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More dough than sense? Couple order pizza to be delivered 2,250km

A Canadian couple are going to extreme lengths as they prepare to watch Sunday’s Super Bowl by placing a pizza delivery order from their favourite restaurant - more than 2,250 kilometres away. Lee and Carol Brown, who recently moved to Regina, Saskatchewan from Windsor, Ontario, placed the order after failing to find a local pizza parlour to their liking. So as the Browns hunker down for Sunday’s Super Bowl they’ll be tucking into an extra-large hame, cheese and pineapple pie courtesy of Windsor’s Arcata Pizza, costing $110.

We miss pizza from Windsor. I thought, ‘I’d love to get one shipped. I’d just like to have that pie.

Carol Brown

"The sauce is good, the dough is good, the toppings are fresh, Arcata was the best pizza in town for us," said Carol. "We talk about it all the time. We don’t really eat pizza here. We’ve tried it here, it’s just not the same." Most of the cost will be the delivery fee and Arcata pizza owner Bob Abumeeiz admitted he thought the couple were joking when their long-distance order was placed. "A week ago I got the phone call and I thought it was crazy and it was someone playing a joke on me," he said.

A week ago I got the phone call and I thought it was crazy and it was someone playing a joke on me, but then I realized it was for real.

Arcata pizza owner Bob Abumeeiz