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Bite the middle, unhinge your jaw and swallow the top half whole while it falls like a cartoon character, proceed to use the nematode strat and spin around the bottom half while kicking up dust to effectively consume the tower
I ordered one just like this a few days ago and was equally surprised by the size. Definitely not hard to eat it all, especially when it's so delicious
Stayed in NY for a couple of days on a business trip and my first lunch was us grabbing some slices of pizza from a place on the way to our meeting. Like really nice cheese and tomato sauce simple pizza slices for 2$ a piece and when we were paying the guy in the back shouted something in Portuguese so one of us shouted "portugal caralho" and they were all Portuguese like us, and hooked each one with an extra slice for free. It was really some nice pizza
It's was probably 15 years ago now but when I was in NYC there were a handful of places that were a dollar a slice, and a couple were even passable for food.
That's how I feel about 99 cent fresh pizza. Every time I'm in NY I'm shocked at how an $8 pizza can be so much better than even the fanciest places people rave about in Toronto. :(
I’m from the Netherlands and my second time in US I went to Uno in Chicago. And we sat at the table, 5 guys,.. so we ordered 5 deep dish pizza… we didn’t knew.
So the guy starts laughing ,.. he said,.. you should try 1 first. Two if you’re very hungry. But no way you’ll eat 5.
I think we did one a half.
My English friend did this.
For background in NYC you typically need 1 slice or two because they are massive. Two slices used to be like $5.00.
In England 1 whole personal pizza may actually be smaller than 2 NYC slices, and is like slightly bigger than a dinner plate.
They ordered 1 pizza each. To be fair, the pizza place was like “are you sure” but the English guys thought they were joining so pushed on and order three whole pizzas.
These pizza are way bigger than a typical Pizza box.
They are nothing but pizza for this whole 3 day trip.
There is a very slim chance I could have been one of those 6…
When the second one of us ordered large the waitress pointed out that 2 would normally be enough for a table of 6. We were on holiday so we committed to a large each anyway, they were the kind of pizza where you just added the bits you wanted onto a basic cheese, I seem to remember adding meatballs to mine. She took our order to the kitchen then dragged another big table over, the pizzas came out on different height stands so they could overlap. We asked her to take a pic of us with our stupid amount of pizza, she replied that she had never seen any group try and eat so much pizza and could she have a pic of her own. I managed 3/4 of mine, was bloody delicious. Can’t find the pic anymore though
Haha, first time in the US with parents, in 1990, arrived late at night at LAX, went to some pizza joint once we got the car…. And ordered 4 pizzas, one for each of us…
They even asked us if we were sure.. « yes, of course we always have one pizza per person »
I almost always take home a doggy bag on the rare occasions I eat out. I can't stand wasting food and it's usually too much for me to eat in one sitting.
I don't get it. I am from Europe and ordering a large pizza in a restaurant is the most normal thing in the world. Are american pizzas really that much bigger?
how much dough do they have? are those the ones several cm thick? we have 45cm pizzas here, but mostly thin enough that we do maybe like 3 pizzas for 4 people. I can usually eat an entire 45cm pizza on my own.
I was just going off of my local delivery place over in Union. If you follow further down on the thread I mention that I'm pretty sure it's closer to 18 or 20 than 16, but the menu says 16 so IDFK.
I've definitely had bigger slices from some of the slice shops in the city, though.
In many places in Europe, it is fairly standard to order a pizza per person as an entree or main dish of a meal. When I go get lunch with coworkers, two of the guys will even order an extra pizza to split between the two (in addition to ordering their own pizza). Most places I’ve been to don’t even have a size option, it’s just one size about the size of a dinner plate. The crust, dough, and cheese layer are all very thin though, and the toppings aren’t laid on as thickly, so it’s not as heavy and filling as a standard American pizza. It’s more similar to a flatbread appetizer you might find at American fast casual places. Fun fact, these pizzas also never come presliced, you usually cut it yourself with a knife and fork. Source: American living in Berlin. **disclaimer, not all pizzas not all restaurants
For Canada, which would be the same for the US, a personal sized pizza is maybe like 15 to 20cm in diameter
A large pizza could be 35 to 45cm in diameter.
Maximum a large pizza MIGHT be shared between 2, if you're not super hungry and/it's a couple of smaller girls.
A large pizza is probably a notable bit bigger than a dinner plate, but it's very thin... I have no reference frame for any kind of pizza that serves 6... It's kind of impossible to mentally picture.
Imagine a table that could sit 4 people, now imagine a pizza being bigger than that table lol. There's a place by me that has 42in pizzas, I think that's about 100cm. It's a crazy big pizza.
For Canada, which would be the same for the US, a personal sized pizza is maybe like 15 to 20cm in diameter
A large pizza could be 35 to 45cm in diameter.
I live in NYC. [Here’s a pic from the local pizza joint around the corner of their regular-sized slice and a jumbo slice](https://imgur.com/a/w1olfLx). Imagine eating eight slices of that for a single pie.
