Do You Remember The Giant Pizza Wars From the 90s?

[@hewhoshallnotbenamed5168]

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.

[@kamehouseboxing7142]

That’s great that even his small attempt to provide gave you a good memory. No effort a parent gives is ever too small.

[@Kryynism]

That is an amazing memory that reignited many of my own.

[@WhuDhat]

haha nice

[@IRLTheGreatZarquon]

What I want to know is how a child survived eating that much pizza without exploding.

[@Kryynism]

@@IRLTheGreatZarquon you've never ate your bodyweight in pizza?

[@coolbrotherf127]

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.

[@chrismcintosh4121]

Me too

[@davidlester1308]

I relished the messed up orders. Although I did raise an eyebrow a couple times when I saw what some of the toppings were.

[@Sabrina_116]

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

[@robertmccracken3763]

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 😂

[@coolbrotherf127]

@@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.

[@vryusvin3905]

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.

[@GeddyRC]

Thank you for telling your story. We appreciate your bravery!

[@FunFactOfTheDay]

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.

[@j.d.contreras392]

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.

[@DrRay-ii8pj]

i would have lived the rest of my life never remembering pizza by the foot had you not wrote this. thanks for the laugh

[@ShaneRimmerWorld]

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.

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

@@ShaneRimmerWorld They kind of brought that back with Slices And Sticks. The Batman pizza they had was pretty awesome.

[@lauraw3117]

Yes! That’s what I remember too.

[@myworms]

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.

[@slashismyhommie8182]

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

[@iaincowell9747]

@@slashismyhommie8182 The Noid. Read on Wikipedia why they stopped using him.

[@spankynater4242]

They tasted like pizza.

[@willp.8120]

Little Caesars is cheaper and tastes better than Domino's and Pizza Hut's hand tossed, though Pizza Hut makes a good pan pizza.

[@Andyjpro]

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.

[@CLFmoto87]

The domino’s recipe change in the 2010’s is worth mentioning. I think that also helped reinvigorate them.

[@hokaloah100]

That's what made me a dominos fan. Before, I thought their pizza was terrible and refused to eat it.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

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

[@andreal.stanley]

I used to hate dominos but after they reinvented it it's now a top favorite for a chain

[@desperado1736]

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

[@pandahsykes602]

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

[@-NateTheGreat]

Pizza Hut used to be good till they changed their ingredients. Nothing beats a Pan Pizza from the 80's.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

They also made their restaurants into grey concrete blocks instead of keeping the inviting interior design.

[@classicarah]

@@G-Mastah-Fash the one by my house still looks the same. Lol

[@agentofashcroft]

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

[@ghostkilla96]

Nothing beats a pizza from a non-chain pizza shop.

[@marsneedstowels]

Canadian pizza huts are still remarkably similar to the way they used to be in the 80's.

[@tparadox88]

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".

[@Averagedre]

yup i was about to say that… ahh good times getting yelled at constantly by my manager for 7.25/hr

[@Whynotmini]

@@AveragedreI have fun at my dominos for 15.65$ but the rush sucks ass

[@Eternaldarkness3166]

Pizza Hut has hot boxes 😂

[@anthonychihuahua]

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.

[@comettamer]

Nice

[@Derpmander1982]

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!

[@absolutely1337]

Wow. The good old days, eh boys!?

[@mahna_mahna]

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.

[@jacobsaccount9353]

@@absolutely1337 yeah it was, why you gotta problem with that?

[@Hurricanelive]

Pizza after the 80's and 90's just never tasted the same, like tears in rain.

[@gitgeronimo9375]

I sure do. I also remember when Pizza Hut just gave up and decided they didn’t want to try anymore.

[@JS-wp4gs]

You can blame that nefarious pizza cutter steve for that

[@laneatkinson6441]

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!

[@scorpleeon]

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

[@shaymorcormick8743]

@@laneatkinson6441 all of the chain stores are equally awful. All the pizza wars ended up giving us was terrible subpar cheap shitty garbage food.

[@joshuad1716]

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

[@dorklord2927]

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

[@kevinbejkoxdxd1514]

@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…

[@PoKeKidMPK1]

@@kevinbejkoxdxd1514 if you havent tried the others yet you cant really say theres a best lol

[@AlwaysAmTired]

I didn't know my childhood was the golden age of pizza chains. We were solidly a pizza hut family.

