Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Dallas-based Pizza Hut introduces healthy-ish new pizza
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Pizza Hut is introducing pizza featuring all natural ingredients called "the Natural" with sauce made from organic tomatoes, no artificial preservatives in the toppings, and a multi-grain crust.
Details, details:
-- Multi-grain crust is baked from a blend of traditional pizza dough and five different whole grains, sweetened with honey and infused with olive oil.
-- Natural Toppings: New Rustica recipe has sliced Italian sausage, marinated Roma tomatoes, and fire-roasted red peppers.
The move to natural products extends to the box. The Natural pizza will be served in boxes made from up to 75% recycled material.
This summer Dallas and Tampa residents get a first taste of The Natural before it is introduced to a national audience. A medium one-topping pizza is $9.99. The Natural Rustica pizza is $11.99.
Source: Pizza Hut
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Collin Gouldin Verified
the sauce is not organic, just the tomatoes... And in no way is anything this company makes healthy.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
They have tasty wings, though!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
xdavidwattsx Anonymous
"And in no way is anything this company makes healthy."
Quoted for truth.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
I'm pretty sure nobody calls up Pizza Hut with the intent on ordering a well-balanced meal. They want the tastiness.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
xdavidwattsx Anonymous
Yeah, but it's misleading at best when they try to advertise it to imply it's healthy.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Implication is in the eye of the beholder, ace. Simply says they're using some natural ingredients. And they call it The Natural, not The Healthy. Connotation between the two ain't their fault.
I don't disagree that people ordering this thing thinking they're eating healthier are kidding themselves, but eating the healthiest of foods is up to the consumer. Pizza Hut simply offers up what you'd expect...pizza.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
John McClelland Verified
They've had this pizza for a while actually. It is pretty good. You can also get the new healthyish toppings on your regular grease soaked pan pizza.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
xdavidwattsx Anonymous
"And they call it The Natural, not The Healthy. Connotation between the two ain't their fault. "
It ain't no accident, either.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Good marketing, imo.
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OPENDOORS79 Anonymous
WHO CARES? IF YOU WANT IT EAT IT. IF YOU WANT HEALTHY DONT!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
YEAH!!!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
No need to yell at us on your first post, Opendoors. We're a generally friendly bunch.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
He's lying. We're not friendly at all. Keep yelling...especially at Doyle.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
I kinda like the new guy.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
OPENDOORS79 Anonymous
My apologies, yes im a newby. Im a female.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
David Gouldin Staff
The phrase "spoil yourself and your dinner" in your avatar is quite timely. Welcome!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
James Scott Verified
How dare those deceptive marketers develop a product that might interest a certain market segment of customers that would otherwise not consider eating at their establishment. I think we should really consider some sort of legistlation against these tactics.
BTW - the pizza is pretty tasty - and actually is pretty healthy (and still pretty tasty) if you order w/out cheese. Nevermind that, though - by all means, blast away at them.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
Nutritional info
Healthy (or "pretty healthy"), is different than not as bad for you ...
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
OPENDOORS79 - Oh, lord, Now Scott knows you're female. Shoulda kept the ruse going.
She was kidding Scott... I mean He.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
xdavidwattsx Anonymous
I'm with Collin. Let's tap the brakes a bit on the overuse of healthy.
Let's also come to the realization that if you are buying food from a restaurant it does not qualify as healthy. Period. They are in the business of making food taste good so that you'll buy more of it. Nothing more, nothing less. Any misnomer of it actually being good for you is total and utter BS.
If you want to eat it then great, just don't pretend you're doing yourself any favors.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Woah, woah, woah. Why is Doyle being singled out here? If anything, she's got the edge since jtmbls won't be tracking her down (unless jtm's bicurious).
Pavel, on the other hand...
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Rawlins Gilliland Verified
Can DOMINO's catch up? Let's put the Gouldins on their case per Gubbins with Pavel and Doyle possible taste test consumers.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video...
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
David Gouldin Staff
They've lost their edge ever since Batman killed The Noid
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
Oh, nice. Way to scare off the new person Doyle…
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Umm, are you saying you're bicurious?
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
Scott, why do you hate the bicurious?
(had, to man... had to)
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
No, I'm saying you're a jackass. :-) Anymore questions?
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
I love this job more than I love taffy, and I'm a man who loves his taffy.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Pretty sure I'd kill myself if I was unemployed and following this thread.
PegNews has come a long way!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
what's stopping you ScoDo ;-)
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Burn.
