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The term "two-pizza" teams is always weird to me, like how can you get anything done with only 2 people on the team.
by easymodex 6y ago
The term "two-pizza" teams is always weird to me, like how can you get anything done with only 2 people on the team.
- chrisseaton 6y agoPizzas in the US are pretty huge - they’re not like a classic pizza for one person as in Italy. I think a two-pizza team is up to about sixteen people.
- syshum 6y agoPeople in the US are pretty huge, I think a two pizza team is a team of 1 person :)
- onion2k 6y agoIn my experience there aren't many more overweight Americans than there are overweight British or European people, but the difference is when an American is overweight they're impressively overweight. Need-a-golf-buggy kind of size. That's very unusual outside of America.
- mercer 6y agoI've only experienced the southern part of the US (mostly Texas), and I was shocked to see how many more overweight people I saw, in general. But honestly I'd say the same about specifically the UK compared to most of the EU. So maybe your experience of Europe is skewed by the UK? Of course, statistics can probably provide a better answer. Maybe EU people have generally become just as overweight as Americans, but there is more of a stigma so they hide it better? And the 'impressiveness' definitely might play a role too. I can probably count on two hands the number of times I've seen someone in a supermarket so overweight that they needed a cart, while I saw multiple individuals every time I went to a wal-mart. Maybe I don't see them here because they simply don't fit into most of our supermarkets, or they're too ashamed? Still, I'd be surprised if obesity is really just as bad in Europe as it is in the US, excluding the UK specifically.
- rsynnott 6y agoSo, this is _kind_ of true, depending on country. The UK and US have about the same rate of adults overweight || obese (about 66% each), but the US has a much higher rate of obesity, ~38% vs ~25%. However, the UK is the fattest large country in Europe. Some countries really are much thinner. France is 40% overweight || obese and 10% obese, for instance.
- bengale 6y agoThats a big pizza.
- chrisseaton 6y agoYes two pizzas cut into eight each getting a very large slice.
- huffmsa 6y ago16" pizza. You won't get a whole meal out of it, (16 total slices, 400in², 25in² per slice), but you'll fuel everyone for a few hours.
- rzzzt 6y agoMetric-land reporting in: it is possible to finish a 32 cm pizza on your own (12.6"), but the 45 cm ones are definitely multiplayer material (17.7").
- randallsquared 6y agoWell, "thin crust" vs "deep dish" is a pretty huge difference, too. Pizza Hut has or had a "personal pan pizza" that's 15cm or so and considered a meal by itself.
- huffmsa 6y agoAye, you go to Chicago and you're talking 1-2" of depth of mostly cheese on these pies. Literal pounds of pizza.
- hardlianotion 6y agoA pizza 2 inches deep? Surely there is another name for such a meal.
- ShroudedNight 6y ago
- test1235 6y agoso .. a pizza feeds up to 8 people ... is that the 'regular' size? When Americans order a pizza, it's typically for a party of 8 people?
- np_tedious 6y agoIt definitely doesn't need to be a big crowd like that. 8 slices, maybe 3 or 4 people if it's a full meal (2 slices / person is probably typical). Leftover slices are good the next day too.
- schwartzworld 6y ago8 slices !== 8 people. Most people I know will eat 2 or 3 slices. You can also save leftover slices.
- paulmooreparks 6y agoThe first time I tried to order pizza delivery in Singapore, I asked my friends, "So, how big are the pizzas here?" The answer left me stumped: "Small is six slices and large is eight slices." I retorted that I could easily slice a 6cm pizza into 16 slices and that wouldn't feed us any more than their large pizza. They looked at me kind of funny.
- dafoex 6y agoWould it not be more useful to size a pizza in terms of diameter, not number of slices or how many people its supposed to feed? As you point out, a 6cm diameter pizza can be sliced into 16 pieces, but also some people just naturally eat more than others anyway.
- feteru 6y agoC'mon, don't leave us hanging how big was the pizza?
- paulmooreparks 6y agoThe "large" would have been called "medium" back in the States. I guess "small" would be "personal".
