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I gotta say I do find it hilarious when he’s utterly disgusted and hates the food to the point of feeling disrespected by the establishment which sold it to him.
You would think that by now every restaurant in his area will post his picture at the drive thru or his phone number if its a DoorDash. Just so the employees can push the emergency button and the ethnic Grandma comes out of her cubicle to make his food with love and care instead of the hog food us unwashed masses are subject to.
No, this is a good example of companies responding to what customers want. Low carb and keto people have been wanting these for YEARS, and it is nice to finally see pizza places coming out with these! Nothing wrong with a healthier option for pizza.
I agree. It's not a pizza or a casserole. It's just toppings dumped in a pan. There should be some sort of a bottom to it like french bread or *gasp* pizza dough.
I lost my shit for some reason when he looks up and goes "well, it doesn't smell good." Papa Johns is playing a DANGEROUS game hahaha. If I was any fast food company i would figure out where this guy lives and make sure every franchise was in line like Gordon fuckin Ramsey. This thing would look pristine at the very least.
@@supersanic1254 Then what's left? Can't have fruit. Can't have milk. Can't even have beans or corn. A life without rice , pasta,& potatoes is a miserable existence LOL
Hey! Papa John's employee here. I honestly don't really like making them. The reason they exist is because our customers wanted something close to a salad. It's really ridiculous. I mean the only thing we have close to a salad is a bunch of spinach leaves, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, and black olives in a bowl. Adding cheese, meats and sauce to it seems like a waste, in my opinion. I apologize for dissatisfaction and disgust. Edit: Appreciate all the informative comments everyone. Thank you for calling Papa John's!
I feel like this was for people on keto and similar diets who wanted the taste of pizza without the bread/carbs. Not a bad idea but they clearly missed the mark in the execution.
The couldve went the same way dominos did and just get premade salads made to order, but papa johns probably didn’t wanna do that lol or they could’ve just let people order a salad with the toppings they have available. If I was trying to be health conscious I’d rather have a spinach, tomato, chicken and pineapple salad far more than whatever god forsaken mess this is lol
@@MrsDragonChef If I wanted to eat healthy I wouldn't even bother ordering from a Papa Johns in the first place. It's the reason why McDonald's got rid of salads. Very low sales and demand. If I was taking a family to McDonald's (Or ordering from PJ'S) it would be their treat and I would have something healthy later on (Probably from the fridge) after they ate.
@@daveb2280 the problem for some people it isn’t about eating “healthy” it’s about having food restrictions which is becoming more and more common. If you cannot eat certain (very common) foods then this is a way to eat fast food when otherwise you’d be SOL. It provides an option for those of us who simply cannot eat the crust.
When you have over 2M subs and your review of a product has over 1.5M views and you're saying its bad, rest assured Papa John's will be reconsidering ever releasing this product.
I work at Papa Johns. When we were being shown how to make them a few days before it launched everyone gathered around to mock it. The main preparer said, "Wait, that's seriously it? Wtf"
Throughout this whole video, I kept imagining how much judgement for the customer that each Papa John's preparer must be packing into every bowl that's ordered 😂 no wonder there's no room for crust 💩
@@Noisemansoundinsect I don’t know. It’s literally just pizza toppings in a bowl. You basically pay for a small pizza but then get no crust. You’re better off buying the ingredients from the store instead of paying $8-10 for a weird layer of stuff in a bowl
You pulled out the most vile looking fast food item I’ve ever seen and said “it is what it is” and “we can’t judge a book by its cover.” Those were certainly kinder words than I would have used, ReviewBrah. Never change.
20 years ago I experimented with making my own version of this. I used the exact same ingredients I used in normal Pizza, but skipped the crust. I had the exact same reaction. I actually tried to do it multiple times thinking I screwed up. You realize the crust does so many important things. It sops up grease and moisture, which transfers a lot of salt to the bread and balances it out. Even if you toss the crust, there is a flavorful barrier that develops between the bread and the toppings that develops from the salt, oil, and flour. That is removed. And the smell, more than half of a good pizzas aroma is coming from the dough.
That is a good point. Just look at how greasy the bottom of a pizza box can be already, when crust is already soaking a lot of it up. In this case all the grease just sits at the bottom of the bowl and everything just stews in it.
Meat and potatoes. Pasta and sauce. Hamburger. Stir Fry. This was figured out centuries ago. Meat, fat, and a starch. All three work together to help you digest a meal. You need fat to digest protein and you need carbs to digest fat. The reason why it smells so bad is because there is an imbalance that favors excess fat. Your senses are telling you that probably can't digest it. Like he said on the video each ingredient on its own but together it doesn't work. Think about it this way, would you want to eat a whole pound of bacon or a few slices with an egg and a pancake?
@@waynetang1763 Not to mention that a whole lot of fat doesn't exactly work wonders for your gut. Meat, fat, starch, and some veggies for a little bit of extra flavour and fiber tend to be nice, although of course this varies from dish to dish. But needless to say fat in particular is finicky, it has to actually go with something and too much at once is abhorrent.
Thanks for the analysis. Just like most stuff that was passed down to us from our ancestors, they surely did know what they were doing (or, in this case, Italians would go, "what do you mean 'us'?", as I'm not Italian 😆).
It looks suspicious to say the least. And it comes with a lot of waste, two pieces of cardboard and plastic. Just too much material to wrap an underwhelming item.
My girlfriend ordered this last night thinking it was going to be a pasta bowl like they have at dominos and we got the shock of our lives when it showed up! 😮
This is a keto friendly meal therefore it is just an overload to the senses of grease and slime. Domino's pasta bowls are not keto friendly because they contain carbohydrates, which mellow out the overpowering filth and slime from the rest of the ingredients.
@@Littlemissdirtbag Maybe not everyone assumes that it will just be a TV dinner tray with topping slop poured into it, maybe not everyone's standards are as low as yours are.
@@Fr_87 it says it is a crustless pizza. How stupid do you have to be to not understand that? It doesn't say pizza pasta. I just think with the level of education we have in most places, people could stop dumbing down the rest of us by being unable to understand basic reading comprehension. And I feel like it has nothing to do with standards and everything to do with common sense.
@@Fr_87 to be honest, I dont think Id ever expect that, its like if they did an add talking about the "bandits pizza", and I ordered a "bandits pizza" and the delivery boy threw a racoon at my head
The crust is necessary to soak up the excess grease, and have the convenience of eating it with your hands. Instead the bowl concept just takes that away. You're just left with an extra greasy mess that you have to eat with utensils.
I’m a Papa John’s employee, and I’ve been angry/annoyed by this product (as well as our lack of ingenuity for new products) since this came to our stores. It’s so pointless, nobody asked for it, and it’s just gross. I’ve complained numerous times to my managers, who agree with me, but it’s corporate who forces this stuff on us. Please don’t order these, so that corporate takes them off the menu. They should at least have pasta or something in them, but no, it’s just pizza topics and sauce. It’s insulting to the customers.
There are a lot of people on a low carb diet and stuff like this is a godsend. Is it as good as a regular pizza no, but it is close enough for people on keto and other low carb diets. I'm glad they are offering something. I would prefer a low carb crust like Blaze Pizza but beggars can't be choosers
They literally could've layered the pepperoni giving a "lasagna" type feel. Instead it looks like they peeled the toppings on a pizza in a plastic container and they warmed it up in the microwave
No they warmed it or cooked it in the oven. Doesn't matter people will love it. Even this guy probably cobble it up off camera. That why Pappa jhons has stores that make a million a year off this stuff😂😂
i worked at papa johns up until like 2 weeks ago and i can confirm that thats literally what it is. it just goes through the pizza oven instead of a microwave
"It's more like an odor than a scent" That actually makes total sense, wow. He words things like how I've worded it before! He loves to try to articulate and accurately describe what he's experiencing and I love it.
