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You Can Get Free Pizza Hut If You Ruin Your Dinner This Month
The holidays can be a chaotic time when you have a full house, and you’re just trying to do your best to impress the in-laws with your cooking. You certainly wouldn’t be the first person to burn your would-be fancy dinner, but this year, a burnt casserole or overly dried-out turkey doesn’t have to ruin the evening: There’s a small chance at redemption for some Pizza Hut customers.
The Pizza Hut Holiday Rescue gives customers a chance to win a free Triple Treat Box, which consists of two medium, one-topping pizzas, five breadsticks and 10 Cinnabon Mini Rolls. You just need to provide the company with photographic proof of your culinary disadvantages:
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How to enter the Pizza Hut Holiday Rescue
The sweepstakes will run from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24; each day, one winner will be selected from among all the terrible cooks who sent a picture of their ruined dinner to the chain’s “holiday rescue line,” [email protected]. The winner of each day will receive the limited edition Triple Treat Box and will be announced on the following day by email. If you did not win on the day you entered, you will be automatically entered to the following day. You can send up to one entry per day to maximize your chances of winning (assuming you’re a really terrible cook).
There can only be one entry per household and per email. You can read more about the rules and limitations here. The sweepstakes was created after Pizza Hut ran a survey in which they found that 60% of Americans said the holidays caused stress, over half admitted to ruining a holiday dish, and 62% of people said they wished they had ordered a pizza instead of prepping a big holiday meal. Now maybe they can get that pizza for free.
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Internet Praises Ukrainian’s Cooking Mid-Blackout: ‘Resilience’
A Ukrainian man has gone viral on TikTok after showing his followers how he prepares dinner amidst the blackouts in his country, with some users praising his “resilience.”
In the video, TikTok user Gregory Donchik (gregorydonchik13) showed how he had to get creative to cook a pasta dish. The clip begins with a man dousing pieces of coal in an aluminum foil-covered pot with lighter fluid. He then prepared chicken, coating the meat with seasonings before sliding it into a frying pan, which was placed above the coals to cook.
After the chicken is finished, it cooks up a medley of vegetables in a frying pan and adds the meat. After boiling a pot of pasta and adding cream to the mixture, he’s left with what looks like a delicious and filling dinner.
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Ukrainians have faced ongoing blackouts as a result of the country’s war with Russia after President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion in February.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Sergey Kovalenko, CEO of the Ukrainian energy provider YASNO, said the country could face several more months of power outages. The outages are a result of attacks on Ukraine’s power grid by Russian forces.
Since being shared on November 29, the viral TikTok post has attracted some 10.6 million views as well as more than 974,500 likes.
The overwhelming majority of those posting in the comments praised the man’s cooking—although some believed the pasta was a bit overcooked.
TikTok user Your Mr. Ice said: “Bro in Ukraine and still eat better than me.”
Amanda Patterson posted: “Bro’s in the middle of a war and people are still like ‘pasta’s overcooked,’ like brah at least they are alive.”
Khaled added: “If Ukraine eats like this, I’m moving there. That’s better than what I ate in my entire life.”
While Jamie commented: “Your resilience and bravery give me hope. your meal looks beautiful. keep finding light in the dark, friend”
Others cautioned Donchik of the health risks that come from cooking with coal while indoors.
“Please be careful. Coals produce carbon monoxide, a colorless odorless, and poisonous gas. Idk (I don’t know) if your outside but please do this outside if possible,” user Your Proud Dad wrote in the comments.
According to the World Health Organization, cooking with coal generates harmful household air pollution that can cause serious health risks, such as cancer. It is noted that each year 3.2 million people worldwide die prematurely from illnesses attributable to household air pollution caused while using certain fuels for cooking.
The WHO added: “6 percent are from lung cancer: approximately 11 percent of lung cancer deaths in adults are attributable to exposure to carcinogens from household air pollution caused by using kerosene or solid fuels such as wood, charcoal or coal for household energy needs.”
Newsweek reached out to gregorydonchik13 for comment.
Food Diary: How a 28-Year-Old Teacher Eats on $50K/Year in Providence, Rhode Island
Welcome to The Receipt, a series documenting how Bon Apétit readers eat and what they spend doing it. Each food diary follows one anonymous reader’s week of expenses related to groceries, restaurant meals, coffee runs, and every bite in between. In this time of rising food costs, The Receipt reveals how folks—from different cities, with different incomes, on different schedules—are figuring out their food budgets.
In today’s Receipt, a 28-year-old English teacher in Providence, Rhode Island who drinks a lot of kefir, considers ruining her intestines to eat gluten, and is very opinionated about Caesar salad. Keep reading for her receipts.
The finances
What are your pronouns? She/her
What is youroccupation? I am a high school English Language Arts (ELA) teacher. During the fall, I worked as an Assistant Scorer for NCAA volleyball games, and in the spring, I coached a high school volleyball team.
How old are you? I’m 28 years old.
What city and state do you live in? Providence, Rhode Island
What is your annual salary, if you have one? $50,253, as a Level 2 teacher with Master’s. Level 2 is my salary step and year in teaching, so it means that I am a second year teacher. I have a Master’s of Education in Urban Teaching from Providence College, where I worked as a Graduate Assistant for the Black Studies Program.
How much is one paycheck, after taxes? $1,293.45
How often are you paid? (eg weekly) Biweekly
How much money do you have in savings? I have almost $1,000 in savings.
What are your approximate fixed monthly expenses beyond food? (ie rents, subscriptions, bills)
- Rent and utilities: Close to $1,000
- gym memberships: $60
- Canva subscriptions: $12
- Apple Music: $5
- credit card bills: About $200
- Total: $1,277
The diets
Do you follow a certain diet or have dietary restrictions?
I’m Muslim, so I don’t eat pork. I drink alcohol very rarely. Food allergies are the bane of my existence; I can’t eat gluten, garlic, almonds, hazelnuts, jicama, jackfruit, cherries, or kiwi.
What are the grocery staples you always buy, if any?
I’m always buying kefir, yogurt, granola, coffee, half and half, arugula, mushrooms, bananas, rice cakes, dates, eggs, deli meat, rice and lentils.
How often in a week do you dine out versus cook at home?
I typically eat out one to three times a week.
How often in a week did you dine out while growing up?
My family would have “Junk Food Mondays” when my parents would go to a fast food restaurant and pick up dinner. Once in a while, my grandpa would take us out for dinner, or we would go somewhere as a family for special occasions. Kabob and Curry, Andrea’s, and East Side Pockets are three places in Providence where we would get take out from once in a while. My family has been eating at those restaurants for more than 20 years. Being a regular is nice, because they know we like a lot of extra sauce.