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If a pizza is round then why does it come in a square box?

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[+5] - George - 04/20/2011[quote="chai2"]But by then manufacturers will have made pull tops on everything. I await the day.[/quote] Gonna make brain surgery a lot easier.
[+3] - dadpad - 04/20/2011Square boxes are easy and cheap to make, square boxes stack neatly and fold easily. We used to get pizza in a round box but they were made from recycled paper and not very attrctive looking....
[+3] - chai2 - 04/20/2011Tell me about it. It will also put a new spin on breast feeding. It's going to be an exciting tomorrow George.
[+3] - Joe Nation - 04/20/2011Growing up in Manchester (CT) we only had square pizza. Vic's (Still there on Middle Turnpike) makes nice cheesy, crusty, meaty pizzas. I didn't see a round pizza until I went to Boston to...

@jbrown1602,

Square boxes are easy and cheap to make, square boxes stack neatly and fold easily.
We used to get pizza in a round box but they were made from recycled paper and not very attrctive looking.

Would a round box still be called a box?

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It would be more cost effective to put them in plastic bags.

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@edgarblythe,

Steam from a hot pizza would make them soggy and carrying them would be impossible.

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It's invariably easier to keep stuff in square containers. Paint manufacturers are finally figuring that out.

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Next will be the end of the soup can.
As soon as I figure out how to make a can opener for a square container.

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Joe(not this one)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

But by then manufacturers will have made pull tops on everything.

I await the day.

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

But by then manufacturers will have made pull tops on everything.

I await the day.

Gonna make brain surgery a lot easier.

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@George,

Tell me about it.

It will also put a new spin on breast feeding.

It's going to be an exciting tomorrow George.

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Why are hatboxes round?

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@chai2,

Because heads are round.

Joe(mostly)Nation

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Pi are square, but pizza pie are round, as ever'body knows.

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@Setanta,

Sometime in Italy pizzas are square..
so are piazzas.. on occasion.
I doubt pisa is square.

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Pisa are drunk . . . it can't even stand up straight . . .

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@Setanta,

I wonder if the Pisani brothers drank wine (masons from days of yore but you probably know that)

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I don't give a pissant . . .

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@Setanta,

I always forget what that means.

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@ossobuco,

Aha -

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How puissant.

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Paesano! You couldn't get the pizza out of the box if it was round, doh. But why aren't pizzas square? Why does it have to be round?

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@ossobuco,

They also called 'em piss mires, due to the rather dull-witted belief that they were spontaneous generated in a piss mire, the puddle formed when one voids one's bladder au naturel . . .

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@Mame,

Mame wrote:

But why aren't pizzas square? Why does it have to be round?

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/tossing-a-pizza-1.jpg

I've never seen a square frisbee Very Happy

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