Did you ever eat a whole pizza in one sitting? I don’t mean a teeny-weenie ‘personal size’ pizza, I mean a great big manhole-cover-size pizza.
I haven’t, and my limit is three slices. I may have had four slices at one sitting once or twice, but that had to be back in high school.
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In high school, eating a whole Domino’s large pizza was no sweat. Of course, back then I was a 215-lb football player with a non-stop motor.
No, but i once ate 12 perogies at one sitting.
It’s only recently that I have curbed my pizza eating. In college I used to eat large pizzas all the time. I would say I ate a full pizza at least twice a week back in the days.
I have done so. Once.
If I recall correctly, it was a large ground beef & pepperoni from Domino’s, washed down with a six-pack of Coke.
I don’t know if anyone remembers the “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” - inspired dream sequences in Peanuts featuring Snoopy, at the end of which he wakes up and says something like “Never eat a whole pizza before bed”, but by God, it’s true. I had the weirdest dreams that were actually pretty upsetting - nuclear war and beheading my dog and things like that.
Never, I say, again.
Yes, on a regular basis of at least five a month. It only happens when I’ve missed breakfast and lunch due to a busy day at work, and I desperately need sustenance.
Or, on the occasions when wagers are made, bets are placed, and I’m forced to step up to the plate to defend my honor. It is truly a sad, sad day when I have no choice but to eat thirteen slices of pizza to retain my title as the garbage disposal of software development.
I’ve done it several times. I haven’t in a while, and don’t plan to again, but it wasn’t that hard for me to do.
as a slight hijack
Olentzero: “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend”
I have never met anyone else who has heard of this. I gotta get a copy of it-- My GF had one but we can’t find it. What a crazy book!
Yup…waay back in my University days…there was a restaurant that featured all you can eat Fridays…so a bunch of us had an unofficial pizza eating contest. It was thin crust 14 inch pizza with 8 slices per pie. Of the 8 of us there I came third…with 14 pieces…the winner had 18 (!) pieces. I went home and laid on my bed for the next 8 hours…like being drunk except the room didn’t spin and I felt like I ate a bowling ball
I can do that if I’ve gone without breakfast and lunch, but I am not a pretty site afterwards.
Nope, not a whole one. I can pack away 1/2 of one if I’m hungry, though.
Have done it. Still can, but don’t.
I started limiting my pizza intake after noticing that I was consistently getting what Scylla (I believe) has termed “hamovers.” Several hours after downing too much pizza, I feel like I have a mild fever, my stomach feels like it’s made of lead, and I think I’m dying of thirst. So I try to keep it down to three or four slices now.
On the bright side, it means there’s more cold pizza for breakfast the next morning. Yum!
–sublight.
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Ahh, pizza is one of those “p” words I can pack away – pizza, popcorn, pasta, pretzels, potatoes…
If I’m really hungry I can eat a whole 12" pan pizza with my 3 favourite toppings: mushrooms, pepperoni, and green peppers. I do this once every month or two. I once managed to eat 3/4[sup]ths[/sup] of a thin crust 14" pizza.
I don’t get the “hamovers” that Sublight mentioned, but eating pizza does tend to bring on a bout of pins and needles in the mouth (esp. tongue).
I used to fold a large Domino’s in half and eat it like a sandwhich when I was in college.
Then again, I also drank a 12 oz. cup of Durkee’s Red Hot sauce with whole peppercorns in it back then, too.
Ah, the good old days…
Being the fit, energetic youth that I am, I am proud that I am able to do this. Usually at my friend’s house I’ll get a whole pizza for myself (either large Ameci’s or Pizza Hut).
A few times I’ve eaten two. One of those times was at a band banquet when I had two large pizzas from Pizza Hut (24 slices), and another time was at a school football game. However, I’ve only been able to eat two when I was really hungry, so it’s not consistent.
But one pizza is easy.
Although I’m somewhat reluctant to tell the tale, yes, I’ve eaten a whole pie myself.
Spending the night at a friend’s father’s house, I had a large Pizza Hut pizza (my friend had one, too). We ate them while watching Donnie and Marie. I was 10.
And I slept just fine, thank you very much.
When I started college, ordering a pizza every Sunday night and polishing off the whole thing was a regular occurrence. Until Cici’s moved into town, and we discovered we could stuff ourselves silly for less money.
Now, a decade later, I’m bigger than I’ve ever been, yet I can’t eat a whole pizza anymore. I mean, maybe if I really forced myself I could, but nowadays I regularly make 2 or 3 meals out of a single pizza.
I can’t even imagine eating an entire Chicago-style “pizza”. You might as well just inject a pound of mozzarella straight into your veins…
I used to eat large (16", I believe) Domino’s with regularity in high school and college. However, Domino’s pizzas are incredibly flat. I’ve polished off entire larges of various other makes (Round Table, Straw Hat, Pizza My Heart) as well.
I don’t do it much anymore, since I love leftover pizza and have my own fridge. Also, because I don’t want my pizza-distended stomach to take up all the room that my lungs usually occupy.
If we’re comparing pizza sizes, we really need a better volumetric comparison than small/medium/large or number of slices. For instance, Zachary’s Pizza (from Berkely/Oakland CA) is around two inches thick, and cut into eight slices. One slice of a Zach’s large is worth perhaps eight to ten slices of a Domino’s large. (Both in quantity and in quality)
yep, large pizza and pitcher of pop. it was a promo for the pitcher. 'course i get free refills on the pitcher, when buying a med. or up pizza.
i also have eaten 12 pierogies swimming in sour cream. mmmm-mmmm good!
Yes, I am a pizza slut. One time, at least.
Ate a whole medium-sized (would that be 12"?} sausage and onion pan-crust pie from Pizza Hut. Had it delivered so I could hide my slavering sin from prying eyes.
Man, it was great. Felt like I’d bathed in grease.
…Burp!
Almost. Domino’s thin crust (Do they still make that, the one that’s like eating pizza on a cracker? They closed the branch near me…). I was a starving grad student with just enough money for one of their Special Deals. Had to force myself to stop because I knew I’d be sick if I kept at it.
I did once consume 9 Devil Dogs in one sitting.