Dear Pizza Hut,
I love Pizza Hut breadsticks.
When I travel, I often times go from Pizza Hut to Pizza Hut so I can have your delicious breadsticks with their oh-so-crusty buttery tops covered in parmesan cheese that I love to dip in that rich, thick, sweetly flavorful red sauce. It's deliciousness I can count on no matter where I go... from London to Sydney to Tokyo to locations all over the good ol' USA. I write songs with Pizza Hut breadsticks in them. Most days I can honestly say that I'd rather have an order of Pizza Hut breadsticks than chocolate cake...
I wish I had Pizza Hut delivery in my small city, but I don't. My local Pizza Hut is thirty-five minutes away. I don't eat there very often because it's inconveniently located and usually requires a special trip. But tonight I was craving breadsticks, so I made a detour to get some.
Let me start out by saying that my server was excellent. She didn't just make me feel good about eating at Pizza Hut... she made me feel good about life. She was capable, friendly, helpful, energetic, enthusiastic, and knew exactly how to provide flawless, attentive service without being smothering. It was delightful.
But then the breadsticks came and I noticed something was wrong.
The sauce wasn't that luscious rich red color. It was kind of brownish-orangeish-red. It looked sad.
Then I went to dip a breadstick in it, and saw that it was thin and watery... not thick at all. This had the disastrous effect of turning my crispy breadstick soggy in the middle no matter how fast I took a bite after dipping.
And then I tasted it. Bland, uninspired, boring.
What happened?
Are you now serving regular-old pizza sauce with your sticks instead of that sweet, succulent, scrumptiously zesty red sauce I know and love? Is that what's happening?
I sure hope not.
I hope this was just some terrible, terrible mistake. A temporary lapse of judgement, perhaps.
In this world gone mad, there's very few things people can count on. Delicious Pizza Hut breadsticks with red sauce is one of them. If that's no longer the case, then shame on you for taking a little happiness out of the universe at a time when we so desperately need it.
Right now all I can think about is my next visit to Pizza Hut and whether or not my beloved breadsticks will come with that wonderful sauce that makes life a little more bearable. I'm actually scared to go to Pizza Hut again in case it doesn't.
In happier news, there was a wonderful Google Doodle tribute to one of my all-time favorite artists, Diego Rivera, today...
If only I could Google up some real Pizza Hut breadsticks. Instead I'll just have to dream about them.
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Lovin’ Big D’s Google Doodle!
It’s so sad when a favorite food disappears or worse yet, has it’s formula ‘tweaked’. I hope for your sake it was an anomaly.
You and Gilda would SO get along (as if I ever really doubted it) – Pizza Hut is her favorite place! So come visit and we’ll go to OUR Pizza Hut, which is also out of the way so we don’t eat there often. 🙂
I feel the same way about Toaster Strudel. I love Toaster Strudel, especially the strawberry kind. They were so flaky and delicious. Yeah, sure… if it got overheated it felt like you were eating lava, but the flaky pastry goodness was spell binding! I just had a Toaster Strudel this morning after a long hiatus and YUCK! The crust is no longer flaky, the icing is miniscule, and the gooey filling has reduced to the size of a postage stamp! I’m seriously hoping it was a manufacturing error and not Pillsbury’s way of saving money by presenting with a cheaper product and pocketing the money for themselves. Good luck with your marinara sauce!
Breadsticks – good ones at that – are hard to find. So when something about them changes, it’s disappointing. I’m not much of a Pizza Hut fan, but the last time I had their breadsticks, I liked them.
Ah, I feel your pain bro. There is nothing worse, when you have a favourite item from a chain restaurant, where in theory, every time you eat it and wherever you eat it, it should taste the same and you get it and it just seems wrong.
Sometimes I wonder if some idiot manager thinks he can cut corners in his store and no one will notice. We gots Diego Rivera in NYC until mid-May. When, is the next Dave York?
I have never heard of this Pizza Hut bread sticks of which you speak but now think I have to try them.