Having worked in one, it's because they understaff and have absolutely terrible makeline flow. The obsession with having every topping means you end up with old shit that people forget to rotate, or a fuckton of cross contamination between toppings.
Make your own at home, just use an olive oil base with dollops of tomato paste as a topping (under your cheese). Dough is easy as hell, just water, flour, salt, oil, sugar, and yeast. Mix until it's a bit sticky and proof for an hour or so. Follow a recipe the first time, but try slightly different amounts of water, flour, and oil every time you make it. Eventually you'll find a combo that works really well for you.
does papa johns have way more toppings than other places or something? Because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me. I've eaten there like 5 times, starting in 2007 and I remember every single time it was the most uniquely disgusting fucking rotten garbage I've ever tasted. It was actually impressive how fucking thoroughly fetid every single ingredient and layer of the pizza was, like that actually takes effort
Sounds like you just got really unlucky, I'd usually describe PJ pizza as sickly sweet or soggy. Fetid sounds more like a problem with the store just being gross/not rotating the line enough
And Papa John's still manages to outrank the rest in producing fetid, rotten smelling pizza
Having worked in one, it's because they understaff and have absolutely terrible makeline flow. The obsession with having every topping means you end up with old shit that people forget to rotate, or a fuckton of cross contamination between toppings.
Make your own at home, just use an olive oil base with dollops of tomato paste as a topping (under your cheese). Dough is easy as hell, just water, flour, salt, oil, sugar, and yeast. Mix until it's a bit sticky and proof for an hour or so. Follow a recipe the first time, but try slightly different amounts of water, flour, and oil every time you make it. Eventually you'll find a combo that works really well for you.
yeah I've been making pizza for a while
does papa johns have way more toppings than other places or something? Because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me. I've eaten there like 5 times, starting in 2007 and I remember every single time it was the most uniquely disgusting fucking rotten garbage I've ever tasted. It was actually impressive how fucking thoroughly fetid every single ingredient and layer of the pizza was, like that actually takes effort
Sounds like you just got really unlucky, I'd usually describe PJ pizza as sickly sweet or soggy. Fetid sounds more like a problem with the store just being gross/not rotating the line enough
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