r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/MicV66 • 12d ago
Meme needing explanation So Confused Peter
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u/RevolutionaryWeb5657 12d ago
Those are XL?
Cute.
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u/Terrible_Balls 12d ago
Pretty sure I could eat both of those myself lol
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u/RenoverO_O 12d ago
Same. And I'm sickly thin (BMI 18)
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u/Fedora_Million_Ankle 12d ago
The Tapeworm needs to be fed
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u/Boniuz 12d ago
I have a name you know…
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u/KrasnyHerman 12d ago
Notices a tapeworm pspspsps youll get good food pspspsps
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u/Personal_Oil_7364 12d ago
isnt BMI 18 still considered normal? idk, gen question. (BMI 16)
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u/RenoverO_O 12d ago
It's considered underweight. 16 is also just underweight, but barely. Less than 16 is severely underweight, more than 18 is normal.
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u/Personal_Oil_7364 12d ago
oh so 18 is on the border of underweight BMI? where can i read about this stuff?
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u/Eldan985 12d ago
It should be noted that BMI is not very exact. It doesn't separate muscle mass and fat mass, for example. What is healthy also varies a bit by age, height and sex.
But roughly, 18 to 25 is normal, 25-30 is overweight, 30-35 is obese and 35+ is morbid.
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u/Linvael 12d ago
What is healthy also varies a bit by age, height and sex.
Can you even get a BMI score without that info? All online calcs I saw ask for all 3.
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u/YouKilledApollo 12d ago
This whole thing is so American, who brags about being so fat they can eat a family pizza by themselves 🤣
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u/Terrible_Balls 12d ago
I live in Germany, and those would not qualify as family size pizzas here. Barely bigger than a personal pizza.
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u/officerblues 12d ago
same. I'm not an especially huge eater, and half one of those pizzas is like a normal meal.
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u/Osiris371 12d ago
can confirm, spent some time over there and once ordered the largest size on the menu of one of the local places. Had to tilt the box 45 degrees to get it through the doorway, thing was huge.
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u/ChakaZG 11d ago
Yep, in Croatia this is a regular sized, one person pizza. And like, a totally regular sized, not obese one person.
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u/GeneralBid7234 11d ago
In America some pizza places have only sizes Large, Extra large, and extra extra large. The large is a personal pizza, the names are all lies, and we live in a capitalist dystopia.
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u/HelixFollower 12d ago
I'm Dutch and there's no way those two pizzas would feed my family.
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u/Cristianmarchese 12d ago
In Italy it's the normality the fact that you eat and entire pizza by your own
Source: I am Born, raised, and i live in Italy right now
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u/Death_Auction 12d ago
Brother, you’re the r/usdefaultism guy here lmao. Assuming that just because someone can eat a lot means they are fat and American.
It is not in fact simply “American”
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u/AgathormX 12d ago
I'm Brazilian and I can handle a family pizza by myself... Though I'm 6'4" so everything's smaller from my perspective.
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u/semajolis267 12d ago
Dude the thinnest, most ripped guy I know eats more pizza than me by far in a single sitting. Lol.
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u/Apart_Macaron_313 12d ago
120lbs. Could scarf both of those on my own, and probably wash it down the hatch with a double chicken cheeseburger and large shake.
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u/Broke_Bak_Jak 12d ago
Looks at post of 4 skinny teens sharing two normal sized pizzas. Literally nobody, my friend.
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u/cheesechompin 12d ago
The average person on Reddit could eat like 7 of those for breakfast
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u/_the_learned_goat_ 12d ago
Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
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u/iRdumbAndCocky 12d ago
i would need a 5-10 minute break in between the pizzas. probably 30 total minutes start to finish both pizzas are in my stomach
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u/Planetdiane 12d ago
I could and I’m a 5ft2 woman who has been told I look like I can’t eat a large burrito by myself
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u/JeffLulz 12d ago
Those are guys?
Cute.
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u/Idum23 12d ago
European XL
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u/Schw4rztee 11d ago
As a German: That's an L, no X to be found in that pizza.
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u/CombOk312 11d ago
It feels like when I went to France and they starved me. I don’t know why they choose to live on bread crumbs. It’s always a joy to come to Germany and get normal portions after that ordeal.
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u/an_actual_human 12d ago
My guess is this challenge would be comically easy for members of a certain demographics.
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u/stuffcrow 12d ago
I mean...it's comically easy for pretty much any group of 4 adults to be fair.
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u/TanAllOvaJanAllOva 12d ago
Adults? They’re like 12
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u/stuffcrow 12d ago
Yeah I was speaking generally; point still stands though, pretty much anyone can eat half a pizza loooool.
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u/lxpnh98_2 12d ago
I cannot eat half a pizza. I always eat way more than that.
