This Week in Pizza Hut News

[daveB from Oakland]

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:

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

HA HA!! ... and HEE HEE!

[nec13]

The Hut?

[daveB from Oakland]

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.

[hugman]

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:

... 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?)

[Kim Kelly]

Yeah, I immediately thought of the Best Show when I heard this.

The BUTT HUT.

[daveB from Oakland]

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.

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.

[buffcoat]

I think it has a little bit of a Quentin Crisp vibe, which cannot be what Yum! was going for.

[JonFromMaplewood]

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."

[J. Garbage]

My girlfriend's sister's friend from Germany honestly thought Pizza Hut was Pizza Hat.

[erika]

I expected this thread to be about pizza in a bread bowl or something.

[Regular Joe]

I get all my favorite hats at the Hat Hut, so this is good news to me.

[daveB from Oakland]

I expected this thread to be about pizza in a bread bowl  hat or something.

To the Yum corporation marketing folks: You're welcome!

[yesno]

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.

[JonFromMaplewood]

I think the marketing people should have considered "Yum's Starch Hangar."

[hugman]

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.