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MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 626 points –
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TIL Pizza is a cylinder

Cylinders prefer to be called thicc circles.

Like a round toast with stuff on it

Let's face it, pizza is an open face sandwich.

(I like that my first thought reading that was like a comic/meme of intentionally faceplanting (your face) into the middle of a (hot) pizza)

lol, I supposed it should really be "open-faced sandwich". My mistake! 😁

Rofl, I genuinely didn't even notice your typo, I was just entertaining myself ... or maybe I have unresolved pizza issues :|

If we're gonna insist to go morphological, then it depends on the edge crust.

If we count that as added thickness, a pizza is a quiche or a pie. I'm pretty sure Chicago Deep Dish would classify as such unambiguously.

If we don't count the edge as upstanding, a pizza is toast.

I'm not insisting, just joking 😅

Why is a sandwich pizza not a thing already? Like a calzone, but without folding anything.

Curiously, today I had a "kebab roll" ("kebabrulle") which is a big thing in Sweden. Essentially a kebab pizza with a salad on top, some onion pieces, and dressing, rolled up into a roll, wrapped in tinfoil.

Very good, very heavy meal.

Except the mathematical variable name for radius is r. Also for a cylinder you use the term height, not thickness. Which is called h in math. So by all accounts it should be called Pirrh.

Edit: Also also, with this logic you could've just called a pizza "Volume". Would've saved you a lot of time :/

Pizza gets better as "a" approaches zero.

But if a = 0 then PiZZa = PiZZ * 0 = 0

But it's approaching zero. It never becomes zero. 😙👌

When is the pizza ready? When has it approached zero?!

We gotta get these pies moving cousin. 10 minutes or less or it's free, that's what big Tony says. We never should have let you take over operations, cousin, not with your fancy math degree. I felt bad because you couldn't find job anywhere else. But what gabagool. What will mother say? You're going to make her cry.

One molecule-thin crust pizza coming up!

One molecule is thick af, with no extra Cs. Sexy Limits don't stop just because our feeble reality has size limits.

Extremely wrong. The ideal A:Z ratio is more like 1:4.

That's just a bread loaf with cheese on top

Remember that Z is the radius. It's flatter than you think. I made sure to reference an actual rectangle before making that statement.

That's a half a loaf of bread with cheese on top

Here I thought it was because of Personal Investigator Z.Z. Andersen

This is the absolute ONLY case where it's acceptable to call a pizza a pie. That being said, well done to the memesmith 😀

But- and hear me out- what if you are a stereotypical Italian chef with a big mustache and a chef's hat and you send it out to the customer? You gotta say, "at's-a good pizza pie!"

This is the absolute ONLY case where it’s acceptable to call a pizza a pie.

Never had deep dish, I take it?

That's not really pizza OR pie..

It's actually a pie though. It has a surrounding crust casing as well as a filling, which qualifies it as a pie according to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is sometimes wrong, though. This is the relevant definition:

A baked food composed of a pastry shell **filled with **fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust

Meaning that a flat pizza wouldn't count (those are toppings, not fillings) but a calzone technically would.

Read further. The page also says the crust can be on the bottom and the filling on top/inside, as well as crust on top, filling underneath, or both (calzone). So a deep dish pizza is a pie, technically.

The page also says the crust can be on the bottom and the filling on top

This is "literally can mean figuratively" level lunacy. If it doesn't have FILLINGS rather than TOPPINGS, it's simply not a pie.

Next you're gonna tell me that a hotdog is a sandwich (please fucking don't!)

I don't really know what you're referring to at this point.

I'm saying:

  • A regular flat pizza is not a pie. It does not have a casing, and the "filling" is a topping, as you say.

  • A (Chicago-style) deep-dish pizza is a pie (more-so than a pizza in my opinion but whatever) because it has a bottom crust with filling on top (a pie according to Wikipedia). That's not lunacy. It's right there on Wikipedia, with even a link to Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.

  • A calzone is a pie because it has crust both on top and on the bottom (surrounding the filling), as well as filling inside.

This is not "lunacy". It's just reading a definition and interpreting things to fit the definition. 🤷‍♂️ If you think that's lunacy I'd hate to tell you about Pluto. A pie with crust on the bottom is very common. Meat pies, and pastry pies, among many others. Crust on bottom is common, crust on top is common. Crust all around is common... Not lunacy.

