This Is What They Took From You.<br>But Now They're Returning It.

This Is What They Took From You.
But Now They're Returning It.

A few years ago, people did a meme. Semi-seriously, they would post "This is what they took from you" and post pictures of stuff from the pre-Obama world, before the American "elite" traded stable, functional Americana for third-world dysfunction and leftwing postmodern slop.

The first one of these I saw was the pleasing roofline of old Pizza Huts:

We need a reboot of the universe. We need to roll back the country's programming to its Last Known Good Configuration, erasing every update since 2000.

Is that possible?

Well, if we all insist on it, it is.

Pizza Hut brings back its old-school restaurant features as nostalgic customers rejoice: 'So excited'
Back to the good old days.
2026 has proven to be the year of nostalgia. Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods. Others are returning to analog hobbies and activities.
Even beloved restaurant chain Pizza Hut is going back in time, reverting to its retro glory -- red checkered tablecloths and all.
Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, a Kansas-based company that operates almost 100 Pizza Hut locations across the country, is helping keep Pizza Hut alive by rewinding the clock and redecorating over 80 annoyingly modern, stark-looking locations to make them look like they did decades ago.
Red roof? Check
Red-checkered tablecloths, vinyl booths and Tiffany-style lamps? Check, check and check.
Pizza Hut is attempting to stay alive by evoking nostalgia in customers and redesigning locations back to its original look. jetcityimage -- stock.adobe.com
The beloved salad bar and red plastic cups will be back.
Even the old-school Pac-Man machines will return.
Unsurprisingly, customers are losing their minds over this massive change.
"I am so excited and when they are restored I will be eating there as a new tradition every Friday," one wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
"This was our Thursday night meal out before kids. Salad bar and pac-man. Waitress knew our order too. 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.

A list of the Pizza Hut locations with the Retro '80s look and feel.

Maybe there is one close to you! pic.twitter.com/rtbfcJ5MYY
— David (@DavidPiccinini2) May 17, 2026

Roll it back. Roll it all back.

Reverse, reboot, and restore.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM

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1 H

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LdBR/)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LdBR/)

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 at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (AGz65)

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

Posted by: Video Killed the Radio Star at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (9B9RT)

5 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LdBR/)

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

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (rbvCR)

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 05:41 PM (gtcuf)

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.

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

9 My state is not listed on the page.

But then my state is "Disarray."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (CHHv1)

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.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (1Au9i)

11 I really think I have gone to Pizza hut once

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

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.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (gnNyN)

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

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (gtcuf)

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).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (AGz65)

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

Posted by: spongeworthy at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (sLLbN)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (2+BP2)

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.

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

18 Can Shag Carpet and Avocado Appliances be far behind?

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (JEwe/)

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

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (rbvCR)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (3uBP9)

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

22 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

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

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.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (WAA9U)

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.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (rbvCR)

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

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (CNl8/)

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?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (JEwe/)

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.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:46 PM (gnNyN)

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

Is that possible?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (Sco7b)

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.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (WAA9U)

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

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (fZiTB)

32 My state is not listed on the page.

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

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

Calvin: "Denial."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 05:48 PM (N0IE5)

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

Putting the "faux" in FAUX News.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:48 PM (gtcuf)

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.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (gnNyN)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (2+BP2)

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.

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

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

I'm serious.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)

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

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

OPSEC

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (jehhT)

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

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (VHKlE)

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.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (PTDkx)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (3uBP9)

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...

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)

46 RETVRN

Posted by: mr_jack at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (LNPSJ)

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.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (WAA9U)

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.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (rbvCR)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (3uBP9)

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.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)

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.

Posted by: DBCooper at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (yGBJE)

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.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (vTZFs)

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

Ain't nobody got time for dat shit.

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (FhXTo)

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.

Posted by: Donny Thinks It's a Vacuum at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (0aYVJ)

55 No Texas?

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (nGraA)

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

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (YwEeS)

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

"Wrapped in Bacon Wednesdays"!!!!

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (dIske)

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)

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!

