The best soda you ever drank was served in these cups, and it was placed beside the best pizza you ever ate.

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EngineeringStreet862@reddit

And you never had a 100% full grip on them if you were eating pizza 😂😂😂

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Zogstrukka@reddit

I miss those so bad. My Grandma had a full set at home. The texture was amazing.

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leerrooyyjenkins69@reddit

I can still taste the slight bit of chlorine.

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LeadingSure6805@reddit

Don’t forget about the best arcade ever in the same building

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zach_fl@reddit

Oh yeah that pizza so deliciously greasy…… you could feel it go straight to your heart!

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priceynutrition9255@reddit

pizza hut arcade was undefeated fr, those red cups hit different with the grease on your fingers lmao

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punkminkis@reddit

My modern day version, the Gurpler from the Regulation Podcast. This particular model is temperature sensitive, and turns red when it gets cold. I have several of these.

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Thorkitten@reddit

I had to scroll way to far to find a gurpler!

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ActualWhiterabbit@reddit

That's because many people are like me and would rather die than be a comment leaver

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-DementedAvenger-@reddit

Heyyy! I also have this one!

I have the OG purple and green FF, and a few black ones too. Took me too long to see if anyone would mention a gurpler. Haha

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SpecialistMorning660@reddit

Aroma Pizzeria on Kearny Avenue in Kearny NJ back in the 70’s!!

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Depends on region I think. These were used at my local pizzeria. Family owned. They had Coke products, but they also had A&W & Orange Crush, which I preferred.

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YourOwnPunkyBrewster@reddit

And with your own special ‘suicide’ mix of all the fountain sodas

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Affectionate_Fig9398@reddit

Yes yesss yessssss birch beer - Omgoodness do you have a Time Machine for a Pizza Hut bday party with unlimited birch beer ?

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Hobbit1955@reddit

Not true!! I have definitely drank beer in them in the early 70's!!! 😁

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Purple-Protagonist@reddit

Which means you were an adult before the people this sub caters to were born.

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johnvalley86@reddit

He may have been five at the time but in the years to follow I was drinking soda out of those cups at the local five and dime

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IAm5toned@reddit

I remember them serving pitchers up into the mid 80s! We Are Legion!

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Top-Elephant-2874@reddit

lol my bad! All beverages welcome in the red plastic cup.

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AeonBith@reddit

Yeesh you can still buy these from restaurant supply stores. I just might

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kamperx2@reddit

I see you are a fellow person of high class! I've found my daily water intake increase 10 fold since my acquisition. It simply tastes better.

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kalitarios@reddit

and lightly powdered in the flour circulating in the air around the restaurant

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DocFuckinCochran@reddit

That’s what memories do, it’s just a cup.

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That-Moment3422@reddit

Bonanza steakhouse for us Gen X crowd

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aytchdave@reddit

I just had the most satisfyingly painful burp out of nowhere.

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e30cabrio@reddit

Shakeys Pizza just east of Santa Monica on Olympic. Worked there at 16 in 1978.

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Ill_Amount6549@reddit

So true, I remember drinking from these in Western Sizzler back when I was but a wee lad

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GnaeusPompeiusMagn@reddit

This is what we have in our house. I’ve dropped them 200 times , half of which were on purpose.

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SwitchItUp84@reddit

I have the clear and light blue cambro cups, as our normal cups. they are immortal! cambro still sells the red last I saw in case you need new cups lol

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Throwaway10123456@reddit

I grew up poor as hell and Book it at the Hut was the only time we could afford to eat out. Good times

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rpgmgta@reddit

We never ate out unless it was McDonald’s. Or if we went to a birthday party.

My older cousin who lived in the city had a birthday party once at the organ grinder and it was in fact the best pizza and sprite I’ve ever had in my life. I think I was 5

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

I've said this before, Book It was a God send for us low income families back then.

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OkBiscotti1140@reddit

Yes! And the hours of entertainment provided by the noise made when I scritchy scratched my nails over the holographic button.

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CyanideOnyx@reddit

Really should bring this type of thing back. These tiktok brain rot kids need to read a damned book.

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dodge84@reddit

Pretty sure it is back:

https://www.bookitprogram.com/

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

Facts. Too bad certain parties are defunding PBS and education in general.

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thereticent@reddit

My parents worked at Pizza Hut for so long that they couldn't stand the smell. BUT, for Book It we would go. I felt like Jerome!

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sterlingemc@reddit

Same, We always had to get the clear cups cuz the water was free, Still filled it with soda though!

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wow i forgot that's why my mom used to take me to pizza hut as a kid. she felt pizza hut was way too expensive generally, but it was my favorite pizza. we mostly ate lil caesars... genuinely disgusting pizza

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Kalinoz@reddit

I read SO MANY books...

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Kinetic_Silverwolf@reddit

I was reading three to five books a week, all borrowed from the town library, to Book It. I saved my poor mom so much money that year... 😅

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Cipher915@reddit

Not in gas

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

Fun fact. Whenever we went we were always in the “you’re getting water with your bookit pizza” because we were also poor as hell. One day the server replaced my water with Dr. Pepper and that’s when I learned I loved Dr. Pepper.

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ThaNotoriousBLG@reddit

Same here. Book it was the only way.

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codeprimate@reddit

Core memory.

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Rosiepieinthesky@reddit

I love Book It soooo much!!!

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kll3412@reddit

Also poor as hell and never got to eat out! Those Book It pizzas were the best.

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ihatecleaningtoilets@reddit

Same 😊

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Accomplished-Bee6892@reddit

I remember those Bookit pizzas. We usually got pizza from one of the local places, so it was cool. We would go out occasionally , but not to Pizza Hut. I think it was because they didn't have margaritas.

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Minute_Upstairs1458@reddit

Well, maybe not that last part.

I’m from the CT/NY border. lol. But I did love The Hut growing up.

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Manymarbles@reddit

Holy moly the nostalgia brain in this topic is off the charts lawl

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landsharkmark@reddit

My gf actually uses one of these cups as her daily water cup, it's her favorite cup we own lol.

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AnthonyG70@reddit

several in kitchen...

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unruly-leprechaun@reddit

Pizza buffets and finishing the book reading paper for bookit in order to get your personal pan pizza , watching my dad put way to much red pepper flakes on his slice of pizza . Mr Pib was my favorite drink at pizza hut

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muhredditone@reddit

I wonder if anybody makes some really nice glass versions of this. lol. I think I'm really just a kid inside.

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cooper3675@reddit

I buy those off amozon

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Subject_Swimmer9333@reddit

Heck yeah.