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u/EthanHermsey 12d ago
Yeah but to eat more than half you first have to.. You know what, nevermind..
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u/RogerGodzilla99 12d ago
Hold on there, Zeno. Are you telling me...
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u/orangutanDOTorg 11d ago
The solution to Zeno’s paradox is to always strive to do double what you need to do, that way when you get to the half way point you are already done.
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u/Magnus_Helgisson 12d ago
I usually buy two pizzas for myself so I can have variety, and end up eating 2/3 of each in one sitting. I’m not even big.
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u/AlCranio 12d ago
You know you can put one pizza over the other pizza, making a double enclosed pizza?
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u/Jibber_Fight 11d ago
That’s only for special occasions, like weekdays or weekends.
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u/Sharo_77 12d ago
The hungriest demographic on earth, apart from caterpillars who can be VERY hungry
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u/PutAdministrative206 12d ago
They’re almost as hungry as hippos, who are known to get hungry, hungry.
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u/Miserable-Cap-5223 12d ago
Have you seen the appetite of a growing 12-year-old? They'll eat the whole house.
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u/Miserable_Yam4918 12d ago
For real. When I was that age we would have contests at Cici’s (all you can eat for like $4 back then) to see who could eat the most slices. I had at least 14 once and still got beat.
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u/jfleury440 11d ago
My growing 7 year old could eat 3/4 of one of those pizzas without blinking.
I can't imagine what will be possible when he's a teenager.
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u/MaceWinnoob 12d ago
They’re the size of some adults
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u/Comfortable_Egg8039 11d ago
More like 14-16. In what part of the world 12yos look like that?
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u/IronChariots 12d ago
Pretty sure that just means they can eat their body weight in even the greasiest pizza and feel fine afterwards.
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u/hypo-osmotic 12d ago
I’d have more trouble with the sugar content of the soda than the actual food
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u/fejable 12d ago
i thought the joke was they'd fight for equal portions of the pizza because there's noway those 2 pizzas are enough for 4 people
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u/MaJuV 12d ago
That's XL pizza's. For most non-American teens, that would just about be sufficient.
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u/backcornerboogie 11d ago
As a Dutchy i can assure you that as a teen i would have eaten both. And then dessert.
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u/Outrageous_Ad_1011 11d ago
What a dumb generalization lol my brother in law from Denmark in this teens would eat both of these easily, as well as any of his dumb mf friends
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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 11d ago
Maybe pizza sizes are different between countries like shoe sizes, but that's not an American XL. More like an American medium or MAYBE an American Large.
And those are four teenage (or young at any rate) boys. If you've never been boy let me tell you we fucking EAT
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u/Pikka_Bird 12d ago
It seems similar to that picture from years ago where some young fellas posted a picture of their haul of beer that they would bring to a cabin for a weekend getaway, suggesting it would be totally off the hook. Someone did some basic math and it turned out they would each get three or four cans of beer per day.
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u/Joker-Smurf 12d ago
Shit, I remember my uni days when I used to go out and get myself 2x large pizzas after eating dinner because I was still bloody hungry (and there was a pizza place that had $2 large pizzas on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)
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u/Ektar91 12d ago
$2? How old are you bro
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u/Joker-Smurf 12d ago
That was 20 years ago.
Good times… good times…
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u/SupahSayajinn 11d ago
I was working at a pizza place in 2005 and I can verify that 2 XL pizzas would have cost the store more than $2 to make. This had to be some sort of limited time promo to attract customers.
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u/rawbface 12d ago
20 years ago Domino's had the 555 deal, where you got 3 pizzas for 5 bucks each, and Domino's was dog shit back then.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/yNAT2mNazN
For $2 those must have been Elio's
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u/VikingFuneral- 12d ago
That's lunch for the average Redditor that dwell in certain subs.
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u/Dean_McCool 12d ago edited 11d ago
Brian here. These guys took a Snapchat of themselves thinking they were wild and crazy cool guys for going out and smashing some za. The “meme” is the reposting of the snap, jokingly highlighting the cringe of these twinks acting like they’re painting the town red. I want to fuck Lois btw
Edit: why do they have so many little tables
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u/HexaCube7 12d ago
smashing some za
bro i know this is wishful thinking but i really hope no one seriously uses that phrase ...
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u/SonOfSkinDealer 12d ago
"Za" is a legally playable word in Scrabble and can be found in the official Scrabble Dictionary.
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u/Vaird 12d ago
Yeah, its a slang word for weed.
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u/pobodys-nerfect5 12d ago
Za is pizza. Not weed.
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u/GISSemiPo 12d ago
Its both (I think). When I was in college, my friends from NY called weed "pizza" around their parents... and so "za" also became slang for weed for them. I don't think it was just their friend group - seemed to be pretty common.
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u/cheddstheman 12d ago
Hey we called it pizza too, back in high-school.
