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[–] greyhathero 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I can taste the cool refreshing microplastics.

[–] Sam_Bass 1 points 6 days ago

Got a dozen of those in my cupboard

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] disguy_ovahea 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] chonglibloodsport 11 points 1 week 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 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] edg 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] edg 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm just a terrible person, nothing fancy.

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 6 days ago

Well I've already got terrible person at home

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can feel the pizza grease on the plastic instinctively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How did soda always taste better in them?!

[–] Furbag 4 points 6 days 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 2 points 6 days ago

It's all the microplastics

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 2 points 6 days ago

Pizza hut sucks, shit was so mushy

[–] HappySkullsplitter 2 points 1 week ago

There's like $100 worth of cups there