A Triple Treat for pizza lovers, all boxed up for the holidays
This week, I reached out for a Triple Treat Box from the No. 1 pie thrower, Pizza Hut, with 15,600 restaurants across the universe (great song by the Beatles).
On this rare occasion, we’re talking about the packaging, not what’s inside — like children playing with the cardboard box instead of the expensive toy. It’s so cute. I still do that, except now people just shake their heads and think it’s creepy.
Here’s the Triple Treat Box breakdown: a big red box big enough to hold a stack of three medium-size pizza boxes. It’s like a dresser from IKEA, except you don’t need that stupid Allen wrench to put the Triple Treat Box together.
That’s the Triple Treat deal: two medium, one-topping pizzas, an order of breadsticks and a giant Hershey Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie for $19.99. Available for a limited time only —probably until they get rid of all the Triple Treat Boxes.
Depending on whether you have Pizza Hut coupons, the Triple Treat Box is a decent deal — a couple of bucks cheaper than ordering a la carte.
Unlike those heathens at Starbucks, Pizza Hut’s festive red Triple Treat Box looks like a Christmas present. It’s got a big painted-on bow and everything. If you look closely, those white decorations that look like snowflakes? They’re breadsticks and pizza slices.
Very clever and insidious and subliminal, Pizza Hut. Do your box designers moonlight as copy writers at Bloomingdale’s?
You can order your medium pizzas anyway you like ’em — pick your crust, your sauce and your toppings from Pizza Hut’s ridiculously huge array of choices. I went “regular guy,” and got one sausage pizza on Thin ’n Crispy crust and one mushroom pan pizza.
The Hershey Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie is new and steals the show. It’s big and sliced like a pizza. As Rachael Ray says, “Yummo!”
I hate when she says that.
The breadsticks come as you like ’em, too. I got mine with cheese coating. It’s like when you’re ready to throw out the pizza box and you take one last look-see … and there are still some crusts in there. Again, yummo!
Now she’s got me saying it.
The Triple Treat Box is a nifty idea because you don’t have to balance three boxes on the trip from your front door to the kitchen like a circus act. Everything is tucked neatly and safely inside one big box.
Just a suspicion, but I think the Hut came up with this idea for Halloween — Triple Treat sounds too much like Trick or Treat — but they missed the deadline. So they painted the boxes like Christmas presents and didn’t cancel the order.
The best thing about the box, you can use it to mail Grandpa that sweater for Christmas.
As long as Gramps doesn’t mind his sweater smelling like a pepperoni pizza.