Pizza Hut Launches ‘Detroit-Style’ Pizza, and America Says ‘Huh?’ (Portland: buying, restaurants)

[usroute10]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-amer...is-11611853467

Detroit style deep dish pizza is popping up in other cities like Portland, Austin, New York City, Nashville, and Philadelphia. Little Caesar's begin offering it several years ago, now Pizza Hut is getting into the game. But a lot of people have never heard of it.

Even Cook's Country of PBS did an episode on about a year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijHutbC2JnE


Barstool Sports was in town recently and reviewed Nikis in Greektown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L97dem-ei1Y

[Coldjensens]

Buddy's pretty much invented Detroit Style pizza I think. Jets made it widespread.

However other places have claimed the style as their style of pizza.

[ram2]

The 2 closest Pizza Huts near me have gone out of business within the past 2 years.

[Hemlock140]

We haven't been to Pizza Hut since the 1980s. No, I have not heard of Detroit Style pizza either. Mind you, I was here 15 years before I knew there was a "Seattle Style" hot dog (topped with cream cheese and sauteed onions) and still haven't had one.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by usroute10

Little Caesar's begin offering it several years ago, now Pizza Hut is getting into the game.

Little Caesar's has been offering Detroit-style pizza for decades, the flagship deep dish pizza. They were the one's who popularized it nationwide; the company and its founders hailing from Detroit.

I loved their deep dish combo at the Super Kmart Center restaurant in West Houston back in the mid-'90s. I also remember purchasing a whole deep dish pizza one Sunday, the week before the Super Bowl, around that time.

Also saw that Cook's Country episode air on the Create subchannel a few weeks ago.

[Dport7674]

What'chu all know about Quad City style pizza?

Took me 25 yrs to realize it was a regional thing where I grew up.

[newdixiegirl]

Detroit-style pizza is okay. The best pizza, in my opinion, is at mom&pop authentic Italian restaurants.

[Bondurant]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

Little Caesar's has been offering Detroit-style pizza for decades, the flagship deep dish pizza. They were the one's who popularized it nationwide; the company and its founders hailing from Detroit.

Quite certain Little Caesar's rolled out the deep dish in '13.

As far as Pizza Hut is concerned, no thank you. Even a Detroit style pizza will not lead me to spending money there. I won't even eat Pizza Hut for free.

[Matt Marcinkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Bondurant

Quite certain Little Caesar's rolled out the deep dish in '13.

As far as Pizza Hut is concerned, no thank you. Even a Detroit style pizza will not lead me to spending money there. I won't even eat Pizza Hut for free.

I don't get all the Pizza Hut hate I've encountered over the years. Although all their Buffalo-area locations are now closed, I was always a fan. Their problem in the Buffalo market specifically seemed to be a decline in popularity over the years/decades, combined with a lot of locally owned competition. Of the two problems I just mentioned, the former is something I don't get.

[Zippyman]

Originally Posted by Bondurant

Quite certain Little Caesar's rolled out the deep dish in '13.

As far as Pizza Hut is concerned, no thank you. Even a Detroit style pizza will not lead me to spending money there. I won't even eat Pizza Hut for free.

Quite certain I was buying Caesar’s deep-dish hot-n-ready pizzas in the Detroit suburbs before I moved to Phoenix in 2005.. probably at least as far back as 2003-ish. That said, I never considered that (or jets) to be “Detroit style” pizza..

I would reject Pizza-hut’s version of pizza history and interpretation of any genre or style of pizza, simply because they’re so hyper-corporate.

Whereas every pizza-place I’ve ever favored had a pizza-maker who grabbed handfuls of ingredients and threw them on with some amount of randomness, Pizza Hut has always used measuring cups for pre-mixed ingredients.. They’re too consistent and factory-like to have any credibility with regional variations in pie.

It’s like ordering a cheeseburger at your favorite bar, versus one purchased at McDonald’s..

McDonald’s could likely make the claim that they sell more cheeseburgers than anybody else in the cheeseburger business, but no one who purchases them would ever say McDonald’s made the “best” cheeseburger anywhere.. They make a consistently mediocre cheeseburger quickly and it’s unlikely to make you physically ill, no matter where or when it’s purchased..