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Remember When Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings Were in a Pizza Hut Commercial?

Willie Nelson looks longingly at his Pizza Hut Pepperoni Stuffed Crust Pizza while taking a moment to savor the aroma as the late Waylon Jennings nods in approval. | Source: The Internet
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with making a buck.

And, at some point in the 1990s, someone had the wise idea to hire country music legends Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings to star in a commercial for Pizza Hut, and those legends cashed that check.

Indeed, Waylon and Willie spent some time in the California desert singing a song and munching on stuffed crust pizza. Check it out:

According to the late Waylon Jennings, you had to eat this “crust first” to fully enjoy the pepperoni that was baked into the crust.

I’ve eaten a lot of pizza over the years, but I can’t say I’ve ever gone crust-first on one of these.

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