LazaroFilm to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoWho the hell cuts their pizza into fifths?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1538arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up1503arrow-down1imageWho the hell cuts their pizza into fifths?lemmy.worldLazaroFilm to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square73fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDecoy321linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 years agoIt might be designed that way to make the nutritional facts more appealing. They can define the portion sizes arbitrarily, so the per-portion amounts don’t look so high.
minus-squareEchlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years ago They can define the portion sizes arbitrarily, so the per-portion amounts don’t look so high I dunno about y’all, but I cut my pizza’s into 1/8ths, which would be smaller than 1/5.
minus-square@Stovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoBut do you have just one piece when you do?
minus-square@doggle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-12•2 years agoI’d be willing to bet that this particular pizza is very small, so most people would cut it into 1/4ths.
minus-square@User_4272894@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI always cut my frozen pizzas into eighths. I eat the whole thing in one sitting either way, but I prefer smaller slices.
minus-square@PrometheusG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoThe FDA is in charge of portion sizes. No one decides it on their own. What a company can do is fiddle with the total number of portions. Which is how you get 5 portions in this pizza.
It might be designed that way to make the nutritional facts more appealing. They can define the portion sizes arbitrarily, so the per-portion amounts don’t look so high.
I dunno about y’all, but I cut my pizza’s into 1/8ths, which would be smaller than 1/5.
But do you have just one piece when you do?
I’d be willing to bet that this particular pizza is very small, so most people would cut it into 1/4ths.
I always cut my frozen pizzas into eighths. I eat the whole thing in one sitting either way, but I prefer smaller slices.
The FDA is in charge of portion sizes. No one decides it on their own.
What a company can do is fiddle with the total number of portions. Which is how you get 5 portions in this pizza.
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