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number one i'm breaking out a solid tie and that's absolutely irrelevant to the review number two
papa john's has released a new pizza and i'll tell you what i'm actually excited
to be here doing a pizza review maybe i've said this before i probably have but pizza
reviews are actually my favorite thing to do of all the reviews i just like pizza i mean i
i can't help it i just like pizza i get excited when i hear about new pizzas that get released
and it's just a lot of fun i like doing it i like trying them out and i think a lot of
people do too so papa john's has a new pizza out and i'm excited for this one i mean obviously
that doesn't mean that it's gonna be good but you know so it's something to look forward to anyway
this is called the epic stuffed crust pizza it's epic all right just think about that for a second
it's epic now you have to ask yourself all right now put your put your thinking cap on
right now all right so just go for it i'll give you a second i gave you two or three
seconds but either way we've got time now here's a question we know that stuffed crust pizzas usually
have some sort of substance in the crust usually cheese but what would make a stuffed crust pizza
an epic stuffed crust pizza all right just think about it just shout the answers out
that's that's possible but that's not what i was looking for though all right well according to
papa john's what makes a stuffed crust pizza an epic stuffed crust pizza is uh when the cheese
boy the punch line really got ruined right there it's a crust that's stuffed with cheese
and pepperoni so there you have it that's what makes it epic all right all this nonsense aside
this is a large pizza it's got stuffed trust in the crust is cheese and pepperoni you could
then modify and customize the pizza to your liking i went with the standard
pepperoni pizza and otherwise you know it's a standard hand-tossed pizza with the usual fare
standard cheese sauce etc but the crust that's where it all is about and
in the crust it's again cheese and pepperoni now price for this by and large is around 13.99
i paid a lovely 20 bucks for it but most of you wouldn't but i would just say this if you're in
the northeast expect to um otherwise you know it's like a 14 pizza so there you have it all right
here's the box now this pizza has some real weight to it i mean
let me tell you let's get the focus off the camera so you can get a better look at it now
if this is a heavy pizza and on the front it says better rewards with every bite
that's what we mean by better ingredients better pizza so there you have it um
what do we have i guess those are the wings right
and those are the bones and those are like those remind me of some sorts of alien creatures and now
we open and big reveal look at that pizza right there wow it's a fresh
glistening pizza aesthetically speaking i mean i'll be honest it's a good-looking pizza
but that doesn't mean a thing it could taste horrible there's a good look at it you know
it's a it's a standard pepperoni pizza comes with the blessed pepper as well as the dipping sauce
and now let's take a look here let's get an individual slice
now what slice do we want is that it doesn't even really matter we want the crust that's what it's
what's most important so we'll go with this slice all right now let's get a close-up of it let's
there's the see
okay there we go look at the crust pepperoni
in the crust so here's the game plan we're just going to try it out i'm going to try out
the pizza then we're gonna go into the crust we'll give a rounded assessment and that's
the review that said the epic stuffed crust pizza from papa john's going in
while i'm eating i'll tell you a short story
i don't know if anyone remembers this but about 10 years ago
pizza hut on their youtube channel and this isn't even the throw shade this is just a legitimate
event that at least i remember maybe it never happened and i i can't even find any evidence
that this ever happened but i swear i remember it pizza hut on their youtube channel had a promotion
where they were saying we're going to promote our stuffed crust pizza
and as part of our promotion we're gonna give away some stuffed crust pizzas but in one of the crusts
we're gonna put a hundred dollars cash so people people are eating the pizza and when they get to
the crust they're gonna see money in the crust and they'll be winners you know make some money
now on paper all right that sounds like yeah you know it's like one of those
board room ideas that maybe it can work
but take a minute to think about that think about cash money do you do you think for a second that
that's clean at all you know if you look in your pocket and you see a dollar bill or a couple bucks
where has that dollar been before it wound up in your possession exactly you don't know yeah it
could have been sitting in a bank it could be just clean as can be it could have been in places that
if i mention it this video would be totally demonetized we don't know
so then you realize what a horrible idea that would be to put this disgusting
paper in the crust let it seep into the food and then let some guy take a bite of the crust
and instead of eating the delicious stuffed crust he was hoping for he bites into this filthy smelly
