For the past few years, Indians have had to deal with a horror topping called 'chicken pepperoni' on their pizzas (For the uninitiated: There is no such food item as 'chicken pepperoni', just as there is no such thing as 'vegetarian biryani').

Gujaratis, however, will not have to worry about coming across such a horror, at least at the outlets of one prominent pizza chain.

That pizza chain -- Domino's -- seems to have discontinued its entire range of non-vegetarian pizzas in the state. Barbecue chicken, chicken tikka, peri-peri chicken, chicken pepperoni... nope, none of these will be seen on the top of a Domino's pizza pie in Gujarat for now.

Domino's Pizza's non-vegetarian offerings have been off the menu in Gujarat for the past few days and it seems that they will not return anytime soon.

IndiaToday.in made multiple telephonic inquires at Domino's outlets in Gujarat. The answer at all the outlets was similar: "Sir, non-vegetarian pizzas are not available...they are not available in the whole of Gujarat."

Inquires made on Domino's Pizza's online ordering service returned a similar result. IndiaToday.in attempted placing 'pick-up from restaurant' orders from multiple outlets in cities such as Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Anand.

The online menu that was displayed for all these outlets only displayed Domino's Pizza's vegetarian offerings.

A similar online inquiry made at the sole Domino's outlet in neighbouring Daman turned up the pizza chain's full menu consisting of all the non-vegetarian pizza options.

So have non-vegetarian pizzas disappeared off the menu in Gujarat for good? Well, a conversation freenlance journalist Jaimeen Baxi had with an outlet in Vadodara suggests so.

Baxi told IndiaToday.in that Domino's staff at the Vadodara outlet said they had no specific information about the disappearance of non-vegetarian pizzas being restricted to the festival of Navaratri (Navaratri begins today and is a festival during which fast-food chains have been known to temporarily turn their menus "all vegetarian").

Baxi told IndiaToday.in that the staff at the Vadodara outlet confirmed that non-vegetarian pizzas have been discontinued and said that new menu cards have been printed to replace the ones that had Domino's Pizza's non-vegetarian offerings listed.

IndiaToday.in got in touch with Domino's Pizza India seeking clarification on the matter but the company refused to comment.

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