Gonna have to disagree with ya there, bud.

Given how obese americans are, I’m kind of surprised you’ve never seen anyone do it. In my 20s, I could crush an XL and ask for seconds. I still eat a large by myself and I’m not an especially big person.

My hunger response is all messed up; exceedingly slow to satiation, hungry almost immediately after. I’m basically always hungry even sometimes getting hunger pangs that are physically painful and come with nausea; not eating for even around like 12-16 hours would sometimes cause me to gag and to feel like I needed to throw up. Changing some dietary things has helped, but I’m still almost always hungry and never stay full long.

Even as little as a year ago, I could put away a large pizza, some ice cream, a meal from McD’s, and more in one day and still be hungry. I probably still could if not for ending up needing to cut gluten (one of the things that seems to have helped). By BMI I’m right on the border between overweight and obese and dropping (I will probably be just ‘overweight’ in mid-Feb 2025 or so).

I wasn’t the most popular growing up and I remember becoming popular and developing a larger friends group in late high school. Above all, I remember going out for pizza when I was 17. At home, we always shared a small (frozen or delivery or restaurant) pizza - me, my sister, and my mom. Eating pizza meant having a slice or two for dinner (with salad, there was always salad). So this also always meant prior discussions on the toppings. Therefore, going out with new friends, I was highly confused why no one was really engaging in my question about what kind of toppings they want, everyone was just stating what they want and gonna get and I was hella confused. When it occurred to me that everyone was going to order a whole pizza for themselves I couldn’t believe it. I don’t remember what happened next, I only remember the horrible realization that everyone is going to buy a pizza and eat this food, that to me was absolutely meant to be shared, by themselves like psychopaths, a whole family meal, for each person. And that this was the normal way to do it. As I said, I don’t know what happened next, but I don’t really like pizza to this day - maybe something happened that day, I don’t know.

Thank God I found a spouse who likes to share a small pizza and can’t have more than 2-3 slices tops either.

Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination

Dominos used to have a large pizza for $5 and a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill was 1.99

I’m feeling very attacked right now.

I can eat multiple loaves of bread and multiple tens of oranges in the same time i can eat a large pizza

I dont think the pizza is the best benchmark for human eating

Amazement and terror increases depending on which hole they use.

If you compressed a 14” pizza into a ball it would probably be about the size of your head, so you should not eat one.

When I was in junior high, a local pizza/burger/Chinese (if it was food, chances are they made it) place had a Safe Cracker pinball machine that would give you a token every 1 million points which you could redeem for a large, one topping pizza.

I would very often go there with no more than a dollar and end up getting 2 free pizzas and eat them all to myself because I was really good at that pinball machine and also had a bottomless pit in my stomach.

These days, I think less about the pizza and more about how I would love to have a Safe Cracker pinball table.

I used to be able to eat like 1-2 14-inch pizzas.

Now I can barely at half a pizza.

I do that every time I eat pizza. One extra large… with sides!

It’s even more disturbing if you consider that for some people, this doesn’t necessarily apply to oral insertion

Is it though?

Unless you’re talking party pizza, it’s pretty much designed to be eaten by a single person.

Watch “Beard meets Food” on YT and learn.