hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen
and everyone watching this is running on empty food review i'm your host the report of the week
coming at you from the dark depths of the abyss and it's kind of funny um because it's actually
it's still light outside it's just i don't know the lights seem extra bright to me but
even though it seems like i'm you know there's some sort of black void or something behind me
as a matter of fact i'm gonna duck down real quick and you'll see it's like sundown right now
see it's still there's still some light but you know let's just pretend i'm i don't know floating
around and you know i don't know in a black hole or something though that would not that wouldn't
work in reality but pretend pretend that that's the case either way somehow i am defying the laws
of physics and i i managed to get here in the void and try out a new release from papa john's
now i am very very grateful honestly that papa john's has a new release out because i feel like
i've been reviewing so many chicken sandwiches lately that it's just nice to have a little bit of
a break you know and it's like i could finally try something different so papa john's has released
a new um papadia now the papadia is essentially their crown jewels you know this is like they they
are so proud of this item it's a new series that they've released uh gosh i guess about a year ago
where they say it's not a pizza a pizza it's not a pizza and it's not a quesadilla but it's
like you took a pizza and you folded it in half but it's not like a half folded pizza
nor is it like a uh calzone nor is it like a quesadilla but it's a papadia
and uh you know they've had a few of those i've tried out a couple of them and you know they
definitely have their fans um there definitely are lots of folks out there who do like the papadias
and anyway they got a new one out as a matter of fact it's not really the ingredients themselves
that are getting all the attention this time around but it is actually what is on the papadia
is this the diamond encrusted one no it's not i think the camera glitched out on me anyway
i was as i was saying we've got the parmesan crusted papadia so what this is is you have
the papadia it could be anything of your choice i mean you could you could put anything you want
providing of course it's reasonable uh inside the papadia you could customize it any way you want
but it comes with a parmesan cheese topping i went with a barbecue chicken papadia this time around
because it's a sound that interesting and you can see on the top right here
parmesan cheese so let me hold it up and get a nice thumbnail for you
right there there's a close-up view of it alright
it's all about the parmesan cheese this time around so you can see the appeal is in the papadia
breading itself right there's already cheese in there but this is for like cheese lovers
you know kind of kick it up a notch and again you can see like that cheese right in there
it's also got bacon uh grilled chicken and some barbecue sauce but no matter what you get in the
papadia it's about the special papadia i don't know shell coating whatever you want to call
it that has the toasted parmesan cheese on it and this is just essentially saying hey we've got this
we're going to bring it to the next level so that's we've got there
i'm going to try it out this is very very straightforward you can get it for the price
of seven dollars so that's what it is and that's all that there is to it there's this parmesan
on the outside without the parmesan that's your regular papadi but this one now has the parmesan
cheese on it i could really smell it so i mean it sounds like it's going to be pretty
potent and i'm just going to try it out let you know how it is what difference it makes etc
i got a lot of dental work done today if i seem a little i don't know a little drains today
that's why i had i think i was there for like four hours i got four teeth worked on very
heavily two on each side and um you know it's all for the best though my mouth for those of you who
maybe are regular viewers you might know that my mouth is a bit of a wreck but every tooth
that gets worked on is one that's getting you know sent in the better direction so to speak
so this is all necessary and it's leading the good things ahead so i'm just going to try
to eat this very carefully um if it proves to be a little difficult i'm just going to
pause the camera while i eat but you know get a couple laughs out of it if you want this
probably going to be the most awkward eating sequins you've ever seen from me there's a big
fly flying around um this is probably going to be the most awkward eating sequence for me i've
ever seen so i brought my shortwave radio out with me and i'm going to listen to some
broadcast while i eat to try to i don't know make the mood a little better
so the parmesan encrusted papadia from papa john's going in turn it on
[Audio on shortwave radio]
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[Audio on shortwave radio] will take place team august 18 to september the 4th in serbia
bulgaria croatia and romania slovak women's volleyball team will take part in this competition
