Do You Remember The Giant Pizza Wars From the 90s?
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Weird History Food is taking you back to the 90s when Dominos, Little Caesars and Pizza Hut faced-off. With pizza, less is never more. More is more. More slices, more toppings, more cheese. Never was that more apparent than in 1993, when America's three biggest pizza chains - Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Little Caesars - launched nearly identical short-lived super-pizza concepts: the Bigfoot, the Dominator, and the Big! Big! Pizza, respectively. What all three pizzas had in common was that they were marketed not on how they tasted, but on how enormous and impractical they were.
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I remember when I was a child my dad left me home alone to go on a date with his then girlfriend. As an apology he ordered me a Bigfoot pizza and bought 2 new games for my SNES. I ended up eating the entire thing while playing my games. I'll never forget that night.
That’s great that even his small attempt to provide gave you a good memory. No effort a parent gives is ever too small.
That is an amazing memory that reignited many of my own.
haha nice
What I want to know is how a child survived eating that much pizza without exploding.
@@IRLTheGreatZarquon you've never ate your bodyweight in pizza?
We lost many people during the 90s Giant Pizza War. Near the end, my younger sister decided to stay on the front lines. I retreated to a Famous Original Ray's enclave in the north. My sister and I both made it through, but still cannot talk about those times.
Thank you for telling your story. We appreciate your bravery!
Having worked at Domino's for a bit, the tracker is actually real time for the most part. At each station there is a computer that allows the employees to log which pizzas they are making or delivering to keep things organized. The "your pizza is in the oven" part starts when the first item they finished making is put into the oven. If it's just one pizza, it'll only take about 6 minutes to cook and get sliced and put into the box for delivery or pickup. Orders with lots of pizzas will take longer as the ovens can only fit about 6-8 pizzas at a time and multiple orders are prepared at a time. In most Domino's locations, every single pizza is inspected, cut, and boxed by the manager or long time employee to make sure each pizza is made as ordered. Pizzas do get remade if they aren't correct. I didn't mind that part because us employees got to eat the extra pizzas that didn't get sent out. As a highschool kid free pizza was a great job perk.
Me too
I relished the messed up orders. Although I did raise an eyebrow a couple times when I saw what some of the toppings were.
My husband was a manager at the Domino's in our town, and told me nothing but horror stories about the owner of that one. Things that made me never eat or let my kids eat the food from that particular store. I don't have a problem with them as a whole, and have never had an issue eating at any other store. I just can't forget what I was told about that store
You’re right about it being manual. I will say it will depend on the store how accurate it is though. The store I worked at the manager would always mark pizzas as being sent by drivers waaaaaaayyy before they were even made during a rush. The amount of times I had customers complaining that I had been out with their pizza for 50 mins, when I had picked it up straight out of the oven just 10 mins ago. I would always throw the manager under the bus by telling them how it worked. That guy caused so many problems for us.
I hated that job and was happy the day I tossed that uniform on the managers desk 😂
@@robertmccracken3763 Yeah, that manager was being a dick just to abuse the system just to make it look like they weren't behind on orders.
I was born in 1984. Pizza Hut used to be really good when they made their dough in-house (versus mass produced frozen), and were actual sit-down restaurants. The take-out, pre-made, model nowadays is probably more profitable, but it's a far cry from what it used to be; going out to Pizza Hut was a real treat in the early 1990's.
Now pizza hut is the only pizza I don't like
Pizza hut was the shit in the '90s
I was born in 79. They were always bad.
@@Andrew-it7fb Eh, 8 year old me might not be as discerning as 38 year old me?
@@bjkarana That's certainly possible. I just remember the grease soaked crusts which I found disgusting. Experiencing things you loved as a kid can often be disappointing as an adult. I recommend against watching He-Man or GI-Joe cartoons.
I don’t remember how any of these tasted, I just know that my mom always bought Little Caesar’s because you could get more for less, and there were 5 kids to feed. Pizza Hut was always an occasional, oily treat, and never Domino’s unless it was at a school party or someone else’s house.
I just vaguely remember Dominos had the Nord (I think that's what he or it was called) like I'm not sure what he was, I vaguely remember him in commercials stealing pizzas?
Idk, it was a cartoonish character who at the same time had zero appeal towards children
@@slashismyhommie8182 The Noid. Read on Wikipedia why they stopped using him.
They tasted like pizza.
Little Caesars is cheaper and tastes better than Domino's and Pizza Hut's hand tossed, though Pizza Hut makes a good pan pizza.
Dominos was absolute shite until around the 2007-2008 mark when they totally revised their recipe. They've been the most consistent in their quality out of all of them. Pizza Hut really sucks now. It's been bad for a while, and eating in the restaurant was one of its last saving graces. Alas, no more.
Cant forget Little Caesars' "Pizza by the Foot" pizza! You got a full 3 feet of pizza in a giant box with a yard stick on it, and all the pieces were just horizontal strips of thick Detroit style goodness, all for like 10 bucks. Definitely a staple at any kids parties in the mid to late 90s.
