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June 26, 2015

Debonairs Are Now Serving Cockroaches As An Added Topping [Image]

Everyone has their favourite pizza toppings. I'm more than partial to some bacon and feta in and around my face, but I'm not too keen on the whole cockroach thing.

Given half a chance I would happily eat myself to death on a diet of pizza, pizza and more pizza. I imagine it’s what God would have eaten on the seventh day when resting, that’s how highly I regard this culinary delight.

I don’t imagine he would have ordered a topping of cockroaches though, something a rather unfortunate Debonairs customer in Jozi was subjected to yesterday. You can see the scrumptious delight below:

High-protein yes but not really something we would be all that keen on. Debonairs were quick to respond to the uproar with this tweet:

The problem is it turns out this isn’t the first time these critters have made it all the way to the customer. Here’s TimesLive quoting some HelloPeter complaints:

Went to buy a pizza cockroaches were crawling on board above kitchen area and on the fridges really worrying for food franchise pest control should be a priority,” valentia87 said in March…

Another complaint, this time from the Eastern Cape:

We bought a pizza at Debonair pizza in Mthatha near the circle, by the taxi rank. When I got home I bit into a slice and noticed that the block of meat on the pizza had flies eggs on it so I stopped eating and opened the whole slice of pizza up and the last layer( triple decker) I found more flies eggs on the mince meat too.

I suppose all this is good news for KFC, the fast-food chain having been dragged through the mud in light of some customers’ recent less-than-stellar dining experiences (HERE, HERE and HERE).

Where does this leave us pizza lovers then? I think we’ll stick with the guys we can trust, thank you very much.

[source:timeslive]