The first question that comes to mind when confronting a Pizza Hut Cheez-It Pizza is “What is it?”

The second question, of course, is “why?” But that can only truly be answered by Pizza Hut, Cheez-It's parent company Kellogg, and their god.

But seriously, what is it? Pictures of four brown squares in a box didn’t help. How big were they? Were they pizza-sized? Were they Cheez-It cracker-sized? What was inside the brown squares? Crushed Cheez-Its? More brown?

So of course I had to order some to find out. The price is $6.49, which was my first clue that the Cheez-It Pizza would be more of an appetizer than a full pizza. And indeed, the four brown squares turned out to be about the size of a deep-fried Rubik’s Cube.

Inside the squares is — and I probably should have seen this coming — melted mozzarella cheese, making the Cheez-It Pizza just an oddly shaped mozzarella stick. There’s a little tub of marinara sauce for dipping, even though the broad, flat dimensions of the Cheez-It make the logistics of the dip a challenge.

Considered another way, the Cheez-It Pizza is four big toasted raviolis. The secret is that Pizza Hut mixes sharp cheddar flavor into the breading, so it does taste surprisingly a lot like a Cheez-It.