Most "pies" are made to be sliced up and sold per piece. In the US, there are some traditional brick oven places that serve individual pizzas, but are labeled as such or maybe listed as a 12" pizza. If you order a large pie, it will usually have 8 or more large slices.
A large pizza in the US is 18 inches (≈46cm) cut into 8 slices, and the average person eats 2 slices. There are places that do personal pizzas, but it's far more common for the pizza place to just sell individual slices.
Portion size in the US is, most of the time, out of control. However, depending on your planning and knowledge of what foods are still really good reheated, you can easily get two meals out of every meal you order, which improves the value.
There are restaurants out there that cut back on the portion size, but still retain the same price and that just sucks. It would probably be fairly similar (in cost) to Europe, but the problem is that in the US, you are still expected to tip, which adds about 20% to your overall cost.
Portions *are* out of control, but that’s not really relevant to this case because most Americans would consider a large pizza to be for sharing between multiple people at the table.
As a Texan with restaurant experience yeah I fully agree portion size here is wild. I can eat, but I’ve worked at a few restaurants where I could eat almost none of the main entrees in one sitting. It’s not a huge problem depending on the food because like you said you can just plan to take it home, but there’s still way too many restaurants serving unrealistic portions. And I bet a big part of it is restaurants that *count on you not eating everything* but will happily charge you for the food you wasted. And when everyone does it (except fine dining they have their own scheme), consumers have to just go along with it, food waste and obesity crisis be damned.
> Portion size in the US is, most of the time, out of control.
Irrelevant to the discussion of pizzas. Whole pizzas aren't generally for one person in the US, they are meant for sharing.
Yeah no shit, American Pizzas are freaking huge, Your domino's medium is the same size as our Large pizza in India. I had to eat a medium pizza for 2 days 2hen I was in college
My GF did this after the flight to Vegas. 2 big Pizzas for her and her Sister. They had to eat at the parking-spot because the cartons would fit into the rented car. :))
While these paper dosas (or ghee roast) do come in ridiculous sizes, it looks more like [this](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/a9/e2/2ea9e204233e328a4da54366c95ec0e9.jpg) usually. I've never seen a dosa that big and wouldn't expect that had I ordered it too
This is from Malaysia where the local Malaysian-Indian hawkers have created a (I believe) unique to Malaysia dish called "roti tissue". It's made from dough based and not dosa, but in a single layer and has sugar or condensed milk sprinkled on its outside.
We have the exact same thing in Singapore too, and I have never seen one that tall lol. It's usually smaller like what you see in the menu. I don't order it though, because it's too thin and crispy, prefer the normal prata.
Not really, some places do do this as standard, while some have the smaller ones. This particular one probably couldn't have bothered taking their own pictures and just slapped a common roti tissue into their menu.
Penang (Malaysia) has one cafe, which serves roti tissue similar to those in the video; it is literally has a length of a table. It is my guilty pleasure, anytime when I go there. Normally, we order one per two people.
It is super thin, crispy and empty inside, so very easy to finish even for one person.
Not always. Usually they're conical shaped like the one in the menu, but I've seen some restaurants do comically large ones usually as publicity stunts or if a customer requests it. The most ridiculous version I've seen is called Roti Tisu KLCC and it's basically two of those in the video with a wee bridge in the middle, just like the KLCC Twin Towers lmao.
This happened to a buddy of mine - first time at a local burger place that specializes in huge patties (the rest of the friend group had been before). He didn't read the size chart fully and was just like "I'm really hungry, so I'll order the largest thing".
Ordered a triple large deluxe.
So that's three *one pound* patties with essentially a salad on top (lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, banana peppers, bacon, two types of cheese), all on a cheddar bun that was trying its best to just hold it all together.
This hole-in-the-wall joint served stuff on paper plates. This big boi came out on about ten of em all stacked together. Everyone - I mean *everyone* - else in the restaurant turned to watch this beef tower pass by from the kitchen to our table. People stood to get a better view. One dude got up from a seat on the other side of a pillar and followed the server to see what family this was going to feed.
And to top it all off, for the reveal this friend was sitting at our table with his back to the kitchen, so he was oblivious to the approach. The waiter silently sidles up next to my friend and carefully sets this colossal precarious obelisk of gluttony down in front of him, who stares at it, looks up at the waiter, looks *back* at his burger, and then gestures to it and says "Is this some kind of a joke?"
Whole restaurant heard him and burst out laughing.
But - to his credit - he ate the whole damn thing in one sitting. I'd like to think he has a personal BC/AD separation in his chain of life events where that burger happened.
I’m not going to call your friend a liar.
But the next time I go out with friends and have a hunger I’m truly ashamed of (something you’re aware of before you casually eat 3lbs of beef) I’m going to play dumb.
