My food blogging days\u00a0may\u00a0be\u00a0well in my rear view mirror, but my bullshit meter is still on high alert.\u00a0 Today, while I was perusing Politico, I found this interesting tidbit<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently Papa John’s doesn’t like the fact that their douchebag owner\u00a0(you know, the clown on\u00a0all their commercials) is being portrayed as slobbering over Mitt Romney in the election.\u00a0 Which he was.\u00a0 I’m not going to get political, that\u00a0battle has been fought and this is a food website, and food bloggers are for the most part wise enough to leave politics out of the equation.\u00a0 Someone forgot to tell DB John that it is the prudent businessman who remains publically apolitical.<\/p>\n

This led to some bloggers claiming that DB John said he was going to raise prices on their crappy pies because of the outright tyranny of Obamacare.\u00a0 While this claim was false, it has been ignored that the real offense commited by Papa John’s pizza is that they suck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You know their stupid tagline, “Better Ingredients, Better Pizza”?\u00a0 It was challenged in court by another pizza company that shall remain nameless (rhymes with Schmizza Schmut) who also serves a sub-par pie.\u00a0 Seems like there was some doubt as to whether or not Papa John’s was actually using “better ingredients.”\u00a0 Turns out the green peppers and tomatoes they were using were pretty much the same garden-variety (pun intended) ingredients as everyone else.\u00a0 Their defense?\u00a0\u00a0 They\u00a0said that “better ingredients” was a claim of personal taste and not intended to be taken literally.\u00a0 Also known as…bullshit.<\/p>\n

Perhaps\u00a0rather than cracking down on food blogger folk (and believe me, the best\u00a0folk on earth are food blogger folk), Papa John should work on making a better pie and putting together a better marketing campaign.\u00a0 The owner is a tool, and\u00a0his gargantuan toolness\u00a0shines through the TV with stunning clarity.\u00a0 Why would anyone knowingly by a pizza from that clown?<\/p>\n

Now, if you will excuse me I’m going to crawl back into my hole…Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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