# Ordering food - oddest place? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 20, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361 "2021-02-20T20:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/1 "2021-02-20T20:06:39Z")
In these tough times, I’d never fault a business for wanting to deliver food. Obviously, independent delivery took off in a big way in some places. I can understand people getting liquor delivered. I know what a busy day feels like. I’d rather eat homemade pizza than have one delivered by 7-11, but have at it. But now gas stations are getting in the act here - offering delivery of pop and pepperoni, I guess. It surprised me, but why not? **What is an item, available for home delivery, that surprised you? What is the oddest item someone you know has had delivered?** I’m talking by a local store and car delivery service here, not some tchotchkes from Amazon or the Interwebz. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/2 "2021-02-20T21:07:26Z")
My local running shoes and clothing+ store, The Lincoln Running Company, in Lincoln, Nebraska, will deliver your purchase to your door, using bicycles. I think maybe they will even tuck in a couple of your favorite homemade cookies from the cookie store, The Cookie Company, on request, from around the corner from them. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/3 "2021-02-20T21:22:06Z")
In Michigan bars can deliver mixed drinks. I think you still have to order hookers separtly. > **[Everything You Need to Know About Michigan’s New and Improved Liquor Laws](https://detroit.eater.com/2020/8/6/21356269/michigan-liquor-law-package-impact-bar-restaurant-beer-industry-to-go-cocktails-brewery-distribution)** > > In July, the state approved a batch of 16 laws that could have a far-reaching impact for local bar and brewing industries ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/4 "2021-02-20T21:32:07Z")
I dunno about delivery but there has been a bill introduced in the Arizona legislature to allow bars to offer take-away mixed drinks as an effort to help them keep their heads above water without crowding people in to catch diseases. Of course, with a big whoop-de-do they decided just a couple years ago to allow [growlers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growler_(jug)). I first saw growlers 50 years ago in Pennsylvania, a state where you couldn’t buy a drink – even beer – on Sunday… except in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/5 "2021-02-21T00:09:42Z")
In Wisconsin and some other states, there are dairies that will bring their products like milk, cream, butter, etc. right to your house. The person delivering it is called a “Milkperson”. Oh, what a time to be alive! These are days of miracle and wonder! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/6 "2021-02-21T00:14:31Z")
I wish we had that here. I can’t even get my butter to spread. Haven’t had delivered dairy ever, except when visiting my grandmother years ago. What is the way that looks to a distant constellation ? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/7 "2021-02-21T00:21:37Z")
@Dr_Paprika Medicine is magical and magical is art. Think of the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/8 "2021-02-21T00:43:11Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > In Wisconsin and some other states, there are dairies that will bring their products like milk, cream, butter, etc. right to your house. The person delivering it is called a “Milkperson”. > > Oh, what a time to be alive! These are days of miracle and wonder! When I lived in Tidewater Virginia from 1988-2000, there were two dairies that still delivered to homes. We got milk and butter and whatnot from them. In my current home, there’s a goat dairy that delivers as a result of Covid. They don’t do straight-up goat milk, but you can get a variety of cheeses and whey crackers they produce, and they’ve paired up with farms near them to deliver eggs, meat, vegetables and fruit. For awhile they were even delivering yeast, flour and TP. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/9 "2021-02-21T00:49:56Z")
We get eggs delivered by a local farmer. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/10 "2021-02-21T00:53:15Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > The person delivering it is called a “Milkperson”. Isn’t that called a Milkman in real life? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/11 "2021-02-21T01:13:03Z")
During the height of the pandemic induced toilet paper shortage, at least one restaurant around here added “roll of TP” to their DoorDash menu. And it actually makes perfect sense – at the time they were only allowed to be open for takeout and delivery, so their bathrooms were probably getting much less use, and people were having difficulty finding TP in stores. So why not sell their excess TP to consumers via delivery service? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/12 "2021-02-21T01:16:12Z")
There are probably a few lyricists consistently as good as Rhymin’ Simon. Definitely Bob Dylan and likely Leonard Cohen. But there aren’t many. I had the good fortune to see Cohen in concert when he was 78. He started the concert by saying he didn’t know how much time he had left, was going to give it all he could, then sang for _three and a half_ hours. I’m not sure anyone does that anymore, but would love to see Simon - plus or minus a Garfunkel - give it a go. Anyway, it’s hard to beat fresh farm goods. You need a whisk, for starters. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/13 "2021-02-21T01:21:38Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Isn’t that called a Milkman in real life? If that service had existed in the previous century or two, then yes, they’d have been called “Milkmen”. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/14 "2021-02-21T01:26:41Z")
That’d be up the butt Bob. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/15 "2021-02-21T01:43:45Z")
Do you a have a single example of someone who delivers milk that calls himself a “Milk Person”? Somehow, I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/16 "2021-02-21T01:49:16Z")
@D_Anconia [milkperson - Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milkperson) Rare but not unknown. You seem to have trouble detecting my irony. Probably my fault, I’m too subtle/obscure/weird for my own good. Here, have a glass. 🥛 ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/17 "2021-02-21T01:51:57Z")
Officially, coming from the highest levels of government, the term is “[local milk people](https://time.com/4886389/trump-local-milk-people-meme/)”. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/18 "2021-02-21T01:54:26Z")
@Folly It is painful to be vindicated by the trumpy one. But thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/19 "2021-02-21T03:54:25Z")
In Newfoundland, you could phone the brewery, and a route man would come around and deliver a case of beer to your house. They were very busy on Fridays. A lot of people had a standing order for a case a week. A lot of women would prepare carry-out plates of home-cooked meals in their home kitchen. You could call a taxi to go over to their house and pick up meals and bring them to you. In the Middle East, go into shop, and the owner will step outside and clap his hands and a boy would come running with a complimentary glass of hot sweet tea for you. During lockdown, a neighborhood lady was online delivering fresh food, and at times offered complimentary gifts (glassware, pot-holders) with orders for fresh fish or mangoes… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordering-food-oddest-place/933361/20 "2021-02-21T04:10:26Z")
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