• Fonzie!
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    1311 days ago

    Is this some American meme I’m too European to understand?

    Or have I been overeating pizzas?

    • lurch (he/him)
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      411 days ago

      Pizza has a lot of calories and you can get giant ones virtually everywhere.

        • lurch (he/him)
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          811 days ago

          I’m in EU and I have like 10 pizza places that deliver to my home, with multiple sizes to choose from. most even offer a gigantic rectangular party pizza: the biggest size that fits in the oven.

          • Owl
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            010 days ago

            Oh, yeah with home delivery it works

        • Fonzie!
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          310 days ago

          I’ve been at some Turkish snackbar/pizza place that offered three sizes: M, L and US. That last one was a family portion by itself, damn!

          Though that still confirms that two to three slices being a single portion is a US thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 days ago

      That pizza in the OP is clearly a roughly 40cm pizza, maybe even smaller.

      That’s the normal size from typical European fast food pizzerias. If you eat those, like I sometimes have, then you’re overeating by a lot.

      • Fonzie!
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        210 days ago

        Oh. Good to know. Thanks ig.

        lemmy look into that some more, just in case

      • @[email protected]
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        10 days ago

        Definitely not typical in all of europe at least. Dominos here offers 25, 28, or 32cm diameter, and most other pizzas I’ve had, fast food or not, have always been in that range as well (though I can only speak for germany and the netherlands, haven’t had fast food pizza elsewhere and I don’t even really remember how big the pizza I had in italy 10 years ago was). 40cm is family size here (one local place used to have 50cm family pizzas, which are definitely 2 or even 1 slice per person territory).

    • @[email protected]
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      110 days ago

      Depends on what else you’re eating during the day/week/month/the rest of the time.

      I think if you skipped breakfast and lunch on both sides of gobbling that whole pizza you’d be fine calorie-intake-wise, but probably feel like shit.