Not that way anymore. These dudes are nasty at handling your pizza and it's generic. They don't even wash their hands it's so gross.
i would have lived the rest of my life never remembering pizza by the foot had you not wrote this. thanks for the laugh
It was just two large pan (the square ones) cut in half and laid out lengthwise with one half of one of the pizzas made into bread sticks. In other words, it was just novelty packaging. A lot of people got really pissed when they came in to pick them up and I tried my best to warn them.
@@ShaneRimmerWorld They kind of brought that back with Slices And Sticks.
The Batman pizza they had was pretty awesome.
Yes! That’s what I remember too.
The domino’s recipe change in the 2010’s is worth mentioning. I think that also helped reinvigorate them.
That's what made me a dominos fan. Before, I thought their pizza was terrible and refused to eat it.
I used to love Domino’s in the 90s
Last time I tried it it was horrible
Said it was a new recipe
I don’t eat it anymore
I used to hate dominos but after they reinvented it it's now a top favorite for a chain
I’m the opposite I used to love their old recipe and I remember always getting the “555” deal and eating all of them while playing GTA and waking up the next day with leaner abs
They basically made it so you didn’t get garlic bread on every pizza … I remember the pizza being super garlicky pre-2010 but post-2010 they gave you options for buttery crust with no garlic
Oh, I worked at Domino's a few years ago and I can report that the crew had to pass the order from one station to the next in the computer system for both in store metrics and the online tracker. "Quality check" actually means "sitting under the hot light waiting for a driver to take it out".
yup i was about to say that… ahh good times getting yelled at constantly by my manager for 7.25/hr
@@AveragedreI have fun at my dominos for 15.65$ but the rush sucks ass
Pizza Hut has hot boxes 😂
Pizza Hut used to be good till they changed their ingredients. Nothing beats a Pan Pizza from the 80's.
They also made their restaurants into grey concrete blocks instead of keeping the inviting interior design.
@@G-Mastah-Fash the one by my house still looks the same. Lol
Pizza Hut was my favorite as a kid (80's and 90's), it's the last chain place I would get a pizza from now, even worse than Little Caesars
Nothing beats a pizza from a non-chain pizza shop.
Canadian pizza huts are still remarkably similar to the way they used to be in the 80's.
Little Caesars used to have this memory game in their lobbies here across Denver in the 80's and some 90's where for a quarter, you could win the top prize- half of a pan pizza. Needless to say, as a teen with a hole in my stomach and excellent memory, I never went hungry.
Nice
Funny, because I remember in the same time frame that Pizza Hut had the memory games (flashing lights in a pattern - think Simon), and I'd almost always win a personal pan pizza playing them. Good times!
Wow. The good old days, eh boys!?
I remember one high school year when I went to a university nerd camp, my fellow nerds and I figured out how to rig the system. We sat with one person using a programmable calculator, quickly typing in codes, and the other person serving as the player, punching in the code that was repeated to them. We won many a pizza that month.
Thanks for making me bring that memory back up. Haven't thought of it in decades.
@@absolutely1337 yeah it was, why you gotta problem with that?
Man one of the great things about Little Caesars back in the day was instead of doing personal pan pizzas they offered you a slice for $1.79 you could get two slices of a large pizza and a large soft drink
@Bold One For me, Little Caesars and Domino’s is the best in my book! While Papa Johns, I don’t think I’ve tried Papa Johns, and Pizza Hut YET…
@@kevinbejkoxdxd1514 if you havent tried the others yet you cant really say theres a best lol
Little Caesar’s has stepped up their ingredient quality in the last 10 years or so. I remember as a kid you had to eat it within an hour or it would become hard and flavorless. Microwaving would just result in hot, somewhat soft, flavorless pizza. But I’d put them up there with Dominos and Pizza Hut today.
i mean theyre still a distant fourth to me but yeah theyre up there
They basically went bankrupt, or close to it, and were bought out within the last decade, that's why the quality went up.
Why people think there's a significant difference between mass produced frozen dough offerings is beyond me.
Domino's is the worst and lately pizza hut has been just as bad but I love little ceasars and you cant beat the price.
If you get a fresh one it can easily be reheated in the oven and be just as good. Just can't let it set out. Throw it in the fridge right away after.
I sure do. I also remember when Pizza Hut just gave up and decided they didn’t want to try anymore.
You can blame that nefarious pizza cutter steve for that
Pizza Hut sucks ass except for the mini pan pizzas. Everything else is flavorless and it takes forever for your order to be made. I'd rather have a $5 Hot N Ready!
Exactly. Pizza Hut was good through the 80s then it became sad garbage in the 90s and inedible by the 2000s. My kid stopped wanting his class reading awards of the personal pan. RIP lol
@@laneatkinson6441 all of the chain stores are equally awful. All the pizza wars ended up giving us was terrible subpar cheap shitty garbage food.
