There's Now a Mutton Pizza Available in Kentucky

Two Owensboro, KY restaurants have teamed up to create something unique and distinctly delicious. It's a pizza with mutton on it.

Now, you may be asking yourself, "What in the heck is mutton?" If you're from the Owensboro area, you know the answer to that question. You've likely had it and, if you're a real Owensboroan, you love it and have your favorite place in town or local Catholic church cooking team to get it from. Mutton, like burgoo, is a staple of our world famous BBQ. It's one of the main reasons why Owensboro has the nickname of the Bar-B-Q Capital of the World!

Mutton is so popular locally that Owensboro, on multiple occasions, has played host the International Mutton Slider Eating Championship, which Joey Chestnut won multiple times. Here's some footage from the 2019 competition at the International Bar-B-Q Festival downtown.

As I said, here in Owensboro, we love our mutton and are always looking for fun ways to showcase it.

Get our free mobile app

Well, now Owensboro is home to the "Old Hickory" Mutton Pizza. Old Hickory is one of our most popular BBQ restaurants and their mutton is featured on a new pizza created by Azzip.

Chef Blake Kollker says "We are really excited to debut this mash-up!" The "Old Hickory" is hitting ovens for the first time today. It's now available to the public!

The special creation, because it's so unique to our city, will only be available at Azzip's Owensboro location.

Azzip Pizza

The "Old Hickory" features Old Hickory chopped mutton, mozzarella cheese, onion, pickles, rye chips and a swirl of John's Sweet Heat BBQ Sauce.

You can try it at Azzip Pizza, which is located at 3800 Frederica Street in Owensboro.

LOOK: Best Beers From Every State

To find the best beer in each state and Washington D.C., Stacker analyzed January 2020 data from BeerAdvocate, a website that gathers user scores for beer in real-time. BeerAdvocate makes its determinations by compiling consumer ratings for all 50 states and Washington D.C. and applying a weighted rank to each. The weighted rank pulls the beer toward the list's average based on the number of ratings it has and aims to allow lesser-known beers to increase in rank. Only beers with at least 10 rankings to be considered; we took it a step further to only include beers with at least 100 user rankings in our gallery. Keep reading to find out what the best beer is in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C.