

So I decided that I should, for the sake of our readers who might be morbidly curious about this new middle finger of a food, give it a taste test. I have also been to a gastropub that incorporated Cheetos into their baked mac and cheese, essentially in place of bread crumbs, with fresh Cheetos on top as a garnish. I waited in line at 1 AM once to get it.īut when Pizza Hut sold this, there was no limit to my scorn: In my hometown of Columbus, Ohio there’s a popular local pizza joint, Mikey’s Late Night Slice, that sells a hot dog and uses pizza for the bun. I’ve long said that if 90% of the stuff we mock from fast food places was sold on a food truck instead, we’d all line up to buy it, spend $10 more than we would through the window, and Yelp about how great it was.

My immediate reaction, which I shouted in my car to no one, was “Oh go fuck yourself.”Įvery single time one of these new weird fast food menu items comes out, I feel more and more like the R&D departments of these companies just absolutely hate us and are slowly trying to kill us. I personally didn’t find out about this new menu item from the internet, I found out about it the old fashioned way, by driving past a Burger King on my commute Tuesday night. This week the internet erupted with the news that Burger King, trailing in the footsteps of the Doritos Locos tacos from Taco Bell (which you should totally try with Diablo sauce), has launched this brand new monstrosity:
