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So, hello ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching. A different setting, of course,
a really different setting. If you want to know
where exactly I am - I mean you could just make something up. You could say I'm in like some giant
spaceship or something and make it more interesting than it really is.
Um, but no matter what, I'm in public today. I'm out and about. I stepped out of the comfort zone,
so I'm getting out there now. I'm getting out and,
well here I am. I guess I successfully made it.
But I'm out in public and I wanted to try something out because I remember I was going through my
old videos - sometimes I'll just look at them for fun, you know, sometimes just for the heck of it I'll watch 'em you know,
reminisce upon the glory days, right -
and I remember seeing this video that I did
where I reviewed Sbarro
pepperoni pizza - like their just New York style pepperoni pizza slice.
And I hated that thing. I mean I was- I believe I was so fed up with it because I wasted seven bucks on this
mediocre pizza slice, and I thought to myself, "Oh I have an opportunity for maybe some redemption."
Maybe just to reaffirm the fact that it's awful, who knows. So I thought, "Well I'll just go out and get it," so I did. And
now we got it.
See, there's the proof
Now, the first thing that was a little
rewarding in a sense, and kind of made me maybe get a little
feeling of good luck - think, "You know maybe this isn't going to be
terrible. Maybe I'm not going to vomit it up about 20 minutes later this time" -
was the fact that the pepperoni slice now costs four dollars and nine cents
compared to the seven bucks I wasted back in 2015, so that's one thing that's
kind of made me breathe a little sigh of relief.
But, it could be cheap but it could still taste terrible, it doesn't matter.
So this is what it looks like here. It's a standard, you know, New York Style -
thinner crust, maybe a little on the verge of hand tossed
- pepperoni slice. Can see it is thoroughly covered in pepperoni. That is
pepperoni; those aren't little blotches of tomatoes or red diseased cheese, but it is legitimate
pure pepperoni. There it is.
And see, there's the crust view.
There's the crust. I don't think it wants to focus on the crust so I don't think that's gonna happen, but
this is what we've got.
Four dollars for this, so I'm just gonna try it and see if it's worth it. So it's the Sbarro standard pepperoni slice going in.
Gonna take a few more bites and then I'll turn it around and we'll try out the crust.
Yeah, Sbarro, they're one of those places that sometimes I feel bad for; I really do, I feel bad for them sometimes.
They're like,
the little pizza place that should, but never did.
You know, it's kind of sad honestly.
Where they tried to be one of the big boys - they tried to rise up to the heights of Pizza Hut, and Domino's,
and Little Caesars, and Papa John's - they never got there.
You know, they never did; they were always like a second tier
pizza chain usually confined to frozen food sections, food courts, or rest areas.
They tried, you know, they tried.
And then they sunk to their lowest low back in 2015 and
I'm here now a couple years later trying out their slice again and, has there been some improvement? There has.
Yeah, there absolutely has been. I would be lying to you if I said that there wasn't. The slice wasn't disgusting this time around.
It wasn't extremely gross.
it was acceptable.
I mean the one thing about it is
their competition. You can get this style of pizza, likely better,
possibly even at a cheaper place, at any like local mom-and-pop
pizza establishment.
You know. They kind of cornered themselves here 'cause they have all the local places they have to compete against.
They would have these giant national chains to compete against.
Pizza still a little pricey, four bucks for a single slice.
It's a little bit overpriced. I mean I've known of places that you could get a slice for a dollar or two dollars that looks just
the same and is just as good, if not better.
So the price isn't extremely enticing, but
the taste is a little better, admittedly, it is.
It's a very salty slice, you got to keep that in mind.
And all the pepperoni will do that, all the oil and, you know, from the meat
and all of that, and from the the cheese - it's gonna be salty, and it's gonna just pull upon itself and accumulate.
It's an extremely salty slice. I didn't even buy a drink because, here's the thing that
they really get you on: You can get the slice for four bucks,
or you can get a combo with a drink for like three bucks more.
That's a ripoff completely, so if I really need something to drink i'll just go and
procure a beverage elsewhere and
figure that one out, but it's extremely salty. I mean, extremely salty.
The one redeeming quality is the sauce. The sauce is much more of a,
you know, you have all sorts of tomato sauces; you have the sweet ones, you have the ones with a little tang to 'em, you have the very
rich ones - you know, the very rich, flavorful
tomato sauces - and everything in between.
And this one is very rich flavor, you know, it's very
tomatoey. Just very rich in flavor in that regard, and that does a little bit to counter the
saltiness of the slice overall, but the one issue that I encounter there is that it's just not enough.
It's not enough.
The saltiness can be a little bit of an issue; it'll dry your mouth out and it'll feel like you're in the Sahara,
or desert of equivalent nature and
that's an issue in and of itself.
Yeah, so that's where that stands in terms of the slice.
It's okay for what it is. I mean it's okay. If you have no other
option, you know, if you're on your last legs, if you're gonna die, if you're gonna- if you somehow
took a poison and the only antidote is a pepperoni slice from Sbarro, you will be able to eat this and
you'll be okay eating it. You'll be four dollars shorter,
but you'll be okay, I can tell you that. I can guarantee you that, as a matter of fact.
But you know, it's pretty standard for what it is. I guess it kind of improved from being bad
to average now, which is a fair improvement, absolutely, it's better than going from bad to extremely bad.
So that's you know that's a good thing.
But it definitely didn't rise up from "bad" to,
"Wow this is amazing, you know, they did a 180 here. They flipped this thing around and they changed for the better."
That's just not the case,
but uh,
they improved it enough at least that it's a standard pizza slice at this point.
So out of ten what am I going to be rating the Sbarro
pepperoni slice, the New York style pepperoni slice? Well out of ten I'm gonna be giving this slice,
I'm gonna give it a 7.3 out of 10.
For what it is, it kind of rose up a little bit, now average, maybe slightly below average.
But if you find yourself at a rest area,
a food court, if you ever even find a standalone Sbarro - and I don't know if those exist - but if you find one,
you can get it; I'm sure it's better fresh than anything else. And
just know, it's not gonna be the best pizza slice you've ever had, but at this point, I am
relieved to say it's not gonna be the worst either.
So that's all that I have for you ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, TheReportOfTheWeek, filming in public today, this morning,
and getting the pizza review done.
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