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calzone, deep dish pizza, Food, greatest thing since sliced bread, love, missing, pizza, pizza dough, pizza hut, pizza my heart, priazzo, restaurants
There are times when I get nostalgic about things. Usually it’s stuff from my childhood. Usually it’s about stuff that nobody even remembers, much less cares about. In this case I was thinking of the Priazzo pizza that Pizza Hut was making back in the 1980s.
Personally, I loved them. A deep dish pizza crammed with cheese and meats and vegetables and sauce, then covered by another layer of pizza dough and topped with sauce and more cheese. I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
At some point I thought about sending an email to the Pizza Hut corporate headquarters asking if they could ever bring it back.
For those who don’t remember (or were too young to remember or who weren’t even born yet), the Priazzo looked like this:
The beautiful Priazzo!
Before I could send the email, though, I received an email from Pizza Hut. The subject mentioned an “overstuffed pizza.” My heart lept! Could it be? Could they be bringing back my lost love? I opened the email and saw this:
A big flat calzone.
It’s not a Priazzo. It’s… kind of flat. I was disappointed. Disappointed enough to actually write a blog about it.
One day. Maybe one day…
You’re absolutely right about the priazzo. It’s one of my most memorable foods I’ve ever eaten. I was born in ’79 so I definitely have fond memories of the priazzo as a young’n. I found your blog bc I actually googled “overstuffed pizza like the priazzo?” after seeing the new commercial for the first time moments ago and yours was the first result. I actually did send an email to pizza hut about a yr ago pretty much begging them to bring it back. This is as close as we’re gonna get it seems, my friend. I think before I try this seemingly disappointing overstuffed pizza, I’ll just revisit my fond memories of the real deal. Maybe we should start a petition!! Lmao.
I think you’re right and we’re not going to see a real Priazzo. If I remember right, they stopped making them because they were too complicated to put together. Something like that. I think, though, that if they were to bring out on a limited basis every once in a while it could be the Pizza Hut equivalent of the McRib sandwich.
Thanks for reading and commenting!