Hello everyone, this is Running On Empty...
Food Review.
Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching, listening. This is Running On Empty Food Review.
I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek.
Well as I have alluded to in
previous
productions
we are here in a
mystical
Fantastical
Absolutely breathtaking setting where I stand
Actually, I sit up I'm sitting I'm not really standing. I didn't mean to confuse anyone with that one
I'm sitting at the divide between a wall and
Just as black a void right here
So at that, I think, if nothing else, that should build
record-breaking anticipation right there and you may thereafter inquire,
"What anticipation? What for?
Why should I get so worked up?" I'll tell you why and after I tell you this statement
I really don't think you'll ever be able to look at it the same way.
That's my personal discretion.
That's what happened to me after I discovered this. So I need to give you fair warning here.
So take some deep breaths right now. Maybe take a little sip of water.
You know, if you're saying, you know, just just just brace yourself. That's all that I'm saying because this is gonna be big!
Get ready...
Papa John's has a new pizza out.
I'm just giving you a couple seconds for that to sink in.
If that didn't do you in,
This will.
It's called
Their double
cheeseburger pizza.
Not just a single cheeseburger pizza, but the double cheeseburger pizza.
Now if that was too much for you and you're watching this from the grave now?
I understand and I just hope you can bear with me
because it's about to get even more intense.
What does this pizza have on it?
It's called the double cheeseburger pizza
It's from the Papa of John's.
It comes
not with tomato sauce, not with marinara sauce. Not with, some people just call the nondescript red sauce.
Doesn't come with pickle brine or
garlic sauce or garlic knots.
It comes with burger sauce. That's right. Papa's burger sauce. It's...
Can never say that one with a straight face. Is making a comeback.
But anyway it features burger sauce instead of tomato sauce. What the burger sauce is?
No one knows!
It features beef tomatoes dill pickles and cheese
thereby
Giving the illusion that perhaps it is to be a double cheeseburger on a pizza.
So again, it features of course the beef, you know, like you'd have on a burger.
Tomatoes like you'd have on a burger. Well, you know, it depends, you know, this is assuming that you like tomatoes on your burger.
The dill pickles, the cheese... no lettuce. No onion.
No bacon, it's a basic pizza. But it's like a double cheeseburger as they say.
Complete again with the substitution of
Papa's... Why? Why? Papa's burger sauce.
Instead of tomato sauce.
Why that cracks me up? I don't know. Price for this $11.77 after-tax.
Previously, it is around $11 price. Premium pizza at a premium price.
I'm feeling like living large today. So I'm going with a Coca-Cola because why not him rather parched.
How about we go for the grand reveal how about that?
Comes in a large, you know for large pizza, so
could feed you,
feed the boys,
feed the family, feed whoever.
Comes in the large Papa John's box and let's unbox it. Let's take a look at this pizza!
This is my favorite part of it all.
Probably second favorite part instead of actually eating it.
Let us see our wares.
All right. This is what it looks like. There I am with the the pizza.
There we go, I mean it is a large pizza.
I would say it looks like a pretty complete pizza wouldn't you? Looks like it has a cheese blend perhaps of a...
I think that might actually be Papa's burger sauce
mixed in there.
But you can see very very clearly and I'll just get that close and personal view of it.
This is when turning off the autofocus is best so you get that high res close-up.
But I mean, you can see all the toppings on it, you know, you can see the
beef you can see the tomatoes and the dill pickles and
I mean you could see it all it is a pizza that really does have its share of toppings going from the center to the crust.
So, I mean certainly they did they did... Well, I think based on toppings and you might give you your money's worth.
I guess the taste for this again. They're just gonna be kind of going for the I guess like a double cheese burger.
So let's just go ahead and grab ourselves
a slice here.
And of course it does come with the obligatory
garlic sauce and the water planets right there! So comes with both of those.
And here's your close-up view.
Sometimes in the low-light, it doesn't focus the best and that's all right, you know it is what it is.
But yeah there you can see the toppings and got the pickle action going. You can see, I mean, it is loaded.
We just give it a try. The burger sauce is supposed to be zesty perhaps with a little bit of a tang.
I'm gonna try it. I'll just let you know what it tastes like.
I'll say well, you know, does it taste like a double cheeseburger?
We'll find out! Either way the double cheeseburger pizza from Papa John's it's going in!
See...
Right there at the crust. I know I
That is the...
That's the burger sauce right there. See that's not a
additional cheese blend or anything.
And that instead is the burger sauce. So you can see just like any kind of pizza sauce it just piles up their crust.
Can't believe I wasted 9 minutes already. So we're going to make this one quick. How about that?
Ingredient by ingredient number one first and foremost. Does it taste like a double cheeseburger?
It has characteristics that
make it similar to a double cheeseburger.
But it's a pizza. In no way shape or form is a pizza going to actually taste like a double cheeseburger.
So do not expect as though you are eating a double cheeseburger from [insert name here big-box big-name fast-food place].
However, some characteristics are interesting. The beef is good. There's a good amount. There's a good amount of it - tastes good.
Very flavorful. I like the addition of the beef.
Good work on that. They did good. The tomato's? A good amount of that as well. The tomatoes are just very very rich,
flavorful,
works together well. Kind of really... it does work well with the beef and the cheese and it ties it all together.
The pickles? I think there are little too many pickles when it comes down to this.
Because the pickles really do have a certain tang to it, which granted does work out well in terms of tying everything together.
However, there needs to be a certain balance. I think that there are just few too many pickles.
Perhaps if you do have the option for customization of this piece,
I personally suggest,
If they allow for there to be when it comes down to the pickles light or extra or regular,
I would recommend perhaps just saying maybe light pickles because too many of these pickles just a tang that comes to it
offsets some of the nicer flavors that the beef, cheese and tomatoes
provide for you. So I would suggest going light on the pickles with this Pizza - gives you some much-needed flavor -
but if you get the standard amount, I think it's a little bit overboard. As your Papa's burger sauce?
"How is that? You know, what does it taste like?"
Well, it's it's just kind of there. It has this creamy texture to it. I think they described it as zesty and tangy.
I would not necessarily say that.
It's just more like maybe a little bit of like a Mayoesque sauce
with this little bit of a tang to it, perhaps.
But really the only discernible characteristic was just its texture. It was just this creamy sauce. I think that if anything else,
That was the most disappointing part of the whole pizza.
I think it was pretty good overall.
Again, a good amount of the beef, a good amount to those tomatoes, the cheese it all blends together well - tastes really good.
Dill pickles, you know a little too much but still, you know, it's bearable. The burger sauce?
I'm just not a fan of the texture. Just the overall creaminess of that sauce,
It just doesn't work with what they're trying to go for here.
I would say that they just kind of need to revamp it and redo it. Look you eat this pizza,
It's not going to be the worst thing in the world.
It's not going to taste like a double cheeseburger in full. It certainly will be more of a unique creation,
as Papa John's oftentimes goes about and does.
Just keep that in mind.
It's about $11.77. Out of 10? The rating for this 7.1 out of 10. Needs a little bit of improvement.
But still for what it is you can, I think, you can get by with it.
But it just needs a few little tweaks here. Perhaps to just revamp the burger sauce make a few adjustments to it.
Get it light on the pickles, but everything else is on par with the Papa John's standard.
So that's why it has the rating that I gave it. And with that. That's all that I have for you.
I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek. Today's review is for the double cheeseburger pizza from Papa John's.
Well with that being said on a final note, you can check out my newest radio show tomorrow,
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