Papa John’s used to be known for making medium-good pizza pies, but the company inadvertently found itself in the middle of an extra-large shitshow last year when CEO John Schnatter—Papa John himself—suggested that the NFL protests were hurting sales because of Papa John’s status as the “official pizza of the NFL.” …
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Yesterday, noted conservative thought leader and renowned inventor of garlic butter dipping sauce John Schnatter said that the NFL’s ongoing inability to stop its players from kneeling during the national anthem is hurting his company’s sales of shitty pizzas. By making this brave, nonsensical stance, Schnatter…
Speaking from experience, I can say that there are essentially two modes of fast food work: overwhelming and boring. The grease is either loudly spitting up around your ears, or an eerie, ephemeral hum is spilling from discarded headsets. That dichotomy inevitably causes those moments of quiet to serve as a release of…
Andrew W.K.’s love for pizza runs deep. He’s given motivational speeches about his love of it, and he was the headlining guest for Chicago’s inaugural Pizza Summit. He even owns a pizza guitar. In the video above, we get the pizza obsessive to reveal his top five favorite pizza toppings.
In what looks like the work of that nefarious Noid, a tractor trailer spilled a lifetime’s worth of Tombstone frozen pizza across the I-30 freeway after crashing into an overpass in Arkansas yesterday. No one was injured, but the pizzas blanketed a vast swath of the highway, causing massive delays and robust hunger…
Here’s the thing about dips: If there is one, and no one is around to judge us, we will dip anything into it. Hey, if it makes bread taste better, it will surely do the same for everything else on your plate, be it veggies, steak, or cake. Is there a food that’s not enhanced by ranch? Or Papa John’s garlic dipping…
Here at The A.V. Club, we’ve learned to no longer mock the monster mash-ups of disparate foods that our dear readers love clicking about so much. Sushi croissant? Tacos with fried chicken shell? Bring it on. Where once our knee-jerk reaction was feigned horror, now, the burden of proof is to convince us this monster…
Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-Canadian restauranteur who spurred a worldwide phenomenon by deciding to add pineapples to pizza, has died. Panopoulos, credited as the inventor of the Hawaiian pizza, died suddenly at a hospital in London, Ontario last Thursday, family members said. He was 83.
Apple’s post-Steve Jobs output hasn’t been extremely exciting, unless you’re one of the people convincing themselves they actually like their Apple Watch, but that might be because the company has been hoarding its truly great innovations for its own employees. Today, Wired posted a glimpse into Apple’s new campus, a…
In a perfect display of lilies being gilded, a Portland, Oregon pizzeria has decided to serve up a pizza containing 101 varieties of cheese. The owners of Scottie’s Pizza Parlor said that they were inspired by the Novantanove Formaggio, a 99-cheese pizza depicted in the 2014 remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Lost somewhere in the middle of the never-ending New York-Chicago pizza debate is the Sicilian-style pie. Its airy crust is far thicker than the typical flatbread-like New York pie, but it’s not quite as thick as Chicago’s traditional deep dish and lacks that pie’s towering walls of crust. Sicilian lands somewhere in…
No longer content with the power owed him as the sovereign lord of Flavortown, royal bearer of the Frosted Tips, Guy Fieri has been outed by those in the know as a dark wizard and secret Illuminati king. And in case the intersection between food and wizard-based conspiracy theories didn’t tip you off immediately, he’s…
There’s fake news, and then there’s inventing conspiracy theories saying that the Clinton campaign is at the center of a child sex-trafficking ring run out of a suburban D.C. pizza shop. That latter outrageous fiction is known as “Pizzagate,” and today, months after a 28-year-old North Carolina man opened fire inside…
For its latest cover story, Bloomberg Businessweek digs into the thriving business model of the once-maligned Domino’s Pizza. And for those who don’t subscribe to the print magazine, Bloomberg created a super-sleek online presentation of its Domino’s story. Much like the franchise itself, the online article is full of…
Nobody likes a clingy friend who constantly has to check in to see what you’re doing, especially if that clingy friend is Papa John Schnatter—or at least the Papa John’s pizza chain he started. According to TMZ, a man named Jonathan Anozie actually got so many texts from his local Papa John’s that he’s suing the…
In a turn of events everyone could have possibly foreseen, Domino’s Japan is no longer training reindeer to deliver pizzas in Japan for Christmas.
Here’s a good way to show your child there’s no Santa Claus: take them to the city of Ishikari in northern Japan, where, on the grounds of a driving school, reindeer are being trained not to deliver presents, but pizzas. Sure, there’s no Santa in sight, but there’s plenty of pizza!
If watching your favorite (or least favorite) presidential candidate’s face collapse into a viscous stew of tomatoes and cheese sounds appealing, Giordano’s has you covered. The Chicago-based deep dish pizza chain is decorating its signature deep dish pizza with artful spreads of grated parmesan cheese that resemble…
