Papa John's Gives Extremely Belated Middle Finger to Neo-Nazis

Their "pizza" recipe, however, will remain unchanged.

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When you're tasked with ordering pizza, Papa John's isn't high on the list of possibilities. At best, it hovers somewhere around last place, at least one notch below eschewing ordering altogether and actually going to the store for a frozen disc of palm oil and dextrose and other savory ingredients.

Perhaps in an attempt to ingest food that's as disgusting as they are pathetic, neo-Nazis embraced Papa John's as their "official pizza" following CEO John Schnatter's blaming of shitty sales on the ongoing NFL protests. In a statement to the Courier-Journal last week that conveniently avoided mentioning where they get off calling non-pizza "pizza," the company's senior of PR said they condemn "racism" and "any and all hate groups that support it."

The tweets below, however, mark the first time the company has expressly used the word "neo-Nazis." I would assume it also marks the first time @PapaJohns has tweeted the middle finger.

The statements made on our earnings call were describing the factors that impact our business and we sincerely apologize to anyone that thought they were divisive. That definitely was not our intention. (1/3)

— Papa Johns 🍕 (@PapaJohns) November 15, 2017

We believe in the right to protest inequality and support the players’ movement to create a new platform for change. We also believe together, as Americans, we should honor our anthem. There is a way to do both. (2/3)

— Papa Johns 🍕 (@PapaJohns) November 15, 2017

We will work with the players and league to find a positive way forward. Open to ideas from all. Except neo-nazis — 🖕those guys. (3/3)

— Papa Johns 🍕 (@PapaJohns) November 15, 2017

Due to the perplexing delay of their outright public condemnation of neo-Nazis (and their clear misunderstanding of the NFL protests), all three tweets were met with a whole lot of this:

K. Still not buying your pizza bye!!! pic.twitter.com/jjzT2TzEu1

— Justin Jay, (Checkmark) (@_DubzyWubzy_) November 15, 2017

Or worded in a single tweet...

NFL players taking a knee didn't hurt our sales as much as us blaming NFL player for taking a knee did. Also, our mediocre pizza doesn't help our sales either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

— David Stehle (@davidstehle) November 15, 2017

Holy shit. A moment of lucidity from Y'all Queda's Pizza of Choice. Now if only you could fix that cardboard and ketchup atrocity you call "Pizza", your rampant wage theft, and hop in a time machine to actually support Obamacare that'd be great, #ADropInTheBucket#NeverForget

— Captain Cabbage (@CabbageCaptain) November 15, 2017

Pay your employees decent wages and fire your ceo.

— Genvieve Mullins (@VoxGenevieve) November 15, 2017

Two weeks later...

— Terrah (@imTerrah) November 15, 2017

pic.twitter.com/y0HEDsbuuT

— PartyNextFloor (@3rdRayle) November 15, 2017

You're drunk, go home Papa John! pic.twitter.com/GvrzrYfWQD

— GP ⭐⭐️ (@YumboYaks) November 2, 2017

Anyway, here's a photo of a presumably plastered Schnatter.

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