We have made breadless pizza bowels in the name of low carb for a long time and they are really good. I think what has went wrong with papa johns version, they tweak the ingredients for a finished taste of a product bread, sauce, cheese. I believe the sauce is not good without the bread.
You may ask yourself: “How does this delightful young man eat all this junk food and stay so thin?” He lives off Whisky Sours and nicotine when not being filmed.
@@kevjtnbtmglr it literally was.. He got caught up saying bad words, and of course these days words are violence so they used it as an excuse to steal his company and oust him.. Gotta love flawed human beings acting like they are perfect gods and trying to control other flawed people.. There is no tolerance for any mistakes anymore in public.
Because this is cheaper but honestly I’m not sure how “keto” any fast food item could be when it would likely spike your blood sugar. At least it’s definitely low carb.
@@Solidsnaik Blood sugar spiking doesn't affect keto. It just gives you cravings, but those are easily avoided. Most of the food in these bowls shouldn't spike your sugar, except the sauce, but you can order it without the sauce and just get more cheese.
i mean papa johns is disgusting in general lol i'd rather eat little C's atleast its affordable and most chains cook it well go to PJ and ya....idk anymore
This guy is serious and he dignifies his audience and the product by dressing to a tee. He tells the truth, which every board member of a fast food entity could benefit from. They need his honest opinion before they shuck out thousands for a new item that flops just as this one will. Well done sir!
The heads of these mega corporations don't give a crap about reviews. They're just gonna go with the latest stupid stupid idea and shove it out onto the street. I have never eaten this because I suspected I would have the SAME reaction as he did: slop that should be fed to livestock.
LOL it doesn'r even try to look anything presentable. I thought it's gonna be like...casserole, lasagna, or like baked mac and cheese in a square dish. No, it literally looks like slop from the get go.
One time in college I came downstairs and my housemate had put a pile of melted cheese on a plate, microwaved it, and was eating it off of a plate with a fork. I consider this to be in the same category
Looks like microwaved puke on a plate. Thank you TheReportOfTheWeek for reviewing these so I don't have to try them. You are performing a public service and I want you to know that I appreciate you and what you're doing on your channel.
He is genuinely one of the most unintentionally hilarious men on the internet. Love him ❤ I wish everyone put this level of thoughtfulness and detail into their work. World would be a much better place
I'm 100% not being a smartass here. Is this dude always this hilarious? I love how he starts off his actual review by saying it's probably a good option if you have health concerns lmaoooo
Oh yes. Reviewbrah is well-known for being unfailingly polite, brutally acerbic, and pretty charming on top of it. He's the kind of guy who can rip you apart verbally and leave you sincerely thanking him for it.
Look, pizza is like politics, someone is gonna say they don't like pepperoni, while I say I rather pick/eat the pineapples off the pizza than eat pizza with it on
It's also stolen from another pizza chain, there's a decent size chain called Marco's Pizza, mainly in Texas, that's had the same thing for a good while. Not saying they stole it from them specifically, just questioning they thought it was a good thing to copy from somebody since it clearly doesn't sell that well at Marco's either.
You know how sometimes when you cut a pizza and all the toppings just bunch up alongside the pizza cutter and end up in a jumbled mess? Every time this happens they just scrape it all off into a "papa bowl" and sell it the next day.
I can't tell if this guy is a legend or a genius. If this is actually his personality, he's a legend. If he's playing a character, he's a genius. Either way, he's the best. x x
Exactly, there's 3 basic parts of a pizza: toppings, sauce, and bread. I can't image that they thought their greasy toppings and cheese could stand alone without bread.
I'm glad I caught this hilarity before I ordered! Our local basketball team is actually winning for once and that gets 50% off Papa John's items. It doesn't sound like this is even worth...100% off :-)
@@facingthewind I don't know. It was so bad I never read the ingredients which were only on the box it came in. They didn't it available for purchase separately.
This is why I clicked on the video. The priceless reaction paired with "disgusting". I would have clicked anyway, but I clicked faster because of the face.
@@whyisitsodifficultomakeahandle i make 35 an hour as a poker and blackjack dealer tf u mean??? 😂😂 I guess you should have.... because you obviously cant read...
Watching him is fascinating..like someone from 1922 is time traveling and eating food and commenting on it. When he’s not filming I imagine he’s back in time just working for the paper & running down stories.
I worked at Papa John's until recently, and this is a terrible attempt to appeal to the keto crowd. If you had gotten the chicken alfredo one, the fact that it's mostly spinach which shrinks a lot when cooked, you'd also get to feel like you got ripped off because the height of the toppings coming out of the oven is less than 1/4 of the way up the bowl.
It's just... lame. Surely there has to be a better way to come up with a "keto style" product that wouldn't just look like they scraped the top off a pizza into a bowl.
@@drb4074 they could have made a pizza with cauliflower as the base. I used to make my own pizza when I was craving pizza on keto. If they wanted health conscious Keto type of pizza cauliflower base, cheese, meats, and research what else could go. Or a build your own pizza with a cauliflower base.
@@luckysister2 the crazy thing is that even the meat and cheese ingredients at these pizza places contain horrible filler ingredients. Cheese is full of potato starch, the meats have like dextrose and starch fillers. Almost all of it is cheapened with processed carbohydrates. I work at Dominos and i was like why the hell does the pepperoni have corn syrup lmao. The sauce is sugar too. The wings are coated. Its all bad mannn.
I actually happen to work at a Papa John's. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about when you say it smells really strong. At the location I work at, at least, we take the bowl out of the oven and then cover it with Italian seasoning before packaging it up. And let me tell you. The smell alone is enough to turn me off from trying the bowls out entirely. It legit feels like I'm gonna get a nose bleed with how strong the smell of Italian seasoning is. We don't even put that much on them either. We only put like 3 or 4 shakes in.
I have not smelled this, but I’m picturing that pungent “tinned tomatoes” scent that low quality tomato sauce has. Is it like a weird metallic smell? Mixed with the Italian seasoning? Lol.
05:28 right after he says "the papa bowl" he makes this uncertain little "um" that sounds like he's trying so hard to think of something nice to say and it kills me lmao
It was more important to you to warn us not to eat this, than to keep your conclusion secret to the end, so you spoiled it in the title. And I respect that. Thanks for looking out for us, Review Brah.
Looks like they just took yesterday's leftovers in some boxes and sold it. Something Mr Krabs would pull. I also believe the eating portions are important. Really shows that first reaction.
5:21 I'll tell you what happened. They wanted a way to use the scraps that fall off when making a regular pizza and they call it a meal. Like how Wendys throws old burger meat into the chili. 😂🤢🍕
This 'pizza bowl' broke all 3 of the rules for making sure you don't eat anything that's expired. 1. If it looks weird 2. If it smells weird 3. If it tastes weird DON'T EAT IT!
The silver lining is that Reviewbrah decided against using his own clean plate for this disaster of a meal. No sense in bringing dish washing into this food calamity.
This looks like some middle manager was trying to pitch the ceo on how to cut food costs and said: “imagine this! You know how our teenage employees making the pizza keep dropping toppings on the floor? What if we scoop all those up but instead of throwing them out we resell them, we’ll put them in a bowl, add some sauce and bake it. Well make money off our waste and can market it as healthy low carb lifestyle.” Literally picturing George Costanza saying this and Steinbrenner going George you might be on to something! Either that or some kids got really high and we’re like dude! What if we just ate the topping all mixed together. That sounds radical
Now that I've tuned in, I find myself unable to stop watching this guy. He's a time traveler from the late 40's to early 50's trying to adjust to our modern day junk food fare of highly processed 'stuff' we call fast food. The look in his eyes as he... regards?... some of the items he's just taken a first bite of is priceless. He's impeccable in his presentation. Keep on keepin' on, brah. We'll keep watchin'!
