My memory is fuzzy but I think we usually had Little Caesars in the 80s. Later I recall we had frozen pizza which was also good. I still eat mostly frozen. Good times. Thanks for the video.
Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut is still good and the few times a year I eat it always reminds me being a kid again going to birthday parties there and Ninja Turtles because of all the promotions they had for the movies and Arcade N.E.S Game.
I remember how much trouble dominos got into in the 80s/90s for delivery pizza within 30 minutes of placing the order- drivers would speed/cause accidents run stop signs ect.
Jon I agree with you! Pizza Hut in the 80’s and 90’s was the best pizza for pizza and movie 🎥 night! Pizza Hut also had the best fountain drinks as well! Yeah you can’t walk into the local movie rental store and pick out your favorite VHS movie anymore, but you can walk into your local antique shop or flee market and pick out a cool vintage VHS tape and pop it into your still working VCR (Like mine) and relive those nostalgic Pizza and Movie Nights! Great Video!
89 baby here. Pizza night was almost always on a Friday. It would either be pizza hut or domino's and we would go to blockbuster to rent one game and a movie. Some movie choices as a kid were, lion king, homeward bound and jurassic park. This video brings back alot of memories and I teared up a bit. I wish we could go back in time and enjoy them just for another day sometimes.
In this small town growing up we had a Pisanello's. They had this huge rack in the middle of a walkway with all these DVDs to rent movies. They had an ice chest of frozen treats like SpongeBob pops, and for a short time they did soft serve. Of course they closed in like 2013 or so and they were the only people that would deliver to my grandmother's house being in the country between counties. I miss Pizzanello's, the closest one is a too far to drive for pizza.
I like fast food pizza...a lot! I remember being out of school for the holidays and going Christmas shopping with my family in Longview TX, then going to Pizza Inn for the buffet! It's the first time I remember eating until I couldn't eat another bite! I made myself sick! I must have been 9 or 10! I remember eating frozen pizza and watching bootleg movies at a buddy's house in high school. He had a room with floor to ceiling shelves on two sides. Good times!
I grew up out in the middle of nowhere. Going to Pizza Hut meant driving at least half an hour to get there. We didn't get a VCR until 1986 when I was in college and the video rental store was also a trip, so maybe that's why I don't know this experience. But---going to Pizza Hut back then was always great because of the sit down style. It's the kind of place you would go on a Sunday afternoon, or stop by after going to the nearby mall. Getting Domino's delivery was out of the question because by the time they finally had one in the same town that had the Pizza Hut, we were still too far away for them to deliver. But ironically, that Domino's is located in the same building where there had been a Blockbuster Video.
@@gildersleevefan67 That is some bitter irony. If nothing else, that longer drive probably made those rare trips to Pizza Hut that much more memorable.
Fast food pizza & a movie is an awesome idea! It's been raining all week where i live. There's several pizza places near me such as Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar's, and others. Frozen pizza is good in a pitch i think, especially when you want pizza like right now. I like Sausage and pepperoni pizza. Movies picks would be the ones you mentioned in this video, along with some anime series and cartoons. Popcorn/candy, or maybe an ice cream sundae for dessert.
When I was growing up, we had a local pizza place called Marco's. The one we went to was the first. It has now grown to several hundred pizzarias and would be considered "fast food" I guess. When I was doing my MS, we had "Arnold Fest", where we watched ever Arnold movie that had been released up to that point. We had a constant stream of pizza coming to (and a lot of beer). One of the places had a 20" pizza, and it was glorious!
Before the internet RUclips smartphones and iPhones back in the day whenever I would get my paycheck every 2 weeks during night time I will go to my local video rental store and rent movies and then I would call to order pizza from my local pizza joint in my hometown where I'm from and those were the good old Glory Old Skool days from back then when we had local phone books with yellow pages and newspapers in order to order pizza👍🏼 📼🍕😋
Pizza has gotten so expensive that I now buy frozen bread dough and make my own. It's cheaper and better but doesn't have the same nostalgic kick, so I think I need to lower the quality of my ingredients, lol. I stumbled into making a sauce that tasted almost identical to Pizza Hut's by adding sun-dried tomato paste, so I'm getting there.
