the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Munson]

One of my buddies played cards in AC with a guy who claimed he was the real papa john. Said he was a much older guy (like senior citizen) and pulled out business cards and shtein with his name on it, had some pics of himself with some of the papa johns stores, etc

He bought it, but a quick google seach shows the founder of Papa Johns was in High School in the early 80's.

[Sgt PSN]

What google search are you using?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schnatter

He was born in 61 and would have been 18 and out of HS in 79 or maybe 1980. He was 23 when he founded the company in 84.

[Rome]

Let's keep talking about Papa shteinpizza some more

[ice grillin you]

i have a coupon for a free papa johns pizza that i cant use because its delivery only and i dont have a papa johns that delivers to my zip code....how is this even possible when i live less than a half hour outside of two major cities...arent they a HUGE company

[Tomahawk]

There was a Papa John's next to my hotel in Wuxi. I didn't eat it though because their pizza sucks enough in the states

[ice grillin you]

ive never had it but i cant imagine it being anything less than horrific

[BigEd76]

arent they a HUGE company

They have their name on a meaningless college bowl game so there's that

If you've never had it, it's basically Domino's with garlic butter oil dipping sauce

[ice grillin you]

yeah i figured if you have one delivery pizza chain youve had them all...anyway im not gonna use it i was just floored that there isnt one that delivers to my house

[Munson]

What google search are you using?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schnatter

He was born in 61 and would have been 18 and out of HS in 79 or maybe 1980. He was 23 when he founded the company in 84.

Sooo you agree with me?


My point was that the really really old dude couldn't be the "real" Papa John haha

[Seabiscuit36]

it was papa papa john

Papa Johns was big in college because they were new, and they had decent pizza.  I dont know if the recipe changed, or the fact that i am not stoned 24hours a day, but it tastes pretty bad now. 

[hbionic]

For fast food pizza...its pretty good. Better than Dominoes, and 1 billion times better than pizza hut. I pretty much always order dominoes because it is cheap, I can get two pizzas for the price of 1 papa john's pizza pie.

Roundtable pizza and shakey's are still the best chain pizzas.  Of course, that means excluding specialty pizza places like California Pizza Kitchen and BJ's Brewhouse. The last great mom 'n pop chain pizza has gone out of business...Mama's pizza...shtein was delicious.

[ice grillin you]

i would bet my life that a good piece of pizza has never been made west of maybe cleveland?

and most certainly not in california.....lol @ california pizza kitchen....what a horrendously bad place and concept

[Sgt PSN]

i would bet my life that a good piece of pizza has never been made west of maybe cleveland?

and most certainly not in california.....lol @ california pizza kitchen....what a horrendously bad place and concept

I heard that Chicago has a decent pizza.  Small town, maybe you've heard of it. 

There's some good mom and pop joints on the left coast.....plenty of northeastern transplants who know what they're doing and open up shop.  Problem though is that they are dying off because everyone wants cheap, fast pizza and that's not what mom and pop's are about.  The pizza parlor from the northeast just isn't something left coasters are interested in.

[ice grillin you]

i love a good deep dish but it just isnt pizza.....altho i agree chicago is the kind of city that possibly could make a decent pizza...i was just assuming that would be blasephemy there and that they dont make real pizza

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Truth on Chicago deep-dish. It's farging good, it's almost most definitely not pizza.


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