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Gee, whenever I have pizza, I eat a whole large one. It that so unusual?
by yesenadam 5y ago
Gee, whenever I have pizza, I eat a whole large one. It that so unusual?
- aidenn0 5y agoI do too, and yes it's unusual. My roommate in college was 120# when soaking wet, we would split the "dinner for 4" special. He would have one slice and a few cheese sticks. I ate the rest.
- yesenadam 5y agoI don't know what "120# when soaking wet" means, but he sounds like the weird one!
- jayd16 5y ago"When soaking wet" is just a phrase used imply that is the high end of the estimate. Many things, such as clothes, are much heavier when wet.
- ethbr0 5y agoAlso, # = pound = lb
- yesenadam 5y agoohh ok thanks! I thought maybe it was fahrenheit hehe.
- yesenadam 5y agoFascinating - I don't remember ever seeing that usage, didn't know it's used for pounds/weight, although I knew "pound sign" is one name for #. Seems the sign evolved from "lb" with a horizontal line through it. "When # is after a number, it is read as "pound" or "pounds", meaning the unit of weight. ...rare outside North America." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#Names Reading that page, I learnt the word "octothorpe" was likely invented at Bell Labs in 1968! haha. Gee I thought it was a centuries-old name.
- anderspitman 5y agoSorry to go even more OT, but were you familiar with the "soaking wet" part? Your profile says Australia and I'm curious if that's an idiom there as well.
- yesenadam 5y ago:-) A very fair question. No, I'd also never heard that expression.
- aidenn0 5y agoMy roommate in college was 120# when soaking wet -> My roommate was 8 stone 7 at the most.
- na85 5y agoHonestly, outside of America it's quite unusual, yes.
- epolanski 5y agoIt's normal in Italy where pizza was born. Sizes are normal here though.
- na85 5y agoItalian pizza and American pizza aren't really comparable, in my experience.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoI enjoy both (well, Italian pizza as in a US restaurant making "Neapolitan" pizza, so idk) but yes they are greatly different foods.
- epolanski 5y agoAs an italian i find nothing unusual, even kids do. But in US sizes vary much more. Never understood why in US you make it so much bigger and sell slices, at that point why have it round at all, just make it rectangular.
- cloverich 5y agoPizzas are typically shared here is my best guess; I would hope it plays at least a role but shrug.
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- pmontra 5y agoWhat's the size of a large pizza?