Are we still boycotting Papa John's pizza

[bigendian]

Or did we succumb to the stuffed crust?

[vercetti2021]

1. Papa John's sucks anyway

The pizza tastes like cardboard with moldy ass sauce on it. Besides Shaq makes everything that he promotes look so unappealing

[hlthe2b]

2. The jackass RWer who oversaw/owned it was booted.

That said, I agree with those who say it sucks so, why?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. The only time I ever had it I thought it was truly terrible.

Cannot understand why anyone would get it.

Just my personal opinion. And even if they took up donating to Democratic/Progressive causes, I still wouldn't get it.

[RockRaven]

12. The only time I ate it -- more than once -- was when I was in grad school and they only food

within walking distance of my apartment was a Papa Johns and a bagel place (which was closed by mid-afternoon). The area around my apartment had ridiculous traffic at evening commute time, so if the cupboard was bare and I was in a hurry for dinner I'd settle for it to avoid having to drive. Reasonably quickly I learned to keep a well-stocked pantry, and I haven't had it in the many, many years since then.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Seems like a lesson well learned, to keep a well-stocked pantry.

My son delivered pizza for Papa John's for a number of years. He apparently thought their pizza was quite good, which made me question my cooking for him when he was growing up. Sigh.

[orleans]

23. if he was in his teens or twenties when he liked their pizza

it's perfectly understandable why he would think their pizza is good.
if it's round (or squared--jets pizza), has cheese & sauce & it's baked kids will gladly eat it. (regardless of what pizza joint it came out of)

i think that brand indifference even extends into the thirties--as long as it is pizza it has to be good

you never had to question your cooking--it was never about your cooking

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. Oh, yes. I think he was at the end of high school

when he went to work for them.

Sigh.

I know that it was never about my cooking, but still.

Here's the most important part. He started doing pizza delivery for Papa Johns after his freshman year in college. He got his degree at the University of Tulsa, a pretty decent school. And when he graduated, immediately resumed doing pizza delivery. WTF?

Several months later he moved to another part of the country and continued doing the pizza delivery. I was dismayed that he wasn't making better use of his degree, but he knew that there was no point in asking either of his parents (we'd separated by then) for more money, because we'd tell him to get a better job or a different job or a second job, because once he'd graduated college he was on his own.

He never asked us for money, happily supported himself doing pizza delivery. And it's the happily supported himself I want to emphasize. Honestly, I was every bit as proud of my pizza delivery son as I was of my son in the PhD program in astronomy.

[orleans]

26. is the pizza delivery son and phd son the same person?

i think it is--but it's late and i'm really tired so i might be misunderstanding what you wrote.

and i'm curious -- did he ever get a job in the field of astronomy?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. No, pizza son and PhD son are two different sons.

I'm sending you a PM about this.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. I neither boycotted it, nor do I consider it pizza. nt

[tonedevil]

24. +1

[miss-nasty]

5. Indeed we are....

I will never stop boycotting that place. Every person that works at our local store is the epitome of racism.

[LeftInTX]

6. I confess, it's my one of my favorite pizzas around here....

People are saying it doesn't taste good, but it beats Little Caesars and Pizza Hut.....
Domino's pizza is horrible...


I last had it in 2017, so I don't eat it very often.....I had to bring something to a Democratic candidate event and Papa John's was on the way. The pizza was devoured.

My favorite locals are Grimaldi's and Rome's, but they aren't fast food...

[Ohio Joe]

7. Buy a pizza stone...

Pizza is wicked easy to make, far cheaper and much better tasting.

[cinematicdiversions]

8. Well I am but not because of racism.

Because it is both substandard and incredibly overpriced.

[Iggo]

9. I'm not boycotting. I quit.

And there’s only one way to quit.

You stop and you don’t start back up again.

😎👍🏽

[krawhitham]

10. John Schnatter still owns 17% of Papa John's, has no say in day to day operations

[MLAA]

11. I am still boycotting 🙂

[Sympthsical]

13. I don't think I've had that since college

Just looked and realized there isn't even one anywhere near me, so that sort of solves that.

The grocery freezer has plenty of stuffed crust if people are inclined. They taste more or less the same.

I'm currently trimming down on keto, so when I have the stuffed pizza urge, I do the most pointless, lazy thing.

Coat string cheese in almond flour. Dip in egg and then roll in almond meal. I have keto bread I could make into crumbs, but that just feels like effort. Freeze it overnight. Bake or fry it. So there you have your keto mozzarella sticks.

Usually I'll just dip it in whatever pasta sauce we have handy. If I want the PJ's garlic sauce, it's super easy to make. It's literally just butter and garlic powder. If you plan on refrigerating it or leaving it out, clarify the butter first. It keeps better because it won't separate out.

Plus it's all just way cheaper than pizza. String cheese is like $10 for 60 at Costco.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. I am boycotting this company because of the old owner

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. That abomination wasn't allowed in my house BEFORE I knew what a jagoff he was.

[PXR-5]

16. It's plain Yucky

I guess I'm just a pizza snob. Fast-food pizza just doesn't cut it for me.

[smirkymonkey]

27. Same here. I don't have to boycott it because I would never order that slop in the first place.

Ugh! Same with Domino's, Pizza Hut or any other corporate chain. Almost all of them are truly inedible.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. As well as Domino's

[Steelrolled]

19. I thought it was pretty good for thick crust pizza, but haven't

had it recently, as we have a number of options that are closer to us now.

I never took an interest in boycotts - they seemed ineffective. I limit my political activities to voting.

[theophilus]

20. I'm not since they canned that jerk as their spokesman. I like Shaq and he is on the board now. n/t

[niyad]

21. Papa Murphy's. And my grocery store has very good large fresh pizzas for $5.

[MurrayDelph]

22. Can I call it a boycott

if I had already decided that I didn't care for their product long before I knew about their former honcho?

Most of the time my talented wife makes pizza from scratch. If we want pizzeria, we go with a local independent.

[NurseJackie]

29. Boycotting a product we already hated was easy for us. If if this boycott ends...

... we won't be buying that crap. You know... our local "store-brand" of FROZEN pizza is better than Papa John's. It's ready in 20 minutes (and that's faster, and cheaper that the crap they serve.)