Iraqi Man Opens Pizzeria in Baghdad

Yahoo ^ | 11/11/03

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Soldiers in Baghdad are able to get a taste of home, thanks to Walid Mahmoud. He owns a pizzeria in the Iraqi capital.

Most Iraqis have no idea what pizza is, and certainly wouldn't know how to make one. But Mahmoud has worked in a family-owned pizza shop in Rome. When the Americans came to town, he scrapped together enough money to open his own pizzeria. The Wall Street Journal reports on a good day he sells nearly 200 pizzas.

But orders can drop to a handful depending on terrorist activity. He hopes after the American soldiers leave, there will be enough contractors left behind who'll want a pizza-to-go.

[martin_fierro]

"I'd like a pizza with pork sausage and Canadian bacon topping, please."

[My2Cents]

You beat me to it. :-)

[Adder]

Hey, with a little marketing, some judiciously promoted freebies, Iraqis might like it too.

Ahh that entrepeneurial spirit. It always emerges if allowed.

[tomakaze]

After witnessing the way the Japanese and Californians have tortured pizza toppingswise, I'm morbidly curious to see what Persians will do to it.

[jpl]

Guys like Mr. Mahmoud are the future of Iraq. A few more like him and maybe these closed fascist Middle East societies will join the rest of us in the 21st century.

[aShepard]

.....I'm morbidly curious to see what Persians will do to it......

I'll have the camel snot with the goat cheese!

[NicknamedBob]

"...on a good day he sells nearly 200 pizzas."

I can suggest a great slogan if he decides to do deliveries:

...shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Sound familiar? It was originally Persian!

[Scannall]

Good for him. I'd like to see many, many more people like this blossom in Iraq.

Dan

[Cultural Jihad]

How nice to see people cracking snide little jokes about the very Iraqis for whom Americans died freeing from a brutal dictator.

[Protagoras]

After being "Americanized" he will be forced to pay a mimimum wage and pay numerous taxes and adhere to a zillion regulations and zoning laws.

He will then go out of business and the people will ask where the jobs have gone.

[jwalsh07]

He hopes after the American soldiers leave, there will be enough contractors left behind who'll want a pizza-to-go.

Not to worry, pizza is like nicotine, insidious.

[Callahan]

This is terrible. Iraqi culture is being corrupted by pizza-selling capitalists. How dare this man try to make a better life for himself without Howard Dean's help. </leftist ideology>

[Looking4Truth]

"I'd like a pizza with pork sausage and Canadian bacon topping, please."

I used to order pizzas from Muslim-owned pizza places when I lived in Germany and they had no trouble with my topping requests. The worst pizza I got while living there was from an Indian-owned pizzeria. They doused the thing with curry powder.

[madison10]

They doused the thing with curry powder.

Blecchhh! What a way to ruin a good thing! Middle Eastern food is quite good (Syrian & Lebanese) and would not differ much from Mediterranean food.

[TEXOKIE]

Hey Rags! Here's an Iraqi showing entrepreneurial spirit....all because of our troops! Good stuff is happening over there!

*make mine with extra cheese, please! ;-)*

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, TEX!

Smart man.

Good to know our guys can get a taste of home in Iraq.

If only he delivered. (^;
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[r9etb]

</leftist ideology>

The tag didn't close properly.

Maybe if you tried </salamikaze rant> instead...?

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

There is a Burger King in the airport.

[blackie]

Pizza ~ Bump!