Pizza

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates pizza, one of America’s favourite foods. He discovers that around 76,000 pizza joints bring in $44 billion dollars each year in the US - where every day 13% of the population will eat a slice of pizza. David begins his journey in Los Angeles, as Rob takes him and Monica to a fancy pop-up called “Chain”. Here, chefs riff on chain food but with their own upgraded twists - and tonight it’s Pizza Hut! Next David heads to New York to eat a variety of NY pizzas, from the cheap slices of Joe’s, to Pauly Gee’s famous Hellboy pizza. What makes a good pizza? There is no clear answer, but Farrier attempts to find out, before going to one last joint - Ops - an upmarket take on what a pizza should be. Along the way Farrier meets some of those eating the pizza - New Yorkers - who truly love their city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Growing up in New Zealand, there are a few experiences I remember as a kid that felt just distinctly
0:12.6	incredibly American.
0:14.0	And one of those was feasting at the new pizza hut
0:16.7	that had just opened in town. Gonna hit the hut tonight, hit the hut tonight, hit the hut tonight,
0:26.0	hit the hut tonight,
0:28.0	hit the hut tonight, oh pizza hut that's right.
0:32.0	Treat yourself to pizza huts new all you can eat dessert bar.
0:35.0	Create your own delicious dessert from our mouthwatering selection.
0:38.0	Help yourself as many times as you like for just 3.95 when you dial in.
0:43.0	Gonna hit the Hut, yeah Pizza Hut tonight.
0:46.0	Ah yes, Pizza Hut.
0:48.0	Birth in Wichita, Kansas in 1958.
0:51.0	That piece of Americana made it all the way to New Zealand and into my mouth.
0:56.0	It was the height of luxury in the ferry a household, a weekend treat, a slice of heaven.
1:01.0	God, I still remember the phone number, burned into my skull.
1:04.8	Oh, 800, 88383.
1:08.9	Now here I am in America and pizza is all around me.
1:11.8	It's one of the United States' favorite dishes,
1:15.0	around 76,000 pizza joints bringing in 44 billion dollars in revenue each year.
1:21.0	On any random day in America, around 13% of the population, age two years
1:26.4	and over, will eat some pizza. Was pizza invented in America? No. But pizza is in America's blood and now America has become my home, I'd
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