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Better_Power_9913@reddit

The pizza was mediocre at best and Pepsi is Pepsi

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No_Break_503@reddit

Still rockin’ this vibe at Abby’s Pizza

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Freckles-75@reddit

Agreed

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BlindMouse2of3@reddit

A little of every flavor soda if you don't mind 🤣

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No-Camera1096@reddit

Swamp water

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BlaineWinchester@reddit

Called it a suicide.

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ZRoflWaffle@reddit

Swamp water where im from

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nothingwascool@reddit

We called it graveyard soda

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Gravedigger was our name.

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derpsalot1984@reddit

My uncle's called it bong water and we got in so much trouble for saying that... LMAO I was 5

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GuerillaRiot@reddit

Weird, we called it the kamikaze.

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jdsmith575@reddit

We would add sugar packets, until I accidentally added powdered creamer.

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JonnyQuest1981@reddit

My stomach sure thought so. Only did that twice and fool me once…

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rearwindowpup@reddit

To this day my wife looks at me in disgust when I do this, but on the rare occasion Im at a place with a soda fountain this is my go-to.

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Romulan-Jedi@reddit

The Coca-Cola freestyle machines are the best.

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Archer007@reddit

Unholy drink cloaca

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unicorn-beard@reddit

As a middle age man I do this but only with the diet/zero sugar sodas now.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

We called that the Gravedigger.

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darling63@reddit

Shakeys Pizza had these cups and with a few games of free (hacked with coin on string) DonkeyKong in the back!

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photopaul65@reddit

No one else has been able to duplicate that crispy, chewy, most delicious burnt cheese edge of the Pizza Hit Pan Pizza.

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NicePsy-opAttempt@reddit

This is correct 👌

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Zodep@reddit

I can smell the smoke and sweat from the restaurants with these cups.

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LiquidPoet93@reddit

This is a cup right here...

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MuleGrass@reddit

Now I want papa ginos

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amoreenero@reddit

The best!!!

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Fun_Muscle_796@reddit

I bought a six pack of these cups and they are for soda only. And they mandatory pizza night must haves for my family.

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Sukuyan@reddit

Hounddog's Pizza

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zablockifeller@reddit

Are those new? If memory serves, every Pizza Hut cup had been used a a sanding device

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jdb30a@reddit

I miss a good pizza buffet and salad bar.

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WickedlyAvocado@reddit

Still have these at a local pizza shop… then I ordered my own set on Amazon!!

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EducationalAssist739@reddit

Im remembering why I’ve deleted so many accounts.

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stupajidit@reddit

when pizza hut had the 4.99 all-u-can-eat in the 90s 😭

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sisyphus_was_lazy_10@reddit

Plus, let’s not forget the book-it program. It pushed a whole generation towards reading.

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Sad-Ad4705@reddit

Extra bonus off its a buffet 🍕

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rolL_uP_one_more@reddit

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Especially when it was FREE and just for you

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Zephyringo@reddit

I love a Tony Kahn in the wild!

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Zephyringo@reddit

Mine was birch beer! I remember being so thrilled that my mom let me order actual beer! I thought I was hot shit!

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a_seventh_knot@reddit

i worked as a driver for pizza hut in college, still have one or two of those cups floating around my house.

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PipeTaker309@reddit

Pizza Hut

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TunnelSnakesAintShit@reddit

Best pizza place? As a kid, sure. Went there all the time to redeem those free pizza vouchers for reading. As an adult, Domino's dominates.

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HowOtterlyTerrible@reddit

Almost. The pizza place had these cups but they were clear, not red.

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FocusPerspective@reddit

They were red

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HowOtterlyTerrible@reddit

Not my local shop

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CarmenxXxWaldo@reddit

red >clear. It blocks flavor destroying light waves or something im sure.

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UrbanSafariGuide@reddit

That's probably true on some level, but I'm sure the beverage will not be in the cup long enough for that to be a problem.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Sorry about your traumatic childhood.

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murkymist@reddit

Pizza Hut!

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1pt20oneggigawatts@reddit

Pizzeria Uno > Pizza Hut

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SpookyGhostSplooge@reddit

I can feel the subtle hint of grease on these.

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unicorn-beard@reddit

Extra bonus if there was a teenage ninja mutant ninja turtle arcade game in there

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DPTDubbs@reddit

Nah ours was old school. Golden Axe.

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KillysgungoesBLAME@reddit

Gauntlet, Ms. Pac Man and Paperboy were the three at our local childhood pizza place. Lots of teenagers would come in to play Gauntlet together.

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No-Salary-4786@reddit

Truly old school was the sit down double Pac-Man tables.

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grover1233@reddit

Thats what I remember.

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SirKermit@reddit

Our Hut had Pole Position.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

Indeed. The first video game I ever played was a Ms. Pac-Man table game.

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RamenRoy@reddit

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CantaloupeAsleep502@reddit

Arkanoid here in North Florida lol

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unicorn-beard@reddit

I've never heard of that but I just looked it up and honestly it looks amazing

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ThePerfectSnare@reddit

Ah! They had Golden Axe at the local laser tag place. It always fascinated me but I never made it further than a single quarter could get me. Thanks for the reminder of a deep memory.

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HijackedMyAccount@reddit

Wise fwom yowr gwave!

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kamshaft11975@reddit

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corduroy@reddit

Castlevania / Goonies II here

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HorsePersonal7073@reddit

Galaga

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RamenRoy@reddit

WWF Wrestlefest for me. Had two of them near me. The dark sketchy backroom of a convenience store that was also like, the store owners apartment and at the roller rink.

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ghostfromtheshell@reddit

Samurai Shodown or Primal Rage. TMNT would of been dope

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OomPapaMeowMeow@reddit

Ours had Primal Rage AND Killer Instinct.

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SinnersHotline@reddit

Mortal Kombat plz

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clueless_sconnie@reddit

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auntiepink007@reddit

Ours had Pac-Man. We'd sit there and pretend to run the controls while it ran the intro program. We never had a quarter for a game.

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Donniejuanny@reddit

I was always questioning the kid acting like he was playing but with no money in the machine and wasting our precious time to play that stupid game

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unicorn-beard@reddit

That's... a bummer. I'm sorry :(

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neurovish@reddit

SpyHunter and Aliens

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NopeNahNoMore@reddit

We had Indiana Jones!

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Anieya@reddit

For me it was the jukebox.

Loved it as a kid, and loved it as a waitresses cleaning up after we closed. No Diggity was the jam lol

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ShakespearianShadows@reddit

Ms PAC Man / Galaga table

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BlueDotNE@reddit

We actually had a sit down Little Caesars in my hometown of Gaylord, MI. I remember it had a WWF wrestling game with the Big Bossman as one of the characters you could play. Started with that "Say No To Drugs" popup. At any rate, the games at that place took tokens, and the servers wore orange aprons, and they had pockets. And in those magical pockets? TOKENS. They would just GIVE YOU TOKENS. This would have been mid to late 80s. I'm 48 now and I can CLEARLY conjure that core memory.

