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Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:09 pm**

By TBO.com
Published: April 10, 2012
Updated: April 10, 2012 - 9:20 AM
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TAMPA --
We've become a bit desensitized with all the crazy food that has passed through the Florida State Fair of late, but this might be even a little too much for the bravest of eaters to swallow.

First it was flavored crusts, then crusts stuffed with cheese. Now Pizza Hut may be taking the stuffed-crust idea to a whole new low.

Hot dog-stuffed-crust pizzas.

This gastronomic offering appears on the delivery menus for Pizza Hut sites in the United Kingdom, with the description: "Succulent hot dog sausage bursting from our famous stuffed crust, with a FREE Mustard Drizzle."

Not that Pizza Hut customers across the pond have completely off-the-wall tastes: The British menu also offers more "standard" options such as Hawaiian, Steak Supreme and Veggie Sizzler (green chilies, jalapeños, mixed peppers and onions).

We have no problem with an occasional hot dog, and of course we're up for a good pizza any time - even breakfast. But the idea of both in the same bite just seems wrong.

Luckily, we can't be tempted to try it. Pizza Hut has yet to make this item available in the United States. But it may only be a matter of time.

Does this sound the least bit appetizing or will you pass?

Hell yeah. It would be the first time I've called Pizza Hut in years.

"Whole new low?" "Both in the same bite?" You do have a choice.

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:15 pm**

that...sounds...disgusting.

what is wrong with people?

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:25 pm**

I kinda want to try it.

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:35 pm**

Murrin wrote:I kinda want to try it.

let us know how it turns out...

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:59 pm**

Want to know what the best pizza is? Chicago Town Takeaway. The base, the cheese, the sauce, they're all just right.

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:38 pm**

now i want pizza for lunch - without hotdogs.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:16 pm**

If you can get chili as a topping, maybe I'd bite.

It doesn't sound good to me, but I'm not sure exactly why. It's just another kind of sausage. If it's good on the pizza, why not inside it? I'd try it once.

Chili dog pizza ... man, the more I think of that, the better it sounds. Cheddar cheese. Onions. Yum.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:51 pm**

OK, I admit I refrained from commenting because I'm with sarge on this. But, while I am not a chili dog fan either, I have to admit, Z's idea of a chili dog pizza with cheddar and onions is starting to call to me.

...must be chometz withdrawal due to Pesach observance.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:21 pm**

In Naples, Italy they'd made you wear a pair of concrete boots and send you a-swimming in the sea for that.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:35 pm**

i'd mix the cement

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:13 pm**

Yeah, the hot dog pizza...not so much.

But a chili cheese dog pizza...hmm. That has possibilities. Swap out hot-dog-type chili for the tomato sauce, top that with onions and shredded cheddar and -- uh, I think I just found the flaw. It's the hot dog.

Maybe a better grade of mild sausage instead.

Or you could do a Cincinnati cheese pizza, with the pizza crust in place of the spaghetti. Not sure how the beans would do in the oven, tho. Would they 'splode, or would toast up into nothingness? Hmm...

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:22 pm**

What!? Nobody likes pigs in a blanket? You eat a piece of pie, then you have a nice little pig in a blanket.

I think people are thinking of it as a hot dog pizza rather than a meat stuffed pizza crust.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:21 pm**

Nothing particularly against it, but I wouldn't order it. Do they still have the pizza there where in place of the hot dog they put cheese?

The chili dog pizza sounds interesting. I have a friend who owns a pizza pub, I might swing that idea past her and see if she'll make one. She is always looking for unusual pizza combinations to run as a special.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:21 pm**

Harbinger wrote:
I think people are thinking of it as a hot dog pizza rather than a meat stuffed pizza crust.

That does sound awesome. They should use that phrase in their advertising.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:50 pm**

I think it is the thought of a traditional oregano tomato sauce with the Mustard Drizzle that is the real trouble.

Change it to a more Sloppy Joe sauce, and you may have me rethink it, but it would have to have the seasoning of either the cayane pepper based chili seasonings, or something more of a mustard drizzle over the entire pie, with some canadian bacon, ham, and swiss with crumbled bacon...maybe.

But Pizza Hut Supreme with a hotdog crust and mustard drizzle...not so much...

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:42 am**

I think it is the thought of a traditional oregano tomato sauce with the Mustard Drizzle that is the real trouble.

You're thinking of a hot dog pizza. Not a meat stuffed crust.

Do you see mustard in the pic? "Free mustard drizzle" indicates that you're going to get some type of packaged mustard. You do not have to use it.

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:21 am**

Thanks for the clarification...whew. But in all honesty, the juxtaposition of those two things together is just odd, even if they are separated. So even as just a choice, it is peculiar...

But, to each their own.

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:01 am**

sorry hot dogs are lunch meat, just in a tube. sausage is something else entirely.

i don't like chili dogs. in fact i can not eat ketchup with hot dogs. julie put catsup on my hot dogs twice this month - after 18 years whe knows better. i fed them to the dog.

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:13 am**

Hot dogs are only "lunch meat" because some people eat them for lunch. Sausage is sausage. There are 1000s of different kinds. Including the ones we call "hot dogs."

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:48 am**

Zarathustra wrote:Hot dogs are only "lunch meat" because some people eat them for lunch. Sausage is sausage. There are 1000s of different kinds. Including the ones we call "hot dogs."

wrong. the composition of lunch meat and hot dogs is the same. sausage have spices.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchmeat

without such rules we risk anarchy.

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