And it largely still holds true today, they’re way more expensive and nowhere near as good as they used to be/what their price commands
I didn't know my childhood was the golden age of pizza chains. We were solidly a pizza hut family.
So were we, so what happened to their pan pizza? It's not crisp and hot anymore, now it's soggy and cold. I have worked at PH and other pizzarias in the past, my guess is that they either lowered the conveyor oven temps, or sped them up.
@@DeWin157 probably sped it up. I think PH launched a 30 mins or less deal at one point that they still stick to
I managed a Little Caesar's in the early 90's, K-Mart did a franchise deal with them and opened up a bunch of restaurants in the stores. The locations is was in those K-marts, were incredibly hard. We served breakfast pizza for employees and shoppers, a variety of Danishes (pre made), a bunch of stuff. We had hard ice cream, and had to make waffle cones daily, we had to make cookies daily. We also sold slices, but we had spaghetti with sauce, and lasagna we made in store. We also had sandwiches, not a lot, your basic ham and cheese, Italian style, a couple others. Some simple salads, add in a dining area, making coffee, Iced Tea, self serve soda fountain, and an Icee machine. It was a lot of moving parts. I forgot, need to make two public announcements an hour on the K-mart store wide system.
Certain things we had to order from Blue Line the LC distributor, but other things I could do locally, like produce, etc. The focus on quality, internally and externally was extremely high. We did pepperoni bread, very labor intensive. They had a Caesar salad promotion. Crazy cheese (cream cheese and chives) with crazy bread. The products we put out were good. It was fun, we had very few complaints, the promotions came and went, and after about 18 months, they were sending me around to fix problem restaurants, using me as a training manager in grand openings, and didn't want to pay me for that. We parted ways on good terms.
Maybe 2 years later I got hired by a corporate run restaurant, that was a complete nightmare, they had no standards (for the district I was in). What they were doing is why Little Caesar's is barely edible now. They skimped on everything, watered down sauce, shorting the weights on the dough balls, proofing time was arbitrary, pre sheeting the dough, less cheese, pepperoni stayed the same, people can count that, every other topping always told us to under weigh. It was run so bad, they did not know what to do, all of the locations in the area were closing.
WHAAT?! My kmarts never had food!!! What a rip
I worked at PH for half the decade of the 90's, whilst I was in college. For those of you wondering, the biggest taste difference of the Bigfoot was the dough. It was a Neapolitan dough, so if that helps with the taste remembrance, there ya go! lol Also I remember when they first started selling the breadsticks, man, the employees bought and ate most of them for the first few months, heh. I didn't work at a redroof, I worked at a delivery. Plus, back then, we made the dough in the mornings in a mixer, vrs it coming in already made but frozen :(
Speed and convenience always kills quality 😞
Ah yeah, the big foot was so good, i guess thats why. i was addicted to those as a chubby little kid.
I worked there too in 2000, since we could make our own pizzas I'll never forget when a coworker gave me the tip to use the breadstick sauce instead of the pizza sauce. Wow was that awesome.
PH breadsticks are the shiznit
The current crusts are cardboard... JS...
I don't remember the Pizza Wars. I was busy fighting the Cola Wars.
RC
@@VeeTwoPointOh Exactly! I heard stories of Coca-Cola fans hoarding it, scared to death it would be gone forever, I would tell my friends, "I'm not worried at all! Got a bunch in my refrig right now, and when that's gone, I will try New Coke. If I don't like it, there's always RC." Before I ran out, the cola war was over. Old CC reappeared, and New Coke was quickly discontinued. What a fiasco that was for Coca-Cola. They don't talk about it now.
@@VeeTwoPointOh Pepsi vs Coca Cola!
NO WE DON’T HAVE CRYSTAL PEPSI THIS IS DOMINO’S
The Pizza Propaganda was everywhere when I was a kid. Every movie and TV show hyped up Pizza. To this day I attribute the Pizza Wars for Pizza being my favorite food.
Little Caesar's delivered where I lived in the 90's. My best friend was a delivery person there, so even though they weren't the best pizza in town, we always ordered from there anyway so that we could give him a decent tip.
They had a brief window in the '90s where they tried to offer delivery, but it didn't last.
Pizza after the 80's and 90's just never tasted the same, like tears in rain.
The commentary, topic, editing, and subtle humor all go well with your content. Keep it up and you'll blow up soon!
He actually was pretty hilarious.
The original channel is pretty popular :) this is a spin off channel that I am SERIOUSLY enjoying
Pizza Wars Veteran here..I remember, the cheesiness of the ninja turtles pizza and Home Alone’s Nero pizza - that’s what really set it off.. We were only kids, man, we were only kids.
It’s been almost thirty years, every time I close my eyes I see the Little Caesar’s manager’s face. I ask him for forgiveness, he shakes his head and whispers, “Pizza Pizza.”
Hahahaha. This is gold.
Id say there is some accuracy to this.
Those scenes made me want more cheese on my pizza for sure.
