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Brew: Food. Whether you’re cooking for yourself, or ordering
in for a feast, it’s safe to assume everyone has
a favourite dish that they’d do anything to get.
And when it comes to ordering in, a lot
of us are willing to pay a premium to get
that favourite dish delivered to our door.
Quiz: Even if they get a bit cringe sometimes.
Lookin’ at you, Grubhub!
Brew: Delivery apps like Doordash and UberEats
have seen orders double recently, since we can’t
exactly go out and get it ourselves anymore.
But how far would you go to get that delivery craving?
Howard: I would put all my processors on bitcoin
mining to be able to taste beef wellington.
Quiz: I’d donate my lucky socks for a good enough ice cream...
Brew: And I would give up coffee for at least
an hour to get some freshly delivered… coffee…
But would you fly a chef across an ocean
just to serve your favourite curry?
Quiz: And that’s not even the weirdest delivery story!
Brew: So settle in, and let’s take a look at some wild
food deliveries for people who just couldn’t wait!
Delivering food to remote, cold
locations can be a difficult task.
So don’t be surprised if you find things like
a single bowl of fruit costing over $12 USD.
And that’s for food with a much
higher shelf life than takeout.
But if you were somewhere like the wilds of Alaska, it would
be pretty hard to get a pizza delivered to your door, right?
Quiz: Wrong!
Here comes Papa Murphy’s, located in Anchorage, Alaska.
Brew: Like many pizzerias, Papa Murphy’s
offers delivery on their pizza pies.
Like many, they use fresh ingredients.
Quiz: But unlike most, Papa Murphy has a delivery plane.
Brew: Over the course of a week, Papa Murphy’s will
deliver 150 pizzas over hundreds of miles via airplane.
Now, this of course would take a bit longer than the 30
minutes to get your regular pizza piping hot or get your
money back, which is why Papa Murphy’s deals in flash
frozen pizzas that their customers cook in their own ovens.
“Once the customer gets them...
They defrost them, it takes just a couple hours
on the counter.” said owner Tyler Williams.
And that’s not even the wildest pizza delivery we’ve
seen, at least they didn’t have to hit a moving bullseye.
Say you’re eating dinner and pack the leftovers for lunch.
Then in the morning, you wake up late and rush
in, only to realize halfway into a three hour
meeting that you forgot the leftovers in the
fridge and you’re stuck with a growling stomach..
Quiz: Or maybe you’re like dubstep DJ Artwork
from the UK, who boarded a train for a five
hour long trip without grabbing a bite to eat or
realizing there’s no snack trolley or dining car.
Brew: At first, he went on Twitter to bemoan his fate.
Then he started asking if anyone would
be willing to get him food at a station.
Those tweets soon turned to a plan.
A plan to order a pizza.
Using skills straight out of a highschool math quiz,
Artwork calculated the route and the amount of time
to the various stops, then decided where to order
the pizza based on how long it would take, tweeting:
“I think I'm going to try for
Durham .... Not enough time for Newcastle
Another issue was finding a pizza company that would
come through with a delivery to a moving train.
Thankfully for Artwork, Domino’s was willing
to take on the task, though explaining that he
didn’t have a postal code needed a bit to explain.
But the moment came, and was immortalized in video
as the Domino’s delivery person ran from the parking
lot to the station, and managed to track down
the correct car, pies in hand and keys in mouth.
And so Artwork had succeeded in his task,
a Hawaiian pizza delivered to the train
that he graciously shared with the staff.
Quiz: Don’t even @ us about Hawaiian
pizza, it’s great, and it’s also Canadian
Brew: And what did Artwork do to top this daring caper?
Well, he did it all over again, of course.
Ordering a pizza to another moving train he was
riding while passing through Kettering station.
In his own words, "I've done it twice now.
This is the challenge, I'm going to get larger meals.
I think I will try a Chinese next."
So what could top delivering a pizza to a moving target?
That seems to be what Pizza Hut were asking
while planning their marketing campaign in 2001.
The answer they chose was: a moving target that can’t
stop and was 350 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.
The pizza chain approached the Russian space
agency, Roscosmos, and paid them $1 million USD
to create an out of this world marketing stunt.