My go to pizza joints are Domino's, Pizza Hut and occasionally Papa John's. (I do not like Hungry Howie's. 🤢🤮) As for what movie I would watch while eating pizza, either Back to the Future or the 1990 live action TMNT movie.
As a kid, I loved Little Caesar's. Now... I view them as the "McDonald's" of pizza places (which is not a good thing). Pizza Hut and Domino's are my favorites.
@RetroDaze Also, I remember one of the pizza places (can't remember which) gave you Cherry KoolAid packets with the pizza. So now in my head, KoolAid is synonymous with pizza and a movie. But only cherry flavor. 😅
yeah the Pizza Hut/TMNT combo was definitely iconic! It even extended into the videogame both in the arcade and on NES! (heck if memory serves some of the newer games based on that epic arcade version managed to bring back the pizza hut coupon to some extent!!) funny enough our last pizza and a movie night was just the other day! a chain we got here recently called marco's and studio ghibli's latest film just dropped on max, the boy and the heron! (maybe not a retro pick per se but ghibli does have a storied history of great animated films going back to the 80s) so got us a large pepperoni and sausage and half with veggies and stuff for the wife) and had us a fun night.
For me, it's a regional chain called Mazzio's. They used to be called Ken's, but circumstances caused a name change. They're all over where I live, more locations than Domino's and Pizza Hut combined. For chain pizza, they're awesome. But, we also have a badASS local Chicago style joint that makes the best pie you ever did eat. That's my go to when I'm really craving.
This definitely brought me a back and I thought about having pizza for dinner but I got something else. Pizza Hut was definitely the number one place growing up. There was a Pac-Man arcade. There was Broken Wings playing on the jukebox..... There was the Bookit program. And the buffet which is rare to find nowadays at a Pizza Hut at least near me. The red cups and the chandeliers with stained glass that said Pizza Hut sealed the deal.
@@redmist78 Pizza Hut is definitely the place with all the memorable elements that remind us of childhood. Everything you mentioned is part of that list of nostalgic elements.
@@rutherfordappraisal258 That does make good sense. So many instances of pizza and games were present in our youth, particularly Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza!
Pizza has been my favorite food my whole life, so I've had all of these many times. Though I'm vegan now, so I haven't had them in a few years. Some, if not all, of these chains have vegan cheese in the UK, but unfortunately not in the US. When I was a kid, I would enjoy going to Pizza Hut. What really stands out in my mind is the personal pan pizzas I would get with the Book It program, and also The Land Before Time and Casper hand puppets. Those were great. For delivery I always liked Little Caesars. But then Papa John's opened, and to me it was god tier and all I ever wanted from that point on. Throughout my life it's been a common thing to get a pizza for movie night, so none really stick out in my mind. Thinking of an ideal pizza/movie night though, I would choose Back to the Future or Ghostbusters. As for frozen pizza, up until a few years ago that was half of my diet. I've had all the main brands. My favorites were Tombstone, Red Baron, and Totino's.
Pizza Hut was the place to go in the 1970s, go in and set down and order your pizza. It was soo crowded at Pizza Hut especially on weekends. I miss those fun days, I'm 57 now, seems like I was 19 and now 57, so much has changed.
My favorite toppings when I was younger were..Pepperoni, Green peppers and Bacon. Sometimes I add red onions My new favorites are BBQ sauce instead of Marinara(tomatoe sauce)Grilled BBQ chicken, Pineapple and Bacon 👍 Gotta try this one
@@RetroDaze Hey I want to add something..it's sort of a question..do you prefer thin crunchy crust..or classic thick crust..I prefer thick, it's the only way to have it. Plus it what I remember when I was a kid
I forgot about the Noid? How, I HAVE NO IDEA! Thanks to everyone who helped create this masterpiece down memory lane. "Remembering yesteryear" HALLOWEEN IS COMING SOON! My B-Day is in October, maybe thats why Halloween is always in my memory as one of my favorites.