- Kipters 6y agoIn Italy we have what we call "family pizzas" which are supposed to be pizzas that are large enough to feed a family. In practice it's double the mass of a normal pizza, so a two-pizzas team would be 4 people (or 2 particularly hungry devs).
- jks 6y agoIn Finland we have family pizzas too, and then there is the extended family pizza, which allows a whole Nokia department to be a two-pizza team: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtvuutiset.fi%2Fmakuja%2Fartikkeli%2Fmtv-testasi-helsingin-suurimman-pizzan-herranjumala%2F5578816 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
- darkerside 6y agoWell, clearly Italians thrive with smaller software teams
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoTwo large pizzas feed sixteen people if they're all elderly or trying to strictly limit their calorie intake. Two large pizzas feed three to four people if they're all under 30.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoYes id have said two pizzas is a team of 3-4. one veggie and one meat pizza doesn't go that far.
- the_other 6y agoMaybe they also order garlic bread, slaw and tiramisu. I mean, you'd hope...
- C1sc0cat 6y agoAnd soft drinks and even gasp some beer.
- bregma 6y agoOne with pineapple and one without.
- saalweachter 6y agoHmm, in my circles usually goes {1 cheese}, {1 cheese, 1 meat}, {1 cheese, 1 meat, 1 veggie}, {2 cheese, 1 meat, 1 veggie}...
- C1sc0cat 6y agoI must admit that I hadn't considered vegans, so you might well need to take that into account.
- swarnie_ 6y agoHow's that obesity crisis coming along?
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- yomly 6y agoyes - at those bigger "pizza by the slice" joints anything more than 2 slices for lunch will be driven by pizza-induced greed and I definitely won't get any work done afterwards. At dinner post-work I can maybe put away 4 slices...
- sysadmindotfail 6y agoIn the US these are called 'slice pies' which are enormous and not meant (usually) to be ordered whole.
- grimjack00 6y agoMust be a regional thing; I've never heard the term "slice pie". Almost all the by-the-slice places I've been to take slices from their large or extra-large pies. The only exception I can think of would be Pinup Pizza on the Las Vegas strip (30 inch diameter pie).
- amelius 6y agoYou'd be surprised to learn that there are many successful two-person companies.
- ThePadawan 6y agoI still always laugh when I read the phrase "personal pizza". That's what non-US people would call "pizza".
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoBecause our "pizza" is like three of your pizzas.
- ThePadawan 6y agoYeah of course, but isn't that generally how it goes with food? You don't go out to a restaurant and order a "personal salad" or even a "personal lasagna" (even though the restaurant obviously makes a whole tray's worth). I get it! It's just a funny idiosyncrasy :)
- sin7 6y agoNot really. It's a size. You can get extra large, large, medium, small and personal. It's something like 16 in diameter for an extra large, 14 in for large, etc. The personal pizza is around 6 in.
- vonmoltke 6y ago> You don't go out to a restaurant and order a "personal salad" You sort of do. There is a distinction between salads intended for the table to share, salads intended as a single person;s entree, and salads intended as a single person's accompaniment. > or even a "personal lasagna" (even though the restaurant obviously makes a whole tray's worth) If I saw "personal lasagna" on a menu, I would expect something that was baked as a single portion. Otherwise, I would expect a portion cut out of a larger tray. Essentially, "personal" here is a reference to the size of the unit that was prepared and cooked and not merely the serving size. Same with pizza. I expect a "personal pizza" to be a complete pizza that is reasonable for one person.
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- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoSmall, competent teams work well. Why do you find that incredible. (disclaimer: it's my experience. Also, I've only worked for small companies on relatively small projects (a few man-months or man-years), things may be very different in large ones).
- corpMaverick 6y agoHe is joking. A two pizza team is 6-8 members.
- joopxiv 6y agoIndeed. Or when I'm particularly hungry, I need to work alone. That part actually might make sense; people (me) get hangry.
- chupasaurus 6y agoAnecdotally, there is a Russian word with the same spelling which means "a dumb person". There might be a coincidence...