This is so inspiring
Customers: You came late. I don't have to pay for the pizzas.
Pizza Delivery Men: I missed the part where that's my problem.
I remember from like 2000-2008, I never heard of Little Ceasar's, and I'd thought they'd gone out of business, but then they became even more popular than they were in the 90s right after that thanks to the $5 Hot N Ready campaign which was a huge hit.
Great video, being a pizza fan ive always wondered how it was back then in the 90s with fast food chains being more popular than ever. Indeed Pizza hut had a distint taste back then.
The fresh slices at the buffet where the cheese was burnt just enough to have a crisp here and there 🤤🤤🤤
“No, we don’t have Crystal Pepsi, we’re Dominos!” Why is this so funny to me?
marketing
Ikr, who the hell calls a place for crystal Pepsi?
Very real and believable dialogue that a very real and believable person would say
It's funny cuz it's so surreal it's almost tragic. A Late-Stage Capitalism rimshot
The sassy delivery?
@@BarnacleBoy42069 We were young and dumb in those days! ( now we are OLD and dumb) LOL
...and birthday parties in the 90's were incredible for every reason you've seen in this video! 🥳 🍕
Also, when Pizza Hut's stuffed crust was briefly (in the test markets some of us were a part of, anyway) called "Mama Lorelli's Stuffed Crust Pizza," it had AWFUL sauce with an overabundance of stewed tomatoes chunks under the cheese, forced into every bite. Once they fixed it, they had absolute gold.
The stuffed crust was just awful.
I remember that awful sauce, turned me off of Pizza Hut for a year or two.
I’m surprised papa Johns isn’t on here. They used to be my go to in the 90s. They were so good back in the day, I absolutely loved their sausage pizzas. And if you called late, they would give out any food that they would have to throw out if you simply asked. Sadly the chain has gone seriously downhill
I remember how The Big Foot tasted. The taste was like any of their other pizzas and had a thin crust. It was great for large birthday parties and really helped my mom feed a crowd. She was everyone’s favorite mom for a reason!
Round Table Pizza and Pizza Hut had the old school kind of pizza place atmosphere that I feel is sorely missing these days (kind of like an irish pub or something).
Round Table is still in business
What are you talking about?
I worked at a delivery and take out only Pizza Hut location over the summer when the Bigfoot came out. It was never able to cook correctly. The middle of the pizza was always slightly undercooked and soggy. We used to get to split any takeout pies that were ordered but not picked up. The unclaimed Bigfoots usually went directly to the dumpster untouched at the end of the night.
Little Caesars square pizza was like that too. Doughy in the middle slices
You must have worked at a terrible Pizza Hut, I never had that problem with any big foot pizza I ever ordered.
@@ertfgghhhh I mean, they’re flat, they’ll cook evenly. It’s not like they’re fatter in the middle. SMH
@@spankynater4242 i know. That is why it was weird. It was like that all the time
@@spankynater4242 I'm pretty sure it was the pan causing the issue. The regular pizza pans were heavy gauge metal, and really held heat (like a cast iron skillet does). The Bigfoot pan was basically a modified super cheap cookie sheet. All the pizzas go through the same oven at the same speed on the conveyor belt. I suspect it was the cheapness of the pan that caused it to not conduct the heat evenly. It was a known issue that resulted complaints all over the country. If it was a slow night we did try running them back through again to get them to cook properly. On a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday that was never going to happen.
It’s hard to pick the best decade for good fun, but all I can say is that they’ve gone down since the 90s. I’d venture that the 50s-90s were the best times in history.
Amen to that! I can also attest that the 80’s and 90’s were indeed happier times and life was better… it’s not just nostalgia people are feeling, it’s true. The number one problem, the reason things are so out of wack and screwed up is that companies, politicians, the media, and Hollywood at one time feared upsetting the public, now they do not. This is the reason quality mattered, politicians kept their private views private, celebrities kept their mouthes shut, and movies were made to appease the general audience. But now, they only pay attention to the opinions of a small minority on social media, a minority dominated by a highly out of touch, entitled, hateful group. This is why life is miserable for most of the population and things seem so dramatically different. The majority use to hold the power and their happiness was gauged by sales and profit, but now it’s based on likes and comments. But here’s the thing, all that can be manipulated by bots and fake accounts, so at this point we’re being ruined and controlled by ignorance and misunderstanding.
Bro this is a video about pizza.
i remember the little caesers at k-marts selling pepperoni crazy bread, it was GREAT. but as with all things that sell, little caesers ended up discontinuing it...why, we shall never know
I came up in western Massachusetts, a place that still does party sized sheet pizzas like the old days. The kind that used to tape 2 large pizza boxes together to get it to fit the pie. It's a fad that never died there, though it did back off from the craziness of the wars. I still remember Liqouri's in West Springfield would offer a "crazy slice" which was a quarter of one of those pizzas for around $5. My 30 year old self would still take 3 servings to eat it all. When I moved away from there, I noticed that there were no "party size" pizzas anywhere and a lot of places do personal size instead.
