Not always, supermarkets these days are quite canny, there are some ways of selling that some staff call the stupidity tax—a single onion is sold by weight and is about 30p, give or take, normally less. A bag of three smaller than average onions is sold for £1: it's easier to buy a bag, but it costs more and you get smaller ones. Plus, offers and similar distort thing and the algorithms mess up on occasions, my favourtie recent was 2 for £3 or reduced to £1.25 each...
But yeah bigger pizza more food, if that's what you want.
While the (very short) article didn't state as much, the total of 74,476 data points is a close match to 4 sizes x 5 topping options x 3,678 pizza places. Also understated is the psychological barrier to raising the prices to reflect the increased cost of raw material, labour and energy required to make and deliver the larger pies. As such, I'd suspect that in areas of intense competition, a struggling parlor would be inclined to drop extra-large pizzas from the menu and promote the sale of pizza-by-the-slice.
Geometry has nothing to do about this. Pizza places are well aware of how much pizza each diameter corresponds to. This is about economics; namely, that there are fixed costs involved in making pizzas.
Also, there's a trade-off about cheaper marginal amount of pizza vs how much you can eat and whether you really fancy cold pizza the day after.
Probably, but two day old pizza you didn't put in the fridge and, because you've been horrifically ill, you think is less than a day old, is not so awesome. Well, my just-recovered gastric system definitely didn't thnk so.
There's this local pizzeria in my neck of woods that -- *gasp* -- delivers (not guaranteed here), and if I order at least two pizzas, the delivery is free (again, even this is not guaranteed here).
For some reason I have a really perverse fancy of "pizza that has been sitting in a cardboard box"; I do not get it why, I just know that if I go to a restaurant and eat pizza there, it doesn't taste quite the same (even if I eat at that same place). It really needs to sit in that damn box to taste the best!
So whenever I hit the mood "don't wanna cook, have fifteen eurobucks at hand/on bank account (since you can order online and pay it there too), gonna have pizza"... I end up with two pizzas, with the other one for the next day. And the next day pizza is usually way better than the original ordering day pizza.
I don't get it. Does anyone else like it when pizza soaks up something from the cardboard box?
Yea but pizza still tastes different if it has been in a cardboard box or if it has been taken out of the restaurant (says I, master of many tinfoiled doggybags and can't-finish-this-humongous-pizza-with-one-go-no-seriously), and then eaten cold. This is what puzzles me. Is there some magic in that cardboard box?
I get the oils, I do observe pizza grease phenomenon... but the pizza box? This is what weirds me out. Is that box like after-baking oven that smooths and intensifies the flavors inside the big styrofoam/insulated delivery box/bag they use?
I mean, I did a quick poll with my friends and I found that I am not alone thinking that box pizza is the best pizza. o_O
Plausible, or that moisture is nicely and evenly spread and then it sort of gently steams it and allows those tasty fats to remain on surface as the pizza cools down from "3rd Degree Burn" to "chow it down now".
He's right, you know. Sometimes you just don't want all that pizza. The tradeoff for paying more for getting the amount of pizza you actually want, rather than maximising your pizza gain to the detriment of your comfort, happiness, or convenience, is often worth it.
This. For me, it's knowing I will want a third of the pizza, and I will feel so much better if I get a third of a smaller pizza. That's worth paying slightly more for what I comfortably eat, since it doesn't come with a rider of "this other stuff that you will feel worse after eating".
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Date: 2014-07-10 03:14 am (UTC)But yeah bigger pizza more food, if that's what you want.
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Date: 2014-07-09 11:30 pm (UTC)Also, there's a trade-off about cheaper marginal amount of pizza vs how much you can eat and whether you really fancy cold pizza the day after.
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Date: 2014-07-10 11:21 am (UTC)You gonna eat that?
You gonna eat that?
I'll eat that.
(Source: Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs by Amy Hempel, 1999.)
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Date: 2014-07-11 04:14 am (UTC)For some reason I have a really perverse fancy of "pizza that has been sitting in a cardboard box"; I do not get it why, I just know that if I go to a restaurant and eat pizza there, it doesn't taste quite the same (even if I eat at that same place). It really needs to sit in that damn box to taste the best!
So whenever I hit the mood "don't wanna cook, have fifteen eurobucks at hand/on bank account (since you can order online and pay it there too), gonna have pizza"... I end up with two pizzas, with the other one for the next day. And the next day pizza is usually way better than the original ordering day pizza.
I don't get it. Does anyone else like it when pizza soaks up something from the cardboard box?
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Date: 2014-07-11 06:09 am (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/692122.stm
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Date: 2014-07-11 06:17 am (UTC)I get the oils, I do observe pizza grease phenomenon... but the pizza box? This is what weirds me out. Is that box like after-baking oven that smooths and intensifies the flavors inside the big styrofoam/insulated delivery box/bag they use?
I mean, I did a quick poll with my friends and I found that I am not alone thinking that box pizza is the best pizza. o_O
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Date: 2014-07-12 08:28 pm (UTC)We're all socialist commies, you know. Hating freedom is part of the job description.
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