My #1 "pizza movie" is an R-rated teen comedy from 1977 called The Van. I have a very clear memory of seeing that for the first time on Showtime in 1980 on a Friday night, with a Pizza Inn pizza. I call it the ultimate Friday night pizza movie. r k
If I was going to bring a pizza home for movie night, it would be Pizza Hut. If I was going to hang out with friends, it would be Peter Piper Pizza; basically Chuck E Cheese w/o the animatronics. If I wanted to go to a real restaurant, it would have been a local place called Red Devil.
I grew up in Bensonhurst too, but never went to Lenny's. Our favorite "special" pie was the white pizza from Totonno's. There was a place near there we'd get amazing lemon Italian ice too.
We had no home town pizza joints in our local big town (Dublin Ga) growing up. But we had Pizza Hut with a few arcade games in the early 80’s and it was my favorite place for any event as a kid … always my pic for a birthday party. Deep Dish was a favorite and the Personal Pan was a highlight of my youth! And we dined in as we lived too far out for delivery or to take home fresh. But as time passed, and I could drive and hang out at my two best buddies houses in town, we did get into the Dominos delivery and blockbuster rentals!! Thanks guys Love this channel and keep up the good work 👊🏻😎🕹️
Thank you!!! Jon still refuses to divulge the source of his cool shirts, so our plan to spy on him every day until we learn the truth is still in place.
i liked all 3 pizza places as a kid because we ordered from them all so no one pizza company was better. as for movies and video game rentals we rented from a store called pharmore. when i was teenager like 16 or 17 i mainly eat papa john's pizza and rented from blockbuster or hollywood video until they were gone.
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Omgoodness I was a Pizza Hut kid. I mean literally my dad was a manger for years. I would sit in the back and make the boxes 😂 he even sponsored my little league even our uniforms said Pizza Hut 😂
Growing up in a small town TX, choices were Pizza Hut or frozen. Later in life I ended up living in Wichita, seemed special getting Pizza Hut there. As for the movie, Top Gun.
Growing up we had a mom and pop pizza place less than a block away so we didn't really have fast food pizza on movie night. We did eat in at some and the only one I remember liking was Pizza Hut. I don't know if it was the advertising or what but they were the only fast food ones I enjoyed. For frozen it was Mama Celeste 😁 and I agree with writer Tony that fast food pizza isn't real pizza
@@RetroDaze Oh the fast food places typically don't. I have to get it at local places. There's a franchise in the Maine/New Hampshire area called Amato's, and they can do the combination. That's where I first had it.
I was a big fan of Round Table, though they have fallen out of favor. I grew up in the Silicon Valley, and I also loved Mountain Mike's Pizza, even though there was an urban legend that it was named after a cannibal. I say urban legend because I did a search on this and came up with nothing, so I assume it was something snotty kids made up to be gross.
@@RetroDaze It's really weird, I did a web search and got nothing on Mountain Mike's being named after a cannibal Either I am mixing it up with another pizza place, or this is a Mandela Effect
Pizza Hut was definitely the go to for take-out or eat-in fast food pizza, but when it came to frozen pizza. Ellio's was the only choice. Pop one of those bad boys in the toaster oven and you were all set for the night.
Growing up in the 80's and mid 90s-I was a Domminos Pizza 🍕 Snob!! And, not afraid to admit it!! I liked the garlic bread (the stix) that came out in the late 80's that was actually BREAD and, I have to be honest..I'm not a fan of dipping SAUCE for pizza. That just wasn't a thing, we were lucky enough to have/get pizza. I didn't mind Pizza Delight but..there wasn't alot of them around. I like Papa John's but, it's just too HEAVY these days And, one thing I remember about Domino's Pizza, they used to have a slogan "Nobody knows how you like Pizza at home" As a family, for mine..anyway, we always..always had pizza at home. So we got Domino's. I do remember Pizza Hut, I've been in it 2 or 3 times at most. However, my parents had to carry me in as kid.. :)😊 ♿
@@NikkiDeJonge It’s always interesting to learn the stories behind why a certain pizza is the favorite of someone. Thanks for sharing that Nikki! Never heard of Pizza Delight though. Need to look that one up. And hey, nothing wrong with being a Domino’s Pizza Snob! 😆
Nightmare on Elm Street LOL! NO, I do like horror but that one scene where Freddy stabs his clew into a soul face meatball and eats it from a pizza turns me off of having a pizza that night.
