If You Love Bacon - Who Doesn't? - This Pizza Is Pure Ecstasy

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

By Beth Dalbey (Patch Staff)

If you gave up bacon for Lent, you might be grunting and snorting mad after an announcement Wednesday by the 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 pepperoni in the toppings.

The pizza is rectangular – 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. The nearest Little Caesars is on Route 9 in Bayville.

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