Posted on 01/02/2006 9:13:45 PM PST by skeptoid
Hard to believe, but Nome has just gotten its first pizza delivery business, a joint that brings gourmet pies to people's doors and even flies special orders to Bush villages hundreds of miles away.
For free.
It may not arrive hot, but it's all the rage in this Northwest Alaska region where Nome, with its 3,500 residents, had no food delivery options until Airport Pizza launched.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
snip ..... 'It's not like canned stuff. You go to other places up here, and they just serve crap. Airport Pizza is really fluffy and the texture is nice.'
snip .... 'Just before Christmas, 50 pizzas were flown to Savoonga, about 160 miles (across the Bering Sea) west of Nome on the northern coast of St. Lawrence Island. Mayor Jane Kava said the city ordered them as gifts for families.
The order: Twenty-five Hawaiians, with Canadian bacon, pineapple, mozzarella and marinara; and 25 chicken ranch, with chicken, bacon, red onion, tomato, mozzarella, cheddar and country ranch sauce.'
Frozen pizza?
>>>Frozen pizza?<<<
Take-n-bake perhaps?
And the dang pop bottle exploded!
Nome is NOT the last town in America that didn't have pizza delivery. I read that article in the Anchorage paper today too. We live in eastern Interior of Alaska and we do not have pizza delivery either. Only one restaurant in town that is open all year and they don't deliver, and don't even make a decent pizza. LOL
On a side note: When we lived north of the arctic circle, my husband drove to Fairbanks for supplies (an 8-10 hour drive, one-way) and when he returned he had brought a stack of pizzas. He delivered them by snowmachine, 20 miles away, to some of our friends at 40-below. Now THAT'S pizza delivery service!
snip .... "Airport Pizza half bakes most long-distance deliveries -- a standard practice for Bush deliveries. Tomter said it keeps them yummy and makes them eligible for food stamp purchase since the law says stamps can't be used to buy ready-to-eat food."
Not frozen.
Half baked.
Good on 'im.
I figure at least half the towns in Alaska don't have pizza delivery.
That's what THEY said. LOL Imagine their shock when they saw the headlights of a snowmachine, coming up the valley late at night...a valley in the middle of nowhere. Then the knock at the cabin door and a snow and frost covered man saying "pizza delivery". :)
I bet you're right, thackney. That's why I think Nome, or whoever wrote the article, was terribly mistaken or ignorant if they thought Nome was the last town in AMERICA that didn't have delivery pizza.
I was wondering how they could possibly make any money... but apparently these are bulk orders?
Wow, finding a way to make delivered food elgible for food stamps was certainly smart.
I can't take those Digorno's anymore. We get 20 pizzas at a time frozen on their own cardboard in the oven plates from what use to be great land pizza in fairbanks. Large pizzas and total with shipment is under 10 bucks each, not bad.
Got to really watch arctic circle air and everts air though. I usually order 20 pizzas every 2 months. Last time, the pizzas first came out on arctic and the pilot made a stop at fort yukon before flying up river to eagle. At fort yuk he yelled out who gets the pizza and some one gladly took it. I heard the plane coming upriver and jumped in trk and made haste to landing strip. He opened door and entire plane smelled of pizza, but no pizza; happens all the time. Arctic reimbursed my money a couple weeks later. Nx day I called pizza shop and they made 20 more. This time they came on everts air. They got here a week and a half later, sat in freezer at everts. So I usually plan on ordering 2 weeks before I ever need pizza nowadays.
Pretty good pizza just the same. I get sick of salmon and caribou.
Sams sent us 12 boxes of food a couple weeks back, and lost one box. They replaced it but didnt have to, get insurance its cheap. People lose boxes everyday in shipment out here; probably the same all over bush alaska.
'Their' isn't ice and snow and cold, cold Arctic Circle-type darkness on Molokai, either.
pingerooney
Do you live near the Chena river? Beautiful but cold. Where did you live in the Arctic Circle? Anywhere near Coldfoot?
And their delivery is half fast :-)
Hi Eska! I like your idea of having pizza flown in. I wonder if 40-Mile Air would do that too. I don't care for the Digorno's much either. They're o.k. every once in a blue moon, but when we want pizza, we just make our own. But whenever we go to town for supplies, we ALWAYS order a pizza delivered to our motel room. Sometimes we get a couple of extra and bring them home and pop them in the freezer.
Hopefully we won't get much more snow this winter. Sure would be nice to have a faster breakup this year. We're not far from the other end of the Taylor. :)
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