# Bacon wrapped pizza **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218 "2015-02-20T20:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/1 "2015-02-20T20:16:39Z")
[Little Caesars has decided to wrap its deep-dish pizzas in 3.5 feet of thick-cut bacon.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/02/18/little-caesars-fast-food-pizza-restaurants/23565411/) Twelve bucks. I’m really looking forward to this, probably more than I should be. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/2 "2015-02-20T20:21:24Z")
I like pizza with bacon on it. Wrapped in it, I’m not so sure about. In any case, I don’t usually order from the chains. Most of the local places around here are much better, even if they don’t wrap it in bacon. It says something that the chains have to keep coming up with these gimmicks to attract business while the local pizzerias have been thriving for decades with the same menu. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/3 "2015-02-20T20:24:18Z")
I eat at Little Caesars even without the gimmicks. For 5 bucks, it’s the best deal in fast food. If I want really good gourmet pizza, I’ll go to a mom and pop. But I think Little Caesars is doing just fine, as far as chains go. Sure, the gimmicks probably help sales, but if it’s a (potentially) delicious gimmick, who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/4 "2015-02-20T20:31:27Z")
I don’t see what the benefit is of having the bacon on the side of the pizza as opposed to on top of it. What I would like to see is bacon pieces the size of pepperoni being used instead of the little bacon bits that you normally get. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/5 "2015-02-20T20:32:34Z")
Why does that website look so much like my local NBC station’s site? [wcsh6.com](http://wcsh6.com) has almost the exact same layout. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/6 "2015-02-20T20:34:43Z")
What a terrible way to waste bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/7 "2015-02-20T20:35:56Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Why does that website look so much like my local NBC station’s site? > [wcsh6.com](http://wcsh6.com) has almost the exact same layout. Both Gannett companies. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/8 "2015-02-20T21:22:53Z")
What the hell, is that a news story or an ad? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/9 "2015-02-20T21:27:56Z")
Oooh, wrapped like a Fillet Mignon, not wrapped like a present. That’s rather less repulsive sounding… (Except it’s Little Caesar’s, which is…far from my favourite pizza.) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/10 "2015-02-20T21:36:14Z")
When I read about culinary atrocities like this, I always remember a story of decadence I once read in which they dine on an elephant, stuffed with a camel, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a deer, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken hopefully stuffed with some vegetables, or something to that extent anyway. If someone can remember that story, please help me out, I’m at a loss at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/11 "2015-02-20T22:06:47Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > When I read about culinary atrocities like this, I always remember a story of decadence I once read in which they dine on an elephant, stuffed with a camel, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a deer, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken hopefully stuffed with some vegetables, or something to that extent anyway. If someone can remember that story, please help me out, I’m at a loss at the moment. That is just an an exaggeration of the[traditional Bedouin wedding feast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_stuffed_camel) story (which itself may be a huge exaggeration). Versions of it have appeared in everything from the Guinness Book of World records to chain e-mails. > **[Is This Stuffed Camel Recipe Real?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stuffed-camel-recipe/)** > > Does an international cookbook include a recipe for stuffed camel? There is another joke recipe for elephant stew that takes about a month to make and results in an absurd number of portions. You may be conflating a few different stories. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/12 "2015-02-20T22:14:24Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That is just an an exaggeration of the[traditional Bedouin wedding feast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_stuffed_camel) story (which itself may be a huge exaggeration). Versions of it have appeared in everything from the Guinness Book of World records to chain e-mails. > > [Is This Stuffed Camel Recipe Real? | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/camel.asp) > > There is another joke recipe for elephant stew that takes about a month to make and results in an absurd number of portions. You may be conflating a few different stories. Interesting. Now I really wonder where I first heard about that trope. Yeah, and the exaggeration was totally my part, I was working from memory. