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!
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.
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 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.
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.
I agree. Usually I am. But when it comes to such a rather humurous discussion as here with pizzas, I make an exception. ;)
What percentage of scrutiny should we follow? [1]
Eigenvector. [2]
[1]: Reinhardt, W. (2012). On the trustworthiness of numbers. Cambridge University Press.
[2]: Paper, M. (2022). Station of play, fifth of its variant. Antarctic Publishing. https://jstor.org/stable/12345-paywalled
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
Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination
I usually do it over the course of 3 days
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
Professional eaters? People get paid to eat stuff fast?
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.
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.
Watch “Beard meets Food” on YT and learn.
I usually watch Raina Huang or Katina Eats Kilos. But BMF is really impressive.
Came here to say this, the man is a mutant.
Why? It doesn’t seem terrifying or amazing to me. Maybe an eyebrow raise.
I feel personally attacked
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.
Dominos used to have a large pizza for $5 and a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill was 1.99
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).
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 I could quit it cold turkey I would.
But I can’t, and it sucks
We are also fighting decades of food science working non stop to make the cheapest shittiest food possible.
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.
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.
The trick is to put half in one end, and the rest in the other.
Spit roasting pizza
Now you are the calzone.
Panzerotti watches intently.
What are you doing, step-pizza?!
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.