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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world
 

Edit: It will never cease to make me laugh that I get more genuinely serious discussion comments on my meme posts in /c/Memes than anywhere else. I'm not hating, I love it.

Edit 2: Chicago-Style deep dish pizza isn't pizza go fuck yourself

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In my boyfriend's hometown they used to have this restaurant that served this thing called a hubcap burger

And it was indeed, wide enough to be the hubcap of a car, while being basically flat.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean... I'm hungry...

Where's the address?

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thanks to pizza, even Americans are familiar with the concept of wide

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

But how many people know that a pizza x times wider is x² times more pizza?

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[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (8 children)

A&W tried something like this. Sold a 1/3 pound burger because its bigger than the popular Quarter Pounder sold by its competition, larger than a Whopper even. It undersold and when people were asked why; it turns out people think 1/3 is less than 1/4. By the numbers, here.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ya, made me member. Wasnt sure if the story was well known enough.

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[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 20 points 1 day ago (19 children)
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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Food for thought: a sufficiently tall and narrow burger ain't a burger anymore, when it's roughly spherical rather than roughly cylindrical it's also not a burger and if it's large and brick-like it's yet something else.

spoilerCevapcici Kofta; Meatball; Meatloaf.

So burger is a geometrically bound dish definition.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Meatloaf and meatballs have things like egg and breadcrumbs mixed in, and don’t tend to come on buns.

People who put such things in their hamburger patties are eating meatloaf sandwiches, not hamburgers.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev -3 points 11 hours ago

Learn how to cook.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Especially sucks for people with jaw problems who can't open their mouth that wide. But you're totally wrong about deep dish pizza

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[–] Atlusb@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I mean it worked for subway. Until they started skimping

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Their success came from it being specifically longer. It's much harder to visualise a bigger surface area, like how a 10 inch pizza is bigger than two 7 inch pizzas. Subway on the other hand only stretches it in one axis, so the number goes up faster.

I don't want long burgers, although I don't know why. Big fan of the circle.

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[–] Batman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At a certain point you have to cut the burger like a pizza though

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 22 hours ago

You could also just have 2 regular sized ones or stop being such a fat ass.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As a sophisticated man of discriminating taste and impeccable manners, I eat these crazy tall burgers with a knife and fork. Just kidding, I use a knife and fork because they are too tall for my mouth and too messy for my beard.

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