Houston Chronicle

How to make Stuffed Crust Pizza better? Bacon

- By Ken Hoffman ken.hoffman@chron.com

Pizza Hut is all about hiding cheese ’n’ stuff inside a pizza’s crust. In fact, it may be an obsession, inching toward sickness.

Last year, it hit rock bottom by introducin­g a Stuffed Crust Pizza with miniature hot dogs.

Hot dogs? That’s not even a pizza topping. Franks a lot, Pizza Hut.

Hot dogs? Really? You thought pizza fans in the U.S. would go for a pizza with wieners shoved in the crust? Might be time to pass out Dixie cups in the Research & Developmen­t test kitchen.

The Hut is redeeming itself with Bacon Stuffed Crust Pizza, though. This makes so much more sense and tastes a thousand times better. Bacon … cheese … pizza … it’s a natural combinatio­n.

Besides, this illustrate­s the art of the deal. Pizza Hut already had a Stuffed Crust Pizza with just bacon. It already had a Stuffed Crust Pizza with just cheese. Can you see the light bulb above the head of Mr. Pizza Hut?

Let’s shove bacon and cheese in a Stuffed Crust Pizza! And Bernie Sanders wonders why corporatio­n executives get $100 billion bonuses?

The bacon is applewood-smoked and crumbled into crunchy chunks. It’s fun when you bite a bull’s eye on a meaty bit of bacon. You know our mantra in the drivethrou­gh: Bacon makes everything better.

The trio of cheeses jammed in the crust is: mozzarella, white cheddar and provolone. How white cheddar got in there is a mystery. White cheddar must know a big cheese at Pizza Hut.

There’s one problem with Bacon Stuffed Crust Pizza: The crust is way better than the middle. No more throwing the crusts (we call them bones in the biz) back in the pizza box.

You may find the rest of the pizza still there, though.

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