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kjbolin@reddit

Our Pizza King had Popeye!

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tlivingd@reddit

Ours had Ivan Stewart Off-Road then replaced it with the arcade NeoGeo with multiple games available.

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LE878@reddit

We had World Heroes lol

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redit01@reddit

Or dressed up as one

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kalitarios@reddit

the chck-chck, chck-chck of the slide bowling coinop game

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CrahEgg@reddit

Ninja Gaiden.

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revel911@reddit

Centipede and dig dug here with a jukebox playing CCR

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madredr1@reddit

Ours had UN Squadron. I loved UN Squadron

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Sam81818@reddit

Or The Simpsons

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

I dropped many a quarter in that beast

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QSlade@reddit

Fun story about these cups. I do something g called Amazon Vine. Amazon will send you free products to review. I saw these on the list as an option to order one time and thought “hell yeah about to grab a nice set of old school Pizza Hut cups”. Well, little did I know the order wasn’t for a set…it was for a bulk box of 75 red plastic cups. I still have almost a whole box of these in my basement lol

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witchywitch_@reddit

And everything smelled like cigarettes

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Conflicted_1960@reddit

Those were the days Pizza Hut will never be as good as it once was

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chefboyardoug@reddit

My wife got me 4 of these cups for Christmas the other year. It's one of my favorite Christmas presents ever.

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dontshitaboutotol@reddit

Mello yellow

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venkman_00@reddit

DINE IN PIZZA HUTS. Pan Pizza, baked wings, not that wing street BS, the salad bar, and the arcades. Those were the golden days

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blondeviking64@reddit

And arcade cabinets were present

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GratefuLdPhisH@reddit

I'm pretty sure that I've had better pizza in my life than Straw hat's but you're absolutely right it's definitely my best memories I've had from any pizza parlor

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GStarAU@reddit

I STILL maintain that Coke tastes better in glasses rather than plastic cups!

Seems to go flat really quickly when it's surrounded by plastic. Eww.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Definitely.

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Feralest_Baby@reddit

After months of tinkering, last week I made a pizza at home that tasted like I read books all summer to get it. Maybe I should buy some of these cups now.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Buy these cups, and Judy Blume and Jack London books.

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nampezdel@reddit

Godfather’s Pizza?

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Godfathers, Cici, Local joints, etc. Whatever makes you smile fondly.

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bugorama_original@reddit

The best part was to make a "graveyard" by mixing ALL the soda options into one of those cups at once! (Except you had to skip orange and/or grape soda, because that would have made it WEIRD.)

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

We called it gravedigger, lol.

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Taptrick@reddit

If you’re implying that Pizza Hut was “best pizza” you are completely delusional. Sorry, nostalgia is powerful and I know you’re being a bit facetious but let’s be real, it’s mass produced pizza from a chain. It’s perfectly fine, but nowhere close to being “the best”.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

I am not. My local pizzeria as a kid used these. It was a one restaurant family business. Inwas referring to all of our beloved local spots that were low maintenance with great pizza.

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Ghost_412345@reddit

On sundays

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Melodic-Comb9076@reddit

just the contour of those cups…

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TrainerObjective4593@reddit

Tantrum on tap was amazing

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grover1233@reddit

Pizza hut was the bomb. Now its trash. I loved the Hut on a Friday and playing videos games

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Worldly-Respond-4965@reddit

I can still taste the plastic.

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JiGoD@reddit

Used to have a summer bungalow in a small town. Italian place didn't have cherry coke. They would bring out these glasses half filled with cherries from the bar and topped off with ice cold coke. Made me feel like a king.

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mightyfp@reddit

You can buy these. They're $14/6 - Carlisle 521610 Stackable 16 oz. Ruby SAN Plastic Tumbler

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EbanKi@reddit

No

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DatDudeFreddie@reddit

We talking Cici's pizza??

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os_beef@reddit

The best soda you ever drank was served in these cups, and it was placed beside the best pizza you ever ate.

Honestly no. The best pizza was from My Pizza in Morgan Hill, CA. It was the Chicken Masterpiece, and no one who hasn't had it will get it. It's not your average "white sauce" pizza. I don't know what it is, but it's magic. We always brought it home and ate it.

When I still lived in the area but had moved out of town, I'd travel about 60 miles just to pick one up. I'd eat half of the first one before I got home, and share the rest with my wife over the next several days. I still haven't found anything that compares.

Unfortunately the quality has gone down over the years, but it's still better than literally any other joint in the Bay Area.

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TRSTAR2000@reddit

I can still hear these cups bouncing on the floor

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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

It's definitely a big core memory, along with the Pac-Man arcade table.

But the best pizza I had as a kid was Anthony's (AAFES).

And as a college student, I spent way too much time and money at Bellacino's.

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Ecto-DMC@reddit

True deep dish in the scalding hot pan 😋

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Easy-Revolution1936@reddit

The Hut!!!

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mbob4068@reddit

Reminds me of when I would go to Pizza Hut as a child 😂

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GemberNeutraal@reddit

And you would make a heinous potion mixing all of the sodas together (my favourite combo was one part dr. Pepper, one part root beer and two parts iced tea)

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MasterDave@reddit

TBH if you've never had better pizza than Pizza Hut in your adult life of 35-40 years, you need to travel more.

Please travel more. Please see the rest of the world. I promise there is a lot of amazing pizza out there and you didn't have the best pizza of your life when you were 12.

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danlost40@reddit

Yes

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HouseHead78@reddit

Actually that pizza was ass and we didn’t know better. Pizza today is so much better.

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Chalupa_Dad@reddit

Yeah, I get the nostalgia, but even in the '90s, no one was calling Pizza Hut their favorite pizza...

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mosesoperandi@reddit

Took me a minute of scrolling to get here. The best pizza I've had falls in two categories. First, the truly great New York slices. For me this was primarily 2003 to 2005, but that's just an accident of when I lived in NYC. Those slices existed before and still exist. The second is since the mid 2000's but really starting in the 2010's when the whole wood fired gourmet pizza trend fully caught. 1980's pizza parlor slices don't even make my top 10.

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Hairy_Ad_8347@reddit

Bought two of these cups in a thrift store by my house a few years back with the Coca Cola logo in them. I use them for my root beer floats.

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NoMoreNoise305@reddit

Oh, the days off the pizza buffet 🤣

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source_finder_2@reddit

The G.O.A.T of cups.

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2cats18@reddit

No

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Deut008@reddit

Ok, is anyone else a psycho like me and dipped their crust in their root beer? Just me? Ok, I’ll see myself out.

