Here’s a lovely little story from our friends down in Bellbowrie, Australia. It seems that they have a Pizza Hut in Bellbowrie, and that Pizza Hut has cockroaches. Lots of cockroaches. So many cockroaches, in fact, that it baked one alive into a meatlovers pizza.
From the UPI:
Officials said tests revealed the roach found on the take-out meatlovers pizza was cooked alive with the pie.
Yum! brands, the U.S. operator of the Pizza Hut, lost its license for a month and then reopened with “increased cleaning practices,” according to the (Australia) Sunday Mail. The Brisbane Magistrates Court ordered the company to pay a fine of $35,000, and Yum! has said it is sorry for the incident. No word on whether the customer who got the cockroach pizza has stopped screaming yet.
Company fined $35,000 for roach problems [UPI]
(Photo: Adam A. Koch )
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Normally you have to pay for extra toppings.
Cockroach is a meat, isn’t it?
This gives a whole new meanig to “meat lovers” pizza. Too bad that health inspectors are sooooo under staffed.
I’ll take a live cockroach over a rat head:[consumerist.com]
This is very Sweeney Todd
Worst pies in Bellbowrie!
Better a live cockroach than a rat head: [consumerist.com]
Lobsters are just big bugs.
It’s all just what you’re used to eating.
Bugs aren’t bad for you – it just helps if you know that they’re going to be there. You have to prepare for these things.
Like when my brother made me eat ants.
obligatory meat lover’s comment
I wonder what would happen if my local (state) health department found a Rodney Roach in my pizza? I suspect the pizza place would win the restaurant of the month award.
I assume it was cooked by the time it was served, but how do they know it was alive beforehand?
HOLY FUCK!- Austrailian for cockroach pizza.
They failed to mention the cockroach was the best tasting par of the pie.
Yup, just a little “extra meat” and don’t the pizza ovens cook hot enough to destroy any bacteria, thus a perfectly edible pizza?
I doubt anyone loves meat *that* much.
@bifyu: They had Gil Grissom on the case. The magnified image on the roach’s retina revealed that the cockroach was inside oven. Death came 7 minutes after baking in at 375 F.
@bifyu: I assume “baked alive” means the roach in the pizza was still moving at the time it was served.
According to [www.sciencenews.org] eating bugs is good for our health and our planet! Personally I find them excellent as an appetite suppressant.
Big deal. It was cooked.
it’d be intersting to figure out how many pizzas they would have to make for one whole roach to still be within the allowable volume here in the US (it obviously exceeds the per serving allowance).
I’m impressed that they actually killed it. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching verminators, it’s that roaches are pretty much the insect version of james bond.
Snap…..Snap….Snappy Cicada Pizza!!!!!!!!
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Snappy Tomato Pizza IS real – and it IS their commercial – but they never actually served the pizza.
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Come on now, roaches are meat lovers too.
To be honest I don’t care if they are sorry. All I care about is if they’re taking it seriously.
Considering it involved Australians, I’m surprised the diner didn’t opt for fire ants instead. No, a nest of fire ants, brimming over the pie and falling furiously, mandibles snapping wildly, onto the diner’s lap.
Cockroaches? Doesn’t seem much of a fair fight. Not against an Australian.
Wouldn’t a Meat Lovers Pizza have enough protein in it without the baked alive cockroach in it?
What a rip-off. My local hole in the wall pizza gives you 10-12 cockroaches on a pizza, not just one.
Wait, did I do that wrong?
…Unless the cockroach was armed with a teeny-tiny Bowie knife, of course.
Where’s the obligatory statement from Pizza Hut where they are “taking it seriously”?
@Anjow: Damn, I didn’t see it
Roach on the BArbie?
More protein!
$35K! WTF! Those little bastards get everywhere. Granted it’s gross, but is there really that much fault? Technically it was cooked and posed no health hazard, plus it was probably the healthiest item on the pizza. =)
My cousin’s mother sued a Burger King years ago because he found 3 roaches in his chocolate shake (he was a kid at the time). I’m not sure how much they got from BK because his mother is a compulsive liar and who knows how it all ended up, but I do know that he did indeed find roaches in his shake. Moral of the story is, fast food joints are likely to have roaches, but they are easier to find when they make their way into foods that are not supposed to be crunchy. At least in a Pizza Butt meat lover’s pizza a roach could maybe pass for what they try to tell us is “Italian sausage”.
