Papa John's Jack-O'-Lantern Pizza

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Overview

Papa John's Jack-O'-Lantern Pizza is a promotional pumpkin-shaped pizza made by the Papa John's chain of pizza restaurants.

Background

In October 2018, Papa John's announced that they would selling a promotional pizza that is designed to resemble a jack-o'-lantern (promotion below).^[1]

THIN CRUST $1PEPPERONI JACK-O-LANTERN PIZZA

Developments

Online Reaction

On October 14th, 2018, Redditor ^[2] Robotshavenohearts shared a side-by-side photograph of the promotional photo and a real pizza in the /r/ExpectationvsReality subreddit. The post received 4,900 points (96% upvoted) and 150 comments in a little over one year (shown below).

On October 16th, 2019, ReviewBrah reviewed the pizza on his YouTube channel. The post received more than 200,000 views in less than one month (shown below).

In 2019, people began responding to Papa John's tweets about the pizza, complaining that these pizzas do not resemble the advertisements (examples below, left and center).

Papa John's responded to the criticism in some cases. On October 27th, they wrote to Twitter user @Sasha_Christenx, "Well, the pumpkin is in the eye of the beholder. But the pizza is delicious" (shown below, right).^[3]

Papa John's Pizza The Jack-O-Lantern pizza is back. It's a lot like a normal Jack-O Lantern, except you're the one with lights in your eyes for just 11 bucks @PapaJohns Oct 27 Grab one PAPA JOHN GET YOUR CLAWS ON THIS PIZZA II JACK-OLANTER 76 21 t 27 Elizabeth M Hinrichs @ElizabethMHinr Replying to @PapaJohns Thought this was a neat idea, but i guess its the thought that counts 8:45 AM Oct 27, 2019 Twitter for Android

@PapaJohns Oct 27 Papa John's Pizza The Jack-O'-Lantern pizza is back. It's a lot like a normal Jack-0 Lantern, except you're the one with lights in your eyes. for just 11 bucks. AJOH Grab one ELAND rSTION AY TY Wp H o us owY PAPA JOHNS GET YOUR CLAWS ON THIS JACK-0-LANTERH PIZZA II t 27 21 76 Jessica @thefirstjess Replying to @PapaJohns Kids were pretty disappointed by whatever this is supposed to be... 2:18 PM Oct 27, 2019 Twitter for Android Garlic

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External References

^[1] The Takeout – Papa John’s jack-o’-lantern pizza kinda looks like the Wu-Tang Symbol

^[2] Reddit – /r/ExpectationVsReality

^[3] Twitter – @PapaJohns's Tweet

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Top Comments

Dogman15

Nov 02, 2019 at 12:21AM EDT

You can't expect every makeline worker at every store to consistently and perfectly place the toppings like in the advertisement.

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Dogman15

Nov 02, 2019 at 05:45PM EDT in reply to Sai

Oh, and another thing! Very often toppings can shift around in the oven! You might place the toppings perfectly on the makeline, but all that heat can cause the cheese to upset the toppings and they go sliding around, or maybe air bubbles push things out of the way. And when it comes out of the oven, why bother using tongs to fix things and put the toppings in their original spot? That just wastes time.

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