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Domino’s ultimate pizza delivery vehicle

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 6 months ago
    I'm perfectly happy with an inexpensive Tombstone Supreme Pizza bought at Walmart and baked in the oven.
    First, I sprinkle on a little extra garlic and later crushed red pepper wile I'm eating it.
    What's left over is refrigerated for a microwave meal.
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    • Posted by robgambrill 8 years, 6 months ago
      Frozen pizza's were my staple while working only part-time during the "Great Recession". Dressing them up to make my one meal of the day better was what led me to try to make my own.

      Sadly, frozen pizza prices have gone up by more than a couple of bucks since 2008 (Although inflation is low?), but the Tombstone ones (with a few fresh ingredients added) are usually pretty good for the price.
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 8 years, 6 months ago
    I love pizza, even bad pizzas, but since cutting carbs out of my eating and losing 48 pounds, I allow myself a pizza only about once a year.
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    • Posted by $ jlc 8 years, 6 months ago
      Yes, I too am fond of all but the really worst pizzas. And I too have gone Paleo and non-gluten and only eat a piece a few times a year (only lost 15 lbs, though). Calif Pizza Kitchen has non-gluten crusts, if that makes a difference to you.

      Jan
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      • Posted by plusaf 8 years, 6 months ago
        I've tried gluten-free crusts and determined that virtually all of them should be labeled "taste-free," too.

        I haven't enjoyed Good Pizza since I moved from NJ in 1978... :(

        The first time, back then, that I went out looking for a lunch pizza, I ordered mushrooms and pepperoni, my fave... when the server handed it to me, I asked if they'd baked it. .... dry, uncanned, barely-sliced raw mushrooms on top of a truly mediocre sauce. Don't remember finding the pepperoni at all...

        A lot changed and improved since then, but NJ/NY/Long Island pizzas rule in my book.

        Oh, yeah, went on a business trip from CA to Long Island with a co-worker who described himself as a 'pizza gourmet.' I made it a point to ask our sales rep to stop only at hole-in-the-wall storefront pizza places on our visit, and when we got home that "Gourmet" agreed that each and every one of those pizzas was better than any Si Valley local product.

        A few in Raleigh come close, but just 'close.'

        Good luck searching and testing, though!
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  • Posted by $ jlc 8 years, 6 months ago
    This is a neat idea. It almost makes me want to yank the passenger seat out of my Jeep and put a nifty 3D printed storage unit there...or maybe a small storage and an inboard stair/ramp for my aging dogs to load up easier...or how about a hot tub. That's it: A hot tub and a self driving car.

    Can do!

    Jan
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  • Posted by Zin7272 8 years, 6 months ago
    Costco has a great pizza at a low cost. Their Rotisserie Chicken is the largest, best and least expensive.
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    • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
      What always gets to me is the power of a brand.

      Brands have a way of lulling people into semi-consciousness where they will put up with higher prices and/or lower quality in order to stick with what they know and trust.

      Brands are like moochers - like that old friend who always finds a way to get you to lend them another $100 they promise they'll pay back promptly but never do - once they're established, they give access to unearned wealth and undeserved power. Therefore, they constitute a form of market failure, because they aren't delivering optimal quality and price.

