DON’T BUY TAKE OUT PIZZA IN THE UK - YOU’RE BEING ROBBED BLIND.
When we were in the UK we would occasionally get a take out pizza from Domino’s or Perfect Pizza and very nice they were too. Its only now I’m in the US that it’s become painfully apparent that I was being ripped off, and not bit a little either.
Take Domino’s for example. In the UK we would get the 555 deal (not available anymore) as that got you the most pizza for your money, three 9″ pizza’s for £5.55 each. In the US they had the same deal at the same price IN DOLLARS. So with the exchange rate (just shy of $2 = £1) we were buying three pizza’s for about $33 US, the same deal in the US would get you the same amount of pizza for just less than $17. So in UK money, that’s ~£17 in he UK, and ~£8 in the US for an IDENTICAL meal.
Before we left the UK we had a couple of pizza’s from Domino’s and spent £32 (About $60 US). The other day we bought two almost identical pizza’s here for $10 US (about £5 UK).
Why is take out pizza so expensive in the UK? Who knows, but one thing is for certain. Whenever you buy one, someone is laughing their ass off at you.
*giggle* You have never read the Drk Gently books have you? :)
*smiles* when the pizza’s were cheap in the UK, nobody would eat something else and all businesses would end bankrubt ;-) On the other hand, USA have a national debt of 9 triljoen dollar and have to borrow 2 billion a day to pay the interest. So if they would take care of their own economy, the would raise some taxes and everything would not be so cheap anymore. Anyway, your on holiday and you should not care..!!! Have fun and enjoy, eat and drink your tummy full for those cheap dollars hihihihi ;-)
Dominos is to pizza as spam is to meat. Visit New York City and have real pizza. ;)