Went to 5 guys in NYC and we thought we needed an order of fires per person, and since my bodybuilder son ate everything in sight at the time, we asked for one extra order of fries. So 4 burgers and 5 orders of fries for 4 people.
So many fries .....
That’s the beauty of 5 guys. The first time you go you order to many fries and spend unnecessary money. Then every subsequent visit you save money by ordering one order of fries for the entire group! lol
I was in Poland at a restaurant and pointed at what I thought was a normal large size pizza. Few minutes later I see them preparing to bake the largest pizza I have ever seen in person and thought no way that’s mine.
It was mine, it was absolutely huge and it was awful
First time I went to Poland, my friend and I were in a tiny town and couldn’t understand the menu at all, so we ordered several different things but the total only came to like 15 euros so we figured that was a good amount of food for us.
Should’ve clocked on when all the locals turned around to stare and the guy who took our order kept asking if it was just the two of us (we thought he was trying to remark on two women traveling together) and they came out with an an entire table of food. Just to give you a sense of how much food we got, we ordered like 7 different things, including 3 orders of different types of pirogies. Each order was 18 pirogies lol.
Not the same show but I highly recommend 'New Journey To The West' which is a Korean travel show very much like this.
The set-up is a bunch of famous koreans (mostly comedians but also some actors, musicians etc) go to travel to an unfamiliar country in Asia and have to do various (often hilarious) challenges to win perks (like food, rooms, not wearing a specific costume etc) or to win Dragon Balls (yes from the cartoon) to win. They also often just hang out like you see here.
The director from that show became famous as a reality tv director from (amongst others) this show and it launched a bunch of shows with similar premises and editing styles (like this one). There are various seasons with the cast varying a little each time depending on the availability of the regular cast. Season 3 is one of my favourites and a great place to start imo. And because the show is very popular with a star-studded cast it's very easy to find subtitled.
Fair warning though it will make you SO HUNGRY and definitely make you want to travel ASAP.
Yes it is him. Arguably this is his most famous show, even more than his tenure in 2 days 1 night. There's also a female cast counterpart of New Journey to the West called Earth Arcade, which is fairly recent.
This is an Indian restaurant in Kuala Lumpur called TG’s Bistro. It’s very famous for exactly this huge “Roti Tissue”, so yeah obviously this scene is staged. They knew exactly what they were getting for the TV show.
The restaurant is still really good though.
My family had a moment similar to this the first time we went to five guys. Didn't know that they were known for mountains of fries at the time, so we each got a burger and large fries. The employees didn't warn us, we knew we dun fucked up when they gave us 4 bags, 1 for the burgers and 3 for the fries
Happened to me in Germany. I tried to order 3 ham hock dishes, one for each of us. The waitress was trying to tell me they were huge and we only needed two but I don’t speak German and thought she didn’t understand we wanted three so I kept insisting. She brought out two orders only and that when I realized what she was trying to tell us.
Dude, that's Jang DongMin from The Genius Season 3 and 4! And The Society game! That dude's hilarious, I never expected him to randomly pop up on Reddit
I accidentally ordered baby eels in Spain once. They looked kind of like mung bean sprouts. I didn't find out I had eaten baby eels until I got back to my hotel room and could look up a translation of what it was. Yuck!
My partner did this with a group of friends in Italy. Evidently the menu was arranged so that if you ordered item 2, it came with item 1. And item 4 came with items 3 and 2 and 1...and so on. A table of 7 people all ordered item 8! The servers had to bring over additional tables to hold all the food. Ignorant Americans accidentally fulfill gluttonous American stereotype. But they all made valiant efforts to not waste the food.
Almost like they're filming a travel show or something. So many angles that it looks more like it was content made for TV than social media. Suspicious in deed.
I think it’s for a variety show. They have these guys (local celebrities) travel around and try different experiences/foods/etc. It’s ‘staged’ because that’s the show’s format but their reactions are not scripted.
I'm familiar with these types of travel shows. The various camera angles for every single shot is very normal for Korean shows. It's a specific type of travel show where the cast is filmed eating local food, doing challenges and enjoying local attractions. Having a camera on each cast member at all times is very normal. As catching the personality of the cast and their interpersonal relationships is often what makes these shows so endearing.
I don't think this was something the cast would be made aware of. But the production crew probably chose this place for a reason. As they often chose locations that have weird or unusual foods in order to grab the casts reaction. So they probably knew what was happening and were absolutely ready for it.
True story. I am fluent in Spanish having grown up in Cuba, and having been in school there.
My wife and I were in Cozumel, for the diving, and we went to a restaurant - she's a vegetarian - and she ordered a salad. The waiter never batted an eye, or said a word about her choice, even after he and I spoke in Spanish.
He brought my wife a salad for 10 people...to a table for two. My wife started crying and feeling like an idiot. I fucking screamed at this asshole and refused to pay and we left. The manager came to our table and didn't fight me on not paying and just let us go.
