we have kotipizza in finland. it’s shit. but it’s kinda allright sometimes. I always go to the little places. I even formed a sort of relationahip with one place because I used to go the so often I didn’t have to order to get just what I wanted. those little chain free places are special
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoyou know sometimes i forget that pizza chains exist in other countries, here in sweden (and i think generally the nordics) they simply are not a thing because middle eastern immigrants have outcompeted them from the start.
From a blogpost i found there are aparently some 70-ish pizzerias per person in NYC, whereas there are 400+ per person in sweden. It’s literally more likely to find a pizzeria in a small village than it is to find a grocery store, and theyr are ALL staffed by people from turkey/syria who are very likely to be family or at least know of each other. They also always serve other stuff like kebab or schnitzel.
It’s honestly such a fascinating phenomenon and i’m sad the rest of the world doesn’t effectively have pizza as a human right.
olutukko@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mlc894@lemm.ee 1 month ago
lol, I wonder how they staff “70-ish pizzerias per person”. That’s one hell of a short-staffed environment! 1/70th of an employee per shop!
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are more pizzerias than people? Or is it 70 people to each pizzeria in NYC and 400 people to each in Sweden?
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You go to new York and just immediately get bombarded with pizza, when you get off the plane they put a pizza around your neck.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, but more pizza places than people doesn’t seem feasible. It would require something like everyone in NYC works multiple pizzerias by themselves.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
looked up the blogpost again and it’s per million people