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SGT-Hooves@reddit

It was a good day when I discovered you can still buy these. Those old Corel plates are pretty cheap in the flea markets too.

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Wtygrrr@reddit

Those aren’t McDonald’s cups.

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Phoniceau@reddit

Damn. That’s the truth.

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Fox_Corn@reddit

Cici ya later

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GeeWilakers420@reddit

Cici's Pizza. Ewwww no.

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fuppedduck2@reddit

As many have stated on here, I also had many many pizzas from the Book It program. I wonder if there are any stats of how many books were read by kids with this program.

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Slappah_Dah_Bass@reddit

Shakey's brunch with my grandma and cousins!

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Yourfaceis-23@reddit

I still have one of these cups. I use it to scoop my dog food lol

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GarciaWolf@reddit

Best soda yes best pizza no, when you are leaving a show at the TLA in Philly and Lorenzo’s is open across the street.. best pizza

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cahillc134@reddit

Aren't these bowling alley cups? Ours didn't have pizza.

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BilingualClothes27@reddit

Childhood memory unlocked!!!

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nightdrv@reddit

I have 6 of those cups. The company that made them then still makes them today.

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Electrical-Donut-854@reddit

Round table!

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KeyNefariousness6848@reddit

I have a few of those cups lol. They make everything taste better.

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alwaus@reddit

Pizza so greasy you could rub it on a brick wall and it would make the bricks transparent.

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Fine-Procedure-6374@reddit

why is this actually so true 😭 i swear soda in these hits different for no reason… i remember going to a random pizza spot as a kid and thinking it was the best drink i’d ever had, like something about those cups just unlocks a whole different flavor lol

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BannanaPepperPizza@reddit

The only carbonated soda I've ever had has been in these glasses.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

Then you have either been truly blessed, or don't drink soda.

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hereforpopcornru@reddit

Or prefers their sodas flat.. unlikely but..non zero chance

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keyserdoe@reddit

Well the Soda was probably a bit different then and the pizza was definitely better and cannabutter the stoner pizza guy coated your pizza in probably helped.

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GoalResponsible575@reddit

They sell them on TikTok shop! They’re my kids’ favorites!

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Lumpymaximus@reddit

Yeah. Whay the hell happened to pizza hut. It used to be the king

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

Back when all pizza places were restaurants that happened to deliver.

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DiddlersWillGetGot@reddit

lol no they weren’t. I know this sub is a nostalgic circlejerk but least get shit right.

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CarmenxXxWaldo@reddit

The best ones are where the kitchen area with the pizza oven is 80% of the shop. Theres an arcade game and one or two booths along the wall that can fit 1.5 people per side, and you never see anyone use them.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I loved it when random places had an arcade game: Gas stations, pizza places, even Arby’s had Joust. Those were the days.

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DiddlersWillGetGot@reddit

No it wasn’t

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WendyPortledge@reddit

I may have been the only kid that hated Pizza Hut.

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Substantial-Dingo-64@reddit

Funny enough, my workplace's cafeteria (non food, daycare esque) uses these cups and my first thought was Pizza Hut.

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Shackonthehill403@reddit

If you say so, kinda bossy.

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mprieur@reddit

Pizza Delight

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ShakeItUpNowSugaree@reddit

I may or may not have one of those cups in my kitchen cabinet right now...

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InsuranceJerk@reddit

The breadsticks

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Atrocious1337@reddit

Pizza Hut used to have the best pizza, but they chose cheaper ingredients, and their pizza tastes like cardboard now.

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Spicedaddy90@reddit

Pizza hut buffet on a Sunday after church as a kid hit different

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Fight_those_bastards@reddit

And that pizza was free because I read a shitload of books!

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0x18@reddit

Oh hell yes. I was a "gifted" child (nowadays just a regular smartass) that picked up reading early on. My elementary school's principal set a minimum page limit just for me, after I spent one recess on a rainy day just blowing through a dozen books in the school library. Like... I was reading the unabridged Hunchback of Notre Dame in 4th grade while my classmates were struggling with Goosebumps.

I once threw a small party at home, just sharing a bunch of those free pizza coupons I had stashed.

Swimming in free pizza: the best of childhood memories.

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chud_wik@reddit

I don’t recall this.

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Adept_Resolve6156@reddit

Weirdly specific and absolutely correct.

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elgigantedelsur@reddit

Bro the best fizzy I ever drank was straight out of a 2 litre bottle no cup

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--pobodysnerfect--@reddit

I remember these at Pizza Hut. There's a house near mine that looks like an old Pizza Hut. I drive by it on purpose just for the nostalgia.

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JerrysKIDney@reddit

Most buffets are nasty, but pizza buffet got my name written all over it

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flippant_setup@reddit

Those red cups hit different when you're a kid at a pizza place, something about that combo just worked.

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Epuni@reddit

Godfather's Pizza in Surey, BC. $5 all you can eat.

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Cptawesome23@reddit

Oh yes

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ZRoflWaffle@reddit

That's a regulation cup right there

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Larry-Lasagna@reddit

Go buy a Gurple

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King_Corduroy@reddit

We used to go to a place up in Wisconsin called "The Old Country Buffet" pretty good place but they made you pay per drink which was annoying. If you didn't want to pay you could have water but you got the red cups, my family dubbed these "The Cup of Shame". LOL

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

I'm originally from WI! Yes, that was the other place.

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CoffeeHQ@reddit

Nope, that’s strictly an American thing.

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Logical_Stomach_9053@reddit

I remember when the waitress would bring the pizza and cut it for you.

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derpsalot1984@reddit

Oh God and those bread sticks. My mom was a waitress at a Pizza Hut in the late 80-early 90s... Omg those were the days

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userhwon@reddit

That isn't what best means.

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APNX-23@reddit

Umm no. Not even as a kid did i obsess over the food that was served to me on cheap plastic and paper by a corporation who was extracting as much value out of its employees as it could get away with. Why are so many of you obsessed with corporate food? No wonder so many of you are obese.

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1TakeFrank@reddit

https://www.bookitprogram.com/

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BBYarbs@reddit

We had these at Noble Roman's too!

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1TakeFrank@reddit

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lacrimaldrainage@reddit

You must be joking

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ObjectiveSense2307@reddit

im drinking out of this cup right now as we speak. they sell em on amazon. best cups i own. f glass lol

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FocusPerspective@reddit

This is correct.

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andbeesbk@reddit

Looks pretty ~Regulation~ to me

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jdallen1222@reddit

Best pizza you ever had if you only eat at chain restraunts.

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Affectionate-Goat218@reddit

Round Table Pizza!!!

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FacePalmTheater@reddit

Pizza Inn in the 90s. Best pizza I ever had. Had a galaga machine and I used to put Rush on the jukebox and play my ass off. All with a big red cup of root beer.