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/13 "2015-02-20T22:44:11Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That is just an an exaggeration of the[traditional Bedouin wedding feast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_stuffed_camel) story (which itself may be a huge exaggeration). Versions of it have appeared in everything from the Guinness Book of World records to chain e-mails. Sounds like a glorified (gorified) turducken. Only it’s a echdepigswducken. I’m with **Shakes** - bacon slices the size of pepperoni. **Happy** - I don’t think it’s Kosher. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/14 "2015-02-20T23:24:03Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I don’t see what the benefit is of having the bacon on the side of the pizza as opposed to on top of it. > … Right. You only get the bacon when you get to the crust. How is that better than having it actually on the pizza? It’s a gimmick. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/15 "2015-02-21T03:07:47Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Interesting. Now I really wonder where I first heard about that trope. Yeah, and the exaggeration was totally my part, I was working from memory. 🙂 There was a somewhat tamer story in Petronius’ Satyricon about a banquet in which a roasted boar was suckled on by piglets made of pastry, and when they cut it open, live birds flew out. It’s a different enough story that it could be unrelated, but I do wonder whether stories of this kind have a deep-rooted common history. The same work also had a speaker claim that a man once invented a form of glass that was unbreakable, and could be worked like metal. He showed it to Caesar, who had his head cut off on the grounds that in a world with unbreakable glass, no one would value gold. I’m reminded of this story every time I hear stories about governments or other conspirators suppressing technological innovations. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/16 "2015-02-21T05:26:27Z")
There was a time around this place that if you wrapped an aborted donkey fetus with thick-cut maple smoked bacon, people would be having culinary orgasms on their keyboards and lining up for the recipe. But now bacon wrapped deep dish pizza gets pooh-poohed? I never thought I’d see the day. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/17 "2015-02-21T05:32:21Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [Little Caesars has decided to wrap its deep-dish pizzas in 3.5 feet of thick-cut bacon.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/02/18/little-caesars-fast-food-pizza-restaurants/23565411/) > > Twelve bucks. I’m really looking forward to this, probably more than I should be. Holy crap, all I have to hear is “bacon” and “pizza” in the same sentence. Pity it’s deep-dish and more’s the pity that it’s Little Caesars, but I wouldn’t kick Chris Hemsworth out of bed if he showed up with one. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/18 "2015-02-21T07:03:11Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > There was a time around this place that if you wrapped an aborted donkey fetus with thick-cut maple smoked bacon, people would be having culinary orgasms on their keyboards and lining up for the recipe. > > But now bacon wrapped deep dish pizza gets pooh-poohed? I never thought I’d see the day. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Holy crap, all I have to hear is “bacon” and “pizza” in the same sentence. Pity it’s deep-dish and more’s the pity that it’s Little Caesars, but I wouldn’t kick Chris Hemsworth out of bed if he showed up with one. Of course bacon works with pizza, when it’s _on the pizza_. If it’s wrapped around the outside, then all you get is some bacon when you finally get to the crust. Either that or it falls off when cut it or pick it up, in which case you can either eat it separately, which sort of kills the point, or you can crumble it on the pizza, and if that’s what you want you can just order a pizza with bacon on it. So the objection isn’t to combining bacon with pizza. The objection is to the pointlessness of wrapping it around the outside. If you want bacon with pizza you get it as a topping so that it’s an integral part of the pizza. If it’ wrapped around the outside it becomes like an afterthought that’s present only in the last few bites. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/19 "2015-02-21T15:08:57Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Of course bacon works with pizza, when it’s _on the pizza_. If it’s wrapped around the outside, then all you get is some bacon when you finally get to the crust. > > Either that or it falls off when cut it or pick it up, in which case you can either eat it separately, which sort of kills the point, or you can crumble it on the pizza, and if that’s what you want you can just order a pizza with bacon on it. > > So the objection isn’t to combining bacon with pizza. The objection is to the pointlessness of wrapping it around the outside. > > If you want bacon with pizza you get it as a topping so that it’s an integral part of the pizza. If it’ wrapped around the outside it becomes like an afterthought that’s present only in the last few bites. People also like cheese on their pizza. Hasn’t stopped millions from also enjoying it stuffed into the crust. I get it. You don’t like it. Feel free to not walk into a Little Caesars and to not order it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-wrapped-pizza/713218/20 "2015-02-21T15:47:31Z")
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