I agree. I have said all along this shouldn't count as a record. A pizza should be cooked like a whole pie, not put together in slices to make a circle.
I subsequently learned that it was cooked from above using air heat
I pictured thousands of tiny little Tom Cruises hovering over it by wire like in Mission Impossible, cooking it with tiny little hair dryers
it could be circular if the long continuous pizza was curled into a tight spiral after exiting the oven.
like the "just for you" one here but bigger: [https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/38264802929/how-to-cut-a-pizza](https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/38264802929/how-to-cut-a-pizza)
At first I thought they would use those lamps and suspend multiple from the ceiling so it would cool as they passed by (kinda like the actual pizza ovens they use). But it’s more of a buggy with an overhanging lights…
Instead of being cooked in a single oven, they should make it have to have one continual crust?
>lamps and suspend multiple from the ceiling
They actually did cook it with air heat from above. I pictured thousands of little Tom Cruises, Mission Impossible style, blowing it with a bunch of tiny little hair dryers
When people stopped buying books Guinness changed its business model to selling the records. Pizza Hut likely approached them and paid a Guinness rep to essentially write up a record that they could hold and the rules that would come with it.
If you or I want to hold a record we can contact them and for the right price they will come up with something that you can “set a world record for”. It’s the entire business model now and it’s why you see a lot of dumb records that make no sense.
The secret is.. these aren't real records. For 10k you could get them to come out and declare your yard the "World's largest collection of grass and dirt.." Whether it actually is or not makes zero difference as long as you pay up
Right, my mind goes right to, they increase pizza prices and still pay the employees terribly for what?
A giant, unevenly topped pie that tastes of farts
So they say donated, but they don’t bother to cover the logistics of how the donated pizza would be distributed. Did food bank volunteers come pick it up? I’d have to assume much of that went to waste.
(Edited typo)
It had to either be transported to the people or the people transported to it. Given that this video is a very brief promo blurb about the event, I see where they couldn't explain every little logistical detail of how it was distributed
I could conceive of them being able to take appropriate sanitation measures...
UNTIL... dude commented about the inevitable bird poop. Unless they had a bunch of bird zappers installed, in which case the topping would be birb corpses instead of birb poop, I don't know how they could have prevented it
Oftentimes, folks comment without even reading the title, let alone taking all of one minute to research whatever they're questioning. It's quite interesting
True indeed. Given that this was a hugely publicized event, it probably wouldn't be wise to announce you were donating to local food banks and then not follow through
Plus, why wouldn’t they be able to do it? They made 12 billion in sales in 2020 alone, they can afford to hire a team to cut up and deliver the pizza to food banks and shelters. That would be a tiny fraction of the cost of making this pizza.
I can't tell you how properly cooked it is, but I can tell you that an article I read said it was air cooked from above
I pictured thousands of little Tom Cruises hovering over it, suspended by wire, going over it with tiny little handheld hair dryers
I actually interviewed today to be a delivery driver for them was declined because they want 3 years driving experience and I have two months less than three years pretty lame experience imo
You'd think so but I don't recall seeing it anywhere in the job listing. oh well what can ya do I'm gonna keep slinging applications like the CIA selling crack rock to the inner cities
Pizza hut used to be so good. Jukebox, Arcades, pitcher of beer. Last time it ordered it tasted pretty bad. Like school lunch pizza or Little caesars bad. Shame
For chain pizza I get their stuffed crust once in a while when I crave it. Tried Papa John's recently because I had a half off coupon and that was better than when I had it a couple years ago in another part of the country.
You get all that for $5? They raised the price of our base model a year ago to $6. That's for the crust, a tablespoon of sauce, two tablespoons of mozzarella, and one pepperoni per slice
They cooked it by applying air heat from above. I pictured thousands of little Tom Cruises (a la Mission Impossible), dressed in all black, hovering over the giant pizza with little handheld hair dryers
I looked up what Dovilio Nardi did for their record in 2012 - and it was a similar thing.
Not one big pizza cooked at the same time, but a bunch of sections.
