hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome when i not this newest edition of the running on empty food review series i'm your
host the report of the week thanks for checking in i don't know if the intro got cut off by a second
maybe it did maybe it didn't but i was cutting it close and that's because i'm such a risk taker i'm
such a daredevil you know that i always i'm trying to find those new heights just to go all out i
think i found it i think i really did in terms of risk risk versus reward or lack thereof let's see
this is one of those items that uh there's a lot of attention over there's a lot of
you know people are talking about it and it's gonna be one of these reviews where i don't know
i really don't know i try not to judge a book by its cover granted
you know when i do these reviews of course i see all sorts of different types of items but i uh i
took one look at it and i mean it's just gonna be what it is what more can i tell you it's just uh
i don't know i really don't know little caesars if you remember a few months ago they released
something called the crazy calzone and it was this abomination that people either loved or they hated
now the reason why i call it an abomination is because it didn't look like it belonged in this
world it really didn't it looked like some sort of creature and um it looked like it just wasn't
i thought it was so over the top so overwhelming i thought it was gross and i didn't like it
it creeps me out in a way to tell you the truth but the the impressions from the viewing audience
and those who actually did go out and get the item were mixed it was about a 50 50 split
there was about half of the the viewing audience that felt the exact same way that i did about it
and thought yeah this is just too much it's just it's kind of gross and excessive etc but
other people thought it was the best thing that they've ever had and i understand it people they
consume things differently they like different um different styles of the food and some people
i think like it the greasier and messier that it is the better i'm not one of those people but who
am i to judge i know that some people are fans of it and taking one look at this item before we even
try it i'm just going to tell it to you right now it's going to follow along those exact same lines
um if you like the crazy calzone you're probably gonna like this if you didn't i don't see how
but i'm making assumptions here but i'm just saying that's
that's what this is streaming at me essentially so i think you could obviously infer since we were
just talking about this item it would be kind of weird if now all of a sudden i said i just
wasted three minutes talking about a previous item and they're actually just releasing a burger or
something totally unrelated but indeed they aren't the crazy calzone is back with a modification
in promotion for a new batman movie little caesars has released the batman calzone
and it's essentially like a half folded crazy calzone so you understand that the crazy calzone
it was like a pizza and a calzone put into one
this one has and you're gonna see it in a minute it's got two ends that are folded like the calzone
two ends here that are just like pizza and it's essentially like a bat shape like a bat wing
shape or it could be like a giant ninja star whichever one you'd like to um to go with but
again it's got that calzone crust on the crust is garlic sauce parmesan inside is white garlic
sauce julienne pepperoni the rest of it is like a regular pizza complete with cheese pepperoni uh
their marinara sauce blend etc and it is available at the price of eight dollars comes in this box
at first people were saying um you know they weren't sure what all of this stuff meant and
they weren't sure if this was supposed to just be for bats or all of that but it's for batman
what does this say little caesars the batman movie in theaters 2022
and dig into the world of little caesars and the batman
scan the code now so i guess you could scan away there i am with the box
and take a look inside and i think you're going to understand everything that i just said
you see that and i think people are either going to say wow that looks
delicious or you're going to say wow that looks kind of overwhelming and i'm kind
of teetering on the overwhelming side of things but who am i to who am i to judge
see that's the calzone there's the crust complete with calzone seepage
as expected but you could see that the calzone is only there's two of them instead of four and
you have the traditional crust everywhere else let's get a thumbnail right here
i'm not sure if they cut the thing or not very very greasy very oily
and we're just gonna find out we're gonna see what it tastes like
and that's all that i could tell you i'll take one more thumbnail and then that'll be it
like that it also comes with some sauce at least for the dipping did they cut this
no they didn't they didn't even cut it are they supposed to
they didn't say well either way let's just cut ourselves a piece then yeah they didn't
cut it so i'm just letting you know right now that it's this one didn't come to me cut
and i actually brought a knife because i was going to try to do a cross-section of the crust anyway
but now i figure what the heck let's just cut my own slice right so i'm not sure if this is
something that's just for my case or not but i want you to be aware of that that yours might
show up like this and there's going to be no cut in it and you're just going to have to make
your own slice so be wary of that just something that you need to take into account go from there
i think this is good though that we cut it because
this is going to be a full cross section so see there's the crust there's the pizza
if you want to talk about something that's absolutely jam-packed with grease look no further
see the problem that i have or i had the last time is that it was just excessive
but let's find out let's see what it tastes like so it's the batman calzone from little caesars
i'm just getting the top off the sauce right here let's try it out it's going in first we'll
try out the pizza then we'll try out the crust and i'll give an assessment all right here goes
you can see the cheese to crust or base ratio on the pizza very high
and now we'll try out the calzone itself
i'll try one more bite we'll dip it in this sauce here
