{"id":14244,"date":"2004-04-03T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/03\/pizza-in-a-bucket-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2004-04-03T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T19:01:00","slug":"pizza-in-a-bucket-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/03\/pizza-in-a-bucket-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza In A Bucket Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may remember the earlier post<\/a> I made about “pizza in a bucket.” Well, imagine my surprise yesterday when I received an e-mail from the creator himself, John Pontrelli of Pit Stop Pasta in Escondido, California:<\/p>\n

Hi driko,<\/p>\n

I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know that we didn’t invent the pizza in a bucket, our CUSTOMERS did. All we did is gave them what they wanted … one time someone wanted one to go and she said, “Throw it in a bucket” and I said OK a “Pizza in a Bucket.” The name stuck, Associated Press wrote about it, and now the thing is selling like crazy.<\/p>\n

So in reality, it wasn’t our little company trying to come up with some “pet rock” idea. Which, being Italian, I would have never even imagined to make a Pizza without dough? But I say if they ask for it here, They get it.<\/p>\n

John Pontrelli<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I of course replied to this e-mail, asking how he happened upon my site, and I got this response:<\/p>\n

We found you while searching the 100’s of sites we have shown up on. It’s been 2 months since the A.P. hit us and were still trying to catch up. yes you can post my response to you, I will forward a newspaper story from the [North County] Times<\/i><\/a> that explains what went on here. It’s almost as wild as William Hung but a lot more legit!<\/p>\n

P.S. We got a kick out of all the comments and feedback, because by a fluke, we walked into the limelight by pure chance. The bucket was an underground thing for some of our customers with serious health issues, and the low carbers took it over.<\/p>\n

Thanks,
\n
John “The Bucket King”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still amazed that this caught on, but obviously people like it enough to keep ordering it. Personally, though, I’ll still ask for “real” pizza… \ud83d\ude42
\n<\/p>\n

thanks for writing, John!<\/div>\n
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You may remember the earlier post I made about “pizza in a bucket.” Well, imagine my surprise yesterday when I received an e-mail from the creator himself, John Pontrelli of Pit Stop Pasta in Escondido, California: Hi driko, I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know that we didn’t invent the … <\/p>\n

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