hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen
and everyone watching this is running on empty food review i am your host the report of the
week and welcome to this newest installment and edition food review as they say well
we have a few possibilities right now maybe i lied maybe i said that we're going to try out
the beyond sausage pizza simply to get people into the video and instead you're actually going to see
me eat this new notepad that i have or maybe i just decided to put a notepad on the plate for
for because i'm just so out there and the pizza's actually in this cardboard um receptacle
that might be the case also i don't know where i'm going with this introduction so let's just
get into it i'm not going to eat the notepad this time around maybe we'll do that another day
but this is not this is not the pizza this is just my note sheet uh but here's what we have
pizza hut is finally getting in on the beyond meat craze a lot of places have been doing this
i think the first thing i remember that was doing this was uh burger king with the impossible locker
now i don't really know the best word for this because trend i think makes it sound as though
it's something temporary although i know that there are many many very ardent supporters
of the beyond me which is really the plant-based meat substitutes uh for individuals who who just
would prefer not to eat the actual meat which is which is understandable but i remember burger
king last year had the impossible whopper right where instead of having the beef patty uh they
had the plant-based patty instead and you've had a few other things too i think you've had
i might have i figured it might have been dunkin donuts i think where they had like a beyond meat
sausage patty well pizza hut is finally getting in on it they have just released their beyond
italian sausage pizza now what is this exactly well the name is pretty much self-explanatory
instead of having your standard italian sausage crumbles on the pizza they now have plant-based
sausage crumbles so again it is um plant-based protein i believe as they describe it also mix in
with garlic onion uh paprika and a few other herbs and spices as well for flavor it is a pan pizza it
also comes with their standard cheese and sauce so considering that i wouldn't i would wager that
it is not a vegan item um more so vegetarian perhaps or for those curious to try it out
but it comes again with irregular cheese pizza sauce but no real sausage instead it's a beyond
a plant-based sausage pretty self-explanatory it's really supposed to be like your special
sausage pizza but again substituting the regular sausage for the plant-based sausage and again
this is something that you're seeing more and more establishments doing i don't think this is
going to be the last one that we will see but certainly this is the first i think pizza that
i have seen that started using the beyond meats in substitution for the regular ones price for
this was 14.99 for a large pan pizza a little on the pricier side though you know when something
is first being talked about they always jack up the price a bit this is what they do you can see
there's the box they're going green of course pizza hut beyond right beyond right there says
plant-based it is hut approved so this is this is approved by the hut as they say
same thing there as i was setting this up the scene and everything there was this persistent
fly it kept hovering around my face and i was trying to you know shoe it away
just wouldn't leave i have a feeling that probably the sausage lobby
uh got jealous you know they were upset that i'm trying this out so they kind of they felt like i
you know that i i turned my back on them so they probably sent one of their
one of their minions over to pester me let's open this up now and let's see what we have
the beyond italian sausage pizza from pizza hut there it is uh it looks remarkably like
a regular sausage pizza i will say that let's focus in here on the on the goods as they say
there i am with it we got to get you know the big thumbnail shot
meant something like that um but you can definitely see
from a glance i would definitely say oh this looks like a sausage pizza i couldn't tell
you that this is plant-based really couldn't let's grab a slice what's a good looking slice
decisions decisions they didn't cut this the fast they had to tell you that but we'll go with this
piece right here all right again the big focus you know you got the standard cheese you've got
there's the sausage right you can see it doesn't have the most sausage
coverage that's the one thing um but granted this is just what we've got
so there isn't too much to explain with this item again of course we just we know what's on it
i it's not like it has this deliberate uh you know this deliberately excessive list
of ingredients and this and that right it's just a sausage pizza standard cheese standard sauce but
again the sausage is plant-based that's all that there is to it you saw what it looks like i saw
what it looks like now most important what does it taste like is it going to taste like a real
sausage pizza is it not let's find out the beyond italian sausage pizza from pizza hut going in
my mouth continues to recover and feel better by the day anyone wondering there
i'm gonna go in for this one right now
mm-hmm
you know people have their different views on the plant-based uh substitutes i think
it's like one of those things people either really like him or they hate him
um but i have to say from the viewpoint of taste i am very impressed and i i i
say that with no exaggeration it is a greasy pizza i mean you can see the
glistening grease right there with a nice little coat of that on my fingers so i do indeed have to
get that off i gotta say though i am very impressed with the flavor
uh very much so the best way to describe it because i think some people are like
well what does it taste like right what does it taste like surely it's a plant-based substitute
so surely it has to taste different from sausage it doesn't i mean it really doesn't
if it weren't for the box and if it weren't for the fact that i went out and clearly
ordered um you know the beyond italian sausage pizza you put this in front of me
and i wouldn't be able to tell the difference i would say this is a sausage pizza and this is
you know sausage that's on the pizza it tastes exactly like italian sausage i mean exactly
i even remember when i tried out the impossible romper from burger king you know and like when
i really examined this and sorry to get on a tangent when i really examine this closely
you can tell that it doesn't look quite like italian sausage does it just you know little
minutes differences aside from that taste wise you put this in front of me
i'd say it's a sausage pizza it's not what i was trying to get at is with the impossible locker i
remember trying that and i remember the patty it had the similarities of course to a beef patty
but it wasn't quite you know it wasn't quite spot on
this on the other hand i have to say they did an excellent job on it i think for those of you who
might want to uh you know avoid eating the sausage perhaps but you still want that flavor uh get this
because it tastes exactly like it i mean you are not missing out on anything by getting this
in substitution for the regular italian sausage tastes exactly like it all the flavors even you
know i guess in this instance you would say the faux meaty flavors um but again all the herbs all
the spices i could taste the onion and the garlic especially um in the the plant-based sausage there
just tastes exactly like it i don't know how they do it i really don't but i am
i am very surprised i mean they nailed this one i am shocked i really am i kid you not
i i expected to get this where it would taste something like sausage but i did not anticipate it
uh to be as spot on as it was everything else of course is standard as you would anticipate for a
pan pizza of course it's greasy it's doughy it's soft which is probably good for my my dreadful
teeth um and everything else is fine you know it's salty of course the tomato sauce is a little on
the sweeter side it's not you know as necessarily robust as some other establishments have it
um the cheese is still there you know again it's just greasy a little salty um but your doughy pan
pizza but the biggest the biggest thing is that the sausage on this quite simply just tastes
like sausage that's all that i could say which i think is the goal here that is the goal that
is the ultimate end game they nailed it a hundred percent i'm very very impressed um you know after
having previous beyond items to review and try out etc my expectations were a little higher but
you know this exceeded those it's far more realistic than i ever anticipated it to be which
is which is nice i think that's what they wanted that's what they aimed for that's exactly what
they got it got not got it that's not a word price is 14.99 a little expensive but i guess all things
considered it is a good item it tastes good very flavorful decent portion size two portion portion
portion where's my tongue today did that did that fly really bite me and inject me with some sort
of brain rotting you know serum or something i don't know but either way i'm just trying to
say that it's good that's what it comes down to a little pricey but good therefore out of ten
nine out of ten uh very impressed by it a good item and if it's something that is of interest
to you i say go out and get it because i think you too will be impressed by it it's a spot on
indistinguishable from a regular sausage pizza so i think those of you who this may appeal to
you're really going to like it that's all that i have for you ladies and gentlemen i am your host
the report of the week today we tried out the beyond italian sausage pizza from pizza hut a
job well done uh very very accurate and they did i just think they did a very good job here at the
flavors all things considered that's all and for now take care and be safe wherever you are