Do crows deliver pizza, too? I hope it’s not road pizza .
Thanks, Fear for the distance calculator link. I’d been looking for one since arriving in Alaska.
There is a couple in Denver who are Royalty of a SE Asian country (Indonesia?) who have a chef prepare their meals every day according to the dietary laws of their religion, and then fly the food to their two children in California. Every day.
Reminds me of a long distance version of the dabbawalas of Mumbai :
Instead of going home for lunch or paying for a meal in a café, many office workers have a cooked meal sent from home or by a caterer. The meal is delivered in lunch boxes which are later collected and re-sent the next day. This is usually done for a monthly fee. The meal is cooked in the morning and sent in lunch boxes carried by dabbawalas, who have a complex association and hierarchy across the city.
A collecting dabbawala, usually on a bicycle, collects dabbas from homes or, more often, from the dabba makers (who actually cook the food). The dabbas have some sort of distinguishing mark on them, such as a colour or symbol.
The dabbawala then takes them to a designated sorting place, where he and other collecting dabbawalas sort (and sometimes bundle) the lunch boxes into groups. The grouped boxes are put in the coaches of trains, with markings to identify the destination of the box (usually there is a designated car for the boxes). The markings include the rail station to unload the boxes and the building address where the box has to be delivered.
At each station, boxes are handed over to a local dabbawala, who delivers them. The empty boxes, after lunch, are again collected and sent back to the respective houses.
Apparently they have never heard of brown-bagging.
You learn something new. I’d only known of them as tiffin-wallas. I like the idea of them, only with so many places offering delivery (similar idea, but a little different) I don’t think they’d work here.
but they don’t deliver to North Pole. What a bummer. I wonder if Mike’s Palace in Valdez delivers this far up the Richardson Highway?