Papa John sues Papa John's

[Toilet Paper Roll]

Reading about the "racist incident" it seems entirely overblown. That being said there's dirt on the guy for being a dick, take your hundreds of millions by selling frozen pizzas and screw.

[Instant Classic]

They have good cheese sticks but that’s all I care for there.

[Deleted]

Okay, my late brother was fascinated with Papa John's, even though a family of 4 meal requires you spending $30 for lousy pizza, reconfigured bread dough that comes out shaped like femurs where the ends are solid like stones and thr middle is half an inch thick, and a banana pepper. For comparison, my favorite local joint Goodfellas Pizzeria serves New York style pizza with thick cut meats and Wisconsin cheese, along with juicy vegetables where you pay slightly less for a massive pizza and 2 foot long bread sticks with Ale8 1 to wash down.

Like, for all the talk about the freshest ingredients, one must wonder what the hell do they do back there.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 12, 2018 1:19:08 GMT -5 Mrs. Potato Dick said:

Jul 11, 2018 23:54:09 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Little Caesars is fine, for the price. It’s $5. I’m not throwing that huge of a bitch fit. The mild, uncontrollable shitting after is part of the experience. KFC, same deal, just more expensive.

Was..was that a Let's Go to Prison reference?

That line has always tickled me and I use it as often as possible.

[Derk!]

And nothing of value was lost.


Pizza was f***ing awful.

As a side note, I thought he left the company already after sharing his comments on the whole kneeling controversy.

*shrugs*

[Deleted]

Jul 11, 2018 22:48:56 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Now it's just "'s".

And now IHOP is changing its name AGAIN because they're buying this company.

IHOP's.


¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[The Unconquered Sun]

Can’t stress this enough, the pizza is garbage. I had it twice and I got sick twice. That should tell you how bad it is.

[Ganon83]

The pizza itself is the Ultimate Warrior of pizza. It looks like it does on TV, which is great, but they do this by just making it taste like a healthy combination of salt and grease. Eat a couple of slices and you're done with it forever. It's shit pizza.

[Dr. T is an alien]

Jul 12, 2018 8:06:05 GMT -5 Toilet Paper Roll said:

Reading about the "racist incident" it seems entirely overblown. That being said there's dirt on the guy for being a dick, take your hundreds of millions by selling frozen pizzas and screw.

The actual use of n***** itself might be, but context matters. It supposedly came up when asked how he would separate his brand from white supremacist groups. His response allegedly was in the vein of, “Why should I? Col Sanders was racist as hell and it didn’t hurt his company.” That’s really bad.

Even if that WAS overblown, apparently longing for the days where you would not be punished for being the worst racist is sufficient to write him off. Again, whatever he said it was bad enough that a PR firm that specializes in fixing bad reputations essentially said, “You can’t pay us to associate with this guy!” That means that taking his words with the context in which he said then was enough for them to deem him too racist to redeem.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Jul 12, 2018 9:31:46 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

Jul 12, 2018 8:06:05 GMT -5 Toilet Paper Roll said:

Reading about the "racist incident" it seems entirely overblown. That being said there's dirt on the guy for being a dick, take your hundreds of millions by selling frozen pizzas and screw.

The actual use of n***** itself might be, but context matters. It supposedly came up when asked how he would separate his brand from white supremacist groups. His response allegedly was in the vein of, “Why should I? Col Sanders was racist as hell and it didn’t hurt his company.” That’s really bad.

Even if that WAS overblown, apparently longing for the days where you would not be punished for being the worst racist is sufficient to write him off. Again, whatever he said it was bad enough that a PR firm that specializes in fixing bad reputations essentially said, “You can’t pay us to associate with this guy!” That means that taking his words with the context in which he said then was enough for them to deem him too racist to redeem.

The full incident for anyone wondering.

On the May call, Schnatter reportedly said the N-word while complaining that a legendary fast-food chain founder had used the word in the past without being subjected to public backlash. He also reflected on his childhood in Indiana, saying people used to drag African-Americans from trucks until they died, according to Forbes.

www.cbsnews.com/news/papa-johns-pizza-founder-john-schnatter-racial-slur-n-word/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=54164675

[Paul]

Jul 12, 2018 9:12:48 GMT -5 Ganon83 said:

The pizza itself is the Ultimate Warrior of pizza. It looks like it does on TV, which is great, but they do this by just making it taste like a healthy combination of salt and grease. Eat a couple of slices and you're done with it forever. It's shit pizza.

