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for today's newest review hope you're doing all right and uh let's get into things
we know that it's getting toward that time of year right halloween is just a couple days away
fall at least for most of us is in the air it's
it's not for me it's like 90 degrees outside right now so it does not feel like a fall day
but a lot of people are experiencing those first signs of fall or winter i know a few
places or even reporting some snowfall uh the last few days so obviously things are cooling
down a little bit halloween is coming right up you know obviously things are different this year
but a lot of places are still doing little themed releases for halloween papa john's is no exception
when you think of halloween and you think of papa john's what comes to mind papadia
2020 is the year of the papadia believe it or not uh papa john's is very confident in the papadia
uh obviously they've had a few different releases now they've had i believe like the philly cheese
steak papadia they've had the buffalo chicken papadia now they have the double cheeseburger
papadia um but they are confident in them they stand by them proudly and they they boldly declare
uh that this is a new super food so uh you know just keep that in mind the double cheeseburger
papadia though this harkens back to the glory days of 2017 uh when they originally had a
double cheeseburger pizza and they actually do have the pizza out again but now they also
again because we are in the year of the papadia uh now they have it in papadia form as well
what is a papadia exactly well that's where you take it's like a calzone but not they say that
it's like a pizza but a sandwich but you know but it's neither of those it's just its own entity
swirling around in the void and um it's like they take a pizza they say they fold it in half and
cut it and then you eat it like that so it's kind of like a calzone you'll see in a minute what it
looks like the double cheeseburger papadia though they describe this as uh their meatiest it's got
all that meat it's loaded it's it's a packing it's got the meatiest papadia ever they say
so it comes with a quarter pound of seasoned beef burger sauce i know papa's burger sauce the iconic
burger sauce dough pickles and cheese it's like a a cheeseburger right you got the meat you got the
burger sauce you've got the uh dull pickles that everyone loves so much and the cheese it's um for
eight bucks you can get it at least that's what i got it for we'll take we'll take a sip of water
i see it dripping there but it's just water
this is where it is you know so in here now you can see
it says it's quality sealed so uh i haven't opened it yet so i mean who knows they might have just
maybe they pranked me and left like a half eaten you know pizza crust in here instead but
i have faith in them i have faith in them that there is indeed
that double cheeseburger papadia but yeah papa john's they've got a lot of new releases lately
good for them all right there it is all right we got the burger sauce
right there it is we'll take something like this as a thumbnail for now
all right but you can see the saddest threat you know this
isn't even sad looking it's actually kind of cute
the smallest little pepper that i've ever seen usually they're a little bigger than that
but the thing is it is cute i have to i have to say it like it is we've got a tub of burger sauce
and uh let's grab a slice here all right you can see as we zoom in
some of the grease there some of the oil and grease like a greasy burger i guess
uh that's what it looks like you kind of have a little bit of everything there you
can see the cheese i guess the beef in there um the dill pickles and that's what's in it
you know so you could see i mean i guess it is it's big it's meaty and it's oozing with the
papa's burger sauce so that's what it looks like you see what it looks like and uh we'll go from
there so we'll just see how good it is i don't think i was the biggest fan of the uh cheeseburger
pizza when they released it in 2017 but look it's been a while we'll see how it is this time
around and uh we'll go from there so the double cheeseburger papadia from papa john's going in
so
well i'll take one more bite of this now take a bite with the additional burger sauce
all right here are my thoughts
personally i think some people are going to disagree
and i get it that's completely understandable and i respect that
i'm not overly thrilled with it and i don't think i would get it again
here's the issue that i have with it not that it's necessarily you know overtly bad because
i think you have these items that are you know bad in that regard where it's like you eat it
and it's just plainly disgusting or it just tastes really bad and it's like something that yeah i'm
never gonna finish this i'm never going to get it again it's bad you know it's like disgusting
and then you get the items that sure you could eat it but would you really be inclined to
go ahead and get it again not necessarily even if you're not you know gagging it up
doesn't necessarily mean you're a fan of it so here's my complaint because it's
a relatively simple item i mean it's only got four ingredients it's got a lot of seasoned beef
got some cheese some dill pickles and then of course everyone's favorite burger sauce
problem that i have with it is the two prevailing flavors
it's just not appealing to me that's all that i can honestly say
it's like okay you get a lot of seasoned beef in there yes you do you get that in every bite
here's the problem that i notice with the seasoned beef at least to me it's very salty very
very salty the cheese is greasy the cheese is oily a little bit of saltiness in that too the
beef though that stuff i don't know it's like a salt mine it's like you uh you really have so much
salt in that additional grease it's like really oily um so number one all you taste the salt
high sodium i would imagine secondly all you taste is then this little bit of like a zesty tang that
yes the dill pickles provide there's a lot of dill pickles on this i think you were seeing me
kind of slurping them up you know in every every other bite so it seemed and uh you got lots of
those dill pickles which it's good that they threw in a good amount of those um and then otherwise
the burger sauce which is similar to the pickles in that it also has this zesty uh tang to it you
know a creaminess to it as well but it's largely got again like the zesty i don't know just tang
so all right it's got this zesty tanginess to it and it's really salty does that really mean that
it's all that good no it doesn't i'm not a fan of it now i know some people are going to disagree
i bet some people they they they really like the double cheeseburger papadia you know they'll
probably again as it gets colder right you could theoretically since there is that little bit of a
slot in it you could actually put it over your ears and when you go outside you know to kind of
keep your ears warm i know some some super fans of papa john's are probably doing that right now
and i know that those folks might disagree but it's just very underwhelming to me it doesn't
necessarily taste like a double cheeseburger either it's like just really salty and a little
tangy but it's not i would i wouldn't say it's good that's the problem it's not good
and i think that was the same reason why i wasn't a really big fan of the pizza either
now again i can't say that accurately because i was three years ago and i'm not really sure but
uh yeah i just wasn't i don't think i was a fan of it in 2017 and i'm just not a fan of it here
it's simple but it's not the best they really need to cut down the sodium they need to just have
much richer flavored beef there they really need to emphasize that without the salt
a little less burger sauce and um cut back on on the pickles as well you know maybe throw
in some bacon even that might even bring it up to the next level who knows sometimes a simple
addition like that can really help so all in all out of 10 i'm just going to give it a 4
out of 10 because it's edible but definitely below average in my book because it's like
so much of the same the same monotony it just really gets to you and i'm just guzzling down
this water i'm not really enjoying it and that's my issue with it so look papa john's
they release a lot of items uh sometimes they win sometimes they lose you know it's hit or miss
i think the last papadia i had the buffalo chicken one was pretty good the double cheeseburger one
i'm just not feeling it but uh you know of course looking forward to the next release because i know
they do uh they pump them out pretty regularly so we'll see what they have in store next but
uh yeah you win some you lose some i wouldn't particularly recommend this i would say uh
you know probably pass on it but if you really want to try it uh see for yourself give it a
shot that's all that i have for you ladies and gentlemen i'm your host the report of the week
today we tried out the double cheeseburger papadia thanks again and do take care