I wasn't the most popular growing up and I remember becoming popular and developing a larger friends group in late high school. Above all, I remember going out for pizza when I was 17. At home, we always shared a small (frozen or delivery or restaurant) pizza - me, my sister, and my mom. Eating pizza meant having a slice or two for dinner (with salad, there was always salad). So this also always meant prior discussions on the toppings. Therefore, going out with new friends, I was highly confused why no one was really engaging in my question about what kind of toppings they want, everyone was just stating what they want and gonna get and I was hella confused. When it occurred to me that everyone was going to order a whole pizza for themselves I couldn't believe it. I don't remember what happened next, I only remember the horrible realization that everyone is going to buy a pizza and eat this food, that to me was absolutely meant to be shared, by themselves like psychopaths, a whole family meal, for each person. And that this was the normal way to do it. As I said, I don't know what happened next, but I don't really like pizza to this day - maybe something happened that day, I don't know.

Thank God I found a spouse who likes to share a small pizza and can't have more than 2-3 slices tops either.

I can eat multiple loaves of bread and multiple tens of oranges in the same time i can eat a large pizza

I dont think the pizza is the best benchmark for human eating

Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination

If you compressed a 14” pizza into a ball it would probably be about the size of your head, so you should not eat one.

Amazement and terror increases depending on which hole they use.

Dominos used to have a large pizza for $5 and a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill was 1.99

I used to be able to eat like 1-2 14-inch pizzas.

Now I can barely at half a pizza.

I'm feeling very attacked right now.

I do that every time I eat pizza. One extra large... with sides!

When I was in junior high, a local pizza/burger/Chinese (if it was food, chances are they made it) place had a Safe Cracker pinball machine that would give you a token every 1 million points which you could redeem for a large, one topping pizza.

I would very often go there with no more than a dollar and end up getting 2 free pizzas and eat them all to myself because I was really good at that pinball machine and also had a bottomless pit in my stomach.

These days, I think less about the pizza and more about how I would love to have a Safe Cracker pinball table.

Is it though?

Unless you're talking party pizza, it's pretty much designed to be eaten by a single person.

How many inches constitutes a "large" nowadays?

Watch "Beard meets Food" on YT and learn.

I'd call it cowmaxxing if it actually led to me putting on any weight 🤷‍♀️

When I was younger, I could eat superhuman amounts of food and not gain an ounce (I was even accused of having anorexia by strangers because I was so thin).

Now, if I even think about one serving of ice cream, I gain ten pounds. Oh shit, I’ve done it. Back to the treadmill, I guess.

is it, though?

a stomach can stretch upto 4 litres in capacity when pushed (one source). that's 4000cm³ (or 244 cubic inches).

to fill that capacity, the volume of a pizza needs to be 4000cm³ or 244 inch³.

take πr²h = 4000 for thin crust pizzas, if we assume the average height of pizza and toppings as 1cm, our equation simplifies to πr² = 4000; which gives the radius of the pizza as around 36 cms -- or a diameter of 72 cms (or 28").

if we take a thicker pizza of an average crust thickness of 1", then our equation for square inches simplifies to πr² = 244. which gives us a radius of about 9" or a diameter of 18".

since most pizzas top out at 12"-14" diameter (thin and thick crust volume varying between 700cm³ to 2600cm³), if anything, we're nowhere near achieving our full potential!

The trick is to put half in one end, and the rest in the other.