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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.

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:

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

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