{"id":160289,"date":"2026-02-18T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:47:27","slug":"fl-pizzeria-plans-to-add-iguana-pizza-to-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160289\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Pizzeria Plans To Add Iguana Pizza To The Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH PALM BEACH, FL \u2014 After a cold snap earlier this month, a South Florida pizzeria made headlines for a video shared to social media showing their staff making a pizza with iguana meat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/miami\/5-000-cold-stunned-green-iguanas-collected-during-fl-cold-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More than 5,000 of the reptiles<\/a> were collected and removed from the state when the temperatures dropped in early February, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures 40 degrees or less tend to leave iguanas, an invasive species in Florida, cold-stunned and immobile. The FWC offered residents and trappers a one-time opportunity to collect the reptiles without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>A trapper brought iguana meat to Bucks Coal Fired pizzeria in North Palm Beach in early February. <\/p>\n<p>A video showed staff at the pizzeria using the meat on a pizza specially requested by the trapper. (Watch the video below.)<\/p>\n<p>A staff member who answered the phone at Bucks Coal Fired told Patch they haven\u2019t actually been serving the iguana pizza, which has been a misconception. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was never on the menu or anything,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Still, the restaurant has been receiving about 200 calls a day about the iguana pizza, \u201ctrying to order it,\u201d the employee said. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the pizzeria is looking for a vendor who can legally provide iguana meat so they can offer it to diners, she said. \u201cWe do plan on getting this on the menu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the trapper bringing the iguana meat into Bucks Coal Fired:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH PALM BEACH, FL \u2014 After a cold snap earlier this month, a South Florida pizzeria made headlines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-160289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}