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Food Review!
Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching. This is Running On Empty Food Review. I am your host TheReportOfTheWeek.
So we are back at it again with another review. Probably the last of 2018 though, you know, you never know,
maybe maybe I can just go in an all out reviewing spree and just go insane!
You know? Review, review here... review, But I honestly think this would be the last of 2018 and
I wanted to end it with, you know, a good old-fashioned kind of pizza-esque pizza related review.
So first and foremost: What's this review going to be about? Let's break out the trusty notepad and let's see!
This is about a Papa John's
exclusive.
You know, a lot of places they have like a rewards program, you know?
If you're a frequent customer or whatever you can sign up for this rewards program and
you can get points or whatever and sometimes they'll have a special offer and people will be talking about it. So Papa John's
rewards program has the following deal: If you sign up for their, you know, rewards thing,
you can get 3 cheese sticks 10 inch size. Which I took a look. That's a that's a sizable number.
With any $12 minimum order, that's pretty much... if you're getting a medium pizza,
large pizza, whatever even, you know, you get a free side with it. And I think that's a pretty solid deal. However,
there has been a question that has been going around in people's heads, "Well, it's a good deal.
But is it really worth it?" You know, maybe I don't like signing up to all these different things. I don't like,
you know, doing this or that. So are these cheese sticks really worth it? That's what we're gonna find out!
So I myself got a pizza. I got the cheese sticks and we're just gonna find it out. Now first and foremost,
obligatory, you know, I do my radio show each week. I think a lot of people kind of forgot about it yesterday.
In it, I kind of talked about the economy.
I do a year in review, you know.
I just talk about how 2018 was for the YouTube channel the radio show and then I get an hour some music requests.
Think of it this way:
I work tirelessly! I do this for you!! And you can check it out on SoundCloud, if you want.
You can find it at soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
I'm gonna have it in the pinned comments and the cards, in the description. Even if you usually just ignore it,
just try it out this time and see how you like it. All right, we got the obligatory plug out of the way, right?
The cursed thing is gone. It's gone, you know, and now let's see what we have here. So...
First up, pretty fresh you can see these are the cheese sticks.
It looks like a... doesn't look like a pizza? You know, it looks like it's actually like a, you know, a small/medium
cheese pizza, which is pretty crazy. I gotta give them credit on that.
You know, you can see... let's get an up-close view of them here and let me... If I hide behind it, you'll get that real
high-res shot of it.
All right.
Really cheesy, still fresh, still good. And
for those of you curious, well you might say, "Well, you got a pizza. What pizza did you get?" I got this pizza right here.
Do you want me to go all out? Sure. Let me, let me try. I just want to do this just to...
Watch this is gonna be a total disaster!
But I'm gonna try to do this for you. You know, how like, I hold one and the other like this, right?
Haha. Soo...
Ohh gosh.
All right, look we tried. Hey I bet I can make something out of that.
I don't know why I'm doing this. This is so stupid. But there you go. You know you see..
Got them both right there!
Pizza, Cheese sticks. This is a half-and-half pizza. By the way, pepperoni, green peppers. Trying to be healthy.
Okay.
We got the pizza, you... Now you know I'm not lying to you right? Now, you know, "Alright
Reviewbrah's hardcore. He actually got the pizza. He's actually utilizing this deal right!"
Then we're just gonna find out what they taste like. I'll tell you this.
Again, they're just cheese sticks. They come with a dipping sauce which is like, you know,
just a marinara sauce, cheesy, oily and really good size. I gotta tell you for the price, especially that it's free.
Now,
standard disclaimer:
Even if these end up being the worst things that I've ever consumed,
I gotta give Papa John's credit where, you know, where credit is due.
The service at this place? They were awesome! You know, they they... the guys that work there,
they recognized me from the YouTube channel and just an awesome, an awesome crew!
So regardless of how this tastes, you guys are great, and just made it a very very wonderful experience
Here's this the real close-up
shot of the cheese stick. You can see it's oily and very cheesy.
I'm just gonna try it first. Then I'll try it
with the dipping sauce. And a...
Then we'll go from there. So it's the, it's the cheese sticks from Papa John's going in!
Do any of you guys remember the...
Gosh this goes back a couple years, I think maybe the 2013 or so, the cheese stick sandals overseas?
So
what does it taste like? You know, how is it?
I got to give them credit because
for cheese sticks and you know, it's like every every every, you know, big-name pizza place. Here's a good close-up look of it again.
Every big-name pizza place does. you know, they got the breadsticks and they got the cheese sticks with cheesy bread or,
whatever - the cheese thing.
You know, they have some sort of breadesque side that usually has some cheese with it.
Of all the places that I usually go to, and I'm just talking the big-name ones here, you know - Pizza Hut, Domino's,
Little Ceasars, yeah, and and you know Papa John's.
I gotta give them credit with these cheese sticks. These are probably the cheesiest ones that I've had even more so
than than probably the ones from Domino's because these are just very directly cheesy.
They have a good layer of that cheese on it.
Now don't expect them to be like the most flavorful thing, because you just got to remember
it's really the pizza dough with mozzarella on it.
But, I mean, for the size;
certainly, it's greasy. So if your a little health-conscious you just got to be
aware of that. But that mozzarella cheese just really strikes out to me. It's oily. It's greasy.
Probably good for the mind, bad for the body. Cause it tastes good and a really good portion size.
Have to give them credit on that!
So, I mean just by themselves they hold their own. Like I said, they're pretty flavorful.
You can see they gave me this dipping cup of,
you know,
marinara sauce. And...
We'll just try, we'll just dip it in. We'll see how well that goes.
But again, I think these are one of those cheese sticks that they're flavorful enough on their own
that their pretty good. Let me try it with the marinara dipping sauce.
Yeah, their marinara sauce is a very rich and
robust sauce overseas and
it's one of those things that it blends really good.
It's almost like a mini pizza when you add the marinara sauce to it, but it'snot like it's watered down.
You know, it's it's it's kind of hardy. It has that
thickness to it and it's just really robust and flavorful.
Like I said,
These cheese sticks have enough cheese on them that they don't get overly doughy, they hold their own, but that marinara sauce...
It usually comes with it. Now you could get other types of sauce. The marinara sauce
though really just adds it to that whole new level.
I gotta say I remember I tried the cheese sticks, I think...
Gosh almost now almost three years ago, since we're now kind of getting to the New Year precipice,
back in 2016 and I wasn't the fan of them then. Maybe they redid the recipe. I don't know but these were
substantially
substantially better than anything that I had that time. I mean, I'll be honest right now,
considering this deal and just what these taste like?
I got to give these a 9.3 out of 10 because I'm very satisfied with them. Very flavorful, very cheesy,
and just delicious. I, I have to give them credit.
And good portion size too. They really exceeded my expectations for a pizza place cheese sticks.
So I would say if you're thinking about this offer, you're not really sure you want to sign up or not?
I say go for it! Go all-in. If you're getting a pizza you can get this for free.
I mean, that's an awesome deal and it tastes good, too.
You're not getting some piece of garbage that is tasteless and you know, they're just kind of slapping it together.
It actually tastes good and I gotta give them credit for it. That's all that I have for you
ladies and gentlemen.
I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek and today's review is for the Cheesesticks from Papa John's. And really just seeing: Is
this new offer that they got going really worth selling your soul out for cheesesticks?
I say that it is. So begin selling. You will not be disappointed. That's all that I have for you.
Have a Happy New Year! And I'll see you again soon with another video. Thank you. Take care and listen to the radio show!!