Well it would be Domino's Pizza (It's a 2 block walk from my house properly go with a Meatzza Lover's Pizza. And since it is close to Sppoky Season, probably the Gate or a Nightmare on Elm Street. Watching Svengooglie spoofing on Dead of Night(1977) right now!
Pan pizza was the far better please when I started the pan pizza in 1980 a pan pizza started not looking and not tasting the same. It was basically designed after a Detroit deep dish I've been all the way to the edge of the crust edge of the pan and it was in my memory in the 80s and the memory of a friend who worked for them the the very early of the 90s they truely fucked it up after it's 10 year of success
" Wise man say forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late Pizza".
- Michelangelo (TMNT: The Movie 1990)
@@bluetarantulaproductions6179 Many quotable lines from that movie. 😆
My memory is fuzzy but I think we usually had Little Caesars in the 80s. Later I recall we had frozen pizza which was also good. I still eat mostly frozen. Good times. Thanks for the video.
Thank YOU for watching! Nothing wrong with a tasty frozen pizza now and then.
Modern frozen pizza is a great way to recapture the "fast food pizza" vibe that you'd get at a place like Pizza Inn. r k
Pizza hut: book club and the puzzles on pizza hut menus
Right! The little puzzles. 🧩
Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut is still good and the few times a year I eat it always reminds me being a kid again going to birthday parties there and Ninja Turtles because of all the promotions they had for the movies and Arcade N.E.S Game.
Turtles and Pizza Hut are basically synonymous, which is funny considering Dominos was the original brand in the first film.
I remember how much trouble dominos got into in the 80s/90s for delivery pizza within 30 minutes of placing the order- drivers would speed/cause accidents run stop signs ect.
You would think that would have been in their minds when creating the promotion. 😆
Great videos. Just found you plan to watch a whole bunch more. By the way Pizza Hut pan pizza is amazing , and I will die on that hill.
@@Jaster_Xocab Hey, we won’t fight you on that hill! Thanks for the kind words, and welcome aboard our little nostalgia train!
Jon I agree with you! Pizza Hut in the 80’s and 90’s was the best pizza for pizza and movie 🎥 night! Pizza Hut also had the best fountain drinks as well! Yeah you can’t walk into the local movie rental store and pick out your favorite VHS movie anymore, but you can walk into your local antique shop or flee market and pick out a cool vintage VHS tape and pop it into your still working VCR (Like mine) and relive those nostalgic Pizza and Movie Nights! Great Video!
@@cowboydiecastracing That’s a great idea! Close as we’ll ever get to recreating the experience.
89 baby here. Pizza night was almost always on a Friday. It would either be pizza hut or domino's and we would go to blockbuster to rent one game and a movie. Some movie choices as a kid were, lion king, homeward bound and jurassic park. This video brings back alot of memories and I teared up a bit. I wish we could go back in time and enjoy them just for another day sometimes.
We do as well, so much. It is why we do these videos. Trying to bring back just a tiny sliver of that amazing time in life.
In this small town growing up we had a Pisanello's. They had this huge rack in the middle of a walkway with all these DVDs to rent movies. They had an ice chest of frozen treats like SpongeBob pops, and for a short time they did soft serve.
Of course they closed in like 2013 or so and they were the only people that would deliver to my grandmother's house being in the country between counties. I miss Pizzanello's, the closest one is a too far to drive for pizza.
@@AidanCaDrago Wait… a pizza place that rented movies!? You serious? That place should be a historical landmark right now!
Always loved Pizza Hut as a kid. They had the tables with arcade games in them.
That was a huge draw for us as youngsters.
I like fast food pizza...a lot! I remember being out of school for the holidays and going Christmas shopping with my family in Longview TX, then going to Pizza Inn for the buffet! It's the first time I remember eating until I couldn't eat another bite! I made myself sick! I must have been 9 or 10! I remember eating frozen pizza and watching bootleg movies at a buddy's house in high school. He had a room with floor to ceiling shelves on two sides. Good times!
Oh wow! We’d have been at that dude’s house every week! 😆
Pan pizza from Pizza Hut back in the 80's as a kid was awesome! So were the bread sticks!
It really was delicious. Still is for the most part.
