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occrider
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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: New York

Well I dunno about $50 pizzas, but the all knowing, all powerful big mac index does indicate that things are pretty pricy in Sweden ...



I tried looking for Norway, but couldn't find big macs. However, it looks like you can get a sweet dobbel cheeseburger or a McSnack for only 20 Kroner. What a great McDeal!


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George Smiley
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The thing is, if anything, the more expensive a country is the 'better' it is. As I said earlier about beer in the UK and Eastern Europe. Compare prices in any Western country to those in the middle east and you will find the Middle Eastern countries many many times cheaper, but its pretty obvious the standard of living is higher in the West

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occrider
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Originally posted by George Smiley
The thing is, if anything, the more expensive a country is the 'better' it is. As I said earlier about beer in the UK and Eastern Europe. Compare prices in any Western country to those in the middle east and you will find the Middle Eastern countries many many times cheaper, but its pretty obvious the standard of living is higher in the West


Not really ... it's just an indication of purchasing power. For example UAE is rediculously expensive, however, that doesn't really say much about standard of living.


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zig
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Dublin,Ireland

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Can anybody confirm that the average price for a pizza in Norway is $50???


Ok who ordered pizza......making me hungry even writing about it...i love pizzza.....

Ok below is a link to Peppes, a large pizza chain in Norway...now as i dont speak norwegian its abit of guesswork....but this looks like his latest deal.....a huge pizza and a dvd + 1.5 litre of coke delivered to your door (presumably you keep the dvd...there a list of them on a different page) anyway this works out at $54 Dollars (the exchange rate is 6.4 Kroner to the Dollar) for pizza on its own its $33.75 dollars for the most expensive.....but the thing is huge it would do 3 people (most people.....we wont get into obese American writers ) so i mean the arguement could be about how big is a large pizza.......

Peppes Pizza ..........Link

Anyway this bird works at Peppes....a fine pizza ass if i say so myself....



And btw during my research it seems Peppes is quite expensive...but i liked the girl so hence the link.....

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trancaholic
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Location: Aalborg

As to the price of pizzas, I guess that it can partly be explained by the price of the raw material in Norway. Norway has little cattle and pigs, so the price of dairy products and meat is relatively high. Further, Norway is a large mountainous(word?) country, so getting raw materials from one place to the other is expensive. Finally, I think that Norway has high taxes on products that are not healthy.
In Denmark a pizza comes in at approximately $8-$10, for a decent sized one with cheese, tomato, and three to five kinds of toppings. At lunch time, you can get a similar sized one with one kind of topping for approximately $5. So I don't think that the "expensive pizza"-argument is valid for the whole of Scandinavia.

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St_Andrew
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

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Originally posted by George Smiley
Can anybody confirm that the average price for a pizza in Norway is $50???


norway is REALLY expensive for eating out... and ya, i remember we were at this shitty pizza place in norway, just to get something cheap to eat, it was like 20 bucks per person!!! so yeah, norway IS expensive for food, esp eating at resturant... that said, they do earn a lot more money too so i think it would even out?

as for sweden, a pizza would be like 4-10 bucks depending on quality... which is pretty much like over here...

as for the rest of the article, i will get back to that later, cause right now my internet takes like 2 min to load every page so i just cant stand finding sources to rebutt some of that stuff but yea, i would say it is bullshit! comming from someone who have lived in both continents...

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George Smiley
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OK everyone post how much the average pizza costs in your country!

The basic takeaway pizza is a 9" Margarita (thin crust) which in the UK costs around £3.90 ($7.22)

For one with an average amount of topping your looking at £4.60 ($8.51)

The other day I ordered a 16" pepperoni (the only pizza topping worth eathin!) which cost £9.60 ($17.76)

Now that was only a thin crust and judging by that photo of Zig's, that pizza looks upto Pizza Hut standard and I can only estimate its price at somewhere around £20 - £25 ($37 - $46.25) and in London that price could easily rise another ten quid depending on where you got it for a pizza of that quality and size

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Krypton
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last time i checked, denmark had the highest tax rates in the world, but also has one of the best social services in the world. i think around 50%-60% more or less.


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Krypton
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pizza-wise, a large one cost around 12$ average. here in tampa that is. but then, there are a million specials, and side-items that are just as good if not better than the pizza itself. yeaaa.


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malek
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an extra large (barely average quality) can run for 6$. VEry good ones are around 20$


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Lira
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Here wiv five dolla you eat pizza till trow up.

Seriously... I've never paid more than 5 U$ in a pizza or in an "all you can eat" pizza parlor. A couple of weeks ago, I ate as much as I could and all I paid was 4,60 U$

But it's still quite expensive though


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zig
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Dublin,Ireland

This is my local pizza joint ...not a chain or anything...

10" special 3 toppings 7.50 Euro ($9.67)

13" special 3 toppings 10.00 Euro ($12.90)

16" special 3 toppings 15.00 Euro ($19.35)

These are very good pizzas but a good bit cheaper (maybe 20%) than say a pizza hut.

I think what you also have to remember is that the Dollar is very weak at the moment...you could knock nearly 40% off the price of a pizza 12-18 months ago if you compared the value of the dollar back then to what it is now.

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