That is one of the grossest looking fast food bowls I've ever seen. This man is a champion for taking this on so that we don't have to. Where is the Nobel prize committee? Reviewbrah deserves the prize!
@@tenebrae23 That might be what it is in theory, but I've never seen pizza toppings that look that disgusting. His description of it reminding him of what they'd serve at a pig trough was on point.
I love the juxtaposition of the plastic utensils and the paper napkins with the beautiful glass and your proper eating habits. Also yes what gets me with all modern pizza chains is how salty everything is! And how sweet the sauce is.
@donaldcarr 26 yeah I don't think this is meant for any diet. If you're doing low carb and care about your diet, you certainly shouldn't be eating a bowl of cheese and pepperoni from Papa Johns 😂
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405 Sometimes you just want something familiar and greasy and if you can have it without the carbs, why not? Allowing yourself the occasional cheat meal in order to reward yourself and stick to your diet works for some people, sadly with keto cheating with carbs and getting back into ketosis makes it harder
@@Discostick55 im just a major negative component of the Keto diet. It was developed to help control epilepsy in children and focuses on consuming a lot of saturated fats, while staying away from nutrient dense foods. Just from years of personal research and my parents being in the dietician field I have a pretty negative view point on fad diets that are just monopolized by celebrities and "doctors".
It legit just looks like a cheap microwave dinner, there’s no way they should be able to sell that at a restaurant even a low tier one like Papa John’s
@@bowie3713 the shaq was terrible to make, and so are the NY16 peps and double peps. Bad news tho, my DO told me the pep stuffed's are permanent :( I don't mind the bowls tho, since you can make them just as fast as any other pizza, and there's no prep. The trays you gotta put them in are a royal pain in the *ss tho
I remember seeing a commercial for this, they actually made it look quite delicious. All of the stretchy melty cheese, not greasy what so ever, but man seeing the actual product looks vile.
A lot of the food shown in commercials is just props, not actual food. Or the company takes extra, extra care to make sure the commercial food looks good, including misting the food and using complementary lighting and camera angles.
@@ericjohnson6120 I can understand the need for certain things like ice cream or other foods that just can't survive the hot lights or the potentially long time it takes to get the perfect advertiser shots, but the rest it's just unacceptable and honestly makes me just believe that the product will look like shit since they don't have the confidence to show off the real deal. People know what they're getting when they're buying fast food. They're not going to be put off by a real looking pizza or burger or what have you. Except maybe in this case.
I love how when Reviewbrah was showing off the bowl, you could see the cheese, meat, and grease sliding across the bowl. Not exactly appetizing. It seems like the sort of thing a bachelor would "cook" - just throw some meat and cheese in a bowl and melt it in the microwave.
As an occasionally lazy bachelor, can confirm. Some days I take an hour on prep to make a fine meal, other days I just throw some veggies, meat, and cheese in the oven.
If it’s in a plastic bowl it was probably cooked in a microwave which changes the texture and moisture level . Very different than cooking a pizza in a hot pizza oven.
I’ve noticed a lot of fast food places are doing this thing where they don’t actually try to bring anything new in, they just try to throw something together with the product they already have and call it a new thing. Sonic does this all the time and has been doing it for years but now everyone else seems to be following along
Honestly, I could see parts of this working. Fried mozzarella is good. Mozzarella with crispy pepperoni in it is good, if the pepperoni has been cooked and drained of oil - something they obviously failed to do. Same thing for roasted or grilled vegetables. And a little tomato sauce isn’t such a bad thing either. But the disgusting slop they gave you was not a beautiful dish of good ingredients which come together. It was a frozen microwave mess with no texture and no joy. Thank you for the warning.
The amazing thing is that the corporation surely studied this idea, feeding it to various test groups to get their opinions of the product....and still gave the go-ahead.
It's really easy to go thru that process while someone has already decided to greenlight a product which results in the process only being used to confirm positives while not actually providing legit feedback.
They should have cooked it proper. Deep dish it already is. Its a casserole. Of course its deep dish. But frozen. Casserole pizza is actually very popular in Italy. This? This is NOTHING like a casserole pizza. Its an epic fail take on Italian style casserole pizza. Frozen NOT fresh sloppy casserole.
"They took the sauce, and the toppings, and they dumped it into a plastic bowl, and that's... what it is..." Exactly my thought process as he was describing it and I love that it came to fruition fuck papa johns lol.
Plus, the dough absorbs some of the oil and liquid from the veggies. So the veggies get a little firmer under the heat. You can always dab some of the grease from the surface, but guiltily, I like oil on the surface too - a bit. I tend to prefer mine cooled for about ten minutes, so it's firmer than when still hot. Seems that's the only thing they got right.
When I first seen it advertised, I assumed it was a pasta bowl like domino's without reading. the best thing about this channel is that there's no sponsors. nothing but raw honesty.
I really think Papa John’s saw Domino’s dipping sauces and thought “HA we can do even better, let’s make it the ENTIRE MEAL”. But the point of the dipping “sauce”, even if it was just pizza toppings, is that it was a small portion meant to be served with breadsticks.
Dude has been grinding for a hot minute and has had no controversies or complaints. One of the most respected channels out there and I salute you good sir. Keep that hustle and hard work mentality!
hes also put up with more ad hominem attacks and other insults for no apparent reason, than most. He doesnt let those people affect his grind which is beyond admirable considering he continues to put out this content for those very people who insult him.
its a good idea but when you're a pizza place and you just dump all the toppings into a bowl it kind of undermines the entire purpose of the business lmao XD There is a way to do a bowl like properly. But you have to have people with at least a SLIGHT passion for preparing food in order to make food appetizing to look at the very least. Gordon ramsey would have launched this at a human being.
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I had that bowl yesterday and it was good! wtf are u smoking ratking?
I'd like to see you do a co-lab video with Joshua Weissman "But Better series"
I gotta say I do find it hilarious when he’s utterly disgusted and hates the food to the point of feeling disrespected by the establishment which sold it to him.
I immediately watch any review of a food item he hates. I don't really eat this kind of fast food, so I'll never go try these items.
yeah, but it's sad when his day is ruined :'(
It's always personal 😂
You would think that by now every restaurant in his area will post his picture at the drive thru or his phone number if its a DoorDash. Just so the employees can push the emergency button and the ethnic Grandma comes out of her cubicle to make his food with love and care instead of the hog food us unwashed masses are subject to.
Well put chap
"I would describe it as more of an odor as opposed to scent"
savage
that line and delivery was gold.
Praying for papa john's rn
That truly is an evocative piece of language
Synonyms though....
😂🎉right on
I love how respectfully he tells you that the food is disgusting
He's suppressing the demon inside to be able to respectfully says that.
It's absolutely exquisite poetry that comes out of his mouth
@@Neo...... Papa John quite lucky to be able to hear it.
The way he described the smell💀🤣🤢
Courtesy.
Comparing this item to slop poured into a feeding trough for pigs was crazy funny. Great job with your channel!
Absolute savagery
Weeeeeee
This is a good example of when these companies are just like,
_"let see if they'll consider this to still be food"_
Introducing the new cricket pizza with Italian herbs and spices. "Bug out!"
No, this is a good example of companies responding to what customers want. Low carb and keto people have been wanting these for YEARS, and it is nice to finally see pizza places coming out with these! Nothing wrong with a healthier option for pizza.
@@supersanic1254 And sadly they failed.
@@supersanic1254 Damn bro never seen someone play such hard defense for a plastic bowl of pizza toppings
@@LawAbidingScout ikr
So they just dump sauce and toppings in a plastic container and microwave it? Sounds extremely unappetizing
It doesn't look fresh either it looks like left overs, so a way to sell left overs to victims
I agree. It's not a pizza or a casserole. It's just toppings dumped in a pan. There should be some sort of a bottom to it like french bread or *gasp* pizza dough.
