Start up fees will probably cost you an arm and a leg.

FTFA: "I couldn't afford to bring chefs in from Europe, it was too expensive. And then I thought about Iran... I brought some chefs in from Iran to train the Afghans about cooking pizza. They were with us for one year and then I had my own trained staff," he says.

There are just so many thnigs wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. Pizza chefs from Iran??? And a year to train the Afghans to cook pizza??? That should take about an hour. Maybe 2 hours if you include making the dough.

"No, no, you Afghan pig, the sauce goes on TOP of the dough. Do we have to beat the soles of your feet again?"

BillCo: FTFA: "I couldn't afford to bring chefs in from Europe, it was too expensive. And then I thought about Iran... I brought some chefs in from Iran to train the Afghans about cooking pizza. They were with us for one year and then I had my own trained staff," he says.

There are just so many thnigs wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. Pizza chefs from Iran??? And a year to train the Afghans to cook pizza??? That should take about an hour. Maybe 2 hours if you include making the dough.

"No, no, you Afghan pig, the sauce goes on TOP of the dough. Do we have to beat the soles of your feet again?"

Just think, in a few years Iran and Afghanistan will have a pizza rivalry like NYC and Chicago. Wrap your mind around that one.

Now you can get a bomb delivered to your house in under 30 minutes or it's free.

So Canadian Bacon and Sausage are probably out of the question?

30 minutes or less or you get a free boy

It's easy to overlook the part of the article where it says they've already been in business for over 10 years.

I wonder if they charge the locals the same as the international workers

The Afghani pizza delivery motorcycle is the bomb.

...and it exploded

Also, I'm kind of surprised that he spent $100k USD starting up a pizza place in Kabul. I kind of figured the costs of real estate and building out the place would be lower there... and its not like hes paying a franchise fee.

Furthermore, what Afghan has $100k USD laying around?

Joey, have you ever eaten in an Afghan pizza parlor?

Hiro Protagonist is overjoyed

BillCo:
There are just so many thnigs wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. Pizza chefs from Iran??? And a year to train the Afghans to cook pizza?

Pff, I was told we'd have pizza chefs from Tadjikistan by now, and delivery men armed with katanas. And that we'd still have 30-minutes-or-it's-free.

MyNameIsMofuga: [i492.photobucket.com image 272x185]
Joey, have you ever eaten out in an Afghan pizza parlor?

FIFM

Will of Allah.

Alonjar: Also, I'm kind of surprised that he spent $100k USD starting up a pizza place in Kabul. I kind of figured the costs of real estate and building out the place would be lower there... and its not like hes paying a franchise fee.

Furthermore, what Afghan has $100k USD laying around?

The Karzai brothers?

Yes, I'd like to order a large pepperoni pizza. Name? I.N. Fidel.

+1 headline. I laughed. I couldn't help myself.

some pretty lame jokes in this thread so far.

anyhoo, this article is worth a read for those of you who think that kabul is some version of beyond thunderdome:
http://flaremag.com/2009/07/camping-in-kabul-part-i-afghanistan-hot-o f f-the-presses/

4 million people live in kabul. that's more than in any other US city except NY and maybe LA. business goes on.

Grimwalds cost extra.

TravisBickle62: Hiro Protagonist is overjoyed

Came here for this. Satisfied but slightly disappointed it took so long.

Slight threadjack because the headline brought it to mind:

In GTA:Vice City, were the pizza delivery missions (on your "Faggio" IIRC) needed for 100% completion or were they there just to make some money?

/Hated doing them, in any case.

Damn 1%er

I can't believe those people are even allowed to eat pizza.

Snapper Carr: TravisBickle62: Hiro Protagonist is overjoyed

Came here for this. Satisfied but slightly disappointed it took so long.

I checked the thread twice because I couldn't believe nobody had mentioned it yet.

Alonjar: Also, I'm kind of surprised that he spent $100k USD starting up a pizza place in Kabul. I kind of figured the costs of real estate and building out the place would be lower there... and its not like hes paying a franchise fee.

