The pizza already has cheese. You don’t need any in the dang crust at all. I find it strange and confusing but I’m just a caveman. Your stuffed crust pizza world frightens me.
KEEP CRUST JUST CRUST
The pizza already has cheese. You don’t need any in the dang crust at all. I find it strange and confusing but I’m just a caveman. Your stuffed crust pizza world frightens me.
KEEP CRUST JUST CRUST
Heard a rumor, once, that stuffed crust pizza, extra cheese pizza, etc., were attempts for the gov’t to use gov’t-stored cheese reserves that would go bad soon.
Which is probably why the stuffed crust cheese always tasted like ass.
Afaik it doesn’t have to do with those specific cheese reserves, but it indeed was an attempt by the govt to make people eat more cheese due to the massive overproduction of cheese.
Not the best source but the first I found: https://www.chowhound.com/1724866/milk-overproduction-pizza-hut-cheese-origin/
Edit: Ok, I went to find a better explanation of the whole thing (it’s actually a long story). There’s a very good video by Climate Town which explains the history of dairy farming in the US, and it does mention that specific pizza case. Sorry for the video format, but it’s very well documented, with a lot of sources, and it’s a genuinely great explanation. YouTube link
Initially I was highly doubtful this would even make a dent in national cheese levels… But an average pizza uses approx 150 grams of cheese. The cheese crust uses another approx 150 grams, doubling the cheese per pizza, which is insane considering you can hardly taste it at all
Climate Town did a thing on dairy, mostly on cheese, which is a bit adjacent to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiLly6Z1xs
Cheese can go bad?
…and you believed that?