{"id":16489,"date":"2014-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=16489"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:21:10","slug":"review-papa-johns-double-cheeseburger-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/11\/review-papa-johns-double-cheeseburger-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Papa John’s Double Cheeseburger Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Papa<\/a><\/p>\n

Being fortunate enough to live in an area with a large number of mom ‘n’ pop pizza shops, I’ve seen the cheeseburger pizza road before. (But not an actual Cheeseburger Pizza Road \u2013 if I saw that, I would move there immediately.)<\/p>\n

I’ve found that small pizza joints tend to have a wider variety of toppings and, thus, a wider variety of specialty pizzas, ranging from cheeseburger to taco to gyro to something with pine nuts and Hoisin sauce. Okay, I made up the last one, but it’s not out of the question.<\/p>\n

Comparatively, most chain specialty pizzas and toppings in general are pretty pedestrian. I consider myself lucky if I can even get white sauce as an option. If they do decide to branch out, it tends to be towards Crazy Town, like shoving hot dogs or seven different cheeses into their crusts. In fact, a lot of the insanity in chain specialty pizzas involves shoving shit into the crust. I’m looking at you, Pizza Hut.<\/p>\n

Papa John’s went a different direction with their Double Cheeseburger Pizza, however. They put the crazy on top, not in the crust.<\/p>\n

\"Papa<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s what Papa John’s has to say about the Double Cheeseburger Pizza: \u201cFeaturing a zesty burger sauce covered with a double layer of 100% real beef, dill pickle slices, fresh cut roma tomatoes and 100% real cheese made from mozzarella.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have several points of contention with this description. Let’s start with the burger sauce.<\/p>\n

\"Papa<\/a><\/p>\n

First off, the words \u201czesty burger sauce\u201d are both generic and sound like they should be about five miles away from my pizza. Upon tasting, I uphold this idea. On its own, the flavor of the sauce was distinctly mayo mixed with ketchup, aka the poor man’s Thousand Island dressing. Call me crazy, but fresh-from-the-oven hot mayonnaise is not appealing.<\/p>\n

Next we have the double layer of real beef. \u201cDouble layer\u201d is a questionable quantity, and that really showed here, as I found the beef pieces to be rather sparse. Furthermore, the pieces of beef were small and remarkably flavorless, which is a bad trait for a pizza that’s supposed to taste like a burger.<\/p>\n

\"Papa<\/a><\/p>\n

The tomatoes and cheese were just fine, but the real issue was the pickles. While the beef had a weak showing, the pickles certainly made up for it in spades. It appeared that Papa John’s used the same pickles you’d find on a regular fast-food burger, which sounds promising on paper but did not translate at all to a burger party in my mouth.<\/p>\n

I could not escape the pickles. There was a slice in every bite. After I’d done my duty for the purposes of this review and eaten the pizza as-is, I tried removing the pickles in an attempt to have a slice of pizza that did not taste like a jar of brine. It was impossible. Even with the pickles themselves gone, the juice had been absorbed deep into the crust.<\/p>\n

I would like to officially rename Papa John’s Double Cheeseburger Pizza to Papa John’s Precariously Plentiful Pickle Pizza. With sad beef, warm mayo sauce, and so many brined cucumbers that it made me want to make about 15 Pickles the Drummer jokes throughout this review, I cannot in good conscience call this a cheeseburger pizza.<\/p>\n

To use a forced basketball analogy, Papa John’s Double Cheeseburger Pizza needs to work on its fundamentals. For right now, I’m benching it.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 1\/6 of a small pizza – 260 calories, 130 calories from fat, 14 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 25 milligrams of cholesterol, 600 milligrams of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 4 grams of sugar, 8 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Papa John’s Double Cheeseburger Pizza
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $6.00 (on sale: regular price $12)
\nSize:<\/b> Small
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Papa John\u2019s
\nRating:<\/b> 2 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> I got it for 50 percent off. The tomatoes and cheese were fine. Metalocalypse. I only ordered a small. If you put pickles on everything you eat, this is your dream come true.
\nCons:<\/b> Pickles overtook everything<\/i>. A chain restaurant that left the crust alone but still made an awful specialty pizza. Warm mayo\/ketchup sauce. I wish I was actually good at basketball. The double serving of burger was a double serving of sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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