Key Takeaways
- Papa Johns is adding a new kind of extra-cheesy pizza to its menu for a limited time.
- The new type of crust, available on pizzas and cheesesticks, takes a different kind of spin on a cheesy upgrade.
Pizza has saved many evenings from being a bust. No time to cook dinner? Order a pizza. A new recipe turned out to be an utter failure? Order a pizza. You don’t want to dirty up the kitchen? Order a pizza (and use paper plates). It’s raining, and you end up with all the neighborhood kids in your house? Order several pizzas.
The simple combination of baked dough topped with cheese and sauce is often all that’s needed, but there are many ways to take a pie to the next level. Toppings like pepperoni, onions, mushrooms, pineapple, and many, many others can add to a pizza’s appeal. The cheese, while traditionally mozzarella, gets switched up often, too.
But sometimes, the cheese does more than top the pizza. Sometimes, it’s in the pizza crust. Stuffed crust pizza came into our lives when Pizza Hut added the item to its menus in 1995 (although a New York man named Anthony Mongiello has some claims to its invention). Other pizza chains have followed suit over time, including Domino’s earlier this year.
Those stuffed crust pizzas add melty cheese right into the outer edge of the pizza, but now Papa Johns is adding cheese to pizza crust in another way, and we can’t wait to try it.
Papa Johns New Cheddar Crust Pizza and Cheddar Cheesesticks
For a limited time, Papa Johns is baking aged Cheddar cheese and a garlic and herb seasoning blend right on top of its fresh, never frozen dough. You can choose the Cheddar crust—available on the large pizza size only—and then choose the sauce, cheese, and toppings of your choice.
The cheesy mix of Cheddar and the garlic and herb seasoning is also showing up on Cheddar Cheesticks. In this case, the Cheddary combo is melted on top of pizza dough brushed with garlic sauce, served with Papa Johns’ original pizza dipping sauce.
Both new items are available at Papa Johns now, for a limited time, whenever you’re too busy to make dinner, don’t want to dirty up the kitchen, need to feed a crowd, or you’re simply craving cheesy pizza.
