D’ough! (Picture: Twitter / @Ailsa Burn-Murdoch)

You’d think that one of the world’s biggest pizza chains would know a thing or two about pizza.

But the message that pizza dough has a nasty habit of expanding was apparently lost on one Papa John’s Pizza worker.

Edinburgh resident Ailsa Burn-Murdoch tweeted the above picture, taken this morning, from outside a Papa John’s in the city’s Crown Street, adding that the restaurant probably owed the person whose job it was to clear the mess up a year’s supply of pizza.

Came out of a meeting to find I’ve created a monster. Also I now want pizza. Odd day. #doughmonster @PapaJohnsUK — Ailsa Burn-Murdoch (@ailsabm) February 11, 2014

To its credit, the pizza chain tweeted back that it was investigating exactly what had happened.


@ailsabm Hi Alisa, thanks for letting us know about this. We're currently investigating this further directly with the store. — Papa John's UK (@PapaJohnsUK) February 11, 2014