Posted on 10/20/2013 4:52:44 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Food companies understand that Americans are increasingly interested in buying food that actually seems worth eating. We want food that's some degree of fresh, healthy, natural or otherwise of higher quality. It's for this reason that you see images of plump fruit decorating packages of cereal bars and the greenest broccoli you've ever laid eyes upon appearing on boxes of frozen dinners. At Burger King, you don't order a mere salad - it's a Chicken Caesar Garden Fresh Salad. Those chips aren't just cheese-flavored - they're Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips, with "harvest cheddar" an entirely meaningless term. Few companies have applied this appeal more literally than Papa John's, which for years has boasted "Better pizza. Better ingredients." Printed on every Papa John's pizza box is a little story: "When I founded Papa John's in 1984, my mission was to build a better pizza," says "Papa" John Schnatter. "I went the extra mile to ensure we used the highest quality ingredients available - like fresh, never frozen original dough, all-natural sauce, veggies sliced fresh daily and 100 percent real beef and pork. We think you'll taste the difference." After all, who wouldn't want fresher, better ingredients in their pizza? A great deal of the food we currently eat, both from the supermarket and at chain restaurants, is comprised of ingredients created as cheaply as possible (tomatoes chosen for their shipability, not flavor; chicken as bland as a pizza box because the bird only lived for 10 weeks and ate a monotonous diet) and highly processed additives, many of them not even technically edible...
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Oh, and what’s the name of this place, whose pizza style was abandoned by the locals? For the record, I lived in Chicago, and was paid to make Chicago style pizza in Chicago.
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Well said.
I don’t know, I’ve never been there. Your previous post made it seem like you lived in Stevens Point, WI.
I’ve been making my own pizza dough, sauce and yes even cheese for years. A couple of weeks ago we stuffed 50 pounds of sausage for the freezer. Kept some of it in bulk for pizza, now that first one will be a good’un.
If people don't like a product or service, let THEM decide whether they like it or not. Quit telling them whether to patronize or use a product. This stuff is bordering on complete, ludicrous mental illness.
Is Miller’s visible from Route 78?
I was in NY one time with a friend who never shut up about the pizza. So we're finally there together, looking for food, and we went into a random pizza joint to get a "coupla slices." I figured it was my opportunity to finally quiet the guy down.
So we get them, and we're eating them, and I realize I'm not saying anything, and he's looking at me with a truly smackable grin. I had to admit it, the pizza was freaking fantastic.
Agree that Papa John’s and the other chains don’t serve pizza like the big city family-run establishments do, but many of us don’t live near a big city and are stuck with chain pizza or homemade. Papa John’s is decent basic pizza for a decent price, and they fill a niche that’s obviously popular with those of us that aren’t pizza snobs. Our local Pizza Hut is very good, probably better that PJ’s - but PJ is much better than Domino’s, Little Caesar or Hungry Howie.
Amen! It amazes me how conservative Freepers will pay lip service to "free markets" while deriding the free market choices of those whose tastes differ from their own. What hypocrites! Such attitudes are typical of liberals who truly believe that their knowledge of everything is superior to everyone else's. Pffft! Variety is the spice of life -- and the mark of a dynamic and free society.
Hot dogs? I've enjoyed Coney dogs, Chicago dogs, brats, ball park dogs and grocery store franks; all good. Barbecue? Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas -- I like it all! Pizza? I've enjoyed different varieties from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles and back across the country, and enjoyed it all. On a busy evening, Papa John's provides a good option that our family enjoys. There's a reason each enjoys a following, and I'd rather enjoy them all than pretend that everyone else is ignorant and wrong.
Ya’ think?
I’m getting screwed by the government so much these days I’ll hardly miss them!
You how kant tell what’s on your pizza?
You’re stoopit compounded by the use of crayons when writing drivel and barely a dirth of intellect.
Papa John’s has one thing in their corner. Since they are take and bake, they aren’t a “restaurant” in the eyes of food stamps, so they proudly “accept EBT.”
That's the one. Growing up, it was a smokey dive bar that sold pizza and had a lot of choppers out front. It's still the same... minus the smoke... and it seems that you will find families with kids coming out for pizza night.
There is another pizza joint I recommend too... DeLorenzo's in Trenton, NJ. Family ran forever...in a residential area... I think Hudson Street. The place is tiny... always a line outide. They make a clam pie... which is an aquired taste... like pizza with white clam sauce on it. They are actually Zaggats rated... it's a hidden gem in "da hood".
I haven’t had a comparable sub since.
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I had the same experience, I came from a small upstate NY town and my favorite place was an Italian bar that served food.
They made their hoagies on Muffalta bread and the best spaghetti I have ever eaten. The owners wife promised me she would give me her secret recipe for the sauce when she retired but I couldn’t abide the state anymore and left for SC.
Pizza is like sex. When it’s good, it’s wonderful. But when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
st louis style pizza is the really thin dough pizza. new york style, really thin with puffy edged crust, is also really thin, but a wetter dough.
You’re thinking of Papa Murphy’s.
Funny I never even heard of EBT until the shutdown.
Shoot, I gotta get on wit dat free stuff.
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