If there’s anyone you can trust when it comes to good food, it’s a fat guy, and I’m one of ‘em. I love pizza, but my tastes generally lean towards the gourmet and exotic. If you offer me a choice between your standard, run-of-the-mill, chain restaurant pizza and a pesto smeared, garlic clove laden monstrosity topped with squid rings and Italian sausage… well, I’ll take the latter any day. Unfortunately, you can scarcely find anything resembling gourmet around here, and pizza is no exception. Thus I’m forced to resign myself to those aforementioned chain restaurants to satisfy my pizza cravings. Fear not, gentle consumer, as there is hope yet for those of us with a slightly more refined palette.
Recently, Pizza Hut introduced a new concoction they call the “Natural”. Claiming it (and maybe all of their others) contains all natural pepperoni, sausage, and beef, I could hardly pass up a chance to eat something with less of a probability to give me cancer in the future. Needless to say, I was impressed. The new ingredients were clearly of a higher quality than what I’d come to expect from them. The sausage had gone from the nasty, round, little balls of meat we all know and love to actual slices of italian-style semi-spicy sausage in the form of what they call “Rustica”. The pepperoni is thick cut and flavorful, and the sauce doesn’t cause your tongue to immediately blister into canker sores anymore (which is a definite plus). Despite all of these improvements, there is one change that stands out above the rest, and this one is only on the “Natural”: a multigrain crust. Usually I’m not one for the whole wheat thing (um, read that as “whole wheat”, not whole “wheat”), but their new multigrain crust is delicious. It actually tastes like something other than bleached cardboard. One gripe, though, is that the “Natural” only comes in medium. So, if you’re feeding more than yourself and your skinny friend, better order a couple.