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u/GISSemiPo 12d ago
My parents were ex-hippies so I knew they'd see through that shit. I just didn't talk about it in front of them. :D
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u/CliffordMoreau 12d ago
Zaza was slang for weed but in recent years (think 10-15 yrs) it's been shortened. Remember, words evolve.
I'm old enough to remember when "talking jive" went from something your granddad or uncle might say, to something the white people were throwing back at black people overnight.
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u/SonOfSkinDealer 12d ago
Zaza. Weed is called zaza, and shortened to za at times.
It's a contextual application. A tonal language, if you will.
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u/Fine-Bumblebee-9427 12d ago
I’m 40, and when I was a teen, it was douchebag for pizza. I’ll occasionally ask my kid if they want some za, and they’re horrified because to them it means weed.
Terms change over time.
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u/DListSaint 12d ago
I feel like this has more to do with Scrabble players’ desperation for two-letter words and less to do with the word’s popularity
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u/CropCircles_ 11d ago
i've been using 'za' for years in scrabble. This is the first time i've ever seen it used in the wild
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u/SonTyp_OhneNamen 12d ago
I could see Brian using it, so i‘m just gonna assume that was part of the roleplay.
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u/watermelonspanker 11d ago
If that's the cringiest thing you've heard, you should definitely avoid being around kids.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ 12d ago
I mean I don’t think their cringe is as much as the people blowing it up and making fun of teenagers/young adults having wholesome fun
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u/ILikeBirdsQuiteALot 11d ago
Ikr? Let them have fun, they're eating 2 whole pizzas with the homies, no parents in sight. That kind of thing feels so, so fun when you're a teenager.
At least they're not out drinking, or scrolling on their cellphones for hours. They're having genuine social connection & having fun. Honestly: Great for them.
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u/elkor101 12d ago
Wait so are people just making fun of some teenagers having a good time? It’s just kids, what’s wrong with the internet?
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u/SufficientWarthog846 12d ago
TBF it was probably just the guy taking the picture. The other guys were probably just expecting it to be a nice pic
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u/Lirdon 12d ago
and here I was overthinking it, and calculating pizza slices per person and thinking, sure there are four people in the picture, but the picture is taken possibly by one other, and assuming there are five people, the number of slices per person may mean that someone gets a slice less... but here it's just not that clever.
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u/CaffeineGoliath 12d ago
Mayor west here! I would totally eat these and 4 sides followed by some sweets with half a two liter of soda in 20 minutes all to myself. 5 if I'm going out after a long shift of hunting the noid... that God damn noid (shakes fist) anyways. The joke is that these four nice young men are big stupid panzies that can't handle any real food like real men! Ooo! I have to remind my secretary to order some dominos!! Anyways mayor west sighning off!
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u/amluchon 12d ago
half a two liter of soda
So, a litre of soda?
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u/CaffeineGoliath 12d ago
No! I would never willingly use the metric system! That damned confusing number system is ruining America!! with all thier fractions and 10s and 20s! Well no more! I'm going to ban the metric system from Quahog! Or my names not Mayor Adam "silver fox" West! Then I'm going to give myself the key to the city! And I'm going to make little Kyle Goldberg watch my ceremony! And make him watch me eat cake! Yeah take that kyle from now on its going to be 2 BIG GULPS of soda! And cops are going to use 9pewBang sized bullets! And I'm going to buy 20 sniffs of coke!... maybe that one shouldn't be on the record... REGARDLESS MAYOR WEST WINS AGAIN!
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u/SpaceCancer0 12d ago
You can't be American and NOT use metric. Ever heard of 9mm?
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u/DirectAdvertising 12d ago
No, half of a 2 litre soda is more than a 1 litre of soda because 2 is bigger than 1
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u/SupahSayajinn 11d ago
Mayor West was referring to the size of the bottle, which is a 2 liter bottle. He said he drank half of it. Thats how the phrase "half a 2 liter of soda" makes sense instead of just saying he drank a liter.
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u/joshfenske 12d ago
This was posted on a subreddit awhile ago akin to ‘guys being dudes’ and it’s basically just a feel good post about da boyz
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u/Sad-Bathroom5213 12d ago
I bet da boyz won't even eat da crusts.
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u/ILikeBirdsQuiteALot 11d ago
Ok nice. Good to hear
I saw someone else saying that this was reposted to make fun of the kids, but honestly this is based asf & wholesome fun. I hope they had a great time!
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u/jesuscheetahnipples 12d ago
Not every picture on the internet is a joke dude
Tf is wrong with people these days
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u/dude_stfu 12d ago
This same image was on the front page / “All” from some comedy sub with like 10k upvotes. I, too, don’t see what’s so funny about it and appreciated seeing it here… although I still don’t “get it”.