They need to just bite the bullet and start selling pasta like dominos
It's barfalicious
And cheese 😂
Papa john's really made a whole dish made of leftovers looking like some slop you'll find at a sketchy gas station at 3AM.
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Lol
what's crazy is they put less toppings on the actual pizza
Chuck E Cheese idea, also I was honestly hoping for more sauce with it
Gas stations have standards and provide a useful service. Papa John’s does neither.
"Pretending to feed you"
Lmfao
Review Brah put Papa's fork in my right eyeball. Now I have to wash off my face. 🤢
I commented almost exactly this not seeing your remark first! 😹
And he sticks the food in my ear, thanks
thanks reviewbrah
I lost my shit for some reason when he looks up and goes "well, it doesn't smell good."
Papa Johns is playing a DANGEROUS game hahaha. If I was any fast food company i would figure out where this guy lives and make sure every franchise was in line like Gordon fuckin Ramsey. This thing would look pristine at the very least.
They REALLY missed the chance to call them "Uncrustabowls"
Smuckers: *buys Papa John's*
Poppa Sloppa would have been somewhat cool and appropriate too imo
Whoa! I think you got something there!
@@nano-ep9ih Pappa's Sloppa 😩🥵 lol
If I don't shower for a couple days I get crusty bowls
I love the irony of an imagined patron trying to be "health conscious" and avoid bread, so they order a greasy cheese bowl of meatballs and sausages.
That's basically what keto is. I stopped keto because I can't handle anymore greasy meat & cheese 🤮
Healthy af. If you know, you know. Clearly you don't have enough brainpower to figure out why it is healthy.
@@stephaniemarie4303 You don't have to eat that stuff on keto lmao.
@@supersanic1254 Then what's left? Can't have fruit. Can't have milk. Can't even have beans or corn. A life without rice , pasta,& potatoes is a miserable existence LOL
@@supersanic1254 if you’re craving pizza and on keto something like this is about your only option
Hey! Papa John's employee here. I honestly don't really like making them. The reason they exist is because our customers wanted something close to a salad. It's really ridiculous. I mean the only thing we have close to a salad is a bunch of spinach leaves, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, and black olives in a bowl. Adding cheese, meats and sauce to it seems like a waste, in my opinion. I apologize for dissatisfaction and disgust.
Edit: Appreciate all the informative comments everyone. Thank you for calling Papa John's!
I feel like this was for people on keto and similar diets who wanted the taste of pizza without the bread/carbs. Not a bad idea but they clearly missed the mark in the execution.
@@mco3884 Seems legit
The couldve went the same way dominos did and just get premade salads made to order, but papa johns probably didn’t wanna do that lol or they could’ve just let people order a salad with the toppings they have available. If I was trying to be health conscious I’d rather have a spinach, tomato, chicken and pineapple salad far more than whatever god forsaken mess this is lol
@@MrsDragonChef If I wanted to eat healthy I wouldn't even bother ordering from a Papa Johns in the first place. It's the reason why McDonald's got rid of salads. Very low sales and demand. If I was taking a family to McDonald's (Or ordering from PJ'S) it would be their treat and I would have something healthy later on (Probably from the fridge) after they ate.
@@daveb2280 the problem for some people it isn’t about eating “healthy” it’s about having food restrictions which is becoming more and more common. If you cannot eat certain (very common) foods then this is a way to eat fast food when otherwise you’d be SOL. It provides an option for those of us who simply cannot eat the crust.
When you have over 2M subs and your review of a product has over 1.5M views and you're saying its bad, rest assured Papa John's will be reconsidering ever releasing this product.
Every fast food chain should watch this guy😎 taking notes ✍️ 🗒️
Yeah. They released oreos & pizza crust. It looked "diseased." Yeah, they really learned.
@@bookofkatherine *watch out*
@globalgaming1100 it means enough for you to watch and comment 😉
@globalgaming1100 his sub count, view count and like/dislike ratio beg to differ
I work at Papa Johns. When we were being shown how to make them a few days before it launched everyone gathered around to mock it. The main preparer said, "Wait, that's seriously it? Wtf"
😅😅😅
Throughout this whole video, I kept imagining how much judgement for the customer that each Papa John's preparer must be packing into every bowl that's ordered 😂 no wonder there's no room for crust 💩
@@pizzlerot2730 It was more like sadness for the customer. Papa Bowls here are $10 but with barely any ingredients. Total ripoff
Is for keto?
@@Noisemansoundinsect I don’t know. It’s literally just pizza toppings in a bowl. You basically pay for a small pizza but then get no crust. You’re better off buying the ingredients from the store instead of paying $8-10 for a weird layer of stuff in a bowl
6:57 “I imagine this as slop poured into a feeding trough and you have a bunch of hogs lined up eating it.” Haven’t laughed that hard in awhile!
Goyslop
😂
@@jaffacalling53 that will never not be funny 😆
Reminds me of the onion article on pizza
"It looks like something no human being should consume"
😂😂😂😵
You pulled out the most vile looking fast food item I’ve ever seen and said “it is what it is” and “we can’t judge a book by its cover.” Those were certainly kinder words than I would have used, ReviewBrah. Never change.
imma be honest i got a little queasy inspecting that for so long
It’s pretty nasty. Can’t top that “fried chicken as a bun” sandwich for me but this is up there.
Yeah but I bet if it was on a layer of angel hair pasta or garlic bread, and you had the munchies, it'd be awesome
Who would have thought leftover pizza toppings thrown in a cancerous plastic bowl and microwaved wasnt good.. lol
I think youre wrong microwaved pizza is he best.
Microwaves ruin the food.
TBF they don't use microwaves at Papa John's, this actually goes through the oven haha
@@Herr.P might as well eat dog food
i cant get hard unless i feel disrespected by food restaurants
"I would describe it more of an odor as opposed to a scent" - this guy kills me! Hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣
He is just perfect XD
20 years ago I experimented with making my own version of this. I used the exact same ingredients I used in normal
Pizza, but skipped the crust. I had the exact same reaction. I actually tried to do it multiple times thinking I screwed up. You realize the crust does so many important things. It sops up grease and moisture, which transfers a lot of salt to the bread and balances it out. Even if you toss the crust, there is a flavorful barrier that develops between the bread and the toppings that develops from the salt, oil, and flour. That is removed. And the smell, more than half of a good pizzas aroma is coming from the dough.
That is a good point. Just look at how greasy the bottom of a pizza box can be already, when crust is already soaking a lot of it up. In this case all the grease just sits at the bottom of the bowl and everything just stews in it.
Meat and potatoes. Pasta and sauce. Hamburger. Stir Fry. This was figured out centuries ago. Meat, fat, and a starch.
All three work together to help you digest a meal. You need fat to digest protein and you need carbs to digest fat. The reason why it smells so bad is because there is an imbalance that favors excess fat. Your senses are telling you that probably can't digest it. Like he said on the video each ingredient on its own but together it doesn't work.
Think about it this way, would you want to eat a whole pound of bacon or a few slices with an egg and a pancake?
@@waynetang1763 Not to mention that a whole lot of fat doesn't exactly work wonders for your gut. Meat, fat, starch, and some veggies for a little bit of extra flavour and fiber tend to be nice, although of course this varies from dish to dish. But needless to say fat in particular is finicky, it has to actually go with something and too much at once is abhorrent.
Thanks for the analysis. Just like most stuff that was passed down to us from our ancestors, they surely did know what they were doing (or, in this case, Italians would go, "what do you mean 'us'?", as I'm not Italian 😆).
@@waynetang1763 a lot of people can eat a pound of bacon. Bad example choice 😂
It looks suspicious to say the least. And it comes with a lot of waste, two pieces of cardboard and plastic. Just too much material to wrap an underwhelming item.
Nothing underwhelming about it at all.
