Article: Texas-Based Pizza Hut, Kentucky-Based Papa John's Try to Top Each Other.

By Amy Baldwin, Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 8--Two Kentucky pizza-makers are having a veritable food fight to prove which is the Big Cheese. The King of Pepperoni.

Louisville-based Papa John's Pizza went too far with its latest commercial, says Dallas-based Pizza Hut. So Pizza Hut, a division of Louisville's Tricon Global Restaurants Inc., addressed it by taking out a full-page, tersely worded advertisement in Sunday's Louisville Courier-Journal.

"Mudslinging. Cheap shots. Misinformation. Hey John, this is pizza, not politics," says the ad addressed to John Schnatter, founder and chief ...

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