[@DeWin157]

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.

[@TheBrandonn]

@@DeWin157 probably sped it up. I think PH launched a 30 mins or less deal at one point that they still stick to

[@JM1993951]

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.

[@mind-of-neo]

i mean theyre still a distant fourth to me but yeah theyre up there

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

They basically went bankrupt, or close to it, and were bought out within the last decade, that's why the quality went up.

[@bjkarana]

Why people think there's a significant difference between mass produced frozen dough offerings is beyond me.

[@m0bilemechanix]

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.

[@tacticalmattress]

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.

[@MrGeekFreek]

I don't remember the Pizza Wars. I was busy fighting the Cola Wars.

[@VeeTwoPointOh]

RC

[@BakedRBeans]

@@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.

[@rdu239]

@@VeeTwoPointOh Pepsi vs Coca Cola!

[@thestarseeker8196]

NO WE DON’T HAVE CRYSTAL PEPSI THIS IS DOMINO’S

[@Broomer52]

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.

[@Darkcrowman]

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 :(

[@archive881]

Speed and convenience always kills quality 😞

[@roamsy]

Ah yeah, the big foot was so good, i guess thats why. i was addicted to those as a chubby little kid.

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

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.

[@gringotroller]

PH breadsticks are the shiznit

[@ZiggZagg11]

The current crusts are cardboard... JS...

[@huyivant5190]

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.”

[@nexxusty]

Hahahaha. This is gold. Id say there is some accuracy to this. Those scenes made me want more cheese on my pizza for sure.

[@jessesingh4629]

This is so inspiring

[@bjkarana]

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.

[@MM-xc2bt]

Now pizza hut is the only pizza I don't like

[@Moon_Presence]

Pizza hut was the shit in the '90s

[@Andrew-it7fb]

I was born in 79. They were always bad.

[@bjkarana]

@@Andrew-it7fb Eh, 8 year old me might not be as discerning as 38 year old me?

[@Andrew-it7fb]

@@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.

[@waltg5165]

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.

[@TheBrandonn]

WHAAT?! My kmarts never had food!!! What a rip

[@Hawtload]

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).

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Round Table is still in business What are you talking about?

[@someoneoncesaid6978]

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.

[@Belgand]

They had a brief window in the '90s where they tried to offer delivery, but it didn't last.

[@ROCKSTARMANIC12]

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.

[@blifx]

The fresh slices at the buffet where the cheese was burnt just enough to have a crisp here and there 🤤🤤🤤

[@mstaehlefl]

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.

[@ertfgghhhh]

Little Caesars square pizza was like that too. Doughy in the middle slices

[@spankynater4242]

You must have worked at a terrible Pizza Hut, I never had that problem with any big foot pizza I ever ordered.

[@spankynater4242]

@@ertfgghhhh I mean, they’re flat, they’ll cook evenly. It’s not like they’re fatter in the middle. SMH

[@ertfgghhhh]

@@spankynater4242 i know. That is why it was weird. It was like that all the time

[@mstaehlefl]

@@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.

[@jasonsullivan7852]

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.

[@jasonm9264]

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.

[@82pythons85]

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.

[@frankd9945]

Bro this is a video about pizza.

[@marcjohn9404]

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.

[@edgaralanfrog]

“No, we don’t have Crystal Pepsi, we’re Dominos!” Why is this so funny to me?

[@WhuDhat]

marketing

[@BarnacleBoy42069]

Ikr, who the hell calls a place for crystal Pepsi?

[@chompythebeast]

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

[@jlshel42]

The sassy delivery?

[@inconnu4961]

@@BarnacleBoy42069 We were young and dumb in those days! ( now we are OLD and dumb) LOL

[@annasahlstrom6109]

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!

[@lerneanlion]

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.

[@zepps88]

To this day, stuffed crust is still the most genius breakthrough in the history of pizza.

[@ryanspengler4877]

...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.

[@nedludd7622]

The stuffed crust was just awful.

[@fearless1024]

I remember that awful sauce, turned me off of Pizza Hut for a year or two.

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

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

[@socko2085]

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.

[@82pythons85]

Their Wisconsin Six Cheese with pepperoni is amazing.