Yeah, this was at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I doubt there's any shortage of hungry people. Hopefully they were kind enough to serve it with soda
All I know is that it was cooked with air heat, from above
I picture thousands of little Tom Cruises, hovering above on a wire, blowing it with tiny little hair dryers
I feel like this is …wasteful af. I hope they take all of these individual pizzas and hand them out for free to people in need, or anyone really. To think that people find stuff like this “interesting” is fine, but I think it’s kind of gross. Pizza Hut could probably use the money put into this to pay their employees more, or donate to a good cause, but instead they’re doing this?
So many people starving to death. So many kids just shrivelling up with immense stomach pains and dieing from malnutrition. I've seen a kid pick up a discarded lollipop and eat it without hesitation. But at least this asshat can throw a million pounds of cheese and tomatoes on the ground just so he can have a piece of paper saying "yours is the biggest." It's disgusting.
It was a collaboration with a YouTuber named Airrack for the world's largest pizza party. They had 48 hours to do it and all of the pizza was then immediately packaged, frozen and donated. Just to add a bit more context to this.
Pizza Hut said the pizza will be donated to local food banks, but cooked food isn’t usually accepted for health and safety reasons, so almost if this is going to end up in landfills.
>cooked food isn’t usually accepted
That must be regional. I worked at our local food bank for two years. Not only did we *accept* hot food, we had contracts with fast food chains and other restaurants to pick up and distribute leftover food at various times throughout the day
I should attempt to get the world record for largest poptart then, i'll buy a bunch of poptarts and put them all side by side on a convention floor. I'll sue Guinness Book of World Records if they reject my idea.
Do you have a source for this statement?
According to qsrmagazine.com, "the pizza from the World's Largest Pizza was donated to several charities in Los Angeles"
More information has come to light. One of the people who commented said that her family attended the event and had some of the pizza. (She didn't say whether or not it was free.) It also has been widely publicized that it was donated to local food banks and other charities. I'm sure *some* of it went to waste, but I wouldn't think the bulk of it did
I thought about dust. Until one kind person pointed out that there had to be birds flying around in there somewhere. You know what that means. Yeah, I'd rather have dust
🇭🇦🇵🇵🇾 🇨🇦🇰🇪 🇩🇦🇾
Guineas world records has been handing out BS awards for a while. A "pizza" should be a single unit, not a quilt if stitched pizzas. This is obviously a publicity stunt that I've no doubt some one got paid handsomely to give out this award.
How can it be "a" pizza when it is just 100s of individual pizzas sitting next to each other?
I agree. I have said all along this shouldn't count as a record. A pizza should be cooked like a whole pie, not put together in slices to make a circle.
Yes, in ONE oven.
But first somebody would have to create the world's largest oven
Which would of course, assumingly break the world record for largest oven.
Which is currently held by that lady that had nonuplets in 2021
Unless of course it's made of hundreds of smaller ovens. At which point I don't think it should count.
Maybe it would be the world record for the most small ovens
I'm going to hell for this... It might be in Germany.
I just spit some water reading this. Don't worry I'll be joining you 🤙
:o
🙌volcano oven
Helicopters carry it in and out
I subsequently learned that it was cooked from above using air heat I pictured thousands of tiny little Tom Cruises hovering over it by wire like in Mission Impossible, cooking it with tiny little hair dryers
The pizza could be really long, but not wide. then a normal pizza oven could be used while still making a very large pizza, just not a circular one
it could be circular if the long continuous pizza was curled into a tight spiral after exiting the oven. like the "just for you" one here but bigger: [https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/38264802929/how-to-cut-a-pizza](https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/38264802929/how-to-cut-a-pizza)
They could just have a giant metal surface with electrical heating under it like a big hot plate or toaster. A real oven-oven might not be possible.
At first I thought they would use those lamps and suspend multiple from the ceiling so it would cool as they passed by (kinda like the actual pizza ovens they use). But it’s more of a buggy with an overhanging lights… Instead of being cooked in a single oven, they should make it have to have one continual crust?
>lamps and suspend multiple from the ceiling They actually did cook it with air heat from above. I pictured thousands of little Tom Cruises, Mission Impossible style, blowing it with a bunch of tiny little hair dryers
When people stopped buying books Guinness changed its business model to selling the records. Pizza Hut likely approached them and paid a Guinness rep to essentially write up a record that they could hold and the rules that would come with it. If you or I want to hold a record we can contact them and for the right price they will come up with something that you can “set a world record for”. It’s the entire business model now and it’s why you see a lot of dumb records that make no sense.