for the second time in europe and for their size the main team has also qualified for the
european championships in the fifth match the slovak volleyball players defeated albania c1
started the match with the fresh news that they were only sure
listening to radio slovakia
i'm being assaulted by bugs
there are people
well i'll take one more bite this is kind of had some audio there to try
to lighten the mood make it a little less tedious i'm just only eating on
this side of my mouth because this is where all the real big work was done
so here's what i have to say
if you really like parmesan cheese then go for it get it it's like you know all right i
really like the flavor i like you know if i can get parmesan let's say toasted parmesan
on bread or on the pizza crust or whatever um get this you'll really like it
if you're looking though for something you're saying i want it to be extremely potent i want
it to be the highlight like i'm just what i'm trying to say is if you like the toasted parmesan
essentially as a garnish a little bit here a little bit there yeah i'll get it for you know
decoration then get this it's like adding that to a pizza crust it's okay it's not overwhelming
but it is by no means the star of the show that's what we have here it's a little conflicting though
because as i open the box and when you look at the marketing and you look at the advertising
the parmesan crusted papadia obviously this parmesan cheese the toasted parmesan obviously a
very simple addition but it's being highlighted as the star of the show and when you have that level
of advertising that level of you know they're showcasing it this is what it's all about it's all
about the parmesan cheese well obviously you're expecting a bit of flavor in that parmesan cheese
when you open the box the smell of it really hits you so you know your
the aroma of it is wafting into your nostrils and you're expecting that okay i'll be able to taste
whatever i got in the papadia but i will also taste very prominently toasted parmesan
and you're biting it and you're biting it and hopefully you're chewing it because that would
be the responsible thing to do and you've got your shortwave radio on too and you're maybe
listening to radio slovakia also you're chewing and you're chewing where's the flavor where is
the flavor of the toasted parmesan it's not there it's nowhere to be found and
you're probably going to take it you're going to slam it on the ground
and look at it you know just like it let you down
that's what happened it's advertised as being
what i'm just trying to say kind of in a silly way you can't really taste the toasted parmesan
yet this is being advertised as the focal point now granted you know all right if i'm able to
nitpick here and you know i'm able to peel the toasted parmesan right off the shell itself
okay
yeah it's cheesy but eve even as i'm eating it directly it's not overly flavorful and that's a
problem now you're factoring in let's say in my case all right chicken bacon cheese the barbecue
sauce all of which are flavorful i mean i'm happy with the papadia that i got from the quality of
the ingredients you know i'm talking about i mean the chicken is juicy nice grilled chicken
very robust robust barbecue sauce it's nice and cheesy already from the cheese that's baked into
it so it's not like you know this is the only cheese you're ever going to get there's already
cheese in the papadia the bacon is kind of there but you have all of these very very strong flavors
and then the toasted parmesan which also you can see isn't even covering the entire thing
i mean look at the back here all of this is there's no there's no toasted parmesan at all
so what does that leave us with leaves us with a little bit of disappointment
you can't really taste the toasted parmesan yet this is called
right the parmesan crusted papadia so you get this and you're expecting more flavor from it
a more pronounced flavor anyway you can't really taste it that's going to be really disappointing
if you get this from the perspective that okay yeah it's just like a little garnish it's again
like the equivalent you're getting a pizza you're really in it for the pizza the pizza toppings all
of that and then you get the toasted parmesan on the crust or something all right that's one thing
yeah it's gonna be a little extra not really the star of the show nothing incredible but that's it
um that's what i'm just trying to say it's just you it's barely barely noticeable doesn't really
make a difference at all yet it's supposed to be the star of the show so that's a disappointment
um it's inoffensive on its own but factoring in that this is the whole selling point i think it's
a bit of a miss still tastes decent but i think they could have done better so out of 10 i'm going
to be giving the parmesan crusted papadia a 6.0 out of 10 slightly above average but that's about
as good as it's gonna get and that's all that i have for you ladies gentlemen everyone out
there watching i'm your host the report of the week i'm going to give my mouth a day or two to
recover from all this dental work and i'll be back in business before you know it take care