Pizza Hut has upped the ante in the Middle East with its "Crown Crust Carnival." The pizza has customers' choice of miniature cheeseburgers or fried chicken filets serving as "crust."
Stuffed-crust pizza with just cheese? That's practically health food, compared to the latest mega-calorie additions to Pizza Hut's overseas menus.
On the heels of a hot-dog stuffed crust pizza in the UK, Pizza Hut has upped the ante in the Middle East with its "Crown Crust Carnival." The pizza has customers' choice of miniature cheeseburgers or fried chicken filets serving as "crust."
Serious Eats blog A Hamburger Today has detailed screenshots of the cheeseburger pizza.
Eater points out the recipe of each pizza, designed to complement the unconventional crusts:
"...The toppings on the main part of the pizza are themed with the crust — so burger toppings on the cheeseburger crust, complete with special sauce, and barbecue sauce and green peppers on the chicken one."
Huffington Post's tongue-in-cheek reaction: "American pizza clearly isn't what it used to be."
"...Because if our country is no longer known as the kind of country that unnecessarily combines two unhealthy food items to make one ultimate food item (we're looking at you, KFC Double Down), then what do we have left? Our gluttony has been surpassed. We demand bizarre and totally unnecessary pizza crusts in the U.S. as well!"
As for the hot-dog pizza, Guardian writer Oliver Thring tasted it in Britain and pronounced it "delicious."
"It was a hot dog sausage. It was rubbery and processed and salty and smoky. How, in its own filthy way, could it be anything other than delicious? I peeled back its pappy cladding and gazed in conflicted seduction. I finished it. I had another slice. I put the box away. I came back a few minutes later and had another slice. I put the box in the bin."
America's holding up its end of the bizarre fast food phenomenon, though, with Doritos Locos Tacos, Burger King's bacon sundae (currently in the testing phase in Nashville, Tenn.) and the infamous KFC Double Down, now in its third year of passing off fried chicken breasts as bread.
But then again, Japan gets credit for the Burger King Whopper with 1,050 slices of bacon.