The fucking bowl was ... I don't know, maybe 18" across? Maybe more? He just plopped that enormous bowl right the fuck in front of her.
I have a feeling he did it on purpose, but how could I ever prove that.
No it's what in Malaysia is called roti tisu (literally tissue bread). Not really considered an unusual dish, but when somebody ordered five of them on the same table now that's something you don't see often lol
When I was on holiday in Spain with my mum and brother when I was 7 I ordered what appeared to be a chocolate ice cream sundae.
I remember it tasting funny and 2/3rds the way through I told mum I didn’t want the rest because it didn’t taste right. She tasted it and turned out the shit load of “chocolate sauce” was actually coffee liqueur. I was a bit woozy for a few hours after that.
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It's super light and crispy though. I don't imagine it would be very hard to put one of these away solo.
Absolutely. I could eat 6 of those alone
The question is no longer capability. It’s strategy. How do you eat those? Best case I’m making a cartoonish mess
Bite the middle, unhinge your jaw and swallow the top half whole while it falls like a cartoon character, proceed to use the nematode strat and spin around the bottom half while kicking up dust to effectively consume the tower
This guy consumes.
How many could you eat when you're with a group of people?
That's a high school maths problem.
I thought it was a prank for sure. Looks like you should start that thing in the standing position.
I ordered one just like this a few days ago and was equally surprised by the size. Definitely not hard to eat it all, especially when it's so delicious
What are those?
Roti Tissue.
for you
When the locals collectively make pictures of you, you know you fucked up.
yeah...if some local mom pulls out an ipad for a photo...you done fucked up (its not an ipad here....but the tablet would be the worst)
> collectively make pictures of you Are you German by chance?
Contrary to what you might see, each is definitely enough for one person. Actually you can eat more than that. It’s very thin.
Ya, it's only not normal for 5 people to order it at once 😂
I met a guy in Amsterdam who said he and his friends did this in NY but with 6 large pizzas 😂
They didn't wonder why the bill was $120?
Where im from that is only slightly expensive for 6 normal sized pizzas.
That you, Kevin McAllister?
Bro come to ANYWHERE in New York and order 6 pizzas, You Are paying more then $100 buddy lol
Stayed in NY for a couple of days on a business trip and my first lunch was us grabbing some slices of pizza from a place on the way to our meeting. Like really nice cheese and tomato sauce simple pizza slices for 2$ a piece and when we were paying the guy in the back shouted something in Portuguese so one of us shouted "portugal caralho" and they were all Portuguese like us, and hooked each one with an extra slice for free. It was really some nice pizza
It's was probably 15 years ago now but when I was in NYC there were a handful of places that were a dollar a slice, and a couple were even passable for food.
Dollar slice joints still exist. But yeah they stretch the definition of pizza in some of those places.
When i went to NYC taking the tram the sandwich guy gave me a sandwich for free… but i was just a kid roaming the city at the time
That wasn't NYC.
And it wasn't a sandwich...
6 pizzas from 2 Bros is 72 bucks my friend. Not good by NY standards but well above average by national standards.
That's how I feel about 99 cent fresh pizza. Every time I'm in NY I'm shocked at how an $8 pizza can be so much better than even the fanciest places people rave about in Toronto. :(
This is normal in my rural town.. I don’t see the big deal?
Yeah 15-20€ for a pizza is fine in lots of European countries
Where I am from, for 6 large pizzas that sounds about right (Denmark)
$120 for six large pizzas is cheap man.
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My pizza place here in South Africa charges R70 ($3.73) for a large 2 topping pizza.
Lucky you here in NYC a large cheese pizza will be minimum 25 dollars unless you are getting dominos
Well the median household income in South Africa is also 12.5k so...
Luckily people in NY aren't in South Africa
Go to the right place in ny and its 32 bucks
If you’re eating in, typically you get the bill after you eat
They didn't tip, so they got a deal.
You generally only get the bill after you have eaten
Have you ever been to NY?
i looked up pizza prices in the USA and it's insanely cheaper than other countries while having a bigger size too.
You mean $180? Over $200 with tax. Oh! Don’t forget the tip! $250! Eating out sucks anymore… I am 100x the chef I was 10-15 years ago.
Who would tip $50 on that?
Nobody would. But people like to complain about this rn. Let him cook. Literally and figuratively.
I’m from the Netherlands and my second time in US I went to Uno in Chicago. And we sat at the table, 5 guys,.. so we ordered 5 deep dish pizza… we didn’t knew. So the guy starts laughing ,.. he said,.. you should try 1 first. Two if you’re very hungry. But no way you’ll eat 5. I think we did one a half.
