(as seen at the evil empire, but I just had to liberate it)

So, uh... what's your pizza-disaster story, y'all? I'll go first.

Me, I used to deliver for Domino's, and it was tonnes more fun than I'd imagined. First order of business was getting myself this freakin' awesome powered-spotlight that plugged in to the cigarette lighter in my car, nominally so as to throw a spotlight on street addresses, at need. But hoh-my-god, that sucker was fun to play around with in general.

Also, like Ed Grimley, "I must say" that the tips were unusually good, to supplement the standard shit-wages of a delivery-boy. This was in 1990 btw, so wow... 36yrs ago, now. Tempus fugit, nonne?

Anyway, my most awkward encounter ever was the time I made a delivery, placed the pizza directly in to the man's hands, and... for whatever reason(s) he dropped it. Right in front of me. Right between us. Probably one of the earliest scammers I ever dealt with, but it was hella embarrassing and awkward, dammit. I sure as heck didn't know what to do or say...

How about you. Got anything..?

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[–] 156 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Your dad is gerrymandering the pizza.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    It'd be easier with a rectangular pizza.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    My god, this looks delicious. For some reason I've always found square and rectangle pizzas to be much more appealing. Don't really know why

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah the shape of the pizza doesn't matter to me but if you cut a circular pizza with square segments I will cut you

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  • [–] 68 points 6 months ago

    "Autism didn't existed on my time"

    This person dad:

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Next time retire all pepperonis, cut like a normal pizza and then put the pepperoni's back.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    No next time take all the pepperoni off after he does this, cut them in half with little scissors, then put them back

    edit five hours and no one has acknowledged my pun? my pun must go acknowledged.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Next time imply you're bringing friends and he'll need to cut it into 32 pieces.

    I wanna see him make 32 mini-pizzas with one (1) pepperoni on each.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You made me go and count the pepperonis on that pizza.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Your dad needs to step up his frozen pizza game. He needs to remove all the pepperoni before baking then rearrange them so he can slice the pizza without cutting any of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    There was a guy at a nursing home who lived on the 27th floor. Had to drive through a checkpoint with a guard, check in at the front desk, and ride the elevator to deliver the same plain cheese pizza every time. The guy was probably 95 so he always gave two quarters as as a tip, thinking this was a lot for a 20-something delivery driver. Probably didn't know that the financial crisis had made it impossible to find a real job even with a university degree, and that the extra 15 minutes dealing with his building meant I was losing money, and I couldn't use the fifty cents to buy a chicken dinner like he could when he was my age.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 6 months ago

    Yikes.
    There's a lot to comment on there, but in the US at least, there truly was a period of 'greatness' from around the mid-1930's to its last gasp in the mid-1970's, much of it salvaged by FDR-style politics.

    IME Boomers sadly whiff on all that all the time.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm going to start cutting my pizza like this.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I could see it if he were going for even pepperoni distribution, but here I'm seeing 3 slices with 5 pepperonis, 3 slices with 3 pepperonis, and 2 slices with 4 pepperonis.

    32 pepperonis, he could have split it into 8 slices with 4 pepperonis each.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Oh, but what would it look like from an essential Marvel / DC perspective?

    :P

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    You can tell it's not ai because none of the gauntlet is made of pepperoni and none of the pepperoni has gauntlet decorations, among many other details.

    I appreciate a good ol' honest photoshopping.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I actually did use ChatGPT, but I did specify to only replace the gemstones with pepperoni. 😉

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    I'll leave judgement to the Italian Supreme Court.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Im going to start doing this, just to piss other people off. Thank you for the idea father of random internet person.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Not a pizza story, but I used to deliver for jimmy johns. I took an order one time to an address that was in an area with a bunch of individual doctors offices, and this address looked like it had a small lobby just like any of those doctors offices. I walked right into this family's living room while they were having some kind of get together, they asked what the hell I was doing, and i turned bright red and held up the box of sandwiches. It ended up alright; I explained myself, then they asked me to take a picture with them and joked about delivery so good they didnt even have to get off the couch. In retrospect, I realized I basically just broke and entered in a stand your ground state and got super lucky the family was chill about it

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Regarding this pizza, I get it. I really do. But I feel like I would learn how to sharpen a pizza cutter before I would decide to do this.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    i do this, too, sometimes.. but i don't make rounded cuts--that's just all kinds of messed up.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Big Triangle doesn't want you to know you can cut pizza this way, wake up

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Aside from the top 2 slices which are a fucking tragedy, this honestly doesn't look too bad. Most slices have 3 to 4 pieces of pepperoni, so the area is kinda close and the shapes aren't horrible to hold.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I find the bottom left slice infuriating. It’s an affront to triangles. Why is there a circle where there should be a pointy thing.

    The one on the right that looks like an out of shape rectangle is pretty anger-inducing as well.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    And a little re-heating in the air-fryer?

    Bob's your uncle, man!
    (uh, British saying, sorry)

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    But also if I do that would Bob becme my uncle /s

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    He's generally a funny guy.
    I don't think you'd mind him. :P

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    Don't let him cut the pizza.

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    Like, if that pizza is just for him, I kinda dig it. But if that is cut up for the family (and assumably siblings) to share, he deserves to deal with the absolute pants-shitting screaming match over who gets which piece that is inevitable.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    So, which slice did your father choose for himself?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    "Je déteste la tranche qui me rappelle la France."

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    La prochaine fois que vous mangez une pizza ensemble, découpe-la en parts de forme hexagonale pour le punir.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    Haha, ça marche !

    Ce qui est intéressant, c'est la forme hexagonale. Les États-Unis ont globalement une forme assez particulière, c'est sans doute pour ça qu'on ne leur attribue pas de forme bien précise.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Your dad has a sharp knife, and knows how to wield it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Pizza flakes instead of slices.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think with the quotes in the title and the "(as seen at the evil empire, but I just had to liberate it)" they are trying to imply that they took it from Reddit.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The man is clearly insane.

    Put him in a home. Or just buy him a proper, sharp pizza cutter. But if he didn't consider doing that himself rather than whatever the fuck this is... I still say he needs professional care.

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    just had to liberate it

    Thank you for your service.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I thought the cheese filled pretzel crust pizzas sounded hella good until I had one. The salt killed it. The cheese, dough, and rest of the pizza are salty enough that it really does not need the extra pretzel rock salt.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Huh. I put garlic salt on my crust, but it's not a pretzel rock salt. Maybe it's the size of the grain. Or the lack of garlic.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    You cut the pepperoni?! you monster!

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