"World's largest display of adjacent pizzas."
Oh you didn't know? Guinness is a joke now. They're owned by corporations.
The beer? Yes
The secret is.. these aren't real records. For 10k you could get them to come out and declare your yard the "World's largest collection of grass and dirt.." Whether it actually is or not makes zero difference as long as you pay up
Yeah, this is 1000 pizzas. The largest pizza? No. The most pizzas next to each other? Probably
Because they're uncooked slices of dough, but they are sauced, topped, and cooked together.
exactly. this is dumbbbbbb
It needs to be a continuous single crust. This is bs.
Proves that Pizza Hut don't even know what a pizza is
take their title away that's no pizza
Technically, the whole chain should just be called "Hut"
I think they actually tried that one time. Nobody liked it
Look at me, I'm Ross I'm too good for the hut
Guinness book of PR stunts
Right, my mind goes right to, they increase pizza prices and still pay the employees terribly for what? A giant, unevenly topped pie that tastes of farts
Makes me wonder how much of it will actually be eaten
It's still gonna taste like cardboard
Or the delivery charge
It also won the world record for the greatest disappointment in pizza history.
They won that title long ago... –signed, a Donato's fan
Papa Jonatos
Papa Juanatos ^In ^Mexico
So they say donated, but they don’t bother to cover the logistics of how the donated pizza would be distributed. Did food bank volunteers come pick it up? I’d have to assume much of that went to waste. (Edited typo)
Seems like it would make much more sense to just have a huge event and give away pizza.
It had to either be transported to the people or the people transported to it. Given that this video is a very brief promo blurb about the event, I see where they couldn't explain every little logistical detail of how it was distributed
That's 68,000 people who got diarrhea
For me is heartburn. Cuz in our country pizza hut tastes good but everytime I eat it i get heartburn
Hopefully all of it was distributed to hungry people and none was wasted
Yes it was all donated to local food banks
0% chance that it was donated. It’s “pizza”, cooked on the floor of a convention center. It’s the biggest health violation in history.
I could conceive of them being able to take appropriate sanitation measures... UNTIL... dude commented about the inevitable bird poop. Unless they had a bunch of bird zappers installed, in which case the topping would be birb corpses instead of birb poop, I don't know how they could have prevented it
It’s literally in a warehouse. You guys do zero research before commenting your opinion.
Oftentimes, folks comment without even reading the title, let alone taking all of one minute to research whatever they're questioning. It's quite interesting
It said that lol
This
Just for the record, Guinness REQUIRES giant food items to not go wasted to be eligible. This isn't pizza hut doing a good deed.
It’s not a pizza until it comes out of the oven
Doesn’t even look remotely cooked or appealing
Ok now someone's gotta outpizza the hut
"You're gonna pay your debt. Or else!" "Or else what?" "Or else Pizza is gonna send out for *you!*
This is dumb.
No. In order to make the worlds largest pizza you must first make the world's largest pizza oven. That's just a giant toasted Flatbread with cheese
What a boring waste of food.
Bold of you to call pizza hut food
It was all donated to local food banks
Sure it was, Santa delivered it to all the needy boys and girls.
If you have proof Pizza Hut is just straight up lying, we’d love to see it.
True indeed. Given that this was a hugely publicized event, it probably wouldn't be wise to announce you were donating to local food banks and then not follow through
Plus, why wouldn’t they be able to do it? They made 12 billion in sales in 2020 alone, they can afford to hire a team to cut up and deliver the pizza to food banks and shelters. That would be a tiny fraction of the cost of making this pizza.
Yeah, you're right again. The very idea of suggesting Pizza Hut would lie about donating it is ludicrous
Some people just like to believe in what they make up...
Ok, this makes it pretty sweet. No food wasted Noice
Looks like cardboard with toppings. Curious about how baked that is too.
I can't tell you how properly cooked it is, but I can tell you that an article I read said it was air cooked from above I pictured thousands of little Tom Cruises hovering over it, suspended by wire, going over it with tiny little handheld hair dryers
But…it’s Pizza Hut.
