• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    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.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    19 days ago

    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.

  • Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    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

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      20 days ago

      More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops

      This is more of a America problem than a pizza guy problem.

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      20 days ago

      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

        • shalafi@lemmy.world
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          19 days ago

          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.

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    19 days ago

    Every time you order pizza, it’s not delivered for a long time, until it’s delivered.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    20 days ago

    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.

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        19 days ago
        • $0.25 tip
        • $4.72 surge pricing
        • $3.99 service fee
        • $2.99 local fee and taxes
        • $1.99 insurance
        • $0.72 mileage