It’s like they took leftover ingredients off the line and instead of throwing them away cooked it up and called it a “bowl”.
@@supersanic1254 why do you keep defending papa John’s pizza bowls them things nasty
@@sybsygstgstsgysg5330 probably owns a franchise
@@sybsygstgstsgysg5330 he's eaten 50 pizzas in the past 30 days
My girlfriend ordered this last night thinking it was going to be a pasta bowl like they have at dominos and we got the shock of our lives when it showed up! 😮
Was it as bad as he said?
This is a keto friendly meal therefore it is just an overload to the senses of grease and slime.
Domino's pasta bowls are not keto friendly because they contain carbohydrates, which mellow out the overpowering filth and slime from the rest of the ingredients.
@@Littlemissdirtbag Maybe not everyone assumes that it will just be a TV dinner tray with topping slop poured into it, maybe not everyone's standards are as low as yours are.
@@Fr_87 it says it is a crustless pizza. How stupid do you have to be to not understand that? It doesn't say pizza pasta. I just think with the level of education we have in most places, people could stop dumbing down the rest of us by being unable to understand basic reading comprehension. And I feel like it has nothing to do with standards and everything to do with common sense.
@@Fr_87 to be honest, I dont think Id ever expect that, its like if they did an add talking about the "bandits pizza", and I ordered a "bandits pizza" and the delivery boy threw a racoon at my head
The crust is necessary to soak up the excess grease, and have the convenience of eating it with your hands. Instead the bowl concept just takes that away. You're just left with an extra greasy mess that you have to eat with utensils.
It's like low-carb or some shit. IDK
What is the carbon footprint of all that packaging? I can hear the Earth getting warmer.
Baked spaghetti.
Well said. Probably be ok for people on keto diets if they add some cauliflower rice to soak up the grease.
GMTA
I’m a Papa John’s employee, and I’ve been angry/annoyed by this product (as well as our lack of ingenuity for new products) since this came to our stores. It’s so pointless, nobody asked for it, and it’s just gross. I’ve complained numerous times to my managers, who agree with me, but it’s corporate who forces this stuff on us. Please don’t order these, so that corporate takes them off the menu. They should at least have pasta or something in them, but no, it’s just pizza topics and sauce. It’s insulting to the customers.
I'm pretty sure these only exist to drag John Schnatter's name through the mud.
There are a lot of people on a low carb diet and stuff like this is a godsend. Is it as good as a regular pizza no, but it is close enough for people on keto and other low carb diets. I'm glad they are offering something. I would prefer a low carb crust like Blaze Pizza but beggars can't be choosers
@@donald7244 there’s definitely better places to go for a low carb diet
@@theclxmpgxd1407 definitely
If it tasted good, id take the double chicken alfredo one but its just not good.
They literally could've layered the pepperoni giving a "lasagna" type feel. Instead it looks like they peeled the toppings on a pizza in a plastic container and they warmed it up in the microwave
No they warmed it or cooked it in the oven. Doesn't matter people will love it. Even this guy probably cobble it up off camera. That why Pappa jhons has stores that make a million a year off this stuff😂😂
that IS what they did.
but yeah, he prob still ate it. (off cam)
the topping of the pizza is the best part.
yeah it didn't look appetizing but I'd probably eat it
@@ti-lo5hy yah Broh'
I'm just a SAD "addict" of pepperoni & cheese- I'd DEF eat it
i worked at papa johns up until like 2 weeks ago and i can confirm that thats literally what it is. it just goes through the pizza oven instead of a microwave
"It's more like an odor than a scent"
That actually makes total sense, wow. He words things like how I've worded it before! He loves to try to articulate and accurately describe what he's experiencing and I love it.
6:40
We have made breadless pizza bowels in the name of low carb for a long time and they are really good. I think what has went wrong with papa johns version, they tweak the ingredients for a finished taste of a product bread, sauce, cheese. I believe the sauce is not good without the bread.
@@jeffstrains4014 good point. I usually try it for myself to make my own opinion. Every location is different of course
You may ask yourself: “How does this delightful young man eat all this junk food and stay so thin?” He lives off Whisky Sours and nicotine when not being filmed.
Clearly.
I mean he only does it once a week with reasonable (at least for fast food) portions
He's always RUNnING ON EMPTy
real mens diet
Tom Collins and a Marlboro. Breakfast of champions.
As a papa employee, none of us has any idea why these things exist either...
Well you fired the founder and genius behind Papa Johns. What you expect?
@@SwedishSubhuman I doubt Ingrid was the one who fired him
We know you aren't corporate. You're the low paid peasants.
As a customer who are gone less to no carbs, its nice I can order it but I just make my own.
@@brandonvillatuya9539 Nah it was definitely her
Thank you Papa for feeding us your leftover ingredients in a trough
🐖 I'm down
He wants to fatten you up before turning you into pizza
Papa hates this. His company was stolen from him!
WE LOVE U PAPA BLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
@@kevjtnbtmglr it literally was.. He got caught up saying bad words, and of course these days words are violence so they used it as an excuse to steal his company and oust him.. Gotta love flawed human beings acting like they are perfect gods and trying to control other flawed people.. There is no tolerance for any mistakes anymore in public.
In the Midwest we call atrocities like this casseroles or a hot dish. I've been to potlucks which had hot dishes that looked worse than that.
For some reason I really like them. Enjoy all food, from fine dining to atrocious looking casseroles
@@etholus1000 I've been meaning to try one. A lifetime of Midwest food has probably left me with a rather unrefined palate.
@@vilstef6988go to the west coast for great food
@@strawberrycough8911 I have a cousin in LA. I need to visit her sometime and check out the food.
There is nothing wrong with a well cooked casserole.
If they’re appealing to the keto diet, why not replace the crust with something made from veggies like cauliflower?
Great point, I've had other things with cauli crust
Because this is cheaper but honestly I’m not sure how “keto” any fast food item could be when it would likely spike your blood sugar. At least it’s definitely low carb.
Cauliflower crust is not keto ya goof. The fact you got 24 upvotes shows how ignorant people are about keto lol.
@@Solidsnaik Blood sugar spiking doesn't affect keto. It just gives you cravings, but those are easily avoided. Most of the food in these bowls shouldn't spike your sugar, except the sauce, but you can order it without the sauce and just get more cheese.
@@supersanic1254 he talked about it being salty though, so
I got mad respect for this guy. He's been doing his thing for a minute.
He took more than one bite, he's a far braver man than me.
Indeed he has. Yay, Brah!
Has he been doing this since he was a kid? Something about him seems familiar.
@@unexpectedvixen5685 yeah he's aka as Reviewbrah. Started in 2011
@@unexpectedvixen5685 yeah he blew up when I was still in highschool and I'm 29 currently
"It's gross."
Couldn't help but laugh at the matter-of-factness of the review. Doing good work here :)
Do you think he finished it or threw it out after?
@@Guitarninjaruy Review Brah is a man of his word, it got trashed as soon as the camera stopped rolling!
@@AlexKnappy should be named the toilet bowl
i mean papa johns is disgusting in general lol i'd rather eat little C's atleast its affordable and most chains cook it well go to PJ and ya....idk anymore
Lol
This guy is serious and he dignifies his audience and the product by dressing to a tee. He tells the truth, which every board member of a fast food entity could benefit from. They need his honest opinion before they shuck out thousands for a new item that flops just as this one will. Well done sir!
The heads of these mega corporations don't give a crap about reviews. They're just gonna go with the latest stupid stupid idea and shove it out onto the street. I have never eaten this because I suspected I would have the SAME reaction as he did: slop that should be fed to livestock.
The amount of Optimism he maintained after opening that box is inspiring. Because it looked terrible lol.
LOL it doesn'r even try to look anything presentable. I thought it's gonna be like...casserole, lasagna, or like baked mac and cheese in a square dish.
No, it literally looks like slop from the get go.