[@christansdad]

Domino's Pizza is nasty now. If they kept their recipe from the early 90s they would still be on top.

[@michaelbabella9012]

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

[@funnylittlecactus4672]

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!

[@anthonychihuahua]

Little Caesars then, Little Caesars now, and Little Caesars forever!♥️🍕🏆 (As far as fast food pizza goes, lol!)

[@javiermontiero4982]

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

[@lShishkaBerryl]

@@javiermontiero4982 in Canada we had KFC/Taco Bell ones, it did not make the KFC better lmao

[@funnylittlecactus4672]

@@javiermontiero4982 Definitely something interesting to consider....🙂

[@RavensGohst]

Ew their pizza is gross and taste like dog food, it sits under a heat lamp

[@christophermoore5328]

Little Ceasars did deliver pizza in 1993. I was a driver from 1993 to 1994 in Lansing MI.

[@alotorre91]

Going to K Mart in the 90s meant also getting a little Cesar’s, the 90s were amazing!

[@leelalo6625]

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.

[@teenanel9559]

No shit. Local places are always better.

[@morganschiller2288]

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

[@82pythons85]

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.

[@Gungho73]

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!

[@miastrong151]

You left-out the Big New Yorker. That was the best pie, by far: the only one I still miss.

[@Naltddesha]

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.

[@camd1518]

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.

[@camd1518]

@@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.

[@benjismith593]

That was a damn good pizza

[@Tornado1994]

I remember New Yorker. Lasted only 2 years. It was discontinued due to 9/11.

[@rooney0423]

Growing up in the 90s, the bigfoot pizza from pizza hut was a common fixture of birthday parties. Good times.

[@PyrosRubberDuck]

Alright ill spill the beans. As a former Dominos GM, the only part of the pizza tracker that's a timer is the bake stage. That's always gonna be at 6 minutes no matter what. The "quality check" section is also bogus. It literally just means your food is sitting in the warmer until a driver picks it up. If your food is on "quality check" for a long time, no drivers are around to pick it up and it's just sitting there. The reason Domino's is #1 is because it exploits their managers so that most hours, its just one person running the entire store for a flat rate while Domino's absolutely reaps in all the profits since they only staff the kitchen for about 4-5 hours a day. Managers pull 60-80 hour work weeks and aren't given a budget to staff their stores to reduce this. It's sad that everyone thinks Domino's is a victor when really its just an exploiter. Some day the news will break..

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

That explains a lot.

[@LeoMidori]

That's rough. I don't know what's wrong with the owners of retail and food service chains treating their employees so harshly.

[@Tornado1994]

Correct. I worked for Dominos again during COVID. BTW, Corporate Dominos sucks. ALWAYS has. Franchises are FAR Better. I worked FULL TIME during COVID, and I wasn't even a GM.

[@11C1P]

Stuffed crust was the tier 1 pizza of the 90's.

[@DrewTrox]

The Bigfoot pizza was amazing as a kid! With Jolt Cola it was the perfect combo. I was so sad when it disappeared.

[@inconnu4961]

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.

[@chadcognac5626]

Jolt has double the caffeine I think. If you were feeling crazy, you could get a Nitro Cola, with triple the caffeine.

[@Naltddesha]

@@inconnu4961 oh brother, that’s ridiculous

[@Tornado1994]

It tasted Soggy and Doughy. I remember.

[@roguesample]

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

[@TheBrandonn]

Ahhhh. So this explains why my area didn't have any in the 90s. I take it they were focusing on low-income areas.

[@roguesample]

@@TheBrandonn lol weird flex but ok - glad mommy and daddy had you living your best privileged life 🤣

[@vsm351]

The commentary, topic, editing, and subtle humor all go well with your content. Keep it up and you'll blow up soon!

[@spankynater4242]

He actually was pretty hilarious.

[@annarushlau9722]

The original channel is pretty popular :) this is a spin off channel that I am SERIOUSLY enjoying

[@poindextertunes]

As a 22 yr old, I lived one block away from a little Caesars. My roommate and I ate so much of their pizza we could stack pizza boxes from the floor to the ceiling of our kitchen 😂

[@jonbibby9755]

Love that

[@JustMe_OhWell]

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.

[@kamehouseboxing7142]

“Scratching and surviving” 🎶

[@Frosty98206]

Guardian Angel👼.