I grew up out in the middle of nowhere. Going to Pizza Hut meant driving at least half an hour to get there. We didn't get a VCR until 1986 when I was in college and the video rental store was also a trip, so maybe that's why I don't know this experience. But---going to Pizza Hut back then was always great because of the sit down style. It's the kind of place you would go on a Sunday afternoon, or stop by after going to the nearby mall. Getting Domino's delivery was out of the question because by the time they finally had one in the same town that had the Pizza Hut, we were still too far away for them to deliver. But ironically, that Domino's is located in the same building where there had been a Blockbuster Video.
@@gildersleevefan67 That is some bitter irony. If nothing else, that longer drive probably made those rare trips to Pizza Hut that much more memorable.
Fast food pizza & a movie is an awesome idea! It's been raining all week where i live. There's several pizza places near me such as Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar's, and others. Frozen pizza is good in a pitch i think, especially when you want pizza like right now. I like Sausage and pepperoni pizza.
Movies picks would be the ones you mentioned in this video, along with some anime series and cartoons. Popcorn/candy, or maybe an ice cream sundae for dessert.
Ice cream is a great addition!
Great stuff! And, a good time to call in an order and rent a streaming flick.
When I was growing up, we had a local pizza place called Marco's. The one we went to was the first. It has now grown to several hundred pizzarias and would be considered "fast food" I guess. When I was doing my MS, we had "Arnold Fest", where we watched ever Arnold movie that had been released up to that point. We had a constant stream of pizza coming to (and a lot of beer). One of the places had a 20" pizza, and it was glorious!
Sounds like a very “college” pizza and movie experience. Nice! Need to look up this Marco’s.
We didn't have any fast food pizza places in the town where I grew up so most often we would get frozen. Our brand of choice was Red Baron.
A good choice, but not Tony’s! 😆
Before the internet RUclips smartphones and iPhones back in the day whenever I would get my paycheck every 2 weeks during night time I will go to my local video rental store and rent movies and then I would call to order pizza from my local pizza joint in my hometown where I'm from and those were the good old Glory Old Skool days from back then when we had local phone books with yellow pages and newspapers in order to order pizza👍🏼 📼🍕😋
Yes! It’s crazy how memorable an experience that was, just some delivery pizza and movie rentals.
Pizza has gotten so expensive that I now buy frozen bread dough and make my own. It's cheaper and better but doesn't have the same nostalgic kick, so I think I need to lower the quality of my ingredients, lol. I stumbled into making a sauce that tasted almost identical to Pizza Hut's by adding sun-dried tomato paste, so I'm getting there.
Ooh. Do share! 😋
My go to pizza joints are Domino's, Pizza Hut and occasionally Papa John's. (I do not like Hungry Howie's. 🤢🤮) As for what movie I would watch while eating pizza, either Back to the Future or the 1990 live action TMNT movie.
All perfect combinations!
The dope thing about Hungry Howies is the different flavored crusts but the pizza is mid.
Hungry Howie's is the bomb!!
Nothing better than bagel bites and video games in the mid 2000’s at your friends place.
@@jaimecontreras6263 Can’t forget those delicious Bagel Bites!
As a kid, I loved Little Caesar's. Now... I view them as the "McDonald's" of pizza places (which is not a good thing). Pizza Hut and Domino's are my favorites.
@@MOTU_CTR Little Caesar’s was a great choice for keeping on a budget. Still is, but yeah… the flavor can’t match the other two.
@RetroDaze Also, I remember one of the pizza places (can't remember which) gave you Cherry KoolAid packets with the pizza. So now in my head, KoolAid is synonymous with pizza and a movie. But only cherry flavor. 😅
@@MOTU_CTR😂 That’s a great idea too. Kool Aid was cheap, but it still felt like you got a nice bonus drink.
yeah the Pizza Hut/TMNT combo was definitely iconic! It even extended into the videogame both in the arcade and on NES! (heck if memory serves some of the newer games based on that epic arcade version managed to bring back the pizza hut coupon to some extent!!) funny enough our last pizza and a movie night was just the other day! a chain we got here recently called marco's and studio ghibli's latest film just dropped on max, the boy and the heron! (maybe not a retro pick per se but ghibli does have a storied history of great animated films going back to the 80s) so got us a large pepperoni and sausage and half with veggies and stuff for the wife) and had us a fun night.