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (Wmg4n)

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)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (2+BP2)

62 Donny sock begone.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (0aYVJ)

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.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (5yqx7)

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.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (ExV1e)

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

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (3uBP9)

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

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (5rh/l)

68 Priazzo. They took Priazzo from me.

Sons a bitches must pay.

https://tinyurl.com/3yy2ehjw

Whew. Now I can finally close that tab.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (dK+Kv)

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

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)

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.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (3ek7K)

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

Posted by: Cad Lackey at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (jQ/ea)

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

***
+ 100 on both

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

73 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

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

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.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

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.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (7T8ei)

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.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (N0IE5)

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.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (dK+Kv)

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

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

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (n3VHW)

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

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (q177U)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (3uBP9)

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.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (mkw2N)

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.

Posted by: irright at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (28n8R)

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)

84 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

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

Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (dK+Kv)

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...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (gnNyN)

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

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

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (w6EFb)

87
Pizza Hut serving pussy?

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (Y8DZL)

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

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (4KUe5)

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.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (1Au9i)

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.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (xI3lH)

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.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (xcxpd)

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.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (D1E+2)

93
No different from Chinese places serving cats.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (3ek7K)

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'.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (vhPr1)

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.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (6ydKt)

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?

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (WAA9U)

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!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (3uBP9)

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

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (xcxpd)

99 Shakey's Pizza Parlors

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

Spencer's Gifts

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (wVcYX)

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.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (RO0sO)

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.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (XV/Pl)

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

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (4KUe5)

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.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)

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
*
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

***
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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (zwYaq)

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

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (Bq1P8)

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

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

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

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."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (vTZFs)

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

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)

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?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (N0IE5)

111 Shakey's Pizza Parlors

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

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

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

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)

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

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (xI3lH)

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

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

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

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (xcxpd)

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)
----

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)

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

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (CNl8/)

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

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

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

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (4KUe5)

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.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:03 PM (xcxpd)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:03 PM (3uBP9)

121 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)

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

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (w6EFb)

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)

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

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (mkw2N)

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.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (RO0sO)

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.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (WAA9U)

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.

Posted by: pikkumatti at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (zO177)

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)

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!

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

131 We never had a Shakey's down here.

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

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (6ydKt)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (NxbtL)

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...

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

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. ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (0sNs1)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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?

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (xI3lH)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (3uBP9)

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.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (dK+Kv)

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

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (zZu0s)

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.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)

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.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (0aYVJ)

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

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....

Posted by: banana Dream - no really that was their motto at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (3uBP9)

146 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

Howard Johnson is right!

Rerruh!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (Hxgql)

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.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (D1E+2)

148 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

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).

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (5rh/l)

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)

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

Communists are just Socialists In A Hurry

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (NxbtL)

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...

Posted by: zigggggy at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (EDeJ/)

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

***
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).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (XV/Pl)

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).

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (vhPr1)

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.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (vFG9F)

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.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (xcxpd)

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.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (Y8DZL)

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.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (mkw2N)

160 Donald Sutherland also bangs the one dudes girlfriend.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

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

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

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.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (N0IE5)

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (wzUl9)

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

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (XV/Pl)

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!.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)

166 Chuck E Cheese was horrible pizza.

Having a rat as a mascot was on the nose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

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.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (w6EFb)

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?

Posted by: George Costanza at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (wVcYX)

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.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (0aYVJ)

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.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (WAA9U)

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.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (Sco7b)

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.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (ZxPkt)

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.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

174 From now on, your name is Flounder.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (XV/Pl)

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”

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (lRO1C)

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)

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.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (w6EFb)

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.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (RO0sO)

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.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (WONhk)

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.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:14 PM (Hxgql)

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.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (w6EFb)

182 @172

>> Boone's girlfriend became Marion Ravenwood.

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)

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.

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

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

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

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

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (jehhT)

186
Christy,

I hope y'all have a great time.