[@JustMe_OhWell]

@@Frosty98206 Absolutely! 🤗

[@chadcognac5626]

How exactly would you of gotten it for free?

[@Naltddesha]

How would it have been free though? I’m confused

[@Shirazzikkdh]

As a former Dominos employee, if you see the tracker click over to 'Cooking' too quick on the tracker, its mostly about keeping numbers good. Most of the time, if the Manager is good about making sure their product is ready at a realistic time, you won't have to worry about this problem. The tracker is legit, if they prep it in a realistic amount of time. The bump buttons in store do report to the website. The magic time limit for pizza to cook is normally around 8.30-8.45 minutes to cook, have paid attention enough to tell you this reliably. If it takes longer than that on the tracker, then you know someone is spoofing times, or are understaffed so they aren't getting cut when the come out of the oven. Coming from former Delivery person who used to take calls, prep food, and eventually deliver it.

[@themonkeyhand]

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.

[@KnightOfCoco1290]

I love how Julius Caesar says his signature catchphrase at the end of every single ad since the introduction of the slogan "Pizza, Pizza".

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

I remember exactly how the Bigfoot tasted. We got it every weekend until it was discontinued.

[@michaelmcdermott5372]

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.

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

@@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.

[@Tornado1994]

@@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.

[@tim3172]

@@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.

[@DuDe3810]

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.

[@jimmyyu2184]

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. 😍🥰🍕🍕

[@tywebbgolfenthusiast8950]

I do remember the pizza wars. Our town looked like Dresden after WWII when it was over.

[@DeWin157]

Back in '94, I was the opening manager of a Little Caesar's, I made the dough fresh every morning.

[@inconnu4961]

They might be still using up the rest of that batch of dough now! LOL

[@TheBrandonn]

Back in 94, I was the opening manager of my mother 😂

[@DeWin157]

@@TheBrandonn 🙄

[@mudduck754]

Always went with the Little Caesars because it was cheaper, there were kids to feed. Friday night was pizza night. I could spend about 20 bucks and come out with four different pizzas and everyone was happy. Domino's if I didn't feel like driving. And I remember them from when I was a kid in Michigan and they were still Dominick's, back in the days when my parents would order pizza. Or this fantastic thing called Chicken delight. But that's a whole other thing. And I do miss going into a Pizza Hut sitting down having a picture of beer and a cigarette waiting for my pizza.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The Pizza Wars of the 1990s have many parallels to the Burger Wars of the 1980s, where innovation is concerned...

[@junkboxxxxxx]

This has got to be the only video on KZbin where every commenter is happy and none are fighting

[@philiplavery03]

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!

[@Down_the_Wind]

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...

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

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?"

[@philiplavery03]

@@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!

[@Down_the_Wind]

@@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.

[@82pythons85]

You’re a kid, if you’re already feeling nostalgic at this point somethings off.

[@omegaman1409]

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.

[@TonyGearSolid]

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.

[@DesertRainReads]

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!

[@Suetvvlogs]

@TonyHut, what changed is that they went from making their dough in-store to now buying frozen dough and they also change their receipt.

[@Lovelyaribb]

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

[@clarke7637]

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..

[@AdhamOhm]

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.

[@ronbearden935]

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 😊

[@urdnal]

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.

[@inconnu4961]

All hell broke loose? In CANADA? Whoa!

[@urdnal]

@@inconnu4961 Dude, my friend once saw a pizza shop calling themselves _4 -for-1_ Pizza. It was ridiculous.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

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

[@AwwwBeanz]

Yeah, the pizza wars ruined the industry. It made the three companies cut their prices to the point where even today they pay their employees shit. They made the majority of customers think ordering pizza is akin to buying something from a flea market. As someone who ran various Dominos for over a decade, I’m very glad I got away from that life. Edit: Yes the tracker works, but it can be manipulated by the manager if they know what they’re doing. Whatever manager is clocked in will show up as the person making your pizza (typically because they’re the only one working inside) and the name of the driver is accurate too.

[@joegallegos9109]

Ahhh, capitalism. Profits before people. Short term gains over long term benefit.

[@trythinking6676]

I hear you. 8 year vet of Domino's myself.

[@AwwwBeanz]

@@trythinking6676 I still kick myself sometimes for spending nearly 1/3 of my life working 80+ hours a week running stores and thinking it was okay.

