Can you get a pizza delivered to your home?
By CanadaGal
@CanadaGal (4304)
Canada
February 28, 2008 8:01pm CST
It seems like such a silly question, doesn't it? I live in Canada, and we are inundated with pizza places. And to the best of my knowledge, they all deliver. I have at least 10 different pizza joint flyers coming to my home each week.
Why am I asking if you get pizza delivered? Simple. I'm reading Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently book "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul", and although only 70 pages into it, one of the main characters, Kate, is rather upset at the fact that she cannot get a pizza pie delivered to her home in London, England. She tries and tries, to no avail. It is the only thing she misses about living in the United States (New York I believe).
So it got me to wondering if this is actually true. Are pizzas delivered to homes in England? Are they delivered to your home, wherever you live? Is it just a north american thing?
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@violeta_va (4831)
• Australia
29 Feb 08
yes we have pizza delivery in Australia but then again I dont think they would have that in the remote areas. Where I live there is probably 50 pizza places in 10km radius from my house. We always buy from the same place and its about 1.2 km from my home so we go and pick them up I save lots of money that way as delivery would be twice the price I pay for pick up.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
Twice the price, really? Wow! There isn't that much of a difference in the prices from pick up to delivery here.. not that I've noticed anyways (aside from the odd drop in special).
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@violeta_va (4831)
• Australia
29 Feb 08
my local pizza place delivers cupons all the time so we never buy full price so with cupon I pay $4.95 per pizza pick up if it was to be delivered again with cupon its $8.95 I dont know how much the normal prices are to be honest but I would think there is the simmilar difference again.
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@rekhum (2420)
• India
1 Mar 08
Luckily it gets delivered to my door here.But i am not fond of it anyway.We have Dominnos Pizza just 2 blocks away from my residence.I'd prefer to order fries and burgers or fillets from MC D.even though it takes a little more time to be delivered to my place.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
1 Mar 08
come to think of it, I'm not really a big pizza fan either. But because I have kids that are, it is a staple meal in our house.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
29 Feb 08
You are supposed to be able to get delivery in my town, but the only pizza place that delivers is never open!
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
lmao! how can that possibly make for good business? haha!
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
29 Feb 08
I have to say that it is not just an England thing. I'm in the US and cannot get a pizza delivered to my home. Why? Because I live just a few hundred feet where the cut off for delivery ends. So when my family wants a pizza I have to drive to pick it up. It sucks, but that's what I get for living in the boonies. :P
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
That would upset me... just a few more feet! ugh!
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@pat1959in (59)
• United States
1 Mar 08
I live in Indiana and we have a ton of Pizza places.But we also live in the boonies.So there is only 2 places that will deliver to us.The funny thing is.The 2 that will deliver are the two that are farther from us. The close ones won't deliver.
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@sugaredprincess (66)
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29 Feb 08
Yep in England we live on home deliveries for our food. I used to always order a pizza meal to be delivered, chinese or an indian! Now that I am in Tunisia however there are no such thing as home deliveries for your food and it drives me crazy, mind you we dont have a McDonalds, KFC or Pizza Hut either so thats even worse - I miss being able to ring up and order my food for it to be delivered.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I would miss that too. But on the bright side, think of all the money you're saving! :D
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
A weekly pizza day in your home? Lucky you! Today is a pizza lunch day for one of my sons. His "colour house" in school won it this session.
@Sissygrl (10912)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
We get pizza delivered all the time, but living in a small town there are only a few to choose from. I worked at one, and although i left there on bad terms, i always get my friends to order from there. i'm afriad if they found out that it was me ordering the pizza and panzerotti's theyd spit in it or something lol.
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@Sissygrl (10912)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I agree.. Not that i think they really would do that type of thing.. but maybe.. lol. I would never do that to someones food. That would be SICK! I am a firm believer in what comes around goes around!! KARMA! Ive never spit on soemones food on purpose.. lol i like to taste test when i'm cooking at home with teh stiring utensil, but that'd different. i swap bodily fluids with those people on a regular basis anywasy! ;)
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
LMAO! Yes, that's the kind of "free toppings" that would be very BAD.
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@Myrrdin (3599)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I live in the same city as you, so you already know my answer ;).... but when I call the Pizza place they don't even ask my address anymore, just show up 15 minutes later with pizza in hand.
Back to TLDTTOTS (The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul, I am a computer geek I abbreviate everything), it was published in 1988, and if I remember correctly Adams wrote it in the early 80's actually, it is possible that while pizza delivery is more common now in London, that it was less popular and thus more difficult to find a decent pizza delivery place. On my one trip to London England the day we flew in to Heathrow we spent hours looking for a place to eat that wasn't fast food or ridiculously expensive, in the end we ended up spending nearly 20 pounds each on hamburgers in a bar that tasted like crap. Our problem was we were after the dinner hour and figured we could just go to the pub and get pub fare, however almost all pubs had closed the kitchen and the best we could do was get some chips. We would have done the fish and chips route at one of the thousands of chipers, but I was highly allergic to fish at the time and didn't want to test British health care system just to have a full belly.
We stayed in London just shy of a week and it wasn't until we were headed back to Heathrow to head home that we discovered this little out of the way pub that serves food 24-7, the food was outstanding, the silly part is it was less then a block away from our hotel, we just didn't go that way because it looked residential rather then business. The only reason we went down this road at all was we had some time to kill and thought we'd go for a walk before finding a place for lunch. I had the best steak and kidney pie of my life at that pub.
