# Cold Pizza - a gender thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191 "2009-07-07T13:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/41 "2009-07-07T17:07:23Z")
I used to like cold pizza, but it seems to have worn off. Now I want pizza, though. Only the word is starting to look meaningless, like words do when you see them too much… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/42 "2009-07-07T17:40:56Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I consider pizza the only food that is equally delicious hot or cold. > > twicks, female What about KFC the next day(the chicken, only, of course)? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/43 "2009-07-07T17:43:41Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > As if gender has anything to do with preferring any type of food! :rolleyes: > > Now here’s a tip I pass on freely to ye cold pizza lovers … who also eat salad. Cut up cold leftover pizza into crouton-like cubes. Cheese, pepperoni or another one topping pizza such as mushroom works well. I generally use kitchen shears to do the cutting. > > It makes a great addition to a Big Salad! What an excellent idea! ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/44 "2009-07-07T17:45:21Z")
I’m a male and I hate cold pizza. I also hate reheated pizza. Pizza is only good fresh from the oven. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/45 "2009-07-07T17:48:21Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I’ve been told by two female friends now that cold pizza is a guy thing. They claim that women do not like and will not eat cold pizza. Have we definitively established the bogusness of this yet? Cold pizza is better than no pizza, but I’d much rather reheat it than eat it cold. (male) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/46 "2009-07-07T17:54:53Z")
Female with serious tomboy tendencies. I don’t like cold pizza. Reheated is fine, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/47 "2009-07-07T18:06:29Z")
Warm coke? No! Cold pizza and warm beer is the breakfast of champions! For the unwashed, this means pizza left in the box on the counter overnight, along with half a beer that sat open all night. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/48 "2009-07-07T18:49:12Z")
Male here; I like my leftover pizza reheated; my brother likes it cold. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > [QUOTE=twickster] > I consider pizza the only food that is equally delicious hot or cold. What about KFC the next day(the chicken, only, of course)? [/QUOTE] Mmmm, cold chicken. That I like. > [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > As if gender has anything to do with preferring any type of food! :rolleyes: Actually, as I recall men do on average like meat more than women, and women like sweets on average more than men. That’s a statistical thing though, of course; men eat chocolate and women eat steaks, they just don’t do so as often as the other gender. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/49 "2009-07-07T19:28:25Z")
FWIW, I hate cold pizza as much as I love hot pizza. I can’t understand how people eat it cold. Also, it never tastes as good after being reheated. **MIS!** , female ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/50 "2009-07-07T19:34:43Z")
Huh. This whole time, I’ve thought you were a guy, **MIS!** ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/51 "2009-07-07T19:37:04Z")
In order of pizza preference: 1: Hot, freshly cooked. 2: Reheated in conventional oven. 3: Straight from refrigerator. 4: Room temperature. 5,000,000,000: Reheated in microwave. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/52 "2009-07-07T19:37:35Z")
Oh man, cold pizza…LOVE IT. Pizza should be straight-from-the-oven hot or properly cold. No middle ground, thank you. Really good Italian restaurant pizza can get away with being lukewarm, but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/53 "2009-07-07T19:38:46Z")
I’m a guy, and I like cold pizza, although it depends on what kind of pizza it is. Your typical Pizza Hut pan pizza is terrible cold (and isn’t much better hot) but a good thin-crust pizza is really good cold. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/54 "2009-07-07T19:51:22Z")
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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/55 "2009-07-07T20:03:36Z")
It’s a texture thing - cold pizza is just unpleasant. (Actually, that’s true of many foods that were originally served hot). Reheated pizza is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/56 "2009-07-07T21:10:13Z")
Female. I like pizza freshly hot, reheated, cold, and room temperature. While cold is my least favorite of the possible choices, it’s still pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/57 "2009-07-07T21:47:07Z")
Female. I like certain pizza cold, but some (especially anything with shrimp) needs to be reheated to be good. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/58 "2009-07-07T22:29:09Z")
Male. Cold pizza is disgusting. (I won’t eat cold sandwiches either.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/59 "2009-07-07T22:31:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’m a guy, and I like cold pizza, although it depends on what kind of pizza it is. Your typical Pizza Hut pan pizza is terrible cold (and isn’t much better hot) but a good thin-crust pizza is really good cold. I agree that it depends on the pizza. Neapolitan pizza is great hot, but terrible cold, room temperature, or even more than after about 10 or 15 minutes of being served. Other types of pizza, like a Chicago-style thin crust are equally good hot or cold (my preference being hot, but leftover Chicago thin is great in the morning, too.) Pizza Hut is barely edible warm, but completely awful cold. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/60 "2009-07-08T00:16:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What about KFC the next day(the chicken, only, of course)? I’m not a big fried chicken fan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191.md?page=4)