This looks like somebody pulled it from the frozen food section and zapped it in the microwave for about 2 to 4 minutes because they were in a hurry.
😆
it looks like they threw a bunch of slop in a tray and microwaved it 😂
"Um... it is what it is" ☠
His suit makes it look like someone else is doing the hand movements, and his disgust combined with this is comedy gold for me. Thanks reviewbrah.
He is actually a dog being puppeted with a man's hands.
No matter how long he does this, he'll never wear a suit that fits. That's part of the reviewbrah experience.
My sick sense of humor captures this perfectly! 😂
Getting that “Whose Line is it anyway?” vibe lol
I didn't see it until now, and now I cannot unsee it. wp
One time in college I came downstairs and my housemate had put a pile of melted cheese on a plate, microwaved it, and was eating it off of a plate with a fork. I consider this to be in the same category
Id take a plate of cheese instead of these
😝
That's just good desperate late night snack food
“Homer, have you been up all night eating cheese?”
Was your roommate a Boglim?
Looks like microwaved puke on a plate. Thank you TheReportOfTheWeek for reviewing these so I don't have to try them. You are performing a public service and I want you to know that I appreciate you and what you're doing on your channel.
Ten years of watching Reviewbreh. Ten years. Ten years since a kid in a goodwill suit started the journey to become an absolute legend.
How dare you. Our man only wears the finest suits in all the land.
You only watched him for eight years. He returned to his original timeline in 2020 and was replaced by a clone
@@roachezmo lol
Go forth, young boy and you'll become a legend
They should've marketed it as a low-carb bowl. No bread, no pasta, it makes no sense why anyone without a dietary restriction would order this.
it's probably not even low carb. sauces have sugar
No one that's trying to lose weight should order Papa John's...
@@Brimbo I've lost a lot of weight eating Papa John's. Clearly you are very ignorant about keto and low carb diets.
@@Brimbo You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.
@@apseudonym According to the nutritional information I found, papa Johns sauce has only 1g of sugar, 3g total carbs per cup.
“I would describe it as more of an odor, than a scent.” I was folded over in laughter for remainder of the video 😂
Ohhhhhh. I haven't gotten to this yet. I'm stoked.
Hahahahahaha there it is
Lmao 🤣
Me, too. Hilarious!
He is genuinely one of the most unintentionally hilarious men on the internet. Love him ❤ I wish everyone put this level of thoughtfulness and detail into their work. World would be a much better place
I'm 100% not being a smartass here.
Is this dude always this hilarious? I love how he starts off his actual review by saying it's probably a good option if you have health concerns lmaoooo
He is! He has a very sarcastic sense of humor, it's great!
Oh yes. Reviewbrah is well-known for being unfailingly polite, brutally acerbic, and pretty charming on top of it. He's the kind of guy who can rip you apart verbally and leave you sincerely thanking him for it.
Yes.... I don't know if he is trying to be funny, but he just is.. very dry humor, very polite and scarastic as hell.
You should watch the videos of the reviews he makes of the comments he gets: these are HILARIOUS!! He’s a master of sarcastic humor. 👌
Pizza without crust is like a human without a skeleton. Absolutely terrifying.
Suppose to be for people who are on Keto but still lol
Don’t you mean traumatic..?
Look, pizza is like politics, someone is gonna say they don't like pepperoni, while I say I rather pick/eat the pineapples off the pizza than eat pizza with it on
It's also stolen from another pizza chain, there's a decent size chain called Marco's Pizza, mainly in Texas, that's had the same thing for a good while. Not saying they stole it from them specifically, just questioning they thought it was a good thing to copy from somebody since it clearly doesn't sell that well at Marco's either.
@@deviction9314 keto people 💀 💀 💀
Thanks Reviewbrah for "pretending to feed me" this disgusting crap. I needed that in my day.
You know how sometimes when you cut a pizza and all the toppings just bunch up alongside the pizza cutter and end up in a jumbled mess? Every time this happens they just scrape it all off into a "papa bowl" and sell it the next day.
I don't mind that but gross lmao
@@CripplePunk91 praise to the papa 🙏
Father Johnathan
Ew
🤢🤢🤢🤮
I can't tell if this guy is a legend or a genius. If this is actually his personality, he's a legend. If he's playing a character, he's a genius. Either way, he's the best. x x
it's him. he's been doing it for something like 15 years
Definitely one of the best on Youtu-......wait...he actually _IS_ the best on RUclips 😂😂😂.
Yooooooo. Facts. Best way I've ever heard him described
As a baker I try to explain to people that the bread is the most important part.
Exactly, there's 3 basic parts of a pizza: toppings, sauce, and bread. I can't image that they thought their greasy toppings and cheese could stand alone without bread.
@@inNoutSucks It works for people on a keto diet, I guess. Still not recommendable at all, but that is the only niche I can think of.
Not if you're diabetic.
@@ironpamf Gluten intolerance as well!
But you're in the pocket of Big Bread, how can we trust you
The "pretending to feed you" bit caught me completely off guard and was hilarious!! Very entertaining and informative as always! ☺️
A little scary, little wholesome
its so intimate
same
Was like "is he... trying to feed the camera?" And shortly after confirmed 😂😂
@@stinkypete4615 it's a date
This looks like something you'd get from the frozen food department at the grocery store for $4
I wouldn't even pay $4....... more like $1.99
School lunch tier
Dollar Tree TV dinners.
But it’s 8.09 😡
@@FurbyParade226 Even school lunch looks good compared to this.
I'm glad I caught this hilarity before I ordered! Our local basketball team is actually winning for once and that gets 50% off Papa John's items. It doesn't sound like this is even worth...100% off :-)
Just get pizza lol
Ooh, a microwave dinner for three-to-four-times the price!? Wow! What a deal! 🙃
and it looks way worse than any microwave dinner you can buy at the store 🤢
Not a microwave dinner at all. These are way healthier.
@@supersanic1254 no
It’s not delivery it’s actually digiorno
@@supersanic1254 lol
I used to work for Papa Johns and trust me when I say the Italian Seasoning is absolutely awful. Whoever thought it was a good idea had a dirt palate.
They are far from Italian 😂
@@Nehauon John's not even an Itailian first name its Scottish lol
@@Kragith fr
What’s in it
@@facingthewind I don't know. It was so bad I never read the ingredients which were only on the box it came in. They didn't it available for purchase separately.
“Papa John’s new papa bowls are DISGUSTING”
ReviewBrah in the thumbnail: 😄
Seeing Brah's pleasant, smiling face and then reading the title gave me a good laugh.
Yes, it was quite comical, but I realize that he takes the pic before he tries it… maybe next time he’ll do an excited look & then a disgusted look. 😂
This is why I clicked on the video. The priceless reaction paired with "disgusting". I would have clicked anyway, but I clicked faster because of the face.
That's a grimace of pain after having to eat such a travesty
I work at papa johns. I hate making all the new bs they come out with. so thank you for this man! 🙏🙏
You can’t be making too many. People probably order one. Realize it’s a ripoff. Get pissed and never order at your store again
Should've studied harder bud.
@@whyisitsodifficultomakeahandle i make 35 an hour as a poker and blackjack dealer tf u mean??? 😂😂 I guess you should have.... because you obviously cant read...
"im pretending to feed you"
I hardly bust out laughing anymore, that part was gold
Me too!
I absolutely CACKLED at that! 🤣 LOVE this cat.
Bro I deadass did too 🤣 I shared the clip at 8:50 with friends 😂
Watching him is fascinating..like someone from 1922 is time traveling and eating food and commenting on it. When he’s not filming I imagine he’s back in time just working for the paper & running down stories.
If someone from 1922 ate our food today they’d immediately throw up
@@dbullets3664 I say that all of time!! And if we could go back to 1700 an apple would probably sustain you for 2-3 days
I was thinking the same thing..or he reincarnated in the wrong time lol He is definitely from another era. It’s wonderful.