Fear Factor: PIZZA HUT STYLE.
I’m sure that everyone at some point in their lives have eaten a bug or two. I signed a 6 month lease on a studio a couple years back without realizing the full condition of the place(a hard learned mistake). It was crawling with roaches, and nothing we could do to the place could stop them. I woke up more than once with a roach crawling on me. I’m sure I must’ve eaten some of them. I guess what I’m trying to say is… if I have to eat some roaches, everyone else should too, damnit.
It is Pizza Hut. No suprise, I would never ever eat anything from Pizza Hut. I’ve had exemployees tell me how bad and unclean these places are.
Is this the extra crunchy pie?
i wish they had a pic of the roach in the pie, now I just have to use my imagination. good thing they didn’t get stuffed crust!
I wonder if Yum! Brands might think about changing their name….because when I think Yum! I ain’t thinking about roaches.
@dohtem: Ah, my husband Grissom to the rescue again….
@bifyu:
Excerpted from the Royal Coroner’s Summary Finding – Cause of Death:
“Subject cockroach, Periplaneta australasiae, is 32mm in length, 8mm in girth, and 5mm from front to back, weight is .63 grams…”
“…tracheae and spiracles show marked swelling, charring and carbon deposits, indicating respiration at the time of cooking…”
“…cockroach was found embedded in a bed of mozzarella cheese. Footprints matching those of the decedent began near a slice of ham, meandering towards the outer crust, stopping approximately 12cm from the edge.”
“…along with the decedent’s body, a note was found scrawled into the cheese, stating ‘Must find stale beer.’”
“Further investigation revealed the following quote from a United Press International story about this incident: ‘Yum! Restaurants told the Mail it was sorry for the incident.’”
Signed and sealed this day, July the 7th, the 2008th year of our Lord.
Crocodile Dundee in the new commercial…
[chuckling] “That’s not a pizza.”
[pulls out cockroach-infested pizza]
“*THAT’S* a pizza.”
At least eating cockroaches won’t clog your arteries. Well, unless they’re covered with chocolate and maybe bacon.
@Crabfeast: Bad time to be reading an article about Cockroaches and pizza while lying in bed in a dark room. Right after your comment, I saw something move on my wall…turned out to be nothing at all…
On Topic:
Ever had a cockroach fall from an Ice dispesner into your soda cup? I did…needless to say the ice got cleaned immeiditldy and I was given about 3 or 4 free (Bottled) drinks to go. Check what you drink and eat people. You never know when you might find Mickey staring up at ya!
If they had microwaved the pizza instead that bug would still be alive.
You do understand that this is a Wall-E tie-in, right? Pluck the cockroach out and it’ll be your only friend in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is your life.
@hegemonyhog: Thank you. I almost had the courage to go outside today, and then it all comes crashing in. But really, laughed out lowd.
I don’t get it. What’s wrong with cockroaches? Yummy!
@DrGirlfriend:
o_O!!!
I would have nightmares for weeks if I found roaches in my chocolate shake.
“You get half off ada pizza!!!”
Oh man, there was a great SNL skit back in the day with Tim Robbins and Rob Schneider. It was a commercial for a place called Carraci’s Pizza. And they would say sh!t like, “Suppose, you see a squirrel, and it’s too fast for us to catch it and it craps on your pizza”…(cuts to a stereotypical looking italian pizza maker)…”YOU GET HALF OFF ADA PIZZA!”
[snltranscripts.jt.org]
I remember years back that one of my friends said that he found a cockroach in a Domino’s Pizza, er, pizza. I never knew if he was telling the truth or not, but it took years before I ordered from there. Fortunately, having eaten probably dozens of pizzas from that location, I haven’t seen a single thing on there that shouldn’t be.
As an aside, the Gotham Knight pizza? Totally delicious.