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Yorkshire Puddings are a superb and much appreciated invention in themselves but a Newcastle restaurant is giving the Sunday dinner staple a wacky new lease of life by selling it in pizza form.

Yes we kid you not, Geordie diners can now tuck into a pizza with a base made out of a good old Yorkshire.

Specialists of zany culinary creations, Rub Smokehouse & Bar, who have given us the Nugzilla giant chicken nugget and the Kitchen Sink ice cream sundae , are all set to launch a line of Epic Specials for September and the most intriguing of them has to be Yorkshire Pudding Chicago Pot Pizza.

Revealing the surprising creation on their Facebook page, Rub posted ‘This is a Yorkshire Pudding Chicago Pot Pizza with a rich Italian Sausage and Tomato base, lining the bowl as you bake with tonnes of cheese the question is when it hits the menu?

‘Do you want a traditional bread base or the giant Yorkie?

And soon the comments started flooding in. Sophie Mosley reacted "I can't tell whether this is appealing or amazing," Richard Seymour replied to his wife tagging him in with "Hehe will take you for a date, would go lush with a few cocktails! x" and Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast."

You might want to stay sitting down as the Pot Pizza isn’t the only Yorkshire Pudding themed dish set to hit the menu at Rub in The Gate.

(Image: Rub Smokehouse & Bar)

Joining it are Yorkshire Pudding Fajitas which will include low n slow brisket low n slow chicken on a bed of oven roasted maple syrup onions carrots parsnips and greens with brisket jus dip, dripping roasties, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese and garlic pork stuffing balls.

What a time to be alive right?