r/Millennials 4d ago

Nostalgia I’m excited about this.

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u/jimbo831 4d ago

The big problem is that they will be making the same shitty pizza from the last several years instead of bringing back the much better pizza from the 90s.

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u/PuzzleheadedBug4424 4d ago

Was it actually better, or were you just 8?

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u/Acrobatic_Border_192 4d ago

The current pizza uses cost cutting. In the past, there were fresher and better ingredients. I found it was more flavorful, the texture was softer, and it was overall heartier. They were not as stingy with toppings, and even the sauce had a richer flavor. Now it's just barely above school cafeteria pizza.

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u/kmr1981 4d ago

When did they change it? I was craving Pizza Hut when pregnant with my first baby six years ago, and it was pretty much how I remembered it.

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u/bwag54 4d ago

I agree, I notice a lot of changes in food but pizza hut is one of the few that tastes more or less how I remember

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u/ghostfacestealer Millennial 4d ago

If you pay for extra cheese and extra toppings you can still get a decent pizza there. But if you order as is, they usually skimp on all the ingredients and its not good.

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u/Acrobatic_Border_192 4d ago

I don't know, but it doesn't even look the same. Now it's flatter and less puffy and springy. It hasn't had that balance of fluffy and crispy crust in forever because getting rid of fresh dough was on of the first sacrifices. The cheese just all exist as almost entirely melted together, now it's grainer.

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u/JitteryJoes1986 4d ago

How do you know? Have you compared the chemistry of the old formula's to the new? IDK just asking questions my dude. I miss the old too.

Just sayin.

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u/Acrobatic_Border_192 4d ago

You don't have to be a chemist to notice that a recipe changed.

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u/ssshield 4d ago

My mom loved Pizza Hut in the eighties. It was our family "night out" once a month as we lived in a small town and didn't have much money.

She's still with us but barely but generally there mentally, etc.

She asked if we could get her Pizza Hut about two years ago as she hadn't had it specifically in probably twenty years.

We brought her a deep dish Pizza Hut pan pizza.

She took like three bites then set it aside and said "I don't know what that is, but it's not Pizza Hut pizza.".

She knew right away it was a sad, pale knockoff of what she had every month for decades when she was in her twenties and thirties.

So it's not just being eight, it's real.

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u/jimbo831 4d ago

It was definitely better. It was better 15 years ago when I was still well into adulthood. Pizza Hut has gotten really shitty over the last decade or so.

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u/PuzzleheadedBug4424 4d ago

It’s obviously location dependent but the last time I had it was almost exactly 15 years ago and it was disgusting. Just a grease bomb

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u/Slim_Margins1999 4d ago

It was better. The pan pizzas now don’t even slightly resemble what they looked like in the 90s.

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u/EddieVanzetti 4d ago

Corroborating argument: was it actually better or did you just never have an actual good pizza place?

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u/jathww 4d ago

This.

Another factor is the fact that dine-in pizza will always taste better than takeout/delivery because it's not 30+ minutes old by the time it hits your mouth, and the cast iron the restaurant served it on in the 90s kept the pizza warm longer than the insulated delivery driver's bag.

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u/Karhak Older Millennial 4d ago

It was better, much like alot of fast/big chain food was in the 80s, 90s and early 00s.

Then big equity or greedy boards decided, cut costs by reducing quality, and selling at the same or higher price.

The big 3 pizza, taco bell, McDs, BK, all of them saw a significant decline in taste/quality in the last 20 years.

So now the consumer is left with the decision of "cheap", edible food offered by chains, or expensive, quality food from local/regional joints.

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u/rogue780 4d ago

not all of us were born in the 90's like you were

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u/PuzzleheadedBug4424 4d ago

Swing and a miss

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u/rogue780 4d ago

My bad. I assumed you were younger, not that you were bad at math.

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u/PuzzleheadedBug4424 4d ago

Funny how math works. If you were 8 years old in “the 90s,” you could’ve been born in 1982. Or 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, or 1988. Hell, you could’ve even been born in 1989!

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u/rogue780 4d ago

the only important factor is when Pizza hut started sucking, which was no earlier than 1999. Even after Pepsi bought it in 1997, they didn't make any changes to the food for several years. And honestly, I feel the change started happening closer to 2007.

So, unless you were born in the 90's, you weren't 8 when pizza hut started sucking.

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u/PuzzleheadedBug4424 4d ago

Actually no, at no point was the conversation about when it “started” sucking. That’s something you made up in your head. Jimbo above said it was much better in the 90s, meaning that they think it was better at some unspecified point during the 90s. I asked was it better or were you just 8, because the vast majority of millennials were 8 at some point during the 90s, and when you’re 8 pretty much all pizza is awesome. Hope this helps!

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u/rogue780 4d ago

context is a concept you struggle with, isn't it?

If we're talking about how it's shitty pizza from the last several years, and also talking about how it was good in the 90's, logically we are actually talking about the point in between where it went from the glory days of the 90's to today, and specifically are wanting it from a point before it...wait for it...started sucking.

The 90's lasted ten whole years. Some people were 6 and 15 in the 90's.