How can other chains copy stuffed crusts pizza? isnt it copy righted/patent?

[JEDI]

or has the ~10yr patent expired?

 

[Kaido]

Pro-tip: Stuffed crust is simply a stick of string cheese (mozzarella...just make sure it's room-temp before you cook it at home). Five or six sticks around the crust, fold it over, voila!

 

[dullard]

Food can be patented, but it has to be novel and nonobvious. Since recipes are very well known and very broad, that is a very high bar to cross for foods.

Having cheese touch the crust is not novel, cheese almost always touches the crust. Having cheese in the crust also isn't novel since many dough recipes use cheese as part of the ingredient list. Simply moving the cheese from one location to another is obvious as cooks move ingredients around all the time. Etc.

Thus, food patents are really hard to get. They tend to be more focused on what we might think of as molecular gastronomy. Something that most cooks would be surprised that anyone is doing and does not provide the expected result.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Also: stuffed bread is not a new idea, for example the calzone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calzone

 

[Homerboy]

Also, it's fucking disgusting.

 

[Artdeco]

Also, it's fucking disgusting.

This

 

[QueBert]

stuffed crust is awesome, I wish more places offered it. Stuffed crust dipped in the garlic butter dipping sauce most pizza places offer is FUCKING GREAT.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Oh? Have you found the patent?

Didn't think so.

 

[WelshBloke]

Also, it's fucking disgusting.

Yes. Yes it is.

It would be slightly less disgusting if it tasted like cheese but still not great.

 

[WelshBloke]

stuffed crust is awesome, I wish more places offered it. Stuffed crust dipped in the garlic butter dipping sauce most pizza places offer is FUCKING GREAT.

You have no functioning taste buds.

You don't get an opinion on food.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pro-tip: Stuffed crust is simply a stick of string cheese (mozzarella...just make sure it's room-temp before you cook it at home). Five or six sticks around the crust, fold it over, voila!

True, but people patent simple stuff all the time, like rounded corners, or slide to unlock etc. Just so that others have to cease and it basically throws a wrench in their business as they have to redesign stuff and recall what's already made it out, but think usually they just swallow the lawsuit cost. Pizza hut was first to come up with that, maybe they did not patent it though I'm surprised another pizza place did not patent it in their face so they have to stop using it. I guess the food industry is not as cut throat as software/hardware.

Great, now I'm hungry for a stuffed crust pizza. But I had poutine today, so I should try to eat something healthier.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Samsung copied Apple and put round edges on their phones, those fucking criminals.

 

[jman19]

A food thread isn't complete without QueBert professing his love for terrible fast food

 

[WaTaGuMp]

A food thread isn't complete without QueBert professing his love for terrible fast food

Its not fast food, its good food quickly.

 

[Torn Mind]

Unlike, say, the Colonel's secret herbs and spices, making a stuffed crusted pizza is too easily achievable even if the rival chain does not give out its exact receipe.

 

[WelshBloke]

Pro-tip: Stuffed crust is simply a stick of string cheese (mozzarella...just make sure it's room-temp before you cook it at home). Five or six sticks around the crust, fold it over, voila!

I thought that they used caulk.

 

[JEDI]

Oh? Have you found the patent?

Didn't think so.

in my research, i also discovered that the bible doesn't have a copyright!@@!
just put in my application.

going to make $Billions$

 

[John Connor]

Food can be patented, but it has to be novel and nonobvious. Since recipes are very well known and very broad, that is a very high bar to cross for foods.

Having cheese touch the crust is not novel, cheese almost always touches the crust. Having cheese in the crust also isn't novel since many dough recipes use cheese as part of the ingredient list. Simply moving the cheese from one location to another is obvious as cooks move ingredients around all the time. Etc.

Thus, food patents are really hard to get. They tend to be more focused on what we might think of as molecular gastronomy. Something that most cooks would be surprised that anyone is doing and does not provide the expected result.

I guess this is why a rum & coke or a Blue Hawaiian isn't patented.

 

[jman19]

I'm just waiting for QueBert's review of BK's "Mac 'n Cheetos"

 

[Kaido]

I'm just waiting for QueBert's review of BK's "Mac 'n Cheetos"

Didn't I update the fast-food thread with this? In a nutshell: surprisingly, not bad. If you like Cheetos and macaroni & cheese...it's basically just decent mac & cheese, rolling into a Cheeto Puff-sized log, and then rolled in crushed Cheetos & fried. You'd think it'd have more flavor punch, but it pretty much just tastes like decent mac & cheese with a Cheeto aftertaste.

I'd buy it again if it were a dollar.

 

[dullard]

I guess this is why a rum & coke or a Blue Hawaiian isn't patented.

A Blue Hawaiian may potentially be able to get name protection based on its location (but not recipe protection). In the US not many foods get that protection, but it is possible (Vidalia onions, Florida oranges, Idaho potatoes, Tennessee Whiskey, Philadelphia cream cheese). But, it isn't easy to get that in the US and often requires jumping through hoops. Also, anyone else can grow a Vidalia onion or Florida orange, they just can't call it a Vidalia onion or Florida orange.

 

[John Connor]

A Blue Hawaiian may potentially be able to get name protection based on its location

LOL So would it be the state of Hawaii to bring that to court?

Interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hawaii_(drink)

I'm referring to the cocktail. They are Delicious!

 

[QueBert]

I'm just waiting for QueBert's review of BK's "Mac 'n Cheetos"

I hate Burger King, but these are pretty decent. They fall very short on every level, but that's to be expected as everything they've ever had on the menu. has been shit. The fried green beans from The Habit are worlds better, but it's unfair to compare BK to The Habit

 

[Carson Dyle]

Fried mac & cheese balls? This is the one. I remember seeing this on DDD, but it took me a couple days to find the video:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/kickin-spicy-queens-comfort-0226102.html

 

[John Connor]

Speaking of fast food... Mayor McCheese for President!