The movie That Thing You Do contains a subtle bit of American pizza history. When the Oneders play their first gig at the "spaghetti place out by the airport" there are several announcements over the PA like "Table 4, your pizza is ready" - a detail that says even though they were serving a lot of pizza they weren't known as a "pizza place," because very few restaurants in the early 1960s were.
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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.
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.
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
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
snow crash mentioned
You read my mind.
Those skates!