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.
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4-10-2006 @ 5:25PM
Nicole Weston said...
Cool story, Sarah!
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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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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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4-16-2006 @ 2:14PM
ispy said...
nice, can i get za in canada.www.ispy2.org
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