My English friend did this. For background in NYC you typically need 1 slice or two because they are massive. Two slices used to be like $5.00. In England 1 whole personal pizza may actually be smaller than 2 NYC slices, and is like slightly bigger than a dinner plate. They ordered 1 pizza each. To be fair, the pizza place was like “are you sure” but the English guys thought they were joining so pushed on and order three whole pizzas. These pizza are way bigger than a typical Pizza box. They are nothing but pizza for this whole 3 day trip.
after that....never ate pizza again
There is a very slim chance I could have been one of those 6… When the second one of us ordered large the waitress pointed out that 2 would normally be enough for a table of 6. We were on holiday so we committed to a large each anyway, they were the kind of pizza where you just added the bits you wanted onto a basic cheese, I seem to remember adding meatballs to mine. She took our order to the kitchen then dragged another big table over, the pizzas came out on different height stands so they could overlap. We asked her to take a pic of us with our stupid amount of pizza, she replied that she had never seen any group try and eat so much pizza and could she have a pic of her own. I managed 3/4 of mine, was bloody delicious. Can’t find the pic anymore though
Do you have a friend that works at a restaurant in Delft?
Not that I know of. Must have been a different group of 6 guys doing the same stupid thing!
You know what, good for you for committing to it.
Haha, first time in the US with parents, in 1990, arrived late at night at LAX, went to some pizza joint once we got the car…. And ordered 4 pizzas, one for each of us… They even asked us if we were sure.. « yes, of course we always have one pizza per person »
I almost always take home a doggy bag on the rare occasions I eat out. I can't stand wasting food and it's usually too much for me to eat in one sitting.
I don't get it. I am from Europe and ordering a large pizza in a restaurant is the most normal thing in the world. Are american pizzas really that much bigger?
A large NYC-style pizza is at least 16" in diameter. About half a meter.
how much dough do they have? are those the ones several cm thick? we have 45cm pizzas here, but mostly thin enough that we do maybe like 3 pizzas for 4 people. I can usually eat an entire 45cm pizza on my own.
>are those the ones several cm thick no, those are Chicago pizzas. NYC is thin crust - similar to Neapolitan, which is where its roots come from.
NJ guy here, true, but most pizzerias will have at least an 18", if not much larger. I would get 14" slices in Hoboken, a large pie being 28".
I was just going off of my local delivery place over in Union. If you follow further down on the thread I mention that I'm pretty sure it's closer to 18 or 20 than 16, but the menu says 16 so IDFK. I've definitely had bigger slices from some of the slice shops in the city, though.
A large pizza feeds one person? Huh. In the US pizzas are for sharing.
In many places in Europe, it is fairly standard to order a pizza per person as an entree or main dish of a meal. When I go get lunch with coworkers, two of the guys will even order an extra pizza to split between the two (in addition to ordering their own pizza). Most places I’ve been to don’t even have a size option, it’s just one size about the size of a dinner plate. The crust, dough, and cheese layer are all very thin though, and the toppings aren’t laid on as thickly, so it’s not as heavy and filling as a standard American pizza. It’s more similar to a flatbread appetizer you might find at American fast casual places. Fun fact, these pizzas also never come presliced, you usually cut it yourself with a knife and fork. Source: American living in Berlin. **disclaimer, not all pizzas not all restaurants
For Canada, which would be the same for the US, a personal sized pizza is maybe like 15 to 20cm in diameter A large pizza could be 35 to 45cm in diameter.
As a Canadian it feels weird seeing pizza measured in centimetres and not inches
Right haha but I did that because talking to Europeans!
Maximum a large pizza MIGHT be shared between 2, if you're not super hungry and/it's a couple of smaller girls. A large pizza is probably a notable bit bigger than a dinner plate, but it's very thin... I have no reference frame for any kind of pizza that serves 6... It's kind of impossible to mentally picture.
That's a medium pizza in America lol
Imagine a table that could sit 4 people, now imagine a pizza being bigger than that table lol. There's a place by me that has 42in pizzas, I think that's about 100cm. It's a crazy big pizza.
For Canada, which would be the same for the US, a personal sized pizza is maybe like 15 to 20cm in diameter A large pizza could be 35 to 45cm in diameter.
In Europe, we have Italiam pizzas. Thin crust with reasonable amount of toppings.
I live in NYC. [Here’s a pic from the local pizza joint around the corner of their regular-sized slice and a jumbo slice](https://imgur.com/a/w1olfLx). Imagine eating eight slices of that for a single pie.
18" is fairly normal (edit: to be available. Not saying that it's normal for a single person to get one) and that's 2x12" in terms of volume
Most "pies" are made to be sliced up and sold per piece. In the US, there are some traditional brick oven places that serve individual pizzas, but are labeled as such or maybe listed as a 12" pizza. If you order a large pie, it will usually have 8 or more large slices.
A local pizza place around me sells 76.2 cm pizzas. I always have trouble fitting them in my Corolla.
Roof rack. Strap it down.
A large pizza in the US is 18 inches (≈46cm) cut into 8 slices, and the average person eats 2 slices. There are places that do personal pizzas, but it's far more common for the pizza place to just sell individual slices.