      I recall at one job I had, across the road there was a strip of shops with 3 takeaways - a McDonalds, a KFC and an independent burger bar. The burger bar's burgers were brilliant, fresh, healthy, tasty, well-priced. But they didn't attract anywhere near the number of people who went to McDonalds each day, chomping down on their unhealthy, mass-produced, bland pseudo-food.
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      • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
        But its consistently bland pseudo-food ;^)
        You are right, of course. The chains start out with a good product and then gradually decline as the originator loses out to the 'professionals.' Happens in politics and education, too, unfortunately.
        Kudos to mediocracy.
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        • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
          I remember from a recent micro-economics paper I did at university how they beat up severely on diversion of unearned wealth, and how this creates inherent economic inefficiencies. However, they only focused on this when done as government taxation at the point of a gun, not when done by corporations at the point of extremely clever psychological manipulation.
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          • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
            Big organizations enforce mediocrity and discourage competition. Individuals achieve the miraculous because of freedom and competition. The inventor seldom wants to spend his time managing a business when he has more creative ideas to develop. The internet and crowd funding is slowly changing the way inventors get funding. Wall Street has some formidable competition, and I expect they will use their influence to try to crush it.
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            • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
              I see a lot of this as an arms race between the human spirit, versus the ongoing evolution of technology for mass psychological manipulation. That technology has already progressed to the point of getting people to willingly relinquish most of their democratic rights.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago
    the ultimate perfect inexpensive pizza is do it yourself from flour, water, etc. I'll stretch to a jar of Italian flavored tomato sauce but mostly just the less expensive no flavor tomato sauce/. ....sometimes, shred some cheese, add whatever bake to taste cut to taste eat hot from the oven. let the dough rise a bit and make Sicilian .....half or less the cost. More enjoyment!
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    • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
      Sounds great, MA ;^)
      I have moved away from tomato sauce completely, although a few fresh halved cherry tomatoes or some sliced sundried tomatoes are a good addition. My favorites are based on garlic and grapeseed oil and a touch of crushed red pepper/chili, then add the flavors I crave that day. I love shrimp/prawns when I can get fresh ones- that should be easy in your location. Plus various fresh vegetables and cheese.
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      • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago
        Great idea. Fresh tomatoes grown abut 50 miles from here. Shrimp is seasonal. When it's open I've paid as little as 80 pesos a kilo (at 12.5 xchange rate) then seen it go up to 180-280 pesos per kilo. That's picked shelled tail on ready to eat and flash frozen. Buying off the boats or at the fresh markets it varies we have two price structure local and gringo. But compared to just across the border to the north it's a steel. I have a chest freezer so I stock up a bit with 10 kilo. and use it for ice in the ice chest when defrosting. When it's gone it's hot season and the space goes to real ice.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 8 years, 6 months ago
    Medoicre design by committee over 5 years to do a mediocre job delivering mediocre food. I doubt they would recoup the money spent on this project. Especially since, in some places, driving a new, snazzy pizza-moile screams to the bad guys "I have cash, rob me". If anything - I figured it would become a papa murphys on wheels - put a pizza oven in back and cook it enroute. The other thing - Does it have a GPS to track when and where the vehicles are, with data available real time? Routing GPS (again in real time) to get it around traffic jams? How about an on-board drop box that the money goes in, and it doesn't come out until a coded magnetic interface back at the store triggers a release mechanism and dumps the cashbox, as well as an alert fob the drver has in case, no, when he or she is robbed... lessening the risk of robbery.

    All fluff and advertisement, no substance as far as I can see...
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 6 months ago
    Its nice they have a cool way to deliver. BUT, by the time you pay Dominos, wait for delivery, and then have to give a tip, its better to buy frozen ones at costco and pop them in the oven for 20 minutes. we all need to learn to eat our LESS now to learn how to live on less money in anticipation of the decline of our country.
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    • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
      I would definitely eat less if my only choice was between Domino's and frozen pizza. Home made is so much better, and worth the time if you have it. Its a good break from project work for me, but sometimes I just don't want a break ;^)
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      • Posted by term2 8 years, 6 months ago
        I bet it takes less time to make it at home than it takes to make the money for dominos and wait for the delivery. I heat DiGiornos in 20 min , and its not bad at all.
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        • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
          I usually have something else quick to prep and don't opt for frozen pizza in a pinch for time. Its rare that I don't have some homemade leftover chicken curry, or spaghetti, or pulled pork, or chicken du jour. If not, I'd opt for making breakfast (eggs, bacon, sausage) over frozen pizza. Frozen pizza just has no appeal for me.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 8 years, 6 months ago
    I thought the drivers used their own cars and just stuck a Dominos light on top. I don't think franchise owners are gonna want to spring for $20 grand to get this car when it costs them nothing now.
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  • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
    In my country, I'm spoiled rotten by the delectable gourmet pizza and gourmet burger chains, who sell their wares for not much more than the big fast food brands. They are starting to dominate, except in the very poorest areas. For me now, the regular brands like Dominos, Pizza Hut etc taste like cardboard covered in salt and lard. Makes me wonder how the "actual food" outlets are faring in other countries.
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    • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
      If you don't mind saying, what is your country and what are the names of the chains there?
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      • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
        New Zealand.
        Pizzas - Hell Pizza, www.hell.co.nz
        Burgers - Burger Fuel, www.burgerfuel.co.nz
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        • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
          Lived in Auckland (near UA, Northside, Ponsonby) for about 2 years. I enjoyed Hell and Burger Fuel. Lots of good asian food choices, too. Best masaman curry I ever had outside of Thailand was at a small restaurant in Taupo.
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        • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 6 months ago
          oh, wow! . I recently bought a guitar "pedal" from Flux Effects
          down there. . the most wonderful tone modifier which
          I have ever heard!!! -- j

