Little Caesars Just Brought Back Pepsi Pineapple

Pepsi and Little Caesars are teaming up to bring back a fan-favorite soda flavor.

On Monday, the two brands announced the return of Pepsi Pineapple, which will be exclusively available at Little Caesars in one-of-a-kind custom 20-ounce bottles. But that’s not all. Fans can not only get the soda, but they can also snag some Crazy Puffs, which are tiny handheld pizza puffs made with mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce and topped with a garlic-flavored drizzle.

“Little Caesars fans love coming in for exclusive flavors they can’t get anywhere else — we saw that last year within the first week of releasing Pepsi Pineapple in restaurants,” Greg Hamilton, the chief marketing officer at Little Caesars, shared in a statement. “This summer, we’re offering customers the ultimate combo of flavor and value with our Crazy Puffs and Pepsi Pineapple deal to celebrate its triumphant return.”

Starting now, customers can get a Pepsi Pineapple and an order of Crazy Puffs for $4.99. But like everything fun in the food world, this too is only available for a limited time and while supplies last.

“Pineapple on pizza may still be debatable, but pizza lovers have made Pepsi Pineapple a clear winner,” Scott Finlow, the chief marketing officer of PepsiCoGlobal Foodservice, added in the statement. “We’re thrilled to be bringing Pepsi Pineapple back to Little Caesars to give customers more of the unapologetic flavor they love and make every bite of pizza taste better with Pepsi.”

Though really, pineapple on pizza (or in the soda that’s adjoining your pizza) may not be as controversial as you think. As Food & Wine reported in 2022, a survey of 2,000 people by the Ohio-based pizza chain Donatos showed that pineapple isn’t actually the least-favorite topping. That (dis)honor actually belongs to anchovies. Though pineapple followed closely in second place, followed by jalapeno peppers in third.

But perhaps that’s because people just aren’t getting the right kind of pineapple on their pie. “When people put pineapple on pizza, it usually goes from the raw state with a lot of water,” chef Kurt Evans, who owns the pizza shop Down North, shared with F&W in 2021. “So then it’s under high heat, it’s gonna extrude some water, and it’s going to dry up.”

So, instead, he caramelizes his pineapples with a bit of sugar before placing them on the pie. “We already changed the complexity of it before it even hits the oven,” he added. So maybe keep this little tip in your back pocket and maybe give pineapple one more try. At the very least sip on it in your soda.