Pizza Hut Japan Re-bones Sausage

In an odd twist, Pizza Hut Japan offers pork sausage attached to a bone as a side dish.

It's like they took the meat off the bone, ground it up and seasoned it, and then put it back on the bone (i.e. they deboned and then re-boned the meat). It seems like a lot of work.

When I first saw the picture, I thought it was some sort of weird brown banana for a second. From the description, it seems like the idea is for the bone to serve as a handle to eat the sausage the same way you'd eat a rib.

I don't know when these first appeared on the Pizza Hut Japan menu but they don't appear to be new.