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Hot dog pizza bites pizza at Pizza Hut
Photograph: Jakob N. LaymanHot dog pizza bites pizza at Pizza Hut

We tried Pizza Hut's new hot dog pizza, and it was kind of anticlimactic

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Erin Kuschner
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Today in history: the beginning of the War of 1812, the first American woman in space, and the launch of Pizza Hut's new Hot Dog Bites Pizza.

True, a gluttonous pizza isn't the most flattering depiction of our times, but we were curious: what does a Pizza Hut pizza surrounded by 28 mini hot dogs taste like? We ordered one—$11.99, what a bargain!—at 10am today to find out.

As far as looks go, don't bank on your pie looking like the golden, pillowy dish in those PH commercials. The hot dogs resembled little toes (along with other comparisons that, for the sake of your stomach, we'll leave out), and it comes with a small tub of French's mustard. We ordered a pepperoni, though you can really get any kind of toppings that you'd find on a non-hot-dog-rimmed pizza. Go crazy, ya'll.

Once we got over our initial confusion—"How am I supposed to eat this?" "Do we dip the dogs in the mustard or what?"—it's really just like eating any other pizza. It wasn't even that bad. "I'm not going to lie," said our associate editor Michael. "If we weren't having lunch soon, I'd have another slice. This pepperoni is really good." The hot dog bites do take away from Pizza Hut's normally dense crust, but the dogs themselves aren't terrible (though their "blanket" was baked a little too long). What were we expecting? I'm not entirely sure, but in the end, it was just four editors standing around a table eating pizza.

Pizza Hut dubs this pie a "total game-changer," but as we ate our slices, we thought of food far more gluttonous: KFC's Double Down. The Krispy Kreme burger. Arby's Meat Mountain. Every burger at Grill 'Em All. I guess in 2015, you're going to need a lot more than pigs-in-a-blanket attached to a pizza crust to make us crumble.

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