@@darktetsuya That is awesome! And we can appreciate a good Studio Ghibli film as much as anyone. Well done. 👍🏻
I think birthday party at mcdonalds during the 80s is worth its own video
We’ve all seemingly had at least one there!
For me, it's a regional chain called Mazzio's. They used to be called Ken's, but circumstances caused a name change. They're all over where I live, more locations than Domino's and Pizza Hut combined. For chain pizza, they're awesome. But, we also have a badASS local Chicago style joint that makes the best pie you ever did eat. That's my go to when I'm really craving.
Best of both worlds all within your own area. You can’t beat that!
This definitely brought me a back and I thought about having pizza for dinner but I got something else. Pizza Hut was definitely the number one place growing up. There was a Pac-Man arcade. There was Broken Wings playing on the jukebox..... There was the Bookit program. And the buffet which is rare to find nowadays at a Pizza Hut at least near me. The red cups and the chandeliers with stained glass that said Pizza Hut sealed the deal.
@@redmist78 Pizza Hut is definitely the place with all the memorable elements that remind us of childhood. Everything you mentioned is part of that list of nostalgic elements.
For me, the pizza parlor nostalgia is also closely tied to pumping an 80s pre-teen’s idea of a small fortune in quarters into video games.
@@rutherfordappraisal258 That does make good sense. So many instances of pizza and games were present in our youth, particularly Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza!
Pizza has been my favorite food my whole life, so I've had all of these many times. Though I'm vegan now, so I haven't had them in a few years. Some, if not all, of these chains have vegan cheese in the UK, but unfortunately not in the US. When I was a kid, I would enjoy going to Pizza Hut. What really stands out in my mind is the personal pan pizzas I would get with the Book It program, and also The Land Before Time and Casper hand puppets. Those were great. For delivery I always liked Little Caesars. But then Papa John's opened, and to me it was god tier and all I ever wanted from that point on. Throughout my life it's been a common thing to get a pizza for movie night, so none really stick out in my mind. Thinking of an ideal pizza/movie night though, I would choose Back to the Future or Ghostbusters. As for frozen pizza, up until a few years ago that was half of my diet. I've had all the main brands. My favorites were Tombstone, Red Baron, and Totino's.
@@JoylessPumpkin You’ve covered all the best of both fast food and frozen! Great picks for the movie too. Perfect combo. 🍕 🎥
Pizza Hut was the place to go in the 1970s, go in and set down and order your pizza. It was soo crowded at Pizza Hut especially on weekends. I miss those fun days, I'm 57 now, seems like I was 19 and now 57, so much has changed.
@@RobinPerryman-jp9ke Yes! It’s so crazy to try and comprehend how it is that so many years have passed.
Always Pizza Hut! So many memories!
It was such a great place to make memories.
I remember the pizza hut baseball commercial from the ninja turtles movie in 1990!
By now the turtles and Pizza Hut are so intertwined that when you think of one you’re reminded of the other!
My favorite toppings when I was younger were..Pepperoni, Green peppers and Bacon. Sometimes I add red onions
My new favorites are BBQ sauce instead of Marinara(tomatoe sauce)Grilled BBQ chicken, Pineapple and Bacon 👍 Gotta try this one
@@NikkiDeJonge Hmm. Interesting. My (Producer Tony) wife enjoys the grilled chicken on pizza as well.
@@RetroDaze Hey I want to add something..it's sort of a question..do you prefer thin crunchy crust..or classic thick crust..I prefer thick, it's the only way to have it. Plus it what I remember when I was a kid
I forgot about the Noid? How, I HAVE NO IDEA! Thanks to everyone who helped create this masterpiece down memory lane. "Remembering yesteryear" HALLOWEEN IS COMING SOON! My B-Day is in October, maybe thats why Halloween is always in my memory as one of my favorites.
@@ZMAN_420 It’s just that fun and special, regardless of birthdays! Thanks Z Man.
