INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The same Little Caesars which faced widespread backlash last month after mice droppings were found in a customer’s pizza, re-opened this week to public acclaim.

The store’s unwavering double-down on the scandal made this one of the more notable re-openings in pizza-chain history.

Instead of apologizing and shaking their heads, Little Caesar’s decided to maintain course and keep a straight back, rolling out Poo Poo Pie as an official menu item.

Greg Schmidt, the store’s manager, commented, “While our first poo poo pie was an accident, in hindsight it correlated with a strange increase in rave reviews we’d been receiving in the weeks leading up to the scandal, around the same time we started noticing flecks in the dough. We didn’t know what the flecks were at the time, we all assumed headquarters had simply added a new herb or something without telling us. But no, it was the mouse poo. People loved the nutty taste and consistency added!”

While Schmidt’s hypothesis that people enjoy eating mouse poo is counter-intuitive to say the least, you can’t argue with the results. Since re-opening earlier this week, the Little Caesars store has had lines around the block.

One customer, Don Marbles, commented on the craze, “At first I was just like, get out of here! Poo in pizza? Come on, that’s crazy. But, you know what? It was actually delightful. There’s something about it, I don’t know. Must be the organic processing.”

“What’s most important is the sourcing of the feces,” said Greg Schmidt, “not just any turds will do. You ideally want mice that were raised in a natural environment, but the environment needs to be maintained and kept clean of viruses and harmful bacterium too. We’ve also learned that Swiss-fed mice have a much more full-bodied poo than traditional provolone-fed mice. It’s quite robust, very nutrient-rich. Mouse poo on it’s own is a great source of fiber and protein, it’s the bacterium and viruses that mice catch in their diet that gives their poo a bad smell in the realm of public opinion. But when the providers are kept on a controlled diet in a sterilized area, mouse poo is as healthy for you as normal people poo, which we’ve all enjoyed since our days in the cave.”

While none of our reporters have yet tasted the Poo Poo Pie, it’s not for lack of trying. These lines are crazy!