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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“and if I croak with my face in a plate of barbequed ribs, at least I won’t die a tofu-squirting pansy”
LOL, that’s funny (and right on).
Never had one. Just did a search for nearest store. Not one within 50 miles. Have never, ever seen one of their stores anywhere. (And I have actually been 500 miles from tiny town in the last few years.)
I can’t believe it isn’t good! Peyton Manning likes it! I like Peyton Manning! He is the quarterback of one of my local teams! (Both of my local teams are based 300 miles away!) I live almost exactly halfway between KC and Denver.
Poor Peyton had a tough night yesterday!
I tried a Pappa John’s last summer, it taste crappy.
Domino’s is definitely better.
It’s been four years since I’ve ordered a pizza. Six or seven years ago Domino’s gave me unbelievably bad service, with lies from the manager to boot, 4 years ago I had a bad experience with Pizza Hut, and I haven’t yet built up the curiosity to warrant a visit to Papa Johns.
I used to love pizza, I actually don’t have a taste for it anymore because of the way the establishments treated me. Perhaps I should thank them.
Then you should know better. Don’t be a ha8t3r.
Odd how so many 'early posters' on a thread miss that ... not just this tread - but many.
I wasn't taught that knowledge and now that I know the rule, I am OK with it.
Let's just say we have different tastes and stop fighting, Okay?
What time/date are we meeting at Piece for pizza?
Thanks!
Here in Florida the pizzas are ghastly....and horribly seasoned, probably because most of the private-pizza parlor purveyors are taste-deaf transplants from New York city.
And, as far as the big-chain pizza stores go, they sell just that, pizzas that taste like chains.
Leni
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