I don't think a day goes by when I don't see some Pizza Hut-related meme or post. A picture of a classic red-roofed Pizza Hut, a collage of Pizza Hut's iconic red and white checkered table cloths and iconic lamps, with a sentiment along the lines of, "This is the Pizza Hut I'll always remember."

It's like this post in a Gen X Facebook group I belong to posted by Gryhon Chandler. Yet, I think Pizza Hut's more than a longing for some long-lost piece of nostalgia, like when we'd go out for pizza on the regular, it's good pizza.

Don't laugh. I know Pizza Hut lost a step or two somewhere along the line. I remember getting one of their stuffed crust pizzas for lunch in 2001, and I remember it not being that great. We stopped going to Pizza Hut for a few years after that.

When I was in Indiana around 2008, Pizza Hut introduced the Pizza Mia. A medium one cost $5. Yeah, I figured you can't go wrong with a $5 pizza. It was good—better than a $5 pizza should be.

Of course, it was eventually discontinued. We moved, and frankly, I forgot about Pizza Hut again for the most part.

Yet while Domino's was blowing up its pizzas and changing its sauce, Papa John's was dealing with the fallout from its founder's ill-advised mouthiness, Little Caesars was moving away from its $5 value pizzas, and Casey's was developing a reputation for being the gold standard in gas station pizza, Pizza Hut was pizza-hutting along.

If Pizza Hut was getting dinged for anything during this time, it was because the chain was moving away from the red-roofed dining rooms with the tablecloths, Tiffany lamps, jukeboxes, and video games that many of us remember from our youth.

Yet, the pizzas at Pizza Hut somehow got better than the one that got me off the brand in 2001. Over the last few years, Pizza Hut has returned to my radar, whether it was their Big Dinner Box, the Pizza Hut Melts, the Big New Yorker Pizza, or even their classic pan pizza. If I ordered it, I enjoyed eating it. I haven't gotten a pizza that has made me want to run from the brand in a few years. That includes ordering from different stores like Warrensburg or Sedalia and even trying their Chicago Tavern-style pizza.

My point isn't to sit here and shill for Pizza Hut. If you want an authentic tavern-style pizza, find a hole-in-the-wall Chicago pizza joint. If you want a genuine New York pie, go there and find one. I know you can find one that's better than what the Hut is offering.

Maybe not their classic pan pizza though; that's a unique Pizza Hut creation that's pretty hard to duplicate, and for the record, it's different from the Chicago-style deep dish.

I digress. Pizza Hut is more than a nostalgic meme waxing poetic about a better time. We may not be heading to the classic red-roofed locations anymore and pumping the jukebox full of quarters to hear our favorite songs.

Yet the pizza, in my experience, is on point. It is as good as a pizza you can get from any of the other chains. If you get the classic pan pizza and close your eyes, I promise you you'll be transported back to when your parents took you to Pizza Hut.

Even if that doesn't happen, it's a pretty good pizza. That's my point.

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