Re: xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas

On Sat, 11 May 2024 13:54:48 -0400, Mark Jackson
<mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

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On 5/11/2024 11:48 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2024 17:06:20 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
 

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On 10 May 2024 00:31:45 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:
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In article <v1jm78$ubib$2@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

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Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it
seems to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.

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Did he mention the squares have pineapple on them?

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The chicken pizzas I used to buy in the frozen foods section were
square. And I think I cut them, if not into squares, then at least
into quadrilaterals. So I have no trouble with square pizza, let alone
pizza squares.

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We used to get the Jeno's pizza mix and bake it
in rectangular cookie sheets.   It was cut into
square pieces for serving.

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We usually use round pizza pans, but if the occasion calls for one or
more larger pies Ellen breaks out the rectangular baking sheets; the
resulting pizza is then cut into squares.
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One of our sons prefers his round pizza cut into squares, although he'll
happily eat wedges when that's what's available.
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I once tried a small store I was curious about and ended up with a
vegetarian pizza. Never again. So there /are/ limits to what I will
eat.

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Vegetarians and vegans in our extended family; not in our immediate
household although Ellen won't eat mammal.  Nothing wrong with
vegetarian* pizza; we favor mushrooms and Fontina cheese on pesto when
prepared at home, mushroom and black olive when ordered out.
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*Even the "best" (as rated by our vegan kin) cheese substitute is
unacceptable to the rest of us.

I found it ... subtanceless. All sizzle, no steak. As it were.

I think I once had Hawaiian Pizza (the manufacturer's name, not mine).
I didn't really like it that much. Despite the pineapple.

I don't think I've tried Four Cheese (again, the manufacturer's name).
Cheese is a curious food (never mind "cheese substitutes" -- you know,
it seems to me that a /real/ vegetarian wouldn't be interested in faux
meat or faux dairy products):
-- Americal Pasturized Process Cheese Food has a /lot/ of sodium but
the fat/bad fat content is reasonable
-- actual cheese [1] has less sodium but the fat, and particularly the
bad fat, content tends to be quite high -- which, BTW, is reflected in
any pizza including actual cheese
so eating something whose primary ingredients are /four cheeses/ isn't
dietetically attractive to me.

[1] In the late 70s, in Germany, McDonalds was not allowed to
advertized products as containing "Kaese" because the Americal
Pasturized Process Cheese Food simply did not qualify. So they used
"Cheese" (that is, the English word) instead: "ein
Doppel-Viertelpfuender mit Cheese" was my standard order. Of course,
McDonald's joined the long, long list of things I used to eat but no
longer do a long time ago.
So "actual cheese" can be taken as "anything that could be sold as
'Kaese' in Germany in the late 70s".
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"