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Freeze-Dried Pizza?
Does the concept
of freeze-dried send a shockwave through your system? Well, get
ready for a major mind adjustment, because it's here and is available
on the web.
Mark O'Brien,
president of The Pizza Maker, spent seven years developing his pizza
product,, with some help from the guys at the Michigan State
University agriculture department.
Still having
trouble getting your mind around the idea of freeze-dried pizza?
"Years ago, when people first saw Pringles, they'd say, "Is
this a potato chip? Now they're on every shelf in America,"
says O'Brien. He has a point.
O'Brien knows his
product is hard to imagine. He likens it to a "pizza
chip," and says it has advantages over gooey, dripping pizza slices.
It has a crispy, crunchy texture and a shelf life of 12 months.
The product's shelf life and hermetic packing make it ideal for
shipping anywhere.
"You can put
it in a lunch box, take it on the boat or in your car. And with
individually wrapped slices, you can eat as many as you want to one
time," says O'Brien.
It needs no
refrigeration or reheating and costs $19.95 for a case of 12
individually sealed slices.
"America
loves pizza, and I wanted to create a pizza that people could eat
anywhere, anytime," O'Brien says.
The Pizza Maker
pizza is made with 100% real cheese and traditional ingredients.
The slices contain 140 calories each. Laws against mailing meat
products over state lines limits his pizza to cheese and sauce only.
O'Brien went on
the internet to get national exposure for his new product without
having to build a store in every city.
Computer customers
from all 50 states and from as far away as Turkey and Nigeria have
ordered his pizza. Pizzas arrive via mail in the U.S. within
24-49 hours of ordering, he said.
Some slices are
even in a food display at the American Embassy in Hong Kong.
O'Brien, 39, has
also produced and marketed his own brand of frozen reduced-calorie
pizza (Calorie Cutter pizza) form his pizza store in Union Lake, MI
for the last 15 years.
You can visit Mark
at his web site, www.pizzamaker.com, or call him at (248) 698-1414.
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