Pizza Hut: No Humor Allowed
Whatever happened to humor? When did we, as a society, lose our sense of it? There once was a time when a stray comment, clean in nature but nonetheless off-beat, would get at least a smile from passersby. I miss those days!
Earlier this week I happened to stop in a Pizza Hut Take Out and ordered some wings and a pizza. I was interested in one of those “Edge” pizzas they’ve been hawking on TV lately, when the woman at the counter asked me which kind I wanted. Of course I asked what they had and finally settled on the pepperoni version, after a discussion of what was on the different types. One of the offerings had a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t have minded (onions, pepperoni, olives) but did have some objectionable toppings (sausage and tomatoes).
I’m sorry, but PH’s sausage is kinda like tofu, except uglier. I don’t like tofu, or things that look like tofu. To put it mildly, tofu SUCKS! I’ve tried several varieties of tofu: mush, not-quite-as-mushy mush, and firm mush. It’s still mush. And the taste? Soy doesn’t have much taste. Why do we expect tofu to have it? Oh yeah, that’s right…it picks up the flavor of everything else. Well, if that’s the case, why not leave the tofu out and eat everything else? Too bad it can’t be used effectively for bio-diesel. It would probably have better taste.
Tomatoes, while an essential ingredient in pizza sauce, cause random difficulties for me. Sometimes I’ll have a reaction that causes me to alternate between sweating and chills for a few hours. Other times I won’t have any reaction at all. So I deal with it and enjoy the pizza. But tomato pieces are totally different. I cannot tolerate them in the least, and will choke if I try to eat any. So I classify tomatoes as EVIL.
But I still eat pizza and pasta.
OK. So here I am, ordering a pizza, when I tell the woman at the counter (as she describes the all-encompassing ultimate edge pizza thingy) that except for the sausage and tomatoes, that variety of pizza would have been perfect. I also make a few comments about evil tomatoes. Somewhere along the line I expected a laugh, or at least a quizzical look from her as she took my order.
NADA. I don’t get it. A person orders a pizza made with pizza sauce from tomatoes and calls tomatoes evil. Further, this same person won’t eat a pizza with tomatoes on it because they’re evil. Don’t you think that would be worth at least a puzzled look? When I make comments like that in other places I at least see a smile.
Maybe it’s some sort of corporate policy forbidding humor in the workplace.
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August 4, 2009 -
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Pizza Hut: No Humor Allowed
Whatever happened to humor? When did we, as a society, lose our sense of it? There once was a time when a stray comment, clean in nature but nonetheless off-beat, would get at least a smile from passersby. I miss those days!
Earlier this week I happened to stop in a Pizza Hut Take Out and ordered some wings and a pizza. I was interested in one of those “Edge” pizzas they’ve been hawking on TV lately, when the woman at the counter asked me which kind I wanted. Of course I asked what they had and finally settled on the pepperoni version, after a discussion of what was on the different types. One of the offerings had a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t have minded (onions, pepperoni, olives) but did have some objectionable toppings (sausage and tomatoes).
I’m sorry, but PH’s sausage is kinda like tofu, except uglier. I don’t like tofu, or things that look like tofu. To put it mildly, tofu SUCKS! I’ve tried several varieties of tofu: mush, not-quite-as-mushy mush, and firm mush. It’s still mush. And the taste? Soy doesn’t have much taste. Why do we expect tofu to have it? Oh yeah, that’s right…it picks up the flavor of everything else. Well, if that’s the case, why not leave the tofu out and eat everything else? Too bad it can’t be used effectively for bio-diesel. It would probably have better taste.
Tomatoes, while an essential ingredient in pizza sauce, cause random difficulties for me. Sometimes I’ll have a reaction that causes me to alternate between sweating and chills for a few hours. Other times I won’t have any reaction at all. So I deal with it and enjoy the pizza. But tomato pieces are totally different. I cannot tolerate them in the least, and will choke if I try to eat any. So I classify tomatoes as EVIL.
But I still eat pizza and pasta.
OK. So here I am, ordering a pizza, when I tell the woman at the counter (as she describes the all-encompassing ultimate edge pizza thingy) that except for the sausage and tomatoes, that variety of pizza would have been perfect. I also make a few comments about evil tomatoes. Somewhere along the line I expected a laugh, or at least a quizzical look from her as she took my order.
NADA. I don’t get it. A person orders a pizza made with pizza sauce from tomatoes and calls tomatoes evil. Further, this same person won’t eat a pizza with tomatoes on it because they’re evil. Don’t you think that would be worth at least a puzzled look? When I make comments like that in other places I at least see a smile.
Maybe it’s some sort of corporate policy forbidding humor in the workplace.
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August 4, 2009 - Posted by gonwaki | Economy, Politics, and Social Commentary | food, humor, Pizza Hut