Pizza Shapes

I was sitting around and I started to think of pizza shapes. You really only have two choices, round and four-sided. The four-sided variety can be either square or rectangular. If you are to believe Pizza Hut marketing, everyone enjoys the crust, that's why they invented the square pizza. This way you can get more pieces with the crust. The down side is that you also get a couple pieces that don't have any crust at all. The round pizzas usually have 8, 12 or 16 slices, depending on the size. The downside with round pizzas is that sometimes the center can get really gooey. You try to eat this first, and burn the top of your mouth.

If you get some sort of dip with your pizza, like Papa John's, they stick this little container in one of the free corners of the box that holds your pizza. The dip sauce is great, but there usually isn't enough of it. This got me thinking of the perfect pizza shape. Imagine if you will a pizza that was round but missing its center? Imagine a flattened donut-shaped pizza!

The advantages of this are quit plentiful. The center is gone, its edges replaced with that crunchy crust. Everyone gets extra crust! Or if you cut it like a traditional pizza and make a circular cut between the two crust edges, you get twice the number of pieces. Some pizza conglomerate can market that as some calorie-watching gimmick. Also, everyone gets a crust! The really big advantage though, now that the center is gone, you will have a larger area into which a tub of some savory sauce or dipping goo can be place. You will never run out of dipping sauce, and you will save on packaging those smaller containers. Win-win for everyone.

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I just thought of another advantage of the donut-shaped pizza! You will not need that little plastic table that they stick in the middle of the pizza to prevent the box lid from sticking to all that melted cheesy goodness at the center of a traditional pizza. Cost savings galore!