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tuscani pasta.
Has anyone else seen that new Pizza Hut commercial where they bring all these people into this new “restaurant” called Tuscani? They bring all these urbanites in this restaurant space, serve them pasta in large-lipped shallow bowls (it’s the sign of a fancy restaurant), then after they’re all done raving about how great the pasta is, they reveal that the pasta is actually from Pizza Hut.
I hate that commercial.
This means one of two things:
a) Pizza Hut’s pasta is actually really, really good.
b) A lot of people pretend they know about food but can be so easily deceived – and yet have no qualms in giving their meaningless opinion.
Call me crazy, but I’m going to go with the latter. Bunch of kids.
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about 2 years ago
How about this. Its a commercial…….
They are paid actors, and the lens on the camera makes it appear its “undercover”. I seriously doubt any of them are actual customers in a real restaurant setting.
about 2 years ago
I grew up in Italy, in an Italian family. Most people in the States have no idea what real Italian food tastes like, even these so called epicureans, and no wonder, ours is the country of Hamburger Helper, McDonalds, and Pizza Hut. Here is the secret to the ‘grande cucina Italiana” and “la cuisine Francais”, are you ready? It’s not cooking schools, it’s called taking the time to cook at home, as opposed to whipping something up in 10 minutes. That is something that Wolfgang Puck and all the rest of those chefs rarely own up to. That is the real reason why real Italian food is so good, you can go into virtually any home in Italy and get a great meal.
about 2 years ago
Having actually tried it, I’ll have to say it ain’t half bad. Not delicious, but something that I would make (I make Hamburger Helper). Is it Italian? It’s as Italian as their pizza….
There’s also a study (they showed a bit of it on the Food Network) where most people will subconsciously judge food moreso by presentation than taste. That said, they showed a family being served a store bought cake and served it on a nice big ceramic plate instead of a cheapo Dixie paper plate. They reacted positively as if it was a home made dessert, much like with the fancy large-lipped bowls in the Pizza Hut commercial. You serve the food on paper Pizza Hut branded Chinet plates, it’s received as well.
All that said, would I eat that pasta again? Only if I was hungry enough for a buffet, but don’t want to go that far to get it (it’s across the street from work).
about 2 years ago
Typo: * it’s NOT received as well.
about 2 years ago
Actually was curious about this whole thing because I couldn’t believe a New York City restaurant would do this and I had never heard of Tuscani. It didn’t take much research to find out that it’s a fictitious restaurant
about 2 years ago
…fictitious restaurant
about 2 years ago
“Most people in the States have no idea what real Italian food tastes like”
You are a buffoon who has no idea what an Italian restaurant is, and has no idea that people (shocker!) actually do cook real Italian food in American homes. Closed-mindedness – it’s a bad thing!
about 2 years ago
“You are a buffoon who has no idea what an Italian restaurant is, and has no idea that people (shocker!) actually do cook real Italian food in American homes. Closed-mindedness – it’s a bad thing!”
Tu sei un’idiota e un cretino che non sa che cazzo dicie, va’ a farte un’ culo fottuto!
about 2 years ago
Daß Sie sind ein Dummkopf, daran ist kein Zweifel.
See? I can duck the issue by irrelevantly using another language, too! Yayyyyyyyy. Ball’s in your court, Herr Unaufrichtig.
about 2 years ago
Vernunft
Pay attention schiezenkopf, when you develop the minimum of courage that it takes to actually display an actual name Herr Reason, then you may talk. You obviously did not bother to read my post before going off half cocked; second, I checked out your silly and pompous blog you little sniveling cretin of a philosophy student, and when I feel like listening to anything, from someone who is wasting his time on the most useless academic discipline that I can personally think of, I will actually ask for it. In the meantime, assuming that you are heterosexual, I suggest that you spend bit less time surfing internet websites dedicated to pornography, and get yourself a real girlfriend, maybe that will give a better disposition and the capacity to actually read and understand what people are saying.
about 2 years ago
yeah it’s not a real restaurant.
several have mentioned this already.
do you not understand that this critically undermines your argument? indeed your argument, far from being based on the reality of the new york restaurant scene, is based on the reality pizza hut commercial.
they want you to conclude your choice “a”. now that i’ve seen you put it forward, let me then congratulate them on a job well done.
about 2 years ago
Here we go.
