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I thought it was a April 1 joke. Are they planning to freeze the food first before shipping through Fedex?

Me too, what kind of nonsense is someone paying 200 dollars for some reheatable pasta and having it delivered thousands of miles? It sounds like an exercise on how to create the most wasteful and ridiculous business ever.

Goldbelly does this, it's very much a luxury/gift thing but yeah I don't get it

Omaha Steaks has been mailing frozen meat around for 70 years

Meal kit companies are also pretty booming at the moment

Well yeah, but neither Omaha Steaks nor meal kits are advertised as being already prepared. Sending frozen steaks or a refrigerated box of ingredients seems far more reasonable than flying an entire already-made pizza cross country.

Grocery store freezer sections are full of pizzas shipped half way across the country.

I imagine that these food items will be shipped in an appropriate manner as well, or they won’t be very successful.

Well yeah, but those frozen pizzas ain't advertised as being already-prepared, either. You can't usually just thaw a frozen pizza and expect it to be edible. They also tend to be made pretty differently than how they're made at a pizzeria.

The market for frozen food is already well served.

If you want food from a particular restaurant, then you probably want it in the way that restaurant prepares it.

I have a favorite pizza place, from the town I grew up in. But there's no particular reason to believe their their pizzas will handle being frozen and then cooked at my place better than, say, DiGiorno -- if anything DiGiorno should have a pretty big advantage, they specifically designed their food to come from frozen and be warmed in a normal oven.

The only use I can think of for this is specifically for people who are feeling nostalgic about the leftovers they ate in college...

I got a 100 dollar gift cert for a company that did just that, I ordered FIVE burritos for that amount to be delivered, and they were the smallest, shittiest garbage burritos I have ever had, and there was no good way to reheat them since they were in a paper/foil wrapper that had frozen onto the burrito, so I had to first try and defrost them with water in a bag and then remove the wrapper and microwave them. It was absolute trash and now other companies are expanding into this biz?

VC's are fucking insane to support this nonsense.

Typically these things will ship deconstructed and require minimal cooking/assembly, like a weekly meal delivery kit. For example, you might receive a roll in one type of packaging and the sandwich contents in another, boxed with a few freezer packs.

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