Re: xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas

On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote:

On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote:

Tony Nance wrote:
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On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas

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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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For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This
is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any
other form would be rather difficult.
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 Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_!
 (Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.)

To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food.
You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and
fold it lengthways through the crust.
A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity
to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten
while walking.
This can't be done with square sliced pizza.
pt