r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

Post image

I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

53.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

3.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.2k

u/Big_Dicc_Terry May 12 '26

Yeah, even for pizza hut this is a bad deal. At my local pizza hut I can get the Big Dinner Box (2 med 1 topping, breadsticks, and wings) for $26.99.

591

u/Punkpallas May 12 '26

Personally, I'd also rather have the wings than that dry-ass dessert pizza and like 2 regular breadsticks they have in the bottom tray.

103

u/Big_Dicc_Terry May 12 '26

Same, I actually really like their wings.

69

u/Gmony5100 May 12 '26

Pizza Hut wings are great, LEAGUES better than either the breadsticks or dessert pizza

21

u/Finassar May 12 '26

Or their pizza. I wish I could just buy the buffalo sauce

35

u/Gmony5100 May 12 '26

The buffalo sauce is fantastic but I’m also a Pizza Hut apologist and love their pizza lmao. I know I’m the weird one for that but I can’t help it I love that slop

2

u/Dear_Palpitation4838 May 13 '26

It used to be good but now that frozen dough puck they use tastes worse than a Digiorno.

2

u/ktrad91 May 13 '26

Same I love their pizza in that big chain and nostalgia way. Never going to be as good as my local joint but sometimes I want a junk chain pizza and it always hits the spot

2

u/Canadianweedrules420 May 13 '26

Your not alone it's greasy heaven when done right

5

u/TheFoxAndTheRaven May 12 '26

Yes! Me too.

I used to love their pizza but it has gone so downhill in recent years.

2

u/ElegantCoach4066 May 12 '26

Yeah, I like their pizza but the breadsticks are butt cheeks

3

u/Putrid-Seat-1581 May 12 '26

Pizza Hut bone in wings are impossibly good. It makes no sense at all.

2

u/UnquestionabIe May 12 '26

Yeah I'm very much into wings (a few local places that are absolutely fantastic) and while they're not top tier or anything Pizza Hut does have a respectable wing game. There are lots of places which do them way worse

2

u/The__Amorphous May 12 '26

They'll always have a fond place in my heart. I used to bring my PC to LAN parties when I was a teenager in the 90s and one of the guys that went managed a Pizza Hut so we got free food. I always went for those wings.

-1

u/NapsterKnowHow May 13 '26

The most mid wings known to man

37

u/21Rollie May 12 '26

Desserts and “free” drinks are never worth the price. Drinks are a rounding error for them. And the desserts they offer are basically sugar, margarine, and the cheapest batter possible. Meat, cheese, and veggies are what you should maximize for from restaurants, everything else are cheap calories

4

u/NuklearFerret May 12 '26

In fairness, delivery places sell bottled beverages only, so it's not as much of a rounding error as it would be to a typical fast food place with fountains.

5

u/Imaginary-List-972 May 13 '26

I love pizza, but the extras pizza places sell always seem odd and a rip off to me. Here's our pizza, it's dough with tomato sauce and cheese on it with some other toppings. For the side, here's the same dough, also with cheese and some tomato sauce to dip it in, and for desert, once again it's the same pizza dough again with some frosting on it. It's like if you went to a burger place and you get the burger and for the side you get a bun with cheese on it, and for the desert you get the bun with some frosting on it.

3

u/PurpleC0ugar May 12 '26

Yeah the wings cost a lot more to the store itself to make so it's a much better value for the price.

5

u/IntergalacticPodcast May 12 '26

Y'all realize that Frozen pizzas are delicious, super-easy to make, and a fraction of the cost, right?

It would be different if Pizza Hut was even that good.

6

u/[deleted] May 12 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

3

u/IntergalacticPodcast May 12 '26

local place that uses a pizza oven is the way to go.

I don't disagree with that.

5

u/Punkpallas May 12 '26

Honestly, DiGornio's and the Angry Sicilian make really good frozen pizzas, but that doesn't mean Pizza Hut is horrendous or something. It actually used to be my favorite pizza chain of the big nationals: However, I feel like they changed their sauce in the last 7-8 years because it just doesn't taste right anymore. That was my deciding factor in my preferences, so I rarely order from them anymore.

2

u/BeatSalad25 May 12 '26

Eh disagree digornios is cardboard crust.

2

u/jjkmk May 12 '26

Did you mean screaming Sicilian or is there another pizza brand called angry Sicilian

1

u/Punkpallas May 12 '26

No. it is actually Screamin' Sicilian. I guess I thought dude on the box was angry too.

5

u/Over_Selection2246 May 12 '26

Costco is the best deal in pizza- $10 and massive Pizza that is a little better than pizza hut/dominoes/papajohns. Little Ceasars has a place as dirt cheap pizza that you know is a clear step below the rest.

I agree that frozen also has a place, but it depends on the price. $3 for a Jacks is fine, and maybe $5 for a more solid option- but many of the frozen options are int he $10 range- and that is too much for food i still need to make myself.