I just ordered a personal pan pizza. 🍕
@@GodzillinLkeAVillain Talk about great timing! So… you gonna share then? 😆 🍕
My #1 "pizza movie" is an R-rated teen comedy from 1977 called The Van. I have a very clear memory of seeing that for the first time on Showtime in 1980 on a Friday night, with a Pizza Inn pizza. I call it the ultimate Friday night pizza movie. r k
Ha! That’s a unique combo for sure. 👍🏻
If I was going to bring a pizza home for movie night, it would be Pizza Hut. If I was going to hang out with friends, it would be Peter Piper Pizza; basically Chuck E Cheese w/o the animatronics.
If I wanted to go to a real restaurant, it would have been a local place called Red Devil.
@@ReconViper1 Peter Piper Pizza sounds cool! They have arcade games too?
@@RetroDaze It did. It was equal parts pizza place and arcade. I spent way too much time (and too many quarters) there.
Lenny`s in Bensonhurst was actually lousy!! I lived a few blocks away for years. Oh yeah... That`s the slice Travolta was eating.
@@GCMadej Oh so that was Lenny’s in the film? Cool!
@@RetroDaze Yup! Travolta was there a few years ago with the cameras rolling. They redid the scene. Lenny`s closed not too long after lol
I grew up in Bensonhurst too, but never went to Lenny's. Our favorite "special" pie was the white pizza from Totonno's. There was a place near there we'd get amazing lemon Italian ice too.
@@AnthonyJRapino I went to the original La Bella on 21st. Not the one at Bay Parkway. Much better!
We had no home town pizza joints in our local big town (Dublin Ga) growing up. But we had Pizza Hut with a few arcade games in the early 80’s and it was my favorite place for any event as a kid … always my pic for a birthday party. Deep Dish was a favorite and the Personal Pan was a highlight of my youth! And we dined in as we lived too far out for delivery or to take home fresh.
But as time passed, and I could drive and hang out at my two best buddies houses in town, we did get into the Dominos delivery and blockbuster rentals!!
Thanks guys
Love this channel and keep up the good work
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@@tedadamgreen Thank you Ted! And thanks for sharing those memories with us.
Awesome video and your 👕 throw me back to good old times...😢😊 👍
Thank you!!! Jon still refuses to divulge the source of his cool shirts, so our plan to spy on him every day until we learn the truth is still in place.
i liked all 3 pizza places as a kid because we ordered from them all so no one pizza company was better. as for movies and video game rentals we rented from a store called pharmore. when i was teenager like 16 or 17 i mainly eat papa john's pizza and rented from blockbuster or hollywood video until they were gone.
Which of those two scenarios do you remember more fondly?
@@RetroDaze i remember them both fondly actually because they are tied to people i still now to this day especially the papa john one.
@@ViciouspikedThat’s awesome. Thank you for sharing the memories!
I just finished the video. I Wathed the 1st half earlier now the 2nd half. I lke every comment, I share the video to people who are my age and will watch. I want this channel to be big! This is High-Quality content if your the correct age. I'm sure these a few younger people watching, probably a few older people too.
You’re the best Z Man! Really appreciate your efforts in spreading the word. The more smiles we can bring to faces, the better.
Omgoodness I was a Pizza Hut kid. I mean literally my dad was a manger for years. I would sit in the back and make the boxes 😂 he even sponsored my little league even our uniforms said Pizza Hut 😂
@@battlehusky5812 That’s awesome! You have a rare perspective on this topic.
@@RetroDaze Pizza Hut even had toys in the 90s lol
Growing up in a small town TX, choices were Pizza Hut or frozen. Later in life I ended up living in Wichita, seemed special getting Pizza Hut there.
As for the movie, Top Gun.
@@kudukilla Great combo! Bravo my friend.
(knock knock knock) "Who is it?" "Little Nero's, sir. I have your pizza." "Leave it on the doorstep and get the hell out of here."
@@justinf9934 😆
Dominoes sausage and pepperoni paired with Batman Returns!
@@jonprince6186 Excellent! All good choices. 👍🏻
Growing up we had a mom and pop pizza place less than a block away so we didn't really have fast food pizza on movie night. We did eat in at some and the only one I remember liking was Pizza Hut. I don't know if it was the advertising or what but they were the only fast food ones I enjoyed. For frozen it was Mama Celeste 😁 and I agree with writer Tony that fast food pizza isn't real pizza
@@ctbinary42 Fast food pizza is really kind of its own thing. Almost feels wrong to lump it in with other pizza. 🍕
Eggplant and bacon is my go to combination of toppings when a place has it.
