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A South Florida pizzeria has gone viral for a video showing its owner making a pizza<\/a> with a topping unique to the region.<\/p>\n

Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in Lake Park, Florida, created what owner Frankie Cecere called “the first iguana pizza in the history of mankind.”<\/p>\n

After corralling a handful of cold-stunned green iguanas<\/a> during Florida’s recent freeze and humanely euthanizing them, content creator Ryan Izquierdo took his unusual haul to Bucks Coal Fired Pizza.<\/p>\n

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The pizzeria’s social media video<\/a> showing Cecere, 39, making the “Everglades Pie” has racked up thousands of comments and millions of views.<\/p>\n

Cecere’s concoction was a white pizza topped with three types of meat: venison, bacon and “the star of the show.”<\/p>\n

The idea for the iguana pizza came from Izquierdo, who told Fox News Digital he’d been collecting cold-stunned iguanas when temperatures dropped low enough to immobilize the invasive reptiles.<\/p>\n

During the two-day cold snap, Florida waived its law<\/a> requiring permits to transport iguanas, allowing residents to nab the pesky invaders and bring them to the state’s wildlife officers to be euthanized.<\/p>\n

It’s legal to humanely kill iguanas<\/a> on private property in Florida.<\/p>\n

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What began as a one-off collaboration quickly turned into a flood of attention for the restaurant.<\/p>\n

“The majority of people have loved it,” Cecere told Fox News Digital. “We’ve probably received at least 1,500 calls asking if we have iguana available. A lot of people seem interested in purchasing it.”<\/p>\n

But not all feedback has been positive.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a fair amount of hatred coming our way,” Cecere said, mentioning negative Google reviews and repeated complaints from “people just yelling at us on the phone for, I guess, making an iguana pizza in general.”<\/p>\n

Despite the interest, the iguana pizza is not currently available for customers to order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cecere said the pie was made specifically for the video and was prepared before the restaurant opened.<\/p>\n

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“It was kind of a one-off thing. We did it for a video,” he said.<\/p>\n

While the iguana topping was new, the restaurant<\/a> is no stranger to unconventional ingredients.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cecere said Buck’s regularly serves other nontraditional meats that reflect Florida’s outdoor culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to venison, which is “a mainstay for us,” gator tail is also on the menu, Cecere said.<\/p>\n

Izquierdo, 27, said it didn’t take many iguanas to make the pizza topping.<\/p>\n

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“We were able to use pretty much all the meat on the bone of just four iguana legs and a little bit of tail meat,” he said.<\/p>\n

Izquierdo’s first bite was loaded with iguana meat.<\/p>\n

“Unbelievable,” he said after taking a bite of the pizza on camera.<\/p>\n

He equated the taste to “frog legs” and called it “a little bit sweet.”<\/p>\n

Buck’s Coal Fired Pizza is still looking into whether iguana meat could ever be offered through an approved vendor \u2014 but for now, it remains off the menu, Cecere said.<\/p>\n

“It was absolutely fantastic \u2014 and people really should be more open-minded, especially about using an invasive species for something that’s good,” Izquierdo told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

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“I mean, you can make all sorts of recipes<\/a> with it. It is a delicacy in many places around the world. And I think iguana definitely belongs on pizza.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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