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this is um it's going to be an interesting one it's going to be an interesting review and
already because when i try to do these reviews you know i try to do so with a sense of impartiality
so i'm just going to let you know what i what i already feel about this item but we're going to
see i mean if it's good it's good if it's not it's not and we're just going to go from there
it's interesting i mean again i'll tell you that it's interesting little caesars has just released
an item never seen before in the world of fast food take out pizza as a matter of fact some
are even saying is this going to be the future of pizza is this going to be the future of humanity
i don't think it's going to be the future of humanity but you never know i don't have a
crystal ball maybe maybe it will be you know but i i don't think so that's just my take
little caesars has released the crazy calzone i got it in pepperoni form so it's called the
crazy calzone pepperoni but you could also get a cheese variant it packs a whopping 2500 calories
and here's what it is it comes in eight slices and they just describe it as follows a pepperoni pizza
with parmesan and buttery calzone-like crust filled with garlic white sauce cheese
julienne pepperoni and also has regular pepperoni as well i'm sorry about any pronunciation and
it comes with crazy sauce on the side so it's available at the price of eight and a half dollars
and what it is imagine this you have like four calzones almost well you'll see in a second
you got four calzones as the crust and then pizza in the center but the calzones are stuffed with
cheese and pepperoni and white sauce it's interesting reactions to this are mixed
truth be told and i've seen people online saying anything from this looks like something that was
a lab experiment gone wrong uh to people saying that this is delicious and that
they'll get this every single day that it's out comes in the regular pizza box right here and um
you can see they're actually promoting it on the box pizza calzone yup crazy calzone
how the heck do you eat this thing and um you can see right there that's what
i mean see how each end is portrayed as being a calzone now we open it
and when you see it with your own eyes i want to explain my personal apprehension toward it
um it is what it is again i'm going to try it out and if you get angry at me or you want to laugh at
my expense i really don't care you can you can go right ahead you know it's like it doesn't doesn't
uh bother me that's what it looks like okay you can see and i'll get a thumbnail right here
you can see that there's a pool of looks like garlic butter and i see oil sliding down the box
as we as we speak you can see each end looks like a calzone and it's stuffed with
looks like pepperoni and it's absolutely saturated with
looks like the garlic butter and you got the pepperoni in the center as well and the cheese and
all of that like they've said how the heck do you eat this thing i really don't know
that's what it looks like i mean i'm having trouble saying anything about it there's so
much there looks like they did put sauce on this i don't know if they're supposed to or not but
i'm just going to review what i got and we'll go from there
now if you want to laugh at my expense again you're more than welcome to but this thing
it scares me in a way um part of me looks at it and i think that this has
no reason to exist in this world like if if someone told me that this is some sort of
alien life form i would probably be inclined to believe them it's like i i wouldn't be shocked
and i'm like if there's a parallel dimension or something where these are the dominant life forms
it just wouldn't surprise me in any way shape or form and i feel like if i were to put my finger in
the center of this the four edges would like close in on it like a like a venomous plant or something
and if this just started pulsating in the box i just wouldn't i wouldn't be surprised
one single bit i mean it's that's just how i see it and um it's silly i know it's you
know it's like i said hey if it tastes good it tastes good we're just going to look at
this objectively i wanted to say that though just so that you understand that i may have
my reservations in terms of appearance but there is the famous saying right don't judge a book
by its cover and um we'll certainly refrain from judgment and say that oh this has to be bad or
has to be good or whatever just because of how it looks right we know that's not the case and we've
seen this time and time again with fast food items um certain things look absolutely horrid
but they taste really good and vice versa you know you get pizzas and sandwich all these sorts
of things look like they're supposed to be oh look at that this is sliding down my fingers
oh goodness me i don't even know what that is
it is what it is you know yeah look at that
i am i'm way too entertained with this i gotta tell you i'm having way too much fun here but we
can't judge a book by its cover it is what it is look at that look at the the seepage right there
i can't get over this you got looks like a pizza right there and you got the white sauce that's
the white sauce how the heck do you eat this thing i don't know let's just dive in head
first no regrets i'll just eat this then i'll eat that and we'll go from there all
right the crazy calzone pepperoni from little caesars eight and a half dollars going in
you
first few bites first assessment the center of it is just like a pizza okay nothing more really
needs to be said there that center area of it is um just like a pizza just like their extra most
bestest pizza i would say very greasy there is there is the sauce on the pizza okay and
that's just what i got but the first few bites that you're going to take are just like an extra
most bestest pepperoni pizza robust flavorful tomato sauce lots of greasy pepperoni some cheese