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

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:16 PM (3ek7K)

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.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 06:16 PM (CNl8/)

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

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 06:16 PM (3z/6E)

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.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (ExV1e)

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.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (wVcYX)

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!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (gtcuf)

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.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (3uBP9)

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.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (Y8DZL)

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.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (wzUl9)

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.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (Hxgql)

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.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (w6EFb)

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

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (xcxpd)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (lRO1C)

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

Were you pregnant when you ate this?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (mkw2N)

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.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (XV/Pl)

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.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (0aYVJ)

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.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (hftzA)

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.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:19 PM (XV/Pl)

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

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

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:19 PM (gtcuf)

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

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:19 PM (5yqx7)

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.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (vhPr1)

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.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

208 Roll it back. Roll it all back.

Reverse, reboot, and restore.

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"Kill The Cheerleaders, Save The World!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (FISzD)

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

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (CNl8/)

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.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (gtcuf)

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

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (3ek7K)

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

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (5yqx7)

213 Wasn't Gattys also a chain?

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)

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

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (gnNyN)

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....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (Sco7b)

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.

Posted by: Billythesquid at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (auDTc)

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.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (0N4FZ)

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.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

219 @211

>> Not a fan of pizza.

This series of words makes no sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (XV/Pl)

220 Does the roll back include our ages?

Posted by: DJ at May 22, 2026 06:23 PM (uosPt)

221 . Dievole will use only one type of oil

That is one type of olive.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 06:23 PM (OoFl2)

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.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:23 PM (0aYVJ)

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.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (mkw2N)

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.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (Bq1P8)

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.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (UjdFS)

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.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (6ydKt)

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.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (dK+Kv)

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).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (WONhk)

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

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

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

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.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (fZiTB)

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.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (FISzD)

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.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (NyxOA)

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?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:26 PM (vTZFs)

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.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:26 PM (lRO1C)

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

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:26 PM (Gqar8)

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

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

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.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (yKhjs)

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.

Posted by: alanon at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (jHMkm)

239 Just don't open one up in DC.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (n5tGW)

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)

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.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (ExV1e)

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.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (UjdFS)

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

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

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

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (wzUl9)

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....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (FtULh)

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.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (Gqar8)

246 Hideaway Pizza in the OKC area is pretty good.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (vTZFs)

247
Near 1 minute to go.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (w6EFb)

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

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (n5tGW)

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.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (vhPr1)

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

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (wVcYX)

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

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (4KUe5)

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!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (gtcuf)

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 ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (FISzD)

254 It's on!

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (vTZFs)

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 (??).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)

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)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (N0IE5)

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!!

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (Hucnr)

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.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (Hxgql)

259 In May 1986 my senior year my high school Sparks High(Sparks, NV) had a Godfathers Pizza right down the street. A large portion of my class was going to meet there for lunch one last time after getting our caps n gowns at our gymnasium. A bunch of us showed up at Godfathers and the server said it was going to take an hour or so to make n cook all the pizzas. We voiced our displeasure. Then some older black dude came walking up and asked us what was going on. We told him and he immediately went behind the counter himself and started cracking the whip. Pizzas cooked brought out to us in 20 minutes. He sat down with us and started talking asking us questions and said he was traveling around the country to Godfather locations to get a feel because he had just taken over as Godfathers CEO. It was Herman Cain.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (IlL6s)

260 In the 1990's I was up in NH, and having come from the Philly and NYC areas previously it depressed me that Pizza in that part of New England meant throwing a frozen pizza in the oven. No slices available for that reason as well.

Was up there recently, and they've made it into the 21st century on Pizza.

On a side note, maybe I couldn't get decent pizza at the time, but there were at least 3 restaurants that served wild game.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (dIske)

261 Re; Animal House. I think Peter Riegert (Boone) had a much better, more laid-back, smart-ass attitude than Tim Matheson (Otter). Were I in that situation, I would have liked Boone better.

Bluto would have scared the fuck out of me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (0aYVJ)

262 Round Table had pretty good pizza but it was HELLA expensive, around here at least.

What’s shut down all around here is KFC. Just gone.

