The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying

I used to be able to eat a whole large pizza then still be hungry until I started losing weight. I'm now down a shirt size and when getting pizza I have 1 piece left over and am stuffed to dieng

Frozen?

The trick is to put half in one end, and the rest in the other.

Spit roasting pizza
- Now you are the calzone.
- What are you doing, step-pizza?!
- Like this?
  
  Or this?
Ok, so I THOUGHT I clicked on this article, "Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens to beat up Sarah McBride on day before Trans Day of Remembrance" and your comment being on top confused the hell out of me.
So like, pepperoni in one and sausage in the other? I'm game.

is it, though?

a stomach can stretch upto 4 litres in capacity when pushed (one source). that's 4000cm³ (or 244 cubic inches).

to fill that capacity, the volume of a pizza needs to be 4000cm³ or 244 inch³.

take πr²h = 4000 for thin crust pizzas, if we assume the average height of pizza and toppings as 1cm, our equation simplifies to πr² = 4000; which gives the radius of the pizza as around 36 cms -- or a diameter of 72 cms (or 28").

if we take a thicker pizza of an average crust thickness of 1", then our equation for square inches simplifies to πr² = 244. which gives us a radius of about 9" or a diameter of 18".

since most pizzas top out at 12"-14" diameter (thin and thick crust volume varying between 700cm³ to 2600cm³), if anything, we're nowhere near achieving our full potential!

You forgot that the crust is essentially foam, so it packs even smaller inside the stomach!
- Or does it expand when it hits the stomach juices?
I haven't read it, but I saw that you've used numbers and formulas. And that was enough for me to give you an upvote.
- it may be that you were being facetious, but numbers and formulae are usually the most potent weapons in the arsenal of people who want to bulldoze in their own agenda.
  
  as a general rule, any post with figures should warrant greater scrutiny, not less; and definitely not none with a nudge to rank it higher. even if it is one in all frivolity as my comment above.
Yeh fr I'm not very tall and I'm very lean and I could easily crush a 14 inch pizza if I wanted to.
I once saw a guy drink 10 litres of water in a contest. He had to puke afterwards, but anyway, a stomach can hold more than 4 litres.

Wikipedia claims that the observed extreme maximum was 15 liters.
- Mythbusters once claimed that you couldn't die from drinking mentos and coke when they tests a pig stomach's capacity, oh man did that thing stretch like crazy, but they failed to account for flow from stomach into lungs while overfilling. In fact, merely a few liters could potentially prove fatal to a small untrained frame, such as those who died from the milk jug challenge.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you just believe in yourself.

Pass me a giant thing of marijuana with it, and that shit is doomed.

Edit: I was trying to say marinara, not really a pot person, but fuck it.. it stands.

When I was younger, I could eat superhuman amounts of food and not gain an ounce (I was even accused of having anorexia by strangers because I was so thin).

Now, if I even think about one serving of ice cream, I gain ten pounds. Oh shit, I’ve done it. Back to the treadmill, I guess.

Takes a lot of calories to grow a body
- Bodies don't need to be so overgrown
I don't gain weight, but I just can't do it. When I was in high school my parents would always order me my own large pizza, and I would eat all of it except one slice, which I would eat cold the following morning.

Now, I'll still have the appetite sometimes, and I'll order a large. If I'm lucky and very determined, I'll eat half, and then I'm so stuffed I feel sick. I suppose that's a good thing, but there is a certain sense of accomplishment found in dusting a whole pizza yourself.
- then I’m so stuffed I feel sick
  
  A lesson I learned too late in life, and will often still ignore is:
  
  "Eat to fuel, not to fill."
I remember a 6th-grade pizza party where I horked down 10 slices. And I was always one of the smallest guys, last picked for teams, all that. I was fucking amazed at myself.

Us skinny people, and the people observing us eat, usually got it all wrong. I thought I could eat superhuman amounts of food and stay skinny. Nah. When people watched me go to town, that was the only food I put in my face that day. Not a single calorie otherwise.

My wife started getting a gut. LOL, she's barely 3-digits. Mystified! "Uh, babe? You're snarfing candy all day."

I got a hella beer belly a few years ago. Guess what? I had been going around the office, filling my thermos with the coffee leftovers, and chunking 1/4 cup of sugar in there. Took a few months to dial that back. :)

All that ramble to say, none of us are very good judges of calories in/calories out.
- I always hated sugar, and ate 3 large meals a day. Huge breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks. Never gained at all.
  
  That all changed after my pregnancy at 28. Suddenly I seemed to gain weight through osmosis. I mostly lost interest in food, and only started eating sensible quantities twice a day.
  