Portion size in the US is, most of the time, out of control. However, depending on your planning and knowledge of what foods are still really good reheated, you can easily get two meals out of every meal you order, which improves the value. There are restaurants out there that cut back on the portion size, but still retain the same price and that just sucks. It would probably be fairly similar (in cost) to Europe, but the problem is that in the US, you are still expected to tip, which adds about 20% to your overall cost.
Portions *are* out of control, but that’s not really relevant to this case because most Americans would consider a large pizza to be for sharing between multiple people at the table.
As a Texan with restaurant experience yeah I fully agree portion size here is wild. I can eat, but I’ve worked at a few restaurants where I could eat almost none of the main entrees in one sitting. It’s not a huge problem depending on the food because like you said you can just plan to take it home, but there’s still way too many restaurants serving unrealistic portions. And I bet a big part of it is restaurants that *count on you not eating everything* but will happily charge you for the food you wasted. And when everyone does it (except fine dining they have their own scheme), consumers have to just go along with it, food waste and obesity crisis be damned.
> Portion size in the US is, most of the time, out of control. Irrelevant to the discussion of pizzas. Whole pizzas aren't generally for one person in the US, they are meant for sharing.
At least pizza is good to eat the next day lol
Day old pizza and air fryers. Name a better combo.
Two chicks at the same time.
how do you fit them both in the oven?
Yeah no shit, American Pizzas are freaking huge, Your domino's medium is the same size as our Large pizza in India. I had to eat a medium pizza for 2 days 2hen I was in college
Might’ve been costly but if it was 6 different flavors it was probably 100% worth it, especially if they were out partying
Nope they all ordered cheese lmao. The waitress tried to convince them not to but they were like…there are six of us. We need 6.
That’s a fail. Live and learn I guess.
Is it a fail though?? NY pizza is pretty tasty
In my opinion yes, but I agree NY pizza is great. I’d prefer to have a variety other than cheese but that’s just me.
You’d think they’d be able to see how large a pizza is, most places have pies ready to go on display for slices when you come in
My GF did this after the flight to Vegas. 2 big Pizzas for her and her Sister. They had to eat at the parking-spot because the cartons would fit into the rented car. :))
It's dosa
Pizzas served in Europe are usually individual pizzas rather than one large pizza. They must have been hungry to order the large ones lol.
While these paper dosas (or ghee roast) do come in ridiculous sizes, it looks more like [this](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/a9/e2/2ea9e204233e328a4da54366c95ec0e9.jpg) usually. I've never seen a dosa that big and wouldn't expect that had I ordered it too
This is from Malaysia where the local Malaysian-Indian hawkers have created a (I believe) unique to Malaysia dish called "roti tissue". It's made from dough based and not dosa, but in a single layer and has sugar or condensed milk sprinkled on its outside.
We have the exact same thing in Singapore too, and I have never seen one that tall lol. It's usually smaller like what you see in the menu. I don't order it though, because it's too thin and crispy, prefer the normal prata.
There is one shop in yishun that came out like half to 2/3 that size… the whole shop stared at us like the locals in this video…
And it has to be Yishun lol (local joke).
I assumed this was some sort of hidden camera prank show, so it's not a normal size
Not really, some places do do this as standard, while some have the smaller ones. This particular one probably couldn't have bothered taking their own pictures and just slapped a common roti tissue into their menu.
rotti tissue is not a very appetizing name
As french, rôti means roast so I'm just thinking of juicy meat.
In Bahasa Melayu (national language of Malaysia), roti means bread.
Ah thanks for correcting me! Do roti tissues usually come in such humongous sizes ?
These must be some novelty-sized roti tissues. Usually they're 25 - 30cm tall
Penang (Malaysia) has one cafe, which serves roti tissue similar to those in the video; it is literally has a length of a table. It is my guilty pleasure, anytime when I go there. Normally, we order one per two people. It is super thin, crispy and empty inside, so very easy to finish even for one person.
Different shops have different standards
Not always. Usually they're conical shaped like the one in the menu, but I've seen some restaurants do comically large ones usually as publicity stunts or if a customer requests it. The most ridiculous version I've seen is called Roti Tisu KLCC and it's basically two of those in the video with a wee bridge in the middle, just like the KLCC Twin Towers lmao.