KFC is such a pathetic disaster. Their chicken sucks. They cost too much. They cannot seem to figure out anything OTHER than make the food better. The pot pies are pretty good but I am certain they buy them from someone else

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (5yqx7)

263 Beau Joes pizza in Idaho Springs is the best!!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026

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If they were around between 1997 and 2001, I'm pretty sure I ate there!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:31 PM (wzUl9)

264
I didn't go to Pizza Hut back in the day. Someone who did recalled it. Pizza Hut had something called "The Mexican Salad," like a taco salad I guess This person described it as "looking like a hairy Mexican had tossed it by throwing it against their chest."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 06:31 PM (azNOR)

265 Pretty sure it’s “Harry Hines Blvd”

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:31 PM (A5RD0)

266 KFC is such a pathetic disaster. Their chicken sucks. They cost too much. They cannot seem to figure out anything OTHER than make the food better. The pot pies are pretty good but I am certain they buy them from someone else
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026

***
Best sketch ever on Laugh-In:

Col. Sanders calling, "Here, chicky, chicky, chicky --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (wzUl9)

267 Hideaway Pizza in the OKC area is pretty good.
Posted by: Oddbob

That's our go-to. Hey! I think I'll go!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (l26NL)

268 Starship is off.

Posted by: MkY at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (q6tQZ)

269 232
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.
Posted by: Tom Servo

He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (yKhjs)

270
The only chain "restaurant" we have here is Subway and it sucksl

Dogfood on a sub roll would taste better and be cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (3ek7K)

271 Donald Sutherland was the only “big name” A-list actor in the movie. That was kind or the point, they couldn’t afford a bunch of expensive talent. It was a low budget film that made a fuckton of money. Against all odds, maybe. I think Don later regretted turning down a percentage of the proceeds, he opted for a lump sum I think. Hindsight is 20/20

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (+Oqoq)

272 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.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (Hxgql)

And, if you're a child in NY/NJ, they immediately begin the Clockwork Orange procedure to ensure that you always tell everyone that no pizza made elsewhere will ever be any good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

273 Colonel Sanders was a wild man, his story is hilarious. He got into a fried chicken war with another gas station LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (5yqx7)

274 ......oh and Herman Cain paid for our food.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (IlL6s)

275 268 Starship is off.
Posted by: MkY at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (q6tQZ)

Like, off the Pad?

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (Gqar8)

276 A young Tim Matheson voiced Johnny Quest in the cartoon.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (+Oqoq)

277 273 Colonel Sanders was a wild man, his story is hilarious. He got into a fried chicken war with another gas station LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (5yqx7)
_______________________

Was he the one who considered fake kidnapping a relative to gain seed money to start a restaurant?

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (dIske)

278 He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.

He is truly great, always a solid performance, every time and yeah that episode still haunts me. Especially the Dire Straits ending.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (5yqx7)

279 I see that Pennsylvania's sites are not in or near Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, York, and so on. It might work...for a while.

Posted by: No nic, another fine day at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (NFX2v)

280 Both NY and NJ have excellent pizza shops. However, there's a special place in my heart for Goldberg's Pizza which was on 3rd Ave. in Manhattan. I think he had another location downtown. Alas, it is no more, but I have his little cookbook!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (3ImbR)

281 Like, off the Pad?
Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (Gqar

Yes. They're having issues though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (ExV1e)

282 It was Herman Cain.
Posted by: JROD

WOW!!!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (l26NL)

283 Thick crust deep dish pizza is gross.

Needs thin, crispy crust and fresh ingredients. Pineapple and Canadian bacon is just fine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (A5RD0)

284 Was he the one who considered fake kidnapping a relative to gain seed money to start a restaurant?

I had not heard that but it wouldn't surprise me. Dude built his own hot oil pressure fryer from parts at the garage, somehow wothout blowing up the gas station and killing himself

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (5yqx7)

285
Boostback for the booster failed, and one of the Raptor on the Ship itself went out.

Booster is a goner (but they were going to expend it anyway).

Ship can still do the planned trajectory with the remaining engines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (w6EFb)

286
A cousin's kid has a place in Chicago that his holiness of pizza reviews Dave Portnoy has reviewed, criteria there was if it had a New Haven crunchy crust and the right kind of cheese.