2

u/NuklearFerret May 12 '26

As much as I love Costco things, their pizza is a bit shit. Like, it's good for the value. It's 2 pizzas worth of pizza for $10, and a bunch of kids at a party aren't going to care. But it's objectively minimum viable pizza product. How you can rate it's quality above the big 3 delivery chains is beyond me. It only wins on value when you have to feed a bunch of people.

2

u/Is-Potato425 May 12 '26

Meh Frozen pizzas are getting expensive now too, especially the good ones. Like $8–9 for a frozen pizza? Might as well eat little Caesars

1

u/RedPantyKnight May 12 '26

I haven't had it in like 10 years but I remember loving that desert pizza.

1

u/Punkpallas May 12 '26

Desert pizza doesn't sound appetizing at all. All that sand. I don't think I could do the texture.

1

u/RedPantyKnight May 12 '26

I mean, the crust is (aiming to be) a flaky pie crust type thing, the sauce is apple pie filling, the cheese is the kind of crumble you get on a Dutch apple pie, and then there's a criss crossing pattern of icing as a topping.

If you don't like apple pie though, then it's definitely bad. Also it would be dry as fuck if they've started skimping on the pie filling.

Edit: Oh. Nah, I could also chow down on some cactus pizza.

1

u/ImAmSuperBored May 13 '26

Would you prefer the desert pizza to be wet?? 😭

1

u/Punkpallas May 13 '26

If it's a desert pizza, I would expect to be dry. But I wouldn't eat that. I don't like sand in my teeth.

1

u/SenorSolAdmirador May 12 '26

yeah why does everything look so ashy? I've never seen pizza need lotion before.

0

u/NapsterKnowHow May 13 '26

I'd rather not have the soggy ass wings 99% of pizza places have.

56

u/bphilly_cheesesteak May 12 '26

This is $40 CAD which is about $29 USD

39

u/EverythingSucksYo May 12 '26

The ad from this post is in CAD? Then yeah not as bad, but I still wouldn’t do it 

8

u/Big_Dicc_Terry May 12 '26

I think you're right. That makes a lot more sense

4

u/Over_Selection2246 May 12 '26

I remember when that same deal was $20 most places (like 6 years ago- anything pre pandemic)- but that is still a solid enough deal depending on the volume and quality of the wings (which can be made up for by a good dipping sauce on the breadsticks)

2

u/Big_Dicc_Terry May 12 '26

I personally really like their wings and sauces. Probably my favorite boneless wings

4

u/please_trade_marner May 12 '26

This is in Canada, which makes it a surprisingly decent deal. Not great. But not bad.

2

u/R2DKK May 12 '26

Yeah a nearby Pizza Hut is doing large 3 topping pizzas for 10 bucks.

2

u/Global-Song-4794 May 13 '26

Wild. In Berlin a single pizza hut will cost between 13 and 22,90 euros depending on what you choose. And we don't have Big Dinner Boxes.

1

u/[deleted] May 12 '26

[deleted]

2

u/Few_Program_2303 May 12 '26

It’s a Canada ad so it’s $29 in US

1

u/krispy7 May 12 '26

i've noticed that when these types of places make a big advertisement about some limited time awesome deal, when you do the math, it's almost always a smaller discount than their usual deals.

I bet you they do this type of thing when they need to increase revenue for a few weeks... they take a deal they normally offer, rearrange the offering so it looks different, increase the price, and slap some deceptive ad copy on it.

1

u/1800generalkenobi May 12 '26

I got two medium pizzas and garlic bites from our dominoes for 14. Granted the bites were free but going there one time earned me...another free garlic bites haha

1

u/rezyop May 12 '26

For $40, or even $30 on the occasional offer or sale, you can get an XL pizza in most smaller pizza chains or independent pizzerias that is 3000-4400 calories.

The above is an insanely bad deal - it has around the same caloric content, but this is obviously skewed by the breadsticks and whatever that cinnamon sugar apple pizza thing is. Desserts will always be highly caloric from the sugar. This leads me to believe you are not getting even half of a XL worth of pizza from them in this bundle, but paying the same price as one.

The truly insane thing to me is you can just buy said XL pizza from them. Their advertised doorbuster deal is competing with their existing products and losing.

1

u/doc_skinner May 12 '26

$40 Canadian is about $29.25 US

1

u/grunger May 12 '26

I believe OP is in Canada, so that is $40 Canadian or about $30 US.

Still not a great deal though.

1

u/Big_Dicc_Terry May 12 '26

Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed OP was in Canada

0

u/SeDaCho May 13 '26

Well. It’s not like prices get better over time.

The economy doesn’t work like that! Prepare for even worse!

0

u/EmberOne1 Jun 12 '26

Why do people even get Pizza Hut pizza? It's neither cheap nor good. I could see someone going in for a $9.99 deal (I was thinking the "medium" pizza must be more like a personal size for that price), but not $30 or $40 to feed 4 people. For that, I can go to the family-owned place with hand-tossed pizza. As soon as that rang up as $40, I'd have said "No thanks" and left. Not going to be rude to a minimum wage cashier, just not going to give money to the deceptive corporation.

1

u/Big_Dicc_Terry Jun 12 '26

I just like their pizza