soggy dollar bill that's been god knows where yeah that's not a good promotion and i remember
the video was up on their youtube channel and people were calling them out they were
saying exactly that and then one day the video disappeared it was never seen again
i can't even find the trace of its existence but i swear that happened
we'll take two more bites
so
it was just something that was on my mind and that's all really that that was it the place
that did that promotion it's irrelevant if that was little caesars it's little caesars if it was
pizza out of his pizza hut it was papa john's it was papa john's i don't really care who did it i
just remembered that and i thought it's i don't know it's pertinent to what we're talking about
all the blue glasses are getting washed all right pizza is good it's an enjoyable pizza
number one the pizza itself is uh your standard papa john's fair but it's good papa john's is
one of those establishments that i think over the years has actually improved a bit um good pizza
has a nice little bit of a bake to the bottom of it so you do get a little bit of a crunch in
every bite it's firm at least it's greasy it's oily it's what you would expect from fast food
take out pizza and um that's understandable maybe not the most health conscious
uh pizza out there in the world but uh either way you know it's still
it's good for what it is the sauce i like actually has a little bit of a sweetness to it and it just
works really nicely in terms of almost offsetting some of the excessive grease from the pepperoni
and the cheese as well but the ingredients are fresh tastes good as a pizza no problems uh
it's fine for what it is uh the crust i was pleasantly surprised by there have been times
before where other places have done this exact same thing i mean i know little caesars did that
like a year ago um pizza hut did that years ago so papa john's is giving it their shot i think even
little caesars did this they all they'll try this some do it better than others thing that
i like about this good amount of pepperoni in the crust every time you saw a cross section
there was a piece of pepperoni in the crust so it's not like you know you're biting in you're
wondering where's the pepperoni where's the pepperoni it's there and it's there
in every single bite and you can taste it so you can really taste that pepperoni
in the crust it blends really nicely with the cheese really flavorful it's actually more
flavorful than i thought it would be um and one interesting note there's actually a little bit of
spice in the crust just a little bit of a hint of spice and i want to try to discern that right now
if it has to do okay there's a little seasoning on the crust
i'm just going to try to take a bite of the crust without eating its contents
yeah like if you look right here
there's a little bit of a seasoning on the crust and again look at the cross section pepperoni
there pepperoni there pepperoni everywhere so that little bit of a uh seasoning there on the crust
gives it a little bit of a spicy kick which i mean it's just in my opinion the perfect touch
i always like the seasoning on the crust i think it tastes good i think it's a nice
accompaniment and i gotta say as far as stuffed crust pizzas go i'm enjoying this one it tastes
good and i really like number one that's got that spiciness in the crust it just
it keeps it from being bland and monotonous it's just that extra little kick which is great
and secondly i like the amount of pepperoni that's in the crust they advertise it as having pepperoni
in the crust and it certainly does and that's good you know so many times i mean you know the way it
goes these days you get place after place it'll give you these promises and it's just nonsense
it's lies um they say oh it's gonna have extra this extra that blah blah blah and then it doesn't
or it's just you know a poor job this is good this is what you would expect
you know when you see the ad and all of that and you're actually getting it so
it's good to see price wise again for most it's like a 14 pizza but there's some weight to it
you're getting a good amount of toppings and it's it's a decent pizza for that so all in all i mean
i'm happy with it i think it's a good pizza uh quite enjoyable no not too much to really complain
about so it's getting a 9 out of 10 in my book papa john's did a good job here tastes good and
i'm happy with it i think it's a solid stuffed crust pizza so if you've got a papa john's in your
area you're in the mood for some stuffed crust pizza hey maybe give it a shot see what you think
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conjunction to this youtube channel recently i expanded my radio broadcast with a new airing
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uh broadcast that was on that frequency at that time and uh the results were great
very very happy with the feedback and it's just great to see that i was able to expand my show
to finally clearly reach listeners on the radio in europe and beyond in eastern europe and russia
even in ukraine i was hearing from listeners over there and uh it was just really great to see the
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