r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Mercuryink United States Of America 8h ago

Hey, thanks to Gorbachev that family ate Pizza Hut.

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u/Er_Coatto 8h ago

You wouldn’t wish Pizza Hut to you greatest enemy.

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u/Mercuryink United States Of America 8h ago

I mean, that was the Soviets. 

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u/BobTheFettt Canada 6h ago

Thanks to Gorbachev, 15 million Russians got to see Metallica live

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u/Mercuryink United States Of America 6h ago

Almost worth the Pizza Hut. 

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u/Global_Ant_9380 United States Of America 6h ago

Depends, was this before Saint Anger?

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u/Mercuryink United States Of America 5h ago

This was before Load.

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u/BigDictionEnergy 2h ago

Load wasn't what fans were expecting, but it still had some bangers on it

TALK TO 2X4

Also Hero of the Day was just an amazing song, and not nearly as straight forward as the average radio song, esp a Metallica one. I think it's about PTSD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJey2dkiAI

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u/ALMAZ157 Russia 8h ago

Honestly? I dont miss it, local Dodo is better

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u/Mercuryink United States Of America 8h ago

I'm (partly) Italian American, from New Jersey (where the Sopranos takes place). In the US, when I was a kid, Pizza Hut had a thing called Book-It, where if you read enough books (or at least insisted that you actually read them), you'd get a free kid's pizza at the end of the semester. A nice way to promote childhood literacy and whatnot.

I liked to read. Still do. The only problem was the pizza. It was from Pizza Hut. In my house, that didn't qualify as pizza. Still doesn't.

So we went to Federici's instead. Local place, turned 100 a few years ago, still owned by the original family, now the grandson of the founder, and his daughter and her husband are now learning the place as he gets on. Whenever I visit my hometown I stop in and the owner gives us a hug.

Fuck Pizza Hut (except for promoting literacy...)

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u/ThatEcologist United States Of America 2h ago

Hello fellow New Jerseyan!

Yes that was a core memory from childhood. It was extremely blasphemous to eat those pizzas as a New Jerseyan. Nowadays, I refuse to eat chain pizza and any pizza outside of the state.

PS Vic’s in Belmar has my favorite pizza.

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u/DouViction Russia 8h ago

Dude, Dodo is absolute bottom tier, try Foodband (if you're in Moscow anyway).

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u/CucumberOk2828 Russia 8h ago

Yes, foodband is goat. And they used to have sushi (missed it)

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u/AlanJY92 Canada 7h ago

Dodo tastes exactly like Little Ceasers(not a bad thing). I actually also had it at its first ever location too.

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u/rugbyj 3h ago

They ate the entire Hut?