LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWho the hell cuts their pizza into fifths?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1468arrow-down130file-text
arrow-up1438arrow-down1imageWho the hell cuts their pizza into fifths?lemmy.worldLazaroFilm@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDecoy321@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoIt might be designed that way to make the nutritional facts more appealing. They can define the portion sizes arbitrarily, so the per-portion amounts don’t look so high.
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year ago They can define the portion sizes arbitrarily, so the per-portion amounts don’t look so high I dunno about y’all, but I cut my pizza’s into 1/8ths, which would be smaller than 1/5.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoBut do you have just one piece when you do?
minus-squaredoggle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI’d be willing to bet that this particular pizza is very small, so most people would cut it into 1/4ths.
minus-squarePrometheusG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThe FDA is in charge of portion sizes. No one decides it on their own. What a company can do is fiddle with the total number of portions. Which is how you get 5 portions in this pizza.
It might be designed that way to make the nutritional facts more appealing. They can define the portion sizes arbitrarily, so the per-portion amounts don’t look so high.
I dunno about y’all, but I cut my pizza’s into 1/8ths, which would be smaller than 1/5.
But do you have just one piece when you do?
I’d be willing to bet that this particular pizza is very small, so most people would cut it into 1/4ths.
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The FDA is in charge of portion sizes. No one decides it on their own.
What a company can do is fiddle with the total number of portions. Which is how you get 5 portions in this pizza.