@RickiTarr And do we really wanna know?

@RickiTarr I was a waitress in the late 90s for a pizza restaurant that billed itself as “natural.” It was a meaningless and unregulated term but it managed to convince people for a time that Chicago style pizza was some kind of health food 😂

@RickiTarr @CCRuns most likely as opposed to frozen or canned ingredients. Doesn’t help much when they’re all purchasing from the same food distributor though.

@RickiTarr Kettle Chips still brag about being "made with real food ingredients" as opposed to "mixed from a batch of inedible materials" or "conjured from arcane creation-sludge" 😂

@RickiTarr If you remember a certain pizza joint in Joliet IL, then you know.

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I still want to know (or do I!?) what's going on with Subway's non-tuna "tuna" (described as a "mixture of various concoctions").

@RickiTarr They were actually using real ingredients. When they started advertising it is when they all went to artificial mass-produced garbage. 😃

@RickiTarr In a place I used to work the photographers/stylists had a big sign on their stuff in the fridge: DO NOT EAT, THIS ISN’T REAL FOOD. And good thing they called that out cause it looked delicious

@RickiTarr I think that's the genius of Papa John's marketing; Plausible deniability on all past ingredients. "Our ingredients are better". Better than what? Exactly.

@RickiTarr You don't wanna know.

@RickiTarr Fake meat, probably. The irony is they charge extra for that now.

@RickiTarr cardboard and plastic foods from the easybake oven leftover sets.

@RickiTarr About 95% certain it's just an absence claim. Or we were all eating asbestos.

@RickiTarr it's like the restaurants that advertise "home cooking". Oh? So what are those guys doing behind those doors?

@RickiTarr Before that they didn't realize they could subtly manipulate people into thinking their competitors used fake ingredients.

@RickiTarr I don’t know but chain restaurant Pizza was way better 20 years ago with the fake stuff

@RickiTarr Inorganic chemistry, it seems.

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Putting the "i" in pizza.

@RickiTarr All those times you got the wrong toppings, you were mistaken. The correct toppings were used but they were imaginary.

@RickiTarr it's an old advertising trick. Everyone was using real ingredients but since Papa John's was the only one actually saying it, people assumed that they were the only ones doing it. A brewery did the same thing a while ago by claiming that they sterilize their bottles. Well so did everyone but they were the only ones to actually say it.

@RickiTarr It was the Reagan era. Ketchup was a vegetable!

@RickiTarr @leeolds Here’s your pizza! It contains 4 kinds of things.