Monday, August 13, 2007
Not Our Papa!
Case study on a disconnect: Papa John's claims to be recognized as America's best pizza chain. Waukegan has a PJ's. Monz likes pizza. Monz never goes there. So a week ago from last Sunday, the Food Editor (FE) drove to Waukegan for what must have been Lake County's longest takeout order. "Hmm," he said as he headed back home, open pizza box on the front seat. "This is a good crust. These veggies are fresh. But something is wrong...off somehow..." and then, at the red light on Martin Luther King Drive and US 41, he saw it. A garlic sauce/spread/something on the side. It was the sauce: it was sweet, not appealingly unsalty, without any bite to it. A-ha! he thought. That's why there was a special line of pizzas that had "robusto" sauce! But that's no matter -- the regular line should be robust-o enough, and gas is too pricey to turn back. Thus, the FE reports that he cannot recommend Papa John's to Monz for a yummy lunch. Monz apparently knew this, as lunch was Amy's Indian Mattar tofu, an apple, grapes and flax bread.
Case study on a disconnect: Papa John's claims to be recognized as America's best pizza chain. Waukegan has a PJ's. Monz likes pizza. Monz never goes there. So a week ago from last Sunday, the Food Editor (FE) drove to Waukegan for what must have been Lake County's longest takeout order. "Hmm," he said as he headed back home, open pizza box on the front seat. "This is a good crust. These veggies are fresh. But something is wrong...off somehow..." and then, at the red light on Martin Luther King Drive and US 41, he saw it. A garlic sauce/spread/something on the side. It was the sauce: it was sweet, not appealingly unsalty, without any bite to it. A-ha! he thought. That's why there was a special line of pizzas that had "robusto" sauce! But that's no matter -- the regular line should be robust-o enough, and gas is too pricey to turn back. Thus, the FE reports that he cannot recommend Papa John's to Monz for a yummy lunch. Monz apparently knew this, as lunch was Amy's Indian Mattar tofu, an apple, grapes and flax bread.
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