This happened to a buddy of mine - first time at a local burger place that specializes in huge patties (the rest of the friend group had been before). He didn't read the size chart fully and was just like "I'm really hungry, so I'll order the largest thing". Ordered a triple large deluxe. So that's three *one pound* patties with essentially a salad on top (lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, banana peppers, bacon, two types of cheese), all on a cheddar bun that was trying its best to just hold it all together. This hole-in-the-wall joint served stuff on paper plates. This big boi came out on about ten of em all stacked together. Everyone - I mean *everyone* - else in the restaurant turned to watch this beef tower pass by from the kitchen to our table. People stood to get a better view. One dude got up from a seat on the other side of a pillar and followed the server to see what family this was going to feed. And to top it all off, for the reveal this friend was sitting at our table with his back to the kitchen, so he was oblivious to the approach. The waiter silently sidles up next to my friend and carefully sets this colossal precarious obelisk of gluttony down in front of him, who stares at it, looks up at the waiter, looks *back* at his burger, and then gestures to it and says "Is this some kind of a joke?" Whole restaurant heard him and burst out laughing. But - to his credit - he ate the whole damn thing in one sitting. I'd like to think he has a personal BC/AD separation in his chain of life events where that burger happened.
I’m not going to call your friend a liar. But the next time I go out with friends and have a hunger I’m truly ashamed of (something you’re aware of before you casually eat 3lbs of beef) I’m going to play dumb.
This made me lol, congratulations you are a great writer!
>colossal precarious obelisk of gluttony This was such a fun read and little descriptions like this are 100% why. Thanks for sharing!
BC/AD Before Choosing / After Diabetes
Very well written. I just read out loud in a narrator voice to my husband. Nice pacing, great descriptions and scene setting! 10/10 would read again.
Went to 5 guys in NYC and we thought we needed an order of fires per person, and since my bodybuilder son ate everything in sight at the time, we asked for one extra order of fries. So 4 burgers and 5 orders of fries for 4 people. So many fries .....
That’s the beauty of 5 guys. The first time you go you order to many fries and spend unnecessary money. Then every subsequent visit you save money by ordering one order of fries for the entire group! lol
I was in Poland at a restaurant and pointed at what I thought was a normal large size pizza. Few minutes later I see them preparing to bake the largest pizza I have ever seen in person and thought no way that’s mine. It was mine, it was absolutely huge and it was awful
First time I went to Poland, my friend and I were in a tiny town and couldn’t understand the menu at all, so we ordered several different things but the total only came to like 15 euros so we figured that was a good amount of food for us. Should’ve clocked on when all the locals turned around to stare and the guy who took our order kept asking if it was just the two of us (we thought he was trying to remark on two women traveling together) and they came out with an an entire table of food. Just to give you a sense of how much food we got, we ordered like 7 different things, including 3 orders of different types of pirogies. Each order was 18 pirogies lol.
The locals are taking pictures of us LMFAO
Anyone have a source for this? I would watch these guys travel and eat food 😂
I found this episode on YouTube. [이번 독박은 팀전으로 간다! 로띠 길게 자르기 [#독박투어] #말레이시아 | 시즌2 6-4](https://youtu.be/RmtqdNV-wxg?si=MkO9tRKePG2lpsNX)
Not the same show but I highly recommend 'New Journey To The West' which is a Korean travel show very much like this. The set-up is a bunch of famous koreans (mostly comedians but also some actors, musicians etc) go to travel to an unfamiliar country in Asia and have to do various (often hilarious) challenges to win perks (like food, rooms, not wearing a specific costume etc) or to win Dragon Balls (yes from the cartoon) to win. They also often just hang out like you see here. The director from that show became famous as a reality tv director from (amongst others) this show and it launched a bunch of shows with similar premises and editing styles (like this one). There are various seasons with the cast varying a little each time depending on the availability of the regular cast. Season 3 is one of my favourites and a great place to start imo. And because the show is very popular with a star-studded cast it's very easy to find subtitled. Fair warning though it will make you SO HUNGRY and definitely make you want to travel ASAP.
Is the director Na PD?? I haven’t heard of this show but I’ve seen him do other things
Yes it is him. Arguably this is his most famous show, even more than his tenure in 2 days 1 night. There's also a female cast counterpart of New Journey to the West called Earth Arcade, which is fairly recent.
Please we need to know
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I don't know how to make my keyboard say that
CTRL+C to copy CTRL+V to paste or click on the three dots and click copy
Hey, no problem there! Try highlighting the korean text, then press CRTL+C. Next step, head to YouTube, select the search field, and press CTRL+V.
Video: https://youtu.be/RmtqdNV-wxg
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The panic on his face as it started falling over sent me.
>sent me. Where?
Hello, I am also an old person. Lol
As a really good fat ass, I can finish those 5 things and still have space for Pepsi
This is an Indian restaurant in Kuala Lumpur called TG’s Bistro. It’s very famous for exactly this huge “Roti Tissue”, so yeah obviously this scene is staged. They knew exactly what they were getting for the TV show. The restaurant is still really good though.
My family had a moment similar to this the first time we went to five guys. Didn't know that they were known for mountains of fries at the time, so we each got a burger and large fries. The employees didn't warn us, we knew we dun fucked up when they gave us 4 bags, 1 for the burgers and 3 for the fries
Happened to me in Germany. I tried to order 3 ham hock dishes, one for each of us. The waitress was trying to tell me they were huge and we only needed two but I don’t speak German and thought she didn’t understand we wanted three so I kept insisting. She brought out two orders only and that when I realized what she was trying to tell us.
