hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week thanks for checking in thanks for being here hope everyone
out there is feeling and doing all right i'm going all out for this one and you could obviously tell
immediately um you could tell by the setting you could tell by the wing collar and vests that i'm
breaking out something that i never wear otherwise but also we're going with a bit of a festive
appearance this time around you can see already we have the red and green very
very colorful halloween decorations uh that i'm breaking out for the event uh you could also see
right there as well uh very festive this time around should be mentioned though
you do need to be you have to keep your guard up i do have hidden cameras in the eyes there
so now i can see you just a little bit of a heads up so um you've been warned
papa john's has released a pizza unlike any other when i heard the news about this pizza
the fact that they had actually released a pizza to commemorate this state
i was in bed i left out of bed and you could just imagine it with great alacrity
i began setting up immediately because i've never i've never heard of such a thing before
papa john's has released a pizza in new york style
and i thought that new york was one of those states that you know
no one really heard of you know you just kind of fly over it and i thought new york
new york style pizza who would have thought and papa john's is doing it can you believe that
we've got ourselves right here the new new york style pizza it was released on december 27th it's
going to be here until march so it's going to be around for a little while here's what it is
because when you think of new york style pizza right if you've even heard of such a concept what
exactly do you imagine and say it with me now right you think extremely deep dish real thick
crust tons of sauce and toppings right that's a joke you're gonna be you're probably all riled up
right now and you're saying that's too far that's too far of you bro you can't you can't go there
of course new york style pizza it's obviously this was one of the most sarcastic introductions
i may have ever done um new york style pizza of course you've all heard of it
thin crust pizza right it's like the um a lot of people think of it as the quintessential pizza
and um it kind of amazes me that papa john's hasn't already done this new york style pizza it's
like the it's like these pizza at least according to many um either way though here's what it is
extra large pizza you could only get it in one size so if you want their new york style pizza
you're gonna have to get an extra large pie it is thin crust they say it's got foldable slices
thirteen dollars for a one topping pizza again it was released on december 27th and it is available
until march of 2022 so again 13 bucks large pizza foldable slices that's the whole point of it
um now as for me i'm no longer in new york but i spent much of my life there so i have had
new york pizza before many a time of course i myself now some of you might wanna you're
gonna be fuming when you hear this i was never one to really fold the pizza um i just wasn't i
wasn't one to really do that but of course i am familiar with the big slices and the thin crust
and all that i've had many uh a local pizza up there and uh we will see how this holds
quite frankly i mean at this point this has been so much absolute garbage to be um to be
polite even to even call with that and i've been reviewing lately that uh look i just i
just want it to taste decent i mean come on for once i just wanted i just want something that's
actually edible is that is that too much to ask maybe it is these days i don't know
another thing that i don't know i don't know what's going on with the box um
this is an honest question to you do you know do you even know what this is supposed to be
what on earth that is um i mean do you know what that is i have no clue what that's supposed to be
it's an odd um box design but this is what they say it says
it's spicier i guess and cut just the right thickness so there you have it
whatever that thing is supposed to be i don't know if that's supposed to be a
christmas ornament or if that's the world or some sort of exoplanet or if that's a virus under a
microscope or what but i don't know it's dripping with cheese whatever it is there's the box
and now so what we all want to see the pizza itself
all right there you go look at that it is a big pizza i mean this is extra large pizza
we're talking about right here lots of pepperoni we're going to take a slice we're going to try it
out we're going to um we're going to see how it holds up if it's foldable and all that good stuff
so first we're going to get a picture just like this for the thumbnail of course
i'm going to get one where it's focused slightly closer
look at that i'm in the background it's like this thing is minus i'm minuscule compared to it
anyway people they just want to see the pizza so we'll figure something out here
all right i know something can be done of that i know that for a fact all right let's get a slice
let's pick a slice any slice what slice will we go with we'll go with this slice right here
there it is close-up view got a bake on the bottom right there
you can see crust wise there it is sorry i'm a bit shaky today i don't mean to be topping wise
let's try it out new york style pizza from papa john's going in
well we're trying the foldability at least yes it can be folded
we'll take another bite of the pizza because i don't think there's going
to be much of a difference between here and the crust and then we'll try out the crust
so
i'll open up some garlic sauce which we'll try out in a minute
so here's the assessment i think in terms of this pizza there's not a ton to really say about it
um but we'll answer the questions at hand number one is it at least edible does it finally is this