  Now I can’t lose weight at all, even with nearly a gallon of water per day and one small cup of food every day or two (to be fair, my body now rejects most food because of an autoimmune disorder), but I can actually gain weight on less than 500 calories a day. It doesn’t make sense by conventional logic, yet here I am. I mostly live on Ensure and Pedialyte, yet I weigh more than I ever have. It’s really weird.

As one of those that easily destroy an XL pizza in one go... why is that terrifying?

I Mean, overall I don't eat all that much... I never eat breakfast and very rarely eat lunch, so one or two meals a day for me (historically a very active person) has to be large to make up for the times I don't have time (or want) to stop and eat. So it takes at least a large pizza or like two boxes of Mac & cheese to even come close to refilling my fuel tank.

Rationalizing the 'za to perfection....
You just described how it works! People get mixed up on calorie intake. I'm scrawny, but when I eat, I eat. No calories other than beer at night. Not a Coke, not a single pork rind, not even a Jolly Rancher. Nada.

So people see that and think, "Gosh! Wish I had a metabolism like his!" Nah. I just don't eat in between meals.
- Yup pretty much. When I'm working and doing a lot I eat like a horse, but days I don't do much I don't eat much either. And I haven't gained weight in over 30 years despite people predicting otherwise. (Well, a little but mostly muscle mass.. I was 165 at 16 and in my 50's I'm 180 now with the same 31" waist.)
So, using a 16” pizza as a “xl” size.

PapaJohns XL cheese: 3000 calories Dominos XL cheese: 2980 calories

I powerlift 3-4 days a week and run 30-60k a week depending on how many days I lifted.

If I ate JUST one of those a day as a 6’ tall man I’d still gain weight and want to die.
- When I was 20 I could easily pound down a full Papa John’s pizza and stay skinny as a rail. Nowadays I eat one cookie after dinner and my body permanently incorporates it into my mass, never to be released again.
- Age and biology are big factors here. For me to gain, at the pace you go weekly, I'd have to make myself sick eating enough to keep up.
- and run 30-60k a week
  
  You mean calories? I'm a little lost.

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.

One topping? I assume that doesnt count cheese & sauce, so just a 'pepperoni' or 'mushroom' or 'pineapple' pizza?
- Correct
It would cost a few thousand dollars but if you can find a cheap empty pinball case, it looks like you could build one yourself. Most of the parts seem to be available on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/shop/safe-cracker-pinball?_nkw=safe+cracker+pinball&_sop=16

I'm feeling very attacked right now.

When I was 8 years old, my sister ordered an XL pizza from papa johns. And I said "Ok......but what are YOU having?" She laughed it off as me saying I'd eat the whole thing myself. I saw no joke. So I made her order a second pizza for herself. She got a small. And when I was done with my pizza, I ate half of her pizza. She then accused me of playing some prank on her. She searched her apartment up and down claiming I was hiding the pizza somewhere. I was like "YOU WATCHED ME EAT MOST OF IT!!!"

My stomach did not have an "off" button. At least not until decades later when they removed 2/3rds of my colon. Now I can eat something small to medium sized and feel like I'm full.

But back then? I honestly think if you'd have put 10 XL pizzas in front of me, I'd have eaten them all if I liked the toppings. Then asked for snacks later.

I think the true horror isn't that you at an entire XL pizza, but that you ate an entire XL Papa Johns pizza. No one should do that to themselves.
- Well, this was back in the 90s. Back when they were still good.

I've been on Adderall since I was 9 and my relationship with food is basically waking up hungry, taking some pills, and then being hungry but having absolutely no impetus to act on it... And 12 hours after waking up everything wears off and it's suddenly 'food horny' for lack of better word. Profoundly, ravenously hungry.

I've basically been training my whole life to saunter into a pizza place and order a 16" pizza and eat the whole thing in 15 minutes.

Professional competitive eaters are nuts tho, this pizza place near me has a challenge to eat a 16" specialty pizza, I did it for shits and giggles after work one day in like 20 minutes, but on their wall of finishers, a professional eater stopped in and ate the whole damn thing in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, that's terrifying

Imagine a dude that has never been on ADHD meds suddenly being given some.

I lost 10kgs already. Still looking to lose 10 more. Like you said - eat pills, stop being hungry / stop the feeling of wanting to eat. Then eat one meal, and be alright till very late in the night.

I eat like shit - burgers, pizza, potato chips, gummies. I am able to limit calories and not feel like shit for most of my day. It's amazing.
Damn that post pizza clarity must be crazy
Professional eaters? People get paid to eat stuff fast?
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If the diameter is not at least 40cm, it's not a pizza for me.

id like to see someone eat my large pizza
its about 4x the volume of a standard 15inch pizza
- That’s an above ground swimming pool for rats
- That is a nice totato soup breadbowl!
  
