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[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

I remember they had tables with video games in them. Blew my seven year old mind

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] otto@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Don’t forget the very first Personal Pan Pizzas, just for Book It! high achievers!

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

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!

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The salad bars had kale

For decoration

Because it tastes like shit and the only possible purpose it could serve is as a prop

[-] edg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I would eat it because I liked the taste. My mom thought it was inedible.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] edg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

If you got to know me you would be even more disgusted.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[-] edg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm just a terrible person, nothing fancy.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Well I've already got terrible person at home

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I'm sure some would find it useful as a delivery method for ranch dressing.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Why bother when I can just squeeze the bottle directly into my mouth?

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] otto@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

“Oh I’m sorry, we don’t have Coke. Is Pepsi OK?”

[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago

I can feel the pizza grease on the plastic instinctively.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Slightly different than the grease on the red cups at Cici's

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 13 points 2 months ago

How did soda always taste better in them?!

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] ralakus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's all the microplastics

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Pizza hut sucks, shit was so mushy

[-] greyhathero@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Lumpy ones only! But I don't want them quite that bad.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I'm half inclined to buy the set Make a silicone mold and start replicating them.

[-] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

For me, it was watered-down Mountain Dew with a mild tinge of chlorine.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago

Eating inside a Pizza Hut?

Well, someone had money.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

That was basically the only Pizza Hut I ever had growing up, other than that it was Little Caesars or nothing

[-] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

We had one that served cheap caraffes of magaritas & a breathaliser near the exit.
I cant quite remember the high score though.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I can taste the cool refreshing microplastics.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There's like $100 worth of cups there

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