I'm going to refrain from talking about hotdogs, because I've yet to look up the definition of a sandwich, but I'd rather not at this point lol.

Researching Chicago style deep dish pizzas, it would seem that I wasn't aware of just HOW deep they are. Yep, that's a pie. I think we're in full agreement, actually!

Haha yeah they look ridiculously deep. I can't imagine how they wouldn't be kind of soggy with all that filling but I guess it works. Seems to be popular, eh. Would love to try a slice.

I imagine a single or at most two slices would be a meal for an average adult, so maybe I'd actually get full from eating only one completele dish pizza 😂

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If it's not covered and doesn't have FILLINGS rather than TOPPINGS, it's simply not a pie.

Where does that put key lime pie and lemon meringue pie? Or pumpkin pie and pecan pie? Are they not pies because they're not covered?

Pies don't have to be covered, no. They can have their casing on the bottom.

I understand that. That's why I was asking the person that made the claim to clarify.

Ok, I may have gotten a bit* carried away with the "covered" requirement, but toppings are still not fillings and it's not a pie if it doesn't have filling(s).

*extremely, ridiculously

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Not OP, but I never have, and not sure if I can get any in my area, but I would like to try it some day.

Get to Chicago, and don’t shy away from spinach. That shit’s delicious. I’m a fan of Giordano’s, but there’s a lot of valid argument about who does it best.

Wrong side of the ocean. I'm not gonna take an eight hour flight to try out a pizza that's more of a casserole.

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A deep dish pizza and a calzone are both technically pies as far as I can tell. They have a surrounding casing of crust. A flat pizza would not be a pie.

A deep dish pizza and a calzone are both technically pies as far as I can tell. They have a surrounding casing of crust. A flat pizza would not be a pie.

Agreed. This guy pies.

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The parenthesis are pointless. Exponents go first, but multiplication doesn't care about order, and there is only multiplication going on.

The parentheses are for clarification and thus not pointless. Know your audience. 🙂👍

Clarification of what? The joke doesn't need them and neither does the math.

That Z² is equal to ZZ.

If we didn't use parentheses in primary school, because "the math doesn't need it", then it would be quite unnecessarily hard on the students' learning. Maybe it's a joke someone made for a class?

No, it is syntactically unnecessary.

I understand your point, and agree when it comes to programming with things like scope, typing, semicolons, etc, etc... Many concepts are easier to learn when enforced through syntax.

Though if someone gets cofused on the transitive nature of multiplication with a single simple equation ... They aren't learning math.

How old are you? Do you remember how stupid we were when we were like, 12? How learning new shit really required over clarification ad nauseam seen through our eyes now? Teachers are really patient people.

Anyway, this is just a joke post. Get over it. 🙂 Laugh at the funny. Instead of sucking it out of us. ❤️ The parentheses help make it look like the math is more advanced than it really is. It's fine. Shhh. No no. Shhh. It's supposed to be funny.

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It would be 2PiZA, since ZZ is Z squared

EDIT: my bad, I was thinking of circumference

That would be the surface area of the crust, not the volume

How does that work out? It doesn't take into account how large the crust is in relation to the rest of the pizza.

Sorry, the surface area of the "vertical" side of the crust, not including the top or bottom surfaces.

Still not right, I think. That would be 2πZ, not 2πZa, right?

No, you need to include the height of the cylinder (a). Imagine a deep dish pizza (big a) versus a thin crust (small a) - the sides of the deep dish pizza have more area. Your formula returns the circumference of the pizza.

If you're interested in dimensional analysis (and why wouldn't you be?) the formula you proposed doesn't have enough length units. It would return a value of length (like inches, or cm) not area (like square inches or square cm).

that’s cool, but did you know that you can get more pizza if you order two mediums instead of a single large?

that's insane 😮 did you know that you can get more pizza if you order 2 large pizzas instead of 2 mediums?

woaaah you've just changed my life. does the same go for small > medium? I wonder if two smalls are also bigger than two larges

I’d say that depends entirely on whether their diameter is larger than half of that of the large pizza.

Whoa whoa whoa tho... Did you know that if you got three large pizzas it's more than 4 mediums?

Again, I'd say that depends entirely on their respective diameter.