Also, much like The Ultimate Warrior it's in and then runs out as quickly as possible.

[The Captain]

And again, that stuff with Colonel Sanders was completely made up by him. Sanders called black people "negroes," which isn't THE n-word and while that wouldn't fly in 2018, it was an appropriate word in that day and age. Sanders was also never observed to have any sort of racial prejudice, unlike certain founders of crappy pizza companies reminiscing about black people getting dragged by pickup trucks.

[Sephiroth]

Jul 12, 2018 8:06:05 GMT -5 Toilet Paper Roll said:

Reading about the "racist incident" it seems entirely overblown. That being said there's dirt on the guy for being a dick, take your hundreds of millions by selling frozen pizzas and screw.

All I will say is the guy is a jerk with a big mouth who doesn’t know when to shut up. Period.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Jul 12, 2018 10:46:55 GMT -5 The Captain said:

And again, that stuff with Colonel Sanders was completely made up by him. Sanders called black people "negroes," which isn't THE n-word and while that wouldn't fly in 2018, it was an appropriate word in that day and age.

And even if it was true, he's talking about a man born in the 19th century who has been dead almost 40 years; it's not as if the Colonel is still around today using language that would provoke the same kind of backlash.

[HMARK Center]

Couldn't happen to a nicer sack of garbage. So long, jackass.

Regarding the actual pizza, I didn't mind it when I had it a few times around ten years ago but I don't treat chain pizza the way I treat real pizza; living in the Northeast spoils the hell out of you on that front, there's no getting around it.

I go by what my dad told me when we were young and got invited to a Pizza Hut for a kid's birthday party: he'd say stuff like Pizza Hut isn't actually pizza, it's "pizza food", a bunch of the same ingredients put together in a similar manner but not actually constituting real pie. When I think of it that way I end up seeing chain pizza as a fun occasional junk food binge on soft cheesy bread with a sauce-like topping on it and whatever the hell else you want to add.

My girlfriend and I were just in San Francisco for the NJPW show and ordered some late night pizza after it at the hotel, and while it was a step up from something like Papa John's or Pizza Hut it still felt a bit like "pizza food"; again, over on this coast we're spoiled as hell.

[edgestar]

Jul 11, 2018 22:48:56 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Now, and I want this to just be limited to jokes about the pizza due to the nature of what got him canned, but the founder of the one pizza franchise responsible for turning quality ingredients into inedible paste left his company today.

This sounds like a line, in a very special episode of a sitcom, but, dammit if this comment didn't make me crack up

[Cela]

Jul 12, 2018 9:31:46 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

Jul 12, 2018 8:06:05 GMT -5 Toilet Paper Roll said:

Reading about the "racist incident" it seems entirely overblown. That being said there's dirt on the guy for being a dick, take your hundreds of millions by selling frozen pizzas and screw.

The actual use of n***** itself might be, but context matters. It supposedly came up when asked how he would separate his brand from white supremacist groups. His response allegedly was in the vein of, “Why should I? Col Sanders was racist as hell and it didn’t hurt his company.” That’s really bad.

Even if that WAS overblown, apparently longing for the days where you would not be punished for being the worst racist is sufficient to write him off. Again, whatever he said it was bad enough that a PR firm that specializes in fixing bad reputations essentially said, “You can’t pay us to associate with this guy!” That means that taking his words with the context in which he said then was enough for them to deem him too racist to redeem.

Missed that context, was a little confused too. Genuine thanks.

As for the pizza, which seems to be the threads purpose. I enjoyed it in college. It was either that or a truly terrible cheap as hell spot called Chanello's. Compared to Chanello's, Papa John's was amazing. Especially with the dipping sauce. So I have a soft spot for the pizza.

[Renslayer]

Seems like ole buddy's about to mess the money up in ways he didn't expect. Serves him right

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

I was just on the company's website, and they still have his smug mug adorning the company logo....one would think they'd get an IT guy to quickly modify it and remove any connection to him, but nope.

[Savage Gambino]

Jul 12, 2018 13:20:50 GMT -5 Renslayer said:

Seems like ole buddy's about to mess the money up in ways he didn't expect. Serves him right

It takes a special kind of something to potentially lose a whole multi-million dollar company AND a sports stadium inside of a single phone call with your own PR team.