“Vernunft
Pay attention schiezenkopf, when you develop the minimum of courage that it takes to actually display an actual name Herr Reason, then you may talk.”
You spelled it wrong. It’s not really that hard to get English-German translation on the Internet, so why the stupid mistake? Oh, and the whole “you’re being anonymous and this fatally undermines your argument” is utterly fallacious bullshit. You know that, right?
“You obviously did not bother to read my post before going off half cocked; second, I checked out your silly and pompous blog you little sniveling cretin of a philosophy student, and when I feel like listening to anything, from someone who is wasting his time on the most useless academic discipline that I can personally think of, I will actually ask for it.”
I did not bother to learn Italian because you disingenuously switched to another language for no reason whatsoever. In a fit of pique, you decided that actually continuing this discussion in English would force you to make points and meet me in actual argument. Instead, you ducked the issue and acted like a tool. Score one for you.
P.S.: I’m not a philosophy student! Guess you didn’t pay much attention to that blog you claimed to have read. But then, you don’t seem able to read and write in English, so quel dommage (oh no another language halllp). That you don’t have the intellectual ability to understand philosophy doesn’t make it worthless, and perhaps you ought to get off your high horse before you look like a complete fool. I’m in law school. Make sure my fries are piping hot.
“In the meantime, assuming that you are heterosexual, I suggest that you spend bit less time surfing internet websites dedicated to pornography, and get yourself a real girlfriend, maybe that will give a better disposition and the capacity to actually read and understand what people are saying.”
Italians are vicious homophobes? Ruh roh! Assuming various things about me (pornography, sexual orientation, no girlfriend) is classy if totally unwarranted. You have no idea who I am. That you are trying to argue against me by attacking me personally is just more and more evidence that you have no basis for attack. It’s called argumentum ad hominem, and it’s a FALLACY, YOU IGNORANT EUROTRASH FUCKTARD. Do you know what “projecting” is? Meet my argument or shut the fuck up.
You seem to take pride in ignorance. It’s pathetic. Go away, peon.
about 2 years ago
Fantastic. Another attorney. You are the at the bottom of the heap, no matter the intelligence you have, nor the languages you speak.
If you were truly that intelligent, law would be at the bottom of your list. You would have set your goals much higher. Sorry.
about 1 year ago
This crap is fake and im glad someone else and vernunft you are right some people do make real italian food in their homes, IN THEIR HOMES!!!! NOT AT PIZZA HUT!! You must be retarded!!!
about 1 year ago
‘s real – but contrived.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28adnewsletter2.html
about 1 year ago
“Fantastic. Another attorney. You are the at the bottom of the heap, no matter the intelligence you have, nor the languages you speak.”
Your complex is showing!
“This crap is fake and im glad someone else and vernunft you are right some people do make real italian food in their homes, IN THEIR HOMES!!!! NOT AT PIZZA HUT!! You must be retarded!!!”
Whoops, read my comments! I never said Pizza Hut made good Italian food! Whoops! I was refuting the idea that NOWHERE in America is there good Italian food. Epic. Fail.
about 1 year ago
Vernunft, you are quite the douchebag.
about 1 year ago
I want to add only one thing, as a PhD student in, and teacher of, German: That piece written in German is obviously ‘babelfished’, the person in question clearly does not actually know German.
about 1 year ago
Awww, Claire, never read Kant? It’s a play on the Introduction to the B Edition of the Kritik der reinen Vernunft. PhD student and you don’t know that? Quel dommage!
about 1 year ago
Just wait till you see the one where they take a blindfolded family for a ride around the block in a limo and dupe them into tasting pasta in thier OWN HOME! They act like they don’t know where they are even though they had to walk up about 10 steps to get to the front door and sit in thier own kitchen. It’s seriously the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen and anyone thinking this has to be true is a moron.
about 7 months ago
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about 7 months ago
You’re darn right Dear Brother !!