P.S. I'm well aware Collin's referencing Mayor Adam West from Family Guy. Just saying that a thread about a new pizza product turned into bisexual allegations and general jackassery...while (hopefully) most peeps involved were at work.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
::sniffle:: Our little media experiment is growing up ::sniff::
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
xdavidwattsx Anonymous
I don't work. I steal copper.
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jtmbls Anonymous
Always nice to stop and smell the roses...or whatever.
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Catspaw12 Anonymous
"Let's also come to the realization that if you are buying food from a restaurant it does not qualify as healthy. Period."
Consider for a minute what it means to be "healthy." Is it more healthy, for example, to cook at home than to eat at a restaurant (or have a pizza delivered) even if you feel that cooking eats into time energy you'd rather spend on your family?
Is it realistic for two working parents struggling to raise kids on an HHI of $50K total to make a home-cooked meal of healthy ingredients every night?
Perhaps some of the people who choose to eat pizza from Pizza Hut, Domino's or anywhere else are motivated by things other than taste. For them, perhaps the ease and convenience of delivered pizza is "healthy" in its own right, as a a way of managing daily overwhelming pressure to provide on a desperate budget. To find an option that delivers more than processed flour and pepperoni is simply icing on the cake.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
its all about priorities ...
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Rick Yost Verified
Pizza's like Mexican food...one of the five food groups.
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xdavidwattsx Anonymous
catspaw -
I can cook a healthier (and usually better) meal at home ANY day of the week cheaper than I can go out to eat for (unless of course you consider a couple of big macs "going out to eat"). Just like I make my own lunch most days of the week to save money and calories vs eating out.
And if cooking meals at home and eating with the family cuts into your family time then I just don't know what to tell you.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
David Gouldin Staff
This is coming from a 20-something with no kids so take it with a big grain of salt, but couldn't meal preparation be a family activity? It seems like a good opportunity to teach kids a skill and do something together as a family.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Erin Rice Verified
From the time we could walk, my brothers and I played soccer. For a good while, there were three kids with weekly soccer practices at different parks all over DFW who couldn't drive. Cooking just wasn't an option some nights.
Don't get me wrong, my mom cooked several nights a week (to our dismay), but sometimes you just gotta order pizza. It's not the physically healthiest option, but often it's one of few options you have managing a busy, no, hectic family.
And hey, thanks to the athletic focus, my brothers and I managed to stave off childhood-obesity and learned decent time management skills, so it's not all bad.
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James Scott Verified
Collin - take away the cheese like I said and you've got a piece of pizza that's much less than 200 calories with virtually no cholesterol and not much saturated fat, if any. So, yes, I'm gonna go ahead and call that healthy. Not that most would actually order it without cheese, but that's how I eat my pizza.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
Dave-o Impressive talk from a - yes - 20 something. No arguments here. We try to do that at the house and should do more.
Are you trying to impress a new girl or something. Them's "marriageable words" there, bud.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
David Gouldin Staff
Well I'm not only marriagable but marriaged! :)
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Peter Stawicki Verified
My thought for several years now is that if just one restaurant went out of its way to switch the little things, they would get every bit of my business.
Little things to me as a fat guy losing weight (And having turned 40 and started reading labels) are, wheat breads or whole grain, the ability to hold the sauces/condiments, the ability to get a bare chicken breast instead of breaded, and maybe if just one could hold back on the major sodium content. I have found myself instead shopping at 7-11 where I can get fruit, whole wheat sandwiches (Yes the sodium content is still too high), smart choices like triscuts or whole wheat crackers instead of chips and flavored waters or sugar free icees.
Why don't some of the restaurants get a clue. (Chick Fil-a (sp??) has a few options) Try finding ANYTHING healthy on a Sonic Menu...
(Stepping down from the soap box now)
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
what you should be saying is, " why don't consumers get a clue". these fast food places only exist cause people keep going there.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Rawlins Gilliland Verified
TRY a Tried and True-For-Millennia Recipe:
F.O.O.D.=C.O.O.K.=M.E.A.L.S.=H.E.A.L.T.H. & H.A.P.P.I.N.E.$.$.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
xdavidwattsx Anonymous
Thing is, it's not only fast food joints. Go to Craft, Abacus or Stephan Pyle's. You'll walk away from one meal having gorged on thousands of calories. What you think is healthy is loaded with salt, fat, and sodium. EVERYTHING is cooked or basted with butter.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Keasteregg Anonymous
All this talk is making me hungry. Guess I'll go eat my Jenny Craig food!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
right, cause additives, artificial ingredients, added sugars, and hydrogenated oils (i.e., trans fats). are healthy....
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Keasteregg Anonymous
I didn't say a word about JC being healthy, I just said I was hungry.
Thanks for the link to JC article - it was RIGHT ON POINT!!
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