What I make on the grill with anchovies, roasted tomatoes and other odd ingredients, roasted till brown, would horrify you all.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (Y8DZL)

287 250 It's a danged shame that Lisa Bauer (Shelly Dubinsky) didn't get more screen time.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Yep. She was memorable! I vaguely recall that she got married, got out of the Hollywood biz, moved to New Zealand. No idea if any of that is true but it sounds good. She was a beauty with amazing bewbs!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (yKhjs)

288 270
The only chain "restaurant" we have here is Subway and it sucksl

Dogfood on a sub roll would taste better and be cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (3ek7K)

I just had a very good sandwich from Jersey Mike's so you have my sympathy. I avoid Subway whenever possible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)

289 Church’s Fried Chicken >>> KFC

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (A5RD0)

290 The Panicans:

x.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/2057947556324258047

Fataturk, lol

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (3uBP9)

291 Given how this Pizza Hut reboot seems to be heavily promoted by conservative commentators, I'm sure the Left will try to cancel this

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (FLx59)

292
Well, the boostback was aborted, but looks like they tried a landing burn anyway.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (w6EFb)

293 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.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026

***
The only pizza I've ever had that came close to that "first one" was one at Port of Call, on the edge of the Quarter. A dark, atmospheric place, the kind of joint you take someone you're not married to, with great burgers and pizza.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)

294 It was Herman Cain.
Posted by: JROD

I remember when he unexpectedly passed, all the Left and hell itself rejoiced in the most despicable fashion.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (l26NL)

295 Welp, it's fish night at The Cabin. They claim to have walleye.

We'll see.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (vhPr1)

296 Jimmy John's.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

297 He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.
>>>

aka the Sheriff in My Cousin Vinny

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (wVcYX)

298 283 Thick crust deep dish pizza is gross.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Please try Jet's pizza if there's one nearby, you may learn to think otherwise.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:39 PM (Y8DZL)

299 A dark, atmospheric place, the kind of joint you take someone you're not married to, with great burgers and pizza.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)

You better know how to use your fists?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)

300
Walleye is so great.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (3ek7K)

301 Nood

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (l26NL)

302 He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.

+++++

Brother D-Day i. Animal House!

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (FLx59)

303 296 Jimmy John's.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

I need to try them.
They have some places here but they're several towns over.

I like Firehouse Subs, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (6ydKt)

304 @ 243...I think the bum "owns" part of the River Walk as he tried his bs with my husband one year and son the next. I tell my Long Island husband every time we go to NOLA to not make eye contact (for 47yrs). Yet he still does. DIL grabbed her son's hand and yanked him away as my eejit talked politely to the bum. I don't know where I was.

Last year at Mass a homeless woman tried to set the collection plate on fire as it's never dull.

I think we were at the Royal Orleans that time. Monteleone this time. We know to avoid the hotel on Bourbon Street and the name escapes me at this point. Sons as teens liked watching the strippers from as much as they could see from their bedroom.

We know NOLA well. Mostly hang out in French Quarter a few hours in the day, and are mainly there due to avoiding the Atlanta airport at all costs. Because you then get to ride on the most ancient of Delta planes in and out of Jackson (which we also try to avoid).

We also know not to stay out late with the kids and eat dinner early. I survived one Mardi Gras in college and that was enough to last a lifetime. The food is worth the insanity. Galatoire's for my birthday dinner again is always perfect.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (WONhk)

305 I had two slices of Sicilian pizza tonight. Stuffed.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (3ImbR)

306 @294 Blutarski-yes I remember the lefts celebration of that. Can't have a successful black man that achieved what he did through hard work n education. Very cool memory and supported his run for Republican nominee. Exactly forty years ago this month.
Damn, my forty year reunion is June 12th in Sparks.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 06:45 PM (IlL6s)

307 A dark, atmospheric place, the kind of joint you take someone you're not married to, with great burgers and pizza.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)
*
You better know how to use your fists?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026

***
I don't know about now, but when I was there in the late Eighties it was a quiet bistro sort of place -- where the narrator in the song "Me and Mrs. Jones" would have met every day at 6:30, and no one knew she'd be there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:47 PM (wzUl9)

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