Furthermore, what Afghan has $100k USD laying around?

this is what i'm farking asking !!!?!?!?! i cant get $100,000 together in teh US with all the class warfare i'm attacked with from corporations and these dwellers have 100 farking K in a bomb tract ?

The kabul guy.

Molavian: The plan to fLatten this planet is expanding ever more quickly.

Excellent...

that's how I read that

URAPNIS: I can't believe those people are even allowed to eat pizza.

Why are they sitting on the floor?

Sometimes I think you want to fail.

I used to live in Cairo Egypt in the 80's. There was only one pizza place, Mermaid Pizza, where peperoni pizza consisted of sliced vienna sausages with cheese and no tomato sauce on a doughy pan pizza. Was gross but reminded us of home....

Bomb Head Mohammed: some pretty lame jokes in this thread so far.

anyhoo, this article is worth a read for those of you who think that kabul is some version of beyond thunderdome:
http://flaremag.com/2009/07/camping-in-kabul-part-i-afghanistan-hot-o f f-the-presses/

4 million people live in kabul. that's more than in any other US city except NY and maybe LA. business goes on.

Kabul is strange place....the wedding centers are straight from Las Vegas with the neon and glass, but one block away, an open-air market with fly-covered sides of beef hanging up...huge piles of trash, new buildings for the current goverment, over-grown parks from another time....and the huge, dead expanse of what was an Olympic park.

And the bombed out King and Queen's palaces.....it stays with you.

BillCo: FTFA: "I couldn't afford to bring chefs in from Europe, it was too expensive. And then I thought about Iran... I brought some chefs in from Iran to train the Afghans about cooking pizza. They were with us for one year and then I had my own trained staff," he says.

There are just so many thnigs wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. Pizza chefs from Iran??? And a year to train the Afghans to cook pizza??? That should take about an hour. Maybe 2 hours if you include making the dough.

"No, no, you Afghan pig, the sauce goes on TOP of the dough. Do we have to beat the soles of your feet again?"

You'ld be surprised how long it takes some people to learn. I had a coworker who never got the concept of yeast. She took too long putting the dough in the cooler causing the yeast to die in the cooler instead of hibernating. Later the dough wouldn't rise and had black spots. I felt bad for our customers and did not blame those who chose not to come back. These guys, I am sure, are working with scratch ingredients and not the premix pouches from Little Caesar's. So, I'll cut them a little slack for they are probably making a really good product verses a slap together easy bake pizza from our major chains.

The future is here...

Rembrant_Q_Einstein: I used to live in Cairo Egypt in the 80's. There was only one pizza place, Mermaid Pizza, where peperoni pizza consisted of sliced vienna sausages with cheese and no tomato sauce on a doughy pan pizza. Was gross but reminded us of home....

I was on one of the FOB's in Kabul, and a local guy had a restaurant on the base...we got back in from a convoy trip that was pretty rough, and a couple of us recalled this guy had pizza on the menu, with real silverware and plates.

We scraped up enough cash to buy a couple and sit at one of his tables...it was not "real pizza", but it was close enough to remind us of home.

Do they refuse to make pizzas with pepperoni or pork? Do they get a lot of orders from "Seymour Butts"?

Dredwolf:
I was on one of the FOB's in Kabul, and a local guy had a restaurant on the base...we got back in from a convoy trip that was pretty rough, and a couple of us recalled this guy had pizza on the menu, with real silverware and plates.

We scraped up enough cash to buy a couple and sit at one of his tables...it was not "real pizza", but it was close enough to remind us of home.

The real silverware and plates go a long way...

Get home soon!!!

Nexzus: Slight threadjack because the headline brought it to mind:

In GTA:Vice City, were the pizza delivery missions (on your "Faggio" IIRC) needed for 100% completion or were they there just to make some money?

/Hated doing them, in any case.

If you completed all of them you got +50 max health.

And if you completed all the police missions you got +50 max armor

Fire truck mission completion got you immune to fire.

Ambulance missions get you infinite sprinting

They were all pretty difficult. The police was the easiest. If you used the helicopter.

Overt racial prejudice! Impressive...

