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Tue. 05/25 - Do Ovens Dream of Frozen Pizza?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The flavorful history of frozen pizza. We check in on how the pandemic continues to affect our dreams. And meet the dude actually taking advantage of Krispy Kreme’s free donut a day offer for vaccinated people. Links: Frozen Pizza History: Ready To Heat, Nearly Ready To Eat (Tedium) Pizza Was the Restaurant Hero of 2020 (NY Times) Frozen pizza sales are red hot and expected to outlast the pandemic (CBC) How Frozen Pizza Got Hot (Published 2004) (NY Times) Covid: How the pandemic is affecting your dreams (BBC) Krispy Kreme free doughnut: A man who is trading his vaccine for one doughnut every day explains himself. (Slate) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Tuesday, May 25th, 2021.

0:40.8

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.2

The flavorful history of frozen pizza.

0:46.5

We check in on how the pandemic continues to affect our dreams,

0:52.3

and meet the dude actually taking advantage of Krispy Cream's free

0:57.7

donut a day offer for vaccinated customers.

1:00.8

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:06.5

As you all know, for the past year, I've been closely following the various shortages around the

1:12.4

world, especially the ones that seem a little odd at first, until you dig deeper into the supply

1:17.6

chain or other extraneous factors, and it all becomes clear. Well, instead, today I want to

1:23.7

dive into one item that has seen a huge boom during the pandemic, a boom that is not

1:30.2

at all curious, and that I'm sure every one of us could have predicted. Frozen Pizza. Even though

1:36.9

delivery pizza was pretty much the only winner of restaurants during the pandemic, the New York

1:42.1

Times says the combined revenues at Domino's and

1:45.0

Papa John's increased 12% or $434 million, quote, roughly equivalent to their selling about 30 million more

1:55.7

large cheese pizzas than they had the year before, end quote. But frozen pizza did exceptionally well, too.

2:03.7

Sales rose 19% from 2019 to 2020, with total frozen pizza sales breaking $6 billion.

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