[@turdferguson9923]

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!

[@mahna_mahna]

What I wouldn't give for a bag of 1980s Crazy Bread (before they eventually ruined it with cost cutting).

[@PincheBeto_Bass]

What I miss the most is the pizza hut buffet. Feel bad for those who don't know and never will

[@alexalikesrocks]

I’m so impatient! I need more food history, it’s so great!!

[@mordaciousfilms]

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!

[@b3ans4eva]

So that’s how Reggie came up with the Bigfoot pizza.

[@djmidnightwolf]

You forgot Pizza By The Foot at Little Ceasers. Some of the funniest commercials.

[@duncanmoore3780]

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.

[@greywater3186]

Cold supreme LC pizza the next morning was a beautiful thing. You’re right about Peter Piper’s

[@TheBrandonn]

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.

[@thebestcentaur]

Domino’s has stepped up its game IMO, especially in the pan pizza department

[@DesertRainReads]

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.

[@TMC3Official]

I dunno in my area, the little ceasers never disappoints and their cheesy breadsticks are fantastic, really depends on where the chain is unfortunately

[@varedna]

All these years I thought that Little Caesars made the Bigfoot pizza. Now thanks to this video I remember that Little Caesars version was called Pizza by the Foot.

[@stephanieoregan]

Awesome video!! I wonder what WHF can dig up on the candy industry 🤔

[@D-Fens_1632]

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.

[@nemodapimpfish]

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

[@Tornado1994]

Bigfoot did not Taste right. It was often Soggy and Undercooked. I should know, we tried it a few times back in '93.

[@vladyvhv9579]

I was born in 1980, so yeah, I remember hearing about pizza wars... But... I live just outsid of a small farming town that only has Pizza Hut, Sonic, and Subway. We used to have a Dairy Queen, but it's suspected that the owners burned it down for insurance money, as they didn't have the funds to renovate it up to modern standards. Now there's a car wash where that used to be.

[@Brian-wf9xy]

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.

[@taysmith9321]

You were born in the 90s raised in the 00s

[@Attmay]

It’s the decade when America got fat.

[@arneshiabaldwin8335]

@@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

[@xazrael]

"Yeah we don't have Crystal Pepsi, this is Dominos" - subtle.

[@thecooldude4371]

Love ❤️ 💗 💕 the new channel

[@rubiesncreme]

The tracker absolutely does work now, at least. But that's no surprise.

[@thenextrung]

In my humble opinion, Domino’s won the war by introducing buffalo wings.

[@inconnu4961]

i think you are right about this! The buffalo wing craze!

[@thebestcentaur]

And their pan pizza. It’s essentially the only thing I order from them anymore, except when I have a craving for their cheesy bread

[@Darthos3]

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.

[@professorsprout3382]

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.

[@itsmehLily]

I think the quote was from field of dreams, a different Kevin Costner baseball movie

[@Brotherman94]

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.

[@jimpatterson1111]

I worked at Domino’s for years. In 1986, Domino's Scaled Back The Late-Order Policy To $3 Off Instead Of A Free Pizza. Domino's scaled back the "30 minutes or it's free" guarantee in 1986. Instead of giving customers a free pizza after 30 minutes, the company began giving a $3 discount for late pizzas. If you are taking about the nineties, then it was 30 minutes or $3 off.

[@agentofashcroft]

Nothing better for business than pitting your lowest paid, most overworked employees against your customers

[@inconnu4961]

@@agentofashcroft Dont you have a tree to hug or something? Yes, we get it. YOU hate capitalism! Thats why you havent moved to Cuba yet! We are being nostalgic here; not doing an economics dissertation on worker's rights. Please follow along.

[@Tornado1994]

I worked for Dominos in 2001,2005,2009 and 2020-21. 2005 was the Year ALL Pizza Chains eliminated Free Delivery for good. The ("30 Minutes or $3 off was discontinued in 1992).

[@edgardeitz5746]

I just noticed something - the 1980's was the burger war between McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. The 1990's was the pizza wars between Pizza Hut, Domino's and Little Ceasar's. What fast food triad battled it out in the 1970's? The 1960's? The 2000's? The 2010's? EDIT - McDonald's and Pizza Hut were number 1. Burger King and Domino's were no. 2. Dispite being no. 3, Wendy's and Little Ceasar's caught up quickly... EDIT - Little Ceasar's, like Wendy's, offered more food - the burger patties were bigger and square shaped, while the pizzas were more plentiful...