I sure loved Pizza Hut's pan pizza from the 80's and 90's when it was a family restaurant --- pastas, pizza, salad bar. On our birthdays we got to order any pasta we wanted, I loved the wagon wheels. But if I had to chose among the 3 here I'd go with Domino's today. The Pizza Hut by me (carry out & delivery only) closed recently, they were so terrible and deliveries and pick ups took 2+ hours. I don't expect too much from fast food pizza, but every now and then Domino's hits the spot when I'm too stoned to care and don't want to drop a ton of $$$.
Are u in SE PA? Lol
Funny, Pizza Hut is around my neck of the woods and I haven't had a major problem with them myself. They're decent in a pinch, but of three chains, they're hands down the most expensive. So I don't go there too often.
Domino's? I got love for them, decent pizza at a decent price. I can't complain about them, plus they have the most diverse line-up of toppings. They really shaped up when they came under new ownership who basically said, "We admit it, our pizza sucks." and overhauled the entire thing top to bottom.
Little Caesars, goddamn, the sheer amount of food you can get for just over a Benjamin is ridiculous! They're fantastic when you're in a pinch, and it helps that their product is tasty too. That crazy bread is dangerously addictive, especially with the marinara they offer. I always make sure to get an extra tub of that stuff.
I feel all three have something to offer in their own unique way, but in the end, I feel Domino's is indeed the best bang for the buck with Little Caesars being very, VERY close behind them based on the value and the flavor.
Still getting stoned at your age… great life choices.
I have to say it, the best pizzas are the original pizza slices from local pizzerias where the sauce is well seasoned and the slices are a decent portion. I am talking about a NYC slice. I have never liked those pizza chain pizza places before. However, I did enjoy watching this episode. This was truly a fun filled memory lane with how crazy those pizza chains were on marketing their “not so well made” pizzas. Thank you.
No shit. Local places are always better.
Wow surprise suprise. Pizza made by hand as opposed to brought in by a freezer truck in cardboard boxes. It sucks when you have shows like this that are fun only to hear. Whining ITS NOT HOMEMADE. You want it homemade then make it yourself
Yeah well, most people don’t live in NYC these days (how’s that crime working out for ya), and fancy pizza restaurants always overcharge and the pizza ends up being the size of a personal pan. Your comment reeks of spoiled, entitled, out of touch ass.
Pizza Hut was always my fav chain pizza joint. Combine buttered crust with a 4-changer Neo Geo arcade cab with Viewpoint, Neo Turf Masters, or Aero Fighters 2 in the mix...you make my heart sing.
Growing up in the 90s, the bigfoot pizza from pizza hut was a common fixture of birthday parties. Good times.
You left-out the Big New Yorker. That was the best pie, by far: the only one I still miss.
YES I loved the big New Yorker! I remember that sauce being different, a little sweeter if I’m remembering g correctly. And it was a great price.
This is the one! While watching this I was like "well I remember the bigfoot, but not the other ones. There was for sure a different one though" Its the Big New Yorker! I loved that pizza so much, but I cant remember where it was from it had to be Lil Caesars I guess. We had a Blockbuster right beside it and on Fridays my step dad would take me to Blockbusters to rent a game for the weekend and we would get pizza, we got the Big New Yorker many times while it was available. Thank you for helping me remember that, those pizzas were really good they should bring it back.
@@Naltddesha Yup! The sauce was kind of sweet which was completely different from any other chain pizza. I remember it being super thin and cut into huge slices (obv it should as a new york style) which as a kid was something I had only seen in movies. Those pizzas were awesome, that and this like baja shrimp wrap type deal from Long John Silvers are always the two things I remember being great as a kid that they don't sell anymore.
That was a damn good pizza
I remember New Yorker. Lasted only 2 years. It was discontinued due to 9/11.
I liked Little Caesar's back then and I still like it now. In my town we have two cheap pizza options, Little Caesar's and Zanzi's. Little Caesar's is by far my favorite of the two. Back in the 90's Pizza Hut had a taco pizza and when I tell you I'd do anything to get that again I'm not exaggerating lol. They had the best taco pizza I've ever had. Ah, the good old days!
Little Caesars then, Little Caesars now, and Little Caesars forever!♥️🍕🏆
(As far as fast food pizza goes, lol!)
Oh man I forgot about the weird Pizza Hut / Taco Bell Frankenstein establishments. They were all the rage in Texas when I was a kid. For some reason I remember the Pizza Hut pizza tasting so much better from the conjoined mutant fast food chains than now as a solely Pizza Hut establishment. I'm sure it's just faulty memory and/or childhood nostalgia. But what if there actually was some otherworldly Taco Bell proxy magic bestowing the Pizza Hut pizza..? Hmmmm
@@javiermontiero4982 in Canada we had KFC/Taco Bell ones, it did not make the KFC better lmao
@@javiermontiero4982 Definitely something interesting to consider....🙂
Ew their pizza is gross and taste like dog food, it sits under a heat lamp
The biggest part of domino's rise to the top is the fact that they put so much effort into overhauling their recipes so that their pizza just tastes better than the competition's. I remember dominos tasting like cardboard when I was a kid and now it's absolutely delicious.
