Pizza

[Andrewcook]

I wonder if I could get freshly made Pizza from Roys convenience store and finish it cooked from the oven . I don't know how easy to do Freshly made Pizza on the Boat?

[OldBerkshireBoy]

If you can do this at home then you can do it on a boat, it just takes a little longer.

[andyg]

Now there's a business idea if ever I've seen one.A pizza boat, if we can have an icream boat why not pizza. From Wroxham upto Ranworth, jobs a goodun. Not to sure that giving away a free 2ltr Pepsi max with every pizza would work, might be a weight issue 🤔 watch this space, anyone got any red or green paint they don't need. 😉

[Mouldy]

26 minutes ago, andyg said:

Now there's a business idea if ever I've seen one.A pizza boat, if we can have an icream boat why not pizza. From Wroxham upto Ranworth, jobs a goodun. Not to sure that giving away a free 2ltr Pepsi max with every pizza would work, might be a weight issue 🤔 watch this space, anyone got any red or green paint they don't need. 😉

Brilliant idea on a steam boat.  Wood fired pizza and motive power at the same time.  How ecologically sound is that???

[unclemike]

used to be a fish and chip boat years ago, anyone remember it?

[CambridgeCabby]

Well I followed MM many times and it used to smell like a fish and chip shop 

[CambridgeCabby]

I often wondered if there was a market for a “barista boat” , at a return margin of 300% it would be very viable 

[YnysMon]

I like these ideas! Mind you, we’ve not even managed to flag down the ice cream boat yet. 

[andyg]

5 minutes ago, YnysMon said:

I like these ideas! Mind you, we’ve not even managed to flag down the ice cream boat yet. 

Oh my granddaughter did back in June lol. He was on us like a shot. Very nice it was aswell 👌 

[YnysMon]

I think we’ve been unlucky, they always been serving people when we’ve gone past. 

[grendel]

we managed it with several boats in the middle of Barton Broad once, all rafted up and drifted while the ice creams were served

 

[stumpy]

There was a pizza boat in the early 70s on a big old bathtub - moored at Horning and plied its trade on Salhouse and Blackhorse. I think there was a fire which finished it off.

[vanessan]

I’m sure back in the 80s there was a bath tub type boat doing takeaway meals. I remember seeing it on South Walsham broad. 

[LizG]

There is a Pizza van visiting some of the villages close to Hoveton. Highly recommend

https://monzupizza.co.uk/

They post on FB each week their daily stops, it varies each week

 

[ZimbiIV]

Pizza is Pizza, just cook it!

So it is hot to eat.

I hate cold pizza.

paul

[Chelsea14Ian]

Some of my last jobs before covid,was making pizza .Believe  me that's tough. I used to make about 60 in a evening.

[CeePee1952]

2 hours ago, ZimbiIV said:

Pizza is Pizza, just cook it!

So it is hot to eat.

I hate cold pizza.

paul

Nothing like leftover cold pizza for breakfast the next morning! 

Chris

[Helian]

6 hours ago, unclemike said:

used to be a fish and chip boat years ago, anyone remember it?

Yes, in particular around Horning

[unclemike]

8 minutes ago, Helian said:

Yes, in particular around Horning

yes indeed , actually took a pic in horning 1969 but liike many things it disappeared at divorce time

[Buttle]

14 hours ago, unclemike said:

used to be a fish and chip boat years ago, anyone remember it?

https://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/blog/2012/05/fish-and-chip-a-float/

I believe Tom Percival was involved with this.

[Vaughan]

56 minutes ago, Buttle said:

believe Tom Percival was involved with this.

He was indeed. The boat was called the Fish-afloat, which was a pun on Windboats' "Flat-afloat" which was what the boat was.  It was run by Tom's brother in law, whose family were in the fish and chip business in Grimsby, so the food was excellent.

It ran very well for a couple of years around 1970, but Tom didn't get on at all well with old Cissy Lant who ran the stores at the corner of the staithe and she complained to the council about the smell of frying.  So it lost its planning permission.