Papa Johns Papadia

How foolish am I? I ask this question throughout my day, in a different context almost every time. This particular instance was when I was approaching the hour where every restaurant that serves good food is closing down in the suburbs and we are left with the swine food, brought to us by the likes of Ronald McDonald and that creepy King. This fateful night I decided to switch it up and go with a place I have sworn off, that use to be a solid go to for my late night college eats. Papa Johns was a warm blanket that would soothe the stomach at the end of the night, with a cheese pizza. I don’t remember much about those pies but now that I have gone back a few times and they have not done well in the past few times, I have to imagine it was a good decision to have buried those memories.

For this time, I went with the Papadia, what I thought was a calzone like creation that the Papa had created himself. I could not have been more wrong. They seem to have just taken their pizza dough and folded it over while it is baking, maybe from the start but there is no love in this creation. No flavor throughout the consumption, what little flavor that does appear, comes through at a scale of one out of ten for flavor profile. All I taste is sweetness. No spices emerge, no salt, nothing except sweetness. The sausage, pepperoni, and banana peppers I added to the Papadia had no flavor and fell flat where I thought they may be able to pickup the slack, where normally they would be stars of the show. This is an atrocious creation with no love behind it, made by a corporation, for what reason, I do not know. I’m sure someone is happy with themselves for this idea and hell it may have even led to a few sales. This one creation showed me that this is an unserious place in the Pizza game and will not be considered for takeout in the future.

1.2/10

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