Americans are no strangers to combining dearly loved foods. We've been known to dine on fried chicken and waffles, chicken sandwiched in a doughnut, and the ultimate combination food, the turducken — a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey. But the latest two-in-one food phenomenon is making waves in the UK, despite its classic American components. It's a hot dog-stuffed crust pizza.
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Pizza Hut UK offers the meat-filled pie, which is described on its web site as having a "succulent hot dog sausage bursting from our famous stuffed crust, with a FREE Mustard Drizzle." After discovering the menu item, one Gizmodo writer lamented, "What the hell, America? I thought we were the land of junk food? I thought we were hot dog heaven."
But the UK can't take all the credit for this still-intact sausage-filled pie. Huffington Post reports that the hot dog-pizza marriage worked successfully in Thailand and Japan long before Brits were ordering the meal.
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We reached out to Pizza Hut to find out if crusts will soon become homes for hot dogs in the U.S. No word yet, but we'll be sure to warn you if this meaty pie makes an appearance at a Pizza Hut near you.
Do you think it's only a matter of time before the hot dog-stuffed crust pizza lands in the U.S.? Would you eat it?
