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Pizza Hut’s New Pizza

Pizza Hut has found a new way to feed Americans with more cheese — a pizza crust made of little cheese-stuffed bread bowls. The pizza chain on Wednesday is introducing a new pizza that comes surrounded by 16 semi-circles of cheese that can be pulled off and eaten separately. The "Crazy Cheesy Crust," which will be available for several weeks, isn't the first time Pizza Hut has incorporated cheese into its d ...

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Frozen Pizza Recalled

Annie's Inc. is voluntarily recalling seven kinds of frozen pizza sold nationwide over the possible risk that metal fragments made their way into the dough. The organic and natural food company said it issued the recall after finding out that a metal mesh screen at a third-party flour mill had failed. As a result fragments of the mesh were found in the flour and pizza dough. The pieces of the wire were too ...

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Sbarro Gets Skinny

Sbarro pizza is forever associated with mall food courts, New Jersey highway rest stops and train station fare. The pizza is cheesy, greasy and sometimes totally hits the spot, especially when traveling. You feel as good while you're eating it as you feel bad after eating it. Today, likely in effort to reach a slightly more health-conscious customer, Sbarro has debuted the Skinny Slice. Clocking in at 270 c ...

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Pizza Hut Is Making A… Perfume?

Pizza Hut is releasing a perfume. This is not a joke. Well -- it's not a joke anymore. We could certainly make lots of jokes about it if we were so inclined. (Eau de dough, anyone?) But we'll refrain. Because Marketing magazine explains that though the Pizza Hut perfume started as a joke on the Pizza Hut Canada Facebook page, it's now a real -- albeit very limited-edition -- product. Here's the full story: ...

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The Pizza Museum Has Opened

How much does Brian Dwyer love pizza? Let us count the ways: He holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase "Totally saucesome!"; and he is the driving force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the nation's first pizza museum. The quirky but unassuming establishment that Dwyer just opene ...

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New iPad App Lets You Design A Pizza, Then Have It Delivered

The three biggest pizza chains in America (Pizza Hut, Domino's and Papa John's) have all developed apps for Apple's iOS. All three companies' apps let potential customers find nearby branches of the chain in question and order pizzas for takeout or delivery. But only one of these apps -- the new Domino's iPad app, Domino's Pizza Hero -- lets you order a pizza that you've designed yourself. According to Mash ...

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Teen Put $500 Of Pizza On Stolen Cards

Authorities in Tennessee say a 15-year-old boy posed as a police officer to steal people's credit card numbers, then racked up hundreds of dollars in charges for pizza and a house party. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office says the boy created a fake officer named Capt. Tyrone Banks and used smartphone applications to find information on potential victims. He then asked to verify their credit card numbers, p ...

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The Original Original Ray’s Pizza Is Closing

While dozens of pizzerias throughout the city may bear its name, the true original Ray's Pizza on 27 Prince Street is set to close at the end of the month due to long standing legal disputes amongst the restaurant's heirs. The Times reports that the Little Italy restaurant will stay open till September 25th, the end of the Feast of San Gennaro. However, after that, the fate of Ray's Pizza appears grim. Nast ...

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Pizza Pie

Considered a peasant's meal in Italy for centuries we cannot say who invented the very first pizza pie. Food historians agree that pizza like dishes were eaten by many peoples in the Mediterranean including the Greeks and Egyptians. However, modern pizza has been attributed to baker Raffaele Esposito of Naples. In 1889, Esposito who owned a restaurant called the Pizzeria di Pietro baked what he called "pizz ...

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Package Saver

Have you ever wondered, "Who invented the circular thing that keeps the pizza from hitting the inside of the box top?" Well wonder no longer the package saver for pizza and cakes was invented by Carmela Vitale of  Dix Hills, NY, who filed for US patent #4,498,586 on February 10, 1983, issued on February 12, 1985. Special thanks to Howard Olivier, owner of the Flying Pie Pizzaria in Boise, Idaho, for sending ...

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