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neomatrixj2@reddit

https://a.co/d/003LMGUn

I use these for iced coffee at my sister's house hits the spot

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montana757@reddit

Even better than the pizza were the brownies and cinnamon rolls

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Tupperbaby@reddit

No, and HELL no.

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lexi_andy611@reddit

Pizza hut 🛖 ☺️

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Eziekiel23_20@reddit

Worked at Pizza Hut when I was 16. Surprised I don’t have diabetes from all the free drinks from those things.

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switheld@reddit

the texture on those cups were divine

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blue-marmot@reddit

Pizza Hut used to be so good. WTF happened to them?

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RokkakuPolice@reddit

15 bucks on Amazon worth it

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HillBillyMadman@reddit

Disgusting.

I've a terrible memory of this place. I like, haaaaate pizza. And on my 11th birthday, after a birthday party, the family decides "We're going out to celebrate with dinner." Fully watched my face just drop as we pull into this fucking restaurant parking lot. Like...it's MY birthday and you take me out to a place I can't eat a thing? C'mon.

I don't have a relationship with any of them nowadays.

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Mrwoogy01@reddit

Fun fact: you can buy those tumblers (they aren't really dishwasher safe btw)

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TheBackSpin@reddit

Often a reward for the best books we’ve ever read

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JackHilley@reddit

“Pizza Hut has struggled to stay relevant in the digital age, which is likely the real reason it started to disappear. Another one of the losses is the chain's classic red plastic cups. But thanks to a retro marketing push, the cups made a brief comeback.” - Mashed

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ModeatelyIndependant@reddit

Soda yea, but CiCi's pizza was never that great.

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Soggy_Porpoise@reddit

Ugh no

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toxikola@reddit

There used to be a Ryan's Buffet by our house growing up. My parents would take me there a lot. Man I miss that place.

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DontAbideMendacity@reddit

Pizza Hut pizza may be pizza adjacent, but it wasn't good pizza let alone the "best pizza you ever ate." Let me guess: you're in he midwest?

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evanweb546@reddit

RIP old school dinning room style Pizza Hut.

Now all Pizza Hut does is give me diarrhea...

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KentStater@reddit

Stumbled on this one in central Florida last week. Apparently Pizza Hut is redesigning some locations to be ‘classic’ style

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Dombat927@reddit

But is the pizza classic style? The crap the one near us puts out is what childhood dreams dying tastes like.

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

To get the original taste you have to order Original Pan from locations that serve it.

I found an original Red Roof Pizza Hut back in 2024 off the interstate while traveling through Missouri. I got a large half cheese half sausage, Best pizza I'd had in years.

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redditbing@reddit

There is a growing collection of Pizza Hut Classic restaurants trying to bring back the original style. Here is a site that tracks them

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

Well, and disappointment

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evanweb546@reddit

Diarrhea IS pretty disappointing.

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HikingTom51@reddit

Depends (no pun intended) on what I ate to get the diarrhea.

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Prudent_Valuable603@reddit

Round Table Pizza, West Portal hood, San Francisco, Ca, in the 1980s.

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Criticaltundra777@reddit

Pizza Hut lunch pizza and salad bar.

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elevencharles@reddit

And if you got your friends to lift up the edge of the linoleum table cloth into a little trough, you could pour your drink into some unfortunate kid’s lap at the end of the table.

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fadedspark@reddit

We have one in our bathroom for brushing our teeth. We are mid 30s lol

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CranberryLess6399@reddit

Our Godfather's Pizza still uses these, and they still have one of the best (chain) pizzas out there.

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I_aim_to_sneeze@reddit

You can buy these on Amazon btw. I own 6 giant ones. They’re the only cups I use

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JacoRamone@reddit

Bookit

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ks_Moose@reddit

Why did I read this in Tyler Durden‘s voice?

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hamster_13@reddit

https://www.amazon.com/Enterprises-6616-1-R-EC-Plastic-Tumblers-Pack/dp/B07BJ4MGQ1/?th=1

If you'd like to own your own.

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

I will always love those cups.

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Vox_Mortem@reddit

Root beer is the best soda with pizza, and I will die on that hill. Ice cold root beer with crushed ice in red plastic cups with a Pizza Hut pan pizza. Best meal ever.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

A&W or Barq's

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Eldrake@reddit

A&W Supremacy

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cupcake_burglary@reddit

Barqs for sure

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systemhost@reddit

Root beer is what I immediately thought back to when seeing these cups.

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yeeah_suree@reddit

yup come join us at r/bigcups

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No-Hospital559@reddit

Carlisle cups. I have a set that I use everyday. They used to be made in texas but I think they are made in Mexico now.

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illbedeadbydawn@reddit

Fuck Carlisle and Amazon.

THESE are the OG.

Still made in Long Beach CA after 70+ years.

No im not a Cambro employee, just a SoCal chef.

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systemhost@reddit

Yeah, Cambro is the OG of restaurant and catering supply.

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No-Hospital559@reddit

Well thanks, I didn’t know these existed. I always thought Carlisle was what to get because every restaurant I worked at used them. The quality is not as good anymore.

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illbedeadbydawn@reddit

Yeah, when they moved manufacturing out they dropped in quality. The Cambro ones are rock solid. They make that SUPER loud clunk on the floor when you drop them and everything.

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WasteOfBerries@reddit

Cheers!

The future is clear, just ask Pepsi & Van Halen

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A_Raven_Of_Many_Hats@reddit

The Gurpler, anyone?

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Subject_Goat@reddit

The best soda I ever drank was served in glass.

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hackermannn01@reddit

I still like these specific kinds of cups so much, I bought some for my kitchen! All good memories tired to em.

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NebulaRat@reddit

When the crust coming out of that pan was perfectly crispy but still chewy. Man, why'd they have to mess that up so bad.

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notthatguypal6900@reddit

They made Pepsi better than Coke, can't explain.

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SaurinF@reddit

The personal pizza for getting your reading assignments done was so great.

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thethreadkiller@reddit

The bar next to my house uses these cups. A few have made there way back here over the years

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QualityAlternative22@reddit

Pizza Huuuuuuut, makin’ it great!!

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Razgriz224@reddit

Dr pepper at Tontis Pizza parker colorado

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Different-Local4284@reddit

The restaurants that used these cups had smoking sections which made everything taste like cigerettes

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AI_Aint_So_Bad@reddit

All cheese or maybe pepperoni, pan pizza at Pizza Hut. IN PERSON ONLY!! Every other place beat them in delivery taste, but not in person. SO MUCH MELTED CHEESE!!

