It wasn't until the invention of the skateboard and baseball cap that pizza delivery could even become a thing at all
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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.
Every time you order pizza, it's not delivered for a long time, until it's delivered.
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.
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.
I served in the pizza delivery service for nearly ten years 🎖️
Where were you stationed?
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
Thank you for your service, culinary logistics veteran.
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Ain't nobody got time for Delta Quadrant Pizza delivery. That's coming out of your tip, Kathryn.
I see the Trek reference, but I feel like I'm still missing something...
I was a part of delivery team six. We lost a lot of good men on that delivery run. 22 pineapple pizzas changes a man.
And I'M STILL WAITING!!! I ordered this pizza in 1997! How long does it TAKE???
I remembered your Diet Dr Kelp, though
Unlike your coppers, your pizza delivery people don’t deserve even risking getting shot.
*in the USA
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.
I’d be careful telling USians that they aren’t the only people on the ‘net, they might shoot you.
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.
And it's a good size. And not terrible.
I've been a member for a couple of years and assumed it was warmed up frozen pizza, but I looked up the process and it isn't. It really tastes pretty good (especially for the price).
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
It was in fact Digiornoed.
Downvoted because digiorno is owned by nestle.......and nestle is evil.
It's not delivery, it's de... struction of human life and exploitation of natural resources.
Well now I want a pizza delivered on horseback.
It's pretty commonly delivered by bicycle in NYC.
And? I did that on bicycle occasionally in Mississippi, way faster than a vehicle no less.
I mean I want a pizza delivered by horse, even if I gotta ride the horse my damn self.
Hey alright. I didn't know if you just wanted something available pre-1900 or specifically a horse. If I knew how to get you the hookup on equestrian pizza I'd be happy to tell ya, but I don't.
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.
Those were dark times. My favorite in undergrad was to order a 14 inch hot sauce pizza from a local shop (of course delivery). I may be trash for how much I enjoyed this pizza but idc. Wont matter on my death bed