# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/61 "2009-07-08T01:09:37Z")
This is the first I’ve heard about a gender factor in liking cold pizza. I like it. I’m female. I don’t remember any of my former pizza restaurant coworkers disliking cold pizza, a staple of our diets. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/62 "2009-07-08T06:28:16Z")
I eat cold pizza too, and am female ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/63 "2009-07-08T06:47:01Z")
I used to eat cold pizza when I was a kid. But now that I have my very own microwave oven, I’d rather nuke it for a few seconds and warm it back up. I’m male, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/64 "2009-07-08T08:20:18Z")
Male cold pizza consumer here, although I guess I’m a bit of a cretin even by those standards because the PH Stuffed Crust pizza is absolutely delicious cold. What beats cold pizza for breakfast hands down five ways from Sunday blindfolded, however, is cold Ethiopian food for breakfast. The injeera has had _all night_ to soak up the spicy sauce goodness from the food and veggies wrapped up within and has become a spongy riot of flavor. Now _thems_ is good times. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/65 "2009-07-08T18:28:39Z")
I’m a guy and I can’t even stomach the mere _thought_ of eating cold pizza, blecch!!! In fact, most things that are supposed to always be served hot I can’t eat cold and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![wakingdream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@wakingdream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakingdream)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/66 "2009-07-09T03:56:17Z")
I really don’t like cold pizza. My wife loves it. I get grossed out at the thought of leaving pizza out overnight (instead of in the fridge) and then eating it, she does it all the time. Perhaps we’re exceptions, but as the rest of this thread seems to indicate, I really don’t think it has anything to do with gender at all. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/67 "2009-07-09T04:13:55Z")
I’m girl-shaped and I like room-temperature pizza, especially for breakfast the next day. I do _not_, however, like _cold_ pizza, as in straight from the fridge. If it’s been made cold, then I have to reheat it to a piping hot temperature before I’ll eat it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/68 "2009-07-09T04:53:04Z")
Female, cold. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/69 "2009-07-09T05:22:57Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Female, cold. Perhaps not a great introduction summary if you were putting it on a dating site. [sub] sorry, just kinda made me laugh when I first saw it. ;)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/70 "2009-07-09T22:10:13Z")
What I don’t understand is how you end up with _leftovers_? When Zyada and I go out for pizza, I finish mine and eat the crusts she leaves behind. (If I did have some for breakfast I’d have to reheat it. But the salad idea sounds great!) ---
**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 9, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/71 "2009-07-09T23:14:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I used to eat cold pizza when I was a kid. But now that I have my very own microwave oven, I’d rather nuke it for a few seconds and warm it back up. I’m male, by the way. Microwaving pizza is OK, if you’re in a hurry, but I find that if you reheat it in the regular oven (in mine, ten minutes at 350 degrees), it tastes better. (The microwave oven tends to make it soggy.) ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/72 "2009-07-09T23:18:14Z")
Male here. I can stomach cold pizza, but my preference is to let pizza cool, then reheat it so it’s got a nice crisp texture. When I can hold a slice up vertically by the crust and it doesn’t flop, folding it causes the bread to crack, and and the cheese has gone from yellowish-white to orangish-yellow from melting and re-melting, but not so’s the cheese “liquified”… THAT’S the way I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/73 "2009-07-09T23:25:22Z")
I just added up the scores and it goes like this Out of 21 Male reponses, 7 expressed a preference for cold pizza Out of 19 Female responses, 17 expressed a preference for cold pizza Make of that what you will. I’m off for some nice hot food 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/74 "2009-07-10T00:24:27Z")
Woman, and I’ll take pizza any temperature except frozen. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191/75 "2009-07-10T02:08:14Z")
Male. I used to eat cold pizza all the time, though I always heat it up now. It’s interesting that it’s considered a male trait when it seems to have more of a following among females. Especially since I’m a fairly effeminate male. xD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-pizza-a-gender-thing/502191.md?page=3)