I try to stay with one slice of crust with double the cheese and toppings, taking 2 slices and removing the good stuff to double up the other, and discarding the unloved crust.
At one time a friend used to just want the crust, no good stuff. It worked out well as I could double down my toppings without wasting anything.
A standard New York City Neapolitan pizza is 18 inches in diameter, although the “Nonna” rectangular style (richer and oilier, like a New Haven pizza) is making inroads.
When I was a fairly strong young rose, I could handle four slices. At my advanced age, 2 or 3, depending on my hunger or gluttony. There’s a place about a block and a half away that makes the best pizza outside of Naples or Wooster Street, according to our entire family, so it’s usually three.
The rest gets wrapped in foil and stowed in the fridge. Ten minutes in a 350 oven restores it to its former glory in the form of a late-night snack. And gives me “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend” style nightmares.
I usually scarf down pizza like there’s no tomorrow. I can polish off a medium pizza by myself no problem. Now, a large…there *might *be a couple of slices left over for breakfast.
One. Occasionally, I buy a Little Caesar’s Hot and Now, which comes cut in eight slices. I put them in the fridge, and for lunch, I reheat a slice a day until it’s gone. Usually with a tomato on the side.
I take a night off from cooking a couple times a month, and that often means pizza night. I usually have one, maybe two slices. At first. But a couple hours later I’ll inevitably wander back toward the kitchen and have some more. Maybe with hot sauce or some other condiment.
Pretty much this. I don’t even share pizza any more. As in, if there’s a group, such as when we order in for lunch at work, I’ll always get my own small one (which I always think “I’ll have some for later” and then I proceed to deep throat the whole thing. Mine, mine, mine.