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Allison Griswold reports at Slate that Pizza Hut wants to help you order your food subconsciously with a new product that is being tested at 300 locations across the UK that uses eye-tracking technology to allow diners to order within seconds using only their eyes. The digital menu shows diners a canvas of 20 toppings and builds their pizza based on which toppings they look at longest. To try again, a diner can glance at a "restart" button. "Finally the indecisive orderer and the prolonged menu peruser can cut time and always get it right," a Pizza Hut spokesperson said in a statement, "so that the focus of dining can be on the most important part - the enjoyment of eating!" According to news release from Tobii Technology, the Subconscious Menu can determine which ingredients your mind and eyes have been looking at longest in exactly 2.5 seconds. The menu then uses a powerful mathematical algorithm to identify, from 4896 possible ingredient combinations, the customer’s perfect pizza. "Tests on the Subconscious Menu have been incredibly positive with 98% of people, recommended a pizza with ingredients they love."
(Score: 1) by N3Roaster on Wednesday December 03 2014, @10:33PM
I wouldn't pair it with shrimp and peanut butter, but banana pizza is pretty good. I don't know if anybody makes it outside of Brazil though.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 04 2014, @02:27AM
Banana and peanut butter go together really well, or at least I liked that on a hamburger I had.
(Score: 1) by N3Roaster on Thursday December 04 2014, @02:38AM
Banana and peanut butter do go well together, but probably not on a pizza. To make a banana pizza you pre-bake a thin crust to get it crisp, brush on honey as the adhesive layer, banana slices in the honey, and maybe a bit of cinnamon dusted on top. Then the whole thing goes back in the oven until it's hot. You could try using peanut butter instead of honey, but I think it would be hard to get a good balance there unless you were making your own specifically for this purpose. Now, a chocolate banana pizza on the other hand...
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(Score: 2) by MrNemesis on Thursday December 04 2014, @02:01PM
In London at least I've been to at least one pizza place (run by ozzies I believe) that, amongst other things, made a bacon (proper back bacon which I'm not sure you get in the Americas) and banana pizza. It looked like something that had been shat out of a dyspeptic street-sweeping machine and tasted like a choir of angels were having an orgy in your mouth.
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."
(Score: 2) by useless on Thursday December 04 2014, @03:04PM
We do get back bacon, but it's called "Canadian" bacon (for some reason)