Taco Bell's Fire Piña Hot Dog uses a chalupa as the bun at Live Más Open

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A Taco Bell restaurant in Sydney, Australia
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Taco Bell just served the internet's new favorite what-the-hell order: a hot dog tucked inside its signature chalupa flatbread. The Fire Piña Hot Dog appeared at the chain's first-ever Live Más Open, a nine-hole celebrity golf tournament hosted by Kevin Hart, and it has already split fans into two loud camps.

The franks were strictly event-exclusive, not something you could pick up at a drive-thru. Taco Bell loaded each one with grilled pineapple, cotija, pickled red onion, cilantro and two sauces. The exact sauces were not confirmed, though one attendee guessed sour cream and Taco Bell Fire Sauce.

Will it hit the menu?

Bailey Fink from Allrecipes actually ate one and came away convinced. She compared the flavor to a traditional Colombian hot dog, minus the potato chips, with the chalupa flatbread standing in for a normal bun.

Easily one of the best hot dogs I've ever had - from a fast-food restaurant.

People who did not get a taste were less sure. "The words Taco Bell and hot dog should not be in the same sentence," one Instagram user wrote. Another added: "If you order a hot dog from Taco Bell, you need to be on watch list..."

Not anytime soon. Every dish at the Live Más Open - including lemon pepper ranch-dusted chicken nuggets and pimento cheese Quesaritos - was made only for the event, and Taco Bell has no confirmed plans to roll the Fire Piña Hot Dog out nationwide.

There is a small party favor for the rest of us, though. Part of the tournament prize lets the winning team help choose a discontinued menu item to bring back for a limited time in 2027. So the glizzy stays benched, but an old favorite could return next year.

If a Taco Bell hot dog feels wrong, it is also the brand coming full circle. Founder Glen Bell's earliest restaurants served hamburgers and hot dogs before he shifted focus to tacos, years before the first Taco Bell opened in Downey, California.

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