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 pleased to be here as always i have a
question for you because you know i try to be as interactive as possible with these reviews
and i have a direct question for you right now you could you could just shout it at
the screen even if i can't hear it you could still just do it anyway do you know
what today is again just you can just shout it out right now do you know what today is
all right that answer is true
but this is family friendly so we're not going to go there this time around
you're not going to believe this ongoing as we speak is bacon mania from papa john's
bacon mania from papa john's yeah i know you can't you know you can't believe it either i certainly
can't as a matter of fact i was in such disbelief that my vest actually changed color on me
and that's how i wound up with this one um that's that's what happens sometimes when the shock is
just too much but yeah beacon mania from papa john's can you believe that it's bacon mania
yeah but you know bacon though it's one of those things that
i know about a decade ago not even a decade ago it was maybe around 2012 or so i think it was
do you remember when when everyone was obsessed with bacon you know it was baking this and bacon
that and bacon everything bacon scented this bacon t-shirt you know you name it
everyone was obsessed with bacon and granted while that craze you know i don't think it's
where it was obviously bacon still does have a place especially in the world of fast food
and all of that so you know bacon is one of those things that certainly is so is still celebrated
to an extent still promoted and that is what the latest promotion from papa john's is precisely
they said you know it's bacon mania we're going to be all about bacon for the next month or two
so they've released three bacon themed items uh the most prominent of which though is a pizza
and that's why i kind of have the camera a little further out than usual because bring
in the pizza that's right over here and you're gonna get a great view of it um but with this
bacon mania frenzy they have released the triple bacon pizza and what it is you know because i know
a name like that is really it's very ambiguous you know triple bacon pizza right what exactly
does this have to offer and um i know a lot of people are wondering that so this is what it's
got on it it is a large pizza so it's one of those items that only comes in one size
so you know you you might just have to be a little feisty have a feisty appetite
um if you plan to tackle this yourself or uh you know kind of share it with some friends or
family otherwise but it's a large pizza and it comes with three different types of bacon on it
it features smoky bacon crumbles it also features canadian bacon and then the pizza is topped with
bacon strips so that's why they call it that because it has three types of bacon on it
and um that's the big focus now of course it also has cheese and regular sauce on it
so it's not like you're just getting the dough with the bacon on it it does come with cheese
and sauce it's just a pizza with you know a variety of bacon and that's a big selling point
the price for it is thirteen dollars so thirteen dollars for a large pie which uh still you know
not too bad the triple bacon pizza from papa john's though celebrating bacon mania
so this is what the box looks like now they're still going with the
stuffed crust promotion but i think this is a means of marketing um because what they do
is you look at this and i think the expected reaction of the customer is to get this and you're
going to be in a state of shock you're going to be thinking to yourself no i got the triple bacon one
not the stuffed trust what's going on and then in this moment of this may you're gonna open the box
you're gonna see that bacon and everything is gonna get better and the physical storm cloud
that was manifesting around your head will dissipate and a little rainbow will pop up
in its place this is what it looks like though let's take a look
i will get a thumbnail shot first just for the heck of it and um i'll do something like this
and then we'll get one a little closer
i know it feels like i'm kind of sitting there forever you know trying to do this but
the thumbnail is important um but you could definitely see on the pizza you can see the
bacon strips and uh all of that there you know definitely a very i don't know a bacony pizza
so that's what it looks like though and uh now let's just grab a slice let's pick a slice any
slice this looks like a good bacon-filled slice i suppose and now let's get a better view of it
alright so you can see some of the different types of bacon near the front and then the bacon
strips but again just it's a pizza with a lot of bacon on it that's all that can really be said
so with that let's try it out the triple bacon pizza from papa john's it's going in
so
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it's not bad
not bad at all the thing that you have to remember with this pizza though and i know to some it might
kind of sound self-explanatory but it still needs to be outlined nonetheless i think in order to
really enjoy this pizza and to kind of sit there and you know say he says this is this is solid
you're going to have to like bacon to enjoy that i know some people might say that's an over but
you know still you got to outline that just in case um because definitely you're going to be
tasting a lot of bacon it's going to be there in every single bite um to some capacity i would only
say you know of course the crust is the only thing that wouldn't have any bacon on it otherwise the
rest of the pizza in its entirety it's bacon and it's all bacon um the cheese is kind of you know
it's there it still tastes good but the cheese is an afterthought and it's really just all the bacon
um as a result of that though this is a rather greasy um pizza so bear that in mind you know
as you're eating it um but it is definitely a greasier a greasier pizza all the different
types of the bacon blend well you have the little bacon crumbles which um are sprinkled throughout
and you get some of that in every bite the bacon strips one nice thing about that is that there's
a nice crisp to them and i think you could see that when i was showing you the pizza
there's a nice crisp to them and that just kind of it works and it adds a little a little extra to
the slice um and then you have the canadian bacon which is you know thicker cut and you can see like
right there you know it's cut in these little i think they said it's like julienne cut i believe
and those you might not be getting at every single bite but when you do you're certainly going to be
able to taste it because in terms of let's say volume of bacon it's the canadian bacon that
certainly has the most but everything else is still there so the compliment that i give this
pizza is the topping distribution a lot of times these days you know you have various pizzas that
they're marketed as having this or that and then you go out and you get it and it doesn't look
anything like how it's advertised there's nowhere near as many toppings as you expected there to be
or perhaps paid for and that always is a bit problematic this on the other hand i think
as you could evidently see there are a lot of toppings on it and it does appear to be
exactly as advertised they say it has a lot of bacon on it they say that bacon is the main
the main point the main focal point of the pizza
indeed there is a lot of bacon
so it tastes good for what it is one good thing is that you might wonder okay you have all this
bacon but does it get too overwhelmingly salty and too overwhelmingly greasy
and i wouldn't say so the biggest thing that i think helps moderate everything is
the sauce this robust tomato sauce um that there's a good amount of it on the pizza
and um you know it works and it just kind of helps keep it from just getting
overbearing and overwhelming so the sauce is really a very important characteristic
and aspect of this pizza because that's what keeps all of the bacon in check i would say
um but otherwise it's one of those pizzas that again you know not too much to say except i think
it tastes as one would expect it to very greasy you know very bacony um but if you like those
flavors then you're going to enjoy this pizza dip a tiny bit in some garlic for the heck of it
the creamy garlic sauce i mean it complements the pizza all right
but i think it's best for the crust
it gives a good boost to what would otherwise be you know just a very basic crust
um so definitely i mean it'll come with the garlic sauce feel free to take advantage of that
um because it'll definitely work in your favor so that said i think it's a pretty straightforward
pizza but it's exactly as advertised um nothing misleading and a good amount of toppings as well
so therefore factoring in the price too you know 13 bucks you consider it you consider
the volume of the toppings that you're getting too that's a solid deal these days
so price wise i would say it's priced reliably as well so no issues there
so out of 10 what am i going to be rating the triple bacon pizza from papa john's out of 10
i'm going to be giving this i would say an 8.2 out of 10. pretty good for what it is
um no real huge issues here so certainly a little bit above average and if you like bacon i think
you'll like this pizza so wanted to give it a shot tried it out and that's all that i have for you
i'm your host the report of the week thank you for checking out this review until next time