Forget the debate on whether pineapple should be on top of a pizza. How do you feel about bullfrogs?
Chinese Pizza Hut locations are offering a special pie, which features a deep-fried frog, along with a hard-boiled egg, cut in half, and two black olives. It’s all served atop a bed of parsley in red sauce on a thick crust. The egg halves and the olives are positioned so as to replicated the amphibian’s eyes.
The protein-heavy pizza is called the “goblin pizza” and was reportedly launched in a collaboration with the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game.
Per @Technomic Global Navigator, in proof that other countries/cultures prefer different types of proteins, Pizza Hut is offering a pizza topped with a frog for a limited time offer in China – and frog is trending.#restaurant #menutrends #menu #global https://t.co/PYgPfQhSvp pic.twitter.com/YvhG9eEYrg
— David Henkes (@davidhenkes) November 20, 2024
No word, just yet, on how the goblin pizza pairs with Pizza Hut’s recently released tomato wine.
Social media reaction to the pie was…pretty much exactly what you’d expect.
One Redditor labeled it “pure blasphemy.” Another declared it a “pizza felony” and one insisted “whoever made that pizza should go to a gulag.”
“I’m fine with frog, but bones do not belong on pizza,” said another user.
Pizza Hut hardly has the sole claim to stunt foods. KFC, a few years ago, put “pink and black burgers” up for sale in China. And Burger King offered a red hamburger in Japan.
And they’re not just limited to overseas locations. In years past, McDonald’s has offered pumpkin-spiced French fries, while Burger King rolled out the Whopperito. And Pizza Hut, in 2015, put a hot-dog stuffed crust pizza up for sale in the U.S. (It didn’t catch on.)