Axel_Gear: Nexzus: Slight threadjack because the headline brought it to mind:

In GTA:Vice City, were the pizza delivery missions (on your "Faggio" IIRC) needed for 100% completion or were they there just to make some money?

/Hated doing them, in any case.

If you completed all of them you got +50 max health.

And if you completed all the police missions you got +50 max armor

Fire truck mission completion got you immune to fire.

Ambulance missions get you infinite sprinting

They were all pretty difficult. The police was the easiest. If you used the helicopter.

Ah yes. I remember completing the firetruck (I think you had to get up to level 12 or something) missions, and, yeah, I used the attack helicopter for the police missions. I think I only got up to 11 on the ambulance missions. Stupid ambulance kept getting destroyed with the patients in the back.

I also remember how annoying they were - the emergency vehicles didn't have the music radio stations, and the police radio had like a five minute script.

(From Gamefaqs)

"235: Radio Control: Message from the Captain: Crime is up. We need more
arrests, Just bag anyone.

Male: I'm on it."

/Wow. Almost 10 Years ago.

Nexzus: Slight threadjack because the headline brought it to mind:

In GTA:Vice City, were the pizza delivery missions (on your "Faggio" IIRC) needed for 100% completion or were they there just to make some money?

/Hated doing them, in any case.

Yes, they were required and they gave you a health boost. Haven't you ever been to gamefaqs.com?

what's really sad is I bet it's safer to do pizza delivery in Kaul than it is in many American cities.. especially when delivery guys have to go to the inner cities.

happened only 2 weeks ago in my town

I lived right down the street from this restaurant when I worked in Kabul and I've had their pizza.

It really sucks. Seriously, it is terrible, terrible pizza.

coco ebert: Get this, Farkers, and prepare yourself.

YOU CAN ORDER BURGER KING AND MCDONALD'S IN TURKEY AND THEY BRING IT ON A MOTORBIKE TO YOUR DOOR.

Do you know what that means for stoners the world over? Turkey is awaiting, that's all I'm sayin'...

The prisons are supposedly real country clubs

retarded: I lived right down the street from this restaurant when I worked in Kabul and I've had their pizza.

It really sucks. Seriously, it is terrible, terrible pizza.


Worse than a Papa John's special?

Alonjar: I wonder if they charge the locals the same as the international workers

Do you seriously think any locals can really afford, or care, to purchase pizza?

Anyway, this is old news. Sharana Air Field had motorbike pizza delivery in 2009. Of course, the employees there were Indians, not Persians. For being in a Halal country and employing vegetarians, they certainly made a nice American style pepperoni pizza to settle those cravings from something reminiscent of home.

What a Kabul motorbike pizza delivery service "product" container may look like:

Apos: retarded: I lived right down the street from this restaurant when I worked in Kabul and I've had their pizza.

It really sucks. Seriously, it is terrible, terrible pizza.


Worse than a Papa John's special?

Worse than Little Caesar's?

It should be noted that they didn't mention the name of the Pizza company because they knew that Farkers would start pranking them immediately.

You can get Burger King and KFC delivered via moped in Cairo.

Wonder if it comes in 400,000 slices...

Dredwolf: Kabul is strange place....the wedding centers are straight from Las Vegas with the neon and glass, but one block away, an open-air market with fly-covered sides of beef hanging up...huge piles of trash, new buildings for the current goverment, over-grown parks from another time....and the huge, dead expanse of what was an Olympic park.

And the bombed out King and Queen's palaces.....it stays with you.

Wow. I never made it to Kabul during my year there. The countryside is much less war torn, as there was much less there to begin with. My last trip was to Kosovo, and the cities were similar to what you describe. I certainly saw more poor people in Kosovo.

leevis: Do they refuse to make pizzas with pepperoni or pork? Do they get a lot of orders from "Seymour Butts"?

I've been told by a buddy of mine that lives in Dubai that in that part of the world Pizza joints use turkey sausage for sausage/pepperoni. Bland as hell.

