Sure, you learn that proper — previous to 2012, Pizza Hut was the highest purchaser of kale in america (by way of NPR). It might appear odd that the quick meals chain who got here up with each the new canine stuffed crust pizza and the triple decker pizza could be shopping for a lot kale, till you take into account what they had been utilizing the kale for, which wasn’t to feed its prospects. The leafy inexperienced might have been a part of Pizza Hut’s as soon as ubiquitous salad bar, however solely as a ruffly inexperienced ornament, and to not really eat.
Even when some intrepid pre-2012 Pizza Hut buyer plucked some kale from the garnish so as to add to their salad, it is uncertain that they’d have completed so greater than as soon as, until they knew to therapeutic massage the leaves first to make the in any other case robust leaves extra tender and palatable (which nearly everybody, in fact, now is aware of). Today, most Pizza Huts do not even supply a salad bar anymore, in accordance with Eat This, Not That! Nor does Pizza Hut supply kale as a topping for any of its pizzas. However then, nobody goes to a Pizza Hut to eat kale.
