Here’s the blueprint: a large 14-inch hand-tossed crust topped so high with mounds of sausage, cheese and sauce that you’ll have to take my word about the crust.

Total calories: 410 (per slice). Fat grams: 21. Sodium: 970 mg. Dietary fiber: 2 g. Carbs: 38 g. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price: $10.

If you’re keeping score at home, the five sausages are pork sausage, spicy Italian sausage, mild Italian sausage, smoked sausage and spicy chorizo. What, no bratwurst, knockwurst or liverwurst? That’s the worst!

Last year, Papa John’s unleashed its Sausage Sensations Pizza, which had a mere three types of sausage: spicy Italian, sweet and smoked sausages. Pikers. The newbies on the Five Sausage Pizza are mild Italian sausage and spicy chorizo, a Spanish-style sausage with a kick.

Papa John’s has a slogan, “Better Ingredients, Better Pizza,” and they’re not just blowing smoke. The meats used in Papa John’s pizza are the real deal, with no textured vegetable protein and no fillers. So you’re getting a lot of meat on this pie. Some of the sausage pieces are so big, they tumble off the pizza when you lift your slice out of the box. Those dropouts … they’re mine.

The rest of the pie is top-drawer, too. The mozzarella is 100 percent real cheese — none of that “processed cheese food product” silliness. The dough is delivered fresh, never frozen, to each store. The sauce is made from vine-ripened California tomatoes that are processed and canned within six hours of picking. Papa John’s does not use concentrated tomato paste.

And here’s the cherry on top: Usually when a pizza chain introduces a new specialty pizza, you can expect to pay an extra buck or two. Not the with the Five Sausage Pizza. It’s only $10 — a buck cheaper than a regular large pizza.

Better Ingredients, Better Pizza, Lesser Price … that should be the Five Sausage slogan.

Take notice of the nutritionals — this is a heavy-duty pizza that’s no dieter’s delight. Each slice has 410 calories and 21 fat grams. That’s a ton. If you eat four slices, which is my recommended daily requirement of pizza, that’s 1,640 calories and 80-plus grams of fat. Whoa! Even three slices are crazy numbers. Show some restraint for once in your life.

Now, of course, the bottom line is … are you a sausage-pizza person? If you are, this is right in your wheelhouse. It’s loaded with meaty sausage; you won’t find a cheese-only bite. And do you like a mix of sausages? If you’re a spicy-Italian fan, you’d be better off with a straight spicy-Italian-sausage pizza, with extra sausage even.

Variety is not the spice of life for everybody. When I order this next time, I’m asking them to leave off the chorizo and double up on the mild Italian. You can mix and match to your little heart’s content. Papa John is there to serve.

(c) 2012 by King Features Syndicate.