Their Wisconsin Six Cheese with pepperoni is amazing.
Domino's Pizza is nasty now. If they kept their recipe from the early 90s they would still be on top.
The ending comment of liking better pizza vs more pizza for your value is so true. I used to get the thickest pizza I could possibly find. In the last year + I changed completely into a thin crust lover with better toppings!
I remember exactly how the Bigfoot tasted. We got it every weekend until it was discontinued.
So... how does it taste lol? I remember loving it, but can't remember the taste. I've wanted it to come back for so long, but now I'm afraid it might ruin my memory of it. I totally remember getting it on a Saturday night, and watching Free Willy on HBO. I liked the pizza more than the movie hahaha.
@@michaelmcdermott5372 it was a much better quality pizza than what they have now. It tasted like real food. A fluffy crust, sauce just sweet enough to counter the greasy taste, thick juicy toppings and absolutely amazing cheese. It took up our whole kitchen counter whenever we brought it home.
@@michaelmcdermott5372 Bigfoot was a Flash in the Pan Gimmick. It may have earned Pepsi Co Tons of Revenue, but it was a Commercial BUST. I remember, it was HARD to cook properly and the Middle tasted like it was Doughy and undercooked.
@@Tornado1994 A commercial bust that earned tons in revenue?
That's... um... I'm not sure how to explain this in a way you can understand.
I told someone the other day that little Caesars used to sell two large pizzas in a huge paper bag.
I'm not sure if they believed me.
It's true. I was born in 1974. It was popular in the 1980s
I love this announcer - side note. Sounds to me a lot like Colbert! Makes everything more engaging. Thanks for all these awesome, entertaining videos. I'm learning a lot!
The NewYorker from Pizza Hut... Hands down! I miss eating AT Pizza Hut so much! That's where my wife and I went for our first date, in 2006!
Little Caesars in my town always delivered in the 90's. First job was driving for them and they paid drivers a percentage (8.5%) plus minimum wage which wasn't too bad at the time. Little Caesar used to make subs in pita pockets, they were pretty good.
The Bigfoot pizza was actually pretty good, at least from the hut we used to get it from. We'd order them for work. They were cooked well from my memory. They inavertantly (or intentionally) reinvented indian bread for the crust. I love indian bread.
… Indian bread? Like fry bread?
I do remember the pizza wars. Our town looked like Dresden after WWII when it was over.
Since this channel is still relatively you I gotta say, the writing and narration is phenomenal.
Loved those Pizza Pizza from Little Caesars, nothing better than some left over cold pizza for next day or quick microwave for a bite for my college days. 😍🥰🍕🍕
Hey, Bigfoot pizza was really good actually! I brought it in for my classmates for my birthday in January ‘94. I’ve been hoping they’d bring it back at some point.
Jesus. I wasn't even alive yet for 5 more months after that
It was discontinued that Spring.
The production value of these videos is phenomenal! So entertaining and funny! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I don't know, some of the old commercials are pretty low quality, gonna have to leave a thumbs down
Hell yeah I remember! The 80's and 90's were great years for chain pizza, man. When people talk about "it ain't the same," it's not just nostalgia talking.
The Bigfoot pizza was amazing as a kid! With Jolt Cola it was the perfect combo. I was so sad when it disappeared.
Jolt cola! LOL I havent heard anyone breathe those words in over 20 years! My school blamed Jolt for a student attacking a teacher, so they removed it.
Jolt has double the caffeine I think.
If you were feeling crazy, you could get a Nitro Cola, with triple the caffeine.
@@inconnu4961 oh brother, that’s ridiculous
It tasted Soggy and Doughy. I remember.
Love ❤️ 💗 💕 the new channel
We always had Pizza Inn growing up. We went there on Tuesday nights for the buffet and then usually ordered a pizza for take-out sometime during the weekend. The 1990s seem to be the peak era for pizza. It's still popular, but there are many more food options these days.
Got a Pizza Hut ad before this. Pizza Hut will always be my go to. Helps my best boss ever was a GM at the Hut
Awesome video!!
I wonder what WHF can dig up on the candy industry 🤔
I'm not proud of this but when I was a kid I went to a neighbors house and was going to order a pizza and try to get it for free and I told the neighbor my plan and she gave me food instead. You have no idea how much that means to someone who had nothing. A sandwich was like a steak. Lol Yeah I almost did that shady order thing though. Glad she didn't let me. She was definitely heaven sent.
“Scratching and surviving” 🎶
Guardian Angel👼.
@@Frosty98206 Absolutely! 🤗
How exactly would you of gotten it for free?
How would it have been free though? I’m confused
So much nostalgia in this vid, love it!
