{"id":20198,"date":"2016-06-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20198"},"modified":"2023-08-12T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:36:49","slug":"review-papa-johns-mushroom-swiss-burger-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/20\/review-papa-johns-mushroom-swiss-burger-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Papa John’s Mushroom Swiss Burger Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Papa John’s seems hellbent on deconstructing already-existing fast food sandwiches and turning them into pizza. They are the Dr. Frankenstein of dough. And, as with the infamous doctor, things don’t always go well.<\/p>\n

For instance, there was the time they tried to turn a Philly cheesesteak sandwich <\/a>into a pizza, and they also did it to <\/a>a double cheeseburger. Both of these were, in my opinion, failed attempts. Oh, sure, Papa John could shout \u201cIT’S ALIVE!\u201d But at what cost<\/i>?<\/p>\n

To my taste buds, I mean. The price is on their menu.<\/p>\n

I feel like right after the God of Burgers created the cheeseburger and then added bacon to it, his next creation was the mushroom Swiss burger. I’m not sure why it was that combination that came up next, but it seems to be menu item #3 on a lot of burger restaurants’ lists.<\/p>\n

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

Papa John’s says that \u201cOur New burger pizza comes with beef, crimini mushrooms, onions, cheese made from mozzarella and Swiss cheeses, with creamy garlic sauce.\u201d<\/p>\n

I’m not a mushroom expert, but the mushrooms that came on my pizza looked like what I would call \u201cpizza mushrooms\u201d. Are criminis always used for pizzas? I don’t know, but the ones on my pizza tasted like pizza mushrooms. Which is fine, I suppose. There was also a healthy coverage of them.<\/p>\n

What there was not a lot of was burger pieces. I feel like if you’re going to make a pizza specifically designed<\/i> from a burger, you should get at least<\/i> one burger piece per bite. That was not the case with my pizza. However, the umami from the mushrooms helped balance that out a little.<\/p>\n

The onions were, of course, rather floppy, but they added a nice kick of flavor to the pizza. As for the Swiss, I feel like it added an extra dimension to the cheese profile. I also feel like that sentence smelled just a tiiiiny bit like bullshit. My mind could have been tricking me into thinking that the Swiss was there; I honestly can’t say for sure.<\/p>\n

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

Call it trivial if you like, but I think the biggest victory of this pizza was Papa John’s choice to use garlic sauce. They must have tweaked the recipe since its application on the Philly Cheesesteak Pizza, because this time it did not<\/i> taste like bile. It had a nice creamy texture and the taste of garlic was present but not overwhelming.<\/p>\n

This was a critical decision, because using tomato sauce would have made the pizza impressively boring, and using the weird \u201czesty burger sauce\u201d they had on their Double Cheeseburger Pizza would have been disgusting because that shit tasted like hot Thousand Island. So again, good call, Papa.<\/p>\n

The Mushroom Swiss Burger Pizza is by far not Papa John’s worst limited time pizza, but I wasn’t exactly blown away by it. There were lots of mushrooms, but they were the same kind of mushrooms you’d get on a usual pizza as far as I could tell, and the burger \u2013 kind of an important part \u2013 was sparse. I’m not entirely sure I could taste the Swiss, but if I did, it was okay? The real saving grace here was the creamy garlic sauce, which really brought the pizza together and gave it that little something special that it otherwise definitely would have lacked.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 1\/6 of a small pizza \u2013 240 calories, 110 calories from fat, 12 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 25 milligrams of cholesterol, 500 milligrams of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 3 grams of sugar, 9 grams of protein..)<\/small><\/p>\n

Purchased Price:<\/b> $12.00
\nSize:<\/b> Small
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Papa John’s
\nRating:<\/b> 6 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Creamy garlic sauce brings it all together. The God of Burgers. Plenty of mushrooms. Garlic sauce doesn’t taste like bile this time.
\nCons:<\/b> Sparse burger pieces. Being the Dr. Frankenstein of pizza. My stupid brain could have tricked me into tasting Swiss. Just a bit boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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