Speaking of Bigfoot Pizza
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 3rd, 2006
As jayman mentioned in Loren’s Mothman Pizza post, there was a Bigfoot Pizza.
Pizza Hut introduced the Bigfoot Pizza in 1993. I don’t remember how long (no pun intended) it was marketed, but I believe it fizzled out pretty quickly.
Here is a link to one of the commercials that ran in the mid-90’s.
I ordered one of the Bigfoot pizzas once, it tasted like chicken…
Anybody else ever have one? Maybe that’s why they went extinct…
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
i remember they were rather short on supply. they smelled funny too.
i guess it is like when you hunt javillina. no matter what you do you cant get them to taste good. even if you soak it in sauce and make them into burrito they still taste nasty.
hmmm bigfoot burros with picante sauce?
I’ve never hunted javelina (one of those things I’ve wanted to do since moving to Texas), I’m assuming that, like with boars in Tennessee, you generally take the males? If so it’s the testosterone that makes them taste gamey. When my grandpa raised pigs, he always neutered the meat hogs.
My wife was working at Pizza Hut at the tail end of her Graduate degree and she recalls that they started great but then the orders just died out.
Maybe they are seasonal migrating Pizza’s.
Every now and again someone markets a cryptid themed product that touches a nerve.
I have a “Bigfoot” air freshener thingie in my RV shaped like a Sasquatch track. It’s so potent that it masks Skunk Ape odor!
Now when I detect the presence of my big hairy friend, it smells like someone took a cr– on a Christmas tree.
I was camping in the Sierra’s once and a Bigfoot Pizza ran across the road in front of the car. We just caught a glimpse of it in the headlights. It turned and looked at us, then just kept moving across the road in front of us. It’s eyes look just like big slices of pepperoni. We stopped the car an tried to get a better look at it, but it had moved too far away to see it well. We took a picture of it disapearing in the woods, but all you can see in the pic is a kind of roundish, fuzzy , out of focus blob. We did detect a lingering odor though, it kind of smelled like tomato sauce. I have never seen one since, but we have seen signs that it has been active. We have some nice casts of large, maybe 20 to 24 inch imprints. They kind of look like a pizza box, only much larger. We will be diplaying them at the Pizza in California? conferance on the second tuesday of next week. I think Craig is going to speak at the conference, something about hoaxing pizza sightings and how to make sure you aren’t taken in by a phoney Pizza delivery guy. Oh, I also heard of some guy named Pizzamaker that wants to form a group called PFRO(Pizza Field Research Organization)to gather all the BF Pizza sightings into one data base. He is seeking funding at the moment. Then there is that whole Sonoma Pizza sighting thing, but we don’t want to go there do we?
That is one big pizza, my friend.
Well you could still get it here at our Pizza Hut in Ind. up to about 3 years ago it was a REALLY BIG pizza. It sold rather well here for a long time. Me and the wife and kids always got it with Pep. Mushrooms and extra cheese. Never tasted like chicken here.
I remember those. Similar promotion to the recent King Kong tie in with Papa Johns. It was their attempt to come up with a catchy name for extra large. I think it had some special kind of crust treatment too.
Having used to work for Pizza Hut (in Australia mind you), whilst the Bigfoot pizza was a bit before my time (I do remember the adds though), evidence of Bigfoot pizzas remain even to this day.
In the store shed out the back of my old store, there where literally hundreds of old square pans which were reused over and over for different promotions (such as apple and cinnamon sticks which were brought in every couple of years). We even used to use them for special ‘catering’ orders if the client requested it so they were easier to cut into small squares.
There was absolutely no difference size wise however. The same amount of dough (450g) and topping are applied to both the square and round pizzas. It was just a novel shape 😛
LOL Mausinn! 🙂 Are you sure it wasnt just a man in a pizza costume? i suggest you check the crust to cheese ratio, as this is much higher in a real BF Pizza!
bigfoot pizza was just a gimmick to out sell the competition..it was no different than any other pizza..many use gimmicks to sell products.
Even though yes it was a gimmick it still made it fun! Esp. for the kids.
I kept ordering them, in an attempt to get a Bigfoot Pizza wrapper that I could keep for my popular culture collection. I’m not sure if I have one stored away because I remember them as always being greasy – an uncollectible!
Ok, so not only do I remember the pizza, I remember the blimp that crashed in Manhattan that was busy displaying a giant bigfoot pizza ad on it’s side.
I remember because my father was working for a company named US Lighter Than Air (US-LTA) that was based here in Eugene Oregon. My father was principally responsible for a fiber optic based large format sign system that was originally intended for ground based applications, but was later adapted to go on the side of a blimp.
The particular blimp that this sign went on was manufactured here in Eugene in the mid 1980s, and at that point my father was involved with the company that would later become US-LTA. In the mid 80s the company was known as Grace Aircraft, founded by Denis (sp?) Grace, I can’t quite remember how my father was involved, but I do remember spending many nights and weekends playing in the facility where the blimp was being built.
Ok…sorry that was so long, it’s just that it’s really rare for me to have the opportunity to share that little insignifcant piece of history.
BTW both of the abovementioned companies have since gone under.