# Squares or triangle cut pizzas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225 "2023-09-17T01:55:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jagraze1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jagraze1/32/14870_2.png) [@Jagraze1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jagraze1)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/1 "2023-09-17T01:55:38Z")
How do you prefer to have your pizza be cut? Triangles or Squares? Why? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/2 "2023-09-17T01:58:12Z")
Squares. All sides are drippy and biteable. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/3 "2023-09-17T02:00:09Z")
Always triangles, so the pointy end goes easily into your mouth and you have the crust side as a handle. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/4 "2023-09-17T02:00:46Z")
Wedges. I eat the floppy cheesy and tomatoey bits and the dog enjoys the crusts. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2023, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/5 "2023-09-17T02:10:44Z")
Not complaining either way, but going to go with squares. Why? Hmmm… i like how you get a variety of edges. Some pieces are mostly edge. Some have no edge at all. Some are just squares with one edge on one side. With the triangles, I’m more likely than not to abstain from the crusts. With squares, more likely to eat them. Beck: check your PMs in a minute… ---
**Author:** ![Jagraze1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jagraze1/32/14870_2.png) [@Jagraze1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jagraze1)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/6 "2023-09-17T02:11:43Z")
Why?? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/7 "2023-09-17T02:13:08Z")
Not to hijack, but @JohnT what up with your eyes? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/8 "2023-09-17T02:23:26Z")
Round pizza: triangles Rectangular pizza: squares ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/9 "2023-09-17T02:28:43Z")
I don’t eat pizza (personal reaction) so I normally wouldn’t have a dog in the fight. But I recall an awesome take on the issue from @Stranger_On_A_Train who has taken a walkabout from these parts and felt it was worth of inclusion. All credit to them, and my apologies if sharing it is too much, but you’ll have to come back to yell at me Stranger. > [@Barbecue Styles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974/24): > > What the…they cut the pizza into squares? Like Showbiz Pizza for little children that can’t handle a whole slice? What is the point of that? Pizza is a trigonometric expression of analytical cuisinometry, hence the name. It is supposed to come in slices measuring in fractions of 𝞹, not rectangles and weird little leftover off-angle segments like some kind of failed origami experiment. If anything, that is worse than deep dish pizza, which is at least half-honest in its description. How do… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/10 "2023-09-17T02:34:54Z")
I like it both ways and it depends on the style of pizza. Most places know which method is best for the style they serve and will cut it accordingly. Thin crust usually gets cut into squares pub style while traditional/newyork or hand-tossed is triangles. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/11 "2023-09-17T02:39:08Z")
Squares is for the cheap pizza that they get when they want to say “Free pizza” while serving two hundred folks. Mind you, I won’t turn it down, because free pizza is free pizza. But… Wedge-shaped sectors are for good pizza. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/12 "2023-09-17T03:01:43Z")
I don’t mind squares except for the middle sections that have no crust to hold on to. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/13 "2023-09-17T03:25:39Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > But I recall an awesome take on the issue from @Stranger_On_A_Train who has taken a walkabout from these parts and felt it was worth of inclusion. That really was an epic rant. It delighted me all over again. Thanks for resurrecting it! I always miss @Stranger_On_A_Train when he takes a break and just have to trust he will return in his own good time. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/14 "2023-09-17T03:40:36Z")
Triangles make sense for round pizzas. Squares make sense for square pizzas. The main thing I don’t prefer is the squares that have no outer crust. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/15 "2023-09-17T04:32:34Z")
Squares are OK when they are from a rectangular shaped pizza that has only one cut down the middle, so every piece has a crust side to hold onto. There are a lot of really great pizza places here in New York use that style. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/16 "2023-09-17T05:03:30Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Not to hijack, but @JohnT what up with your eyes? I think he had a little too much to smoke ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/17 "2023-09-17T05:15:11Z")
Flat pizza? Why are you people perpetuating the flat pizza CT? Because, everyone knows, [![](https://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/xs5dd5aa18.jpg) ](https://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/xs5dd5aa18.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/18 "2023-09-17T05:34:50Z")
Squares, but I’m probably biased since the good places around here do squares and the shitty mass market Dominos, etc is triangles. I actually like the variety of sizes you get and those tiny corner bits are my favorite. It’s like a freebie tiny slice of pizza, what’s not to love? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/19 "2023-09-17T06:36:27Z")
Squares, because it means I’m in Rome. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225/20 "2023-09-17T11:06:50Z")
Squares, because Detroit style pizza. mmm [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squares-or-triangle-cut-pizzas/990225.md?page=2)