so those are the first few bites now let's get into the calzone here and let's see what we have
so
the exterior of the calzone-like crust is akin to their crazy bread all right it's absolutely
saturated with oil and um grease and it's covered with the garlic butter and the parmesan seasoning
it's very very garlicky very buttery on the inside it's this it's this mixture
of the pepperoni which again is of the different cut you know it's much thicker much meatier than
the pepperoni on the pizza as well as this mix of white sauce which is very garlicky as well and
cheese all right so that's what it's stuffed with that's the balance right there
i'll tell you what
there's this isn't going to be for everyone this is one of those items that
clearly it's not it's not you know one of those things that's
disgusting in terms of how it how it tastes um there is absolutely no sort of revulsion
in terms of flavor or any of that but it's definitely not going to be for everyone either
and personally this probably just isn't something for me i just don't see myself getting this again
i think it's just too overwhelming in my case i'm just more of a traditional pizza type of guy
and um i think this is just too much for me it's extremely extremely rich that's the other thing
that you have to take into account already their pizzas are usually pretty flavorful you know you
get an extra most bestest pizza or something and the pizza itself is already you know it's
greasy it's flavorful there's lots of pepperoni and the robust sauce on it etc now though you
combine that not only with you know their their calzone which again is like the crazy bread um
totally saturated and flavorful you know garlic um butter and the parmesan but then inside you have
this meaty pepperoni and then my main complaint because number one it's just like a flavor
overload it's like just too much of everything to me and um just like you're tasting so much of the
garlic and the pepperoni it's like it's it's it's so over the top you know you always have to have
a limit somewhere you have to draw the line and i think in my case this kind of goes overboard a bit
the white sauce is kind of interesting and let me explain the contrast and what kind of makes this
a bit weird you have this mixture of white sauce and cheese that is like a liquid you could imagine
inside the calzone but as you bite into it there are going to be instances where you're going
to get after bite after bite of this very very rich very flavorful buttery garlic you know oily
greasy pizza and calzone whatever but then you take a bite and you get this absolute mouthful
of this white liquid that is mildly garlic-like but compared to the prevailing flavors of
everything else it actually seems relatively mild and flavorless and it's just it's an interesting
contrast where all of a sudden after all this flavor it's just you get this mouthful of
just this kind of bland liquidish type of uh of substance and uh it's it's weird it's weird is
what i'll say um and that kind of just makes for an odd experience with the crust it doesn't taste
bad it's just strange what i'm trying to say it's very flavorful it's just comfortably to everything
else some of the materials inside of the crust are slightly less flavorful than everything else which
again just to the mind you have this overload going on before then you get that it's as weird
obviously this pizza it's not going to attack you you know it's not going to clamp you know like
i put my finger in the center and it clamps down like that it's not going to do that it's not going
to be of any harm to you it says there's a lot to process and um it's going to be messy too i mean
you saw as i was holding it up you saw the stuff coming out of the crust this isn't something to
eat in the car this is something you know get the pizza box lay it down on the table make sure you
know you're kind of hunched over it or whatever and be ready for a you know fairly messy meal but
this is a novelty i don't see anything practical in this but it's a novelty so get it and just say
hey i got this you know look i'm i'm eating this or whatever it's a huge meal there's a lot to it
it's extremely extremely thick and filling as well um but again treat this as a novelty it's not for
everyone i think it's a bit much for me but it's not necessarily bad either it's like in this real
mysterious like gray type of area it's like it's not overwhelmingly
good but it's not overwhelmingly bad either it's just this weird novelty that's just
it's like in a league of its own it's a so out there it's it's just um
heck i'll give him credit it's inventive i'll i'll tell you i'll talk to you that way it's inventive
and um props to whoever little caesars even you know came up with this but like i said i think
it's just too much for me but it doesn't mean that it's necessarily bad either it's just not you know
something can just not be for you but it doesn't mean that you necessarily hate the thing either
i'll try out some of the extra crazy sauce that you can go ahead and dip it in
i would say it's advisable to dip the um crazy calzone in the sauce definitely adds a little
bit of extra flavor and it helps i think balance out the overwhelming garlic of the calzone itself
but like i said it falls in this gray area it's a lot of food it's interesting it's a novelty
it's at a decent price eight and a half bucks for all this so
out of like i said it's not bad it's not good either but it's not bad it's just weird
um 7.4 out of 10 is what i'm gonna give it it's just here's the final assessment it's not bad
it's just strange and it's not something i would get again but it's just strange that's that's it
it's in a league of its own and i have nothing more to say about it in that regard so we tried
today the crazy calzone pepperoni from little caesars odd not bad just odd and that's all
that i have for you thank you for tuning in to today's review i'm your host thereportoftheweek