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eastbayted@reddit

Root beer, pizza, and arcade games

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k2j2@reddit

I got a 16 pack of these at the restaurant store a few years ago.

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Sumthin-Sumthin44692@reddit

I mean, no. The pizza place I used to go to where I remember these cups had a C rating with the Health Department and their pizza reflected that grade.

The arcade was great and I do have very fond memories, but let’s not let the nostalgia get carried away.

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Societyman1878@reddit

The pizza was wonderfully warm and delicious.

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Drummer_WI@reddit

Sitting next to me now .. 😬👌

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

Yeah I've got one myself, the rest of mine walked off with various adult family members who didn't ask.

I bought them to have pizza & movie nights with my nephews.

It will be awhile before I order anymore off Amazon.

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Drummer_WI@reddit

These are the originals I have. They are the best quality and I believe identical to the Pizza Hut cups. I don't think they sell this exact model anymore, but they sell a similar one. The cheapo Amazon versions aren't as sturdy. This one is probably 35 years old. 👌😍

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JohnWicklll@reddit

The Hutt was the place in the day

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Urban_Ninja-LS@reddit

I want a set of those cups so bad

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Yuaskin@reddit

And in the restaurant was the greatest arcade game you ever played.

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thomas_ardwolf@reddit

Mazzio's in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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LeftHandStir@reddit

🎶Way out where the dandelions grow...🎶

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-DementedAvenger-@reddit

It’s important ya know!

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impliedapathy@reddit

Pizza Hut pan pizza hasn’t been the same in years 😢

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Specialist_Action_85@reddit

Amen to that

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Jaded_Eye_2227@reddit

Shout out to Cici’s Pizza

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-OccultOfPersonality@reddit

I see you

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sdrawkcabstiho@reddit

You need a Gurpler. Here's the lore:

The Gurpler

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GreenLeafRelaxed@reddit

My memories of these stem from underways

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Cheeky-Chickadee@reddit

And you sneaked your smokes out of one of these 🚬

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Cheeky-Chickadee@reddit

And picked the tunes from one of these

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Whombrillow@reddit

Fun fact! These cups were made red on purpose. The purpose was to disguise the color of improperly was cups. Because most commercial kitchen quick washers can’t get lipstick off the rim of a glass. They are red to not show lipstick

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_Breakfast_Burrito@reddit

I want mojos now.

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ChrisSheltonMsc@reddit

So accurate.

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Roundtable pizza memories

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CyanideOnyx@reddit

Literally bought a bunch of these cups a few years back for bbq parties. Even got some small ones that are functionally double shots.

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veritable-truth@reddit

It's the best soda/pizza combo, but not the best pizza. Regardless it was an amazingly good time.

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evolutionxtinct@reddit

PizzaHut!

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jon-wayne-candy-snow@reddit

I can smell the mojo potatoes and fried chicken, waiting for more tokens to play the new MK2 arcade that just landed at Shakeys.

These cups were perfect ornaments during my childhood. Best times ever.

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mmatt0904@reddit

Nah those always had the soda that ran out so it tasted mostly like seltzer lol

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Geeenaz4@reddit

Straw Hat Pizza 🍕 😋

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chrismill82@reddit

I can still hear the sound of these hitting the floor. lol

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Lidarisafoolserrand@reddit

Pizza Hut. Making it great in 88!

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BlueDotNE@reddit

Served hot and on that little elevated tray, with the stained glass Pizza Hut lighting fixtures, and the dark wood booths...miss it so much.

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Rocketsponge@reddit

I'm still chasing the thrill of taking my report card up to the pizza counter and getting quarters for each grade to play on the Galaga machine.

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cyberchaox@reddit

This had better not be another fucking Pizza Hut.

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

More than just Pizza Hut carried these. As others have said all the good local Mexican places had these as well.

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-OccultOfPersonality@reddit

We talkin’ Cici’s?

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

Pizza Hut

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DrDennisMcNinja@reddit

And our personal pan pizza was free cause we read books!

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Hater4eva@reddit

Shakeys pizza in LA

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okram2k@reddit

I shed a little tear when I think about how the current generation of kids just will have nothing but the current shit to compare things to and so will think the reheated frozen food that most major chains have become is the best it'll ever get.

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flaming_bob@reddit

If you lived in Texas, these glasses could sometimes be found sitting next to some of the best Mexican food on the planet. I don't know how they got these exact glasses, but they did.

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

Carlisle Food service cups. Basically restaurant supply stores carry them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003HN6YTI

The iconic Pizza Hut cups are the Ruby Pebble Optic Tumbler cups. They're impossible to order new, Pizza Hut most partially own the rights to them or something.

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Both-Leading3407@reddit

Pizza Hut when it was a walk in establishment. But these glasses were always a little slippery from being washed with the saucy plates. It was best to drink the soda from the straw because the glasses were a little slippery.

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WayWayTooMuch@reddit

And 10 feet away were the same 5 arcade games you put all your quarters into

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

MORTAL KOMBAT!

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WayWayTooMuch@reddit

The Simpsons 4-player with friends and randos and smash tv, both were designed to eat quarters as fast as possible lol

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tbonerrevisited@reddit

Hahahahaha

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Mountain_Sun9141@reddit

Yesssssss

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CallmeGhost666@reddit

Dr. Pepper in these were DIFFERENT

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wildmaninid@reddit

Yep. Pizza Hut in the 80s was absolutely elite.

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illbedeadbydawn@reddit

Get the Original.

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theAFguy200@reddit

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mousee3176@reddit

I still have two from when I worked at god father's

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ThaNotoriousBLG@reddit

Book It! personal pan pizzas, baby...that was the only way I was ever getting taken to Pizza Hut.

Now going to look in the comments for others who said the same...

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Yes I did that too. But we also had a local pizzeria that had these.

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One-Earth9294@reddit

That would be my experiences at the establishment of one Charles Entertainment Cheese.

Just shoveling quarters into the Ninja Turtles game until someone came and got me with the ol' 'Time to eat, last game'.

Magic times.

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SlapHappyDude@reddit

They smelled faintly of bleach so... Eh

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MrdnBrd19@reddit

If late 1980s early 1990s Pizza Hut is the best pizza you have ever had you're either drunk on nostalgia or you haven't lived enough.

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Business_Curve_7281@reddit

You got to eat at them at place because you completed the Book It! program

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fargoLEVY13@reddit

Free personal pan pizza with BOOK-IT!

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Turbulent_Tale6497@reddit

The color of Mountain Dew through these cups is the color of a magic potion

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Daylight-Silence@reddit

Following a spirited round of an arcade machine that wss somehow right in that sweet spot where it was dated, but not classic.

(My Pizza Hut still had Street Fighter 1 in 1993)

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Crismus@reddit

Damn I remember playing Joust. Too poor to go out with 9 kids when games were better.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Yes!

