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Papa Johns Debuts a Pizza with No Bread

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0:00 foreign [Music] good thing we got toy here today because Papa John's just debuted it's brand new food item did you guys hear about it calzone no oh you think it's a calzone fish sauce wait till you hear what this is is it a meatball sub I no it's not a meatball sub it's arguably worse they got something called the crustless pizza what that's just cheesy bread dude oh you think it's cheesy bread that's just cheesy bread dude no that's Pizza it's a crustless pizza how are you gonna hold it but there's still dough underneath oh it's like crustables but pizza now wow it's like a deconstructed Pizza Bowl with no bread involved whatsoever oh no like a salad oh thank you that's what everybody's calling it they're all going they're going that's a salad that's

0:52 exactly is it so there's no bread at all under it no bread anywhere it's everything but the bread just in a in a little bowl when you say crustless I thought it was just no Rim Yeah that's what I thought too I thought it was like a flatbread or something no anything no bread at all so it's ingredients it's ingredients just make your own pizza toppings so it's accessories just just toppings yeah so is this for keto cheese like is it in later I don't know who it's for it's for nobody dude because nobody goes that ████ ████ sucks he was just mad dog and it's so hard you know what that is it's a pasta-less lasagna so it's useless that's what it is because it's just it's just cheese tomato sauce and toppings you think somebody was like look dude people are just eating the inside and leaving the crust and then they decided to take out all the breakfast little kids doing that really know about like people who are

1:42 like half cheating on their Atkins or something try to do that I couldn't like see if they're trying to Target like the keto crowd because then it's like cheese tomato and just but it's nasty though I want to see that doesn't look good so it's just cheese and toppings cheese and toppings that looks like um what's that thing why would I pay for that Denver omelette if you gave me a side of bread to dip with it I'm in oh if it's like really cheesy you know what I mean and then you dip it yeah what's that thing why people do when they get leftovers and they put it in the oven casserole casserole that looks like that that looks like that well white people do that's true you know your white history that's white fried rice dude oh ████ it is white fried rice they just get their thing and then they put it together the lima bean casserole I don't know what's in it but that's just Bob dude whatever they didn't finish yesterday man that's what's in it

2:32 yeah so people are all kind of making fun of it I don't know if they're hitting their target demo that they were intending right like who was the target I think maybe people that are enjoying like you know people that like deconstrate Foods nobody likes deconstructed Foods dude you go to you go to Papa John's for pizza and that's it exactly maybe Wings maybe breadsticks because deconstructed foods are just like the grocery store you go to a fancy restaurant you go to like a Portland weird like place and it'll just be like oh it's an upside down deconstructed Inside Out muffin or something [Laughter] some ████ yeah what's the name of that one I messed up right deconstruct oh is it like when you get a carna like an asada plate versus tacos or like fajitas yeah kind of in a way

3:22 sort of but that's different because culturally they had that already oh yeah it's not deconstructed it's an option something would be deconstructed if it's conventionally supposed to be together and they're like oh look how different it is now it's like a steak that's well done on the inside of raw that's impressive that is very impressive that's an inverse yeah that's like I would want to eat that that's like Inception is just bleeding everywhere how do you do that by the way what do you how do you know I like thinking you take a sword you you make it real freaking hot and you go on the inside and it Cooks how are you so brilliant my guy blacksmith dude I'm just sitting I'm just rubbing off a Bart man he's like he's sword inside and it burns it I can pull it out a metal kebab skewer or something

4:12 it's a little bit like you don't put oil so it gets stuck to the store when you pull it out it gets inside out oh ████ I'm messing up that's pretty cool oh like a sock damn it I feel like it's a it's a kind of a weird decision to start doing this because you know for the most part we we kind of look at restaurants that are trying to be pseudo fancy and like kind of like fake intelligent by having these avant-garde choices on their menu that purely are just for attention or like to just seem different but then you you think of Papa John's or a pizza places like oh they're gonna stick to what people like pizza and this is like it's sad to see them go the route of like no of course people aren't going to accept this or they forget their branding like these like these big box uh pizza places it's like like sports games kids birthdays or whatever right ain't no kid wanna ████ that ████ crustless pizza you think like Papa John's would

5:03 come out with like hot dogs or something like John's you know what I mean Papa John's your dad it's John like that is our time oh and the hot dog comes it comes in a brief but it's sticking out on the side like that yeah like boxer briefs or like suitcase boxer briefs both both boxer breathing and just thinking like that you know what I mean tastes just like Daddy sausage that's his ideas you're the leader of the kendras idea right there dude that was barbell Brigade dude yeah a meatball sub sound makes more sense or like even a Caesar salad yes or just something something Italian yeah like doesn't this seem like if you brought this to Sicily people would just

