Pizza Hut

The ordering process for a home delivered order was not overly complex and it was easy to change selections to get just what we wanted. In addition to the Pizza we ordered, we also ordered 8 Boneless Wings, and 4 bottles of PEPSI. The order was quantitively correct, but the Pizza was lacking qualitatively. The wings were OK, nothing special with very heavy breading, but flavorful and a little too salty.

We have seen so many Pizza Hut commercials recently describing the Detroit Style Pizza with 80 Pepperoni slices on it and it sounded interesting, and very meaty, but maybe too much Pepperoni. The Detroit Meaty Deluxe with Bacon, Italian Sausage, Crispy Cupped Pepperoni, and Premium Tomato Sauce sounded to be more to our taste preferences, Meaty and lots of flavors. The prevalence of food commercials with beautifully prepared and photographed products is so common, and the reality of foods actually presented to customers can be disappointing.

The most visible meat on the pizza we received was Italian Sausage, with Bacon not visible at all, and very few Pepperoni seen before digging in. The Sauce looked almost chunky, and was the best part of the pizza that was delivered. The Pizza was pre-cut into 8 rectangular pieces. The sauce had a rich tomato taste with not too sweet or salty flavor with little flavor filled bits of onion, and lots of garlic. There were around 6 small (3/8-1/2") pieces of Italian Sausage per slice, and 3 or 4 Pepperoni slices per slice, with no bacon at all on any of the 5 slices we ate. I have eaten one of the leftover pieces this morning, and found THREE slices of Pepperoni, FOUR small and FOUR miniscule pieces of Italian Sausage, and absolutely NO Discernible Bacon on this slice, or any others.

The Pizza we ordered, the Detroit Meaty Deluxe at $13.99 was $2 more than the 80 Pepperoni Detroit Double Pepperoni Pizza so grandly displayed over and over again on TV, so we were expecting a meaty treat. This has been a very disappointing experience. The Sauce was the best part of the Pizza, the Crust was such a big fraction of the Pizza, and it was tasty due to it's proximity to the Sauce and Cheese. The lack of meat is the deal breaker and very disappointing, and why we may never order pizza from The Hut again. That's what we get for believing ANY Food Commercials. We will continue getting Pizzas from The Bonnie Brae Tavern where my 95 year old Dad has been a customer since 1932, and my first visit was in 1955. Their Meaty Pies, actually deliver. I have images of the last three slices of the Pizza Hut Meaty Deluxe if you would like me to provide them via email.