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I'm not sure pizza is the greatest choice of measurement. In most European countries, there is no such thing as a large or small pizza, there is simply pizza,
by natejenkins 13y ago
I'm not sure pizza is the greatest choice of measurement. In most European countries, there is no such thing as a large or small pizza, there is simply pizza, and it is intended for one person. The crust is very thin compared to American pizza and the toppings are quite sparse. In my current city (Geneva) a cheese pizza would cost around $20 and would feed one adult.
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- snogglethorpe 13y agoIt's an entirely awful measure, for exactly that reason: what pizza "means" is (as for many things) very dependent on culture. In the U.S. it's often considered a cheapo mass food for students, but in other countries it can be something of a luxury, exotic and foreign; if the only place to get pizza targets wealthy expats and the spoiled offspring of the rich who want to seem "western," it's not going to be particularly cheap... [and many countries are of course somewhere in the middle] That doesn't mean the cost of living is actually higher in the latter places, because there are very likely to be far cheaper indigenous foods that occupy roughly the same "position" pizza occupies in the U.S. The price of something, after all is not just the cost of the ingredients and the labor used to make it, it's determined by what people are willing to pay, and people will often pay for very ephemeral qualities...