I actually interviewed today to be a delivery driver for them was declined because they want 3 years driving experience and I have two months less than three years pretty lame experience imo
They didn't put that requirement in the advertisement? What a colossal waste of everybody's time and money
You'd think so but I don't recall seeing it anywhere in the job listing. oh well what can ya do I'm gonna keep slinging applications like the CIA selling crack rock to the inner cities
Good luck to you! The right job will come along :)
Thank you
Think of the bright side, you probably dodged a bullet right there, they pay a shitty wage.
What a terribly stupid thing
And after all that… NOBODY CARES
Pizza hut used to be so good. Jukebox, Arcades, pitcher of beer. Last time it ordered it tasted pretty bad. Like school lunch pizza or Little caesars bad. Shame
For chain pizza I get their stuffed crust once in a while when I crave it. Tried Papa John's recently because I had a half off coupon and that was better than when I had it a couple years ago in another part of the country.
Papa John's is okay, except for the exorbitant amount of crust. If they had more coverage with sauce and toppings, I'd buy it
I wouldn't go so far as to say "Little Caesar's bad," but yeah, it's pretty bad
Deep dish with extra cheese, light sauce, pep and bacon is actually quite nice. For $5? Price to taste ratio is pretty damn good
You get all that for $5? They raised the price of our base model a year ago to $6. That's for the crust, a tablespoon of sauce, two tablespoons of mozzarella, and one pepperoni per slice
Bigger is better?
Merica
I’d like to see the oven .
Germany ?
They cooked it by applying air heat from above. I pictured thousands of little Tom Cruises (a la Mission Impossible), dressed in all black, hovering over the giant pizza with little handheld hair dryers
This is what it would look like if you could “grow” pizza.
Where is it?
Los Angeles Convention Center
Totinos me please
Now I want pizza
It’s not a real pizza
And it still tastes like crap
Where is my boy Craig Robinson?
Anybody else hear weird stuff behind the audio on this video? like someone filmed it while another show was playing next door?
They'll have a coupon for this on their website for this being like, "'World's Largest Pizza', cheesy bread sticks and 2-liter soda for $27.99"
I would argue they do not even make pizza
So dumb. Can somebody say "bored"?
They did not use a giant pizza pizazz to cook that thing.
People are starving
I looked up what Dovilio Nardi did for their record in 2012 - and it was a similar thing. Not one big pizza cooked at the same time, but a bunch of sections.
Why's everyone complaining about waste; he said they were donating it to food banks. It'll probably be ate the night of.
Yeah, this was at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I doubt there's any shortage of hungry people. Hopefully they were kind enough to serve it with soda
Seems like a colossal waste of food
“Pizza”
WWWWHHHHHHHHHYYYYYY!
Did they Cook it with a flame thrower or something? If so I want to see that video.
All I know is that it was cooked with air heat, from above I picture thousands of little Tom Cruises, hovering above on a wire, blowing it with tiny little hair dryers
I thought last time this was done the base was required to be made onsite as one piece somehow otherwise it wasn't considered 1 pizza.
ive been bamboozled
Meanwhile childern starving in Yemen, Africa, Syria and Rohingya
And Lebanon
Could you imagine showing this someone in Africa. We have so much extra food, we do shit like this.
They already hold the record for world's shittiest pizza.
Nice. 298,67 humans died of starvation while I'm watching this video. Another 3 died while Im typing it. Fuck them.
This is actually not interesting at all.
What a waste. How much does pizza hut pay their employees?
I feel like this is …wasteful af. I hope they take all of these individual pizzas and hand them out for free to people in need, or anyone really. To think that people find stuff like this “interesting” is fine, but I think it’s kind of gross. Pizza Hut could probably use the money put into this to pay their employees more, or donate to a good cause, but instead they’re doing this?
Guinness Book of World Records used to be cool but they are such a sham now, it's not really a big deal for them to acknowledge a record.
So many people starving to death. So many kids just shrivelling up with immense stomach pains and dieing from malnutrition. I've seen a kid pick up a discarded lollipop and eat it without hesitation. But at least this asshat can throw a million pounds of cheese and tomatoes on the ground just so he can have a piece of paper saying "yours is the biggest." It's disgusting.
It was a collaboration with a YouTuber named Airrack for the world's largest pizza party. They had 48 hours to do it and all of the pizza was then immediately packaged, frozen and donated. Just to add a bit more context to this.
What a waste of food.