finally an item that actually tastes alright indeed it does so that's good news there um
it's your standard fast food you know take out pizza that is so don't expect the world from it um
sometimes when you think of new york pizza you know you might think of one of those
local establishments maybe in the city maybe not that's uh almost world-renowned and just
does excellent pizza with the finest ingredients and you know you name it um you have to bear
in mind that this papa john's pizza that we're talking about so you have to have your standards
kind of set at a certain a certain level um you can't really expect the world with these sorts
of establishments because that's just how it is it's fast food not fine dining or anything um
but bearing that in mind it's very greasy pizza as you can obviously see very greasy very oily
obviously there's a lot of pepperoni on it so i could taste a lot of pepperoni
they were very thorough with the toppings i don't know if they i was actually kind of surprised that
they put that much pepperoni on it um the ones that i had seen otherwise don't usually come
with that much so i don't know if that was just maybe a mistake on their end maybe they
were just feeling generous i don't really know but either way decent amount of toppings and um
even if yours maybe doesn't have that much uh i think you'll probably be satisfied based on what
i've seen in other videos and um images thereof etc the topping amount does seem to be rather
generous so that's good um but either way greasy oily pizza the cheese you know doesn't really have
a ton of pull to it but that's how it usually is with these sorts of pizzas um the sauce though is
still robust you know you could definitely taste it again there's not a ton of sauce on this pizza
um but it does do the best of its abilities to try to offset the greasiness um of the pizza otherwise
all right the two things maybe the three things to note though in terms of this pizza number one
it is a little on the thinner side as you could obviously see especially preceding the crust
you really could tell that it did have you know when i was doing the cross section you
could definitely see it doesn't have a huge base to it um a little bit of a bake though
it certainly has its structural integrity but one thing that i do notice in terms of the foldability
it may be on the thinner side but you could kind of see that the crust is more rigid and
a little more bulky perhaps than what i usually imagine new york pizza to be
so as a result it didn't really it was foldable but not as easily so as what i normally see
authentic new york pizza um being you could fold it but honestly it's like
it's not gonna it certainly already has the structural integrity and the stiffness to it um
you know that if you fold it i mean you'll be able to you could see but it wasn't like
it was a necessity or anything like that i guess the thing that i'm trying to say is especially
when you get to the crust you notice that it's not a particularly thin crust i mean it's just i would
call it an average crust but not really totally uh thin when i've had the authentic new york pizza
it certainly has its character if i were to look at this compared side by side to again
legitimate new york pizza would i associate this would i say oh this is definitely new york pizza
no i wouldn't they would just i would probably think oh this is just an average papa john's um
pizza with maybe some more toppings than usual but that's about it
so in terms of that i know it's marketed a certain way i know that it's got the
implication that this is new york pizza but do i really notice such a thing um no i don't so
that's what leaves me with that little sort of conundrum there because it tastes alright i really
don't have any complaints in terms of the pizza itself actually it's it's not bad we're gonna
try it in a second with just some of the garlic sauce but um just when you factor in the marketing
and the branding it's a little thin crust pizza but new york style i wouldn't necessarily um
say that it exudes that sort of energy is this a thin crust pizza it's all right for what it
is you know fast food take out pizza but um just don't expect this to be on level of like those
local establishments but i have a feeling most of us watching this already knew that and it's just
you're trying to find out is this something that i'm going to be able to eat or am i going to be
throwing this up you know on my lap or something right obviously i'm keeping it down because it's
decent food and it's not killing me on the spot anyway but those are the things you just have to
take into account 13 bucks for it not bad price try it with some of the garlic sauce right there
and there's the crust as you can see um the garlic sauce is nice nice accompaniment
as expected little creamy had a little sniffle there crust as you can see is a little on the
puffier side which again i think authentic new york pizza wouldn't really have all of those
qualities would have more of a thinner crust and probably a little bit of a shorter crust as well
but in the end you just have to remember this pizza just is what it is i think it's decent
though i'm happy with it good sized pizza lots of toppings for the price of thirteen
dollars at least it's not like a deep dish pizza or anything you know they said it was gonna be
thin crust it is on the thinner side so bear that in mind therefore out of ten what am i going to
be rating the new york style pizza from papa john's again for the most part i'm happy with
it like i said the marketing is what it is but it's not something that i'm really going
to deduct a lot for because in in the end it's still a decent product so we can't forget that
so all things considered i'm going to be giving this a 7.7 out of 10. that's all that i have for
you thank you for watching and until next time i'm your host the report of the week