Wait do they not have these anymore? I don't think I've been to a pizza hut in 30 years. Pizza was meh, but solid salad bar back in the day
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I had forgotten about them until I saw this post, and now I wish I could buy some to have at home.
Seeing them immediately filled them with root beer in my mind, because that's the only thing I remember drinking out of them.
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Or if you want to spend a little more for the real deal...
Lumpy ones only! But I don't want them quite that bad.
We had one that served cheap caraffes of magaritas & a breathaliser near the exit.
I cant quite remember the high score though.
The stained glass lamp shades. The red booths. Beer for dad.
The first salad bar I ever saw was at a dine-in Pizza Hut.
I remember they had tables with video games in them. Blew my seven year old mind
Totally forgot about those! I used to play Warlords with my sister on one. It’s like PvP Breakout, with two paddles each, and you need to protect your own corners. Lost so many hours to that game.
Everything was sticky, too. Sometimes you’d put your quarter in the rim above the existing quarter, then after like an hour and half a pizza later, you’d realise your family was alone in the place and nobody had approached the machine. You’d go back and try to pick up the quarters, but the placeholding one was basically glued to the glass by coke and who knows what, obviously having been there for weeks.
Kind of amazing the coin slot didn’t glue itself shut.
Don’t forget the very first Personal Pan Pizzas, just for Book It! high achievers!
Personal pan pizzas are by far the best size! The small size means they get ultra crispy and don’t get soggy in the middle like larger pizzas do!
The salad bars had kale
For decoration
Because it tastes like shit and the only possible purpose it could serve is as a prop
I would eat it because I liked the taste. My mom thought it was inedible.
You disgust me
If you got to know me you would be even more disgusted.
go on ...
I'm just a terrible person, nothing fancy.
Well I've already got terrible person at home
I'm sure some would find it useful as a delivery method for ranch dressing.
Why bother when I can just squeeze the bottle directly into my mouth?
I mean, if you want to do that at the salad bar I'm not gonna stop you but others might not be as forgiving.
Proper decorum would require ladling it into a pitcher for the whole table then drinking it from red plastic cups.
Fair.
I swear my hometown pizza hutt still had those just a few years ago. In fact idk if they actually got rid of them when they renovated.
The aesthetics were so frosty plastic, impossible to forget. The cool pizza huts had an entire room for the arcade cabinet games
Cue pizza house marketing reboot/revert in 3
Y'all remember that pizza was awful right?
Pizza hut sucks, shit was so mushy
“Oh I’m sorry, we don’t have Coke. Is Pepsi OK?”
I can taste the cool refreshing microplastics.
I can feel the pizza grease on the plastic instinctively.
Slightly different than the grease on the red cups at Cici's
How did soda always taste better in them?!
The soda fountain machine was either religiously cleaned or never cleaned.
I've noticed that ones that are cleaned regularly can still reach that incredible refreshing taste. The cups are just a placebo.
Eating inside a Pizza Hut?
Well, someone had money.
In the 90s they had a program called Book It and basically if you were reading books you would qualify to get a coupon at school for a free personal pan pizza meal or something. My mother would take my brother and I, so it probably cost her $8 for all 3 of us to eat back then.
That was basically the only Pizza Hut I ever had growing up, other than that it was Little Caesars or nothing
There's like $100 worth of cups there