I had 2 favorites 1 was the Bigfoot, and the other was the Crazy 8's from Little Ceasars. It was their 2 square pizza's with up to 8 toppings. I have always loved square pizza, and always will.
Dad used to get the Bigfoot for payperview boxing. As a kid I was on board! It was great!
Also little Cesar's combos. Ahh the 90s
Bigfoot did not Taste right. It was often Soggy and Undercooked. I should know, we tried it a few times back in '93.
I grew up in the early 2000s and I used to go to Blockbuster right before it closed. You should do a video on the rise and fall of Blockbuster. I know it’s not food but youu could always do it on your other channel!
Thanks for all of the great videos!
I actually miss video rental places. It’s sad that my son will never get to know of the excitement of hitting up a Blockbuster or other local video store to rent movies and games on a Friday night after school.
Those were the days...
The internet isn't exactly in short supply of "What happened to Blockbuster?" videos.
There's only so many times you can hear "Netflix," and "Did you know that Blockbuster could have bought Netflix?"
@@Down_the_Wind I went to a blockbuster when I was a kid that was next to a McDonald’s and a Dairy Queen it was like utopia lol! I remember sneaking away from my parents at blockbuster to look at the rates r movies and thinking someday I’m going to get to go to blockbuster by myself to rent these movies!
@@philiplavery03 lol ah to be a kid again during those times... I’d give just about anything to be able to go back and experience all those things all over again.
You’re a kid, if you’re already feeling nostalgic at this point somethings off.
Being a kid in metro-Detroit in the 90s - I was indoctrinated by Little Caesar’s as a kid. They had “Caesarland” which seemed like a cooler and higher end Chuck E Cheese (looking back though it’s probs the same lol). Either way crazy bread and Caesarland will always have a nostalgic place in my heart
Ahhhh. So this explains why my area didn't have any in the 90s. I take it they were focusing on low-income areas.
@@Brandon-bc5um lol weird flex but ok - glad mommy and daddy had you living your best privileged life 🤣
Domino's $7.99 large 3 topping carry out deal is simply the best pizza deal of the past 10 years, and for that it will always be number one in my heart.
The Pizza Wars of the 1990s have many parallels to the Burger Wars of the 1980s, where innovation is concerned...
God I almost didn't remember my 20's in the early 90's. Also thanks for the clip of SF driving which is hilarious. The West Coast thanks you! I worked for a nonprofit and I remember if we had a board meeting where we wanted peer input of folks with mental health issues or to persuade them to join the board or a fundraiser we got Dominos or little Cesears. My executive director always said, "Feed them and they will come" a riff on the baseball movie Bull durum "Build it and they will come". It worked local high Schools rewarded kids with pizza days during stressful exam periods. Lets face it offer pizza and a county pool day or beach day and people of all ages were in. Being 23 in 1993 I was always on a diet so I could only watch the cheesy orgy.
I think the quote was from field of dreams, a different Kevin Costner baseball movie
Fun fact. The Dominos app use to authenticate the payment on your device rather than online servers. So you could enter random card details and go into the apps code to set the payment status to approved. Then you got pizza for free.
The big cheese was groundbreaking as a grade school child. Definitely the cool thing to have at birthdays. Stuffed crust was amazing too, I loved eating it backwards like in the commercials.
What I wouldn't give for a bag of 1980s Crazy Bread (before they eventually ruined it with cost cutting).
I’m so impatient! I need more food history, it’s so great!!
To this day, stuffed crust is still the most genius breakthrough in the history of pizza.
Always loved it when dad and mom took me and my brother to Pizza Hut back in the 80’s. It was a great time and delicious pizza.
Bigfoot was the official pizza of the slumber party when I was a kid! If it didn't have bigfoot, it wasn't a slumber party!
So that’s how Reggie came up with the Bigfoot pizza.
Loved the Interner Historian vibes of this video
the 90's were my Teenage years and it was GLORIOUS!!! I remember all of this...
Back in '94, I was the opening manager of a Little Caesar's, I made the dough fresh every morning.
They might be still using up the rest of that batch of dough now! LOL
Back in 94, I was the opening manager of my mother 😂
@@Brandon-bc5um 🙄
This has got to be the only video on RUclips where every commenter is happy and none are fighting
My family’s favourite use to be Monster bite pizza, from the Real Canadian Super Store. It was a made in store pizza that you had to bake at home in your own oven. We would buy one of those a less than half the price for the fancy restaurant pizzas, and we would get our own extra toppings and add them ourselves. It was the best pizza as far as we knew, and it was definitely better than nothing and all we could afford so we were happy 😊
Of the nearly hundred celebrities that ate pizza backwards, I liked your choice of who to show doing it.
Pizza Hut was the best back in the 90s, but at some point something changed and now their pizza tastes terrible. Domino's made a huge rebound in the early 2010s and went from tasting like cardboard, to actually being decent. Little Cesar's still remains the best budget pizza tho.
