Pizza Hut introduces a food-like pizza ringed with fractal cheeseburgers

Pizza Hut Middle East is pushing the envelope of edibility with their "royal" Crown Crust Pizza, which is a kind of hub-and-spoke bread-thing with cheeseburgers or chicken-cheeseburgers studded around a central, pizza-like wheel. A pair of suitably horrific TV ads round out the chimeric, what-hath-man-wrought motif.

Crown Crust Pizzas Add Cheeseburger & Chicken Fillet Gems to Crust (via Geekologie)

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These are fractals how?
- Charlie B
  
  if you look closely, each cheeseburger contains a tiny crown crust pizza.
Mantissa128

When the cheese-stuffed crust came out, they said it would be years before they found a new place to put cheese. That day has come, and I am glad. Rejoice!
emo hex

End of the world’s near, so eat up!
http://avarana.blogspot.com MarlboroTestMonkey7

Made me one with everything
speno

I’m impressed that someone thought this was worth trying.
Antinous / Moderator

We had a patient who owned a pizza place. His family brought us special pizzas every day that were about two inches deep and filled with every imaginable kind of meats and cheeses. Life has seemed a little pale since then.
- ymendel
  
  I don’t know what you do for a living, but based on this comment alone I’m going to guess it’s in the cardiology field.
- Paul Renault
  
  When I was still living in Montreal, there was an Italian deli about a block away. They made a ‘kitchen sink’ pizza with tomatoes/paste, onions, and the chopped-up butt ends of all the deli meats. Two bucks for a square and your lunch was taken care of.
  - http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
    
    Meat-ends FTW!
    - http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
      
      Meat-ends FTW (again)!
  - Noah Saber-Freedman
    
    i live in montreal and where is this?! sounds suspiciously like a pendeli’s creation.
    - Paul Renault
      
      NDG Patisserie, 515 Provost, in (formerly) Lachine.
      I haven’t been in years, but according to Streetview, it’s still there.
coop

Personally, I find basic Pizza Hut products to be well beyond the “envelope of edibility”. This just makes me want to hurl.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

I appreciate how they’ve dubbed it with the voice of John Belushi from the old SNL Cheeseburga, Cheeseburga sketches.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605790351 Ryan Holmes

Isnt it about time we had the Rapture or something?
OriGuy

Appropriate that they call it “Royal”. It looks like something that would be served to Henry VIII.
- Wreckrob8
  
  Cheese was (and still is) for the peasants!
- http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
  
  Well they couldn’t call it a “quarter-pounder-with-cheese pizza”, could they?
timquinn

Next stop . . . Chaos!
http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

Saucy Sierpinski Taco Triangle Deep Dish Pizza Placenta.
jimh

If these are what they look like in the ADS, I’m not even tempted to find out what they’ll look like when you order one…
vrplumber

So I guess the next step would be replacing the burgers in the crust with a ring of tiny pizzas, and each of the tiny pizzas could have a tiny cheese stuffed crust.
- PinkWithIndignation
  
  And there would be a smaller pizza inside each of the pizzas. Recursive!
  - Mantissa128
    
    “Yes, I’d like a recursive Crown Carnival to depth level 6, and umm… Lyapunov exponent 1.2, with extra eigenvectors. Oh! And extra cheese.”
BarBarSeven

Pizza with fractal cheeseburgers, I know, I know, it’s serious.
ackpht

Does that come with a side of Mandelbread?
- Diogenes
  
  Now that was pretty darn clever.
http://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.m.arnold Geoff Arnold

This is very similar to some of the Pizza Hut products in China. I’ve eaten stuff that resembles those pictures (including some with a ring of shrimps) in Shenzhen and Xi’an.

Of course in China, Pizza Hut is an up-market restaurant….
- digi_owl
  
  Demolition man, anyone?
Cowicide

I have to admit it does almost look food-like.
BookGuy

That’s all well and good, but if I can’t order one completely smothered in rich, creamery butter, then they can go to hell.
oasisob1

Don’t forget to check out the Romanian Crown Crust pizza, with spreadable cheese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMo-sUZ62fg
Terranex

I want to put one of these inside of me.
Hanglyman

And I thought Japanese pizzas were weird, with their squid ink, mayonnaise, potato slices and sweet corn…
- digi_owl
  
  Sounds like something a ninja turtle would order.
MelSkunk

And for those days when you can’t decide AYAM or KEJU*, Pizza Hut Indonesia has your back with THEIR Crown Crust

http://youtu.be/DqwkSw7JL7U

For some reason I’ve always found international commercials of familiar restaurants fascinating. Spent a happy afternoon Googling Filipino McDonalds commercials once.

*chicken or cheese
LinkMan

Cheeseburgers? Now that’s what I call a pizza!

Life imitates art imitates life. (apologies to those ex-USA who don’t know how to spoof a US IP)
http://avarana.blogspot.com MarlboroTestMonkey7

Next iteration will include an outer soda ring. Then we will all implode.
- http://twitter.com/selfish selfish
  
  MadTV to the rescue!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxOxfOLUyk
zombiebob

great, like we aren’t already a bunch of fat fucks. that said, if the cheeseburger had cheddar and not american “cheese”, I’d eat that evil sexy yummy crap
- Diogenes
  
  Ride your bike to and fro and you’ll burn it off.
  - dragonfrog
    
    *Only applies if you live at the summit of a Rocky Mountain, and your bike is a steel-framed single-speed cruiser.
    - Diogenes
      
      Naw, pedal hard and you burn like crazy. Besides, the world looks nicer from a bike.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I can think of no better occasion to say:

“What the . . . I can’t even . . .”

These horrors are the pizza equivalent of those gelatin mold “salads” that contain sliced cucumbers, chunks of fish, cheese and cherry tomatoes.
theophrastvs

Ignignokt: Tell me.. Were there Weenie Wraps?
Meatwad: Microwavable, but Weenie Wraps none-the-less.
Ignignokt: Weenie Wraps intrigue me.
Meatwad: Yep. And they have Burger Drops-
Master Shake: Burger Drops?!
Meatwad: -and burrito cakes-
Master Shake: I thought they stopped making those.
Meatwad: -and pizza balls
Master Shake: Pizza balls?!
Ignignokt: Were there Lil’ Turkey Muffins?
Meatwad: They have Lil, regular and mega.

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niktemadur

First, when you can’t decide between pizza and a hot dog.
Very soon after, when you can’t decide between pizza and a burger.

This ain’t fractal, this is spiral. Spiral downwards…
atimoshenko

Can we stuff hotdogs into the crust around the cheeseburgers? That spot looking a little too barren of meat-product right now.
Daemonworks

Stop screwing with pizza crusts – it’s already the best part of most pizzas.
penguinchris

I’ll have a Royal with Cheese(burger)
Nash Rambler

I think I’ma gonna be sick.
mudpup

Where is the BACON!
- http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar
  
  Dude, this is Pizza Hut Middle East. The closest bacon is in Greece.
  - Diogenes
    
    Okay, then make it lamb jerky!
Diogenes

Put that on the table in front of a bunch of college kids at 11 p.m. and it will disappear faster than a balloon at a porcupine’s birthday party.
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  you put a porcupine in front of a bunch of collage kids at 11 p.m. and it will disappear too.
  - Diogenes
    
    Only if it’s been dead long enough to pass for Spam on toothpicks.
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TheMudshark

Those are so royal, I can just picture the Queen of England sinking her 3rd teeth into one of these suckers. Nevertheless, “royal” doesn´t do it for me anymore, since I, as a truly discerning customer, don´t go for anything less than “premium”.