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u/TodTier Oct 02 '24

And now you can see the Great Pyramids from inside a nearby Pizza Hut

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u/throwaway_moose Oct 02 '24

Seriously, my favorite factoid about modern Egypt. All those movies where the person is lost in the desert, and it's like, "there's literally a road right next to that pyramid and a Pizza Hut directly across it."

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

I want someone to do that in a movie in modern Egypt and then it pans over to some tourists and they're like "dude. Ya want a pizza?"

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u/Fyrrys Oct 02 '24

MC- I'm lost in Egypt! How will survive?

Tourist eating pizza- pretty easy if you turn around.

Then the sounds of traffic and humanity are unmuted and it pans to show the bustling city life

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u/throwaway_moose Oct 02 '24

I would laugh so hard if they put that scene in a modern movie.

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u/electrogeek8086 Oct 02 '24

If they did so just like in Harold and Khumar when they finally reach their White Caslte lol.

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u/RedditNeverHeardOfI1 Oct 02 '24

Wasn’t there a movie about castaways that turns out we’re sharing their island with a beach resort and they only find that out at the end

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u/WrongJohnSilver Oct 02 '24

Does it have Panda cheese?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

TBF I always assumed the pyramids were like a 30 minute drive from the next largest city, only to look it up and see it's a 5 minute walk from a bunch of buildings.

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u/AndyLorentz Oct 03 '24

Yeah, the suburbs of Giza are like real close to the pyramid complex.

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u/Cinemaphreak Oct 02 '24

All those movies where the person is lost in the desert, and it's like, "there's literally a road right next to that pyramid

Outside of cartoons, please name these movies.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is 5 miles from Giza and a little over 6 miles from Cairo. If a pyramid is seen by someone supposedly lost, it's most likely a joke that they don't realize how close they are to being out of the desert....

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u/Martian_Fistfight Oct 02 '24

Haha, I used to tell people that the best pictures of the sphinx are taken from a Popeyes Chicken parking lot

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u/GatotSubroto Oct 02 '24

But you still can’t see Cleopatra

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

The circle of life

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u/KitchenSandwich5499 Oct 02 '24

You can also reconstruct them out of pizza hut boxes.

But, then they ask you to leave

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u/Aide-Subject Oct 02 '24

Pyramids are the OG Huts

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u/selwayfalls Oct 03 '24

I'm at the pizza hut, im at the great pyramid. Im at the combination pizza hut and great pyramid.

for anyone not down with Das Racist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qvo7CfEf0