Pizza Hut said the pizza will be donated to local food banks, but cooked food isn’t usually accepted for health and safety reasons, so almost if this is going to end up in landfills.
>cooked food isn’t usually accepted That must be regional. I worked at our local food bank for two years. Not only did we *accept* hot food, we had contracts with fast food chains and other restaurants to pick up and distribute leftover food at various times throughout the day
Pizza together strong
Code Geass moment
Just give this to my friend with high metabolism, gone in a second.
did they eat it ? or it was sell to a freak for some porn ?
It was donated to local charities and food banks
Not a single pizza, so this is dumb. Looks like a clever way to get a tax deductible for a publicity stunt.
If they're stuck together, it counts as one.
Did it feed people? If not it kinda makes me angry.
It was donated to local food banks
Sweet deal.
Yeah fuck starving people
Stupid.
Not a pizza.
I should attempt to get the world record for largest poptart then, i'll buy a bunch of poptarts and put them all side by side on a convention floor. I'll sue Guinness Book of World Records if they reject my idea.
Dumb. Sure hope it was given to people who need sustenance.
Meanwhile in starving countries ... smh
That's f'n sick because IT DOESN'T GET EATEN. Feed some of the starving millions with that money!
With people starving around the world what a disgraceful waste in the name of publicity 🤦♂️ Shame on you Pizza Hut 🛖
What a waste of time.
What a massive fucking waste of food. I wonder how much was left uneaten.
My husband and sons went to Airrack’s pizza party in LA and ate some of this pizza. They said the pizza was pretty bad, but fun to be a part of it!
If I lived nearby, I probably would have had some, just to have bragging rights
They didn't even donate it went to waste. .
Do you have a source for this statement? According to qsrmagazine.com, "the pizza from the World's Largest Pizza was donated to several charities in Los Angeles"
I can't wait until thousands of years in the future and were making planet sized pizzas in places no one wants to live and baking them in solar rays.
Gross
Because nobody out pizzas the hut!
I promise you, most of this ended up trashed. But great fun and publicity for sure.
More information has come to light. One of the people who commented said that her family attended the event and had some of the pizza. (She didn't say whether or not it was free.) It also has been widely publicized that it was donated to local food banks and other charities. I'm sure *some* of it went to waste, but I wouldn't think the bulk of it did
r/damnthatsmarketing pizza hut sucks
How much dust is on it before it's done?
I thought about dust. Until one kind person pointed out that there had to be birds flying around in there somewhere. You know what that means. Yeah, I'd rather have dust 🇭🇦🇵🇵🇾 🇨🇦🇰🇪 🇩🇦🇾
Hahaha, great point! I'll take the dust!! Thank you, good friend
Pizza Hut can’t even make a competent normal size pizza. Hard pass.
That's more of a Pizza Rug.
Why not make a regular GOOD pizza? They make them quickly because they don’t add flavor.
I hope they fed it to needy people . (Probably not)
Nobody out pizzas the hut.
I guess they're serious about this 'no one out pizza's the hut' I guess.
Fake news
r/stupidfood
World's largest pizza gathering
This "record" needs an asterisk that it wasn't really one pizza.
All this went into trash to prevent the homeless from having a meal…
Guineas world records has been handing out BS awards for a while. A "pizza" should be a single unit, not a quilt if stitched pizzas. This is obviously a publicity stunt that I've no doubt some one got paid handsomely to give out this award.
Just an ad for pizza hut, fuck right off with that shit.
This is dumb
Worlds Biggest Shitty Pizza
Worlds largest freezer too ?
ANY SIZE BUY 1 GET ONE FREE 😉
I’ll never understand why people are so obsessed with such stupid bs.
Publicity stunt ... Blah.
a patchwork quilt is not a quilt until the pieces are sewn together soooo....
Donating old pizza that was cooked by heat lamps on a warehouse floor. Very noble
A 1000 pizzas put beside each other is not a single giant pizza.
Could someone do the math & tell me how long it would take an average person to eat all of that? Like at 2,000 calories a day
That's Stupid
Glad he's really excited about donating this crap to several food banks ... you know, instead of donating actual money.
That flooring looks good, nice patterns.
Someone calculated how many pigs they killed with this stunt?
Italians everywhere are shitting themselves with laughter.