Crop Circle Pizza Ad

Posted by Alex in Advertising, Food & Drinks on August 7, 2008 at 2:34 pm


Yep – that’s a giant crop-circle ad for Papa John’s Pizza (whole wheat crust pizza ad in a field of wheat? My, what a metonymy! Wait, or is it metaphor?). Anyways, here’s The Fire Wire blog has the story:

Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s a pizza?

That’s right, it’s a pizza. If you’re flying in or out of Denver International Airport, look out the window and you’ll see a pizza cut into a wheat field near West 128th Avenue and Pena Boulevard. The crop circle, designed by artist Stan Herd, is a promotional vehicle for Papa John’s Pizza.

The pizza’s “pepperoni” is made of cedar mulch, with cornstalks standing in for green pepper, black mulch for olives, and flattened wheat stalk for cheese. It will be completed in time for the convention and will remain in place until the first snowfall.

Link – Thanks Larry!


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8 comments to "Crop Circle Pizza Ad"

  1. soops
    August 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    How many cedar trees went into making the pepperoni 'mulch'...? For pizzas sake.

  2. Hoolagirl
    August 7th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    That's the most elaborate crop circle yet. Apparently, the aliens are hungry, and really want their Papa John's.

  3. JC
    August 7th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    I have seen a pretty similar ad from Maxim.

  4. SHelby
    August 7th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Too bad they left out the apostrophes in America's and John's. Strunk & White, anyone?

  5. PeteRepeat
    August 8th, 2008 at 7:33 am

    This is a fake! It was obviously not created by aliens: you can see where the tractor rolled in on the middle left of the image.

    I wonder what kind of pizza aliens would want.

  6. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 8th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Geez, soops. Treehugger much? I think mulch is usually a waste product. Nobody's going to cut down prime timber and mulch it. After taking the good wood and stuff, well, yeah... use the rest for mulch. And there's also fallen trees and whatnot.

    What would you rather they use? Plastic chips? At least now, the pizza is biodegradable.

  7. Mayor of Kentonville
    August 9th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    The invasion is a GO, I repeat, a GO

  8. Skipweasel
    August 11th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Yeah, well, the price of wheat having fallen to an all time low there's nothing much else to do with a field full of the useless stuff.


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