Pizza & Corn Dogs, together at last

Prepared Foods, August, 2002

The start of barbecue and finger foods season brings the introduction of Pizza-Flavored Corn Dogs under the Foster Farms brand. The chicken franks have shots of cheese running through them, and the corn batter has a tomato flavoring. Plus, it is all on a stick that can be microwaved and ready to eat in 60 seconds. It sounds so bad, it has to be good.

A 14-ct. box retails frozen in mass merchandise stores for $4.97. The company also launched a chili cheese flavored product under the Go-Stix brand. Other finger food ideas are popping up under private labels. Target now carries Burger Bites, beef wrapped in dough, under its Market Pantry brand, and Kroger is carrying Mini-Cheeseburgers, which are microwaveable and retail in a 12-ct. box. All these are just right for school kids on summer break.