Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[overgeeked]

"I'm so bored with the same old, same old Pizza Hut pizza. Why won't Pizza Hut make a pizza where the cheese is actually just a kind of frozen dairy treat and the crust is actually made out of a waffle, twisted into a cone, and instead of pepperoni, your toppings are sprinkles? Pizza Hut is really letting us down by insisting on creating the same style of pizza as always, rather than responding to consumer demands."

"I first went to Pizza Hut when they started selling ice cream cones. I've loved those ice cream cones for the last few decades and they're amazing. I just don't get why people are always complaining about Pizza Hut not selling pizza anymore? You know you can go to another shop that does actually sell pizza, right? I don't care that you grew up eating pizza from Pizza Hut. I don't care how good it was. They haven't sold pizza in decades. They sell ice cream now. Get over it. Move on."

 

[el-remmen]

I love Star Wars. I love talking about Star Wars. I love analyzing Star Wars. I love the movies, the comics, the toys, the books. I love the originals and the EU and the Disney EU.

And sometimes I seriously need people to STFU about Star Wars. Not every thread is an excuse spew your Random Star Wars Thought of The Day. And the next one of you to start a Last Jedi argument is going straight on the ignore list.

Okay, I feel better now.

Did you know that White Lotus season 3 contains a Star Wars riff?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You know you can go to another shop that does actually sell pizza, right?

Wait, there are other pizza parlors?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"And I call it ... WHEEL 2.0!"

 

[overgeeked]

Wait, there are other pizza parlors?

“This place is ours now. I don’t care that you grew up eating pizza here. You should move on. Go somewhere else. Pizza Hut only serves ice cream now. And it’s ours. Get out.”

 

[Autumnal]

Are we supposed to find that shocking or something? Businesses change. Founders move on. Places retain their name but change ownership. Businesses shut down and someone else moves into the location. Properties get sold and the physical structure is torn down and replaced by something else. And that’s apart from natural disasters and the like.

The fact that I want to continue getting something from a particular source isn’t any kind entitlement to get it. I’ve lived with the loss of many things I used to enjoy buying and consuming. Sometimes there’s a substitute, something close enough to scratch the same kind of itch. Other times - usually - I find a different kind of satisfaction and carry on.

 

[Scribe]

In other news, I'm going to print my Psion stuff. :>

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Are we supposed to find that shocking or something? Businesses change. Founders move on. Places retain their name but change ownership. Businesses shut down and someone else moves into the location. Properties get sold and the physical structure is torn down and replaced by something else. And that’s apart from natural disasters and the like.

Yeaaaah, I get it.

But sometimes, the name has an intrinsic significance that is belied if the underlying business changes too much. If Pizza Hut became an ice cream parlor with nothing to do with pizza, its core identity has changed; it sows confusion & resentment instead of customer loyalty.

This is a real concern. I personally know of several businesses- many of them restaurants- that didn’t change their names to reflect their new business model, and many of them have failed.

When the New Orleans Jazz got moved to Utah, they retained the “Jazz” part of the name. Despite not impacting the quality of the team, some people still mock them for this, decades later. On a certain level, it reflects an unwillingness to blend in with the local culture. Wouldn’t something like “Mountaineers” be a popular change?

 

[Autumnal]

Names just don’t signify that way to me. But I recognize that they do to others, across a whole spectrum of intensity. Thanks - that’s a help to me in interpreting others’ reactions.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeaaaah, I get it.

But sometimes, the name has an intrinsic significance that is belied if the underlying business changes too much. If Pizza Hut became an ice cream parlor with nothing to do with pizza, its core identity has changed; it sows confusion & resentment instead of customer loyalty.

This is a real concern. I personally know of several businesses- many of them restaurants- that didn’t change their names to reflect their new business model, and many of them have failed.

When the New Orleans Jazz got moved to Utah, they retained the “Jazz” part of the name. Despite not impacting the quality of the team, some people still mock them for this, decades later. On a certain level, it reflects an unwillingness to blend in with the local culture. Wouldn’t something like “Mountaineers” be a popular change?

One of the most popular Thai restaurants that I know, in Toronto, is named Salad King. It was a salad bar when it was purchased by the current owners. When asked why they didn't change the name, the current owner said, "Sign too expensive." The place is good so everyone has just rolled with it, for several decades now.