Interesting combo. Don’t know of many fast food pizza places that offer eggplant though.
@@RetroDaze Oh the fast food places typically don't. I have to get it at local places. There's a franchise in the Maine/New Hampshire area called Amato's, and they can do the combination. That's where I first had it.
I was a big fan of Round Table, though they have fallen out of favor. I grew up in the Silicon Valley, and I also loved Mountain Mike's Pizza, even though there was an urban legend that it was named after a cannibal. I say urban legend because I did a search on this and came up with nothing, so I assume it was something snotty kids made up to be gross.
What? Kids making up urban legends to tell their friends? Never. 😆
@@RetroDaze It's really weird, I did a web search and got nothing on Mountain Mike's being named after a cannibal Either I am mixing it up with another pizza place, or this is a Mandela Effect
@@Robalini1Mountain Mike scrubbed the net of his existence. He has that power.
Pizza Hut was definitely the go to for take-out or eat-in fast food pizza, but when it came to frozen pizza. Ellio's was the only choice. Pop one of those bad boys in the toaster oven and you were all set for the night.
Not familiar with Ellio’s. But popping in a toaster pizza sounds good right now!
Has anyone ever tried pizza rolls as a pie topping?
Wait… pizza rolls as a pizza topping? Isn’t that a sign of the apocalypse?
Growing up in the 80's and mid 90s-I was a Domminos Pizza 🍕 Snob!! And, not afraid to admit it!! I liked the garlic bread (the stix) that came out in the late 80's that was actually BREAD and, I have to be honest..I'm not a fan of dipping SAUCE for pizza. That just wasn't a thing, we were lucky enough to have/get pizza. I didn't mind Pizza Delight but..there wasn't alot of them around. I like Papa John's but, it's just too HEAVY these days
And, one thing I remember about Domino's Pizza, they used to have a slogan "Nobody knows how you like Pizza at home" As a family, for mine..anyway, we always..always had pizza at home. So we got Domino's. I do remember Pizza Hut, I've been in it 2 or 3 times at most. However, my parents had to carry me in as kid.. :)😊 ♿
@@NikkiDeJonge It’s always interesting to learn the stories behind why a certain pizza is the favorite of someone. Thanks for sharing that Nikki! Never heard of Pizza Delight though. Need to look that one up. And hey, nothing wrong with being a Domino’s Pizza Snob! 😆
You're right. IDC what anyone says, I miss video stores and when Pizza Hut was actually decent.
As do we!!!
Nightmare on Elm Street LOL! NO, I do like horror but that one scene where Freddy stabs his clew into a soul face meatball and eats it from a pizza turns me off of having a pizza that night.
Yeah that scene gets us every time. Really lose the appetite for pizza. LOL
Well it would be Domino's Pizza (It's a 2 block walk from my house properly go with a Meatzza Lover's Pizza. And since it is close to Sppoky Season, probably the Gate or a Nightmare on Elm Street. Watching Svengooglie spoofing on Dead of Night(1977) right now!
@@Rob-rx3jw You, sir, are doing it RIGHT!
@@RetroDaze My kind appreciation good sir!
Pizza Hut literally invented "American Pizza" as we know it's flavor profile and appearance.
It's not great pizza but, it's certainly real ;)
@@patrickreindel692 If America has a pizza flavor profile, it’s almost certainly Pizza Hut.
Pizza Hut used to be delicious.
@@irisshalurhad7901 We really miss the pizza and salad bars!
Pan pizza was the far better please when I started the pan pizza in 1980 a pan pizza started not looking and not tasting the same. It was basically designed after a Detroit deep dish I've been all the way to the edge of the crust edge of the pan and it was in my memory in the 80s and the memory of a friend who worked for them the the very early of the 90s they truely fucked it up after it's 10 year of success
Ahh, that’s unfortunate. Sometimes change is NOT a good thing.
@@RetroDaze wow I wrote that like shit