Pizzas 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.
I have generally noticed a "2 large slices" soft limit for people at my work place. Although, my team is generally quite fit and health conscious for folks in their mid 20s.
I'd say 2 pizzas for 6-8 people is totally fine assumption.
In 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).
The 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.
Would 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.
It 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.
It depends. I'm not a big eater but I've at times ordered a 45 cm pizza. While I wouldn't finish it all at once, I'd probably finish it in half a day or so. Usually this was after not eating for at least 24 hours, or after enjoying a particular substance. It definitely did not leave me feeling happy in the longer term though.
Well, "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.
> A pizza 2 inches deep? Surely there is another name for such a meal.
Yes, it's a tourist trap meal. We here in Chicago really do like deep-dish pizza, but many of the more famous brands exaggerate the thickness because it seems as though tourists prefer it that way. A typical Chicago resident isn't going to buy one like this more than once every few years, unless they have visitors that insist on it.
You eat it with a fork and knife. Despite the huge amount of cheese and sauce, a good one will have a really crunchy crust and it should be so good that you consider it one of the best parts of the pizza.
The flavor/preparation/ingredients are what make a good Chicago-style pizza and not the thickness. In more residential areas, you'll have pizza shops where the deep dish pizza is no more than 1 inch, which is really what a Chicago resident buys for themselves (but the thin crust is most definitely purchased more frequently).
As far as I can tell [Chicago-style | deep dish] pizza[1] is uniquely specific in describing such a preparation. No obvious alternative Pie-, Tart-, or Flan-based descriptor showed up when casually searching.
Area is pi x r^2, which for a 16" pizza would be pi x 8^2 = pi x 64, which is right about 200in^2
A few of the pizza places around here offer 20" pizzas, which would be pi x 10^2, or pi x 100 = 314in^2, which is actually big enough to feed a couple people.
That said, whenever I read "two-pizza team" (a term I've never heard before), I assume that means 4-5 people at most.
Surprisingly, I have found that to be true with people in tech.
Many folks going vegan, preferring public transport/bikes, eating very healthy (many of my colleagues were in high school/college sports teams), avoiding waste and actively observing the 3Rs.
Tech isn't what it used to be. It is trendy to be in tech now. It is the choice of career for the do-everything high school valedictorian that cares for the world with a 4 page resume.
> Tech isn't what it used to be. It is trendy to be in tech now. It is the choice of career for the do-everything high school valedictorian with a 4 page resume.
Oh god, part of the reason I went into tech is because I didn't have to be this (and partly vice versa)
yes - 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...
Must 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).
In 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.
I'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.
So, 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.
