If You Love Bacon, Concord (Who Doesn't?) This Pizza Is Pure Ecstasy

By Beth Dalbey (Patch Staff)

Little Caesars is wrapping its deep-dish, Detroit-style pizza in 39 inches of bacon for a limited time. (Photo submitted)

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If you gave up bacon for Lent, you might be grunting and snorting mad after an announcement Wednesday by the Detroit-based pizza chain Little Caesars that it’s using 3½ feet of bacon in a limited-edition pie that debuts later this month.

Yes, that’s right. Thirty. Nine. Inches. Of. Bacon.

And that’s just around the crusts. More tasty morsels of bacon are mingled with the pepperonis in the toppings.

The pizza is rectangular – of course, because it’s from Detroit, where the pies have been square since about 1946, when returning World War II soldiers demanded them that way.

The deep-dish pizza sells for $12 and will be available on Feb. 23.

The Lenten season ends April 4, so there will still be a few days for those who eschewed their bacon fixes for Lent to enjoy the pizza. It will be available from 4-8 p.m. and by request until late April.

Little Caesars Pizza President and CEO David Scrivano said in a news release that the Bacon Wrapped Crust DEEP!DEEP! Dish pizza is another example of the company’s innovation and commitment to variety on its menu “while fully leveraging our core strengths built around value, convenience, and quality.”

Little Caesars, founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 and now part of an empire that includes the Detroit Tigers baseball an Detroit Red Wings hockey teams, is the largest carryout-only pizza chain in the world.

Little Caesars has locations in all 50 states and 18 countries and territories around the world.

In Concord: 1500 MONUMENT BOULEVARD and 4475 EAST TREAT BOULEVARD. Or 5433 CLAYTON RD in CLAYTON.

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