I feel really sick right now. My stomach is tossing and turning as I think about what I just experienced.
Kevin and I decided to get a pizza for lunch today. My half was with green peppers, and Kevin’s half was sausage and bacon. I took a few bites, and then I noticed something black on the next bite I would be taking. It was a dead fly! I held back the vomit, and I threw the rest of my pizza away. I am sick, but more than that, I am pissed!
I just called Pizza Hut and complained about my “discovery.” The manager handled it nicely, apologizing and telling me that they go to great lengths to keep a fly-free environment. He then offered me a credit on my next order. No thanks! I told him that I will not be visiting his establishment any longer, and that I prefer a refund. He did give me the refund, and fortunately, the mean Tishy did not have to make an appearance. Kevin has seen me get pissed off on a few occasions, and he can attest to the fact that it is not something you ever want to experience.
All you Knoxville folks, stay away from the Chapman Highway Pizza Hut - the one across from Wal-Mart.
August 17th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
weve already had the discussion on how i feel about this. my fear is that someday im going to do some seemingly little thing (fold towels wrong for example) and im going to apologize and refold them correctly and therte will STILL be a scathing bashing humiliating degrading post about me on your blog warning all other bloggers to stay the hell away from me.
whats up with THAT shit??? i just folded some towels four times rather than three and now i cant get any more play from my bloggy peeps? thats some shit right there!
August 17th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
I still really don’t see what the problem is . . .
August 17th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Um, there are millions of flies buzzing around. Invariably they get into restaurants and some of them do die. It probably divebombed the pizza in a last-ditch kamakazie attempt at glory, either before or after the pizza went into the oven (was the fly cooked or still kicking?). Either way, I would imagine not many pizzamakers examine their pies minutely for detritus before serving.
It’s gross, yes, but not really anybody’s fault. Not much less chance of walking around talking and a fly buzzing in your mouth, really.
I don’t think there’s any need to get all over Pizza Hut.
Now, if it had been a cockroach that had been allowed to crawl onto the pizza, that might be different. Or, like a cocker spaniel or a marmoset.
August 17th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Ugh, that’s really disgusting. It reminds me of this time when I was 10 and our family went to a restaurant and a roach crawled out of the cheese on the salad bar. Bleck.
August 17th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Beware the wrath of Tish!
August 17th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Uugghhh!
I am with you. I don’t care how many flies there are in the world, I don’t want them on my food.
It reminds me of the time I went to a local restaurant that shall remain anonymous (Bullwinkles). I was about half-way through a burger when I pulled this enormously long hair out of the burger - not sitting on top - in the meat itself. I ran to the bathroom and vomitted the whole mess up.
Ewwww…makes me queesy just thinking about it.
I say there are other pizza places and in fact I have been perfecting my own pizza making skills. I can pass along a great and simple recipe that was given to me if you want.
August 17th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
The flies cost extra in Memphis. Pubic hairs, on the other hand, are free!
August 17th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
OK - now I’ve found a fly in my half of the pizza.
But it looks like Jesus!
I’m so confused . . .
August 17th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
I once ordered a baked potato with broc /cheese at Wendy’s. After a few bites I thought ….”my what a long potatoe eye that is sticking out of the cheese!”…..THEN IT MOVED!
Mr Roach was attemptin to save himself from the scorching cheese he was buried under…….blech!
U shouldve seen how fast I cleared that restaurant!
LOL
August 17th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
im with barry. find me ONE restaraunt that has been opened for over a week that HASNT served a dish with some kind of insect in it! it would take an act of god to garauntee that no dish had anything unsavory in it ever. is there an Almighty Pizza Palace? is their moto “we deliver instantly or your next pizza is 1/2 off!” ??
August 17th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
I find it grosses to think that bugs and crawl/fly/fall into my mouth or up my nose at night when I’m asleep. Shit. Another sleepless night coming my way. The therapist will be so disappointed at my setback.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:25 am
And lets not even get into the Rat Turd or Caper argument (”Invasion of the Bodysnatchers” with Donald Sutherland. Good Shit!) But then again, being a coonass from the Bayou state, I eat roadkill too. Once you’ve had a pot of squirell head gumbo (they put the heads of squirells in the gumbo and when you eat it you crack the skulls and eat the … well you know) what’s a few flies among friends? Remember Brico … towels … four folds, Thongs … well, better let her take care of that one.
Tommy
August 18th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
YIKES! poor thing! at least it wasn’t a used band aid or something. i think that would have been worse…..ewwww
August 18th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Now, see! If you had Asked The Momma before going to Pizza Hut, Home of the Wayward Flies, I could have steered you in the right direction! So next time, when in doubt, or when just grossed out, ask me!
August 19th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Oh man, like eating out was not hard enough, yuck.
August 19th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
That is nasss-tayyyy. One time my brother found a fly in his drink at Wendys. Gross.
August 20th, 2006 at 11:14 am
I found a bug in my salad about a year ago. I brought it to the attention of the floor manager, who apologize profusely and even comped my meal. No manager wants to lose business over such an incident, because customers talk….
In the hundreds of times I’ve eaten there, only the one bug. I’d probably have been more upset if I’d bitten into it.
August 20th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
ick
August 20th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Let us remember that these nasty things will happen from time to time, if not to you or me, then to someone else. No matter how hard a business trys to prevent it chit happens. No I don’t own a Pizza Hut, just a retired ol’fart.
August 20th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Kev said…
OK - now I’ve found a fly in my half of the pizza.
But it looks like Jesus!
I’m so confused . . .
Hey Kev, this is great……you can list it on eBay and sell it for millions…..:-)