Can you beat £680 for takeaway?
by Charlotte Morgan | 18 October 2012 | 
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A cold and soggy £17.99 Domino's pizza was the most I've ever paid for a takeaway. one of the worst mistakes of my life. So how does Nicolas Sarkozy feel after blowing $1,000 on pizza-in-a-box?
Posh pizza
It happened at the weekend, when the ex-French president was in New York giving a speech to bankers from a Brazilian bank. During his stay, Sarkozy, his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and seven others visited Amaranth restaurant in the city’s Upper East Side for a spot of dinner, washed down with French red and Italian white wine.
It was during dinner that Sarkozy is said to have placed an extravagant takeaway order for pizza, which he and his bevvy of friends planned to eat on the plane home. Goodness knows what toppings they ordered (caviar and lobster?), but the bill came to $1,100 (just over £680) according to the New York Post’s page six column. Apparently it was Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy who ‘designed’ the pizza toppings, requesting a crisp crust and a soft cheese base.
How much have you paid?
I’m guessing it doesn’t approach the £680 mark, but how much have you ever spent on takeaway? And was it worth it? Talk to us in the comments box below, then check out our three favourite pizza recipes – it’s so much cheaper to make your own!
This Turkish style vegetarian mushroom pizza is topped with mushrooms, red onion, cloves, pine nuts, spinach, tomatoes and an aromatic blend of spices. Plus the wholewheat flour crust is ever so slightly sweet, made as it is with a drizzle of honey.
Our gooiest pizza, piled high with grated mozzarella and vegetables. Jo Pratt’s broccoli and mozzarella creation tries to be healthy too with the addition of Tenderstem, button mushrooms, red pepper and chopped tomatoes. Jo says it’s fine to cheat with a bought pizza base mix, too.
Fancy pizza cooked by a MasterChef? Mat Follas gives Florentine a go, cleverly using a tortilla wrap as a makeshift base for tomatoes, spinach, eggs and a little pepper. This pizza is cheeseless, so a little less heavy on the stomach, too. Allow one poached egg per person.
Nicolas Sarkozy image courtesy of Aleph.
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by TChilds1967 | on 20 October 2012
I've never ordered a takeaway pizza; not a big fan of them really, and always wonder why takeaway pizzas as so effing expensive when even very good ones in the supermarkets are often less than a fiver?!
Even if I was rich I'd baulk at paying £100s for takeaway food; seems wrong in these austere times anyway.
Another point; when they first introduced pizzas in the UK, they didn't use real cheese, they used 'milk substitute'! We seem as ever in this country to get the short straw in every way; someone wants to rip us off, give as little as possible and charge the highest prices and the governments of the day happily turn a blind eye. The result of this cheap pizza lark was that people weren't buying them because frankly they were probably crap! Food, and everything else in this country, needs to be better and less expensive.
by wayne norman | on 22 October 2012
just eat
in my area take away
cod fish bites x 2 and chips x 1 and a carton of curry x 1
7 quid inc delivery
from darlingtons golden fry
feeds two fully & very tasty
wayne
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