Missing the Point
Posted by
tgirsch
SayUncle is getting all PSH over some gun nonsense, while missing the larger point: Pizza Hut’s pizza sucks, so their corporate policies are pretty much irrelevant. Of course, it’s possible he lives in Backwater, USA (His The City), and Pizza Hut may be his only choice (besides maybe Domino’s, which would be no choice at all, really…). But still, let’s get some perspective here. You don’t stop doing business with Pizza Hut because you don’t like their corporate policies. You stop doing business with Pizza Hut because they have shitty pizza.
Their pizza does suck.
We actually have a local shop that has good pizza called Metro Pizza.
Comment 4/24/2008
[…] Update: Tom says don’t eat their pizza because it’s crappy pizza. […]
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To get my asshole comment out of the way, there should be a different word for pizza outside of NYC, as to not even both confusing what most people presumably call “pizza” with the real thing.
Shitty product and bad policy would either be a valid reason to not do business with a company. Though perhaps not this particular corporate policy…. It’s really a catch-22 for the company. You can’t really endorse your employees, pizza delivery guys/gals, roll around strapped - legal gun or illegal gun not withstanding.
However, find a pizza delivery guy/ Chinese food delivery guy in an urban area who hasn’t been robbed… Calling a delivery guy to a fake address, hiding out, and robbing him is an incredibly common scam in the hood. In fact, most urban pizza joints brief drivers on robbery procedures immediately upon hire - when (not if) you get robbed - this is what you do… It’s a shitty situation all around, but you have to stop short of encouraging your employees to roll around like Maurice Clarett.
True story, I shit you not: My mother (an EMS Captain) has a coworker who ordered Chinese food, it was snowing hard in the winter. The delivery guy came, and looked terrible. The customer paid for the food, and when the delivery boy turned to hobble back to the elevator, the customer noticed a large knife stuck in the guy’s back, sticking out of his bubble-jacket. The customer had to plead with him to go to the hospital, as the delivery boy claimed he couldn’t go because he had deliveries to make. This mo-fo was walking around in a blizzard, delivering Chinese food with a fucking knife stuck in his back. Tell me the part about the lazy immigrant again…
Anyway, you could just claim that places shouldn’t deliver in shitty areas. But, you can’t deliver to some places and not others on the basis of anything other than distance - that’s just fucked up! So, maybe you’d have to discontinue deliveries all together - but that’s such a large part of a pizza joint’s business, that’s not really feasible either.
It’s a genuinely fucked up situation. Word to the bulletproof glass in the liquor store…
Comment 4/24/2008
Digglah, despite what you city folk think, if you order a pie anywhere in NY state you’re probably going to get NY style pizza. If you don’t, you should never order from the shithole you ordered from again.
But other than that, yeah. Theres nothing worse than ordering a pizza and getting some deep-dish lump of crust instead.
Comment 4/24/2008
“New York style” “pizza” is not “New York pizza”.
Then again, I’ve recently moved to NYC and would really love to find some real Chicago pizza. I did just find some Chicago style pizza, which was… edible. I’ll have to make my own.
Comment 4/24/2008
Let em know, Dan!
As the authority on wordsmithing, George Carlin, duly notes: to add “-style” to the end of a word is to elicit connotations of sameness when you are, in reality, communicating difference. A similar dynamic exists for “flavored.”
To reference Carlin verbatim, “Lemon flavored drink, you know what that means? No fucking lemons!”
And the same goes for New York style pizza, if it was really New York pizza, the “style” would be superfluous at best, and a sign of weak product at worst.
Yes, you can order pizza anywhere in NY, and you will get NY-style pizza, but that’s like calling Taco Bell Mexican-style food. Oh, the trials of my friends’ and their drunken quests across upstate college town to find the one simulacrum of NY pizza close enough to not totally offend the twelve beer palette.
This applies even to areas as close as most of Long Island. That’s why I specified NYC, not just NY.
Comment 4/24/2008
Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Chicago pizza. Don’t like thick crust, and after seeing a Geno’s East pizza, I have no clue where Chicagoans get off calling people from Wisconsin “Cheeseheads.” I’m from Wisconsin, and I’ve never seen that much fucking cheese in my life.
I’ve never tried NYC pizza — something I hope to fix in June — so I can’t speak to that. But my favorite pizzas so far are neither “Chicago-style” nor “New York-style.” Pizzeria Regina in Boston’s North End is the bomb for a no bullshit pepperoni pizza. There are a couple of places in Milwaukee that I like a lot, too. But the common thread is this: a crispy, thin crust. Preferably a crust that, while thin, still manages to be crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, like good bread is supposed to be. If the crust is more than about 1/4″ thick, that’s too thick. And there should be a sane amount of cheese, unlike in Chicago.
Comment 4/24/2008
I can attest to the sucktatude of Pizza Hut. I have eaten their pizza exactly 3 times, all of which resulted in projectile vomiting within 3 hours. It’s worse than dominoes, it’s worse than Papa Johns, It’s even worse than those frozen Totino’s party pizzas that cost a buck a piece.
The only lower form of pizza is the Mr. P’s frozen pizzas that are just cardboard and grease.
Comment 4/24/2008
I do not know what is worse…being such a wimp that you throw up every time you eat Pizza Hut, or not realizing how incredibly wimpy admitting such a thing makes a man seem.
Somehow, I think it’s safe to assume Timmy is not an Army Ranger or Navy Seal.
Comment 4/24/2008
Generally, projectile vomitting is the result of not that is bad, which all Pizza Slut is, but food that has gone bad, which is not uncommon for Pizza Slut, either. I’m not sure exactly how manly you have to get to supress food poisoning, but the Army Ranger, I know has puked due to food poisoning.
Comment 4/25/2008
Actually, I believe the wimpiest is to troll a site in order to hurl insults based on gender binaries across the internet at strangers while basking in the safety or anonymity and lack of accountability.
The “telephone tough guys” of the information age…
Comment 4/25/2008