Hot dog stuffed pizza crust

I learnt the other day that Pizza Hut in the United Kingdom has released a new type of stuffed crust pizza, those of you who read the title will be aware that they have stuffed the crust with a hot dog. You may remember that Pizza Hut was also the company that released cheese stuffed pizza crusts, probably to the general groan of cardiac surgeons across the globe. I guess those same surgeons will be groaning again with the news of the latest stuffed crust. This new menu creation astounds me because I just don't understand why a company in this day and age, where obesity is nearly becoming an epidemic, finds it acceptable to be introducing menu items that make an already unhealthy dish even more unhealthy. To give you some perspective the new pizza contains approximately 270 calories per slice, compared with a plain cheese pizza which contains approximately 140 calories per slice. An average male is expected to consume around 2500 calories per day, so to eat just three slices of this new pizza, you would be consuming around a third of your recommended calories per day in one sitting. If you were to consume a whole pizza (which some people are known to do) you would have consumed all of your recommended calories at once!

However leaving the lowing of nutrition standards aside, I think the biggest surprise is that this pizza is being launched in the United Kingdom and not the United States. Hearing that this was launched in the United States would have surprised me about as much as seeing the sun rising in the morning. I say this because I heard a few years ago about a beef burger that was sold in the United States which contained a beef pattie and lettuce, however in place of the burger bun, was a sliced open Krispy Kreme doughnut. It sickened me to learn about the Krispy Kreme burger almost as much as it has about the hot dog stuffed pizza. My personal opinion is that companies around the world should be spending their menu development funds on discovering ways to make healthy food taste as delicious as unhealthy food. I mean imagine a lettuce that tasted as good as chocolate, but was as healthy as lettuce! That would be a better spend of resources because people would be rushing to buy something that will improve their health, instead of rushing to buy something that will eventually require them to seek the services of a good cardiac surgeon.