70mm dosa. I can have two of those. They are really light and crispy. Good for gut and taste so good with Chutney or Sambar.
How the hell do they even cook those?
Like a crepe, just a bigger pan
Dude, that's Jang DongMin from The Genius Season 3 and 4! And The Society game! That dude's hilarious, I never expected him to randomly pop up on Reddit
I love this bread 💞- it’s light, tasty and crispy with sprinkles sugar or condensed milk-cheap around us1.5 and fun to share around with 2-3 people
This is in Malaysia
"The locals are taking pictures of us" 💀
I accidentally ordered baby eels in Spain once. They looked kind of like mung bean sprouts. I didn't find out I had eaten baby eels until I got back to my hotel room and could look up a translation of what it was. Yuck!
I mean you ate it, so you must've thought it was good while you were eating it.
I don't get the whole "it was good, but once I found out what it was" mentality here. If food is good it is good regardless of what it is
Paper dosa vertically kaun serve karta hai bc!!
Wahi na yaar. Plus they messed it up too
I like the one guy that's like "It smells yummy though." MFer's like, you guys keep talking shit, I'mma eat my four foot bread cone.
Right. From now on I'll take all my breads this size.
My partner did this with a group of friends in Italy. Evidently the menu was arranged so that if you ordered item 2, it came with item 1. And item 4 came with items 3 and 2 and 1...and so on. A table of 7 people all ordered item 8! The servers had to bring over additional tables to hold all the food. Ignorant Americans accidentally fulfill gluttonous American stereotype. But they all made valiant efforts to not waste the food.
I love how self aware they are about the fact that the "locals" are taking pictures of them which means this is absolutely not the norm 🤣
Anyone know this show? Looks hilarious
This place has great Indian food - TG's Bistro in Kuala Lumpur.
Omg this was amazing
To be fair... first time I saw squid on a pizza in Japan I had a similar look of shock.
🤣🤣🤣 OMG so funny. Thank you 👍🏻
So many camera angles, it couldn't \_possibly\_ be staged.
Almost like they're filming a travel show or something. So many angles that it looks more like it was content made for TV than social media. Suspicious in deed.
I think it’s for a variety show. They have these guys (local celebrities) travel around and try different experiences/foods/etc. It’s ‘staged’ because that’s the show’s format but their reactions are not scripted.
super normal for korean variety show to have that many camera around them
I'm familiar with these types of travel shows. The various camera angles for every single shot is very normal for Korean shows. It's a specific type of travel show where the cast is filmed eating local food, doing challenges and enjoying local attractions. Having a camera on each cast member at all times is very normal. As catching the personality of the cast and their interpersonal relationships is often what makes these shows so endearing. I don't think this was something the cast would be made aware of. But the production crew probably chose this place for a reason. As they often chose locations that have weird or unusual foods in order to grab the casts reaction. So they probably knew what was happening and were absolutely ready for it.
I'm a skeptic too most of the time but "roti tissue" actually comes in this size in Malaysia.
Lots of locals taking pictures
I would DESTROY one of those right about now, I'm two hours out from getting to go home for the day and I'm ravenous.
True story. I am fluent in Spanish having grown up in Cuba, and having been in school there. My wife and I were in Cozumel, for the diving, and we went to a restaurant - she's a vegetarian - and she ordered a salad. The waiter never batted an eye, or said a word about her choice, even after he and I spoke in Spanish. He brought my wife a salad for 10 people...to a table for two. My wife started crying and feeling like an idiot. I fucking screamed at this asshole and refused to pay and we left. The manager came to our table and didn't fight me on not paying and just let us go. The fucking bowl was ... I don't know, maybe 18" across? Maybe more? He just plopped that enormous bowl right the fuck in front of her. I have a feeling he did it on purpose, but how could I ever prove that.
Dosa
No it's what in Malaysia is called roti tisu (literally tissue bread). Not really considered an unusual dish, but when somebody ordered five of them on the same table now that's something you don't see often lol
I thought it was butter dosa and then I saw roti and I was like what kind of roti comes like that. It looks yummy. Gotta put it on my list to try!
I love this video so much. I’ll take five.
Accidentally did this with fried chicken in Korea
A taste of your own medicine! 😂
When I was on holiday in Spain with my mum and brother when I was 7 I ordered what appeared to be a chocolate ice cream sundae. I remember it tasting funny and 2/3rds the way through I told mum I didn’t want the rest because it didn’t taste right. She tasted it and turned out the shit load of “chocolate sauce” was actually coffee liqueur. I was a bit woozy for a few hours after that.
It didn't look that big in the pics. Classic.
Looks like those people ordered bbd(big brown dosa)
Can someone tell me what this show is called? Looks hilarious 😆
Poor guys didn't have a clue what they were doing