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@Myrrdin (3599)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
Well actually its that the pizza place I use uses a computer automated system that ties my phone with the address so as soon as I call it comes up on their screen along with what I ordered last, so generally alls I have to do is verify that I want the same thing... It's handy.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
That's pretty sad, that the pizza place knows you that well. You'd think you had the munchies a lot or something. :P
As for not finding tasty burgers in London, making reference back to Adams, apparently finding a decent sandwich of any kind is a rather difficult task in England. Even Arthur Dent had to leave the planet and open up his own sandwich shop in order to make it happen.
@enchantedleppard (1541)
• United States
29 Feb 08
I cannot get a pizza delivered to my home from certain places. I live in a small town in Ohio. For 10 years Pizza Hut would not deliver to my house because I was not inside "city limits". (My house is on a main road, 3 minutes out of town.) They do deliver now but charge a delivery fee to bring it to us. There is another local shop that does deliver and we have been most valued customers for 15 years or more. There are 4 pizza shops total in my town, and 1 will deliver to my house. So they get our business!
@enchantedleppard (1541)
• United States
7 Mar 08
Thank you so much for best response. Its greatly apprciated!
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
That's such a tick off when you're so close, but just on the outside of their boundaries. Glad to hear you found one that comes to you. :D
@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
29 Feb 08
Here in Singapore, it is easy to have the pizza outlets deliver their pizzas to one's home, and they are quite efficient. All I need to do is to call their hotline for delivery, even if it is a special day like New Year's Day or Christmas. I can also easily get home delivery for McDonald's as well as KFC and other fast foods. Usually the delivery people come around on motorcycles or scooters. It is a very competitive environment here, and if an outlet decides not to provide such a service, it may lose out on business to its rivals.
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@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
29 Feb 08
Well, we do have our McDelivery service. See here http://www.mcdonalds.com.sg/. You can even order online and get it delivered to you. In recent months, McDonald's even had a promotion where each week (I think) they pick a lucky home delivery winner and award the winner $10K.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I wish we had McD's delivery here, without paying an arm and a leg for a courier service to get it.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I didn't think McDonald's delivered anywhere. I know they used to have pizza, but here in Canada, it didn't last very long.
@swirlz (3136)
• Philippines
29 Feb 08
Oh there are pizza deliveries here in our city. But we can't get a pizza delivered to our home. Because we live way up in the mountains, there are more trees than houses. lol. We don't have an exact home address. I bet the delivery guy would get lost. And that would be a waste of a good pizza. ^_^
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
To live on a mountain surrounded by trees, I think I would gladly give up the luxury of pizza delivery.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I haven't made a proper full size pizza at home yet, but it's definitely on the list of things to do.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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29 Feb 08
Rintintin and others have given you the answer. But even down here in the wilds of Southern Wiltshire we have at least 3 pizza delivery firms. I am not a big fan though, it mostly tastes like mush. I'd rather make it - but the girls prefer Pizza Hut every time. Wonder why?
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
Pizza Hut is my favourite too. It's the pan crust. OH MY!! They have a fantastic one with grilled chicken and green peppers and onions... I highly recommend it. :D
@manigandan18 (243)
• India
1 Mar 08
s i am eating PIZZA right now ...i but not the one specified by you
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29 Feb 08
Wow, I've never heard of not being able to get pizza delivered in a city anywhere. Never thought about it I guess.
I've lived in places where pizza wouldn't be delivered, but it was all because of being in the middle of nowhere. One trailer I lived when I was younger was literally plopped down in the middle of a clearing in the woods. I wasn't getting any pizza there. ;P
Where I live now, there are several places that deliver pizza, though some of them charge extra when the weather is bad.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29 Feb 08
I have to say, I don't really blame them for charging more, considering the type of weather we have where I live. I've been impressed at the type of weather they'll come out in, actually. I've been able to get pizza on some days I wouldn't have wanted to leave my home.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
29 Feb 08
I'd never thought about pizza not being delivered anywhere in the world before reading that book either. Darn reading.. making me think! Ugh!
Charging more when it's bad weather? I've never encountered that. All I've had when the weather is bad, is that they take away the delivery guarantee within a certain timeframe.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
1 Mar 08
We have like 2 pizza places here and they both deliver but we rarely order from them b/c we both really like the freshetta's that you buy at the store. Their frozen pizza's but are wonderful once cooked.
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
1 Mar 08
If I could find a frozen pizza I preferred over the order in kind, I would rather go that route too.
@heathcliff (1415)
• United States
1 Mar 08
I remember that when I read the book! I even heard coroboration of it on a British TV show, but all of that was years ago and was only for the inner part of London. Things may have changed alot since then: The book was first copyrighted in 1988:: I just happen to have my copy right here :)
I can get a dozen different places to deliver where I am now, but when I was growing up my family lived just outside everyone's delivery range. Country life can suck!
Keep reading Douglas Adams, May He Rest In Peace!
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
1 Mar 08
I'm about 1/2 way through the book now, and next will be "The Salmon of Doubt". Then I'll be done, aside from reading radio transcripts and joint ventures, which I'm not sure I'll bother with.
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
1 Mar 08
I live in the United States the city I live in only has Pizza Hut that delivers. We have a bar that does carry out with pizzas and we have a carryout service at the Caseys gas station but the only delivery is Pizza Hut.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
1 Mar 08
I'd be okay with that.. my favourite pizza is from pizza hut. :)
@Deea48 (1166)
• United States
1 Mar 08
I live in MN, USA. We have pizza, subs,chiken and ribs, you name it we can get it. Some have free delivery some don't. Some are very pricey and some are very cheap. I like that I have all those options, it is handy.