I think Pizza Hut is still decent, but I do agree that of the three, Little Caesars is the best of the bunch. Nothing like it, especially when you get a pizza made fresh from those guys. Holy shit. Plus that crazy bread? I get an extra vat of marinara for it!
@TonyHut, what changed is that they went from making their dough in-store to now buying frozen dough and they also change their receipt.
Dominos was my favorite back in 2015 I ordered from them every week.
I ordered Pizza Hut about 2 days ago bc all I had was cash and it was actually really really good it was still hot when I got it, the pan pizza is the only crust you should get from there
Yes is was, that thick fluffy buttery dough with the perfect amount of sauce and extra cheesy cheese that just stretched for miles could not be beat from the 90s. It was the perfect pizza..
Pizza Hut used to mix their dough on site, using a dough hook and rising it overnight in a proofer. Now they use frozen premade dough. I worked at a Pizza Hut from 2004 to 2006 and they switched over to frozen in 2005.
The quality of the cheese went down too. It used to be actual mozzarella, now it's mostly emulsified vegetable oil.
Today, LC's ExtraMostBestest line of large 1-topping pizzas is easily the best value out there.
I remember the Big, Big Cheese, only had it once but the ad campaigns were ridiculous and hilarious. Loved it. Still enjoy Little Caesars even today.
Domino's also partnered with American Dairy, read the government, and they collectively decided that more cheese would be best. Amazing.
I love these 90s-centric food videos. I was born in 92, so I lived through the 90s but don't really remember them, which is weird that these feel strangely nostalgic.
You were born in the 90s raised in the 00s
It’s the decade when America got fat.
@@taysmith9321 not necessarily. My husband was born in 92 and remembers everything from the 90s. Like there’s so many things he tells me about. I was born in 97
Little Ceasars did deliver pizza in 1993. I was a driver from 1993 to 1994 in Lansing MI.
I remember the Little Caesars $5 pizza. The price had not changed since the 1990s and all sudden in 2022 the price increased to $6.50. One of those ironies.
Wait, didn't Reggie Fils Aime invent the Bigfoot pizza before he went to Nintendo? That's a pretty cool piece of trivia there.
Love LC's.
Domino's definitely doesn't deserve that #1 spot
I know right. When I was a kid someone ordered a dominoes pizza and I remember there was like no sauce on it and I've never once bought a pizza from them based of that 1 pizza.
I know that it could have been made improperly or by someone who didn't care but I'm not about to waste money trying to find out if they still don't have sauce. So I ho to papa John's.
I worked at Pizza Hut when Bigfoot came out (I think I still have my Bigfoot on Board sign). If I recall it used a special whole milk cheese, but later dropped. The pizza was basically two medium with the toppings of a large. After it waned, we would still use the bags foe two medium orders, and on occasion the double Bigfoot bag four medium. As for dough it was cross between hand tossed and a thin.
I’ll sub to anything with this guy narrating
Little Caesars in the 90s tasted AMAZING even cold the next day, the closest i've ever come to experiencing that tast was in the mid 2010s at a Peter Piper Pizza, chain pizza has lost its flavor way imo.
Cold supreme LC pizza the next morning was a beautiful thing.
You’re right about Peter Piper’s
Honestly surprised to see so many people talking about little Caesars. They were nowhere to be found here til late 00s. I'm intrigued to know what it tasted like. I always loved pizza hut esp the cheesy breadsticks + stuffed crust.
Domino’s has stepped up its game IMO, especially in the pan pizza department
Funny, Little Caesars is still frigging good in my opinion, especially when it's hot and fresh. There is nothing like it. That crazy bread is still deadly addictive. I always get extra marinara sauce with it too.
I dunno in my area, the little ceasers never disappoints and their cheesy breadsticks are fantastic, really depends on where the chain is unfortunately
Stuffed crust was the tier 1 pizza of the 90's.
Wow! What a time to be alive!!! So many choices!! Big and small! All three great pizza giants battling for your purchase! I wish i had been old enough to remember it!
The biggest Canadian pizza chain up here is called “Pizza Pizza”. I remember seeing Little Caesar’s commercials on American stations and thinking it’s funny, it’s like they’re advertising for them. When LC expanded into Canada, I remember the commercials now had their mascot saying, badly dubbed, “two pizzas!” So lame.
Then Pizza Pizza introduced their Twins pizzas and all hell broke loose.
All hell broke loose? In CANADA? Whoa!
@@inconnu4961 Dude, my friend once saw a pizza shop calling themselves _4 -for-1_ Pizza. It was ridiculous.
I remember the bigfoot pizza when I was a teen in the 90s. I don't think it was any different than any other Pizza Hut pizza as far as taste. Just a bigger Pizza Hut pizza. Didn't have a Little Caesar's back then anywhere nearby where I grew up, now there are three within driving distance.
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You Got my subscription with that Big 3 Goodfellas pic 😂
Remember the PS1 demo disks that pizza hut gave out?