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I have gotten so many requests for this item that I I decided even though I know I just did a video
I thought well the demand is there people want to see it let's try it out let's just give it a
shot let's just go right into another review so that precisely is what I am doing today
Little Caesars has brought back their pretzel crust pizza now this item I think this is if
I'm not mistaken the second no it's the third time I think that this item is on the Little
Caesars menu it was originally released back in the year 2014 then they brought it back for
very limited time in early 2019 and now here we are in early 2023 and it once again has returned
so what is the pretzel crust pizza I think the name is pretty straightforward I think we
would all be willing to wager just based on the name alone that it has a pretzel crust because
otherwise it would really not make any sense if it turned out that the crust was actually made out of
out of boneless wings or something like that instead of pretzel but the good news is that
the name indeed is straightforward and there is no trickery going on here so you have a large
pizza it has a buttery soft pretzel crust so the crust of the pizza is like a pretzel
but they they they up things a little bit because you know the way Little Caesars goes they they are
bold they are daring and they will take the risk and that's precisely is what they are doing here
because it's not just a pretzel crust you know how sometimes when you eat a soft pretzel you
might dip it in some cheese well instead of tomato sauce you have cheddar cheese sauce on the pizza
so you have the base you have cheddar cheese sauce then you have mozzarella and Munster
cheese sprinkle the top as your regular cheese it's then topped with pepperoni you have the
pretzel crust and then there is salt sprinkle the top that pretzel crust and it is available
for the price of seven dollars for a large pizza so again it's supposed to take the experience of
not just having a pretzel crust but it's like the whole pretzel experience all in one in Pizza form
now I will say this is the second time that I have reviewed this item because I first had it back
in 2019 and I'll admit when I first tried this pizza out in 2019 I wasn't the biggest fan of it
I actually re-watched the review that I did of it then and my chief complained back then was
that I thought it was too salty and as a result I rated it a 6 out of 10 which isn't great it's
not terrible either but certainly I had some complaints and my my biggest issue with it was
that it was too salty so we will see how things have kind of held up over the years if it's any
better if it's any worse evidently I think this pizza is a novelty but I just want to see well
how is it do I like it anymore or any less and I'll try to give a rounded assessment in today's
review it should be noted of course with many items with Little Caesars this is certainly heavy
on the calories for this one pizza alone it is over I believe 2 000 calories and for the entire
Pizza the amount of sodium is in the thousands of milligrams so just bear that in mind as well
anyway got the pizza here standard Little Caesars pizza box with the uh with that thing
and it's got looks like looks like it's a little um like a little playing card or something with a
it was a disc on it I don't know if that's supposed to be a UFO or or something but
there you have it it's a save time machine so that's what it is it's a save time machine
and here is the pizza all right let's take a look at this let's let's focus
camera on it if I can
you can see from point of view at least as far as aesthetically pleasing doesn't look bad
I would say this actually resembles the ad pretty accurately
it looks you know oily and greasy but you could see that salt on the crust you could see that
almost like that orange yellow hue to the cheese and uh I say it looks it looks as advertised
and let's get a slice how about we go with this slice right here let's get a closer look
all right now if you actually look real close because sometimes it's tough to see but do
you see near the tip of the Pizza see how it looks more yellow and then as we go further in
it looks more white that yellow there that is the I believe that's the cheddar cheese
sauce because again there's no tomato sauce no marinara sauce none of that so that's the
cheddar cheese sauce you can see the glistening pepperoni I believe the butteriness of the crust
the salt Etc so you can see it right there so what I'm going to do for the sake of my dental
work I'll eat this carefully but I will for the heck of it take a careful bite for all of you
watching because I know some people have said they've missed the the eating segments I know
I miss them too but uh I'll take a bite and I'll pause the camera and we'll get to the assessment
so let's find out how good or about bad bus is the Little Caesar's pretzel crust pizza going in
just resuming things real quick just because now you could see there's a real good look you
can see the cheddar cheese sauce right there and I'm just going to get to the rest of the slice
all right and now getting the camera out of focus there we go
I tried out the slice I have a little bit of the crust remaining and I bring good news my main
problem back in 2019 was that the pizza was just way too salty that was my main complaint back then
that obviously it was a novelty when I try out these sorts of novelty items they are treated
vastly I'm not going to compare this to a regular pizza because it's supposed to be different but I
have good news I think Little Caesars actually realized the mistake that they made in the
previous versions of the pizza and they improved upon it it is still a very salty pizza but
what I have noticed is the cheddar cheese sauce interestingly enough actually has more of a potent
their lack of a better word sharpness to it that actually counteracts some of the other saltiness
that you would notice on this pizza so as a result in each bite your beauty now it tastes more cheesy
than it does salty as you're eating the pizza itself of course it's not overly crunchy or
anything it's a pretty soft Pizza your standard hand tossed variety it's very cheesy though and
again you could mostly taste that sharpness of the uh the cheddar cheese sauce as well as especially
the mozzarella cheese Atop The Pizza it's very greasy very oily the pepperoni gives a little bit
of a spiciness to it but nothing crazy pepperoni though does have a nice little crisp to it as well
so that's enjoyable but for the pizza itself the good news is that that cheddar cheese sauce no
longer feels like it's just pure salt that you're eating but instead again it has this nice little
sharpness that is actually brought down at least the salty taste now don't get me wrong it's still
a very greasy very oily and yes it is a very salty pizza but it has gone from being something
that's so salty you can't eat it and find it remotely enjoyable to now just it's a salty Pizza
so that's good that is a big Improvement that I notice here that was the big problem that
I had with it years ago and it looks like they did improve upon it as for the crust itself it
is actually as described it looks like a pretzel and it tastes like a pretzel it is buttery it's
oily it's chewy but it's not overly rubbery or anything like that the crust is the saltiest part
of the pizza obviously because it's sprinkled with butter and it has a little salt crumbles as well
but they match the flavor of exactly where it's like if you're going to uh you know some place
and you get a get a soft pretzel that's what it that's what it tastes like that's exactly what it
tastes like so the pizza is a novelty and you have to understand that going in and I think most of
us do that we understand and we accept that yeah all right this is supposed to be like a pretzel
and it's supposed to mirror the pretzel eating experience so as a result you're not going to
be going into this thinking well I'm going to be expecting to taste robust tomato sauce
Etc we know we know that we're not going to hold it to that standard we know this isn't
going to be an artisan Pizza of anything like that this is a novelty pizza from Little Caesars
and uh treat it as as such but again big problem I had with it in 2019 was that it was too salty
it's still salty but I think they've moderated it up or moderated it enough I should say that
uh it's definitely tolerable now so I would say this is one of those items that if it
looks appealing and it looks good get it I'd say get it maybe this is like a one-time thing
just get it out just to try it out see how it is it's a novelty get a picture with it try it
out with your friends whatever you want to do and uh make of it what you will but as far as
eating and enjoying this goes huge improvement from 2019 and it tastes totally fine for what
it is it all works my problem with the saltiness they cut it down just enough so that it's a much
more tolerable now good price it's affordable just seven dollars for this pizza I say it's a buy they
saw the issue they improved upon it as if it's alt I'm going to be giving the Little Caesars pretzel
crust pizza and eight out of ten novelty treat it as such but they learned from their mistakes
good on you Little Caesars you did a good job that's all that I have
for you thank you for watching until next time I'm your host the report of the week