I stumbled on a banner add for Pizza Hut’s Ultimate Stuffed Crust Pizza while checking my Yahoo email for delivery coupons. The ad looked so enticing I decided to order.

As a child, Pizza Hut was my favorite. I loved that silly book club with the free Personal Pan Pizza’s after reading five books. It was about as close as my family ever got to going to a real restaurant. They seated you, you had wait staff, and even desert pizza. And the best part was that the food was actually good.

It’s been a slow decline for Pizza Hut. It started with the four years of indulging in the all-you-can eat Pizza Hut buffet on State Street in Madison. I rationalized it as “buffet” food. Of course it wasn’t as good as ordering it fresh. It only got worse when I moved to Chicago. Every pizza was worse than the last. This “Ultimate Stuffed Crust” was the final nail in the coffin.

The experience first when wrong with the online ordering process. The process lead me to believe that I was getting a large pizza with the “ultimate stuffed crust” and the same toppings on the pizza. This was in fact incorrect. I will admit to some of the blame here. This very well could have been operator error fueled by a hangover. However, it got worse. The order never officially took. It froze in the processing state, and I had to do something we’ve all become accustom to hating, speaking to a live human being on the phone while placing an order.

They had in fact received my order. You would think I would have been able to clarify exactly what I would be getting at this stage, but unfortunately, the Pizza Hut employee’s English was about as good as my Spanish, which is to say it was muy malo. He was a nice guy and I hate to fault him, but I had no idea what he said besides that he had received my order.

The pizza and my chicken wings arrived at a decent time, but that was the last good thing I have to say about my food. I wish I would have taken a few photos, but I was too appalled that I was going to put that monster in my body. So this is getting classified as From the Editor’s Desk and not an official review.

Anyway, first off, my pizza was not what I intended to order. It was an Ultimate Stuffed Crust pizza, but only cheese. I thought I was getting the same meat trio that was rolled up in the crust on the pizza itself. The pizza was slightly cold, salty as hell, and generally lousy. The crust was the best part, and that’s not saying much.

My chicken wings were just as bad. It looked like someone had baked a few wings and just squirted some pre-packaged sauce on top without bothering to mix it at all. The sauce was a dark reddish orange, not typical to your usual buffalo wing sauce. The wings were small and low quality.

Needless to say, I still ate the whole thing in one day. It was gross and I wish I could take it back. That was the last straw Pizza Hut. After a twenty plus year relationship, I’m calling it quits. Luckily Papa John’s is now back in Chicago.

You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been posting much lately. I’m going to go ahead and blame it on several technical difficulties that I’ve been experiencing over the last month or two.

First, my site was hacked a few times by some sort of spammer. After getting help to clean up the code, I’ve had a few times, I eventually had to move servers. Luckily for me, my extremely talented technical consultant and co-founder was able to take care of it. However, for some reason I still cannot post photos on my site. I’m sure it’s something we’ll be able to quickly get to the bottom of, but unfortunately my guy has been taking care of actual paying work, in Costa Rica no less. Lucky Bastard.

Anyway, when I finally can get my everything back to normal, I’ll get back to posting about some of the big news in the fast food industry. Like the mechanically separated chicken that’s been making the rounds, the 6-month old non-decomposing Happy Meal, and the return of the McRib.

Jesse

The winner is Mel!

Congrats! Like it or not, you have a $5 Burger King Gift card.

The drawing was completely random, but I really did enjoy the comment about Red Burrito. Anything attached to a Hardees couldn’t be good.

Simply give your opinion of the worst fast food restaurant/chain. I’ll draw a winner over the next few days and announce it this weekend.

Thanks again to all those that have commented so far.

I know I’ve been somewhat inconsistent on updating the blog, but I’m still here, chugging away at a post or two a week. I’m slowly approaching the 100 post mark, which I’ll hopefully reach sometime this year. Thanks to all those who visit and actually read my reviews. Let’s hope for another happy year of Fastfoodreviewed.com

How have I been eating? Like any American, I was making an effort towards eating healthier after the New Year. I started strong and have been able to maintain some steam in that area. Specifically, I’m eating more fruits and vegetables, and hope to continue the habit. I’ve still been eating fast food and definitely following the industry. I’ve become a big fan of the McDonald’s dollar breakfast. Good stuff. I’m hoping for a trip to Hot Doug’s for a review soon.

Anyway, I keep checking back for more, especially a big Fast Food News Round Up this weekend. There’s been a lot going down this week.

Hey readers, sorry I haven’t posted in awhile (SIHPIA), but I’ve been really busy with work and getting ready for my trip out to California. I’ll be there all next week for some family time, friend time, football, a wedding, and of course some fast food. Look forward to good stuff coming out of this trip, especially a slow food review of the wedding food (Sorry Peter).

In the meantime, I’ve gotten some exciting news at my office. New vending machines. These things are bad ass.

They switched to Coke product from Pepsi, and added a huge drink machine with just about everything you can imagine. Big improvement in both snack machines as well. They’ve got much better items including Clif Bars, one of my favorites.

Best yet, they installed a coffee machine that makes Starbuck’s Espresso drinks including lattes and cappuccinos. It even has chai lattes, and the best part is, it’s FREE.

Pretty exciting stuff, and just in time for the cold Chicago winter. I won’t have to leave my office when a snack craving comes a calling.

Tune in, or link in or whatever next week for new content. Happy Friday.