5:53 be in disgrace they would just be like get the ████ out of here yeah does that even look objectively like no aesthetically pleasing what are the toppings no right it looks like a it just looks like microwave dinners yes but then microwave dinners are actually good like I could have made that at home dude yeah it honestly looks like pre-chewed pizza wow I'm in it looks like something you might get on an airplane well it's not really a compliment yeah that that journalist or whoever try to like put Papa John's on the spot and she was all like you know how many calories it's like thousands and he goes yeah you're not supposed to eat the whole thing it's mostly it's like because I don't eat the whole pizza I eat like a slice or two yeah and then she didn't know what the ████ to say and then everyone's like wait eats a whole ████ Pizza me when I

6:43 went to college probably but it wasn't a good decision every once in a while every once in a while but like you know it's not meant for that though you you know you get like a bunch and then you eat like a slice from like this you eat a slice of this and you share it it's meant to be funny or even if I eat it I don't complain about gaining weight the next day yeah I know what the ████ I did you know you're eating a whole pizza in one city literally I love how the conversation flipped it was like he was the one telling her he's like you calories isn't one slice yeah it's so funny I used to eat a whole uh so like when I was in college I and I was just a fat ████ I was eating a large Papa John's cheese pizza uh order of wings and a like a giant Pepsi and in one like sesh of Call of Duty just gone

7:33 while you're playing how do you even do it because the pizza's gonna get cold Call of Duty as a way of like of affecting you where every time you die you need to do something because you're just gonna stare at yourself dead so you it like gives you this munchy complex where you're like I need to feel like I'm busy doing something so that I don't wallow in my own shame of losing yep I agree nice didn't mean to break that down so educational because then you're pacing yourself you're not ever rushing to eat so you're never stuffed yeah so you're just like eating chips the whole time yeah that's why that's why I think gamers are like hardcore games are more prone to gaining weight because you need some kind of like positive to like balance out you mean the guys that are playing like this well that too but you know yeah it's exactly that but yeah you're not supposed to eat a whole Papa John's pizza I've ever had a Papa John's Pizza

8:24 oh really yeah I like the garlic sauce it comes with the garlic bread now they're all I do like the garlic sauce and I also like the fact they give you a little pepperoncini you know what you know what this also might be some desperate way to like uh remove The Branding of old Papa John's because remember how like the racist one well yeah but it was like pseudo ready he's all sweaty and ████ it's like they want to like uh get rid of that old image maybe they're just trying to ████ themselves into some other Zone he was getting in trouble he was getting canceled and then he was like making a press conference and he's all sweaty the owner Papa really yeah dude you guys ever see that he's all sweaty and red he like says he like says something racial or something like that he's rapping he made the pizza in His image yeah yeah yeah yeah and then his own board and Company had to ask him so he had to resign oh really they pulled some kind of weird ████ on him where they were doing a racial sensitivity talk and then in that private conversation he had said the n-word as a reference to things you shouldn't say and then they the person

9:15 talking to them relayed that out and said like oh papa John said that N word and that was it it's ████ up that's ████ up man yeah I mean he looks at it as a way of like they were trying to oust him because they wanted complete control of the shares which sounds more realistic it does sound realistic so then he was removed from there and the next thing you know Shaq's on the box and because Shaq took over the company no he didn't take it over but then he was the next face on the box because you know it used to be Papa John's actual face and people felt like connected it's a pizza thing owned by a real guy but he also is known to own a lot of franchises and he's a master businessman so I'm like yeah right and then there was like a thing where like a big conglomerate like acquired a portion of Papa John's and they were just ousting him slowly and

10:05 then eventually they that's that's the tail at least I mean that happens all the time corporate takeovers yeah sure yeah when was your guys's first time like because back in the day it was like you had Little Caesars dominoes and Pizza Hut right and I think Papa John's was everyone's first gourmet pizza when they ate that they're like what the ████ is this the way they branded it it was like Gourmet and it tastes different but it's a fall from grace though it's different from dominoes dude it's very different it's it's not seen like I just hope there's like some legit Italians watching us call Papa John's Gourmet Pizza hey but when you're when you're 12 years old Italians bro round table when you're 12 years old though that ████ is like next level you think his ass when I was a kid Round Table is ass bro like I wet I want went back and it was just

10:55 like it was so ah did you eat inside did you eat inside with the arcade and the and the pictures of soda we got a whole pizza and they and it came in different like each slice was different shapes but sometimes you gotta you gotta you gotta mix and match pizza because they were just angry doing this ████ Right Round Table Pizza is Mom Celeste with an extra layer of cheese shut up bro take that back right now you know what's funny I once uh tweeted I like back when like Twitter was the ████ for me I tweeted that I uh ordered Papa John's and that it was like bad and then Round Table tweeted me back and they were like anytime you're ordering a different Pizza we'll send you free coupons from Round Table and I was like I'm good [Laughter] foreign

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