{"id":13775,"date":"2015-03-09T04:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2015-03-09T04:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:25:41","slug":"little-caesars-bacon-crust-pizza-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13775","title":{"rendered":"Little Caesars Bacon Crust Pizza Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Little<\/a>A million years ago, I owned a business in Iowa, and every Friday nite, my key employee, his wife and baby would come over to our house, where we’d fire up a movie on the 7′ Sony big screen, and order a couple of pizzas from Little Caesars. \u00a0At the time, LC’s “gimmick” was you got two pizzas in a single package for a reduced price. \u00a0 It wasn’t particularly good, or bad, per se, the incentive was simply the two-fer, and we could have a pizza for each couple with their respective choice in toppings.<\/p>\n

Today, the major chains are all about dazzling us with flavor combos as an attempt to retain our business in light of upstarts offering higher quality ingredient pies with an even wider variety of toppings. \u00a0Over the past ten years, the industry has progressed from “butter brushed” crusts, to cheese-stuffed, and now….you name your poison, whether it’s a salted pretzel crust or siracha kissed, or a dozen things in between, one or the other of the chains has got a pie to lure you in.<\/p>\n

The latest offering from Little Caesars, in their “hot and ready” program (a selection of pies is always ready, you don’t have to call and order), is the ‘bacon-wrapped” crust deep dish. \u00a0Actually two smaller square pies, with every piece boasting a corner edge, and the ad copy claiming “three and a half feet of bacon” on every pie.<\/p>\n

The standard “hot and ready” version comes topped with pepperoni.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I’m not a real fan of LC’s, it’s just not a very exciting pizza, and I’m never really a fan of deep dish. \u00a0But of course, I owed it to you to try the new bacon crust. \u00a0 It goes for $12, whereas their ‘regular’ hot and ready deep dish is $8, and their always available regular hot and ready pizzas are $5 each.<\/p>\n

Although you can order the bacon-wrapped pie during any opening hour, it flips into “hot and ready” status at 4 PM.<\/p>\n

So how was it?<\/p>\n

A mess of processed pork on a buttery-flavored crispy deep dish crust. \u00a0It wasn’t terrible. While I will never figure out how they get the bacon to stick to the edge of the crust, I don’t have to, I just have to marvel at it, and enjoy the smoky porcine taste in every bite.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily I’d say, because of the “value,” \u00a0Little Caesars is a good way to feed a gaggle of kids, cheaply and quickly, but if you’re concerned about their nutritional intake, best skip the bacon crust, which\u00a0must clock in at a ton of “too much” in the nutritional info, tho it is not listed on the company’s website. \u00a0Their regular pepperoni deep dish offers you 400 calories per slice, nearly half from fat calories, 670 g of sodium and 41 carbs. \u00a0So you can amp up the fat and sodium when you add the bacon.<\/p>\n

I don’t have to watch my girlish figure anymore, so I enjoyed it, and might even get it again, but I think it is an LTO, so you will have to watch for availability.<\/p>\n

The only downside with the one I purchased, as evidence from the photos, is the oven was apparently a little over enthusiastic – lots of char on this sucker.<\/p>\n

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