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Pizza delivery in Alaska is by air

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In Nome, Alaska, ordering a pizza is easy. Just call up Airport Pizza, which delivers free of charge, by plane. Population in the western Alaska town is 3,500, but Airport Pizza delivers to almost a dozen sub-arctic villages via Frontier Flying Service, which provides the delivery free of charge, even as far away as 500 miles to a small island in the Bering Sea.

But that doesn't make a pizza meal cheap. A small cheese pizza starts at $16, and can go up to $32 for a large specialty. Fuel costs keep the the cost of getting ingredients like garlic, red and green bell peppers, and sun-dried tomatoes. These are rare ingredients in Nome, Alaska. However, reindeer sausage is not.

Filed Under: Business, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: alaska, america, dinner, lunch, pizza, pizza delivery, west coast

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Nicole Weston

4-10-2006 @5:25PM Nicole Weston said... Cool story, Sarah!
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Lagomorpho

4-11-2006 @1:35AM Lagomorpho said... This reminds me of an episode of Talespin (part of the Disney Afternoon!) where they took up selling pizzas and they didn't have enough time to make a whole batch so they flew the plane into a volcano for some quick cooking. Good times.
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Keely Buchanan

4-11-2006 @1:36PM Keely Buchanan said... Yep - sounds like an Alaskan story - I grew up there, and we had to have pizza delivered to a gas station 5 miles away, because that's as far as they went...hee hee
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ispy

4-16-2006 @2:14PM ispy said... nice, can i get za in canada.www.ispy2.org
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