I imagine that a young T.S. Eliot carried himself like this
@@kelleymcclain7380 you've been remanded to biology class after that second comment.
I worked at Papa John's until recently, and this is a terrible attempt to appeal to the keto crowd. If you had gotten the chicken alfredo one, the fact that it's mostly spinach which shrinks a lot when cooked, you'd also get to feel like you got ripped off because the height of the toppings coming out of the oven is less than 1/4 of the way up the bowl.
keto people should just live in a cave or on the streets to match the intelligence and life style of creatures who were on that type of diet.
I ate the chicken alfrado one I thought I should show them how to make chicken alfrado they are not good.🤮
It's just... lame. Surely there has to be a better way to come up with a "keto style" product that wouldn't just look like they scraped the top off a pizza into a bowl.
@@drb4074 they could have made a pizza with cauliflower as the base. I used to make my own pizza when I was craving pizza on keto. If they wanted health conscious Keto type of pizza cauliflower base, cheese, meats, and research what else could go.
Or a build your own pizza with a cauliflower base.
@@luckysister2 the crazy thing is that even the meat and cheese ingredients at these pizza places contain horrible filler ingredients. Cheese is full of potato starch, the meats have like dextrose and starch fillers. Almost all of it is cheapened with processed carbohydrates. I work at Dominos and i was like why the hell does the pepperoni have corn syrup lmao. The sauce is sugar too. The wings are coated. Its all bad mannn.
It looks like they made a couple slices of pizza and took off the toppings and sewed them together
A discerning palate, polite review,
excellent delivery.
The man has my respect. 🤘
I unapologetically open my mouth when he goes in to feed me a portion of the meal.
I actually happen to work at a Papa John's. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about when you say it smells really strong. At the location I work at, at least, we take the bowl out of the oven and then cover it with Italian seasoning before packaging it up. And let me tell you. The smell alone is enough to turn me off from trying the bowls out entirely. It legit feels like I'm gonna get a nose bleed with how strong the smell of Italian seasoning is. We don't even put that much on them either. We only put like 3 or 4 shakes in.
There’s something in the seasoning
thank you. I was so puzzled on what tf that smell was. I KNOW it isnt the seasoning. they gotta be putting som in with the cheese.
I have not smelled this, but I’m picturing that pungent “tinned tomatoes” scent that low quality tomato sauce has. Is it like a weird metallic smell? Mixed with the Italian seasoning? Lol.
@@Minnevan Probably crack. Lol
@@Mink_Tracks Unlikely. Our cheese is literally just grease that will give you diarrhea. Lol
05:28 right after he says "the papa bowl" he makes this uncertain little "um" that sounds like he's trying so hard to think of something nice to say and it kills me lmao
"it is what it is"
It was more important to you to warn us not to eat this, than to keep your conclusion secret to the end, so you spoiled it in the title. And I respect that. Thanks for looking out for us, Review Brah.
When he called it a plastic feeding dish 🤣💀
It was foreshadowing lol
A feeding dish for the animals we are
Had to discern the dish is indeed a Feeding Dish
Haha a human trough
When he said he felt bad for the ingredients ☠
Looks like they just took yesterday's leftovers in some boxes and sold it. Something Mr Krabs would pull.
I also believe the eating portions are important. Really shows that first reaction.
Just say you never worked with food
@@SuperSallySteak I mean I have, it does have a piece meal quality to it.
Mr Krabs literally sold grease, so not far off.
5:21 I'll tell you what happened. They wanted a way to use the scraps that fall off when making a regular pizza and they call it a meal. Like how Wendys throws old burger meat into the chili. 😂🤢🍕
This 'pizza bowl' broke all 3 of the rules for making sure you don't eat anything that's expired.
1. If it looks weird
2. If it smells weird
3. If it tastes weird
DON'T EAT IT!
Unless you want to wake up in a Chubbyemu episode.
@@chickenlover657 RW ate a Papa John's Pizza Bowl, this is what happened to his brain.
@@creepysplays5481 😆😆😆
Yeah but I’m a risk taker! 😂
Tell that to Steve from the mre reviews channel lmao
“My disappointment is immeasurable…. And my day is ruined….” I waited forever for it
The silver lining is that Reviewbrah decided against using his own clean plate for this disaster of a meal.
No sense in bringing dish washing into this food calamity.
This looks like some middle manager was trying to pitch the ceo on how to cut food costs and said: “imagine this! You know how our teenage employees making the pizza keep dropping toppings on the floor? What if we scoop all those up but instead of throwing them out we resell them, we’ll put them in a bowl, add some sauce and bake it. Well make money off our waste and can market it as healthy low carb lifestyle.”
Literally picturing George Costanza saying this and Steinbrenner going George you might be on to something!
Either that or some kids got really high and we’re like dude! What if we just ate the topping all mixed together. That sounds radical
Now that I've tuned in, I find myself unable to stop watching this guy. He's a time traveler from the late 40's to early 50's trying to adjust to our modern day junk food fare of highly processed 'stuff' we call fast food. The look in his eyes as he... regards?... some of the items he's just taken a first bite of is priceless.
He's impeccable in his presentation. Keep on keepin' on, brah. We'll keep watchin'!
This is such a good evaluation of the channel
Lol...he's had this channel since he was a teen. No such thing as a time traveler man
I'm guled too. Not sure why
He’s the perfect different we need. Society, let’s follow.
Its like listening to a cross between Barry Krypke and Sheldon Cooper
8 years later and I still cand tell if this guy is really like this or just a character.
The good ol days of energy drink reviews haha
he's really like this
Reviewbrah is just simply the goat
i mean there's certain things he does in reviews for entertainment purposes but the overall character is his actual personality
It's the tism. It's real.
That is one of the grossest looking fast food bowls I've ever seen. This man is a champion for taking this on so that we don't have to. Where is the Nobel prize committee? Reviewbrah deserves the prize!
It's just pizza toppings without a crust. Lol. No big thing.
No, Larry from the WolfePit is the champion. But ReviewBrah is a close second.
the "on to the next we go" lol
he is getting better lol
@@tenebrae23 That might be what it is in theory, but I've never seen pizza toppings that look that disgusting. His description of it reminding him of what they'd serve at a pig trough was on point.
@@TheBlightMonkey them dollar tree videos 👌
Crustless pizza wasn't enough. They had to go for pizzaless pizza.
Thank you for always protecting us from disgusting food.
😂
I love the juxtaposition of the plastic utensils and the paper napkins with the beautiful glass and your proper eating habits. Also yes what gets me with all modern pizza chains is how salty everything is! And how sweet the sauce is.
"I cannot find any justifiable reason for eating this" LOL so brutal 🤣! Love your honest reviews, keep up the great work :)
@donaldcarr 26 yeah I don't think this is meant for any diet. If you're doing low carb and care about your diet, you certainly shouldn't be eating a bowl of cheese and pepperoni from Papa Johns 😂
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405 Sometimes you just want something familiar and greasy and if you can have it without the carbs, why not? Allowing yourself the occasional cheat meal in order to reward yourself and stick to your diet works for some people, sadly with keto cheating with carbs and getting back into ketosis makes it harder
@@Discostick55 im just a major negative component of the Keto diet. It was developed to help control epilepsy in children and focuses on consuming a lot of saturated fats, while staying away from nutrient dense foods. Just from years of personal research and my parents being in the dietician field I have a pretty negative view point on fad diets that are just monopolized by celebrities and "doctors".
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405 Um, it's more meats than that!
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405 years of research 🙄🤥. Probably just watched that Adam Ragusea video on RUclips.
That's not food, that's rock bottom in a bowl.
It legit just looks like a cheap microwave dinner, there’s no way they should be able to sell that at a restaurant even a low tier one like Papa John’s
I'm just imaging the shocked look on the Papa Johns employee's faces when someone actually orders this.
