About a month ago, a friend told me she was randomly wondering if I was ever able to get a pizza with the pepperoni in the shape of a smiley face.

As of last night, I can say yes:

I think the ring of pepperoni around the outside of the face is a nice touch.  You may recall my local Pizza Hut getting the spirit of this idea, but not quite following through on the execution.  It took a Pizza Hut in nearby Maryland to get the job done.

I’m not sure what should get the credit for this success.  Maybe Maryland is just a cooler state, or perhaps the people at Pizza Hut are much bigger fans of AV (who did the actual ordering) than they are of me.  But I think there was one very key change in the way the request was made.

Here’s what it looked like last time, with AV’s idea to use a fake child to try and make them more sympathetic:

This time, we moved the question mark to the end — “Pepperoni smiley face 4 a kid?”  Clearly that was the difference.

Maybe the best part of this whole event was the delivery guy, who proudly opened the box to show off the pepperoni face.   He may have been more excited than we were.

Good times.