PAPA JOHN'S GUY: You're wasting at least 20 cents per pizza with that oily "garlic sauce"

[K8-EEE]

Hey PAPA JOHN'S dude, here's some advice on how to save 20 cents per pizza: Ask people if they even WANT to dip pizza crust in that hydrogenated oil crap aka "garlic sauce" that they throw in every pizza box. Have seen situations like multiple pizzas for school or girl scouts where 100% of that shit gets thrown away and I'm cleaning the little plastic containers out to at least recycle them. SERIOUSLY WHO DIPS PIZZA IN OIL?

Anyway every time I've ever had this product has been in a group situation WHERE I'M NOT PICKING because I hate the sweet ketchup-y sauce anyway.

[K8-EEE]

1. Oil to dip the pizza in plus they as you if you want "bread sticks" with the pizza

Which I assume "bread sticks" are just extra pizza dough that you are supposed to have with your oil-dipped pizza?? WTF.

[patrice]

6. In the immortal words of Lloyd Bentson (sort of), "I know bread and that, ma'am, is NOT bread."

What it is is poison.

Someone should check it out for high fructose corn-syrup.

[NightWatcher]

2. would you pay 15 cents extra for every item you bought if it provided healthcare for all?

I would and we'd ll be covered. So to claim that 10-15 cents is the cost (and somehow unbearable) for coverage is a very weak argument against federal healthcare

[TeamPooka]

4. that's my new one line argument

a single question thats perfect.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. It's a terrible statement, politically, for the Republicans

They have spent years now talking about the overwhelming cost of "Obamacare" and how it's going to screw everyone. Suddenly "Papa" puts an actual number on it in terms everyone can understand. "Healthcare costs 15 cents a pizza!" Really? Suddenly, what sounded scary now sounds silly. Well done, Papa.

[uponit7771]

11. soooo true, good point

[K8-EEE]

13. +1

it does sound INCREDIBLY petty for this guy to be whining about 12 cents when it concerns his employees' health for Christ sake!

[fishwax]

25. Lol -- good point n/t

[Enrique]

33. and they werent even talking about the cost

they were talking about the end of liberty. They were talking about telling our grandchildren what America was like when men were free. Now its telling them what America was like when pizza was 15 cents cheaper.

[Thinkingabout]

9. As tax payers and paying insured are paying the 20 cents currently.

[K8-EEE]

10. I know right? Unless that plastic container of oil is FREE

They are wasting at least that much putting that shit in every pizza anyway. And ditto with the gratuitous hot peppers, which half the people wouldn't touch. I just hate the waste of it, especially since they think providing health care to people is a big waste of 12 cents!!

[NYC Liberal]

17. Exactly. Not to mention that there are lots of other requirements businesses must meet

and many of those are factored into the price the customer pays. Businesses have to meet health codes, building and fire codes, workplace safety standards, etc.

Oh and they have to actually pay their employees. Damn, we should just bring back slave labor! That'll really save money!

[unapatriciated]

30. may I second that.

I would pay a dollar more if all were covered. This is just another RW excuse because they got their's and damn anyone else.

[patrice]

3. And what do you want to bet it's some crap-for-oil like corn, the price of which will NEVER decline

again, or canola, which I hear from my chemistry freak big-sister has some very suspicious stuff going on in the processing.

Also, what do you want to bet there's high-fructose-corn-syrup in there somewhere too, insuring a future of higher medical costs, because of the absolutely blind rampant propagation of diabetic factors in our food supply.

So "pappa john" contributes to increasing health care costs and refuses to let us pay for that in the price of health care insurance that we pay for by means of the pizzas that we eat.

Personal Responsibility, Republican has NEVER been thy name.

LOSER.

[Chorophyll]

5. Papa John's and Domino's:

An event horizon of shitty pizza and shitty politics.

[backscatter712]

8. I'm with Stephen Colbert - I'd rather eat drowned raccoon ass. n/t

[K8-EEE]

12. Decent pizza tastes delicious by itself, without having to dip it into a cup of fat.

I'm just sayin. They must have to throw it in to cover the raccoon ass taste of the pizza.

[fleur-de-lisa]

26. Hilarious!

[HockeyMom]

14. Italian Olive Oil

Hey, if you are Italian you know about Olive Oil, however, you just BRUSH IT, not POUR it.