I work at papa John’s and ur so right. Every time I make one my soul dies a little. But at least its not the mf football pizza or the shaqaroni
@@bowie3713 What was wrong with shaqaroni?
@@Sorrowduskit’s just evil to make it tastes good
@@bowie3713 the shaq was terrible to make, and so are the NY16 peps and double peps. Bad news tho, my DO told me the pep stuffed's are permanent :( I don't mind the bowls tho, since you can make them just as fast as any other pizza, and there's no prep. The trays you gotta put them in are a royal pain in the *ss tho
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This my absolute favorite one he has ever done. It really won me over when he pretended to feed the audience.
reviewbrah should do asmr 😏
Might be kinda interesting to scoop this stuff onto a roll or bread of your choice and eat it like some kind of dip
At that point just buy a pizza lol
@@Thund3rDrag0n12 tru 😂
I remember seeing a commercial for this, they actually made it look quite delicious. All of the stretchy melty cheese, not greasy what so ever, but man seeing the actual product looks vile.
A lot of the food shown in commercials is just props, not actual food. Or the company takes extra, extra care to make sure the commercial food looks good, including misting the food and using complementary lighting and camera angles.
Chain pizza cheese is never stretchy, but they always misrepresent it in their ads.
@@ericjohnson6120 I can understand the need for certain things like ice cream or other foods that just can't survive the hot lights or the potentially long time it takes to get the perfect advertiser shots, but the rest it's just unacceptable and honestly makes me just believe that the product will look like shit since they don't have the confidence to show off the real deal. People know what they're getting when they're buying fast food. They're not going to be put off by a real looking pizza or burger or what have you. Except maybe in this case.
@@ggregd I've had cheese stretch from dominos quite a bit.
i got the commercial for this while he was doing the review.
I love how when Reviewbrah was showing off the bowl, you could see the cheese, meat, and grease sliding across the bowl. Not exactly appetizing.
It seems like the sort of thing a bachelor would "cook" - just throw some meat and cheese in a bowl and melt it in the microwave.
As an occasionally lazy bachelor, can confirm. Some days I take an hour on prep to make a fine meal, other days I just throw some veggies, meat, and cheese in the oven.
I resemble that remark
That or someone baked out of their gourd 😄🤣😄🤣
Had a buddy who used to cook 2lbs of red meat and toss in a whole pack of cheese and eat that nearly every day of the week. He lost 90 pounds.
yup same as soy sauce rice hamburger meat go
If it’s in a plastic bowl it was probably cooked in a microwave which changes the texture and moisture level . Very different than cooking a pizza in a hot pizza oven.
I love how formal he is about reviewing this. Wearing a suit, hair pulled back, analyzing Papa John's doughless pizza.
Watching Reviewbrah politely describing foul food is a temporary relief for my depression, thank you brother !
Same here, wish it was permanent
cringe
yep..... I love his neg-o reviews.... I hope it does not ruin his day though
Been there myself a few times; getting back to a good exercise routine and Lexapro helped me a lot.
@@elainew2230 nah ^^
I’ve noticed a lot of fast food places are doing this thing where they don’t actually try to bring anything new in, they just try to throw something together with the product they already have and call it a new thing. Sonic does this all the time and has been doing it for years but now everyone else seems to be following along
Taco bell literally made a brand off this philosophy. Very very true.
Literally every corp chain restaurant does this and has for a long time.
@@dugsbunnyog3544 Doesn't make it right.
I wish sonic would bring back the broccoli tater tots those were actually pretty good
McDonald’s especially 😅!
It truly looks revolting. I apologize on behalf of the Industrial Revolution for creating this man made horror
Honestly, I could see parts of this working. Fried mozzarella is good. Mozzarella with crispy pepperoni in it is good, if the pepperoni has been cooked and drained of oil - something they obviously failed to do. Same thing for roasted or grilled vegetables. And a little tomato sauce isn’t such a bad thing either. But the disgusting slop they gave you was not a beautiful dish of good ingredients which come together. It was a frozen microwave mess with no texture and no joy. Thank you for the warning.
you should never eat pork it is bad for you
I've been low carb for years and regularly make pizza casseroles. Taste amazing!
On board with this comment!
The amazing thing is that the corporation surely studied this idea, feeding it to various test groups to get their opinions of the product....and still gave the go-ahead.
You'd be surprised.
They've never seemed to care about the taste of their other food. Easily the worst large chain pizza.
It's really easy to go thru that process while someone has already decided to greenlight a product which results in the process only being used to confirm positives while not actually providing legit feedback.
It's for people who are on low carb/keto diets...
I worked at a test store and I was sure this wouldn’t make it to market, nobody liked it
"I would describe it as an odor opposed to ascent" the shade he throws is pretty classy
not "ascent", he was saying its an odor and not "a scent" lol
@@spimbles i believe they just missed a space, rather easy to do
@@OkieDokieSmokie maybe so. the correction i gave is necessary nonetheless
If this would have been turned into a deep dish bowl or something, it might have worked out.
They should have cooked it proper. Deep dish it already is. Its a casserole. Of course its deep dish. But frozen. Casserole pizza is actually very popular in Italy. This? This is NOTHING like a casserole pizza. Its an epic fail take on Italian style casserole pizza. Frozen NOT fresh sloppy casserole.
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Maybe freshly baked with something to dip with i.e. chips, bread sticks or crostini.
"They took the sauce, and the toppings, and they dumped it into a plastic bowl, and that's... what it is..." Exactly my thought process as he was describing it and I love that it came to fruition fuck papa johns lol.
My manager at Domino's did this 8 years ago. It, too, was nasty. The crust is definitely a big part of what makes a pizza great.
Plus, the dough absorbs some of the oil and liquid from the veggies. So the veggies get a little firmer under the heat. You can always dab some of the grease from the surface, but guiltily, I like oil on the surface too - a bit. I tend to prefer mine cooled for about ten minutes, so it's firmer than when still hot. Seems that's the only thing they got right.
So Papa John's is selling microwave meals now?
Funny af 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think this may be a step below most microwave meals honestly. This looks vile
Microwaved cheese and tomato sauce basically
Not even brutalfoods would eat this, even with all the marinara sauce in the world
As soon as he pulled it out of the box all I felt was sadness.
The input from Papa John’s employees is gold.
When I first seen it advertised, I assumed it was a pasta bowl like domino's without reading. the best thing about this channel is that there's no sponsors. nothing but raw honesty.
Lol I was upset when I saw there was no pasta
It really sounds like a disaster, a pasta based bowl would have done much better imo
I really think Papa John’s saw Domino’s dipping sauces and thought “HA we can do even better, let’s make it the ENTIRE MEAL”. But the point of the dipping “sauce”, even if it was just pizza toppings, is that it was a small portion meant to be served with breadsticks.
*I'd first seen it/I first saw it
He could do with some sponsors and actually make money.
Dude has been grinding for a hot minute and has had no controversies or complaints. One of the most respected channels out there and I salute you good sir. Keep that hustle and hard work mentality!
hes also put up with more ad hominem attacks and other insults for no apparent reason, than most. He doesnt let those people affect his grind which is beyond admirable considering he continues to put out this content for those very people who insult him.
Also with no bs ads or changes to his channel.
Could you imagine him beefing with RUclipsrs and starting drama😂😂😂lowkey wouldn’t mind it but he’s fine how he is, I salute him as well.
Sounds like a keto dish went wrong
its a good idea but when you're a pizza place and you just dump all the toppings into a bowl it kind of undermines the entire purpose of the business lmao XD
There is a way to do a bowl like properly. But you have to have people with at least a SLIGHT passion for preparing food in order to make food appetizing to look at the very least. Gordon ramsey would have launched this at a human being.
I'm sure that was the intent