  What does your pizza look like?
- Do you deliver?
- That looks like a bread bowl with tomato soup. I would eat it, but I would not call it a pizza.
  
  Edit: I swear I replied from my inbox without looking at the other comments and based on the second pic you posted, I'd say it looks like a quiche lorraine, but with tomato sauce instead of bacon and onions.
- I know it is one of those odd american pizzas but this looks like tomato soup in a bread bowl. Or perhaps some sort of not sweet pie
- Give it to me right goddamn now
- That's not a pizza
We don't measure pizza in centimeters. We measure it in slices.
- That makes no sense at all! I can cut a 3" pizza into 42 slices.

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.

I don't know if what your friends did was normal. Normal for them maybe. Every group of people I've shared pizza with its always been a discussion and been shared. Larger pizzas are cheaper by area, so it's best to get a few of the largest size and split them instead of everyone getting a small to themselves.
- Some restaurants just sell individual pies now. I usually get a few meals out of one.

Watch "Beard meets Food" on YT and learn.

Came here to say this, the man is a mutant.
I usually watch Raina Huang or Katina Eats Kilos. But BMF is really impressive.

Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination

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.

I feel personally attacked

I don't know what this means and I am to afraid to ask

Instructions unclear, this ketchup is burning my ass
- ketchup..?..on pizza...??

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

How many inches constitutes a "large" nowadays?

In the U.S., the convention set by the national chains are small (10"), medium (12"), and large (14"), with some having extra large (16") as an option. Most local places will follow that convention as well.
- The amount I consume usually comes down to the crust. If you give me a 16" thin crust pizza it would be gone. But a 14" normal crust, I'd likely eat half of one and try not to eat more.
  
  Key word was try.
More than 8" and the girls keep smiling.
14"

Is it though?

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

A large pizza is not meant to be eaten by one person lmfao
Any pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself. ~ Gandhi
No, I promise you it isn't. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Unless it says it's for one person, it isn't.
- I can promise you it is. Unless it says it's for more then one 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).

Says food is not satiating, always hungry -> proceeds to say they could keep eating unhealthy processed foods designed to make you crave more..
- You clearly missed the point above where I wrote "ending up needing to cut gluten" which kinda precludes eating most of the things on that list.
  
  These days, except for once a week, I am eating: oatmeal, brown rice (regionally-sourced), some meat (chicken, fish, or pork in order of frequency) I've cooked, some veg (much of which I grow myself) I've cooked, and some sauce I've (at least mostly -- I'm not brewing my own soy sauce) made, and often a bit of cheese. Dessert, when I have it, is a handful of chocolate chips. I am still almost always hungry. Once a week, I eat sushi or something similar and have an ice cream.
  
  Edit: I also feel compelled to note I would only let myself eat like that (the Pizza, burgers, etc.) once every week or two, lest someone think that was my daily life.
It's agonizing being hungry constantly. I know I don't need to eat. But my body is screaming at me it wants to eat and it's infuriating.
- Food is the only physical addiction that you can't quit for life or it will kill you. You don't need beer or cocaine or meth to live, you can live a full happy life without any of those. You can't live without food.

If you weigh 200lb and eat 2lb of pizza you are approximately 1% pizza.

I worked at a pizza buffet back in high school. There was a guy who would come in from time to time and eat 6 whole pizzas. He would wait for us to put a fresh pepperoni out then just dump the entire thing on his plate.

RIP whoever had to clean the bathroom between his trips to the buffet

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

Your poor intestines…
- They are fine, don't worry about it.
Hell yeah, I'll support that. Just curious though how often do you do that?
- Whenever I am in the mood for pizza.

My little brother in HS was a bottomless pit. He played sports and went to the gym for extracurricular activities he was downing at LEAST 6000 calories a day. It was a wonder to watch. Kept our fridge empty while he lived with us.

Those are the guys who get fat after high school. They drop the "calories out" thing, still eat like a race horse, wonder what happened.

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

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You should check out sam o'nellas video on Tartare. Dude couldn't stop eating, food or not

I sometimes have a normal Pizza, Double Burger, Chili Cheese Nuggets, croquettes and Ben&Jerries.

One word: Mindestbestellwert. (Minimum order value)

Why? It doesn't seem terrifying or amazing to me. Maybe an eyebrow raise.

It's me. I'm some human.

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.

I usually do it over the course of 3 days

I'd call it cowmaxxing if it actually led to me putting on any weight 🤷‍♀️

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

Now I can barely at half a pizza.

I fucking wish

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