Pappa John, you ain't no I-Talian.

[K8-EEE]

18. Ain't no olive oil in dat sheet!

From "Men's Health:"

#6: WORST “FREE” DIPPING SAUCE
Papa John’s Special Garlic sauce (1 container, 28 g)
150 calories
17 g fat (3 g saturated)
310 mg sodium

Between the fatty toppings and oversized crusts, pizza faces many nutritional obstacles. What it doesn't need is a ramakin of oil to go alongside every order, yet Papa John's will happily hand over this "garlic" sauce with every pizza it serves. Every calorie in this sauce comes from fat, and we're not talking olive oil here. The first two ingredients are fully and partially hydrogenated oils. Add to that 14 other difficult-to-pronounce ingredients and you have one nefarious dipping sauce.

[eShirl]

20. omg that's full of transfats!

seriously, is he trying to kill people?

[HockeyMom]

21. Fake ingredients are a lot cheaper,

and far less healthier for you. Real Italian ingredients aren't. My Mom made pizza. My Grandma made pizza. Now I do also. We used real, natural ingredients. Maybe that is why real people like ours better? You might as well buy frozen pizza as these chains. Only difference besides is price is that you don't have to microwave them.

Ah, don't get me started on fake Italian food. I have no problems with small local Mom and Pop restaurants making pizza and Italian menus. They take PRIDE in what they make.

[K8-EEE]

22. My hub makes amazing pizza on his weber kettle

bbq'd pizza, we do start with pre-fab (trader joe's) dough but it has a lot less crap in it than the restaurant stuff.

[zappaman]

28. Can I ask you how you do that?

Do you place the pizza directly on the grill or a pizza stone?
I tried it on the grill and it was a disaster.
Any help would be appreciated.

[K8-EEE]

32. Yes it is on a pizza stone

You have to pre-heat the stone on the grill first. It turns out GREAT as long as it's really really hot. What we haven't figured out is how to do more than 4 or 5 because for a crowd, the stone tends to cool off from all the opening & closing of the lid.

Another trick is to put them on a paddle with corn meal under it so it slides on the stone easily.

[MattBaggins]

36. Pizza stone or a Cedar Plank

go with a plank

[zappaman]

38. Thanks to both of ya! n/t

[MattBaggins]

39. You didn't ask... but

Don't buy the silly packaged grilling planks at stores. Go to a hardware or lumber store/yard and buy normal cedar wood or browse the cull pile and cut it yourself. best is to go to a lumber yard/mill and just ask for a few sections of grilling woods from the cull pile before it get's labeled as "Adirondack Slap" and gets sold at a premium..

[CatWoman]

24. YIKES!!

Look at all that sodium

[Initech]

15. High fructose garlic butter

[CBGLuthier]

16. That sauce serves a very useful purpose

If you eat it then you blame it for the gastrointestinal distress you feel and not the rotten meat and rancid sauce they cover their pizzas in.

[K8-EEE]

23. It also masks the drowned raccoon ass taste. nt

[ipfilter]

19. Butter flavored grease.

Yuck.

[rsmith6621]

27. You Forgot About The Peppers...

[sendero]

29. Nobody else seems to notice this..

... but PJ pizza is SWEET. The crust is sweet, the sauce is sweet, and I cannot STAND foods that use sugar to mask the fact that they have no taste.

Sadly, I cannot boycott PJ, I tried it once and it was the worse pizza I've ever eaten (except frozen) so I quit buying there long ago

[K8-EEE]

31. I AGREE!!! That's why these things are only served at kids parties

the only place I've had them, which makes the yucky garlic oil and unrequested pepperocini even more of a waste.

[MattBaggins]

37. That oil crap is nasty but pepperocinis are bite of heaven

Pepperocini cut fine, chopped Italian ham and mushrooms in a heavy cream sauce over linguini.

[MattBaggins]

34. Papa Johns pizza is a giant turd fest

[DLine]

35. I will be the lone person to admit......

I have dipped my pizza crusts in the garlic butter sauce... and enjoyed it. For a national pizza delivery chain, I always thought Papa Johns tasted the best. Though I havent ordered from them in a long time since a "mom and pop" pizza place opened near me. Their pizza costs a little more but it tastes a lot better. They don't have garlic butter sauce to dip your crust in so I use ranch dressing.