him to do their own "sleuthing" and prove his conspiracy for him.

This is Candace Owens' business model -- invent a fake and gay conspiracy theory, then tell her legions of "mommysleuths" to gather non-existent evidence to prove it.

Tucker Carlson suggests that the election was stolen from Thomas Massie because of “mail-in ballots.”

Gallrein won both early voting and Election Day.

Tucker is a conspiratorial liar. pic.twitter.com/rQesiqmlmv

— Justin (@JustinUSA) May 21, 2026

Is that true? Did Gallrein -- "whoever that is" -- really only win due to "mail-in ballots"?

Well a brain damaged alcoholic substance abuser who had a psychotic break is saying it, so no, it's not true.

Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby

13h

Tucker Carlson's latest video claims Thomas Massie's loss was due to "mail-in ballots."

Except Gallrein won both early voting and Election Day.

Tucker Carlson is a liar.

Tuq'r also dismisses the existence of Islamic terrorism. He scoffs, "Islamic terrorism -- whatever that is."

People are pointing out he seemed to know what the term meant for 30 years as he's railed about Islamic terrorism since the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.

But now he says he doesn't even know what Islamic jihad meanx, suggesting it's a propaganda term invented by Perfidious Jews to con Christians.

“WhAtEvEr ThAt iS” https://t.co/yjw3F6cyJt pic.twitter.com/IrlTrABd9d

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 22, 2026

Remember, he really cares about the Christians. He's a real Christian, too! He discovered the Bible two years ago when his secular ass got fired and he realized he'd have to cultivate a new audience willing to pay his fat ass $10 per month for his "analysis."

By the way, that's another way in which the Woke Reich shows it's just another branch of woke leftism. As many have noted, it's impossible to even have a political conversation with a leftist because they're favorite tactic is pretending they don't understand the simplest points and pretending they are ignorant of the most basic, widely-known facts. They just don't know what you mean by "crime" or "illegal alien," you know!

And this is Tuq'r's favorite tactic now too. There are many, many things that Tuq'r Qarlson is suddenly ignorant about. When Piers Morgan stated that Israel was an "ally," Tuq'r objected "I don't even know what that means." Morgan explained he meant that Israel was a political ally of the United States, and Tuq'r again insisted "I don't even know what a political ally means.'

He says he doesn't know what "MAGA" means any more, or what the Republican Party is any more. He doesn't know what "democracy" means (though he does seem to know because he also says he wants people in a "revolutionary, even violent" frame of mind, and then pretends he didn't say that).

He doesn't know if Hamas is a "terror organization." He says he doesn't know what that means, and adds "it seems like a political organization to me."

Wait -- so you do know what "terror organization" means, because you just contrasted that with "political organization."

Is it possible, Tuq'r, that you're lying about not knowing what basic words mean?

And now - no idea what "islamic jihad" is.

Someone linked a headline about ISIS murdering 40 more Christians in Nigeria, with Tuq'r's quote -- "IsLaMiC tErRoRiSm -- WhAtEvEr ThAt Is" underneath.

"Islamic jihad -- whatever that is!"

May that be written on his grave.

He literally contradicts himself every other sentence. Because he's a liar, and liars can't keep straight which lies they're telling at any particular time.

The America First guy who thinks Israel -- by which he means "American Jews" -- stole Massie's seat doesn't oppose all foreign funding of political messaging, of course:

🚨Tucker Carlson's media venture got $15M from a billionaire jihadist in late 2023.

Tucker began to become more and more anti-jew and more and more pro-muslim around this same time period.

Tucker claims everyone is "bought" by AIPAC to distract you from noticing he's been… pic.twitter.com/jzAXyiTywY

— Pro-America | Politics & Markets (@Pro__Trading) May 21, 2026

One more thing: In case you have any doubt about this, Tuq'r Carlson is a Nazi and Holocaust denier. He keeps on having one Holocaust denier after another to discuss their interesting theories.

He's just asking questions, you know! (((They))) don't like it when you ask questions!

Joel Mowbray
@joelmowbray

🚨 EXCLUSIVE -- Tucker Carlson's latest guest, @OwenBenjamin, is no ordinary Holocaust denier.

Benjamin claims there's "zero evidence" Hitler ordered the Holocaust, which he labels a hoax.

Further, he claimed that the Nazis RESCUED Jews by sending them to Auschwitz and other concentration camps only "because there's mass city evacuatuations because of [Allied] bombing."

This clip from 2022 is representative of Benjamin's many other Holocaust-related rants.

In short, Holocaust denial is central to his public persona, as part of an obsessive focus on Jews.

Yet despite this, Tucker's brother Buckley yesterday praised Benjamin as a "great American Hero [and] Truth-teller."

And Tucker didn't just interview him, but fawned that his guest "weaves sharp-witted satire with deep dives into the complexities of the human condition."

But if you watch this clip -- which, again, is one of many similar rants -- one obvious question comes to mind:

How could anyone view Benjamin as a "sharp-witted" analyst of "the complexities of the human condition"?

The Bee: