Proving that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar is the case of the Ohio Sniper suspect. Charles A. McCoy, Jr. was captured today in Las Vegas when a Sin City resident who offered him pizza recognized McCoy (right) from a photo in USA Today. Police were told of McCoy's whereabouts by a man who spotted him at the Stardust casino, recognized him from media reports and found out where he was staying, Van Cleef said. Las Vegas police staked out the motel and arrested McCoy in the parking lot. Conrad Malsom, 60, of Las Vegas said he...
From CNN.com: WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — President Bush was feeling back in the game as Air Force One headed to Cleveland last week. Just that morning, aides had put the final polish on a new speech, in which Bush would make his first full run at what his team calls the economic-isolationist policies of John Kerry. After months of being pounded by the Democratic candidates, "the President was really fired up," says Representative Steven LaTourette of Ohio, who joined Bush for a private pizza lunch in his airborne office. We're curious as to where the President orders pizza from...
What's in a name? Pizza, at least according to the savvy shills at Domino's. Do you want $1,000 worth of gift certificates from Domino's? Might you give birth on Sunday, February 29? Would you consider naming your child Dorothy or Dot? If you answered "no" to all of the above, join the club. If by chance you answered "yes" to all three questions, then Tom Monaghan's successors have a deal for you. Domino's has conceived a gimmick to hawk its leftover dough and cheese. These tiny, flavorless balls are called Cheesy Domino's Dots. If your child is one of the...
Horn & Hardart's Automat | Berenice Abbott Proving the Japanese aren't the only innovators in the vending-machine racket is Italian vendo-maker WonderPizza. This company's machines bake and dispense pizza in less than two minutes. New Bedford, Mass.,–based Wonder Pizza USA has sole U.S. distribution rights for the machine and recently placed them at Brown University. The machine can store up to 102 pizzas, for 30 days, in a refrigerated unit. When a customer buys one, a mechanical arm removes it from its package and puts it into the oven section, where it is flashbaked. It's then sliced and delivered to...
They're at it again. A class of second graders down in Florida are sowing the seeds of love. If by love you mean pizza, and by seeds you mean, well, seeds. The kids at Daughtrey Elementary are growing everything you'd need to top a decent pizza—tomatoes, peppers, basil, and more. Teachers at the school hope the hands-on experience—and the tasty payoff at the end—will help this biology lesson jell in the kids' minds. This isn't the first time kids down Florida way have grown a pizza. There was a similar program in the same county a few months ago. Still,...
As delicious and sexy as it is, does pizza really need any embellishments to further spice it up? U.K. supermarket chain Iceland thinks it does and so is developing an aphrodisiac pizza. This, according to CNN. "Food has long been associated with the art of seduction so we're combining romance with one of the most widely enjoyed foods in the U.K.," said Iceland's Steve Sweeney in a press release. The grocer is calling it "Pizzagra." We'll see how long that lasts before Pfizer gets a piece of that action. CNN goes on to say: "The Pizzagra will contain items the...
Any of you who are Ween fans may already know this, but back in 2002, the band was hired to do the jingle for Pizza Hut's Insider pizza. As you might recall, that was the pie in which The Hut hid the cheese inside. Says Ween: Earlier in 2002 we were hired by the largest advertising firm in the country to write music for a Pizza Hut commercial. Pizza Hut had hired them to come up with a whole new image to promote their new Pizza, "The Insider" which had all the cheese inside the crust. In keeping in...
Sold!The intricately detailed though slightly grease-stained American Chopper pizza box that was up on eBay sold for what must be a record in the pizza-box auction category. Three parties, in a total of seven bids, drove the hammer price to $30.01, more than doubling what it must have cost the seller to procure Item #2591392552—along with its tasty contents—in the first place.We were watching this lot with intent to bid until things hit the $10 range. The box crossed the block with an initial asking price of $4.99.Congratulations to the winning bidder and the (no-doubt-happy) seller....
We don't know what to make of this, but it goes a long way toward proving that there's a market for everything. And if there's a market for something, you can bet it'll show up on eBay.Someone is selling a used American Chopper pizza box. The box (AMERICAN CHOPPER PIZZA BOX - RARE) was part of an advertising promotion for the Discovery Channel show, which follows the antics of the guys at Orange County Choppers as they design and build a new bike each episode. Mangia Media, the creative agency behind the box, is the nation's "leader in pizza-box advertising,"...
