# Pizza: Round or Square? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164 "2011-10-10T13:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/1 "2011-10-10T13:05:36Z")
The ultimate question… Which way do you swing? ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/2 "2011-10-10T13:06:30Z")
I really don’t care, it’s the taste that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/3 "2011-10-10T13:07:50Z")
Round-ish. Home made pizza rarely comes out perfectly round. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/4 "2011-10-10T13:10:04Z")
I like round pizza because I like crust. I hate those internal pieces of a square pizza that are crustless and goopy. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/5 "2011-10-10T13:10:18Z")
> [@Who\_me\_1](#): > > I really don’t care, it’s the taste that matters. But you have to choose, cuz I’m on the phone right now… What do you want? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/6 "2011-10-10T13:14:03Z")
> [@Walkabout](#): > > I like round pizza because I like crust. I hate those internal pieces of a square pizza that are crustless and goopy. Yes. Round is the perfect shape for a pizza, since all slices have a crust, which acts as a natural handle, and are awesome triangles of deliciousness so your first bite begins simply at the point, and you work your way toward a wonderful arc of crusty, saucy yumminess. I used to write for menus. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/7 "2011-10-10T13:17:27Z")
Pizza, by definition (at least my definition) is round. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/8 "2011-10-10T13:23:29Z")
It is called a pizza pie, not pizza… cake. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/9 "2011-10-10T13:25:56Z")
Round, but cut into squares in a grid pattern. Yes, I’m from Chicago. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/10 "2011-10-10T13:38:48Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Yes. Round is the perfect shape for a pizza, since all slices have a crust, Ah, you’re assuming a pie-cut pizza. As **Tim R. Mortiss** indicates, many areas of the Midwest cut their pizzas in a “party cut,” which does contain many interior, crustless slices. This is not really much of a poll for me, because it’s exceedingly rare for me to find anything but a round pizza. Sicilian and Italian-bakery-style pizzas are the only ones I’ve ever had this way, and those generally are thicker styles of pizza, which I don’t prefer anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/11 "2011-10-10T13:51:32Z")
It’s not round or square; it’s the number of slices. Around here, up to eight is round; over eight is square. Otherwise, there’s no difference. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/12 "2011-10-10T13:53:50Z")
Round for sure. Square is for communists. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/13 "2011-10-10T13:56:58Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Round, but cut into squares in a grid pattern. Yes, I’m from Chicago. ^. Ditto. This. As Tim Said. I agree. Etc. Given that we tend to feed kids with the pizza, having square slices means I get to spread a single pie around more. The kids all want 2+ “pieces”, but I’ve learned they don’t really care as to how big the pieces are, just as long as they get two of them. It’s our own version of the Loaves and Fishes miracle, this time with Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/14 "2011-10-10T14:05:18Z")
Square on weekdays, round on Sundays. I can’t believe I’m the one who had to post that joke. Actually, I prefer round. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/15 "2011-10-10T14:16:20Z")
Round and radially cut. None of this “party cut” bullshit. Save that for the rubes in the Mid-West. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/16 "2011-10-10T14:30:56Z")
Round-ish. The best pizza anywhere is the stuff you get at Al Forno in Providence, RI. It’s sort of an irregular shape, although round enough that you can get end crust in every piece. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/17 "2011-10-10T14:31:26Z")
Growing up (New Jersey), quadrilateral pizza was always on the menu as “Sicilian.” I’m pretty sure I never had it, so am unsure if there was a difference other than the shape. My impression is that it was thicker, almost like a Chicago-style pie, but not as ridiculously thick. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/18 "2011-10-10T14:38:55Z")
So **cmyk** , you don’t like it Detroit-style? Buddy’s? Jet’s? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/19 "2011-10-10T15:31:09Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So **cmyk** , you don’t like it Detroit-style? Buddy’s? Jet’s? Buddy’s is okay. There’s one right down the street from me. But I will say, when I order from Jets, it _has_ to be square. I can’t describe in words how Jet’s square 'za is one of the best foods ever conjured by man. And is heads and tails above their round. As for chains, my faves are Hungry Howies, Jet’s, Little Caesars (I know, but it quenches some pizza craving in my lizard brain). Pizzapapolis is _gooood_ too. And what’s with this square-cut round pizza? That sounds like an abomination from satan. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164/20 "2011-10-10T15:43:35Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Round and radially cut. None of this “party cut” bullshit. Save that for the rubes in the Mid-West. 😃 As a resident of the only state in the US than can accurately be called mid-west, I can testify that anyone who tries the “party cut” here will be mercilessly (and rightfully) ridiculed. It’s not pizza if it’s not round and cut in wedges. And though many will disagree, I’ll go one further and say it’s not pizza if there’s not at least one topping – and cheese is not a topping, it’s part of the base. Calling it a “cheese pizza” makes as must sense as calling an empty pie shell a “crust pie”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-round-or-square/599164.md?page=2)