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First Pizza Delivery?

30 minutes after the party started, duh. Unless you’re one of those people who have a drink to before ordering the pizza just to “get in mood to party” and still haven’t food four or five drinks later. Don’t be that person. Be the one who orders on time while you can still speak coherently to the person taking the order.

Now, while you’re waiting for your pizza to arrive, you can tell them these interesting pizza facts.

In 1889 an Italian chef who was known for his pizzas went to the palace to make some pies for King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. The Margherita pizza was named after her. I don’t know if that counts as delivery since he was only delivering himself and not the pizzas.

The Splendid Table has a recipe for a Margherita Pizza so you can try making your own,

While an Italian chef was making pizza for the palace, Americans were using portable ovens to bring fresh pizza to the streets. (Still the late 1880s.) This is still not quite like what we think of as delivery, it’s more like food trucks (NTTAWWT).

It wasn’t until the 1960s that real pizza delivery to homes was made available. We had pizzas since forever and cars and phones for a few decades. There needed to be one more thing – a strong desire by the customers to eat pizza without having to get up off the couch. This finally came in the form of marijuana.

There’s one more piece to our story – a delivery to a home away from home. Pizza Hut, working with Russian scientists, sent a pizza to the International Space Station in 2001. It was a 6″ sausage pizza and the delivery from Earth to low orbit space took about 2 days.

Find more here – What’s Cooking America: History of Pizza

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Burger King Chicken Fries Discontinued?

Update (March 23, 2015):

Chicken fries are back! And Burger King says they’re back for good. Maybe it was our post that convinced BK to bring them back…or maybe it was the thousands (millions?) of chicken fry fans. It could have been either, really.


Chicken fries, the most perfect food Burger King has ever served was introduced in 2005 and discontinued in 2012. For a short time they offered a 36-piece party pack but the regular servings were six, nine, or twelve pieces. When you opened the container, the flip up lid had a place to hold your dipping sauce.

Fans have been begging for more of this fried chicken goodness on Twitter and Facebook. They were “rewarded” with their return for about a month in 2014.

Why does Burger King not serve this year-round when there is obviously a demand for them? We don’t have the answer to that but we can only assume they are working on a new menu option that is made with bitter tears of disappointment.