I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.
She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.
We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.
No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.
We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

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loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is a gift that keeps on giving

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Babalugats@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not sure where based op, but a pizza counter top oven (5 minutes) is around €80 in Europe since inflation, but can still be found for around €60 in sales. I guess if there are similar ovens and similar prices that would mean if you find yourself getting pics more than 3 times a year from Dominos, then maybe buy one of those (e.g. Arieta 909 or G3ferrari) It would work out cheaper. Make the dough, buy the toppings put them all in the freezer. No smell other than the same smell from cooked pizza.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s not a smell I can handle. I stay in my office in the garage when pretty much any food is cooked or delivered and then have them leave the oven extraction fan on for 15-30 minutes. That usually brings the smell down to mildly unpleasant for about half an hour until I think I must get used to it.
  
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librejoe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lol you’re surprised at this? Don’t come to Canada, your eyeballs will fall out of your sockets. I would have sent her money to go buy groceries instead.

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- guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Funny, considering someone else from Canada quoted at half the price of OP’s.
  
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twxqax1eug@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Your daughter needs a cock bro

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PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It could be the “haven’t been able to eat solid foods myself in over a month”, but this post just reminded me of my favorite order from dominos that’d usually cover me for a couple nights

Cheesy breadsticks and a large thincrust with fixins, and now I’m doing the Homer Simpson drool, yes it was garbage pizza but it was good tasting garbage pizza to a lonely college student!

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Almost a year, not over a month. Well, technically that’s over a month, but yeah, it sucks not being able to eat when food is one of the most important things in pretty much every culture (unsurprisingly). You literally cannot escape food. It’s everywhere. Restaurants, supermarkets, billboards, you name it. And when you can’t eat it, it’s just torture. Especially if you really want to eat it, which I do.
  
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  - Nougat@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I hope you come out of the other side of that, and I'll bring you a pizza myself.
    
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  - PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ve started craving nostalgic foods for myself as a coping mechanism, for me it’s being unable to keep anything down save for like 2 things consistently
    
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