Bomb Head Mohammed: some pretty lame jokes in this thread so far.

anyhoo, this article is worth a read for those of you who think that kabul is some version of beyond thunderdome:
http://flaremag.com/2009/07/camping-in-kabul-part-i-afghanistan-hot-o f f-the-presses/

4 million people live in kabul. that's more than in any other US city except NY and maybe LA. business goes on.

If you only count incorporated areas, sure. But that's ridiculous to do. For metro areas, add Chicago, Miami, Philly, DFW, D.C., Houston, Atlanta, the Bay area, and Boston.

tarheel07: The Afghani pizza delivery motorcycle is the bomb.

Came for this...leaving satisfied.

Here's their menu.

Apos: retarded: I lived right down the street from this restaurant when I worked in Kabul and I've had their pizza.

It really sucks. Seriously, it is terrible, terrible pizza.


Worse than a Papa John's special?

There is a lot of pizza that Papa Johns is better than. Frankly, for chain delivery it is near the top of the heap. It is better than Little Caesars, whose defining characteristic is utter blandness, and also better than Pizza Hut, which tastes like nothing so much as a dirty grease-soaked kitchen sponge. Its also better than old Dominoes (haven't tried their new pizzas).

Still better than Dominos.

Allah's snackbar?

coco ebert: Get this, Farkers, and prepare yourself.

YOU CAN ORDER BURGER KING AND MCDONALD'S IN TURKEY AND THEY BRING IT ON A MOTORBIKE TO YOUR DOOR.

Do you know what that means for stoners the world over? Turkey is awaiting, that's all I'm sayin'...

And yet I can't get 4 CR1225 batteries (button cells) into the country to replace aging batteries on 4 system controllers due to their utterly archaic customs policies. If we weren't interested in other business there i'd pull the goddamn plug. They're SO difficult to deal with.

I do appreciate the food delivery service though.

Nice story.

coco ebert: BURGER KING AND MCDONALD'S


Is this supposed to be a benefit, or scare you away?

Enormous-Schwanstucker: coco ebert: Get this, Farkers, and prepare yourself.

YOU CAN ORDER BURGER KING AND MCDONALD'S IN TURKEY AND THEY BRING IT ON A MOTORBIKE TO YOUR DOOR.

Do you know what that means for stoners the world over? Turkey is awaiting, that's all I'm sayin'...

And yet I can't get 4 CR1225 batteries (button cells) into the country to replace aging batteries on 4 system controllers due to their utterly archaic customs policies. If we weren't interested in other business there i'd pull the goddamn plug. They're SO difficult to deal with.

I do appreciate the food delivery service though.

Enormous-Schwanstucker: And yet I can't get 4 CR1225 batteries (button cells) into the country to replace aging batteries on 4 system controllers due to their utterly archaic customs policies. If we weren't interested in other business there i'd pull the goddamn plug. They're SO difficult to deal with.

What about the controllers themselves? You could send them to someone who can get the batteries and swap them out for you, perhaps? I'd be willing, but I'm on the wrong continent (east coast US)

retarded: Here's their menu.

Beef and chicken vegetarian pizzas? Perhaps they need a dictionary.

why do i think of THESE THINGS every time i hear the word KABUL
and RED KETCHUP

Is the Pizza dough "Aunt Jemima"?

coco ebert: Get this, Farkers, and prepare yourself.

YOU CAN ORDER BURGER KING AND MCDONALD'S IN TURKEY AND THEY BRING IT ON A MOTORBIKE TO YOUR DOOR.

Do you know what that means for stoners the world over? Turkey is awaiting, that's all I'm sayin'...

China has delivery McDonalds, KFC AND Subway.

/NOM

No Such Agency: BillCo:
There are just so many thnigs wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. Pizza chefs from Iran??? And a year to train the Afghans to cook pizza?

Pff, I was told we'd have pizza chefs from Tadjikistan by now, and delivery men armed with katanas. And that we'd still have 30-minutes-or-it's-free.

The Mafia isn't running things in Afghanistan, man.

/just finished that book last night, no joke.

jtown:
[ass batteries]

Dude... I actually laughed in my office.