The plan?
To send a six-inch pizza from Earth
to the International Space Station.
But the process wasn’t as simple as just throwing together the
usual mix of dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and toppings.
The first issue that Pizza Hut encountered
is that life in space has an unfortunate
side effect of dulling the sense of taste.
Which meant that the pizza chefs had to load the pie
up with extra spices to pump up the flavour so that
the cosmonauts would be able to, you know, taste it.
Quiz: There were also other unexpected problems,
like the fact that the ingredients needed
to have a shelf life longer than 60 days.
This meant that pepperoni was out of
the question: it would’ve gotten moldy.
Brew: Instead, Pizza Hut had to use salami.
Then on March, the pizza was vacuum sealed and
shipped up on a resupply rocket to the ISS, to be
enjoyed by the Russian half of the crew on board.
But why just the Russians?
Well, that answer may surprise you…
Quiz: NASA hates ads!
Brew: In fact, in June of 2020 an ad trumpeting
NASA’s return to human spaceflight was pulled.
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Brew: *sniffle* They grow up so fast.
Now then, let’s come back from orbit and set down on
something a bit more… spontaneous, and a lot more regal.
February 1, 1976, Graceland.
The King’s feeling hungry, baby, and this
is the kind of munchy that only one thing is
gonna satisfy, and that’s some fool’s gold.
Howard: Why not real gold?
Quiz: No, no, no, “Fool’s Gold” is a sandwich.
Specifically, a Fool’s Gold Loaf.
Brew: And that’s some Fool’s Gold… Namely, a sandwich
that was sold by the Colorado Mine Company in Denver.
The Fool’s Gold Loaf was an elevated PB&J made out
of a hollowed out loaf of bread with a jar of peanut
butter, a jar of jam, and a pound of bacon inside.
All in all, each Fool’s Gold loaf weighed in at 8,000
calories and cost $50 each - over $200 adjusted for inflation.
The only problem?
Elvis was at home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee:
over 1,000 miles away from Denver, Colorado.
Quiz: But Elvis had just the way to get his craving:
a private jet with gold plated bathroom fixtures.
Brew: Does that have anything to do with the story?
Quiz: Nope! But it’s just too extra to not mention.
Brew: When they arrived two hours later, the couple who
ran the restaurant had 22 Fool’s Gold Loaves prepared—
Quiz: I assume they thanked Elvis for calling ahead.
Brew: And met them at the airport.
In return, Elvis invited everyone—the cook and his pilots
included—to enjoy the food and wash it down with champagne.
Quiz: Hail to the king, baby!
Brew: Thank you, thank you very much.
Quiz: But! At least that’s in the same country,
not on an entirely different continent!
Brew: Kanye West, pulling the kind of stunts he’s known
for Kanye best, put in a curry order for himself and seven
Kanye guests for the after party of a Snoop Dogg concert.
The only problem?
The restaurant was in Wales, and he was in New York.
A promotion company called Raw Soul, contacted the
British Raj restaurant in Rogerstone, near Newport,
on his behalf to organize the delivery of a five foot
long Ayre fish curry with a price tag of 2000 pounds.
The meal and the chef were picked up by helicopter and flown
to Heathrow airport where they boarded a flight bound for
the Big Apple, where the chef got to serve Yeezy himself.
Quiz: Except… not really.
It turns out Kanye wasn’t the one to place
the order, as he would have been in LA at the
time, and had never eaten at the restaurant.
Instead it was his entourage who had the
meal, according to the South Wales Argus.
Brew: Reports are mixed as to whether
Kanye had to foot the bill, though.
Quiz: Calls to Raw Soul by reporters
were not returned, according to CBS news.
Brew: Not that it likely mattered to British Raj
owner Mashud Ahmed… Because he was paid in advance.
At the end of the day, there’s a lot of things we’d do for
our favourite food, and while many of us would certainly
order in something to get that pizza or burger we so desire,
most of us wouldn’t go to the lengths of these tales.
Right, Quiz?
Quiz: Sssh, my favourite gelato place in Rome just
posted an IG story saying they'll deliver for $3000.
Brew: Ouch, that’s… cold.
Quiz: Boo!