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lexluthor_i_am@reddit

That is absolutely true.

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greedybitchesdinner@reddit

It was the beat soda, but not the best pizza. That bullshit always burned my mouth.

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Oldpuzzlehead@reddit

Yup. For me these were at Pizza Hut, enjoying their all you can eat pizza bar.

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takeyoufergranite@reddit

Same but only after turning in my coupon for free pizza because I had good grades that quarter.

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Tacitus_AMP@reddit

I miss that buffet

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lnc_5103@reddit

I miss the salad. I guess it was technically a Caesar but yet not 🤣

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Oldpuzzlehead@reddit

The salad and dessert pizza were also great.

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Noisechild@reddit

Yes but, Coke, not Pepsi. I am standing on my hill for this one.

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awesinine@reddit

100% with you!

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mollywog21@reddit

And I stand with both of you!

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midnightinmemphis@reddit

That’s a Gurpler. The Regulation Cup. Looks like some of the misprint run.

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stacand1@reddit

On the way out I’d grab a strawberry candy that was somehow both hard and soft, but always delightful.

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Key-Sun6449@reddit

I got them from webstaurantstore.com

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calidownunder@reddit

You know what else? The styrofoam cup with the little crunch ice pellets and something just outrageous like orange soda. Omg hell yeah

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Worried-Trade-6407@reddit

I've eaten way better Pizza as an adult, but when I was kid yes.

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

Ice was colder when it was in these cups.

I will not be taking questions.

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Far_Talk_74@reddit

And you earned that personal pizza from your school's "book it" reading program.

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j2e21@reddit

Pizza Hut.

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R0botDreamz@reddit

Local pizza joint still uses these cups.

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tokolos@reddit

Shakeys was far far better than Pizza Hut.

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lastminutealways@reddit

I have my grandparents’ set and they have been very well used for decades. Also a few bigger amber colored ones

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Drapidrode@reddit

The great thing about these is that the internal bottom edge joining the cylinder part is smoothly rounded for easy cleaning.

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Plane_Fee_1037@reddit

Pizza Hut

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timthemajestic@reddit

I'll take a Bigfoot and keep the Pepsis coming!

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Lebowski304@reddit

Mr. Ghatti’s?

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JubBird@reddit

Godfather's pizza. Tabletop dig-dug!

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claytonbeaufield@reddit

That was my go-to. Had it for the first time in ~20 years recently, the bacon cheeseburger pizza. It was just like I remembered.

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AndrogynousHobo@reddit

And it tastes kind of like bleach

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Fragrant_Bluebird469@reddit

I bought a commercial sized order of these recently and gave them to my friends as gifts! 😂

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99anan99@reddit

I wish I had tried to take one of these cups home.

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Senn-66@reddit

Yes on the soda, but no on the pizza. Don’t let nostalgia get you too crazy, there is so much better pizza available around.

The present sucks in a lot of ways but the food is way way better in basically every way.

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realitythreek@reddit

And I’ve been chasing that high ever since

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Right? Life just isn't as good.

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KumquatButtpump@reddit

No. McDonald's has the best coke.

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timothypjr@reddit

FREE REFILLS. Wasn’t supposed to be a challenge.

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nnnope1@reddit

And you sat in a chair like this to eat it.

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t-g-l-h-@reddit

I wanted these for the house but the wife said no smh

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Use that as the reason on divorce papers. It won't be contested.

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CarRamrod72@reddit

I still keep that thang on me

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flipzyshitzy@reddit

You aren't kidding! And for whatever reason, Root Beer was the best out of those cups.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

A&W in a mug? Nope. Bottle? Nope. Can? Nope. Red cup? YES!

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SuspiciousStable9649@reddit

Cheese crust though. We didn’t have that.

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Tjonke@reddit

/r/USdefaultism

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AstroHealer222@reddit

The pizza is so bad now y’all it’s so sad

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LarryGoldwater@reddit

And a little glass jar of cheese that I could remove the lid and pour into my mouth like a psychopath. I certainly wouldn't do that at this age.....

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Dude was freebasing cheese, lol.

Same.

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AjaxCorporation@reddit

I bought some for home use from a restaurant supply store. Best cups we have and very kid friendly.

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

Ah, you are referring to a fine dining experience! One that may have involved AC/DC on the jukebox and SMB on the table-arcade. Magnifique!

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Yes I am. But it was Mortal Kombat & Street Fighter & TMNT Arcade.

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PancakeProfessor@reddit

A local pizza place in my town still uses these cups. They make everything taste better.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

They do for sure.

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Syronxc@reddit

The sound of dropping those cups on the tile floor is also seared into my mind since it happened nearly every time I was handed the cup.

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ctreed79@reddit

Yet goddam right! Remember when you had your friend over for a sleepover and your parents took you out for pizza and you used those cups to pour yourself a ‘graveyard’? And then you when and played Street Fighter or the Simpson’s pinball machine until you ran out of quarters and then went back to the table and ate all the pizza? And then you went home and watched Bloodsport or SNL? Fuckin’ good times.

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit (OP)

Showbiz Pizza and Chuck E Cheese!

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burrito_magic@reddit

It’s no Gurpler

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

Between the “good ice” and the red cup, soda just tasted better!

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American_Greed@reddit

I'm told I used to dunk my pizza in the soda because "it was too hot".

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

rootbeer!

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HappyHuman924@reddit

Not exactly the same cups, but these remind me that the first time I ever had Mountain Dew was either a Bonanza or a Ponderosa and I was like "wow, what is this?".

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Mg962@reddit

Eh, when I was 10, sure. If you ever find yourself in Morehead City,NC. There is a Pizza Hut that still does the lunch buffet exactly like it was done in the 70’s. Same building, same cups, same pizza, same overworked older waitress hustling her butt off. It is awesome and for a moment, it WAS the best pizza and soda!

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RR1904@reddit

100%

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MilkiestMaestro@reddit

Pizza Hut's First try at the Big New Yorker pizza. It wasn't just because it was a 16 inch xl dripping with greasy pepperoni and cheese..they had this apple flavor in there or something that made it bomb. Then the fountain pepsi was something else. It's a wonder I didn't have childhood diabetes.

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Delicious_Degree6749@reddit

Even water was good in those glasses

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CarmenxXxWaldo@reddit

Water is good always, the superior beverage.

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Inc-Roid@reddit

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cityshepherd@reddit

Hello hydro homie

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EmRuizChamberlain@reddit

A&W root beer!!!

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DoveOnTheInternet@reddit

You and my husband! They still wax nostalgic and order it occasionally. I'd rather have high school cafeteria pizza.

