You may remember the earlier post I made about “pizza in a bucket.” Well, imagine my surprise yesterday when I received an e-mail from the creator himself, John Pontrelli of Pit Stop Pasta in Escondido, California:
Hi driko,
I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know that we didn’t invent the pizza in a bucket, our CUSTOMERS did. All we did is gave them what they wanted … one time someone wanted one to go and she said, “Throw it in a bucket” and I said OK a “Pizza in a Bucket.” The name stuck, Associated Press wrote about it, and now the thing is selling like crazy.
So in reality, it wasn’t our little company trying to come up with some “pet rock” idea. Which, being Italian, I would have never even imagined to make a Pizza without dough? But I say if they ask for it here, They get it.
John Pontrelli
I of course replied to this e-mail, asking how he happened upon my site, and I got this response:
We found you while searching the 100’s of sites we have shown up on. It’s been 2 months since the A.P. hit us and were still trying to catch up. yes you can post my response to you, I will forward a newspaper story from the [North County] Times that explains what went on here. It’s almost as wild as William Hung but a lot more legit!
P.S. We got a kick out of all the comments and feedback, because by a fluke, we walked into the limelight by pure chance. The bucket was an underground thing for some of our customers with serious health issues, and the low carbers took it over.
Thanks,
John “The Bucket King”
I’m still amazed that this caught on, but obviously people like it enough to keep ordering it. Personally, though, I’ll still ask for “real” pizza… 
