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I can still remember that time.
It must have been some eight or nine hours ago now: if you tried to get a pizza delivered back then, they would just give you a message telling you to call back at 10 am when the pizzeria was open.
The dark ages.
You know, when I was a kid in the 80's we were slightly rural, nothing was ever delivered except mail, or if you ordered something freight or building supplies.
You could get takeout in my area, but afaik, noone was delivering anything
I had seen the commercials for Domino's 30 minute delivery, But they just simply weren't in my area and it didn't seem like there was anybody else doing that work.
Kinda the same here, except my house had delivery. Our cottage which was 30 minutes from the house, had no delivery u told mid 00s even though pizza place out there was only 15 minute drive. Was weird to my child brain
I'm currently 3.9 miles from a Dominos that will not deliver to my neighborhood.
Then I viewed the reviews, I now frequent non-chain pizza places.
Pizza delivery is notoriously dangerous. More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops. It took a long time for people to build up the courage and sense of responsibility for pizza before they braved those streets.
I honor our pizza delivery drivers. o7
More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops
This is more of a America problem than a pizza guy problem.
Everyday i consider being a cop, good overtime pay, life isn't at risk, do whatever you want swap precincts if there are issues no biggie, its a legal mob that protects their own, no real risk, they just stand around let shootings happen, speed everywhere, free whip, my friends have seen cops from local areas doing coke in ppls houses, they're corrupt af just havin a good time, no ones about to stop them like on tv, everyones in on it
I served in the pizza delivery service for nearly ten years 🎖️
Thank you for your service, culinary logistics veteran.
Papa John’s, West Virginia 55th company. Still get flashbacks when I hear someone say “garlic sauce”. Can’t believe I made it out alive
Where were you stationed?
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Ain't nobody got time for Delta Quadrant Pizza delivery. That's coming out of your tip, Kathryn.
This is America. People do whatever the f*** they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can f***ing stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it–we're talking trade balances here–once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwaves in Tadzhikistan and selling them here–once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel–once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity–y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
The deliverator stands tall
snow crash mentioned
You read my mind.
Those skates!
This is America.
This is the internet.
More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops.
Pretty certain that stat is from America. Also, pretty certain my post was the opening to one of the most famous cyberpunk novels of all time.
Every time you order pizza, it's not delivered for a long time, until it's delivered.
It wasn't until the invention of the skateboard and baseball cap that pizza delivery could even become a thing at all
I live super rural. It still isn't.
That time was last night. The location? Costco. $10 for a pie is the best deal going right now.
The movie That Thing You Do contains a subtle bit of American pizza history. When the Oneders play their first gig at the "spaghetti place out by the airport" there are several announcements over the PA like "Table 4, your pizza is ready" - a detail that says even though they were serving a lot of pizza they weren't known as a "pizza place," because very few restaurants in the early 1960s were.
we always had to go pick up the pizza! pizza!, unless we were goin' to super-k, which had little caesars inside with a dining area.
Wait. What was that pizza place called? With a Greek guy who said pizza pizza. And it was 2 pizzas. And the pizzas were impaled on a spear. And it was pretty good pizza.
Little Caesar’s. Good pizza, great bread sticks. The founder was a pretty good dude too (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch)
Jesus. I had no idea. He was a superhero.
I have to imagine that even back when pizza was probably first invented, food delivery was a common thing. You just would have to order it in person, in advance if you didn't have a bird or know how to write.
Toss a coin at the corner street urchin to fetch it for you
- $0.25 tip
- $4.72 surge pricing
- $3.99 service fee
- $2.99 local fee and taxes
- $1.99 insurance
- $0.72 mileage
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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