Discussion: Pizza Hut

We broke the record on 1998 week camp without the help of the territorians :)

Any more details Dave? This came up in discussions during the training camp on the weekend - we had pizza for tea on Sunday night. Dave Shep holds some sort of record?

The number 28 comes to mind. The ACT record (at least in my era) was 19, held by Rob Walter. My PB was 17. Mark Gregson, who was a very young-looking 13- or 14-year-old, used to get offended if he only got charged the under-12s price.

is that 28 thin base or pan based?

28 thin based = 14 pan based in the rules.

I was thinking the overall record. I know the boys were not allowed to finish dinner till we had 12 slices each and Damon, Macken etc racked up some 20+ numbers. The girls had to have 6 i think but most of them ate more. I dont know the exact the number but the senior fellas boys were all claiming the record. I thought Lee Coady was the individual record holder? 28 sounds about right.

Shep's a pussy, there is no way he could eat 28 slices. I mean he doesn't even eat meat anymore. Pussy.

28 thin-based vegetarian = 7 pan meatlovers

haha we should have written the rules down on a napkin to pass down from generation to generation.

Yep, you should have done that - there are some fantastic tales of camps and camp exploits that have survived through the years, though the facts are clouded at times - we need some of your generation of squad life to attend a camp one year and spend some time telling tall tales and true from the legendary past!!

Now I'm reminded of the 1991 schools' team trip to Qld where dinner at Pizza Hut (Kay must have been desperate, if she let us eat junk food) was the only good thing about staying a night in Capalaba (yes, the dodgy caravan park with the koala killer) and where, when bored and filling out the usual form for the Pizza Hut birthday club, we may or may not have filled out David Calder's details rather than those of anyone in the SA schools' team.

The real trick with Pizza Hut records is to know when to stop, even if it is 10 years later. ;-}

in 1990 at the July NSW squad camp in Newcastle they were going for "the record" and Adrian Mcgarva went for a lap of the block mid way through the challenge to, as he put it, "make room for more pizza". I am a little sceptical and think it may have been for a cheeky spew to make more room for pizza. That wasnt the funniest bit of the camp though. A current constable having a shadow karate fight with a 5yo kid was pretty funny too.

WA rules were definitely 3 thin pan = 1 deep pan (ie don't bother eating thin pan if you want to chase records). I don't think I ever made it past 20, but I remember some Hoppers making 24 and a couple of desserts, Damian Dawson trying to subtly throw all his crusts into the pot of an indoor plant, and a couple of the team who redecorated the inside of their folks cars on the way home.
On a separate occasion I remember being kicked out for being bare foot... OHS rubbish :(

Yeah I confirm Lazydave's recollection of Lee Coady holding the record. I remember Shep picking off the meat even back then

I wonder if Frank & Ethel Anderson ever fully overcame the post-traumatic stress that must have followed managing the '89 NSW junior trip to Victoria.

Wasn't it about this time that frank retired from the O scene for a few years?

LOST_Richard will presumably remember a jet-lagged visit to Toowoomba Pizza Hut the night before a national carnival way back when. Adrian Day and I were locked on 23 slices (of deep pan of course) each and had to progress to the Dessert Bowl Shoot Out which I sadly confess to have won 4-3!

I don't think I could, nor would want to, eat more than about 10 slices these days.

the only record Shep holds is criminal