[@AmericaLexicon]

Of the nearly hundred celebrities that ate pizza backwards, I liked your choice of who to show doing it.

[@ShaneRimmerWorld]

For a short while, Little Caesars had a giant round pizza - well, giant for them at 18". Fun fact about Little Caesars versus Pizza Hut from back then - Little Caesars pizzas were 10", 12", and 14" for the small, medium, and large while Pizza Hut was 12", 14", and 16", IIRC - that's part of how Little Caesars could offer two pizzas for the price of one. That and pretty strict portion control. Anyway, the Big! Big! Cheese was two large pan pizzas bumped together in the same box to look like one really big pizza at my store. I don't recall what they called it, I think it was the giant or something like that, but they introduced an 18" round pizza during that time. The interesting thing about it was that it was cooked on a big screen while the hand tossed pizzas were cooked in round pans with cornmeal sprinkled in them and the pan pizzas were cooked in vegetable oil coated square pans. To me, it made for a much better tasting pizza crust, but it didn't last long before Corporate when on to the next gimmick. Believe it or not, but most Little Caesars locations back then made the dough and ground the cheese in the stores instead of getting frozen dough or packaged shredded cheese. The cheese was a mix of mozzarella and muenster. The garlic butter for the crazy bread, though, came in jugs and the cheese that went on them was pretty much a 50-50 mix of parmesan cheese and kosher salt.

[@MagdaleneDivine]

I miss the Pizza Wars. They were delicious and I was poor.

[@michaelmcdermott5372]

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.

[@MadamFoogie]

Aww yiss. I distinctly remember The Bigfoot Pizza. My parents would order it once a week, and eat on it as lunches for the following week. I liked it, because it came with so many of those little plastic box top holders, which I used as tables when playing with my toys. As far as flavor, I mostly recall picking off those nasty green bell peppers. Other than that it was acceptable to a child's pallet. These days, Pizza Hut is my least favorite on the list, but it was exciting back then. I prefer a regional chain now.

[@shredded_lettuce]

I got to speak as an external guest at an internal conference for Domino’s software engineers (yes, the lunch at the event was Domino’s…”corporate” ordered from the nearest franchise and actually paid them money for it 😂) and got to talk to some of the people that work on the pizza tracker. I’m not sure how real the pizza tracker was in 2008, but I know I was really impressed with the tech behind it in 2022. I think there is still some potential for human error (and bugs as all hardware/software has) because I think some of it is updated manually but the parts of it that are automated are very functional and actually pretty cool.

[@NewMessage]

The Noid needs to answer for his war crimes!

[@Attmay]

He never will. He agreed to a plea bargain to avoid being indicted in The Hague.

[@happybuttersblast8334]

I remember how the bigfoot pizza tasted, its basically the pizza you get in the pizza box they sell today. i mean now you have to basically get the sides in the box with it, but the pizza is just like that of the old Big Foot pizza.

[@rappingtoad6168]

As a person born in 2000, I can confirm the Pizza War of the 90's left an impact on us

[@javiermontiero4982]

I hope to see Weird History Food eventually do a video on the idiotic "chicken sandwich wars"

[@Attmay]

Hey, they didn’t call him Colonel Sanders for nothing!

[@HR-wd6cw]

The sad thing (or maybe good thing) is that at least around me (in the midwest) Pizza Hut lost out to Little Caesars and Dominos. I mean it's probably for the better, as the last time I ate in both of the "local" Pizza Huts, the pizza was horrible. Almost like eating cheese of a piece of cardboard. I would still rank the top two to be Domino's as #1 and Little Caesar's as #2. But with Domino's recent promotions of $7 or $8 pizzas, I almost find it to be more worthwhile than the somewhat plain pizzas that Little Caesar's offers for $6 (which is really only 3 types: cheese, sausage and pepperoni. If you want anything more, it adds to the cost to a point where you might as well get Dominos, which IMO tastes better than Little Caesars.)

[@infin1ty850]

Domino's resurgence also needs to be heavily contributed to updating their recipe on the 00s.