Yeah not sure that counts as “normally” … my WAG is that pepperoni density varies widely and that starting off covered is a statistical outlier not the mean or median.
Well, you can’t tile a flat surface with circles, so even if they start edge-to-edge there will be gaps.
Do they use a hexagonal packing, or rectilinear?
P. S. Godfather’s Pizza still exists?
The Costco pizza machine reliably places 10 pepperoni per slice. The grandkids and I closely monitor this. Full scale war has erupted over someone getting the larger half of a single pepperoni.
Those are the most horrible three words I’ve read in my life.
Easily disproven. Pres… no, I can’t go on.
They claim over 2,000 locations but are including their “Pizza Express” adjuncts in fuel stops. In the west here they seem to favor Love’s.
Before Godfather’s there was Shakey’s, to whom I owe my very existence. There were still a couple around last time I looked, but that was some time ago.
Shakey’s yet lives!
They started as a SoCal chain and that’s nearly all they are today. 41 restaurants in SoCal, 1 in NorCal and 1 in Washington.
They did not start as a Southern California chain. The first one was in Sacramento. My parents met there. I really do owe my existence to Shakey’s Pizza.
Congrats on your shakey start! 
I didn’t know about Sacramento. Their current website has no history but Shakey's Pizza - Wikipedia is pretty good. A sad story really.
I became aware of them ~1964 as a SoCal kid where they were near home and they grew to be ubiquitous in SoCal as I grew up & my horizons expanded.
Whew, I was afraid you’d been conceived on the salad bar…
Gives their advertising catchphrase, At Shakey’s we serve fun – also pizza a whole new meaning.
I recall they had rather stout, almost rough-hewn, tables that certainly could have stood up to a vigorous pounding. Or “pounding”. 
For course this being the xkcd thread, there’s an xkcd almost on point for @Robot_Arm’s origin story:
from xkcd: Anatomy Text
“People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.”
Okay, I get the double-standards of depicting genitalia (I’m surprised they pictured that much) but why the heck were they doing this at TGI Friday’s?
Did you follow the link and read the subtext?
His joke was that wiki’s anatomy pages is just a way for exhibitionists to get their kinks in public; both in the taking and in the later public display online.
Still not following it.
Sometimes I laugh out loud at xkcd. Other times, it’s cow tools all the way down.
I’ve seen zero examples of that.
What’s weird to me is how realistically human a stick figure’s private parts look.
I’ve also seen zero such evidence.
Like some of his comics, it’s sort of Far Side: What if there really was this weird subtext going on? The humor isn’t so much in what the subtext is; rather it’s in the idea there might be a subtext at all.
I agree that was not one of his best, nor one near his stylistic wheelhouse. I cited it only for the connection to @DesertDog’s joke about @Robot_Arm’s story of his parents and parentage.