Bacon, bacon, bacon-wrapped pizza! | wthr.com

Little Caesarsunveiled their newest deep dish pizza with a bacon-wrapped crust.

If you like bacon, a popular pizza chain has found a way to put it in the crust.

Little Caesars' newest deep dish pizza with a bacon-wrapped crust hits stores Monday.

The Bacon Wrapped Crust Deep Dish Pizza comes with pepperoni and bacon sprinkled on top and more than three and a half feet of bacon wrapped around the crust.

The pig-wrapped pizza costs 12 dollars and weighs in at 450 calories a slice, has 23 grams of fat, 830 milligrams of sodium and 40 milligrams of cholesterol.

"Every time you take a bite out of the crust, you'll get bacon," says David Scrivano, CEO at Little Caesars. The pizza also comes with pepperoni and has bacon sprinkled on top. The promotion replaces the chain's Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza.

Like many food makers and food sellers, Little Caesars is looking for a new way to cash in on the nation's continued infatuation with all things bacon. Domestic bacon sales have climbed for five consecutive years, recently hitting the $4 billion mark, reports research specialist Information Resources. Bacon has shown up in recent years in everything from sundaes at Burger King to milkshakes at Red Robin.

The concept came from Little Caesars' Research and Development team. A team member was dining out a few years ago and ordered a bacon-wrapped filet. That dining experience spurred the team to figure out a way to wrap bacon around the pizza crust.