so you remember that thing that i was saying earlier in the review that
it's going to come down to a split and um it's going to be like a 50 50 split it's exactly that
if you want to leave the video right now after i say this do it i'll save you some time if you
like the crazy calzone you'll like this and if you didn't you won't like this and there's the review
so as for me some of the things that i'm not a big fan of i think others will see as a good thing
and that needs to be mentioned that's why when i do these reviews i try to take um i try to
encompass everything and i try to look at it from different angles and different viewpoints etc
obviously as you could see there's a lot on this item on this item and
i mean that could be a good thing these days you obviously see so often that you know you get
less and less you pay more and more and this on the other hand you could obviously see it's
absolutely loaded with stuff you could see all the cheese on it you could see how much cheese
there was to the base that ratio so when you bite into the pizza part of it itself you can see how
cheesy it is already first thing that i got was that mouthful of the the cheese the greasiness
of the pepperoni coupled with all of the the oil from the the cheese already piled thereon
uh so much so that the pizza sauce that's on the uh the calzone doesn't really do much to negate
the flavor a lot of the time the sauce that little caesars uses is very very robust and flavorful and
powerful i may add and it cuts through all of the grease and oiliness that's usually on their items
this on the other hand it's just so much that the sauce has little effect
you know but there's so much so much in terms of toppings obviously then as we enter the the
crust the calzone crust uh you could see all of the julienned pepperoni in there
as well as the cheese and the white garlic sauce but again the problem that i have and
i feel like i'm repeating the last review but i mean again it kind of is like the last thing
that i tried in terms of the calzone that is you could see how much of everything that there is
to me it gets overwhelming it's like it's just too much you know it's just too much
um too much oil too much grease too much cheese too much garlic so much fattiness
and it's just it's just to that point where it's just you know you're at your limit and then some
and it's just too much for me me personally i i just like getting their extra most
bestest pizza if i go to little caesars and that's it this is just too much for me um
it gets so much to the point where you bite in and all you taste this is so much salt so much
grease so much oil and then you get this this weird consistency of the white sauce in the uh
in the crust where it's like it's it's like a fluid but it's not and it's just kind of weird
it's like this um not rubbery but almost like gummy type of mass in between a solid and a liquid
and it could certainly flow like a liquid but you could still chew it it's just like this this weird
consistency to it and um that fills your mouth and it's a so much garlic and i think you understand
what i'm trying to say is that it's so much of everything it's overwhelming to me it's just
way too much um it's way too messy way it's just it's overwhelming that's all that i could tell you
some people though are gonna love this thing and you get it if you looked at this and you thought
man this looks delicious you're probably gonna like it um we all have our limit we all have where
we draw the line and we just say yeah this is just too much you know it's just so overwhelming
this is past my limit it's just to the point where yeah i can't i can't do this anymore
um but for some of you i think this is going to be more than fine if you have a high tolerance and
you don't mind the garlic and the fat and all that stuff um you might find this enjoyable it's just
going to be really really flavorful and one thing you're going to need to take into account is the
marinara sauce i mean you're going to have to dip that crust in there just to help kind of outweigh
um everything else you know just that that robust tomato blend is going to be your lifesaver
in terms of really moderating everything out but for those of you who
maybe just like a regular pizza yeah this is going to be overwhelming so factoring that in
it's as they said that it was no false advertising here at all um so they did good in that regard and
what criticisms i have are just toward the item itself and my own personal preferences in terms
of food not toward little caesars you know as a company look they got this promotion um it's
exactly what they said it was going to be i knew what this was probably going to be like going in
and i knew that your mileage may vary so the big takeaway from this it tastes as it's supposed to
it's really greasy really oily really garlicky those are the three things you gotta bear in mind
really chewy just extremely extremely rich in those affirmation flavors and it depends on your
tolerance if you can take a lot of it and this looks interesting to you go out and get it just
use the sauce make sure to take advantage of that if not um i would pass on this just like how i am
it's just too much it's not something i would get again if i go to little caesars i just get a pizza
and that's it for me so while they're 4 out of 10 problem is that part of me would just give this a
like i didn't particularly enjoy this but i know that some people will and it's just
an individual thing so out of 10 i'm going to give the little caesars batman calzone
a 5.8 out of 10. just because again if there's an item that it exceeds one's tolerance and it's
so just much of everything i know i'm not the only person that has this problem so it's not
necessarily the perfect item if it kind of has that effect on some people it should be an item
that people generally would find enjoyable not just a small subset of the population hence the
rating but based off of your own tolerance take a look at it understand the assessment and then
proceed there from price again is eight dollars for it which again is a solid deal little caesars
uh economical but yeah i just wasn't a big fan of this one and uh i hope you could see why that's
all that i have for you thank you for watching i'm your host the report of the week until next time