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Title: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: daveB from Oakland on June 25, 2009, 01:34:42 AM: http://www.jacksonville.com/interact/blog/liz_vanhooser/2009-06-24/wheres_the_pizza_the_hut_debuts_in_jacksonville

The chain restaurant that you might know as "Pizza Hut" is test-marketing a "rebranding" concept:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hnqpvFwIwnw/Sj7h8vtYE_I/AAAAAAAADAI/MFKKluW7Dmg/s320/1.jpg)

... a two-syllable phrase that has special connotations for Best Show listeners.

HA HA!! ... and HEE HEE!
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: nec13 on June 25, 2009, 01:36:39 AM: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/JabbatheHuttROTJ.jpg)

The Hut?
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: daveB from Oakland on June 25, 2009, 01:46:04 AM: I was thinking of posting a pic of Dom Delouise's portrayal of "Pizza the Hut", but the Google image search results were too disgusting for me to deal with.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: hugman on June 25, 2009, 03:03:05 AM: Quote from: daveB! Oakland! on June 25, 2009, 01:34:42 AM

http://www.jacksonville.com/interact/blog/liz_vanhooser/2009-06-24/wheres_the_pizza_the_hut_debuts_in_jacksonville

The chain restaurant that you might know as "Pizza Hut" is test-marketing a "rebranding" concept:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hnqpvFwIwnw/Sj7h8vtYE_I/AAAAAAAADAI/MFKKluW7Dmg/s320/1.jpg)

... a two-syllable phrase that has special connotations for Best Show listeners.

HA HA!! ... and HEE HEE!

if i were in a foreign land and saw this sign, i would guess it was for a hat store.
(was in a foreign land?)
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: Kim Kelly on June 25, 2009, 09:09:53 AM: Yeah, I immediately thought of the Best Show when I heard this.

The BUTT HUT.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: daveB from Oakland on June 25, 2009, 01:46:48 PM: Thank you, Kim Kelly, (from Miami). That's what I had in mind ... I was trying to be coy about it.

But after I posted, I searched for "the Hut" within Omar the Scrivener's site, and I was reminded that there is also "Radio Hut", and "HUT DOGS" ... and I certainly hope that Hut Dogs will be a menu option at The Hut.

Quote from: hugman on June 25, 2009, 03:03:05 AM

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hnqpvFwIwnw/Sj7h8vtYE_I/AAAAAAAADAI/MFKKluW7Dmg/s320/1.jpg)

if i were in a foreign land and saw this sign, i would guess it was for a hat store.
(was in a foreign land?)

Yes! Specifically, it looks like a store that sells "Spy vs. Spy" secret-agent hats.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RJhc4O7y07M/Semn-kxY21I/AAAAAAAAEsk/gmjEocz6n2o/s400/spy-vs-spy.jpg)
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 02:07:07 PM: I think it has a little bit of a Quentin Crisp vibe, which cannot be what Yum! was going for.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 25, 2009, 02:11:13 PM: I assume they are doing this because they believe it is hip and it gives them immediate street cred. I mean, all the characters on Disney Channel and The Wire refer to it as "The Hut."
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: J. Garbage on June 25, 2009, 02:35:24 PM: My girlfriend's sister's friend from Germany honestly thought Pizza Hut was Pizza Hat.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: erika on June 25, 2009, 03:23:57 PM: I expected this thread to be about pizza in a bread bowl or something.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: Regular Joe on June 25, 2009, 04:23:48 PM: I get all my favorite hats at the Hat Hut, so this is good news to me.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: daveB from Oakland on June 25, 2009, 04:57:52 PM: Quote from: erika on June 25, 2009, 03:23:57 PM
I expected this thread to be about pizza in a bread ~~bowl~~ hat or something.

To the Yum corporation marketing folks: You're welcome!
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: yesno on June 25, 2009, 05:06:20 PM: I was really tempted to go to Domino's to get their macaroni and cheese inside a bread bowl after hearing food comedian Jim Gaffigan talk about it on Conan, but I was dissuaded.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 25, 2009, 06:39:25 PM: I think the marketing people should have considered "Yum's Starch Hangar."
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: hugman on June 25, 2009, 09:14:40 PM: Quote from: yesno on June 25, 2009, 05:06:20 PM
I was really tempted to go to Domino's to get their macaroni and cheese inside a bread bowl after hearing food comedian Jim Gaffigan talk about it on Conan, but I was dissuaded.

That's like a couple years ago, I swore I was gonna try the P'izza (a sandwhich but with slices of pizza instead of bread) at 7-11 after it was featured on the Apprentice.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 09:27:09 PM: I'm thinking of trying one of those P'zones. Any good?
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: methanolcereal on June 25, 2009, 11:50:33 PM: Quote from: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 09:27:09 PM
I'm thinking of trying one of those P'zones. Any good?
It's kind of like a calzone, but it also fulfills your need for unnecessary punctuation.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: Chad from Oregon on June 26, 2009, 12:34:00 AM: Quote from: J. Garbage on June 25, 2009, 02:35:24 PM
My girlfriend's sister's friend from Germany honestly thought Pizza Hut was Pizza Hat.
(http://www.easleys.com/ProductImages/jacobson/21130.jpg)
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: hugman on June 26, 2009, 04:24:25 AM: Quote from: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 09:27:09 PM
I'm thinking of trying one ~~of those~~ a them P'zones. Any good?

fixed
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on June 26, 2009, 10:54:27 AM: Quote from: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 02:07:07 PM
I think it has a little bit of a Quentin Crisp vibe, which cannot be what Yum! was going for.

You never know. When I see Quentin Crisp, the first thing I think is "I want shitty pizza!"
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: buffcoat on June 26, 2009, 11:27:22 AM: Quote from: hugman on June 26, 2009, 04:24:25 AM
Quote from: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 09:27:09 PM
I'm thinking of trying one ~~of those~~ a them P'zones. Any good?

fixed

But is it good? I get calzones every once in awhile from the local "transplanted New Yorker" pizza shops and I like them, but Pizza Hut is closer by.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: buffcoat on June 26, 2009, 11:28:37 AM: Quote from: Groteface Killah on June 26, 2009, 10:54:27 AM
Quote from: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 02:07:07 PM
I think it has a little bit of a Quentin Crisp vibe, which cannot be what Yum! was going for.

You never know. When I see Quentin Crisp, the first thing I think is "I want shitty pizza!"

You and the rest of the artistic community. The other people think, "hey, that guy from 'The Last Starfighter.'" Which he's not.

And no, nobody thinks that but me.
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: daveB from Oakland on June 27, 2009, 03:38:46 PM: Okay, now they've gone too far ...

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/davebucket68/MJhut_3.jpg)
Title: Re: This Week in Pizza Hut News
Post by: MattJohnson on June 28, 2009, 01:51:32 AM: Quote from: buffcoat on June 26, 2009, 11:27:22 AM
Quote from: hugman on June 26, 2009, 04:24:25 AM
Quote from: buffcoat on June 25, 2009, 09:27:09 PM
I'm thinking of trying one ~~of those~~ a them P'zones. Any good?

fixed

But is it good? I get calzones every once in awhile from the local "transplanted New Yorker" pizza shops and I like them, but Pizza Hut is closer by.

I actually got one today for the first time. I know I have no one but myself to blame, but it was just awful. Everything that's bad about Pizza Hut pizza, but doubled because it's folded in half.