News Release: Pizza Hut Goes Natural !!!

Ok went to Puzza Hut last night as they sent me a 50% off dine in voucher and we aren't one to turn down a cheap meal....

Anyway walked in the place and the host approached and she starts off her sentence with "I'm sorry we have a 45 minute wait at the minute", I look around and the place is empty so I'm a little confused.  Turns out they had ran out of pizza dough.  So we thought we'd come back in an hour only to be told when we returned that they were only serving non-pizza items and starters....

I was out shopping yesterday, running late,  and realized I was not going to get back home before getting light headed. The shopping center I was in had a Pizza Hut, with an ad for "The Natural" in the window. I had not read anything about this pizza other than what was in this thread. I just wanted to try their pepperoni Natural to see how it compared to their regular pepperoni pizzas. Except for the whole wheat-type crust taste, it tasted about the same as I remember them being a year ago, which is probably the last time I ate at Pizza Hut.
 
I would like to perform this taste test again buying both a plain cheese Natural and a plain cheese Hand Tossed pizza, same time, same place. I am not sure the cheese I got is the new one or the existing "pizza cheese" they use on pizzas other than the natural. Under pepperoni, the cheese tasted just like the cheese as I remember being for the last few years.
 
After checking the nutrition information on PH's web site, and reading various Pizza Hut press releases over the last year, I have come to the conclusion the switch to all natural did not mean a switch to gourmet. The only thing apparently unique to The Natural is that it uses a five grain crust rather than a just-wheat crust, and a different cheese. PH's web site indicates they use cheddar cheese as well as mozzarella cheese on these pizzas. The use of the term "all natural" seems to be used in the same way as in consumer groceries, e.g. 7-Up now calls itself all-natural, HFCS and all. Sausage, pepperoni, sauce, etc. are the same as in the rest of the product line. Some of these PH ingredients may have been all natural for years, for all I know. Since ingredients are distributed directly to restaurants and many are frozen, they can get away without using preservatives, especially since the heat in the pizza oven will kill any nasties present.
 
The nationally-advertised price of $9.99 is for a 1-topping medium (12"), the only size it comes in.
 
One thing I noticed is that I did not get any heartburn from this pepperoni pizza. Once in a while, I get a craving for their Thin Crust pepperoni pizza. So, I will still patronize PH. But if you are familiar with PH already, don't bother trying the new pizza solely on the strength of the carefully-parsed words of the press release or the television commercial.

I get heartburn just thinking about PH.

We ate out in Pizza Hut on Saturday evening, it was my first time eating there ever and my partner hadn't tried it in a good few years.

We got a large stuffed Italian crust meat feast pizza and a side of chicken fingers with BBQ sauce.  Chocolate fudge cake and hot chocolates for dessert.

We were both pleasantly surprised, I was expecting something that reminded we of some horrid frozen pizza with no flavour, but everything was nicely cooked and tasted good and fresh.  Obviously it's never gonna really compare to a pizza from a local Italian place but it hit the spot nicely for it being a chain.

The desserts were good too, nice portions, I'm a chocolate fudge cake addict and it takes alot to please me, but this one was good!

Ummm, yeah, no.  Ordered tonight since I'm stuck in a hotel room......the cheese is ok.  The sauce is ok.  The pepperoni is ok, the crust is all kinds of funk.  It tasted ok until I had a slice of the other med pizza it came with.  So....natural sauce is about the same, smae with cheese and pepperoni, the all natural crust is kinda funk.  All in all, it's still PH, but strangely enough the natural in my opinion is worse than normal.

Sounds like the Coke fiasco.

Failed experiment.  It didn't taste any better this morning, cold, for breakfast, and my garbage eating dog won't eat it, lol.  She carefully picked the cheese and meat off the bread, and won't touch the crust.

Plus, the pepperoni also tasted funk this morning.  It was ok hot, not so much cold.

tommyeats

leethebard


Wow...how nice of them to admit they used high fructose corn syrup....HELLO....that doesn't belong in pizza...and they'll still use, I bet "natural" sugar in their sauce(WHY????) and even in their crust....they've been sweetening their product(I won't call it pizza) for years...now we know they were too cheap to screw it up with real sugar,even!!!!

sugar is quite often used in pizza dough at local pizza joints.  it's also in just about every jarred red sauce on the market (in the form of corn syrup).  it's in most breads, buns and rolls, too. 

Not in any sauce I'd buy.....and many natural, no sugar sauces are out there...buy the real stuff!!!....and I checked with several real Italian pizzerias in town...no sugar in the sauce...or dough...certainly no corn syrup either....because cheap garbage is sold..doesn't mean we have to buy it....want a suace close to the real thing...read the label...tomato, spices,olive oil, cheese!!!!