Mom Review: Pizza Hut Pizza Mia
I’ll say it right up front, these pizzas are terrible.
I generally make my own pizza at home. Sometimes I take a shortcut and but raw dough from the bakery at my supermarket, but then I top it with homemade sauce, deli pepperoni and great veggies. But, we were hungry, I had a headache and I did not feel like cooking.
I am very budget minded these days, so after seeing the ads on TV we ordered three Pizza Hut Pizza Mia pizzas last night. Two of the pizzas had pepperoni and one had Italian sausage. There was noting wrong with the toppings. They appear to be the same toppings used on any other Pizza Hut pizza, but that is where the similarity stops.
The Pizza Mia pizzas use a different crust, different sauce and different cheese. When I called to order the pizzas, I was not told this. When we called to complain about the pizzas, the manager referred to them as “budget pizzas” and told us how the crust, sauce and cheese differ.
The crust is sweet, but dry and vaguely crumby. In fact, it tastes stale. As soon as it cools, it becomes very arid and looks like it has paper pulp in it. I’m sure that is not truly the case, but it’s my best comparison.
The sauce has a decent flavor that relies heavily on oregano, but it is obviously thickened with starch or some other substance. It is not a good quality, tomato-reliant sauce at all. The cheese is fine, really, but there is very little of it and because of that it is not even distributed.
I loathe the pizzas from Dominos and when Pizza Hut introduced this deal where you can get three or more 1-topping medium pizzas for $5 each, I was excited to finally have a good source of inexpensive party food from Pizza Hut – a pizza place we generally find to have high quality products. But, this new Pizza Mia line is just as bad, if not worse, than the product from Dominoes.
Don’t waste your money. By the way, the manager promised to credit my account. That is the only good part of my experience.