          p.s. here's the link, with demos:::
          http://www.fluxeffects.com/#!liquid-a...
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          • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
            Nice sounds! :D
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            • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 6 months ago
              I have it on a steel guitar, and the variations are neat!!! -- j
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              • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
                Only thing missing now is a YouTube link of you belting out a song or three celebrating the glory of individual enterprise, overcoming the restraints of collectivist dogma, and soaring high into selfish achievement! ;)
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                • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 6 months ago
                  I am such a novice with this thing that we're still learning
                  the scales and making the pedals work. . more to come!!! -- j
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                  • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
                    Music has a lot to do with capturing a feeling, an image, a structure, and backing yourself with it. Much of what popularises a new genre is not its inherent musicality, but the undaunted confidence and charisma of its early exponents.
                    A basic song form, with its own engaging logic, with meaningful lyrics, and a few appealing musical 'hooks', is perfectly viable as a commercially workable song.
                    I remember a documentary about a piece of music software which analysed all the chart-topper hits of many decades, and determined the chart toppers were moderately different to everything else current, but not too different. The software even came to be able to accurately predict which songs would chart well.
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                    • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
                      Sounds like software is a much cheaper alternative to the 'judges' on the Voice, xxx Idol, X factor. Washed up, has been, opinionated jerks.
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                      • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 6 months ago
                        Now that would be a fascinating research project - analysing vocal timbre, intonation, rhythm, syncopation, dynamics etc, and figuring out what kinds of voices tend to succeed in the marketplace.
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                        • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
                          You mean a voice doesn't have to sound like a warbling gospel singer to create good music?
                          One irritating thing about those idiot 'judges'/'coaches' is how they encourage the artists to develop their own sound and then they reject them unless they sound like Mariah Carey.
                          Melismatics are completely overdone by every artist that the 'judges' love.
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                          • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 6 months ago
                            great word, ffa -- melisma! . thank you!!!

                            sneaky pete was my idol, in this steel guitar business,
                            and here's one of his best:::
                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEqK...

                            yes, it has melisma, or curvy notes, but he hits 'em
                            dead center, eventually. . if you have perfect pitch,
                            you hear it more eagerly ... "okay, now, get to the center
                            of the note, Pete!!!" -- j

                            p.s. the Fender in the living room here is the same
                            model, a Fender 400, which Pete played for much of
                            his career. . this one is 58 years old. . like this photo,
                            but having only 4 pedals::: http://p2.la-img.com/196/33320/135041...
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                            • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
                              I can appreciate that, john. Its the singers who spend 20 minutes of a 3 minute song yodeling with little regard to the melody, or the meaning of the lyrics, and think that they have created a masterpiece. Unlike Mozart, there really are "too many notes."
                              But in a free market unaffected by idiot judges with little taste or residual talent, everyone should be free to enjoy what they enjoy. (grin)
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                              • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 6 months ago
                                curious thing -- I have been editing that most recent previous
                                comment for the last 15 minutes, adding things ... and
                                I don't know what you saw. . now, it ends with a link to
                                a photo of one like the Fender in the living room here. -- j
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