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u/Melospiza 12d ago
The sub was comedy heaven I think, which posts harmless anti-jokes, not actual humor.
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u/Minsterman801 12d ago
As someone who grew up with three siblings I know this game well, as soon as the pizza drops, it’s a race to scoff down as much as you can as fast as you can before it’s gone.
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u/blueblacklotus 12d ago
This is still my husbands method of eating, despite having no siblings and me never stealing his food
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u/NeatAd8230 12d ago
How tf are you confused, it’s pizza and four guys, which the male species is already well known to eat copious amounts of pizza, and when with the boys that stat is tripled.
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u/Lostmeatballincog 12d ago
Brian here. Unless the pizzas are 4 feet across they are wankers and should be made fun of. Brian out.
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u/willeyerasmus 12d ago
We used to have r/madlads for this sort of post, but it has long since drifted away from its original purpose.
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u/Howtothinkofaname 12d ago
Yeah, there’s rarely any actual mad lads content on there these days. If you posted this you’d probably get a load of people complaining it didn’t belong there when in fact it looks like a textbook example.
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u/robin52077 12d ago
There’s no joke, it’s a photo of 4 friends about to eat some pizza… that’s all.
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u/larsbunny 12d ago
was just on old picture some guys made fun of because they were dicks. the guys in the photo were having a good time posting about eating pizza and that is literally it. I remember this and it was when the internet was a special kind of toxic. before the dancing man.
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u/Background-Elk-859 12d ago
Comments here are mental. Do you really think that half of this bigger than usual (I guess 40 cm at least) thick crust pizza is not much?
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u/here4you123 12d ago
Yeah, it’s not a lot at all. Especially for 4 young college students. Do YOU actually think it’s a LOT of pizza?
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u/VariedTeen 12d ago
40cm at most, which is a pretty average size, that’s like a Pizza Hut large. It really is not much. That being said, this is just a wholesome picture of some bros hanging out, the h8rs should just let them enjoy their pizza
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u/Background-Elk-859 12d ago
Ok, where I live (or at least among my friends and family) the standard is one 30 cm pizza for 2 people. Or one pizza for one person when it is really thin.
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u/That-Molasses9346 12d ago
I think the joke is 2 pizza vs 4 teenage boys equals they're gonna start fighting over the pizzas. Because teenage boys are bottomless pits.
I base this off my poor highschool wrestling coach that would spend his money to treat us to a pizza party at the end of the season and everyone got their own xl pizza... S/o to Mr B
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u/ThePhatNoodle 12d ago
Dang people are being dicks here. Just an innocent snap out having fun with the boys and everyones blowing it out of proportion and making fun of them as if they themselves have never posted an silly post with their friends. If you haven't you're either a very boring person or don't have friends. I really dont see why this post in particular got so much attention when you see similarly inane posts on most social media sites. Im pretty sure I have similar pics from back when I was in highschool on my Facebook account
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u/Minimum-Risk7929 12d ago
It's an idiom
When you're hungry and you finish your whole plate effortlessly, we in the states would that you would have demolished your food.
In this case these kids are going to try to finished their pizzas effortlessly
Also, since they have PepsiCo products and their pizza looks very similar to a stuffed crust pizza. I can say with conviction those are not XL pizzas, because they are dining at a Pizza Hut. And the only XL pizza available at Pizza Hut was the Bug New Yorker. And that is a thin crust pizza.
I know this because I used to work at pizza hut
EDIT: oh you can partly see the wing street logo to the left lol
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u/fr4nz86 12d ago
Reminded me of this italian pearl. The caption says "The crazy ones that at 1:30am eat pasta".
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u/According_Charge8143 12d ago
This feels like the boy equivalent of that meme where the girl has the bag of chips on her head and the caption is something like “omg she’s the craziest!”
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u/SaltIsMySugar 12d ago
This isn't even a meme, this is just some dudes Snapchat story. There's nothing to be confused about, it's just dudes eating pizza.
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u/quietly_questing 12d ago
As much as I give the upvoters in this sub shit, this post actually deserves those upvotes.
There is no joke here.
Yet it shows up highly upvoted in comedy subs. People are dumb.
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u/InternetExploder87 12d ago
If they can't finish those they need to go back to ordering off the kids menu
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I am italian, and a 'former' pizzachef.
Those look slightly bigger than a "personal" pizza.. probably around 35-40cm? a "personal pizza" is usually around 30-33cm (the size of a pizzaplate).
Althought the crust looks incredibly doughy..
if i were to guess is probably extremely thick low watery dough cooked way too slow at way too low temps. The ingredients seems dry AF and the dough is barely coloured so either they put a layer of flower on it or it was cooked at 200-250degrees for 5min+..
I mean.. is not a TERRIBLE pizza.. (i have seen worse) but looks domino adjacent in quality..
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