hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching and tuning in and perhaps listening welcome one and all thanks for being here we
are well let's get into things a new edition of running on empty the food review series
a pizza review everyone's favorite so as a result i'm breaking out the wing collar and
a suit combination that i don't think i've worn this suit in a while i think it's been
i don't know how long it's been maybe even a couple years but hopefully the jacket doesn't
seem too trippy on the camera or something because i know sometimes the patterns like this can
can do strange things to the resolution and stuff i don't know we're just going to go with it and if
it looks strange it's just the power of the pizza as a matter of fact this isn't just any pizza
this isn't a regular pizza it's not just a papa john's pizza it's not even just a regular stuffed
crust pizza no no no it's the epic stuffed trust pizza that's right it is epic what makes it epic
no one knows no one has a clue but it's epic anyway i'm even doing this multiple times to just
show how epic the epic stuffed crust pizza is it's almost wholesome in a way though you know epic
you know you remember back in the days epic fail isn't that you don't really hear that
much anymore but maybe they're doing this as like a throwback or maybe it's actually just that great
that it is just an epic pizza you know a stuffed crust pizza of epic proportions i don't think this
is the first stuffed crust uh papa john's has ever had i think they had one like 20 years ago but i
never you know experienced that if that was the case i guess this is just the first stuffed crust
pizza of theirs in recent times maybe that's just what makes it epic they say you can get it though
for an epic price of 12 epic dollars and zero epic scents an epic pizza yeah it's you know it's
one of those cases the word epic you say that word enough and it sounds kind of strange epic
but just go with it there's not much else to it it's a standard hand-tossed pizza otherwise get
it with a topping of your choice a lot of people go with pepperoni which is what i got and then
the the cheese you know of course on the pizza but they put a little bit of extra dough on the crust
cheese goes in the crust you have yourself an epic stuffed crust pizza uh twelve dollar deal again
and i think the blend of cheese on the pizza and then the crust
is uh mozzarella but that's it there's nothing more to it pretty straightforward
now i myself i know i could poke fun at the name and stuff i like a stuffed crust pizza
you know i know pizza hut you know they were the first ones that i
remember having the stuffed crust pizza i really liked it i i still get it all the time from them
some of the frozen pizzas started having stuffed crust i think digiorno started having that too
thumbs up there so now that uh papa john's is kind of reintroducing it
it's going to be fun i'm really looking forward to this one uh it's a large pizza
they have the special decorative box look at that that's that's groovy right there oh man new
just when you thought our pizza couldn't get any better this isn't just stuffed crust
this is papa john's crust stuffed oh wow look at that you just take a minute to just
appreciate the philosophical nature of that if that doesn't make you just take a look at life
and the universe and all of that i don't know what what will honestly yeah got it delivered
large pizza now it's available to everyone at this point uh beforehand it was only available
for papa rewards members which is a special it used to be a special very very exclusive
club made the illuminati look like nothing i mean if you want to talk about shop callers
and that's it right there you know if you weren't in papa rewards forget it you know you had to be
um but the pop of rewards members exclusively got it i think after like december 21st or so
after the 28th then it's available to everyone else not just the the club members anymore
let's open this up see what we have all right there it is you know from the outside it looks
like a pretty standard stuffed crust pizza um you know you can see and i will just focus the camera
here and then i'll get down a little bit just so we can get of course the prized thumbnail shot
something like that you know but again just honestly for you guys take a look close-up
view of the pizza right there glistening pepperoni but it looks pretty standard otherwise so let us
grab a slice what's a good one what's a good slice
we'll take this one you know again pretty standard you know greasy oily take out pizza
but now look in there what is that what is that what is that is that the cheese yes it is
yes it is so that's where all the magic is right that's where the the special things happen and um
you know we'll just uh well we'll try that out in a moment otherwise i'll just try out the pizza
real quick see how good it is um you know you got the peppers still the garlic sauce good all
the goodies so we'll just try the pizza out make sure it's all right try out the crust make sure
that's all right and that'll be that all right the epic stuffed crust pizza from papa john's going in
yeah just feeling in tune with the pizza this time around
hmm
pizza is the same pizza is exactly the same as what you would get
on the regular hand tossed pizza you know greasy oily
cheese is flavorful though you could definitely taste that little bit of a you know a little
bit of a spice but not overwhelming just more flavorful from all the pepperonis
but
nicely offset by the sauce which you could see a little bit landed
on my hand there it saved well my disaster was averted
nice robust yet sweet uh sauce okay
got the garlic dipping sauce we'll try the crust out with otherwise a good straightforward pizza
again you see the cheese in the crust there first we'll just bite it we'll try it then we'll dip it
uh the crust itself is pretty good again it's like you would say a standard um stuffed crust pizza
in that the crust it's always more doughy because you know there of course there's
more dough on the crust you know they have more dough there of course to try to house the cheeses
and then of course you get it's mozzarella cheese it's like biting into a cheese stick you know
uh but that again at all it's all about balance it offsets that doughiness very nicely uh flavorful
you definitely get a good amount of it in every bite too now we'll see how the garlic sauce is
and before i lose my train of thought this is a good example of what i'm telling you about
sometimes you get stuffed crust pizzas and they have these huge air pockets in them um but you
could definitely see the cheese to dough you know to air pocket ratio is um it's good i mean it's
this is what you want to see otherwise sometimes you get stuffed crust pizzas and it's like
a hollow tube with a tiny little bit of cheese there you want better than that on one other note
the garlic sauce is complimentary it comes with the pizza definitely get it um you know the
garlic sauce i mean i don't know it's delicious it just works i mean it ties it all together
i'm not saying that it's absolutely mandatory i think the crust is good without the garlic sauce
but honestly get it with the garlic sauce it really like i said it just ties it all together um
the garlic is really it just it's what it's what works um the garlic from papa john's what they use
it's just very flavorful that's why i always like getting their garlic parmesan crust as well but in
this instance it just works so nicely with the crust i think some people will be happy with
the crust as is but if you just want something to spice it up a little bit you know not and that's
in the metaphorical sense nothing is spicy really aside from the pepperoni otherwise just make sure
you get that garlic sauce and take advantage of it so a straightforward pizza i would say
you know they said they would give you a stuffed crust pizza perhaps that's what you wanted
that's exactly what you got good pizza by itself good amount of cheese flavorful tasty
for a good price so you can't complain so uh no really uh really good i i enjoy it again it's
it's no surprises but it's exactly i think what you would want from this
so all things considered therefore um i would say out of ten i would definitely give this pizza
definitely going to be in the 8 range for sure you know the 9 it's kind of like when it gets above
and beyond but it's close um definitely an 8.7 out of 10. upper 8. i'm happy with it solid pizza
good item give it a shot if you're interested so that's all that we have for you today tried out
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