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SouthernOshawaMan@reddit

Trophy incoming

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SilentJoe27@reddit

But the buffet is out of Meat Lover’s…

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Weird-Ninja8827@reddit

I can hear the Galaga machine calling.

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Logical-Possession10@reddit

Aurelio’s!

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somecoolname42@reddit

No, it's not. Get out and live life while you still can. But stretch first, we're old now.

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william-isaac@reddit

i've never seen these cups in my life. what's so special about them?

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donutseason@reddit

My friend just thrifted 18 of these for parties and we were all excited 😆

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garitone@reddit

These too:

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ironypoisoned@reddit

Please get a grip.

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A_Thorny_Petal@reddit

I feel bad for all of you midwestern suburbanites that don't have like 12 local corner pizza/sub shops with a guy named Tony, Mario, Alonzo, Mikey running it.

I can get a slice of pizza that makes pizza hut taste like microwaved cardboard from 7-11 within walking distance.

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FethB@reddit

My family still gets our drinks served in these every weekend at brunch. The blackberry iced tea somehow tastes better in them.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

The best soda you ever drank was served in these cups, and it was placed beside the best pizza you ever ate.

You are correct. Book It!

My set.

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guyako@reddit

No, I didn’t have the best pizza I ever ate until I was nearly 40.

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ChevalCher@reddit

Yes. As a kid, I often had an empty one just to rub my hands on the outside. The texture was reminiscent of my favorite frosted texture on glass shower doors from the 80s and 90s, but those weren't portable; the cups were! 😊

Might have to consider purchasing a set for this old timer's sake. Maybe for my 46th birthday. 🤔

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Cody-512@reddit

My first job in hs was at a buffet pizza place with these for soda orders. Clear for water orders. All the cheapskates and jackass hs kids would try to sneak Sprite in the clear ones. They didn’t realize putting ice in the cup made it fizz up. The sneaky ones just put the Sprite in without the ice to save the $0.89

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theladyroy@reddit

There is a root beer and pepperoni combination from my childhood that I have been chasing forever, and I must assume it is lost. It might have been in the party room of the roller rink. It is somehow both a core memory and hazy.

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ADMINlSTRAT0R@reddit

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Sodamyte@reddit

My life long love of Dr. Pepper began in a red Pizza Hut cup.

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Genmc67@reddit

My favorite next to a slice or a chicken parm hero

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augustwest30@reddit

The only place around that had birch beer. We would always get a pitcher for the table.

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Romulan-Jedi@reddit

If you're ever in New Haven, there are places that serve Foxon Park birch beer on tap. Wintergreen heaven.

Sally's Apizza and The Place (in Guilford) are the two that come instantly to mind.

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AxlandElvis92@reddit

Love some Foxon Park.

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CurlSagan@reddit

Holy shit that's a memory that just came up from the depths. Damn.

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rohan_rat@reddit

Take me back!

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CalgaryChris77@reddit

Definitely wasn’t the best pizza I ever had, but man did I get my moneys worth.

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ObviouslyRealPerson@reddit

I bought a case of them on eBay nearly 10 years ago

Best purchase ever

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_WillCAD_@reddit

No. No it was not.

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BBWDLLUVER@reddit

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DHammer79@reddit

We have about 8 of these cups only in clear instead of red. My wife pilfered them from her university dorm. She also happened to obtain one pasta bowl from the dorm as well.

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Public-Ice-1270@reddit

Birch Beer!

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Personal_Arrival_795@reddit

Roundtable pizza!!

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jjpearson@reddit

This is why I love to read and am fat.

Curse you BookIt!

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she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit

I'm drinking from this right now!

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Easy_does_it78@reddit

Pellet Ice 🧊

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

Round Table pizza!

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Living-Video-3670@reddit

Oh man, they didnt have round table pizza where I grew up, but I got to have it a few times when I lived in Washington state, and I was a fan!

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DisastrousTurn9220@reddit

Yeah, we never went to Pizza Hut, we went to Round Table.

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Background_Ad2778@reddit

Dimly lit with the faint sounds of pacman the Galaga in the distance

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PiginthePen@reddit

I bout a 9 pack with Coca Cola on the side.. does not get better. Now looking far a tabletop Pac-Man

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

Arcade 1 Up makes a tabletop Ms Pacman.

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OscarDivine@reddit

Extra Mountainous Dew

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ChristyLovesGuitars@reddit

I still use those cups.

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MusicalTinnitus@reddit

I made sure my kids grew up with these, I found an entire case of the with the Coca Cola printed on them, for dirt cheap at an auction and bought them all, and I made sure all their friends had some also.

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TexasRN1@reddit

Lou Malnatis, Chicago! He

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BrazenDropout@reddit

Every Saturday evening after the Swim Meet.

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LazerShark1313@reddit

I wish I had a Pizza Hut ashtray. I stopped smoking years ago but I think it would be cool

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Beanholiostyle@reddit

YES, also near the salad bar and the sit down video game I was going to eat and drink at.

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Low_Soil_6831@reddit

Dips on table top Centipede

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Ok-Suggestion-7965@reddit

As a kid yeah but as I got older I would start to notice my drink in these cups would always seem to have a thin layer of grease on it. Did that enhance the flavor? Or was it just nasty that they weren’t cleaning them properly?

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never-the-1@reddit

Yup. But mine was at Bullwinkles.

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Joecamoe@reddit

Mercy I miss peak pizza hut

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mountednoble99@reddit

The good old days of sit down pizza restaurants!

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WalterWriter@reddit

My local Pizza Hut still had a dining room and gave free bread sticks when you donated to their Little Free Library. Crust had obviously gone downhill, but the large 5-topping for $16.95 was still a good deal.

Corporate closed them at the end of February.

My remaining fast food pizza option is Dominos.

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MadamInsta@reddit

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Makes me want the salad bar reeeaaalll baaaadd

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OtherAcctWasBanned11@reddit

One of the pizza places near me has these. They still hit. Unfortunately the pizza sucks there so I don’t go there.

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ronin_cse@reddit

Orrrrr it was shitty soda that tasted weird because they never cleaned the lines and it was just below average pizza because your parents didn’t know better

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

God, I miss pizza hut

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buhleg@reddit

I loved Pizza Hut.

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_jjkase@reddit

I bought a set of these a couple years ago. Red looks exactly like your picture, I also have green, blue and orange (although the orange is pretty red)

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Mysterious_Fennel459@reddit

I still have two of those cups in my pantry. They're great.

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agentfantabulous@reddit

A pitcher of root beer and a sausage pizza and a pocketful of quarters for the jukebox and Pac-Man.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I'm from New York. Nope. 🙃

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LongballG@reddit

Yep! GeJo’ #2 in Aurora, CO.

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Darth_Twinge@reddit

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Yep!

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